#Unity of Opposites

[lightlessentwine]

I don't believe Miquella to have simply failed at the hands of Mohg. I think he is trying to subject himself to a literalization of the alchemical process related to self actualization; essentially his goal has been to become a human philosopher's stone the entire time.

By making Radahn let go of his grasp over gravity and thus spacetime, the Eclipse may come to pass. within Elden Ring, entropy exists outside of spacetime which is why Death may persist in the many ways it seems to, or why Rot still spreads and Gold still tarnishes (Rot is the embodiment of stagnation and thus flourishes in the lands between as things are; pure Gold staves off the effects because it is a symbol of pure Faith; it grants the will of the user based on their belief, which can fade causing the Gold to tarnish)

Miquella has likely separated body and soul via the haligtree to leave a corpse in the blood of the formless mother- the outer god of truth. meanwhile, expecting capture, their spirit spreads faith as a ghost-like spirit, under the guise of St. Trina.. Miquella has found a way to traverse what i twntatively call "The Lands Between The Lands Between".. spreading faith in their spirit through their dreams-- as in Miquella/St. Trina. Miquella is Saint Trina, the same way Radagon is Marika. i think Miquella/Trina have managed to separate their spirit and give each their own identity.

St. Trina is the Spirit of Miquella. in fact, Trina is a reflection of Miquella, and i mean that on multiple levels: they are demonstrating understanding of the alchemical principle of "The Unity of Opposites" which ties into both alchemy and (the somewhat dated practice of) jungian psychology. basically, they're carefully planning and gambling on their every move as they position their twin spirit to contrast in a perfect dichotomy.

"Shadow of the Erdtree" could take place at a point where all is aligned in Miquella/Trina's favor, allowing their separate personas to re-emerge as one perfectly balanced entity known as a Rebis

The Dark Moon's presence could spur Deathroot to grow much stronger and faster. the light of the Golden Erdtree now gone and no longer even burning, The Dark Moon then strangles and bends any remaining Erdtrees. the lack of light pollution now reveals a light source; a previously unseen ball of light in the sky; a proper Sun. These massive, Erdtree-sized Deathroots grip and squeeze golden sap from the Erdtrees that once bore life and formed miraculous crystals. as the Dark Moon crosses the sky in front of said Sun, Death becomes life itself, the concepts overlapping as Life's inseperable counterpart flourishes.

from here, like a sick Easter in the Lands Between; The Body of Miquella awakens soulless and without a will of its own. Alongside it, the corpses of Godwyn and Ranni.*

as the light of Gold wanes, the namely Shadow of the Erdtree is cast by a Sun that, beyond some lost or forgotten Belfry or passage, was once blocked from shining light where Trina's spirit presently slept. She now awakes from her slumber, the returning Sun acts as the signal for her to act. She collects the golden sap from the wrung trees on her quest to reconvene with her body as it lay soaking.

the putrefying body of the sun lie slumbering within an egg. the Spirit of the Moon and patron saint of slumber, a reflection of the light of the Sun.. the physical body soaked in the red blood of truth and their ephemeral spirit wringing the golden yellow sap of faith from the branches that once bore them like fruit

all is in perfect pull of one another, and every aspect appears to be in place for their transformarion into a Rebis: a Blackened Corpse, a Pure white reflection, the Red Blood of truth and the Golden sap of Faith

#Elden Ring #Lore #shadow of the erdtree #Alchemy #Unity of Opposites #Miquella #St. Trina #Magnum Opus #Philosopher's Stone #Nigredo #Albedo #Citrinatas #Rubedo

[morlock-holmes]

@onecornerface linked me to this paper, which I mostly agree quite a lot with, and lays out some thoughts that I've been having lately in a much more coherent, far less fundamentally angry form than I have. Particularly the fact that the American racial culture wars are primarily waged between rival groups of middle-to-upper-class whites and that the distinction between de jure and de facto segregation is actually important and worth focusing on.

I'm trying to think how to put certain thoughts in order, but over the last few years I have been increasingly fixated on the fact that de jure segregation and affirmative action have both been resolutely defeated in the law here in the US.

The defeat of segregation has been the quicker and more complete; I cannot bring to mind any attempt to revive Jim Crow or repeal the Civil Rights act.

Affirmative action, in contrast, has not been completely excised from the US but it seems to be well on the way out.

My followers will know that I like to piss people off by asking for a legislative or court victory for Affirmative Action that happened in the last half century. I think the closest I've gotten was a California ballot measure that didn't pass and maybe, like, one Supreme Court decision that was kind of a mixed bag rather than being entirely restrictive from the early 70s.

