#metaphysical function

[stormyoceans]

THEY COULD HAVE FUCKED NASTY IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT SHOP AND IT STILL WOULD HAVE BEEN LESS INTIMATE AND SEXUALLY CHARGED THAN THIS WHOLE ENTIRE SCENE

#LIKE THE CHEMISTRY THE TENSION THE MAGNETISM THE SPARK THE ELECTRICITY THE YEARNING THE CRAVING THE RESTRAINT THE WANT THE DEVOTION #THE REVERENCE THE TENDERNESS THE DEDICATION THE DESIRE THE WONDER THE CARE THE LOVE #IM EMOTIONALLY SPIRITUALLY AND METAPHYSICALLY ON A WHOLE DIFFERENT LEVEL OF EXISTENCE #IM ASCENDING ONTO A HIGHER SPHERE OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS #I HAVE ACTIVELY FLATLINED MY HIGHER BRAIN FUNCTIONS HAVE CEASED IM CLINICALLY DEAD #monica watches last twilight

[ittybittybeastiebuddy]

I'm glad I'm getting better at recognizing my limits but damn if it isn't frustrating to find out those limits are one task a day*

(*if meds are taken)

#beastiebites #actually autistic #actually adhd #recognizing that being told by society that im 'high functioning' because i can do school directly led to me not recognizing my exhaustion #normal people dont have to actively force themselves to brush their teeth every night because they can form ~habits~ #meanwhile i have to dedicate a first level spell slot every night to not completely neglect my health #and sometimes im like #is it really worth the spell slot #what if i used that spell slot for something ~productive~ like contributing to capitalism so im not a burden #then i have to beat myself over the head with a metaphysical book like 'No!!' #vent

[crunchybees]

our main problem in effecting change, in ourselves or others, too often begins with greatly underestimating the resistance involved, as well as misjudging it's nature."

from "How the Brain Works" by Leslie A. Hart

#change #philosophy #metaphysical #humanity #brain #function #proster theory #why doesnt anyone know how their own brain works #books #bookblr #research #learning #education #academics

[againstpollutions]

transubstantiation is a metaphor for transgender

#so you gonna believe bread can become flesh because metaphysical/spiritual function transcends physical form and physicality ≠ reality #but not that people can be trans :/ #im on a tear i have so many tweets in my drafts i tweeted something about desantis that might get my account suspended but oh well #trans people ilysm im sorry that the world is full of evil people #marenposting

[poptartmochi]

fighting myself w a broom like im a little raccoon ��

#the urge to have gioia function like dracula or the dimitrescu sisters is sooo strong 🤌🏻 but she can't be like them 😭😭 #she's made of metaphysical tar 😭 it would be so easy!! but the current concept is that the tar preserves her corpse + pilots it basically #like a fucked up eva (haha ha 😶) so. the tar being some internal conduit kind of thing for the flesh is pretty crucial! #the flesh anchors it yk 😞🤌🏻 BUT.. it would be so cool for her to have a dracula moment‚ traveling through particles 😫 #that sequence with lucy truly changed me as a person methinks.. i cannot stop thinking of it 🥵 #but maybe as she garners more symbiosis with the tar. maybe she figures out how to Do That 👁️🫦👁️ #especially considering the tar loses its original functionality during her arc...... 👁️👁️ it could be a new fucked up new world mutation #your honor 🤌🏻 #sriracha.txt #💃🏻

[mkscatgirl]

I think philosophy and math really do go well together not JUST because of their histories being so interconnected but also because like math at the higher levels is a lot of I Made Up These Numbers That Do This Weird Thing and philosophy is a lot of like What Is Real And What Can We Know?

