#Manichean

[renegade-hierophant]

Manichaean Diagram of the Universe (摩尼教宇宙圖) is a Yuan dynasty (1271–1368) silk painting describing the cosmology of Manichaeism, in other words, the structure of universe according to Manichaean vision. The painting, a hanging scroll in vivid colors on a silk cloth (originally measuring approximately 158x60 centimeters) survives in three parts.

#manichaean #manichean #manicheism #cosmology #silk #painting #chinese #persian #parthian #sogdian

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#well-tamed #antidetonating #Manichean #hemibenthic #lin. #nuncupative #salpingopexy #urinemia #dzeron #palanquins #navigators #outcrows #Taholah #isodurene #whomble #Moche #contakia #unwrinkling #pseudocritically #Fingo

[purringbookworm97]

"oooh X deity is evil!" "buuuuut nO X deity is good!" "how dare you, they're a sweet loving baby!" "but they're a raging bastard!"

what about, "deities are depicted in their myth with a nature that we mortals can't judge, precisely because they're bigger than us and not bound to morals the way we are" and "they're the embodiment of the rawest parts of humanity in all their excess because they are what humanity can and should never achieve" and "deities represent the humanity that can only be forgiven and strived for on the pov of the watcher because they are models and warnings for those who made and believed in their myths."

#deities #personal #helpol #like take achilles #dude was smitten by the gods because he'd come too close to being one #cannibalism is a god thing #like repopulating the earth #i see u zeus #anyway #stop slapping christian manicheanism on old deities plz #differentiate your fictional characters from complex concepts thx luv #also i know this might make no sense but it did in my brain

[mali-umkin]

French History book for middle school students from 1937, found in an old normand attic

#Always love how manichean everything is #frev #robespierre #upthebaguette

[eileenleahy]

shaping your politics and ideology around opposition to conservatism/the right wing is so unreal. theres no way you think like that. i dont mean anti-fascism i mean stuff like "if it makes a right winger mad, it's probably good" and "agreement with a right-winger is bad and means your position is a conservative one" . you are the embodiment of political inauthenticity

#leftists HATE HER. she rejects a manichean worldview!

[lucyfishwife]

New washing machine went into its first spin cycle and threw itself around the kitchen with such violence that it nearly left the building. I have now got such vast and clenched anxiety that I'm not even hungry

BUT sometimes I have to be allowed to be the panicker so my permanently-panicking husband will step up and be the coper because, like little weather-house people, we can only be one or the other at any given time, light and dark, yin and yang, Troy and Abed

ALTHOUGH "get a plumber get a fucking plumber just ring a fucking PLUMBER" could be seen as helpful suggestion rather than panicking, let's say that's what I was doing

#FFS #manichean principles in modern marriage: discuss #i might rewatch Community again

[atiglain]

The funniest and and most interesting central character trait of Chane is that she’s essentially right about most things and has probably the most sensible belief system of the cast of characters, but her reasons for believing what she believes are so batshit idiosyncratic insane that it kind of calls into question the whole operation (or does it?).

#They’re like that one cryptotheism post about anti-rational manicheanism. The devil built causality! #Paradise OC’s

[nerianasims]

I want them to straight up give Lizzo that crystal flute in exchange for her playing a full concert with the National Philharmonic using it. And I want her to release as many flute records as she releases pop records. She is a great flautist and I want more flute music in the world.

#lizzo #my husband and I were married by a black woman btw #what are they gonna try to take that back too? THEY MIGHT #the sides here are just ridiculously Manichean life is not usually so clear

[thebusylilbee]

neither a northerner nor a southerner but a secret third thing (a non-binary middle earther if you will)

#people always want to be so manichean even in geography #bee tries to talk

[lightdancer1]

And for a final note, re: Western secularists and their view of Muslims

The main gap between a Dawkins and a Harris and a Bryan Fischer in their view of Muslims is that one will bluntly repeat modern day Crusader slogans and the other will merely view Islam in almost identical rhetorical terms. Only in one specific part of the world is any even partial notice taken of Islam and its history and culture as a living, breathing thing capable of adapting and co-existing with the modern world. Otherwise the unspoken cultural Christianity elements of Western secularism prevail unchallenged.

There should be literally nothing controversial or contentious about noting that people in parts of the world where the Islamic path is the majority of the population's path that well, people there are Muslim, they do practice it, and they do take its assumptions as a given. Of course what should be and what is are not so and too often the only people in the secular former Christendom that do so do so in the most self-serving rationale to justify hatred of Muslims in general and Arab Muslims in particular shamelessly.

Too, online secularism all too often emulates the very dogmatic bellicosity and proselyist mentality of the religions that its community comes from and does so without taking that reality into account. In a world that treats the mere idea of godlessness as a heinous offense and where it remains far from universally acceptable even in parts of the world like the EU where it has taken its deepest root, this too is understandable. But it cannot be noted without bluntly stating that its view of other cultures takes all the racist filth of the Christian culture it spawned from and simply removes the Jesus while leaving the rest intact.

