Harvesting and foraging for fruits, veggies, greens, and mushrooms is such a nice experience.
Then there's butchering, hunting, and fishing. I haven't done any except fishing though I've been a witness to all. All horrifying and scarring experiences.
Apparently people do feel the same sense of achievement in these as foraging. Idk man, to me it's like the difference between finding a coin on the ground vs mugging someone
Just eat fruits and vegetables then. Plants might feel pain but it makes no sense for their reproductive processes to cause any feeling but pleasure. Plants make fruits so animals will pick and eat them, and disperse their seeds. At least most plants do, or more precisely, the fruits we eat are those meant to be eaten by those which eat them.
I know that Wheel of Time was handed over by Robert Jordan to Brandon Sanderson, because he was dying. It can be very jarring to suddenly see a change in writing style.
Maybe that's how historians of literature feel when they detect forgeries or misattributions.
I think maybe it would make more sense to have authors write individual stories and contribute to a shared setting. Not like spin-offs and fandoms, but like open source contribution I guess.
Kinda works out, since I think Gnosticism is about remembering your prior existence beyond the mundane physical realm!
That's like some very specific variants of Buddhism. It was originally supposed to be very straightforward.
Like they were almost literally hanging out cheat sheets with the Four Noble Truths, Three Marks of Existence, Eightfold Path...even later traditions like Zen were just about "stfu, sit down, and just try to get enlightened"
There also was a long standing tradition that enlightenment is just someone one can only experience for themselves when they actually do praxis instead of talking about it. That's probably where this mysteriousness came from: most people just want the cheat sheets so they never learn. Either that, or tantric practices, but that was a different kind of esoteric imo
Nitpicking can be automated by a linter, then reviews can actually sit back and review more important things like high-level design and scalability
as if peer reviews could actually spot bugs that tests can't catch
There can't be bugs if there are no tests to catch them! Ofc you can also automate test coverage standards. But PRs are sometimes the only way to catch bugs, even and especially with senior devs in my experience bc they are lazy and will skip writing tests, or write useless or bare minimum tests just to check off code standards and merge on ahead
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Yeah it's a good metaphor, unfortunately. The spectacle is presented as something quaint and part of daily life. But the reality is too horrifying to even think about, let alone witness or experience. I used to stay near a slaughterhouse in India where chickens and goats were killed in open air. They scream like humans, especially the goats. The other time in my life I regularly heard sobs and screams around the street corner was when I lived in a bad neighborhood in the US and people used to curl up in this alley near me. Not sure if it was drugs, violence, mental instability, or just the pain of being homeless. I wasn't able to really help in either case, and the consequences still haunts me
God damn it, you don't need to swing to extremes to feel the presence of anything meaningful, forget God
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I know this is like modern filmmaking phenomena but I wonder how much is related to Western culture, always living in the ruins and shadows of the East.
For example, Roman and Greek architecture and art is always portrayed as plain white marble structures (think Washington DC), even though they were actually very colorful. Similar thing happens with ancient Middle Eastern structures, portrayals and conceptions as collosal but plain, ruined structures (cf. Ozymandias, new Dune adaptions, the Ahsoka show now), even though there was once very rich culture around them.
In India, there are very old, now plain-looking temples, and new ones constructed as white slabs, but there are also very old yet ornate and rainbow/pastel-colored temples out there (eg. Ranganathaswamy Temple.
Idk I guess my thesis is that it is a continuous and living tradition, so the sublime is not thought of as this inhuman, unattainable looming object in the background used as a tool to indicate the power of men over nature and civilizations.
Like I see the Western motif in this way: a larger-than-life Great Man going around conquering lands, with scenes of him looking up at the colossal ancient wonders, showing he too is a collosus: Alexander, Napoleon, Paul Atreides, etc. Whereas in Hindu tradition, the tirtha-yatra or conquest by a cakravartin world-conqueror is more about touring the world and paying homage to each holy site and culture, looking up at these intricate temples and recognizing there is a deeper unseen world they are part of. Sometimes the final step in a cakravartin's world conquest is to give away his global empire. Hence the image of ancient Hindu kings parading, just throwing gold and gems into the stretets.
Sorry for the essay, if anyone has any more info on this topic, I'd love to follow up. It's very interesting to me to connect film and historical perceptions!
And that is exactly why they are terrified of us
Okay sounded like you loved telling me that though. You know what I meant
In case I need to spell it out, it is that they probably don't feel pain telling them to cease their reproductive processes. Not some abduction that they feel pleasure when I pick their fruits (not organs, more like fertilized eggs)