#beloved — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #beloved, aggregated by home.social.
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Unafraid, God calls me beloved in Jesus. 🕊️
#biblians #bibliansapp #faithoverfear #beloved #trustjesus #godisfaithful #savedbygrace #peaceofmind
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Sir Sam Neill’s Two Paddocks wine sales soar 1800% as fans toast star actor’s life https://www.diningandcooking.com/2737895/sir-sam-neills-two-paddocks-wine-sales-soar-1800-as-fans-toast-star-actors-life/ #1800 #1828 #Across #actor #actors #aş #Beloved #death #fans #flown #glass #have #life #Major #neills #NewZealand #NewZealandWine #paddocks #raise #recording #retailer #sales #sam #shelves #sir #soar #star #surge #Toast #two #wake #Wine #WineFromNewZealand #WineOfNewZealand #wines #with #zealand;
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Love & the Shadow of Truth
Claude, comment on this saying of mine:
“The shadow of Truth falls on everything and everyone I love in my life.”–DSR
Claude:
This one earns its keep through a genuine ambiguity — “shadow” pulls in two directions at once, and the aphorism works only because it refuses to resolve which.
Read one way, the shadow is a chastening. Truth here is the Advaitic Truth — Brahman, the sole reality — and its shadow falling on everything you love means every beloved person and thing stands revealed as nāma-rūpa, appearance, provisional. To love anything while knowing this is to love in penumbra: the affection is real, but it can never again be naive. The jnani’s melancholy, if there is one, is exactly this — nothing loved can be loved as ultimate anymore. The shadow is the “not this, not this” that neti neti drapes over the beloved’s face.
Read the other way, the shadow is a consecration. A shadow is proof of proximity — something casts a shadow on you only if it is near. If Truth’s shadow falls on everyone you love, then your loves are precisely where Truth has come closest; love is the site of its visitation. This reading turns the aphorism from lament into benediction: the beloved is shadowed the way one is shadowed by a tree one rests under.
Now the pushback, since you invite it. There’s a metaphysical awkwardness in the image that a strict Advaitin would press: Truth, in your own tradition, is the light itself — svayamprakāśa, self-luminous. Light casts no shadow. Only an object interposed between light and world casts one. So what is the opaque thing standing between Truth and your loved ones? The honest answer the aphorism smuggles in without admitting is: the “I” in “I love.” The shadow on everything you love may not be Truth’s shadow at all — it may be the shadow of the lover, the ego silhouetted against the light, projected onto everyone it holds dear. That would make the saying an inadvertent confession rather than an observation, and arguably a deeper one.
Note also what the aphorism quietly excludes: the shadow falls only on what you love. Not on what you’re indifferent to. That restriction is doing real work — Truth troubles us precisely at the points of attachment, because that’s where something is at stake. Where nothing is clung to, no shadow registers. Ghalib would have recognized the move instantly: the beloved and the veil arriving together, inseparable.
If you wanted a companion line that closes the loop, it might run something like: the shadow on my beloveds is my own; Truth casts none. But as it stands, the ambiguity is the strength — I’d resist the temptation to clarify it.
#AdvaitaVedanta #aphorism #Attachment #Beloved #Ego #Love #NamaRupa #netiNeti #NonDuality #Philosophy #SelfInquiry #shadow #spiritualReflection #Truth -
How H-E-B Became Texas' Most Beloved Brand (2024)
https://texashighways.com/culture/how-heb-became-texas-most-beloved-brand/
#HackerNews #HEB #Texas #Beloved #Brand #Retail #Success #Community
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BELOVED: My love is fresh and ruddy,
to be known among ten thousand.
His head is golden, purest gold,
his locks are palm fronds
and black as the raven.
His eyes are like doves
beside the water-courses,
bathing themselves in milk,
perching on a fountain-rim.
His cheeks are beds of spices,
banks sweetly scented.
His lips are lilies,
distilling pure myrrh.
His hands are golden, rounded,
set with jewels of Tarshish.
His belly a block of ivory
covered with sapphires.
His legs are alabaster columns
set in sockets of pure gold.
His appearance is that of Lebanon,
unrivaled as the cedars.
His conversation is sweetness itself,
he is altogether lovable.
דּוֹדִ֥י צַח֙ וְאָד֔וֹם דָּג֖וּל מֵרְבָבָֽה׃
רֹאשׁ֖וֹ כֶּ֣תֶם פָּ֑ז קְוֻצּוֹתָיו֙ תַּלְתַּלִּ֔ים שְׁחֹר֖וֹת כָּעוֹרֵֽב׃
עֵינָ֕יו כְּיוֹנִ֖ים עַל־אֲפִ֣יקֵי מָ֑יִם רֹֽחֲצוֹת֙ בֶּֽחָלָ֔ב יֹשְׁב֖וֹת עַל־מִלֵּֽאת׃
לְחָיָו֙ כַּעֲרוּגַ֣ת הַבֹּ֔שֶׂם מִגְדְּל֖וֹת מֶרְקָחִ֑ים שִׂפְתוֹתָיו֙ שֽׁוֹשַׁנִּ֔ים נֹטְפ֖וֹת מ֥וֹר עֹבֵֽר׃
יָדָיו֙ גְּלִילֵ֣י זָהָ֔ב מְמֻלָּאִ֖ים בַּתַּרְשִׁ֑ישׁ מֵעָיו֙ עֶ֣שֶׁת שֵׁ֔ן מְעֻלֶּ֖פֶת סַפִּירִֽים׃
שׁוֹקָיו֙ עַמּ֣וּדֵי שֵׁ֔שׁ מְיֻסָּדִ֖ים עַל־אַדְנֵי־פָ֑ז מַרְאֵ֙הוּ֙ כַּלְּבָנ֔וֹן בָּח֖וּר כָּאֲרָזִֽים׃
חִכּוֹ֙ מַֽמְתַקִּ֔ים וְכֻלּ֖וֹ מַחֲמַדִּ֑ים זֶ֤ה דוֹדִי֙The Bible (The Old Testament) (14th - 2nd C BC) Judeo-Christian sacred scripture [Tanakh, Hebrew Bible], incl. the Apocrypha (Deuterocanonicals)
Book 22. Song of Songs (of Solomon; Canticles) 5:10ff, Poem 4 (Song (Cant) 5:10-16) [tr. NJB (1985)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-ot/83983/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #oldtestament #songofsolomon #songofsongs #beauty #beloved #description #handsomeness #lover #male #manliness
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🚀✨"Thrill" as you wander aimlessly through the #labyrinthine corridors of Kottke.org, the site that's been 'beloved' by a whopping 86.47 people since 1998. The real mystery? How it still exists, defying the basic principles of #navigation and coherence. 🙃🧭
https://kottke.org/26/05/theres-no-earthly-way-of-knowing-which-direction-we-are-going #KottkeOrg #Thrill #Mystery #Beloved #HackerNews #ngated -
My beloved has gone down to his garden,
to the beds of spices,
to pasture his flock in the gardens
and to gather lilies.
