A Reverse Ryuunosuke

Imagining Draiman at home just rambling to himself every day like that one part of Down with the Sickness. Very funny to imagine.

Like "third space" (fancy British academic whining for the pub in the original theory) it is a term that has absolutely no fixed meaning or analytical utility deployed by people who have no idea what they're talking about.

I think if you're going to say "monoculture" you need to be an anthropologist.

Also, a monoculture never existed. Probably anywhere. I say this as someone paid to study cultures. And as someone who was outside said monoculture from the early 90s to, well ongoing really.

The extremely online need to study the Dharma, get up on what non-duality is and that two seemingly opposed ideas can both be true.

And then just not post. The Online Middle Path.

He got his training from a higher power (a ghost who teaches people how to snap spines).

Also, when I am feeling really heretical and want to annoy someone, I just say I believe Jesus Christ was an incarnation Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara took to teach mahākaruṇā to Platonists and Neo-Platonists.

I grew up in a CCM church, but at least the CCM was Rich Mullins and such.

I don't even believe and I was offended. Is there no sanctity to these animals? I spent the sermon reciting the Mani and Prajñāpāramitāhṛdaya mantras, as is my practice, and that was more respectful because at least I was honoring something.

And dang, that Hillsong music really does suck.

Or a Quaker. UCC. Heck, I would take Episcopalian. Even a progressive Lutheran.

Why a non-denominational "church" who appears to mostly concern themselves with temporal affairs and natalism?

Also, hugely disrespectful to make jokes about names in the scriptures during the message. Terrible pastor.

How do people subject themselves to this garbage every weekend? I would rather go to the nasty, horrible music blaring fetish balls my friends invite me to (and I decline because I am very "pure" for lack of a better word) than deal with this nonsense again.

Why couldn't my brother be Methodist?

Weird, I am hearing the klaxon from Alien over and over and it won't stop.

All these places are somehow the greasiest thing I have ever seen. Each greasier than the last.

Ostensibly the message was about Acts 6. But it was simply a rambling screed of buzzwords designed to attack trans people, a boogeyman of government (THEY CONTROL IT FFS!) and uphold misogyny and male-supremacy.

Also, the music sucked. Drummer looked kinda like Stavros Halkias which was funny.

Baby dedications are an idiotic non-denominational practice that is basically swearing to raise your child in whatever cult using state resources, while hating the state (a public school building in this case) you chose to attend.

Couldn't just be Catholic like bisabuelita and have a baptism...

Had to go to a church where the "pastor" was a rambling bigot going on about the trans agenda and dads and building businesses due to it being important to my brother that I was present at my niece's "dedication".

Now I wonder, if I further transition, if I will even be allowed to be in her life.

Bodhisattva Man-Turning-Into-Woman (I have seen this title in a translation of a sūtra. Oddly, did not seem to refer to Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara-to-Guanyin, as they were mentioned separately in the same section)

I am one of those weird transwomen who honestly just really do not have any sort of desire, so whatever these events are, I would just be bored.

I honestly assumed my "growing to have less in common with old friends" mid-30s phase would involve children in some way or another.

Instead it is throwing ourselves into distinct, high effort hobbies and invitations to kink events (I have no idea what a fetish ball is and don't want to find out).

Wonder if you can get a Purple Hooter here?

What really appears to be popular is pickleball (70+ coded to me, I first heard of it when it got huge in the retirement community I lived near), climbing gyms and run clubs.

Never understood run clubs, I use that as meditation and alone time. Same with hiking.

But this may be a social circle thing. All the ones I know are doing taiko (this is because they are at a taiko dojo, which is where I met them, it is entirely a Social Circle thing).

It is deeply funny if the youth are getting into clowning.

Buncha Homers, and I will remind them constantly, like the Lenny Leonard I am.

I'll play the new .hack, even if it's janky (when is .hack not?) because at least it'll be interesting.

Can't you get manly facials for free at the bathhouse/fancy gym sauna?

Gettin' hair all in my 3 fingers of Pappy.

Troops taking pictures and streaming too, which, come on. A black bloc has faaaaar better opsec.

Anyone who says "females" needs to be force-Ferengied. Turned into horrible, possibly problematic, little space goblins.

Every single thing I could say about myself that sounds fake but is true makes it far, far too easy to find out who I am.

...not drive the behavior.

Would love to actually seriously study this, and see if it applies where algorithmic content curation reigns or if that introduces a new variable.

Two vastly different websites, but other than the ability here to create an echo chamber absent pushback, which SA lacked, the behavior of said posters is identical.

In sum, it is humans that are the core issue. Which also includes humans who design the websites. But the technology itself does...