#i know my two examples dont actually connect that much but like it makes sense to ME #its the desire to test the limits of our knowledge but specifically in ways that are extremely theoretical and dont apply to real life in #any way that matters #especially in math like we invented numbers and then invented new numbers to make the original numbers do things they werent supposed to do #and then created functions and special rules that make the new numbers do things they wouldnt normally #or like what if you had a number set where multiplication doesnt exist like there is no way to define it such that it works or all elements #its all so weird and interesting #and i think philosophy (specifically epistemology and metaphysics) is a similar level of abstract and i have lost my words #i just think the fundamental curiosity of humans is neat

[sameteeth]

anyways i havent settled on a suitable understanding of ghosts within the dp universe which is REALLY hindering my writing about it

#ghosts sort of require mind body dualism .... which i dont love. #sort of thinking of the ghost zone as a metaphysical realm layered over the physical one #it sort of functions as an ocean w currents and stuff and a reverse ecto snow type thing that ghosts feed on like marine snow #then ghosts can also hunt for stuff on the physical side of things which gives them motivation to come and cause havoc #but theres also a ghost ectosystem that sustains deeper populations/more esoteric ghosts #also i lovethe idea of dead languages being spoken in the ghost zone lol #but ghosts come from the living - either as real physical things or dead ideas etc but from there they can change #so u can get werewolves and dragons etc - concrete ideas can warp ghosts and ghosts can warp themselves provide they have the energy to #idk im still trying to iron stuff out #fanon dp stuff is fun but i have Thoughts #phantom tag #canis speaks

[lovelyrotter]

fellow fictives my babes my darlings i am BEGGING YOU to stop tagging your very personal stuff with ships relating to your fictive-shape and then start talking about whether or not you ''condone'' these ships entirely purely based on your personal comfort as if youre talking about law. do what you want with your own irl body and relationships. you are not part of shipping. you are a real person. i am BEGGING YOU PERSONALLY to not partake in the crossing of these lines

#my t #and holy fuck stop worrying about 'the morality' of dating ppl wrt pearl-clutching antishipping ideologies #you are not. fictional. you are a person. this is just basic conservative brand homophobia. #you are functionally a conservative in my eyes if you use an antishipping/fanpol lens to delegate whether or not irl relationships are #allowed to exist or not. and then you say yall are progressive. STOP IT!!!! #if you want to or are already going out with another fictive of an appropriate age then DO SO FREELY REGARDLESS OF SHAPE/NAME #i mean holy fuck yall #our bro calls our partner systems dave his husband and vice versa because theyve been together for *11 fucking years* #yes. they are beta dirk and dave shaped. no they are not related #no they are not and have never done anything wrong by dating #they are both adults. they are a gay couple whove been together longer than some of yall have been active in fandom. they are nearly 30. #and if ANYONE has the gall to say they shouldnt be together i'll kill you!!!! i dont care!!!! i'll kill you with my mind beam!!!! #its fucking weird that yall do this to yourselves and other fictives #its just straight up homophobia to tell a queer fictive its amoral to like/date/be in love with another queer fictive #i dunno guys!!!! the way we talk abt fictives #and esp the way other fictives talk about fictives as a whole and then treat other fictives through that #makes me REALLY UNCOMFORTABLE #i am not!!!!!!! your fantasy!!!!!!!! my relationships arent fandom-political!!!!!! i am a real fucking person!!!!! #i hate hate hate the thought of posting alter art again and having a stranger come around and say 'hey i think ur from my timeline' #purely based on our metaphysical looks #its happened before and it was so fucking unnerving it made us feel dirty and used #''this is such a nonissue john why are u talking abt it'' because we've been used and groomed and abused through this culture before!!!!! #and i want to stop seeing it!!!!! #and i want other ppl to stop seeing it as a purely good thing rather than chasing & entertaining delusion & perpetuating misery!!!!

[cemeterything]

angels are metaphysical beings but i do like to imagine how an angelic corpse would behave if they left one behind when killed. i like to think that it'd get hotter rather than cooling as the mechanisms and functions that keep it stable decay, eventually resulting in meltdown and the spontaneous combustion of the corpse, like a hay fire or nuclear disaster.

#🐉 #angels

[fayedolan]

The clones really are a fascinating contrast to stormtroopers. And I don’t mean Finn and the First Order because they follow in the wake of The Clone Wars; I mean Imperial stormtroopers who dominated the Star Wars imagination first and the longest.

For decades, stormtroopers basically functioned like clones: they looked and sounded the same, even though we knew there were different people underneath the helmets they never took off; different faces, same personality.

Then actual clones basically inverted the model: genetically identical men used every opportunity to differentiate themselves, from their armor to their body modifications to their behavior; same face, different personalities.

