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#Dionysus2028

Are you tired of being repressed? Don't you just want to reaffirm the urge to life?
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"Pure evil" sounds about right yeah
Stanton states that, "Rarely has such a strange and little-understood organization had such a profound effect on media coverage of such a controversial matter." A study showed that in 1991 prior to the group's foundation, of the stories about abuse in several popular press outlets "more than 80 percent of the coverage was weighted toward stories of survivors, with recovered memory taken for granted and questionable therapy virtually ignored" but that three years later "more than 80 percent of the coverage focused on false accusations, often involving supposedly false memory" which the author of the study, Katherine Beckett, attributed to FMSF. [8]
November 16, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Oh so this has been a known thing for at least 6 years 🙂
r/CPTSD 6y ago [deleted] PSA: Wikipedia page on "Repressed Memory" Is it just me, or does the Wikipedia page on "Repressed Memory" seem to be extremely biased? I realize the subject is controversial, and that it might be appropriate for the content to lean to the more conservative side, but I can't help but feel a lot of new research is left out. I do realize anyone can edit this page, and when I am in a better place I will do that. But since this issue affects a lot of us, and since some of you may have a better handle on all the research, I thought it was worth mentioning. Honestly, I feel like a lot of people probably go to that page looking for help, but probably end up disappointing because the bias leads it to be about as invalidating as it possibly could be! hermit_dragon 6y ago The FMS Foundation is pure evil and thier propaganda gets everywhere it's sooooo upsetting : (
November 16, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Thank you for fighting the good fight NpsychC 🫡
Up to date research removed Why has the up to date research I added to this page been deleted? Much of the research on this page relies heavily on the research of Loftus and McNally which is no longer current and there is a plethora of new information available. It seems that this is being removed. The article also states that Clinical Psychologists have stopped using the term repressed or recovered memories, which is only true in the sense dissociative amnesia would now be used. The article reads however, that the terms are debunked which is simply not true. Even the summary relies on information from 1998 - over 25 years ago! In my opinion, this whole paragraph needs to go. It is based on a letter that was sent to a court. What kind of evidence base is this? There is so much more up to date information about dissociative amnesia that the way the first three paragraphs were reading was spreading medical disinformation
November 16, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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ⓘ Users added context:

This is what gaslighting pedophiles say
Subsequent accusations based on such "recovered memories" led to substantial harm of individuals implicated as perpetrators, sometimes resulting in false convictions and years' incarceration.
November 16, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Not many people know this but nouns are actually just higher-order verbs that apply a verb over a signified object
If John has a type that combines with the type of left to form a complex expression of type t, then presumably everyone must also have a type that combines with the type of left to produce an expression of type t. Since we want to avoid giving everyone the type e, the next simplest type that will serve is (e→t)→t. This is in fact the main insight proposed by Montague (8): that noun phrases such as everyone and no one can have the type (e→t)→t, which he called a generalized quantifier (for reasons I won't discuss here). Intuitively, what this analysis says is that everyone is a function mapping a verb phrase to a truth value. This naive solution works out fine for the example Everyone left (although it has the rather disturbing effect of reversing the direction of functional application, a point I'll return to shortly). But if we attempt to place a quantificational expression in some other position where a proper name can occur (i.e., instead of John saw Mary we have John saw everyone, as in the diagram on the right of (6)), the solution breaks down: the generalized quantifier type (e→t)→t does not suffice, and we seem to need a yet higher type. This is the point at which continuations enter the picture. Consider again the diagrams in (5) from the point of view of continuations. What is the continuation of the expression John relative to the sentence John left? It will be a function mapping individuals into truth values, i.e., a function of type e→t. Not coincidentally, this happens to also be the type of the verb phrase left. From this perspective, the proposed generalized quantifier type for everyone, (e→t)→t, is a function from its continuation (type e→t) to a truth value. Now we can understand better how to deal with the situation depicted in (6). What is the continuation of everyone in the sentence John saw everyone? Well, once again it will be a function mapping individuals to truth values. More specifically, it will be the function mapping each individual x to…
November 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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My gf just picked this up, flipped to a random page, gave me a baffled look and started asking "Is this a schizotext? Was the person who wrote this insane??"
