when i was at walgreens (at 3 in the morning which explains all of this) the cashier was talking to her coworker about how shed rather be a werewolf than a vampire because vampires are condemned to hell but werewolves arent and then she asked me what i thought and i said vampire because im already condemned to hell and she said in the nicest tone of voice “i dont think anybody is condemned to hell….” paused, stared at me for a few moments, and added on “…not even gay people”
If you think of the things of where we’ve achieved transcendence (or ecstasy) — it’s sex, drugs, art, and religion. Those are all the places where we say, I’m gonna let go & just let this thing happen to me. I’m not going to control it, I’m going to be taken somewhere.
It’s interesting to me that although we are constantly trying to control, our biggest thrills come from letting go of control. And so what becomes obvious is that it’s the combination of those two [surrender & control] that we should really be specializing in.
We should not forget the surrender part; we should not think that surrendering is passivity or cowardice or incompetence: we should say, It’s one of the ways we deal with the world.
Art is the place we go to have this feeling again, to remember that feeling of going with the flow, of letting something happen to us.
WHITE GUY WHO AGREES WITH THE UNITED STATES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ON EVERYTHING: dude I gotta watch out lol the feds are gonna get me because of my schizo based memes posting lol the feds are trying to get me not today cia lol
"If the Israeli assault stopped today, and we decided to hold a funeral every single day for each Palestinian killed in the last eight months, it would take us 100 years to honor them all."
The Palestinian speaker at the UN Security Council highlights the devastating toll of casualties among Palestinians resulting from the Israeli genocide in Gaza.