@soapjackal @MorlockP @oddblots It's a shamanic perspective: gangs of humans have patron entities. Lots of behaviors that are awkward to...
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@St_Rev the difficulty is that it can get real orthogonal really fast. Very different conceptions. Not that it isnt fun. -
@soapjackal I'm not trying to convert anybody! -
@St_Rev I just had a discussion yesterday about dao with a mormon. The discussion ended up being spent on relating vastly different views -
@soapjackal One of my favorite Daoist scholars, Chad Hansen, is ex-Mormon. Not sure if there's a connection, but he hints at one. -
@soapjackal But, yeah, you're trying to save the world and I'm just having fun here. -
@St_Rev I havent even started talking about The Good :D -
@soapjackal As I said, not here to convince anybody. I just bring some of this up to note that yeah, I really do hold to a v. different view -
@soapjackal Had some unpleasant exchanges w Land & Bryce where they just couldn't accept that I reject metaphysics and teleology. - 2 more replies
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@St_Rev considering folk lore mixture with daoism your description of demonic/divine isnt entirely surprising -
@soapjackal It's coming from a different place, actually. I don't subscribe to the wider Daoist tradition, just Zhuangist minimalism. -
@soapjackal Gangs-as-daemons is something I largely got from Grant Morrison, and the god/demon distinction is more than 50% joke. -
@St_Rev grant morrison has some fun tangents along those lines right before dosing up on acid -
@St_Rev the entire invisibles series was basically what we're talking about
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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.