Both these situations strike me as incredibly weird, and people hate when I say that, because they sense a kind of dismissiveness lurking behind the assertion that these total legal defeats are weird.

Which frustrates me because it makes them incapable of even admitting that anything happened.

I cannot name any other important culture war issues like this. Roe V. Wade dates to very close to the Civil Rights Act, and American conservatives never once stopped working at overturning it through the courts and legislatures, and, as we know, they finally succeeded.

The same kind of continual push for legislation and court victories can be observed for every other culture war battle I can think of. If I asked you to name one legislative or court victory for anti-gay activists in the last fifty years you could probably name several off the top of your head, e.g. Prop 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act. If I asked you to name similar victories for pro-gay activists you'd cite Lawrence V. Texas and the Respect For Marriage Act.

Gay rights battles have been fought in the courts and legislature and continue to be fought up to the present day, just like battles over Abortion, drug use, gun rights, etc.

But the same is not true of Segregation or Affirmative Action. For example, current Supreme Court precedent bans the use of official racial quotas in college admissions. Affirmative Action advocates could pass trigger laws requiring such quotas, which would go into effect as soon as they could get friendly court judges to overturn current precedent. The same is true of white supremacists who want to bring back the bad old days.

But they don't.

When I point this out people get very angry and say, "Just because something isn't done by the courts or legislature doesn't mean people don't still do it. Here's an example of some private citizen doing something really egregious! Everybody knows that you don't get results by going to the courts or the legislature anymore! Please ignore all the states that are now banning abortion!"

I disagree. If something is a huge, controversial culture war flashpoint, but only one side has won any legal victories in a half century, that's actually so anomalous that I genuinely cannot come up with a third example after Segregation and Affirmative Action.

I think this is related to a conviction that destroying segregation and affirmative action are held (By different political groups) to be the key to achieving racial harmony.

It may look like segregation was defeated so thoroughly that nobody could possibly advocate for it seriously anymore, but that hasn't led to an end of racial strife. Since racial strife is caused by segregation, if it's still around that means segregation and race hatred must have somehow gone underground. Those feelings must be as strong as they were in the 60s, but now they're hiding and we have to do more and more psychological work to figure out where they're hiding.

And an essentially exactly analogous process happens for affirmative action.

Essentially, on the left the feeling is that if we had actually rooted out race hatred from the white psyche, we'd have racial harmony and equality.

We don't have racial harmony and equality, therefore the white psyche must still be riddled with race hatred, and we need to find it. It must be expressing itself through white chefs that want to cook soul food and tourists trying on kimonos, and we need to treat people who do those things as the racists they are.

On the right, the feeling is that the psychological problem is the ability to conceive of race at all; the way to racial harmony is colorblindness and particularly color-blind policy.

We don't have racial harmony and equality, therefore the affirmative action mindset must be heavily embedded in the left-wing psyche, and we need to find out where it is hiding. People hide it behind innocent-sounding phrases like "diversity" and "inclusion" and we need to run anybody who uses those phrases out of town on a rail.

Our whole approach to race in this country is devolving into increasingly hysterical attempts to force (white) people to have the correct attitudes about race.

Step back for a bit and the fact that we are trying to make it illegal to cause a white person to feel guilt about history has a sort of bizarre, 1,001 Nights fairytale quality about it. Like some fairy story where it is illegal to remind the Emperor that he will die someday.

I think I am coming around to the idea that racial strife in the US is no longer caused primarily by defects in the individual (white) psyche, and that our efforts to keep finding those defects are kind of the same mindset that convinced Soviet leaders that all failures were caused by sabotage.

#racism #us history #annoying everybody #unity of opposites

[ammonitetestpatterns]

mirza ghalib, selected poems and letters, translated by frances pritchett and owen cornwall, columbia university press.

#mirza ghalib #unity of opposites #after guido cavalcanti #they became the straw and twigs of their own fire #the reddest rose unfolds/so slow is the rose to open

[theidealistphilosophy]

…then I looked. I saw that lover, beloved and loved are one, for in a world of unity all can be one.

Bayazid Bastami, Sayings.

#philosophy tumblr #philoblr #eastern philosophy #philosopher #bayazid #mysticism #coniuntio oppositorum #unity of opposites #buddhism #metaphysics #dark academia #life quotes

[arunkumarme]

The Self is One: Bridging Isha Upanishad and Quantum Science

Introduction: In this investigation, we will enter into the beyond comprehension realms of Advaita Vedanta and the rich fabric of quantum physics as we journey through the verses of the Isha Upanishad, the foremost of the Ten Principal Upanishads and a timeless wellspring of spiritual truth. We explore the dynamic between classical philosophy and modern scientific thinking as we go to the heart…

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#Consciousness #Cosmic Order #Infinite Energy #Interconnectedness #non-duality #Observer Effect #Oneness #Unity of Opposites

[imagesforrenewal]

Encounter With A Master

He talked like one who preceded speech with thought cordial deeply peaceful interested in me but not involved offering company of mind what you might call  a perfectly normal person 

when we stepped outside he pointed up into the night sky spangled with silvery stars then turned to me as he swept his hand heavenward ~ There is all this … and then there is the omelette on the stove that needs turning over.

these many years later  I remember his words  as I direct my gaze into the moving clouds, heeding my footsteps as I go.

