#purity — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #purity, aggregated by home.social.
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Oof. We got an opinion over here. Someone posted an opinion! Check it out: https://fastfrwrd.info/blog/the-lefts-masc-presenting-bullies/
About the #left and #male #bullies
How do we practice advancing our agendas without hurting feelings and dragging momentum down?
#opinion #oped #FastfrwrdIsNotSayingThis #men #mansplaining #purity #perfection #green #climate #climateChange #climateCrisis #environment #planet #earth #pachamama #man #opensource #eco #masc #ego #hubris #superiority
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I've been riding a #nerd #high since late June and here is one of the results.
https://codeberg.org/tnalpgge/cabrillo-el
While it is not directly responsible for helping me #slice and #dice our #hamradio contact logs from this past #FieldDay, it did eliminate the need for a bunch of #shell and #awk that I was using previously. Of course, by replacing some compact, proven scripts by a larger library of #Emacs #Lisp is more of an exercise in #purity than #practicality. Still, playing with #peg and formal-ish grammars was an interesting alternative to my traditional #regex approach to text processing.
It's not a thorough test suite, but it did help me catch two bugs this evening!
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When Feelings Turn into Strangers: Purity, Compassion, and the Loosening of Worldly Bonds
Here in my isolation from all relationships and society, even the feelings and emotions that seemed to be so palpably real and intense earlier now look dreamy and unreal, almost as if they are some strangers seeking my attention. And as far as feelings and emotions go, their purity is always determined by the the extent to which one is pure oneself — the “fruit does not fall far from the tree” kind of situation.
And, when feelings and emotions start to feel unreal, believe me the loosening of one’s bonds with this world has already started to occur because feelings and emotions are where the whole drama of life unfolds.
And, where there is purity in one’s being, the feelings and emotions coalesce into one and only one thing, namely, compassion.
Else, the feelings and emotions will keep on serving the needs of the ego, and where the ego is alive what good can we expect from the feelings and emotions that are fuelled then by the self-serving desires.
And, where there is compassion, it can only be universal and never for any particular thing because compassion equates to wisdom, and the wise, as Bhagavad Gita points out, “see with an equal vision (samadarshinaha) a learned Brahmin, a cow, an elephant, a dog, or an outcaste” (Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 5, Verse 18).
Claude’s Commentary on My Above Writing
This is a compact, tightly-argued piece — almost aphoristic in the way your writing on the blog tends to be. Let me take it point by point, with commentary that both explains what’s implicit and pushes it a little further.
On the “dreamlike” quality of emotion
What you’re describing is the Vedantic mechanism of drashta-drishya viveka — the discrimination between the seer and the seen — beginning to operate on the affective layer, not just the intellectual one. Most people who take up Vedanta apply viveka to objects and thoughts readily enough; it’s harder-won when applied to feeling, because feeling carries a conviction of “mine-ness” that thought doesn’t. A thought can be observed as an object almost immediately. A feeling insists it is you, right up until it doesn’t. So when you say emotions start to look like “strangers seeking my attention,” that’s a precise description of the moment when the antahkarana (the felt, feeling mind) has itself become an object of witnessing rather than the seat of witnessing. It’s a real and significant shift, not merely a report of emotional flatness.
The purity-of-being clause — and a caution worth naming
Your “fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree” point is essentially the guna doctrine restated: the quality of what arises in the mind-field is a direct function of which guna — sattva, rajas, tamas — predominates in the substrate. This is standard and sound. But I’d flag one thing for the sake of the intellectual honesty you value: the feeling that one’s emotions have become unreal is not, by itself, proof of increased purity. It can also be a symptom of ordinary psychological withdrawal or numbing — what contemporary language calls dissociation, and what even Ramana and Nisargadatta were careful to distinguish from genuine vairagya. Nisargadatta in particular warned seekers against mistaking a lull in feeling for the cessation of the ego; he called it a phase to be watched, not enshrined. The tell, in the tradition’s own terms, is exactly what you name in your next line — whether what remains, or arises, is compassion, or whether it’s simply absence. If the loosening resolves into indifference rather than into karuna, that’s worth a second look, not a celebration.