The Logical Syntax of Language by Rudolf Carnap
November 15, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Living in Eternal 186BC 🙃
The harsh suppression of the Bacchic cult in Italy by a decree I of the Roman Senate in 186 B.C.E. (senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus) prompted Burkert to observe that in the degree of its cruelty—over six thousand executions—"there is nothing comparable in religious history before the persecutions of Christians." Besides the senatus consultum there is Livy's dramatic and engaging account. It is this narrative that brought support to the notion that women must have made up the most influential group within the cultic organization. After Postumius had informed his colleagues, a senatorial inquiry was launched and the Senate passed a decree. Before addressing the people, Livy has Postumius recite a prayer. Thus the historian sets the tone of Postumius' public speech: ancestral gods were pitched against new and debauched ones. ("It is a prayer that reminds us that these are the gods whom your ancestors ordained to worship, to venerate, to entreat, not those gods... who would drive on every sort of crime and desire.") Describing the thousands of worshippers, Postumius tells his audience that "a great number are women, and they are the source of this evil; next there are men most like women." Hence Livy invokes and reinforces the paradigm of the evil, cunning woman so prominent in his first Pentade. "The impious conspiracy still holds itself to private crimes, it is not yet strong enough to overthrow the state," argues Postumius, "but this evil grows and crawls every day." Livy's Postumius continues to argue that "nothing is more treacherous in appearance than perverse religion... when the whole discipline of sacrificing, apart from the Roman tradition, is destroyed". Beard, North, and Price put forth the argument that this cult "was based on a highly structured group basis (unfamiliar to the Roman authorities), which, in turn, was genuinely seen as threatening to the social order," and this "threat the Senate wished above all to destroy." Indeed, this senatorial decree must have "tested the loyalty of the allies to the very limit," for Rome meddled in her allies' internal affairs. Even if the internal group structures had been known to the Roman authorities—after all they had had reciprocal contact with their Italian neighbors for centuries—Rome was for the first time in a political position to dictate successfully its religious/cultural terms. It had come into its own; M. Porcius Cato had made sure of this. Roman tradition, which included the higher magistrates' integral role in state cults (e.g… In Livy's narrative, the cult of Bacchus represents disorder and madness while the state represented by the (all male) Senate stands for order and sanity. The account stresses moral and even sexual debaucheries committed by Bacchants. If we had only Livy's narrative we would conclude that the Roman Senate feared and reacted against the cult for the same reasons as Euripides' Pentheus. The inscription from Tiriolo, however, points to a political reason: the Senate wanted control over the cult and demonstrated its political power over all of Italy. In Rome, where politics and religion were intertwined, such control belonged traditionally to the ruling elite and in the case of Bacchic worship senatorial control over the cult needed to be established. There was a desire to curb Hellenistic influences on public life, a zeal to subdue, bring into line, and structure a "foreign" cult. Or, in terms of power, Rome reigned supreme over her immediate neighbors and allies. The high number of executions leaves me with the feeling, though, that in 186 B.C.E., as it happens too often in human history, religion served as a smoke-screen. That those who were singled out for undermining the ruling authority, Rome, were executed not for their participation in a cult but so that a political order could prevail.
November 11, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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I'm imagining..
