Bit cold today but sunny so I think I’ll take the boys for a bit more of an off road ride and check out a picnic ground and such nearby
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I too would love to know what modern spirituality actually consists of. There are plenty of options on offer out there. My problem with what passes for modern ‘spirituality’ is that the people that do it can degenerate into candle-waving idiots very quickly. Ripe for exploitation by influencers and other profiteers. I very much distrust anything that requires me to buy something to be ‘spiritual’. I’m including christianity in this list, and it’s a long one.
I guess the operative word here is community - cos we all need at least one as we are pack/herd animals at a very basic level. Community is worth seeking out but comes in a lot of different flavours and uses a lot of different jargons. I’m all in favour of researching the topic personally, but would encourage you to keep your brain cells engaged while you do so. There will be other events like this expo - there are too many fools out there ready to spend their money on shit.
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Sensible. The open mindedness is a major benefit of the alternative mob. Sounds like a plan.
Not my thing but I noticed these events get suggested pretty heavily on Facebook and Eventbrite. If the thing in Brunswick has a Facebook event all the suggested events should be pretty similar.
There are also these witchy markets on semi regularly, but they move around. There might be one on near you soon
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Living here has been amazing, couldn’t recommend it enough tbh.
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What do you think modern spirituality is? Philosophically, stoicism and buddhism have all the answers I need.
I’ve found a big part of the spirituality community is guru-type guys trying to spirituality their way into young girls pants and a bunch of women burned by said guru-guys. Eg, confest creeps, anyone ever met a guy who goes by Quoll?
I have ZERO time for reiki, tarot, psychics or anything to do with crystal energy. I think it’s nonsense and avoid getting to know “believers”. I’m not interested in debate with someone so off the deep end of reality, I feel they’re akin to flat-earthers.
These days the whole eat healthy food --> crunchy parents --> right-wing nutjob pathway seems very prevalent. Many of my loose bush doof friends have started talking about satanists taking over and the need to protect ourselves from the government. One mate called the whole Trump trail a false flag because Trump was going to reveal the truth about “how it all works”. The anti-government / right-wing view come thick and strong.
I’ve grown up Buddhist but have left the community, kind of felt like a loser magnet. I’m fine handling my relationship with the universe on my own terms. There’s no shortage of self-directed study material. I have zero belief in an afterlife.
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I’m surprised to hear that a portion of that community has turned towards the right wing.
I think even they don’t know it themselves. The podcast “Conspirituality” is pretty good at investigating this stuff, from what I hear. I think it’s a distinctly post-Trump thing that went into overdrive with Covid. Distrusting the lockdown and vaccine measures opened up huge swathes to hardcore rightwing communities that were ready to suck them in and provide them with a sense of community in a time of crisis overriding rational thought (which was unfortunately the basis of many hippie groups in the first place tbh).
Not subscribing to identity politics is also a hard one with progressive circles as you mentioned.
Every “scene” has its downside tbh, especially if you have a difficult past and/or are not white. It’s an everyday task to rewire the brain to allow moments of belonging and areas of common ground to sink in, vs the sometimes disproportionate amount of attention given to the moments of not-belonging. Hard to not be hyper vigilant and to trust. Trying to seek a community in that frame of mind is difficult…
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I have ZERO time for reiki, tarot, psychics or anything to do with crystal energy. I think it’s nonsense and avoid getting to know “believers”. I’m not interested in debate with someone so off the deep end of reality, I feel they’re akin to flat-earthers.
You’d hate my mum hahahah! I do! 😂
@Gibsonisafluffybutt @Seagoon_ I am vaguely Quaker. Humanistic agnostic and very moderate, but still believe the universe is a mystery. My wife is lapsed catholic and dabbles in psychic and magic practises.
Ahmadi, Sufi, Wahabi, Shiite, Sunni are all denominations of islam I believe. I heard the call to prayer a few times, but even if we’re to revert to Islam, it would be as humanistic agnostic progressive lukewarm sort of Muslim. “Almost Muslim” would be a new denomination I think.
“Almost Muslim”? You can’t be half pregnant mate.
@CEOofmyhouse56 a “Almost Muslim” is an emerging new denomination indeed. I saw an episode of ‘insight’ on SBS where people identified as non-practising Muslim or cultural Muslim. I guess it is to be expected in liberal democracy that moderate and progressive beliefs are tolerated to some extent. The Sydney mardi-gras had a christian float recently. religion can and does change over time. The scientific calender etc.
