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Malifaux, specifically the Sandeep box. After building so many goblin models with tweezers, this box is kind of a relief.

Coworker people or customer/client people?

Either way, i fucking feel you, comrade. The turbo libs at my job think theyre as far left as it's gets but are still incredibly bigoted and selfish.

They adopt leftist sayings sometimes which pissed me off more than it should lol

I also watched a bunch of videos of chickens! It wasn't really to understand them (though I did learn a lot), but I had a friend who moved out to a different state (they're back here now!) and they loved to send me videos of their chickens.

The worst things about chickens is their lifespan. It's 10 if you're real lucky, but most chickens get killed for meat long before that. Makes connecting with them hard.

Nothing much...

Hexbear is ded again... we need Juche necromancy... that being said, tis the years of nothing for me...

I love the history aspect of religion especially. The founders of some of these religious traditions are fascinating when you try to look closely at what the lives of these mortals were like who's ideas have won the adherence of billions today. How can I relate to and reflect on the contexts that these people lived through hundreds of years ago? The quest for the historical Jesus and Muhammad are two topics that especially fit her, though there are probably others who are interested in the lives of figures like the historical Buddha.

I've been dipping my toes - I recently got a copy of the Tao Te Ching and, given that it's poetry, has been joyous to read. I've also been learning how to meditate and practice mindfulness via some Buddhist content creators, as well as some literature from the late Thich Nhat Hanh, whose books, "The Miracle of Mindfulness", and "No Mud, No Lotus" affected me deeply.

The thing about meditation for me has been that it lets me step outside the storm of my own mind - I begin to step out of my thoughts, they become vivid hallucinations - the things that I experience as thoughts when I'm not meditating take on visual and auditory form - even hearing a fractional moment of it used to jar me out of my meditative trance, but lately i've been able to stay detached, and it becomes a window into my own internal processes.

I've been slowly reading from an English translation of the Quran, and at first i had a difficult time dealing with its accusatory tone and rampant misogyny, but I began to kind of understand the deeper points of its parables and the purpose of its structure, and it has begun to affect me as well.

I am not overly familiar with Shinto outside of a few bullet points on its cosmology, and the broadest overview of the belief structure and metaphysics. I feel pretty ignorant of the religious landscape of Japan more generally, and my understanding of 'eastern' religion outside of a narrow buddhist and taoist context is nil

I've had religious experiences and I'm into the technical aspects of mystic traditions, things like divination - especially approaches that are complex and syatematic - looking for an understanding of these subjective experiences in my past and present, it has been humbling to let my guard down and approach these subjects without the biases and hostility most people approach them with, while also avoiding apologetics and polemics, and generally i am disinterested in material analysis - the confluence of religion and power is almost over explored and given far too much weight by most leftists for example, and i find those approaches boring at best and actively harmful at worst.

There is so much going on in esoteric philosophy that gets ignored because protestants and enlightenment philosophers hated mysticism so every philosophical tradition in their shadow inherits that hostility to its detriment - there are fascinating and brilliant things to be found and I really wish esotericism could have more mainstream penetration than it does

Have you ever watched Revolutionary Girl Utena?

It's old but I just finished the show and then the movie and, wow, it was so damn amazing! I also recently watched Dallos which was very cool and timely!

Yeah, that's sorta relatable. I have a big long list (>400) of shows and movies that I'm chewing through, and at this rate I'm never getting to anime from this year.