#human effort

[semperardens-juli]

On Mahabhrata

from The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained, James Canton

The epic explores themes of family ties and conflict, duty and courage, fate and choice, and present them in a series of allegories to explain the elements of dharma, a complex concept of "correct conduct."

"There are two forces: fate and human effort --- all men depend on and are bound by these, there is nothing else."

What is right and wrong is seldom clear, and it is by reconciliating conflicting interests such as love and duty that we can achieve liberation from the cycle of life, death and rebirth.

While most of the poem show its characters dealing with moral dilemmas in their human affairs, in the final sections, and especially after the death of Krishna, we see them facing up to their spiritual fate.

The story ends, after much tragedy and conflict, with the protagonists achieving eternal bliss, but also with the warning that the human struggles continue here on Earth.

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personal commentary: I find these quotes as a helpful guideline to approach a classic literature and appreciate it, more than an aesthetic. I feel that I am able to understand the crux or essense of these literature pieces, more than simply an entertaining story or childish theorizing as you see on internet, but with good cultural appreciation of literature and the human questions alongside universal mysteries.

#juli-quotes #big ideas simply explained #world literature #hindu #indian mythology #mahabhrata #fate #human effort #human fate #ethics #moral dilemma #life #dharma #death #rebirth #krishna #indian #india #mythology #cultural appreciation #pandava #epic #allegory #literature beginner guide #academia #dark academia #light academia #james canton #the literature book

[falseandrealultravival]

Today's Haiku with Picture 239

Again this year

Harvested successfully

Rice stock

今年また

無事に収穫

稲の株

Human effort and God's grace.

(2022.11.07)

#this year #harvested #rice stock #Human effort #God's grace #haiku #Today’s Haiku with Picture

[8pxl]

PSA: Tumblr/Wordpress is preparing to start selling our user data to Midjourney and OpenAI.

you have to MANUALLY opt out of it as well.

to opt out on desktop, click your blog ➡️ blog settings ➡️ scroll til you see visibility options and it’ll be the last option to toggle.

to opt out on mobile, click your blog ➡️ scroll then click visibility ➡️ toggle opt out option.

if you’ve already opted out of showing up in google searches, it’s preselected for you. if you don’t have the option available, update your app or close your browser/refresh a few times. important to note you also have to opt out for each blog you own separately, so if you’d like to prevent AI scraping your blog i’d really recommend taking the time to opt out. (source)

#ai #tumblr ai #midjourney #openai #protect your creative efforts and don’t let them profit off your work!! #fuck tumblr they specifically said months ago they’d NEVER sell user data yet here we are #AND after the ceo has been harassing trans users like wtf is this fucking site becoming #tumblr news #tumblr #tumblr update #anti ai #support human artists

[melvingaines]

Sunday School Live Stream - January 1, 2023

Sunday School Live Stream – January 1, 2023

https://www.facebook.com/akronalliancefellowship/videos/547508797292697 Sunday school session with Melvin Gaines. John 6:60-71

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#believe #devil #father #God #holy #Holy Spirit #human effort #Jesus #John #John 6 #Judas #leave #life #Messiah #offend #people #Peter #Son of Man #spirit

[sandflakedraws]

the song came on my shuffle and would not leave me alone until i penned this i'm so sorry

#this is way too much effort but like. music makes me feel things y'know? #trolls #floyd #branch #john dory #clay #bruce #cannot recommend Comfortably Numb enough as like. THE listless + dizzy song #no other tune has quite nailed the feeling like you're about to pass out at any second #also the human scream of agony in the middle is great too #either way #don't look at me #is he dead? i couldn't decide so thats up to u #long post #undescribed

[astrafortune]

Me when I love

#video bombs on tt?? TUMLBR WILL APPRECIATE THIS #plus I put too much effort into these #maybe I’ll finish them as full drawings idk #nobody’s allowed to forget abt rouges human gf from sonic x #sonic the hedgehog #sth #sonadow #whispangle #metamy #knuxouge #espilver #blazamy #roupaz #sonaze #shadow the hedgehog #whisper the wolf #tangle the lemur #metal sonic #amy rose #knuckles the echidna #rouge the bat #espio the chameleon #silver the hedgehog #blaze the cat #agent topaz #animation #short animation #tiktok #fanart #my art

[tabooiart]

this hot pink bitch was named breakfast!!!

