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nathanlovestrees

@nathanlovestrees@disabled.social

Someone once told me I'm too sincere to be funny.

Full-time caregiver to a disabled brother and father interested mainly in Thoreau, Zhuangzi, animism, Kings of Convenience, and drinking tea.

Master's degrees in music theory and theology (nonpracticing), classically trained and folk musician (also nonpracticing), and I once organized and helped plant over 800 trees on abandoned mine land (I do still plant trees occasionally).

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indigo blunting

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mourning dived

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Virginia pepperweed

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grey catbird and green frog having a conversation

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“Let us ask the briars and thorns and roses to give us better dreams”

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(Sophie Strand in The Flowering Wand)

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subaltern is a good word

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“Ecstatic naturalism locates god within the infinite and oftimes bewildering worlds of nature natured. Insofar as the divine life is approachable phenomenologically, it is as manifest inside of and around the edges of the world(s) of orders. The primal distinction between nature naturing and nature natured is more capacious than the subaltern distinctions between being and non-being, or god and world.”

from Deep Pantheism by Robert Corrington (I should finish reading this)

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The primal distinction within an ecstatic naturalist metaphysics is that between nature naturing (natura naturans) and nature natured (natura naturata). In what follows I will define nature naturing as “Nature perennially creating itself out of itself alone,” while nature natured will be defined as, “The innumerable orders of the World.”

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[cont.] Note that this ontological distinction prevails within and as the one nature that there is and does not comprise two separate realities with one being more “real” or foundational than the other. Nature naturing and nature natured belong together in the fullness that is nature in its encompassing. We approach the Encompassing whenever we consciously and deliberately attain a more expanded view of nature and its innumerable orders.

Deep Pantheism, Robert Corrington

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1/4 Duke Ai of Lu said to Confucius, "In Wei there was an ugly man named Ai T'ai-t'o. But when men were around him, they thought only of him and couldn't break away, and when women saw him, they ran begging to their fathers and mothers, saying, ‘I'd rather be this gentleman's concubine than another man's wife!’—there were more than ten such cases and it hasn't stopped yet. No one ever heard him take the lead—he always just chimed in with other people.

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3/4 Just as they said—he was ugly enough to astound the world. But he hadn't been with me more than a month or so when I began to realize what kind of man he was, and before the year was out, I really trusted him. There was no one in the state to act as chief minister, and I wanted to hand the government over to him.

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2/4 He wasn't in the position of a ruler where he could save men's lives, and he had no store of provisions to fill men's bellies. On top of that, he was ugly enough to astound the whole world, chimed in but never led, and knew no more than what went on right around him. And yet men and women flocked to him. He certainly must be different from other men, I thought, and I summoned him so I could have a look.

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4/4 He was vague about giving an answer, evasive, as though he hoped to be let off, and I was embarrassed, but in the end I turned the state over to him. Then, before I knew it, he left me and went away. I felt completely crushed, as though I'd suffered a loss and didn't have anyone left to enjoy my state with. What kind of man is he anyway?"

#Zhuangzi chapter 5 (Watson translation)

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@altlife 😍

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When I complemented the proprietor of MyTeaPal on their 2024 Mei Tan Mao Feng they said, "For the two Mao Feng teas, the picking grade is lower than the other two teas, but having more leaves makes the flavor more rich. I can see why that's the case for a puerh drinker like you." Which, I dunno, is that a bit of a slam? Heh, well, it is true, I like richer flavored green teas...

@tea

Mao Feng Green Tea in a dragon bowl.
Spent Green Tea Leaves.

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@ellestad @tea hahaha I, also being a puer drinker, find I prefer the later pickings too because they do seem to have more flavor/less subtlety

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Just ordered this (it came out today) and am excited to read it

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691238777/father-time

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Off to get this book!

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@RadicalAnthro haha! I just posted about ordering it this morning

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Robin Wall Kimmerer is releasing a book titled The Serviceberry Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World this November!!

I just heard about it, so very excited.

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@vapaad 😱

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Whoa, this is super cool: crowd-sourced database of songs.

https://www.antiwarsongs.org/

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@buffyleigh you might also like this project and album from one of my favorite Norwegian musicians, Moddi: https://www.unsongs.com/

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been trying to find a way to say this succinctly but I’m having trouble: it annoys me when people conflate laziness and anti-productivity. If capitalism is not just buying and selling things then similarly anti-productivity is not just laziness. There is good work and good labor that needs doing. Idealizing a certain type of laziness and calling it anti-productivity annoys me because it suggests that doing anything = being productive and therefore evil and just no

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I’m also tired so maybe this doesn’t make any sense

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coot scootin boogie

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saw a cybertruck in the wild today and became rationally angry

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@bioluminescently (also things I find are aggressive departures from reality)

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You can retroactively insert "All Star" into any movie at any point you'd like, where are you putting it?

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@checkervest in The Fellowship of the Ring right after Pippin throws the rock down the well in Moria and awakens the orcs, slowly fades in and gets louder and louder as the orcs approach

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