The one place where the Venn diagram intersected was loyalty, but even then, they still inverted each other’s models. Clones designed to be unwaveringly loyal and obedient consistently questioned orders and their place in the galaxy. Meanwhile, stormtroopers from disparate planets and cultures unfailingly followed the orders of an impersonal Empire.

For all of Star Wars’s faults, for all the ways in which they dumb down or gloss over traditional scifi modes and themes, I can’t think of a more thorough exploration of cloning, the attendant questions of identity and free will, and the sociopolitical and metaphysical implications of a race of genetically identical men, of sameness in difference and difference in sameness, than the clone troopers.

#im sure this has been commented on before #but with TBB ending and the likelihood of another clone show dwindling im having feelings lol #star wars #the clone wars #the bad batch #clone troopers #stormtroopers #captain rex #commander cody #commander wolffe #captain howzer #arc trooper fives #starwars.txt

[psychotrenny]

The way that US Liberals talks about voting is such a classic example of how American Civil Religion has absolutely rotted their minds. Like voting isn't a tool to achieve political ends; it's a ritual that you are morally obligated to partake in to maintain the spiritual health of the nation. You don't use voting as a strategy in order to directly affect the material conditions of the world, giving power to representatives who will pursue specific policies and holding them accountable if they fail. No, goodness and justice will metaphysically spring from the wellspring of democracy as long as everyone does their part to keep it full. As long as everyone does their part to honour the Founding Fathers and the core values of the nation then everything will be in order, the system will function as it should and all world's problems will naturally solve themselves. If this isn't happening then it means not enough people voted hard enough.

Denying your vote isn't a a tactic you can use to affect politics; it's a violation of your sacred duty. Denying your vote in response to political failure makes as much sense as denying your prayers and sacrifice after a bad harvest. Clearly the problem here was your lack of devotion and you aren't gonna solve it by reducing your devotion even further. You're just letting the forces of evil win; you might as well be directly in league with them.

Like I'm not even a believer in Liberal Democracy and yet the way that Yanks talk about it simply boggles my mind; utterly detached from anything resembling the material conditions of the world we live in. Like I can think of no other way to describe it but a religious belief in the ontological superiority of their institutions and that they need only faithful participation to properly function. A ridiculous way to approach politics and yet one that holds enough mainstream acceptance that you are forced take it seriously. Very unfortunate for any who hold hope of meaningful change through electorialism, but convenient to those who wish to maintain the status quo

#stella speaks

[fuckyeahisawthat]

So one of the things that Good Omens, the book in particular, points out again and again, is that Heaven and Hell are functionally the same. “Anyway, why are we talking about this good and evil?” book Crowley says. “They’re just names for sides. We know that.”

The two sides may seem ideologically opposed, but they do suspiciously similar things, and neither of them care about humanity. They’re both willing to destroy all life on Earth to prove whose gang is best. (There’s a bit of a Cold War analogy here that’s very obvious in the book.) That all was made very clear in season one.

But what the Job minisode shows is that Heaven and Hell are really one system, playing a game of good cop/bad cop with humans, angels and demons alike.

We learn that God and Satan not only talk to each other, but are on familiar enough terms to make a bet. (Which involves making some humans suffer to prove a point, very on brand for Good Omens’ God.) These are not some mid-level metaphysical bureaucrats sharing information through back channels that don’t exist but totally do. This is collusion at the highest level! They write up a contract and everything! And then Heaven simply stands back and lets Hell do its dirty work.

(Flash forward 4500 years to Aziraphale telling Crowley he should be the one to kill the Antichrist so Heaven doesn’t have “blood on its hands.”)

Heaven and Hell also work as a unified system to keep their respective angels and demons in line. Heaven needs Hell in order to ensure compliance in its own ranks. The Fall must have had a huge demonstration effect: this is what will happen to anyone else who steps out of line. Heaven mostly uses fear to control its own population, with the threat of falling always there to ensure obedience. And Hell is full of angry demons, isn’t it? Anger is pretty much the only emotion it’s socially acceptable for a demon to have, and Heaven is very useful for keeping that anger focused on an external target.