#lightdancer comments on geopolitics #cultural Christianity #western secularism and islam #there are too many westerners whose view of Muslims is different to that of the Crusaders only in skipping the name Jesus #this plays its own part in reifying the Islamists' own Manichean view of a world in eternal conflict #and the way to not do that is to simply reject the premise #while simultaneously being aware that fanaticism in all its forms must be made odious and rejected #there are no good fanatics

[bijoumikhawal]

Not to mention ur og posts?? I like kind of forgot that u write the posts on Coptic history until I sent the ask and saw ur profile again, but they’re so interesting and they open my eyes to a whole world of non-secular Coptic history. Crazy…

thank you! And yeah I like talking about Coptic art and material culture a lot- it can be dicey because of. Various academic nonsenses, but I still really enjoy it

#cipher talk #Hilariously I like Late Antiquity/pre-Islamic Coptic art partially because it's more secular #Like there's obviously religious symbolism everywhere but it feels like there was more freedom in playing with ideas and still being Coptic #Then again that era also had more religious diversity among Copts for most of it- most were still Christians after a certain point but ther #Were also Manicheans and pagans for a bit and maybe Jews. I still can't find a clear historical answer on the last one #There's a like. Weird trend these days to only show icon painters and such as 'coptic artists' #They do good work but Copts do a lot more kinds of art than just icons #It's not that Pre-Islamic Coptic art was pre-colonial; no such thing really exists for Copts because Copts became Copts while occupied #By an empire and we haven't had a like. Independent self rule thing since lmao #But there were different concerns for artists and jewelers and tailors

[thepotentialof2007]

always eye-opening to pass through a nearby au

#f1 unreality #it looks the same #and yet #f1 as a manichean struggle #where youth is de facto good #and age evil #stumbling across [blacklisted] fan blogs

[inlovewithaspiderguy]

Neither a “Miguel is right” stan nor a “Miles is right” stan but a secret third thing (someone who knows better than to choose in a dichotomy)

#I will not be manichean #made up a word right there cause I don’t know how to say it in English #manichéen? #atsv #across the spiderverse

[nostalgicmiscellaneous]

I think the Polin fandom is so interesting to me, and Penelope and Colin, because quite frankly, Penelope is the most complex female character in Bridgerton. She's interesting, contradicting, someone who was victimized but refuses to stay a victim, she's sweet and kind but can be very cunning. She loves deeply but never lost her sense of self in that love. She's brave but has many fears. She can be hard but not cruel. She challenged the limited walls of society she lived in the ways she could and found a voice to use and to secure her future. And i find fascinating how the fans embrace her qualities and flaws. I just truly enjoy how how her character is not sold nor performed in a manichean manner and the majority of fans are able to grasp that and love her.

#bridgerton #polin #colin x penelope #penelope featherington #nicola coughlan

[odesofmeddea]

when i point out things like manipulation coercion emotional abuse etc etc. in samdean purview i don't imply a condemning connotation behind these terms, by the way, and i don't see the mutual abuse that both sam and dean occasionally enact upon each other as something that contorts the situated power dynamic.

i.e. when dean controls sam or robs him of his agency i don't immediately insinuate sam's position to be that of the unilateral victim - although he technically is, in some ways, dean's victim, there's always a spatial permit in letting him construe and reciprocate the damage received in his own way. when he abuses dean and is objectively verbally cruel or denigrating towards him, he's as much of a wounder and a manipulator and a jealous appropriator - in cases where he wants dean entirely and only to himself. the appropriation and possessiveness go as far as torturing other beings or corrupting a human soul, planning on murdering benny or killing dean's biological daughter from another woman, the daughter and benny being a threat to his position of the primal importance in his brother's life, thus robbing dean of any alternative. sam does, in fact, have this sadistic faculty reared and nurtured in him, the very faculty that s1-9 he would often resort to when forced or provoked and is otherwise rendered defenseless.

it's different from when i say that john ruined dean and mean it not in a neutral uncritical way, because john as a father was omnipotent in relation to his sons, and he abused that power ghastly for his own convenience. it's different from when i assert that lucifer mentally and sexually tortured sam for eons and has broke and rebroke his extant already-whacked personality, adding trauma on trauma, simply because he enjoyed demolishing him. with sam and dean, however detriment, there's always another basis of evaluation because there's a different nucleus of emotional input and intent that in its provenance is not manichean but instead very deeply human and therefore must be a panoply of manifestations, moral or not, logical or inadequate, often irrationally both. oh. they're also in love with each other, so the question of split-up is factually out of the equation and is not a desirable solution for their ongoing conflict.

#tw: sa #samdean #wincest #my texts #supernatural

[cryptotheism]

I have never, in all my years discussing comparative religion and history, seen someone use the word "manichean" in conversation, let alone use it in proper context, and I want you know that that brought me some much-needed joy today. 😊

Sincerely, The Witchstorian

See I could have just said Dualist but why pass up an opportunity to be a pedantic pseudointellectual on the internet