#my art #fanart #starkid #team starkid #npmd #nerdy prudes must die #nibbly #nibblenephim #kim whalen #this one was significantly more difficult than tinky.. something about the angle of the head #also having to spend a lot of effort on the mouth which i usually dont like doing but cmon. its nibbly. the mouth is like his whole deal #ALSO THE HAIR WAS SUCH A BITCH TO PAINT #and the bedazzled visor...... honestly the whole thing #i like how it turned out tho!! #oh also if u look closely i gave him pig eyes!!! something about the lib human forms looking pretty normal aside from freaky eyes #alas i once again had to shrink it because the canvas was the same size as tink's #cmon man discord can handle my giant canvases tumblr needs to get it together #speaking of are there any like starkid/hatchetfield discord servers that are active someone let me in im pawing at the door like a kitty ca

[miloicy]

happy (belated) sebek day

silly comic for the silly boy

#twisted wonderland #twst #my art #twst sebek #twst epel #twst jack #twst ace #twst deuce #sebek zigvolt #epel felmier #jack howl #ace trappola #deuce spade #finally drew all of the first years!! #tbh that jackdeu cozy hug almost became sebek and jack #i think itd be hilarious for jack to put all his effort into wrapping sebek into his jacket #yelling “you are cold!! stop dodging me! wear some warm clothes!” #and sebek being the equivalent of cat dodging jack #yelling i will not listen to a human!!!! #while his nose is dripping whole body is shivering #smh sebek just warm yourself up #silly doodle

[sugarcoatednightshade]

thinking about how Humans Are Space Orcs stories always talk about how indestructible humans are, our endurance, our ability to withstand common poisons, etc. and thats all well and good, its really fun to read, but it gets repetitive after a while because we aren't all like that.

And that got me thinking about why this trope is so common in the first place, and the conclusion I came to is actually kind of obvious if you think about it. Not everyone is allowed to go into space. This is true now, with the number of physical restrictions placed on astronauts (including height limits), but I imagine it's just as strict in some imaginary future where humans are first coming into contact with alien species. Because in that case there will definitely be military personnel alongside any possible diplomatic parties.

And I imagine that all interactions aliens have ever had up until this point have been with trained personnel. Even basic military troops conform to this standard, to some degree. So aliens meet us and they're shocked and horrified to discover that we have no obvious weaknesses, we're all either crazy smart or crazy strong (still always a little crazy, academia and war will do that to you), and not only that but we like, literally all the same height so there's no way to tell any of us apart.

And Humans Are Death Worlders stories spread throughout the galaxy. Years or decades or centuries of interspecies suspicion and hostilities preventing any alien from setting foot/claw/limb/appendage/etc. on Earth until slowly more beings are allowed to come through. And not just diplomats who keep to government buildings, but tourists. Exchange students. Temporary visitors granted permission to go wherever they please, so they go out in search of 'real terran culture' and what do they find?

Humans with innate heart defects that prevent them from drinking caffeine. Humans with chronic pain and chronic fatigue who lack the boundless endurance humans are supposedly famous for. Humans too tall or too short or too fat to be allowed into space. Humans who are so scared of the world they need to take pills just to function. Humans with IBS who can't stand spicy foods, capsaicin really is poison to them. Lactose intolerance and celiac disease, my god all the autoimmune disorders out there, humans who struggle to function because their own bodies fight them. Humans who bruise easily and take too long to heal. Humans who sustained one too many concussions and now struggle to talk and read and write. Humans who've had strokes. Humans who were born unable to talk or hear or speak, and humans who through some accident lost that ability later.

Aliens visit Earth, and do you know what they find? Humanity, in all its wholeness.

#humans are space orcs #humans in space #earth is a deathworld #earth is space australia #tagging this so that ppl can find it even though the space shit i write about always feels like its in direct opposition to all the pop tag #also my biggest pet peeve in all of writing - all writing. everywhere. not just in fanfic but books and tv and movies too - is when people #write off an injury by saying something like 'oh nothing bad just a couple of scratches some bruising and a minor concussion' like girl WHA #MiNOr ConCuSSioN is such an oxymoron and I hate it so fucking much. like i dont care how minor it was thats still brain damage. #especially when the same character does this more than once. like im sorry ms. but uh. you can no longer read. or talk eloquently. sorry #evidence: my brother has had two 'minor' concussions and now cannot read write or speak without tremendous effort. And like its totally #ruined my ability to watch action shows/movies because now i just sit there and count how many concussions there characters are getting #after a certain point it becomes totally impossible to believe that these guys are able to function. (still fun to watch tho im not a hater

[monster-inside-of-your-head]

some misc fionna and cake inspired drawings because oh boy did I have too many ideas

#Fionna and Cake #Fionna the Human #Simon Petrikov #Finn the Human #Petrigrof #quo's art #quo's colors #in a variety of styles #I tried to keep it simple because if I put in a huge amount of effort I wouldn't be able to finish all of them #so by “a variety of styles” I do mean they are all simple cartoony #but in different ways lol #SHAPED THE SAME COLORED DIFFERENT

[bamsara]

being an adult means we can buy or make as much self-indulgent shit (as we can afford) and unironically have trinkets of our fave things cause our teen years was bullied for liking things and hiding/denying we were ever neurodivergent to the point of suicide. sucks for anyone that thinks its weird cringe but I'm going to try and allow myself to love myself in little ways now