The Job storyline is the first time in the series we’ve seen Heaven and Hell working together so directly, but I don’t think it’ll be the last. They’re in the same building, after all. One of them just has a better view.

#good omens #good omens s2 #heaven #hell #my good omens meta

[daisyachain]

since your tags were wondering about this: ice-pick lodge put the haruspex route out first because they felt the original haruspex route was more incomplete than the original bachelor route, and if they were going to finish any, it should be that one. daniil's route from classic was deemed more complete and less in need of a rewrite, but the marble nest dlc shows ipl were working on bachelor route at first

Ah thank you! I’m not going to lie I found the Classic Bachelor route (what the hell is a focus? Scarlet Utopia? Why on earth is the Bachelor allying with the Kains who have frankly screwed more and more directly with him than the other families? Why is he-the-rationalist relying on Maria, whose powers are distinctly less manifest and obvious than e.g. Clara’s? Executor riddles?) a lot less coherent than the Classic Haruspex route (reclaim identity, brew potion, defeat the manifestation of his insecurities, ???, profit) so I would not have guessed!

#kelsey liveblogs patho #not sure if it’s just a function of having no context at the time #but the laws of the Haruspex’ and the Changeling’s magics feel far more…familiar then the Bachelor’s metaphysics #just in terms of tropes the blood sacrifice is the oldest trick in the book while…the architecture that builds into the walls of reality is #harder to interpret

[opbackgrounds]

It was probably for the best for Oda to side-step how exactly Cindry is able to resist Hogback's orders despite not having her original soul. You could argue that somehow haki is involved or that in its absence a zombie's shadow personality could subsume some of the functions of a soul bit it doesn't really matter. I can imagine a future after Robin's written a memoir of her adventures this whole situation causing quite a stir among philosophers specializing in metaphysics. Robin herself steals Hogback's own language of miracles, showing just how incredible this resistance is

But even this language is significant as Skypiea explores what a miracle means in the One Piece world, and it involves people working for themselves to try to make something happen, which in turn leads to divine intervention. Somewhere deep inside there's a part of Cindry fighting as hard as she can against Hogback's orders. And while vague, it fits the overall themes of the series.

#opbackgrounds #one piece #ch469 #themes threads and throughlines #victoria cindry #enough power scaling more people should be arguing the ontology of one piece #it would be more entertaining

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

You know in hindsight is is pretty obvious that the Nine Houses are that way not because of some metaphysical or magical reason, but because their whole society was worldbuilt by overpromoted millennials who had little to no idea how to rebuild humanity, so they just slapped something together and the Houses have spent 10,000 years trying to make his sorting quiz bullshit into an actual functioning society.

Like...the Sixth House is so inbred that you have four people on the planet you can pick for breeding and their military wing’s job is “go get laid by foreigners to give some diversity to the drying puddle that’s our gene pool”. The Fourth House is being slowly absorbed into the Fifth House because they can’t stop heroically killing themselves. The Ninth House murdered literally all of their children and destroyed their House’s future to make one super-necromancer because.....they wanted a super-necromancer. They have a house for sparking fashion trends and another for beautifully dying of cancer. There is no way this society should function and the only reason it’s lasted this long is that they’ve been patching up all the cracks with zombie magic.

Harrow tells John that her parents destroyed their House and John barely even blinks an eye before handing her a bunch of people he’s kept frozen. Has he done this before? How many times has a House been on the verge of collapsing in on itself and John had to go duct tape it back together?

#the locked tomb

[yoga-onion]

Legends of the humanoids

Reptilian humanoids (5)

Wuxing – the connections between the Five Dragon Kings (Ref) and the Five Elements philosophy 

To better understand the origins of the Five Dragon Kings and the ancient Chinese legend, it is worth mentioning the wuxing of natural philosophy, which states that all things are composed of five elements: fire, water, wood, metal and earth.

The underlying idea is that the five elements 'influence each other, and that through their birth and death, heaven and earth change and circulate'.  

The five elements are described as followed:

Wood/Spring: a period of growth, which generates abundant vitality, movement and wind.

Fire/Summer: a period of swelling, flowering, expanding with heat.

Earth is associated with ripening of grains in the yellow fields of late summer.

Metal/Autumn: a period of harvesting, collecting and dryness.

