One Day I'm Going to Have My Soul in a Jar

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
dduane
beetledrink

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preserving this awesome comment before i blocked them for unrelated bigotry

beetledrink

not to kick the wasps nest harder but the notes on this post have revealed something fascinating: a surprising number of people seem to think the purpose of fiction is to trick them into believing its real—or at least HIGHLY plausible—rather than just telling an engaging story that everyone knows is fake. like the suspension of disbelief is a con pulled on rubes and the uneducated rather than a collaboration you entered when you picked up a piece of Big Fake Fiction To Entertain You

dduane

Sounds like a poor pitiful kind of life to me. ...But then I'm well known to be biased toward the fictive. :)

kandrakelsier

half-giant asked:

You posted about them a long ago, but do you remember the name of those nuns that wrote super horny poetry about Jesus?

cryptotheism answered:

BEGUINES MY BELOVED

That’s Hadewijch of Antwerp! She used the tropes and language of courtly love poetry, casting herself as the peasant girl yearning for Christ as a handsome and knight above her station.

Imo it’s one of the most powerful explorations of Christian mysticism I’ve ever read. Christianity I feel, has always been at it’s best when it’s focused on these overwhelming, charismatic acts of love. The combination of the Beguines self-imposed chastity with this expression of their love for Christ as an overpowering and unquenchable romantic yearning feels to me like a deeper, more thoughtful exploration of Christianity than anything I’ve read from the church fathers.

It’s erotic! Often explicitly erotic, which is shockingly subversive given the fact that it’s a fucking WOMAN writing erotic poetry about CHRIST in the fucking 1300s. But it’s also philosophically erotic, in the sense that Bataille uses the word. It’s erotic in the sense that it conceptualizes love for Christ as this eternal limit experience, something that is eternally desired yet never attained; it is love that can only grow.

I fucking love the Beguines. They took a vow of chastity so in every sense but the physical they fuck hard.

kandrakelsier
celtib

a ‘hot minute’ can be both a very short period of time, and a very long one. however, a hot minute in the past (“It's been a hot minute since I've seen you!”) is most often a long duration, while a hot minute in the future (“I'll be with you in a hot minute!”) is most often a short duration. this suggests some very strange things about the temperature of time.