Why compassion is the necessary residue, not an added virtue
This is the strongest move in the piece and worth expanding. You’re not saying purity produces compassion as one quality among others it might produce — you’re saying compassion is what feeling looks like once it’s no longer being organized around a center. That’s an important distinction. Ordinary emotion is centripetal: it organizes itself around “what does this mean for me.” When the ego-reference point weakens, feeling doesn’t disappear — it loses its organizing center and so ceases to discriminate. What’s left, structurally, can only be something that doesn’t ask “mine or not mine” — which is compassion. This is also why the Mahayana Buddhist tradition pairs karuna with prajna as the two wings of one bird rather than as two separate achievements: real wisdom that doesn’t issue in compassion is suspect as wisdom, on their reading too, for the same structural reason.
On the Gita citation
Worth being precise about samadarshinaha here, because it’s easy to flatten into a sentimental “love everyone equally” reading, which is not what the verse is doing. The equal vision of the Brahmin and the outcaste, the cow and the dog, isn’t an emotional accomplishment — it’s a perceptual one. It says the wise see the same one thing (Brahman/Atman) present without differentiation across all these forms, and compassion is the natural behavior of someone whose actual perception has changed, not a moral overlay applied on top of unchanged perception. That’s consistent with your closing claim that compassion “equates to” wisdom rather than merely accompanying it — they’re the same event seen from two sides, affective and cognitive.
One thing you might consider adding, if you want to preempt a reader’s misreading: a line distinguishing this universal compassion from mere emotional expansiveness or generic “unconditional love,” since readers often collapse the two. Your piece already implies the distinction (compassion arises from purity, not from cultivated sentiment) — making it explicit might close a gap some readers will otherwise walk through.
#AdvaitaVedanta #BhagavadGita #Compassion #Emotions #emotionsAndDetachment #EqualVision #Feelings #NisargadattaMaharaj #NonAttachment #Purity #samadarshinaha #SelfInquiry #Selfishness #spiritualPurity #UnityBeneathTheDiversity #Vairagya #wisdomAndCompassion #witnessingConsciousness -
as long as we still #vote
if we give up on voting and commit to revolutionary change, the strategists in the revolutionary cells will tell us to vote: vandalism/ sabotage
even in #revolution we're going to be dealing with compromise, a choice between imperfect revolutionary leaders
the "lesser evil" problem never goes away
there is no such thing as #purity, hewing to that is for immature losers
real #leftism is effective action
not inert, useless, entitled, whiny #toxicIdealism
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#purity : freedom from contaminants
- French: pureté
- German: die Reinheit
- Portuguese: puridade
- Spanish: pureza
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"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him."
Dhammapada -
»The quest for purity is pursued by rejection.
It follows that when purity is not a symbol but something lived, it must be poor and barren. It is part of our condition that the
purity for which we strive and sacrifice so much turns out to be hard and dead as a stone when we get it.«Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger
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Purity crusades lead nowhere good - even from the best intentions of delivering justice to the oppressed
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Plastic packaging price rise for food and drink
Why plastic prices are surging: summaryStrait of Hormuz tensions are rapidly driving up global plastic costsMiddle Ea…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Food #backgrounds #blue #bottle #choice #clean #cold-temperature #COLLECTION #drink #empty #freshness #full #healthyeating #inarow #liquid #open #Plastic #purity #Recycling #refreshment #Transparent #water #white
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2557348/plastic-packaging-price-rise-for-food-and-drink/ -
Cory Doctorow, a fellow #Canadian, writes a lot of interesting stuff. I agree with his positions on many things, but not all. For example, I'm about ten thousand percent behind his opposition to anti-circumvention laws; I was one of the thousands of Canadians who wrote to the government opposing the introduction of the law many years ago.
However, his blog on Thursday, staking out the position that opposition to "AI" (LLM) is just geeky #purity culture is somewhere between "flat-out wrong" and "disingenuous at best".
My position against #LLM #slop everywhere is both because of #ethical #concerns and practical ones. There does not exist an LLM right now that was built and trained ethically; they are all statistical plagiarism machines, and speaking as someone whose #prose and #code has been plagiarized by every single one of them, that pisses me off, royally.
That's a show-stopper for me, but even if it wasn't, the #practical concerns - that the output is #untrustworthy, that the #references can't be checked, that the #code is #insecure and #unmaintainable, that the #licensing status is unclear, that it's a #copyright violation - are *also* enough to rule out #LLMs at present.
