Immediately beneath and about them the lines of the Gothic building plunged outwards into the void with a sickening swiftness akin to suicide. There is that element of Titan energy in the architecture of the Middle Ages that, from whatever aspect it be seen, it always seems to be rushing away, like the strong back of some maddened horse. This church was hewn out of ancient and silent stone, bearded with old fungoids and stained with the nests of birds. And yet, when they saw it from below, it sprang like a fountain at the stars; and when they saw it, as now, from above, it poured like a cataract into a voiceless pit. For these two men on the tower were left alone with the most terrible aspect of Gothic; the monstrous foreshortening and disproportion, the dizzy perspectives, the glimpses of great things small and small things great; a topsy-turvydom of stone in the mid-air. Details of stone, enormous by their proximity, were relieved against a pattern of fields and farms, pygmy in their distance. A carved bird or beast at a corner seemed like some vast walking or flying dragon wasting the pastures and villages below. The whole atmosphere was dizzy and dangerous, as if men were upheld in air amid the gyrating wings of colossal genii; and the whole of that old church, as tall and rich as a cathedral, seemed to sit upon the sunlit country like a cloudburst.
Do your worst!
It really does, I swear!
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies π
Everything that follows is about oneβs own perception, and can be experientially appreciated. The status of perception-independent reality is not something I will address here. There are others more qualified to squabble about that.
Some etymology to begin with:
enlightenment/awakening:
Within a Buddhist context these are both translations of bodhi, an abstract noun derived from the verbal root budh-, literally to wake up.
psychedelic:
A composite neologism derived from Greek, which literally translated means βmind-manifestingβ.
...and suggestive scripture:
The Essential Jewel of Holy Practice, by Patrul Rinpoche:
>Cut off the mindβs obsession with appearance.
Let the whole structure of deluded appearance crumble away.
The nonduality of mind and appearance is an infinite expanse.
Realizing that single essence, chant the six-beat mantra.
Iβm going to try to get my points across by way of using this verse of Rinpocheβs poetry as scaffolding. Bear with me.
Cut off the mindβs obsession with appearance.
You fall asleep, and in the theatre of the night dreams appear. You do not know you are dreaming, and are fully immersed in the dreamβs contents and narrative. Disaster occurs. You are devastated, inconsolable, alone in a frightening world. The fact of this being projected and constituted by your own mind is cognitively and perceptually inaccessible, not an introspectively available fact to be noticed. Or is it? How, if in retrospect all this is but a projection of your own mind, could you be so deceived? And more, if all is but a projection of your mind, why does all seem in the dream to be perceived by βyouβ, as if you were something separated out from the dreamscape?
As sentient beings we find ourselves at each instant within ordinary (and most extraordinary) states of consciousness situated, most often centered, in a richly structured and dynamic three-dimensional space. This room, the moving foliage seen through the window, the sound of a heating fan, all appear as objects in this perceptual space, and are mapped within it with reference to an apparent center of space, the point-of-view, me! This basic situation of a point-of-view, I, and various objects which appear to it constitutes the ordinary basis of all activity in this space.
If the objects appear pleasant, there is attentional and affective pull and the activities which arise from that. I want this! Bring it closer! Give me more! I wonder if I can get more of this in the fut
... keep reading on reddit β‘Theyβre on standbi
Buenosdillas
Pilot on me!!
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
When I got home, they were still there.
I won't be doing that today!
You take away their little brooms
This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
There hasn't been a post all year!
Itβs pronounced βNoel.β
Why
After all his first name is No-vac
What, then, is Chinese rap?
Edit:
Notable mentions from the comments:
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Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits
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French/Finnish art
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Country/Canadian rap
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Chinese/Country/Canadian rock
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Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap
There hasn't been a single post this year!
(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)
Nothing, it just waved
Bob
So that I could frequently say, "I am going to walk 5 miles now."
Edit: My most popular post on Reddit! π Thank you for the awards.
Just to clarify, 12345678
Me grabbing a soda from my (what I thought was) half full 12pk...
Notices there's only 2;
Me: "Awe man... This is a damn bird box!" Her: "What the hell does that mean?!" Me: (Pulls both cans out & shows them to her) "It's only got Toucans."
I'm not ashamed to admit the look on her face was glorious.
I was just sitting there doing nothing.
βBOOMβ?!
"That's what they're fighting about."
free
Because his Visa didnβt work.
Because the audience only responds in a low ha
