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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 48m

200 years ago they could buy a teen and rape them whenever. Their sexuality hasn't changed.

witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 20h

Other visually cool shit that's actually lame because of basic literacy: -Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Jacques-Louis David -the Cathedral of Light by Albert Speer -Triumph of the Will by Leni Riefenstahl -Birth of a Nation by D. W. Griffith -9/11

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 20h

Not that passing should be the measure of womanhood, I do find it curious that this news org chose to photograph four women who so obviously don't pass.

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I hope they all find this woman of their dreams and she has actual old school traditional Christian values, by which I mean and lives a life of celibacy and never pays them any attention at all.

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I deny the reality of the subject/object distinction. Anyway, I truly do hope that this helps you. In any case, I wish you the best and that your soul be calm in your search, and that you get to a place of satisfaction.

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

subject/object distinction. This insight is useful for correcting the ignorance of identity view, for directing moral action away from selfishness, etc. But it is not practical - I still say "I think" in everyday life. I still see the sun as a separate object from myself, even if in absolute terms

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

thought further. The other side of the coin is practical truth, the things to know in everyday life about the world as we experience it. Put another way, buddhadharma is non-dualistic. It asserts that if one pays attention to their experience that they will notice that the reality of things has no

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

say of it. One might experience uncompounded awareness - people describe it as infinite serenity and compassion. But there I'm unaware of significant projects of speculation regarding why this should be. Everything points to some absolute reality, sure, but Buddhists tend to not bother with that

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

(4) Most importantly, and to your concern, it is a way out of metaphysical speculation. You currently want meaning to things, which is to say that you want the objects of your experience to be symbols for some unknown greater. In buddhadharma there is absolute truth, sure, but there is nothing to

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

to structure thought and reality go away. Morality in the West is often considered to be a question of "ought." The legacy of Christianity is that even atheists seek objective moral demands. In liberation, it is a matter of not making irrational decisions based upon the false category of self.

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

only hurt you when you want them. (2) It promises actual freedom of choice. Once realized, you are no longer bound by the attachments you want to form with the world. This leaves you free to change course, reinvent yourself, think new things, find spontaneity, etc. (3) Western conceptions of how

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

which is what you were trying to get away from. But there are some important things about this dharma, if fully realized. (1) It promises freedom from self caused suffering. You can't be free from pain by stubbing your toe, but you can find a path to stop wanting things you won't get and which

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

there is any self to die. If the psyche is unattached to the world, the death of the body is just more changing form, without any meaning to the "end" the aggregate of experience labeled as a single person. Okay this was just a bunch of stuff to end up with a different way of saying "no meaning,"

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

of the freedom which would exist without desire. (11) Dependent upon becoming, there is birth. (12) Everything which is born dies, and death is suffering par excellence. As with many other religions, we suddenly have a promise of escape from death. The escape from death comes from denying that

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Dependent upon clinging, things become. The world is not static, it is constantly becoming and not just being. Your clinging will cause a person (so to speak) to form - temporary, under stress, and contradicting the reality of non-self. Your interactions with the world will be a becoming, instead

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

reality of the world to give you the end of what displeases you, or more of what pleases you, is only going to rebound and hurt you. Think serenity prayer, or the Greek proverb "it's hard to kick against the goads." (9) If you have desired, dependent upon that you will cling to what you want. (10)

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

we desire. This is the thing you want to not do. It is okay to say "I like such and such." But the I is not a stable permanent thing. So the like is not necessarily stable either. Furthermore, whether you get the object which you like is often beyond simple control of whim. Wanting to change the

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

perception/mind/thought. (6) Dependent upon how we direct our senses, we have contact with the objects of sense perception, including physical senses and thoughts. (7) Dependent upon such contact, we feel. The feelings we have are, in general, like, dislike, and apathy. (8) Dependent upon feelings

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It is clear though that people have different categories through which to understand reality - this is dependent upon their karmic consciousness, dependent upon their habits, dependent upon their ignorant self-view. (5) Our categories determine how we direct our senses, including the sense(s) of

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

each other, and create categories and a symbolic order through which to organize reality. In many Indian religions and philosophies the conception of form, and material form, are interdependent - unlike most of Western religion and philosophy where arguments over whether idea or matter comes first.

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

(3) One carries into new experience (including new life) the volitional formations created through ignorant self view. Thus in all new experience we carry a consciousness laden with the seeds of prior attachments. (4) Based on this consciousness we distinguish the forms of the physical world from

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

be expressed in a few forms, but the most standard is as follows (and you'll note that the Four Noble Truths derive from this). (1) We ignorantly think we are a separate self from the rest of existence. (2) Based upon this ignorant identity view we form habits and structures of thought and behavior.

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

right action, right livelihood, right effort, right remembering, and right zen. (I am taking some liberties with diction but trust that I can back them up as needed.) The realization which caused the blessed one to awaken is dependent origination. This is the thing which defines Buddhism. It can

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

to alter what is, especially to alter it beyond my ability to change reality, causes second order suffering. The third Noble Truth simply states that if we stop desire, we stop suffering. And the Fourth of Four states that there is a path to get there - right view, right thought, right speech,

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

suffering comes from taking apart that which is, at the moment, stable, or putting in effort to maintain what is, at the moment, coming apart. To be clear, this is second order suffering. If I stub my toe, the pain is a simple fact of experience and as such is first order suffering. The desire

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

stream of water - but the linguistic label of singular identity is a convenience of language and not a truth of ideas or of material reality. Thus we have the first Noble Truth, something I've yet to hear anyone deny. There is suffering. The second is here too - our psychological experience of

