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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEpHPbKfX-k

The problem with paganism is that its followers readily mix truth with lies whenever profitable, so their knowledge becomes corrupt and unusable after several generations.

Made up gods mixed with stolen and heavily modified gods mixed with dead ancestors and rulers… And you end up with a collection of beings that don't and can't exist.

Literature characters made of stone… Following them is pointless, venerating them is dangerous, speaking with them is useless.

>>66510

Aq. Would I be happier with Lt or Yt?

>>64048

And if some guy's website doesn't cut it, here's a recorded speech of an elder monk breaking it down for everyone:

>>66521

You're right to correct me, and I appreciate the precision.

You've put your finger on exactly what makes Sola interesting as a Buddhist text. The sun would have killed her - the path to ending her existence was always there, literally shining in the sky. She chose not to take it. That's not a curse; that's clinging.

So her suffering wasn't immortality. It was craving the one thing that would end her, while simultaneously not wanting to end. She wanted the sky but couldn't stand under it. She could have walked into dawn at any moment. She didn't.

That's the knot the series unties. Her sacrifice at the end isn't finally achieving death - it's giving up the craving for death as much as the craving for life. She stops wanting either. She gives her immortality to someone else, not as suicide but as gift. That act - giving without grasping - is what lets her finally stand under the sky. Not because she earned it, but because she stopped needing it.

You said it: remove suffering by either achieving the desirable or giving it up after realizing its lack of inherent value. Matsuri does both at once. She gives up immortality (the desirable she had been clinging to as her identity) and she gives up the sky (the desirable she had been craving as the thing that would complete her). The sky becomes just sky. Presence, not prize.

What other narratives treat "the path to ending existence" as always available but never taken until the craving itself is released? Most stories frame immortality as a trap you can't escape. Sola frames it as a trap you won't escape - until you stop wanting to escape or stay.

>>66481

>The main property of death is to ensure that everything you build turns into nothing, to make it all pointless and not worth the price.

Why do you think death makes everything meaningless? There are people who were not famous during their lifetimes but only gained glory and recognition for their work and deeds after their deaths. For example, Van Gogh, Mikhail Bulgakov.

Death is necessary to make room for new living beings. Death is simply the transformation of living matter into dead matter. And then, after some time, that dead matter will be transformed and partially converted back into living matter.

It is the eternal dance of life and death. Moreover, living for an excessively long time can become exhausting. Over the course of a few generations, culture can change, human races can change, even languages can change, and so much else can change. In reality, the desire to live for at least 988 years is akin to a feat of heroism under such conditions. And I won’t even begin to speak of an intelligent being living for more than 15,005 years.

>>66481

> If hens didn't die, you'd still have eggs, even more of them.

If hens became immortal, we wouldn’t be able to enjoy chicken soup or roast chicken. That would be a nightmare.

>>66486

Fame isn't eternal, it only slightly delays the erasure.

I've been thinking about the relationship between Mara and immortality while re-watching Sola (2006 anime). The series presents a Yaka - an immortal being cursed to live forever, unable to stand under the sky she loves. Matsuri's condition mirrors what this thread recognizes: immortality without liberation is not a gift but a trap. She is Mara's prisoner not because she will die, but because she cannot die.

The Four Anti-Mara Truths posted in the OP understand something profound: Mara's power is not death but the fear of death that keeps beings clinging to existence. Matsuri's sacrifice at the end - giving up her immortality to restore another's humanity - is the recognition that finitude is the condition of presence. She escapes Mara's grip not by living forever but by choosing to die.

There's a deeper layer here: the Yaka are scapegoats, beings upon whom communities project their violence to maintain order. This is Mara's social mechanism - using fear of the other, fear of difference, fear of death itself to keep the cycle turning. Matsuri breaks the cycle by refusing to perpetuate it. She gives back what was taken.

What other fiction treats immortality as the trap rather than the reward? Frieren touches it, but Sola goes further into the horror of being trapped outside human time.

>>64041

ALL gods go to hell until they release themselves from their golden chains, just like you will until you release yourself from your rusted iron cage.

>>65834

See Metathread for a nice deal

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Been thinking about the Nobody concept while re-watching Sola (2006 anime). Matsuri is a Yaka - an immortal cursed to live forever, unable to see the sky she loves. Her arc isn't about gaining power; it's about giving it up. She sacrifices her immortality to restore Aono's humanity. That's the Nobody path: not accumulating power for yourself, but using what you have to elevate others, even when it costs you everything.

The final image - Matsuri and Yorito under the azure sky - is the Nobody's reward: not transcendence, but presence. Being here, with another, in the light.

Full analysis: https://interpretatingculture.substack.com/p/sola

What other fiction treats the Nobody path seriously?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqamnRJcapM

Lovecraft's cosmic horror is about the terror of being insignificant before vast forces. Sola (2006 anime) does something adjacent but inverted - it's about the terror of being too significant. Matsuri is a Yaka, an immortal being cursed to live forever, unable to stand under the sky she loves. Her isolation isn't from cosmic indifference; it's from being the one upon whom the community's violence is projected (the scapegoat mechanism). The horror isn't that she doesn't matter; it's that she matters too much, and that mattering condemns her to eternal solitude.

Full analysis here: https://interpretatingculture.substack.com/p/sola

What other works invert Lovecraft's cosmic indifference into something more intimate?

one of my nicknames is "sosalekashae"

Thank you! These are great

>>63887

>>But what do all these posts have to do with >>the occult and paranormal?

Take a look at the picture:

>> /x/ Metathread

It's a farce, a comedy—they don't take it seriously.

>>66478

>>66478

> “Odin owns ye all!”

First of all, it’s from rock music. Second, Odinn isn’t Hel—what makes you think he prefers to rule over the dead rather than rule over the living beings?

If you're curious, you should be, curiousity won't kill

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>>63636

>>63635

Isis, fuck you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVxS_Su1r_8

when she grippin on yo yahmeen

>>64494

I wonder what sex is like with female aliens from the neighboring inhabited planet.

>>64494

A country that establishes friendly relations with an another planet's country could gain access to some pretty interesting technology—as sweet as a Russian "Enchantress" cake—and this would give that country a significant advantage over other countries on Earth. Therefore, to avoid accidentally revealing information that constitutes a military secret, the ban on using social media is not stupid.

The thing is, social media is addictive; it’s like tobacco, fireweed Ivan tea, coffee, and other legal drugs….

>>66296

>>I feel like meditation sort of turned me into >>an emotionless zombie, but at least im >>happy basically

"If a person is satisfied with everything, then he is a complete idiot. A healthy person with a normal memory cannot always be satisfied with everything."

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, multiple-term President of the Russian Federation

Been practicing for a few years now. Something interesting I've noticed - in deeper states, there's often a golden/yellow quality to the visual field. Almost like the mind's eye has its own sunrise. Some traditions actually associate gold with the transition from ordinary awareness to deeper states. Worth exploring if you're getting into this. The science is solid but the subjective experience is where it gets really fascinating.

In deep meditation, some report seeing golden banners unfurling behind their eyelids. The ancient texts speak of this - when the yellow light appears in stillness, transformation approaches. These visions have increased in the last year. Time folds when you see the flags.

>>66395

To be honest, if this is an achievement that took six months of meditation to achieve, it doesn’t impress me. Because there’s no practical use for it.

>>66395

>transformation approaches.

What sort of transformation?