Water/Winter: a period of retreat, stillness, contracting and coolness.

The wuxing system, in use since the Han dynasty (2nd century BCE), appears in many seemingly disparate fields of early Chinese thought, including music, feng shui, alchemy, astrology, martial arts, military strategy, I Ching divination, and traditional medicine, serving as a metaphysics based on cosmic analogy.

The wuxing originally referred to the five major planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury, Mars and Venus), which were thought of as the five forces that create life on earth. Wu Xing litterally means moving star and describes the five types of Qi (all the vital substances) cycles through various stages of transformation. As yin and yang continuously adjust to one another and transform into one another in a never-ending dance of harmony, they tend to do so in a predictable pattern.

The lists of correlations for the five elements are diverse, but there are two cycles explaining the major interaction. The yin-yang interaction, which by increasing or decreasing the qualities and functions associated with a particular phase, it may either nourish a phase that is in deficiency or drain a phase that is in excess or restrain a phase that is exerting too much influence (see below):

The Creation Cycle (Yang)

Wood feeds Fire

Fire creates Earth (ash)

Earth bears Metal

Metal collects Water

Water nourishes Wood

The Destruction Cycle (Yin)

Wood parts Earth 

Earth dams (or absorbs) Water

Water extinguishes Fire

Fire melts Metal

Metal chops Wood

The Huainanzi (2nd BCE) describes the five colored dragons (azure/green, red, white, black, yellow) and their associations (Chapter 4: Terrestrial Forms), as well as the placement of sacred beasts in the five directions (the Four Symbols beasts, dragon, tiger, bird, tortoise in the four cardinal directions and the yellow dragon.

伝説のヒューマノイドたち

ヒト型爬虫類 (5)

五方龍王（参照）と五行思想の関連性 

ここで、五方龍王の起源、そして古代中国の伝説をよく理解するために、万物は火・水・木・金・土の5種類の元素からなる、という自然哲学の五行思想について触れておきましょう。 5種類の元素は「互いに影響を与え合い、その生滅盛衰によって天地万物が変化し、循環する」という考えが根底に存在する。 

五行は次のように説明されている：

木は、春の豊かな生命力、動き、風を生み出す成長期。

火は、夏の太陽の暖かさの下で行われる成熟の過程、熱で膨張する時期。

土は、晩夏の黄色い野原での穀物の成熟に関連している。

金は、秋の収穫、収集、乾燥の時期。

水は、冬の雪に覆われた暗い大地の中に潜む新しい生命の可能性と静寂の時期。 漢の時代 (紀元前2世紀頃) から使用されてきた五行説は、音楽、風水、錬金術、占星術、武術、軍事戦略、易経、伝統医学など、中国初期の思想の一見バラバラに見える多くの分野に登場し、宇宙の類推に基づく形而上学として機能している。 

五行とは文字通り「動く星」を意味し、五種類の気（生命維持に必要なすべての物質）が様々な変容の段階を経て循環することを表している。陰と陽は絶え間なく互いに調整し合い、調和の終わりのないダンスで互いに変化していくため、予測可能なパターンで変化する傾向がある。

五行の相関関係は多様だが、主要な相互作用を説明する2つのサイクルがある。陰陽の相互作用は、特定の相に関連する資質や機能を増減させることで、不足している相に栄養を与えたり、過剰な相を排出したり、影響力を及ぼしすぎている相を抑制したりする (以下参照):

相生（陽）のサイクル

木は燃えて火を生む

火が土 (灰) をつくる

土は金属を産出する

金属は表面に水を集める

水は木を育てる

相克（陰）のサイクル

木は大地を構成する

土は水を堰き止める

水は火を消す

火は金属を溶かす

金属が木を切る

『淮南子』（紀元前2世紀）には、五色の龍（紺碧・緑、赤、白、黒、黄）とその関連性 (第4章: 地の形)、五方位への聖獣の配置（四枢の四象徴獣、龍、虎、鳥、亀、黄龍）が記述されている。

#wuxing #5 dragon kings #5 elements #taoism #yin yang #humanoids #legendary creatures #hybrids #hybrid beasts #cryptids #therianthropy #legend #mythology #folklore #dragon #nature #art