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

a distinct subject "I" related to the object of thought. It assumes the "I am" of his conclusion. It's a bad argument and it exposes the error we make in thinking when we assume a self within the aggregate of experiences. There is continuity, just like there is continuity to the weather or to a

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

exhibit non-self. These are three ways of stating the same thing. Everything comes apart. The act of keeping things together is stressful. Your own psychology is such a stress laden temporary compounded thing. There is no pure subject within your psyche. The Cartesian "I think" already assumes

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There are three marks of real things, or at least of real compounded things. If there are uncompounded elements, and what they are like, well that verges into questions of metaphysics that are best to avoid. All real things are (1) temporary, (2) under stress, aka subject to suffering, and (3)

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm going to info dump buddhadharma on you. My apologies if you don't want it, or if it isn't useful at this time in your life. I grew up Christian and had the angry atheist phase and then the weird try to make my own religious meaning phase and I've been happily Buddhist for several years now.

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

assist people, to win hearts and minds through being the living embodiment of ideals. Just like how general Washington organized his army's discipline. Just like how the Union army was geared towards liberation and reconstruction. This is how people win. Friendship and cooperation. Unity ... 20/-

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

unrealistic notions about them." "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." I include the last quote simply so you won't call Mao an unrealistic pie in the sky idealist. The principle by which he organized the Chinese Red Army was to not steal, not ****, but to help aid and ... 19/-

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

countries willing to live together with us in peace." "As for the imperialist countries, we should unite with their peoples and strive to coexist peacefully with those countries, do business with them and prevent any possible war, but under no circumstances should we harbour any ... 18/-

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

fraternal countries in the socialist camp and strengthen our solidarity with all peace-loving countries. We must endeavour to establish normal diplomatic relations, on the basis of mutual respect for territorial integrity and sovereignty and of equality and mutual benefit, with all ... 17/-

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

discipline; they have come together and they fight not for the private interests of a few individuals or a narrow clique, but for the interests of the broad masses and of the whole nation." "To achieve a lasting world peace, we must further develop our friendship and co-operation with the ... 16/-

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

You've said several times that I want things "in a nice package", or similar. You fundamentally misunderstand my position and what I've said to you. Allow me to share some quotes from the Little Red Book to show my point. "This army is powerful because all its members have a conscious ... 15/-

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

of Japanese people during the war violated that principle, but fighting a war of attrition with the Japanese empire did not in and of itself violate that principle. This is why you'll have people still debate the ethics and efficacy of the firebombings, but only bigots stand by those cartoons. 14/-

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

racial classification qua race" is good. It is an instance where the legal principle is a good moral to adopt on a personal level. Saying that you reject Clarence Thomas' racial identity because you disagree with his politics violates that principle. Dr Seuss drawing racist caricatures ... 13/-

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

then used to end miscegenation laws. To be clear, internment was a crime against humanity, and a large amount of wealth was stolen from Japanese Americans during WWII because of this policy. I'm not saying internment was good. I'm saying that the legal principle of "you can't make a ... 12/-

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

words, according to the court, placing citizens of Japanese descent into concentration camps was acceptable because the government had an interest which overpowered the harm done, and because it wasn't done simply to harm them based upon their identity. And it is that reasoning which was ... 11/-

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

difference between taking action against someone, and dehumanizing them. Because that difference is incredibly important. Here's my example. In Loving v. Virginia the court cited Korematsu v. US for the proposition that racial classifications in law are subject to strict scrutiny. In other ... 10/-

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

degrees. That's why I labeled you as an enemy. That's why I labeled you an enemy. I want to use an example to draw out many of the distinctions I am making here. In making this point I am not endorsing any particular position or past govt action. Rather, I want to make a point about the ... 9/-

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

of transphobia, of rejecting trans identities, and ultimately of removing trans rights. If you believe that a cis person can reject one trans identity, how can you tell the fascist that they are wrong to reject all trans identities? You and the fascist do the same action, just to different ... 8/-

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

call her a man dehumanizes her. It is unacceptable. It signals a fundamental disrespect to all trans people. It signals that one is not an ally to trans people. It signals that one is fundamentally not safe. If someone calls Caitlyn Jenner a man it actively places that person on the side of ... 7/-

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

the position I am endorsing here, is built through actions which embody that goal. That does not preclude hanging criminals. That does not preclude scorched earth military actions. It does preclude dehumanizing one's enemies. I agree that Caitlyn Jenner is politically opposed to me. But to ... 6/-

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

These efforts were imperfect. But, if we compare to, say, how the US govt treated the legal status of native Americans after wars, or how axis powers treated occupied peoples during WWII, there is a large perceptible difference. The goal of universal rights, which again, is the essence of ... 5/-

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

To attempt nuance the nuance which the tangential topic requires. I do not deny that the United States committed war crimes during the three wars at issue. But at the same time, once the army occupied these lands there was a policy of instituting equal protection of law and due process. 4/-

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

harmful ideologies within their culture, that they are therefore a good person, with good opinions, good speech, and good actions. That they have reached a stable state of rightness which does not need further effort or input. The same problem happens in religion. It leads to myopic dogmatism. 3/-

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This is an endemic problem within leftist organizing. People who are not open to any discussion of their own harmful views. People who think that just because they have aligned with leftist principles in a general sense, or think that because they have done some work towards deconstructing ... 2/-

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witty and memorable username @dissolutionbliss.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Do you see what's happened here? Instead of taking input from trans people on unacceptable transphobia, you dug your heels in, leading to now arguing about how to generally characterize the US military during three very different wars. On a platform which is not conducive to nuance. 1/-

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