~ Viktoria Vidali

#levels of reality #bodhisattva #unity of opposites

[roxannepolice]

Just read someone saying thoschei is endgame and cousin in Omega I see what you mean, except. There is no endgame here. Like, if there was a Doctor Who endgame, they would be it, but there isn't one. It's not even the case of BBC coming up with the ultimate milking the brand potentially forever mechanism, at least not only that, but of "if they haven't got there by now, they never satisfyingly will".

They aren't doomed by the narrative, they are doomed by the absence of the narrative.

#yeah moffat did go for the ultimate linear narrative of redemption leading chibnall to wallow in gratuitous masochism #but neither is an idea that can last for long #doctor who #thoschei #best enemies #doctor x master #doctor who meta #unity of opposites babey #The Great Stories will always return to their original forms

[philosophybits]

What opposes, unites; the finest harmony is composed of things at variance, and everything comes to be in accordance with strife.

Heraclitus, Fragments, B8

#philosophy #quotes #Heraclitus #Fragments #opposition #distinction #difference #unity #harmony

[toasted-treasure]

Happy pride month 🫶🏳️‍🌈

#centricide #centricide ancap #centricide commie #centricide authleft #centricide pinkcap #jreg tankie #my art #swagger #meow #pride month #opposite unity #capcom unity

[techtechonmymind]

Doyoung, sobbing: Taeil, please get well soon.

(Camera cuts to Taeil)

Taeil: 😃😅🙈

#they’re both so iconic in directly opposite ways lol #unity beyond live liveblog #nct #nct 127 #doyoung 🖤 #taeils 🌙

[swagunity]

#personally i think we should call capcom opposite unity 2 electric boogaloo #centricide #opposite unity #capcom centricide #praxis unity

[bowl-of-ravioli]

hey now, give the guy some space, will ya? didn't he already say he was taken? i get it, y'all think he's pretty, but chill out a bit! frankly, i'm more interested in why you guys are here in the first place. why are you looking for ravio? (i may also be interested in that cookie recipe space (the person) had because those look gooooood) - pat pat anon

We need him for reasons! why else would there just happen to be another Ravio every other place the portals sent us? probably something impotent!

#lots of ravios #lor #asks! #lor tunnel #lor merchant #lor unity #💚 #i kinda got carried away and made it a whole ass comic #hope you guys dont mind #also my art style changes every second day dont mind me #also just wanna let yall know Unity isnt a case of DID #its like #idk how to explain it without major spoilers #but think about how if the hero of the foursword is one person who could split into four #think about what the opposite to that would be

[morlock-holmes]

I'm not sure if I should just vague or @ the people I'm talking about (Their choice I suppose) but it's very clear to me that despite the noises about egalitarianism and classism made by the pro-STEM people in my broader circle, for the most part the debate is not whether education makes you a better more complete person:

There is broad agreement between STEM and Humanities people that those who don't have the proper education are fundamentally so lost in the world that they cannot meaningfully contribute to it, and should therefore be looked down on and boxed out of any meaningful influence into the society in which they live.

Rather, the question is whether it is only STEM knowledge which makes you a full human being worthy of respect and capable of contributing to society; or if instead it is only Humanities education that makes you a full human being worthy of respect and capable of communicating with society.

If it isn't yet abundantly clear, I have almost no respect for either position, but as I myself am deficient in both ways that's obviously irrelevant.

#angry posting #discourse #education #unity of opposites

[ammonitetestpatterns]

sachiko yoshihara, translation by charlotte fitt.

"yoshihara’s poetry contains a strong visual element, this is most obvious in the large spaces between words and phrases, which are especially striking given japanese does not usually separate words with spacing at all. from her recordings, we can hear that these are also intended as a guide for reading out loud.

yoshihara also makes the most of the rich possibilities presented by the different writing systems used in japanese. for example, she frequently makes nonstandard orthographic choices, and even mixes different systems (chinese characters and the japanese alphabet) within the same word. another interesting feature of her work is her use of ‘ruby script’ (furigana), a kind of annotative gloss usually used to provide phonetic readings of difficult chinese characters, or in texts for children. yoshihara sparingly uses ‘ruby’ superscripts to provide alternative readings for characters, often near synonyms. these techniques have no effect on pronunciation when reading aloud, yet their visual impact creates a sense of alienation, and suggests multiple layers of meaning."

