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In the beginning there were only 5 of us. Want to say a word about each and why they matter #Upstream #UpstreamTwitter #Thankful
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Is one of the funniest guys I follow. The quintessential instigator, he's pissed off pretty much everyone at some point - myself included - for his own amusement.
Few realize tho he was responsible for organizing #Upstream. He put our thought into action.
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Few realize tho he was responsible for organizing #Upstream. He put our thought into action.
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Before @FeministAllyGuy there was no #Upstream. He alone pushed for us to think of a name and for us to take our idle conversations seriously. Thank you Hutt - without you this wouldn't have happened.
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2 years into monogamy I stopped taking guys out to meet women.
Directed them to Goldmund, Nick Sparks, others living the lifestyle.
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Directed them to Goldmund, Nick Sparks, others living the lifestyle.
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The reason for this was simple.
I wasn't doing it anymore, and I knew men would benefit more from those still a part of that experience.
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I wasn't doing it anymore, and I knew men would benefit more from those still a part of that experience.
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The manosphere has a serious accountability issue.
Rian is a doofus but just the tip of the iceberg. Too many have no investment in what they preach.
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Rian is a doofus but just the tip of the iceberg. Too many have no investment in what they preach.
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Studying digital ritual.
Interesting how Christians, Pagans, Secular and others all have parallel arguments about the location of "meaning":
- in the act
- in the understanding of said act
- in the intention of the agent
- (there is no "real" meaning)
Interesting how Christians, Pagans, Secular and others all have parallel arguments about the location of "meaning":
- in the act
- in the understanding of said act
- in the intention of the agent
- (there is no "real" meaning)
Much of this seems to come back to the philosophically basic concept of subject and object.
In ritual, the objective element would be "what happens" while the subjective would be "the experience of what happens".
In ritual, the objective element would be "what happens" while the subjective would be "the experience of what happens".
This issue with our western implicit biases is that we like to polarise the things we can distinguish. Objective is different from subjective and therefore "is not" subjective.