A stick figure lying in bed blushing and surrounded by hearts with a thought bubble that says "giving away feet for free"
November 2, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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BOUPHONIA: (June-July) "Voice (or sound) of the bull." This festival was a large-scale ox sacrifice, ostensibly a remembrance of the original act of homage from Athena to her father, Zeus, in thanks for her panoply. The literal translation of this festival's name implies that oracles may have been taken from the sounds the bulls made at the time of their sacrifice. The simplicity and straightforwardness of this portion of the Panathenaia suggests that it springs from archaic roots - perhaps a paleolithic rite honoring the Animal Master who brings food, to which mankind must make restitution via a "sacred king." In the Bouphonia ceremony of Classical Athens, a sacred king was indeed honored; the mythic Erectheus, "the earth-born one" - an epiphany of Dionysos, the Indestructible, who was also honored in the Pandaia ceremony. Well before the Classical Hellenic period, animals were considered perfectly acceptable surrogates for human sacrifice, hence the equation of the wholly anthropomorphic gods of Classical Greece with particular sacrificial animals. At the end of the Bouphonia, a peculiar ritual was publicly held by the priestesses of Athena and the priests of Erectheus. Aristophanes relates this ceremony in The Clouds, a rite known to scholars of ancient religions as "the comedy of innocence," in which all those who must kill to eat attempt to lay the guilt for the killing upon one another until, finally, it is adjudicated that the true culprit of the crime must be the weapon with which the animal was killed. In the Bouphonia ceremony of Athena and Erectheus, the sacrificial weapon used for slaughtering the bulls was punished by being cast into the sea. According to Diodorus Siculus (IV: 14), the rites of Agrai were developed as a form of divine restitution which would cleanse Heracles of his murderer's taint, since his desire was to be received at Eleusis, and no person guilty of unabsolved murder could receive the visionary blessings bestowed at the Eleusinia: "Demeter instituted the Lesser Mysteries in honor of Heracles, that she might purify him of the guilt he had incurred in the slaughter of the centaurs." Since all individuals were required to undergo the purificatory rites of the lesser Mysteries before seeking admission to the greater, it may be inferred that "murder," in the sense meant by the Mysteries, included the killing of animals for food. Such a conception is part and parcel of human consciousness, and ritual forms are created by all societies in order to attempt to assuage the guilt inherent in killing to eat, as well as the fear of our own deaths — a knowledge eternally intertwined with eating guilt. Such awareness was displayed by the Pagan Greeks in their New Year's rite of Bouphonia, but it reached a spiritual sin qua non within the lesser and greater Mystery ceremonies.
October 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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What it's like to start estrogen:
Eeveelutions chart
October 15, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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(Sorry it's a day late)(I haven't drawn anything in forever)
Drawing of Sky <3's face in pencil. She has big floppy ears and is covered in dense curly fur. She is grinning widely like she is happy and excited.
October 12, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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Essential reading list btw
Four books in a stack: Treating Complex Trauma and Dissociation (2nd ed.) — Lynette S. Danylchuk and Kevin J. Connors Performance Theory — Richard Schechner Whipping Girl — Julia Serano The Revolution of Everyday Life — Raoul Vaneigem
October 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Underneath whatever repressive machinery civilization constructs to keep itself intact, a counterforce of great unifying, celebratory, sexual, and life-giving power continues to exert its overwhelming and joyful influence. At certain times in everyone's life and during certain periods of each society's history this counterforce is activated. It is perhaps improper to speak of it as a "counterforce" since it seems—when active—to be more authentic than the civilization—the specific social inhibitions—it opposes and frequently obliterates. Dionysus' presence can be beautiful or ugly or both. It seems quite clear that he is present in today's America—showing himself in the hippies, in the "carnival spirit" of black insurrectionists, on campuses; and even, in disguise, on the patios and in the living-rooms of suburbia. There is a qualitative link between the Orokolo Fire Fight, the Greek chorus, and our own folk-rock discothèques. LSD is contemporary chemistry, but freaking-out is ancient. I take this special, ecstatic quality to be essentially theatrical. Freud called this special quality the Pleasure Principle and identified it with art—when it was translated and transmuted by organized fantasy. The difference between art as we know it in the West and theatre as it has traditionally shown itself world-wide is that Western art is individualized while traditional theatre is communal. In its communal forms, theatre is both socially constructive and personally "transcendent" or ecstatic. But our art has long lost this double—and contradictory—function, becoming instead a function of individualism: the Protestant-capitalist ethic. And it is inevitable that the individualization of art leads to its commercialization. Nothing formally distinguishes the labor of the artist from the labor of any other worker—and labor is bought and sold by the piece or by the hour. It is here that the future of art—particularly the theatre—is linked to the development of social systems that are neither individualizing nor commercialized. That does not necessarily mean that theatre does best in socialist societies—because socialism in this century has not become either manageably tribal or demonstrably uncommercial. At the same time, the success of the theatre in eastern Europe can be related to more than the simple availability of subsidies: And the failure of theatre in America is more than a question of poverty: We simply are not brought up to believe in groups; we are trained toward an individualistic ethic that makes us want to achieve things on our own, by ourselves. These values are inimical to theatre. Theoretically, at least, if their societies find a shape which matches their stated intentions, the theatre of eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and China will be better artistically th…
September 27, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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September 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Your Result: Yandere You are very protective, particularly about your Senpai. No one wants to mess with you.