#sachiko yoshihara #unity of opposites #the translation note is too generalized for my liking

[thirdity]

Paradox is the technique for seizing the conflicting aspects of any problem. Paradox coalesces or telescopes various facets of a complex process in a single instant.

Marshall McLuhan, Take Today

#paradox #conflict #opposites #perception #multiplicity #unity #quotes #McLuhan #Marshall McLuhan #Take Today

[acaciapines]

TELL ME ABOUT MARI. TELL ME ABOUT LUZ-MARI. PLEASE INFODUMP I AM AAAAAALL EARS 👂👂👂👂👂

he he YEAHHHHH

okay so the big thing about luz and mari is that its like. god okay.

so the human world in my fic is basically his dark materials pushed to the extreme--i took all the parts i hated about how daemons are presented (second to their humans, only talk to other daemons, mostly there as a symbol, settle very young) and went yeah :) this is how the world works.

and thus we get luz and mari. luz who was never so great at picking up all these rules because she was a neurodivergent kid and it just--they were so SLIPPERY. she was just doing her best, wasnt she? and mari, who knew they were wrong, they EXISTED wrong, did everything wrong, and had to step up and do everything right but daemons aren't supposed to be the ones leading the way. they are supposed to follow.

but theyre also supposed to protect their humans and lead them down the right path and its this horrible catch-22 where to be a good daemon mari has to be a bad daemon and it just. it eats at her. it eats at her so much, as they go to the boiling isles, where everyone accepts luz and luz fits right in and theyre wrong wrong wrong but luz is having fun and mari is too but no, no she CANT, she cant be a bad daemon, has to be good, and good, and good--

and then comes the choice. blow up the portal to save eda's life. or let eda die so she can go back home to her mom.

the good thing to do is to go back home. the demon realm? its just...a distraction. temporary. besides, theyre settled, arent they? sure, mari hates the form, and her scales are too-tight, and she can't shed them. sure, she drops her tail, and won't ever grow it back, but--shes being good, right? right?

luz wants to save eda.

luz wants to be a Bad Daughter.

luz is trying to be a good daughter. to eda, though.

and mari--

see, theres one thing worse than being a bad daemon. and thats being a daemon who unsettles.

so now theyre trapped in the demon realm. now luz is saying all these things about how maybe its good, actually, and maybe the human realm wasnt so perfect, but doesnt she get it? this isnt a STORY. this is real life, and in real life, you close the book and go home. in real life you swallow down lizard and you sit with it no matter how much your scales itch. in real life bad kids are sent away to become good kids. and youve never, ever been a good kid.

its wrong, to stay here. its wrong, that luz isnt as dedicated to building the portal as mari is. its bad, and its SO BAD, and mari keeps trying her best, and then makes it, halfway, and shes seeing the human realm, seeing home, and look, thats how daemons are supposed to be, and--

was it always so...stifling?

surely, she's just...misremembering. thats home! its where she needs to be! its...

sometimes people call them luz-mari clawthorne and it makes luz grin a bit and mari want to claw her own fur out (but she cant have fur it should be scales why is the fur more her than the scales ever were--)

sometimes mari looks at her own paws and wonders why she even bothers trying to make luz good when all its ever done is get them both hurt.

sometimes mari lies awake at night and thinks only to herself: does belos have a point?

but mari's a Good Daemon. she's doing everything shes supposed to be doing. shes doing it right, and she'll just--settle again, settle BETTER, and even witches settle, even if they're weird as kids, even if nothing is adding up, even if shes learning things in belos's mind, learning HISTORY, and if it's true, if belos is wrong, if witches and humans actually arent so alike at all, if luz is maybe more a witch than she's ever been human, if, if, if--

mari just. has to be good.

why cant luz see that?

#toh #daemons #and a grove of palistrom to you #i write #this was more. prose? than i intended #but uhhh yeah lol it answers the question. #basically: luz and mari are Going Through It and as one person across two bodies #they get to! have entirely opposite reactions to things #that makes :)) their relationship :))) so so fun :))))))))) #which is why its the core of this fic! #this is fun only to me but. i think my favorite writing choice nobody will notice #is that in 19.5 (inbetween where we get a drabble from every pov character leading up to the day of unity) #i have all the characters ordered to like. reflect in some way #so like theres 14 drabbles total and character 2 and 13 or 3 and 12 relate in some way etc etc #anyways mari goes first. luz is in the middle. and belos goes last <3