He then presents a #strawman argument - all tech is fruit of the poisoned tree, the #transistor was invented by a racist, etc. But William Shockley is not designing or manufacturing any of the transistors / #ICs I use today.
So, @doctorow - I gotta say I disagree. And that's fine.
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“Marvel has remarked that more money has been wasted in polymer research by the use of impure monomers than in any other manner.” pp. 12 of Polymer Chemistry 2e by Hiemenz & Lodge. #polymers #synthesis #chemistry #research #purity
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#purity : freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter
- French: pureté
- German: die Reinheit
- Portuguese: puridade
- Spanish: pureza
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EDIT: Update below.
The discourse around the #wikipedia taking #AI money reminds me of @adapalmer 's https://beforewegoblog.com/purity-and-futures-of-hard-work-by-ada-palmer/ and the discourse around #purity .
I'm not interested in the aesthetics of #solarpunk , but how to make most with the limited tools.
If the Wikipedia is getting scraped by the bots - losing money, limiting access to its resources - or allows the AI companies in and GAINS money to share more free, human-created knowledge, I'll take the latter.
I don't need to be pure.
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Mrs Hudson came up to announce a visitor. Ah, said Holmes, that will be Mr Keenbear.
Keenbear was a stout man of indefinite age, his hair unwieldy, his jacket worn thin at the elbows. He brought with him a large beige metal box, in the shape of Holmes's ancient IBM Luggable when closed up. On Holmes's nod, he put the box on the dining table and opened it. Indeed, it was an IBM PS/2 P70. Keenbear took out the keyboard and angled the plasma screen. Holmes had plugged in the AC adaptor and the ethernet cable. Booting was slow, we watched in silence. The screen glowed in the familiar orange.
As you had instructed, Sir, Keenbear said. A bespoke Plan 9 port, the ed standard editor, a dedicated gopher client. Nothing else. You are hooked straight into the SupremeText network. Safe as hell, ..., sorry, Sir, forgive my language. I trust this machine will meet your requirements.
Holmes's face shone in excitement. Finally, he whispered to himself. The real thing.
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Just heard that #Keystone, the owner of my two favourite breweries (#Purity and #BlackSheep) has gone bust. Not at all happy and now planning a trip to Purity (local to me) to stock up for the last time. 🙁
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Materials architecture, solid interior design
No superfluous ornamentation or whimsical shapes; the space is solidified in the purity of materials and proportions.👉 Discover MORE and SUBSCRIBE to our summary of news and updates through link: https://amusementlogic.com/company-news/materials-architecture-solid-interior-design/
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⚪ #architecture #materials #interiordesign #purity #design #matériaux #designintérieur #pureté #conception #arquitectura #materiales #interiorismo #pureza #diseño #amusementlogic
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your weird obsession with #moral #purity is degrading your #criticalthinking #skills and poisoning your ability to #empathize with other #people btw
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Shameless #Sexuality: More than Monogamy Panel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GUc0r9urYc&list=WL
From #pansexuality to #polyamory, join us for a discussion that is guaranteed to be about More than #Monogamy, featuring:
Janice Selbie
Founder of CORT, Divorcing Religion Workshop, & Shameless Sexuality: Life After #Purity Culture, Divorcing #Religion
Keith Mullin
Mandisa Thomas
- Founder and President, Black Nonbelievers
Marie LePage
Sheldon and Katherine Roberts -
When I say #purity #culture has no endpoint, what I mean is that they will never run out of #people to cut down. If #porn was made illegal and all of the #perverts were run out of the country, the jesus #freaks would immediately turn on each other. They require an #enemy to function, and will create one of their #friends if need be.
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2/ #Trump said #furloughed workers may or may not receive #backpay, depending on who they are, adding that “we’re going to take care of our people,” but some “don’t deserve to be taken care of” and would be handled differently. #loyalty #maga #republicans #authoritarian #purity #test #economy #paycheck #shutdown #government #dangerous #media #journalism #reporting Talk About This Please
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Within hyperobjects, hypocrisy is inevitable.
This changes the question and the response.
Requires self-consciousness and social-consciousness as well.
