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In another world I was a Franciscan monk
Jun 1, 2025
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I'm weird and I love routine/ritual and I love obsessing over texts. Plus they apparently brewed their own beer.
Sep 7, 2024
posted up at the monastery with tha boys cookin up vats of trappist ale while blasting chants and liturgical music
Sep 6, 2024
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I can't have a beer because I am an addict, but I like thinking about one in the way that Kūkai (Japanese Buddhist guy) uses like, mandalas. I think?
I'm not an alcoholic, but NA says I'm better off not drinking, and in general I find that how much I love drinking one beer makes me more sad when the second tastes gross or I am sleepy, because drinking beer is amazing and so wonderful. I love how beer tastes and feels, but it is also about the freedom of the occasion. Having the idea of a beer. Saying yes, I am going to have that beer. Smiling. Picking out a beer. Buying a beer. Cracking open a cold one. That is how you greet the best of days.
Kukai did this whole ten step (I kinda remember it being 13....) about visualization of "states of the mind" or jūjūshin, "ju" meaning like "abode" or "dwelling," I'm not gonna translate shin because its like pre-Buddhism Japanese and its saying like "true" and "God-like" in reality so just let me lie to you and say it means "mind" which it doesn't but it can't really mean anything to you or me. god. anyway. It's this very drawn out practice of creating these mind palaces and mansions that are so intricate and real that you can experience them as almost more real than the world around you, samsara to them. Then you put a deity in the center eventually until you can feel that as real, then you swap out the deity for yourself. I could be lying this is all from the dome. But this is what created those awesome mandalas, which are more like mind palace floorplans. All of this is to say that I am beginning the accidental process of visualizing a mind-beer, which has let me continue to enjoy beer by thinking about it and all of its joys, while not drinking it. I really recommend this, even if you do drink beer.
Mar 7, 2025
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oh golly oh gee... I’m honored that anyone here on PI.FYI even recognizes me!! how sweet to be thought of. uhhhh as for who I am and what I’m about: my name is Ethyn, I’m 22, I’m American (flyover state), cultural Catholic, my favorite color is purple, of a forgiving disposition
I’ve been using this app basically since launch (?) bc a tiktok mutual was clued in on the ground floor and I got the invite lol. I consider myself a very curious and open-minded person and something I love about this place is how committed it is to sincerity, such that I can no longer stand the casual cruelty and close-mindedness of almost all other social media. so PI.FYI is the only social media I’m active on anymore. I suppose the reason I’m more of a lurker is because I love getting to read recs from others (and I’m pretty liberal with the like button) but I feel strange reccing something if I’m not like 100% behind it lol. like there’s gonna be a test. I’ll also go two days or so without logging on and then I’ll catch up on all the recs I missed so it results in a spam for my mutuals <3
As far as interests, I generally consider myself to be an ooky and kooky type of person. I love art in all mediums, but especially films, books, paintings, and poetry. I’ve rec’d PLENTY of all four if you care to take a look :) I’ll make the occasional lifestyle rec but most of the stuff I talk about on here is art. Lol since the earliest days of this site I’ve kinda harped on the function of story as the thing that makes us human, and myth as manifestations of the collective unconscious. This is one of my most foundational beliefs and lenses for the world.
Another common theme you’ll see in my recs is my love for the classics. Classic movies, classic books, all of it!! I think if something is classic there’s almost always a reason, and I think it’s important to understand foundations of influence for art that comes after. Everything is in context!!!! Everything is interdependent!!!!
some of my favorite films: The Wicker Man (1973), Goodfellas (1990), Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010), Viy (1967), Nosferatu (1922), The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
some of my favorite literature: All of Edgar Allan Poe, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, Ishmael by Daniel Quinn, the work of William S. Burroughs, the work of Yasunari Kawabata, and all world myth categorically.
I want to affirm becoming!!!! I want to exist in service of the liberation of the full breadth of human potential!!! I want to be ripped screaming and bloody from the womb!!!! I will incarnate just to touch the wound ten thousand more times!!!!
Mar 13, 2025
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study the folklore and myth of your actual local region. live your daily life under the logic of fairytales. communicate as heavily as possible in proverbs and riddles. humans are a storytelling creature and there is a reason these archetypes and motifs appear to humans across times/cultures/places
Feb 13, 2024
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Substack that emails you the entirety of Bram Stoker’s Dracula in real time. since the novel is composed of diary entries, it sends you the diary entries day by day so you can read it on the same timeline in which it takes place. it started earlier this month but it’s not too late to catch up!! or you could wait until next may. classics can be intimidating but this gives you the opportunity to read it in daily segments in your email and follow along in an immersive way :)
May 20, 2024