September 27, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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The repressive unity of Power under its three aspects—constraint, seduction and mediation—is simply the form, inverted and perverted by the techniques of dissociation, of a tripartite unitary project. In its chaotic, underground development, the new society expresses itself practically as a transparency in human relationships which promotes the real participation of all in the fulfilment of each. Three passions—for creation, love and play—are to life what the needs for nourishment and shelter are to survival [1]. The passion to create underpins the project of fulfilment [2]; the passion of love fuels the project of communication [4]; and the passion for play is the foundation of the project of participation [6]. Wherever these three projects are separated from each other, Power's repressive unity is reinforced. Radical subjectivity is the presence, discernible today in practically everyone, of an indivisible will to construct a passionate life [3]. The erotic is the spontaneous coherence which gives the enrichment of lived experience a practical unity [5].
September 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Oh hey I've got one of those
September 17, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Yeah it's pretty cool. A lot of it is stuff I basically knew already but it's still interesting to read as a first hand account. The tone is very matter-of-fact but I like the parts where it feels like the author is getting kinda horny about it
Almost the only attire worn inside is the handout towel, yet even this humble wrap permits a variety of styles. Some fold it to half the width and draw it tightly around the ass so that it barely covers the genitals. Others use the full width, hoping to hide a roll of fat. Some wear it suggestively loose, so that the slightest tug would pull it off.
September 15, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Whenever I write Like This just know that I'm actually Making Fun of Mary Daly
A primary goal of gynecology, as we have seen, is to purify society of Crones, that is, to prevent the becoming of Crones. This Compleat Castration requires a conspiracy of holy ghosts, a mating of body-gynecologists and mind-gynecologists. We have noted that the body-gynecologists were the first to institute the Great Castration Operation, arriving on the scene just in time to thwart the threat posed by the "first wave" of feminism, and later enlisting the aid of the specialized Mind Cleaners. The Body Men however, have never fully relinquished their early self-appointed prerogatives over "the very soul of woman," illustrated in the late nineteenth century by S. Weir Mitchell's combination cure for disorderly women, consisting of castration (ovariotomy) and "rest-cure." * Barker-Benfield's description of the latter is arresting:
August 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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New Jersey mentioned
July 29, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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A calm and smiling spongebob surrounded by ghostly screaming spongebobs, acting as avatars for the calm centered spongebob's internal feelings of deep anguish
July 27, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Ohh my goddd
FROM WILL WOOD: ==Hey everyone, WW here.== Some fans have started to harass me and my friends believing that this song is an expression of some kind of transphobia. I normally try to ignore fan harassment, but I find the idea of this particularly disgusting. This song is, as l've said, about my experiences with my gender identity. It's none of your business, but l once identified as genderqueer, until I realized that my attraction to traditionally feminine things did not interfere with my identity as a man. I didn't want to define nonbinary with my good old-fashioned cross-dressing, because I don't want to speak for anyone else. I came to realize that my refusal and/or failure to meet the behavioral standards of my gender role did not make me less of a man, and anyone (cis or trans) who tells me that wearing makeup now and again makes me less of a man can shove it. After struggling for some time, I realized that my genderqueer identity wasn't necessary for me, that I was wearing it as a prop in order to serve a purpose. The song is about my experiences and any amount of satire or targeted poking fun it does is at people who are doing what I know I did at the time. Partially in the hopes of drawing people away from that toxicity like I wish something had for me at the time. I admit that some lyrics were added after fans started refusing to accept that I am not