#wish i could tell younger me that i wasnt fucked up i was just autistic #even if youre not nd i still think having things you enjoy around you is important especially for your space #so i make a notable effort to get fandom stuff for my younger siblings now #like my lil sister thinks getting demon slayer stuff is cringe cause anime and what not (havent read it sorry) #but her face still lights up when i get her a pin for her #or a blind bag with a character keychain #and very slowly the self hatred and whatever it feels like that youre not allowed to like anything and that anything you like is bad #starts to diminish #my qpp is obsessed with birds and chickens and has so many trinkets around the house for it #or my friend who loves how pretty stained glass looks that his walls are covered in thrifted stain glass pieces #i know an elderly couple who are obsessed with star trek and they have a room in the house purely for shelves stacked with collectables #my friend's dad is so obsessed with spiderman that he has 3 walls full of figurines and posters and collectables that prob amoutn to tons #like i dont get it but i get it #maybe its because im sick rn but im in my head tonight about human loving things and stories and cocepts to the point of comfort #sara shush #ramble

[hometownrockstar]

I hate the argument abt when you say customizable games should have fat people and people say "well it would be harder to model or scale clothes to fit" cause like i guess youre technically right, but why then are fat people not seen as worth the effort to actually code and model these things? Someone else said this abt baldur's gate but they said "in an RPG like that game shouldn't the priority be on allowing people to express themselves as much as possible with designing their character?" Also like fat people aren't a rarity or minority, even if all media ever wants to give people the impression that the world is 99% skinny people with maybe one or two fat villains or sidekick friends.

#A lottt of arguments against including or accommodating fat people eventually boil down to #Continuing to believe fatness is a choice. And therefore the burden to change should be on them to lose weight #Rather than for institutions or society or other people to put in the effort to humanize and accommodate fat people #Fat politics

[hypogryffin]

Erina and Sophie....

erina and sophie..... perhaps even sophie and erina....

#persona 5 #p5 #asks & requests #p5t #p5t erina #p5s #p5s sophia #sophia persona 5 #persona 5 sophia #persona 5 strikers #persona 5 scramble #persona 5 tactica #i will fill the p5s tag my fucking self if i have to #comics #chef recommended #good lord is that all the tags i need. am i done am i free. YEESH okay #anyways i think theyd be so silly together #no one utilises the comedic potential of erina living in the fantasy french revolution but i think deep learning ai sophia is a good match #either way theyre so good as parallels like hold on SPOILERS FOR BOTH GAMES PAST THIS POINT #both of them were created as last-ditch efforts. erina is the manifetation of toshiros suppressed hope and rebellion and sophia is ichinose #attempt at understanding the human heart and her own repressed emotions #theyre both constructs of the heart in one form or another even if they were created in v different ways

[tonyjwash]

Control...

Control…

It doesn’t take too many negative circumstances before it becomes apparent how much of our lives we don’t actually control. Oh we think we do! We drive ourselves bonkers trying to think through every possible variable to maximize our chances at success. We plan and exercise diligence. We read up and study, and if it’s dangerous, we put in extra time. And all we are really after is some safety and…

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#control #control your thinking #deception #fret #human effort #let go #overthinking #peace #planning #relax #relinquish #spiritual variables #stressing #trust #trust God #worry

[ms-demeanor]

I don't even really get the impression that if you were domming someone there would be anything "motherly" about

Yeah no I'm much more likely to be projecting semi-detached professionalism. If I'm domming I'm not really there for roleplay, I'm there to supervise you while you're locked down and squirming. I talk like tech support when I'm in a scene. "Not too tight? Good. I'm gonna take the vibe up two settings, yeah? Okay, great, I'm gonna leave that there, snap your fingers when it's getting to be too much; we'll keep ramping it up until you have to tap out." I like being unaffected and in control while people are losing it and I am not particularly tactile or into being touched or getting off while I'm doing that.

Which is great if you like to be dehumanized and objectified and hand yourself to me like you're taking a car to a mechanic! Less great if you're looking for a lot of praise or comfort or physical contact in the moment.

#I'm good at aftercare! I can be very comforting during aftercare! #but i am not interested in projecting emotions like a normal human being for my own sake #i have dommed for people who need a kinder gentler touch than my normal vibe #but it is a lot more effort and makes me a lot less certain of myself #i can help you with your medical kink not your mommy kink

[flowery-king]

[Defanged Philip AU]

omg imagine getting thrown inside the Emperor's mind and discovering he's actually kinda like you wouldn't that be funny haha (Heavily inspired by this scene from Turning red ggghhg)

#THIS WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO TAKE SO LONG AAA #I was even gonna draw the portrait Luz sees that makes her go 'wait a damn minute' but I'm tired ghhhh #might add the portrait later I'm already putting so much effort into this :P #fgarart #defanged philip au #BASICALLY this is how I'd like to think Luz finds out he's human ghheh #a very different play of events on Hollow Mind #Ill explain if yall are interested :] #philip wittebane #luz noceda #SHE DOESN'T KNOW HE'S PHILIP YET BUT SHE CONNECTS THE DOTS SHORTLY AFTERWARDS #long post