Okay an elderly monk saying "Does everyone really have to get married? Some people are 70 and were never married, you know" has a particular ring to it XD
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L.J. is reading the Daodejing (ljwrites@rage.love)'s status on Saturday, 04-Mar-2023 00:01:34 JST L.J. is reading the Daodejing
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L.J. is reading the Daodejing (ljwrites@rage.love)'s status on Saturday, 04-Mar-2023 00:01:33 JST L.J. is reading the Daodejing
Holy shit he even brought up white supremacist beauty standards and antiblackness causing low self-esteem in Black people, and how Malcolm X changed people's thinking with "Black is beautiful." Sometimes a comrade wears a monk's robes lmao
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L.J. is reading the Daodejing (ljwrites@rage.love)'s status on Saturday, 04-Mar-2023 00:01:31 JST L.J. is reading the Daodejing
@bright_helpings He's basically discussing the social model of disability--that disability is not abnormal, just a minority condition that differs from the majority's, and it's social structures that posit the majority as normal/desirable and the minority as abnormal/undesirable that leads to the devaluation of disabled lives and the prejudice that disability is tragic. He also discusses queerness in the same context, that it is a difference and not lesser or wrong.
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L.J. is reading the Daodejing (ljwrites@rage.love)'s status on Saturday, 04-Mar-2023 00:01:29 JST L.J. is reading the Daodejing
Listening to an old Buddhist monk take a surprisingly radical stance on disability and queerness, and I am intrigued :blobcatpeek:
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L.J. is reading the Daodejing (ljwrites@rage.love)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Feb-2023 13:17:24 JST L.J. is reading the Daodejing
@MordecaiMartin it might be useful if you put it up as a template!
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L.J. is reading the Daodejing (ljwrites@rage.love)'s status on Sunday, 26-Feb-2023 09:47:49 JST L.J. is reading the Daodejing
@MordecaiMartin Ooh, I love that on multiple levels! Freedom and communal care for the mad, no more scapegoating them when the real problem is elsewhere.
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L.J. is reading the Daodejing (ljwrites@rage.love)'s status on Sunday, 26-Feb-2023 09:36:43 JST L.J. is reading the Daodejing
There's an old Korean saying, "my gullet is the Inspection Bureau (목구멍이 포도청이다)." It means poverty terrorizes and compels people to act against their will much like the police do--a perfect expression of economic exploitation and state violence as conjoined mechanisms of social control.
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L.J. is reading the Daodejing (ljwrites@rage.love)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Feb-2023 16:17:38 JST L.J. is reading the Daodejing
@MordecaiMartin that's amazing!
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L.J. is reading the Daodejing (ljwrites@rage.love)'s status on Monday, 20-Feb-2023 23:51:55 JST L.J. is reading the Daodejing
Hyperfocused reading about autistic children being abused sometimes to the point of death (ABA, restraint, seclusion, electroshock) was probably not the best decision I made today, mental health-wise. I can't wait to get home to give Tater a big hug and laugh and goof around with him.
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L.J. is reading the Daodejing (ljwrites@rage.love)'s status on Monday, 20-Feb-2023 23:51:53 JST L.J. is reading the Daodejing
Can kind of understand how the prophets and street preachers might have felt while they walked the streets, crying out "Repent! Repent!" How much more has to be destroyed, how much more grief and violence do we have to endure before we realize none of this was okay and things never had to be this way?
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L.J. is reading the Daodejing (ljwrites@rage.love)'s status on Monday, 20-Feb-2023 23:51:52 JST L.J. is reading the Daodejing
Cuddling & laughing with Tater, all feels right with the world again ☀️ No matter what happens, these moments are real and no one can take them from us.
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L.J. is reading the Daodejing (ljwrites@rage.love)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Feb-2023 21:32:32 JST L.J. is reading the Daodejing
By the way, the idea that biodiversity is cultivated and nature "preserved" by a "hands off" approach where humans just leave a land wild and abandoned is false. Indigenous groups around the world took active roles in their ecologies, increasing biodiversity and productiveness in the lands they were part of. This happened so consistently that in some regions of so-called North America the presence of heightened biodiversity is a consistent indicator of an Indigenous dig site nearby. The land management technology and practices of these groups perfected were so effective, the increased biodiversity persists many centuries afterward.
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L.J. is reading the Daodejing (ljwrites@rage.love)'s status on Friday, 10-Feb-2023 23:20:54 JST L.J. is reading the Daodejing
@MordecaiMartin welcome back!
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L.J. is reading the Daodejing (ljwrites@rage.love)'s status on Thursday, 09-Feb-2023 23:07:19 JST L.J. is reading the Daodejing
@MordecaiMartin As long as your feet are buoyant with joy, that's cloud storage! xD
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L.J. is reading the Daodejing (ljwrites@rage.love)'s status on Thursday, 09-Feb-2023 23:04:22 JST L.J. is reading the Daodejing
@MordecaiMartin Yeah that's a huge advantage of cloud storage, the mobility of it ?️
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L.J. is reading the Daodejing (ljwrites@rage.love)'s status on Thursday, 09-Feb-2023 22:57:15 JST L.J. is reading the Daodejing
@MordecaiMartin Yes that is amazing! Any backup is good!
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L.J. is reading the Daodejing (ljwrites@rage.love)'s status on Thursday, 09-Feb-2023 10:09:00 JST L.J. is reading the Daodejing
@MordecaiMartin I hope it's something easily-resolved or just goes away on its own!
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L.J. is reading the Daodejing (ljwrites@rage.love)'s status on Thursday, 09-Feb-2023 00:23:27 JST L.J. is reading the Daodejing
@MordecaiMartin oof sorry to hear, sounds unpleasant.
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L.J. is reading the Daodejing (ljwrites@rage.love)'s status on Saturday, 04-Feb-2023 00:54:39 JST L.J. is reading the Daodejing
@MordecaiMartin Happy birthday, and what a nice gift for it!
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L.J. is reading the Daodejing (ljwrites@rage.love)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 18:37:08 JST L.J. is reading the Daodejing
Tater decided having a bunch of blankets piled on him yesterday was so awesome we need to do it again, and dragged just about all the bedding into the bedroom for me to pile on him ?