Edward W.
@edwardW2
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"(T)he very foundations of our studies: The recovery and the study of texts as they are, regardless of our tastes and prejudices"- O.Neugebauer.
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Joined August 2019
RT @AskThePatrick: It would be much more British if neighbours take the owners of the location of the sex festival to court for not having….
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RT @iwsfutcmd: i'm doing my part to balance this out, by being real debonaire in person, total goober online.
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RT @antonyaolarsson: It's time to look yourself in the mirror, plan for the future, and ask the really important questions — such as, how w….
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Wills are also cool you can make them as overt expressions of your faith; Old English wills began with "In the name of God, Amen"; its not that hard for a will to begin NAMO AMITHABA or NAMO BUDDHAYA NAMO DHARMAYA NAMO SANGHAYA
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I am reading this story as a cautionary tale of why anyone with a remote attachment to material goods should make a will: if you dont make one, your beatific vision of Amithaba's paradise will be destroyed by a stray thought and you will plunge into hell.
@edwardW2 But there are also terrifying deathbed stories from contemporary Chinese Pure Land teachers.
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Facebook also does not allow you to 'quote tweet' posts with images which is a terrible disadvantage.
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Facebook thinks reposting 7 things in one hour is spam and so deleted my 8th repost.
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RT @grahamscheper: The poem Beowulf exists in exactly one manuscript, which itself was damaged in the great 1731 Ashburnham House fire. I….
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RT @AnthonAstro: 2026 will be 2023 inverted. In 2023, Jupiter was in Aries. In 2026, Saturn will be in Aries . In 2023, Venus went Rx in….
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cupid and psyche is a wonderful story; it has stayed with me since I first read it as a teenager.
The Golden Ass contains a mixture of constant violence, scatology, and taboo-breaking sex. It also contains the well-known fable of Cupid and Psyche, which may have something to do with Platonic ideas of the descent of the soul into matter and its reascent to the divine.
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RT @Robin_C_Douglas: THE ROMAN OCCULTIST WHO WROTE A NOVEL. The only complete Latin novel that survives today is The Golden Ass, which was….
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. which is an effect of how the earthly branches were assigned to each of the 12 tropical signs once they came to china.
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In another part of the almanac there's a table that shows planetary ingresses and the numerologically calculated stars; this has the 12 chinese zodiac signs going clockwise and the 12 western zodiac signs going anticlockwise.
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It seems the counterclockwise presentation of the zodiac has prevailed: here is a star chart from the 2021 edition of the 正福堂 almanac that shows the 28 lunar mansions
One fundamental difference in the presentation of the stars between the Chinese and Indian systems was the orientation. The Chinese (left) map out the stars in a clockwise fashion because the orientation is toward the north, whereas the Indian system (which was adapted into
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RT @JeffreyKotyk: One fundamental difference in the presentation of the stars between the Chinese and Indian systems was the orientation. T….
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RT @ubatama_y: 8月ももう終わりですね。残暑はまだまだ厳しいですが、明日8/29日は旧暦7月7日、七夕です。鎮宅霊符神様の聖降日であります。先日お迎えした、伊勢の霊符山大陽寺さんの御神影と、鎮宅霊符神様、尊星王様の仏画。神奈川のお土産で購入した落花生最中をお供えし….
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