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   on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 03:22:11 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
   Simping is just courtly love for zoomers
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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 03:23:29 JST kaia

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     @lain it's not very pure when they fap to OF though
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     Terry Hendrix II 🏹 (thendrix@social.hendrixgames.com)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 03:28:04 JST Terry Hendrix II 🏹

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     “He better bring Bitcoin and flowers.”

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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 03:34:15 JST kaia

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     in times of medieval German poetry the love songs were often directed at a woman entirely out of a knights' reach, because she was married or elsewise engaged. the idea was not to confess your actual love, but to prove you were of high knightly honor, education and skill.
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     male daughter (otokonoko@neko.ci)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 03:34:20 JST male daughter

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     @kaia@brotka.st @lain@lain.com hmmmmm was courtly love ever pure though? 🤔

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     male daughter (otokonoko@neko.ci)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 03:39:59 JST male daughter

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     @kaia@brotka.st @lain@lain.com ahhh if we're going back to medieval times, sure, but i was moreso thinking about the Victorian and Elizabethan eras. if you go back even further to Ancient Greece, there were many forms of love, each with a distinct term, and eros was not even considered to be inherently sexual despite the modern concept of eroticism deriving from that---but that's close. moreso a love of an ideal that was intended to transcend the physical into a plane beyond---at least in the ideal form of relationship based on eros, at the time. sensual love would be perhaps the closest term in modern English, perhaps, but it's still not quite right. it's hard to define a concept that existed before the notion of the Ghost in the Machine was so prevalent, considering how many still adhere to notions of mind-body dualism.

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