trans, even going so far as to tell me to my face that I am regardless of what I tell them, and would not listen to my explanations of the song. My frustration with the fact that there of the song. My frustration with the fact that there were far more non-binary people refusing to accept my cisgender identity than there ever were cisgender people refusing to accept my genderqueer identity likely had me writing with a little more venom than I would have otherwise - but the target is still, when it comes down to it, myself. Also, I was tripping balls at a casino, leave me alone. To boil it down, the song is about how l respond to my frustration with the limitations of the male gender role, the maladaptive ways l've coped with that frustration, and trying to figure out if this experience or any other regarding my gender can or should define me. It reaches the same conclusion that most of my work does - and that is that nothing is real and that if something is hurting us we have the power to cast it off. As I said with my entire second album, clinging too hard to one's identity in the wrong way can hurt oneself and others, and I know for sure that's what I was doing - and anyone who has attacked me or my friends over it is likely doing that too. Seriously at least have the basic human decency to leave my friends out of it if you can't resist abusing me. I, as l've said clearly, wholly and firmly support the movement for the acceptance on non-binary gender identities. I myself would call myself cisgender, but I believe it's incredibly important that we as a society move toward a place where gender roles no longer limit us, control us, and hurt us. I can only clarify so much better without just repeating what l've already written, so I'll leave it at that. Thanks for listening, hope this suffices, join my Patreon. Wood has publicly suffices, join my Patreon. Wood has publicly explained the meaning behind this song, and has done so phrase by phrase in his patreon-exclusive blog, "the Stethoscope." He has given permission to share it to this page. The title of the song is "A play on how people list their pronouns online. Using first person pronouns that are also a play on the phrase "me, myself, and I." I/Me/Myself is, according to Wood, about his exploration of his gender identity, and how people cope with the limitations of their assigned gender roles. In his breakdown of the lyrics in his patreon blog, Wood says the song is a satire of "....problematic proponents of the gender identity movement, (let me be clear, I am a firm supporter of the movement as a whole who co-opt queer spaces and language as a means of finding that validation they are denied in their assigned gender roles..." and "the encroachment of cultural spaces set aside for those who are genuinely very deeply oppressed and abused at large." Like much of Wood's work, the song is self-critical, as Wood is known for having gender non-conforming tendencies. However, Wood is not trans, nor does he identify as non-binary. In 2016 he came out to NJ.com as "pansexual" and a "mild transvestite" but hasn't talked about it publicly since. He concludes this entry with "Man, woman, cis, trans, non-binary, whatever- our identities are constructions of the ego, and illusions. We're not even truly separate organisms, no more so than one brain cell is from another in the same brain. We're all part of The One that is everything, we're all hallucinations. No one is "valid," and someday we'll all truly realize that the self in its entirety is unnecessary.""
June 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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What did Will Wood mean by this actually
[Chorus] I wish I could be a girl, and that way you'd wish I could be your girlfriend, boyfriend Am I pretty enough to love back? No, not yet I wish I could be a girl, and really, l'd prefer it if you would use I/Me/Myself Am I pretty enough? Am I pretty enough to fucking die? Ah, little old me in a big world Ah, well I would give you my whole world Oh, little old me in a big world Ah, I wish [Outro] (All identities are equally invalid Don't you think that there's a chance that you could live without it? All identities are equally invalid Don't you think that there's a chance that you could live without it? All identities are equally invalid Don't you think that there's a chance that you could live without it? All identities are equally invalid Don't you think that there's a chance that you -?)
June 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Yea
The quoted image cropped to just show the dog
June 6, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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LISTEN UP LIBERAL MY POTUS LEFT ME
June 5, 2025 at 9:39 PM