My point isn't if the imagining is an active process or not in lucid dreaming, in my experience it isn't. My point is that what the subconscious is conjuring often bears little real sense relation to the reality of the thing in question, often it is only the appearance of the thing, particularly for things that you have never actually encountered before in reality.
Like, you 'encountering a bear' will have a closer relationship to you seeing a bear on television or at the zoo, than what the actual smell, touch and feel of a bear really is. Your imagination will fill in the blanks for you.
The answer is that they had some Bernie talking points when that was 'cool' and Dasha was dating Adam from Cumtown. That said, unlike Cumtown there wasn't actually any irony to their racism and transphobia, though it was hard to tell with their vocal fry, and they only got away with with it as long as they did because of their minor association with Amber from Chapo Trap House. At best they were more reminiscent of old style communist hard-liners with their anti-gay and trans rhetoric, but they never really understood any other part of what like 'ML' theory was because there was 'nerd shit'.
Otherwise they were just mean 'hot girls'. That was their brand, and their podcast was exclusively about niche NY art scene squabbles and Twitter beef. When money dried up for the 'mean democratic socialist' angle, they immediately pivoted to 'mean right-wing hot art girls', which was basically what they were all along, just now officially taking money from Peter Thiel and not gaslighting us about where their political feelings actually were.
Overall, they just think that their audience is fucking stupid, ugly and desperate for female attention, so they have zero respect for them, but also have zero respect for anything or anyone else. They will always go with the movement that they think will hold them the least accountable for their words and actions.
Respectfully, it is all the 'sights, sounds and feelings' that you imagine it involves, because it isn't actually happening. Falling in a dream (even lucid) tends to be a very different experience after you've actually done it irl.
Fair enough, but my point is that why should we be looking to them for a strategy that actually affects change on the world, not to quibble if these people lost or not.
People argue that they helped end the Vietnam war, but they are ignoring that the Vietnamese are the ones who ended the Vietnam War, demonstrating their effective control of the countryside during the Tet Offensive.
Mostly what this movement did was sell clothing, books, music and movies.
Edit: and pretend that 'real communism' is when you do utopian socialism on a compound in the woods.
Ah yes, when we advocate for revolution, it is 'violent and authoritarian', when they advocate for intervention and mass violence they get a Nobel Peace Prize.
It is thought that what made him better was not letting his blood and that Rasputin insisted on quiet prayer and contemplation (basically lots of bed rest and people not hovering over him).
With respect, we are nowhere near the levels of vitriol that were reached during certain posting eras.
People are kinda generally more cranky, but I am not seeing the outright hostility towards each other that ebbs and flows on the forum. We are nowhere close to high tide yet.
Given that the official saint you did mention did generally follow doctrine outside of being even more strict and pious than surrounded Catholics, there are plenty of saints who followed the road of ecstatic worship, it's a well trod path in the Church supported by the earliest traditions.
I'm not arguing that other Catholics aren't also bad at Catholicism, even those brought up in the faith, I'm just saying that Candace Owens is mostly just Catholic for the idea of tradition, less so than any actual adherence to it (outside of the tradition of a lack of adherence to tradition lol).
That said, the idea of there being a Saint Candace Owens based on her having dreams of Charlie Kirk is very funny to me.
Getting dreams of the recently deceased and getting dreams and vision of saints are generally considered separate things in Catholic mysticism. The recently deceased in particular are thought to be primed for diabolical influence, where-as the confirmed canonization of a saint is what demonstrates that such visions are divinely inspired, and even then you are meant to share these things first in private with your confessor who will consult with others to determine it's divinity and authencity, then publicly, if at all.
Getting dreams of the dead isn't unique to Protestantism, particularly in Counter-Reformation Catholicism, but how she is approaching it as a faith experience is very Protestant.
Idk bruh, one side is literally fighting against a genocide. Also, none of this is new, if you have moved to Israel in the last 90 or so years you are absolutely complicit in the occupation and genocide.
This is of course assuming any of our opinions, especially Zohran's, actually matter to and are inherently damaging to, the hegemon, which is hilarious. Opinions, especially weak shit both-sides hand-wringing do not damage the hegemon. If it was actually dangerous they would kill you.
The big thing is that it doesn't really hurt Trump, but other people internalize it as a valid criticism that can be leveled at people and not only that, but that it is inherently an undesirable trait, because people who think like this are petty and cruel.
Validating their behavior and discourse is unhelpful at best, and actively harmful at worst.
Respectfully, for most people it is. I literally can't have a conversation with liberals without them mentioning it, and it tends to completely derail the topic entirely. They are evil for what they do, not how they look.
And I'll let you know, for most of us it just reminds us that in this culture being fat is bad, being balding is gross, and looking old is a curse that should be avoided at all costs.
Not really? Certainly not in the non-English speaking world? They only do so much as to not get shot but very few governments are enthusiastic participants in the U.S. world order. They only do it in so much as they have a gun held to there head, and the U.S. while powerful literally does not have the manpower needed to hold a gun to everyone in the world's head.
I mean, it's not a good position to be in, but it is a better position than things were in the 90's. History was literally dead then. It is no longer.
My point isn't if the imagining is an active process or not in lucid dreaming, in my experience it isn't. My point is that what the subconscious is conjuring often bears little real sense relation to the reality of the thing in question, often it is only the appearance of the thing, particularly for things that you have never actually encountered before in reality.
Like, you 'encountering a bear' will have a closer relationship to you seeing a bear on television or at the zoo, than what the actual smell, touch and feel of a bear really is. Your imagination will fill in the blanks for you.