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it has just occurred to me that the 2nd part of the curse turns you into a one-man super weapon; you can destroy your country's enemies by simply migrating to their country.

they can't kill you because you will live to 120
November 4, 2025 at 10:57 PM
an amoral person can exploit this by marrying a series of wealthy spouses and collecting the inheritance; by the time they themselves die at the age of 120 they would have amassed a fortune.

a more moral person can use this power as a form of euthanasia
November 4, 2025 at 10:49 PM
A translation of the Baopuzi has also been announced.
www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...
for reference as to how significant this is:
- the baopuzi is an ancient chinese encyclopedia of how to become a transcendent / immortal
- it is a mine of religious practises
October 30, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Paynter and Schafer have announced their translation of the Scripture of the Jade Pivot.

This is a huge thing; It is one of the major daoist scriptures, and a basis of a whole school of daoist exorcistic rituals.
www.facebook.com/reel/1492684...
October 30, 2025 at 2:05 AM
such sculptures depicting Gautama Buddha as a baby are still made in china today: they are used in the ritual of bathing the buddha, where people pour scented water over such a sculpture as an act of devotion: tw.news.yahoo.com/%E6%B5%B4%E4...
October 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM
天上天下,唯我獨尊,

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
October 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
the new robes are inspired by the modern law review
October 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
MY MENTAL HEALTH IS WORSENING AGAIN AAAAAAAAA
October 11, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Those having faith in formless God
do not worship statues of Stone.
The grinding stone in their houses
is better than the stone*

*[as it feeds people]

From the Bheem-Ambedkar-Shatakam.

www.sanskrit.nic.in/DigitalBook/...

CC: @skillfulmean.bsky.social
October 5, 2025 at 10:12 AM
its somewhat annoying that the Selden society's translation of _fleta_ is in 3 volumes , numbered II, III and IV.
Volume I, which was to be the introduction, was never published. the intro was subsequently published with volume IV

seldensociety.ac.uk/publications...
October 3, 2025 at 11:13 PM
WE ARE DONE FOR CHATGPT CAN UNDERSTAND UWU SPEECH
September 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
if this is not imagining the Queen's death I dont know what is
September 11, 2025 at 3:38 AM
People do not realise that chinese nationalist twitter users unleashed a curse that killed Queen Elizabeth II

This is why the Treason Act 1351 makes imagining the monarch's death an offence.'
x.com/shiroihamusa...
September 11, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Its a very strange thing to use a 'MAKE EVERYBODY HATE HIM' spell against someone who (by the looks of the article) is already so hated
September 11, 2025 at 3:34 AM
There are many styles of ancestral tablet, but ones similar in form to Doolittle's illustration are still made. shopee.com.my/%E3%80%90%E7...
September 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
A chinese ancestral tablet from Doolittle's _Social Life of the Chinese_

The engraving is a bit distorted but it seems the tablet belonged to someone surnamed Wu 吳
books.google.com/books?id=sP1...
September 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
this is probably the reason why judicial caning will never be abolished in singapore in our lifetimes.

x.com/joeroganhq/s...
September 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
A Lunar eclipse is going on at the moment, so here's the Canidma Sutta

“Homage to you, Buddha, hero!
You’re free in every way.
I’ve wandered into confinement:
be my refuge!”

suttacentral.net/sn2.9/en/suj...
September 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
For the chinese version of this sutta see
雜阿含經卷二十二、五八三。 cbetaonline.dila.edu.tw/zh/T02n0099_...
September 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"Now at that time the Moon God had been seized by Rāhu, lord of titans. Then the Moon God, recollecting the Buddha, at that time spoke this verse:

“Homage to you, Buddha, hero!
You’re free in every way.
I’ve wandered into confinement:
be my refuge!”
suttacentral.net/sn2.9/en/suj...
September 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"Suppose...a superior being, who may perhaps have as much power over you as you have over this insect, should say to his companion, 'Kill that lawyer! ...' how would you like that, Jones? And I am sure that to most people a lawyer is a more noxious animal than a spider."
September 6, 2025 at 5:35 AM
a quietly disturbing thing I saw on Facebook was a 7th month altar - dedicated to the wandering spirits- in Hong Lim complex, Singapore.

This is near the inspection site for the "Sook Ching"-肅清 SuQing, the purge conducted by the Japanese after invading singapore; at least 10,000 were killed.
September 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Digital Mani Stone for @babelstone.co.uk
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🪷🪷ॐ मणिपद्मे हूं🪷🪷
ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུཾ 𑖌𑖼𑖦𑖜𑖰𑖢𑖟𑖿𑖦𑖸𑖮𑖳𑖽
OM MANI PADME HUM
oṃ ma ṇi pa dme hūṃ
ꡝꡡꡏ ꡏ ꡋꡞ ꡌꡊ ꡏꡠ ꡜꡟꡃ
𗙫𗏵𗐱𗴟𗘺𗦀 唵嘛呢叭咪吽
ǎn má ní bā mí hōng
www.babelstone.co.uk/Blog/2006/11...
May Dr. West be reborn in the Pure Land
August 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The author of the article is extremely critical of the Celestial Masters; he thinks the celestial master is a fraud, and laments how a 'useless piece of paper' could be sold for 3000 coins.

This is on par with 19thc daoist studies: excellent access to primary sources mixed with awful prejudice
August 28, 2025 at 4:13 AM
A Celestial Master Talisman 天師符.
From an article by H. Kopsch called "The Master of Heaven" in The China Review, 1874.
books.google.com/books?id=2C0...
August 28, 2025 at 4:13 AM