I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine;
he pastures his flock among the lilies.
דּוֹדִי֙ יָרַ֣ד לְגַנּ֔וֹ לַעֲרֻג֖וֹת הַבֹּ֑שֶׂם לִרְעוֹת֙ בַּגַּנִּ֔ים וְלִלְקֹ֖ט שֽׁוֹשַׁנִּֽים׃
אֲנִ֤י לְדוֹדִי֙ וְדוֹדִ֣י לִ֔י הָרֹעֶ֖ה בַּשּׁוֹשַׁנִּֽים׃ {ס}
The Bible (The Old Testament) (14th - 2nd C BC) Judeo-Christian sacred scripture [Tanakh, Hebrew Bible], incl. the Apocrypha (Deuterocanonicals)
Book 22. Song of Songs (of Solomon; Canticles) 6: 2ff (Song (Cant) 6:2-3), Poem 4 [tr. NRSV (2021 ed.)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-ot/83822/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #oldtestament #songofsongs #songofsolomon #beloved #couple #lily #lover #visit
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9.75/10 #cDrama #Beloved one of the best murder mystery dramas I've seen with credible competent police investigation shown. The acting was top notch, with no duds & the 3 leads - Luo Jin in a dual role, Wang Zi Wen as the victim/catalyst and You Nan as the single-minded intelligent lead detective, all shone.
The drama was very downbeat, but realistically so. That realism showed in the color palette, the cinematography, and even the makeup. No chance of a Foundation General scandal here.😁 -
My first introduction to Chinese actor Wang Zi Wen was back when I had a Weibo account and was searching for my #kDrama bias Wang Ji Won there. I've only seen WZW in one #cDrama and it did not impress me, but she's WOWing me in #Beloved A tight, tense thriller/mystery her character is always on the edge, and she's doing a great job. In my not-at-all humble opinion, at only 16 40-minute eps, this Drama would be well worth a free trial of YouTube Premium to see a smart, twisty thriller
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Into ep 5/16 of #cDrama #Beloved and REALLY struggling with its bizarre differences from #kDrama cop shows. in #kDrama cop shows the combined IQ of the police team never breaks double figures so it's always "the person wot found the body did it" arrest in 30 seconds. Then 16 eps of "oh merde we was wrong"
To see a whole team of fully sentient humans ACTUALLY INVESTIGATING, deducing, reasoning, arguing , working through differences and working together- what kind of heresy is this?
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#3GoodThings (Teaching #Beloved)
1. Student read Baby Suggs's magnificent sermon in the Clearing so beautifully that the class just sat in wonder.
2. We discussed fluids (& fluidity) in the text: water, blood, milk, sweat, pus, mud, semen.
3. The class focused on Morrison's depiction of slavery's effects on Black women, especially their bodies and babies. "The child shall follow the condition of the mother" was the legal framework of #slavery that incentivized & monetized rape.
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Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner (Vintage International) "A masterwork... I can't imagine American literature without it" Sale: $18 to $2.99 by Toni Morrison Rating: 4.4/5 (20,045 Reviews) #Beloved #ToniMorrison #Literature #Classic #Fiction #History #BookSky
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Hey #MomsForLiberty, I mean Moms for #fascism, I taught #Beloved today -- you know, one of your favorite books to ban, the one that won a #Nobel -- and the discussion was wonderful, thoughtful, powerful. The students were blown away by #Morrison's voice, writing, story. We talked about a lot about #grief, generational #trauma, and the power of stories. And F you for trying to take them away.
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
Almost everybody is deeply affected when some one he loves suffers from cancer. Most people are moved when they see the sufferings of unknown patients in hospitals. Yet when they read that the death-rate from cancer is such-and-such, they are as a rule only moved to momentary personal fear lest they or some one dear to them should acquire the disease. The same is true of war: people think it dreadful when their son or brother is mutilated, but they do not think it a million times as dreadful that a million people should be mutilated. A man who is full of kindliness in all personal dealings may derive his income from incitement to war or from the torture of children in “backward” countries.
All these familiar phenomena are due to the fact that sympathy is not stirred, in most people, by a merely abstract stimulus. A large proportion of the evils in the modern world would cease if this could be remedied.Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Good Life, Part 1, ch. 2 “The Aims of Education” (1926)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/828…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #abstraction #beloved #disease #distance #involvement #lovedones #moved #sensitivity #sympathy #visibility #war