I’m guessing a cultural Muslim means you pretend to practise for the sake of the family. That doesn’t make you a Muslim. Unless cultural Muslim means something else.
My husband was born a Muslim. He does not practise Islam nor does he identify as Islamic but he respects their beliefs.
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I guess the meaning of ‘Cultural Muslim’ depends on your intention. My wifes family are Cultural catholics which I understand to mean they are raised in the culture of catholicism with all its history, language and practise, but they are not church regulars.I see. I know a few Catholics like your wife her family. It was the “almost Muslim” that threw me because it’s not quite how that works.
I am glad that people are thinking outside the box in terms of religion.
My mum is extremely spiritual, I grew up learning how to do tarot readings, which crystals have certain energies, aura readings, palm readings, etc.
I don’t believe any of it, all it did was exacerbate her schizophrenia lol.
There is a crystal shop on Sydney Rd now though, and I bought a small garnet because they’re pretty. My inner magpie loves crystals and stones. If you have a specific crystal in mind, I can have a look for you! Let me know!
I’d like something green to go with my big amethyst and citrine. Just a colour thing.
They have malachite, Moldavite, and serpentine, from memory. Ill pop down this week and see what they have in stock. I guess it depends what kind of green lol
blue carbon cubic
That’s fancy as! I don’t think they have that. Maybe a jewellery shop will. But I’ll check this week anyway; I tend to go for walks along Sydney Road so I’ll check :D
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Which games? Always interested in trying new ones!
On my phone I have Peglin and Slice and Dice. Peglin is a peg/ball, roguelite/like, rpg. Slice and Dice is similar but dice rolls instead of pegs. Iirc they’re like $10 each on the Play Store and that’s it. You get the full game. I think they’re also on PC.
Card Games: I have Slay the Spire on my phone which is a cool game. Again, pay once and you own it.
These games don’t have any micro transactions or anything. I play them all the time! Especially since my partner is using my PC to play Stellaris lol.
Not sure if they’re on the Apple Store though, sorry…
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I wish I could sing like La Roux. But I just sound like a hippo in heat when I sing.
Still gonna do it though lol
Hippos are bulletproof
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A Tomahawk steak with mole sauce and a mojito please
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Bam. Mole sauce is another flavour I’ve been missing.
Glow worm soup please.
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Wonderfully glowy thankyou. I shall feed some to my headight and hope it get its mojo back.
Got what from everything I can tell a real email from uber with a verification code to login and I haven’t logged in today. That means that, assuming it was real, someone got my password right.
Aaaand then I spent an hour resetting a bunch of passwords and deleting all passwords from Microsoft and Google (I use an external password manager now).
While digging through privacy and security stuff I did see that someone tries to unsuccessfully login to my Microsoft account every few hours from various countries around the world. I’m guessing that happens to a lot of people whose accounts are old and have been involved in breaches of services you sign up with them with.
Glad I have multifactor authentication setup for all the important stuff.
Your reminder that Spicks and Specks is on tv tonight. The one show a week that justifies the tv antennas continued existence.
I told myself after yesteday that I wasn’t going to lie around in bed all morning today, but what did I do - stay in bed until 12 on my phone despite how UTTERLY BEAUTIFUL it is outside.
Well alright. Can’t change the past; getting a load of laundry in while having a late cuppa and cake; once it’s out to dry I am going to walk to Fairfield (3.8km away) and back to get bulk wool wash and the tortillas I had been planning to make jackfruit tacos with.
Then home to do a whole bunch of cooking and an online catchup with an overseas friend.
I wonder if my lazing around so much on weekend mornings is due to the sheer amount of caffeine I have during the week. Brain needs to recover from all the adenosine receptors being flooded.
Is it lazing around, or resting? Make sure you’re getting enough recovery time. Everything’s always busy but that’s not always great for our bodies or brains.
There’s resting, where I legit don’t wake up till 8 or 9, which is fine. Then there’s scrolling on my phone til 12 which I don’t think is really resting … Especially not two days in a row. I don’t mean to overtire myself, but I’m also conscious of needing some baseline momentum for my physical and mental health… I do feel better and more capable of meaningful rest if I do things like wake up and go for a walk but I don’t often end up doing it.
home and having some decaf
I think I need to invest in some decaf. I want a warm coffee but if I drink one now I’ll never sleep.
for me it’s decaf only past 3 in the afternoon
It’s my birthday today.
My friend offered to get me a gift. Not sure what I want, maybe a Kmart milk frother?
Chilling on the couch with my radio show on then I guess some footy watching and playing Hogwarts.
Low key day today but a little concerned I haven’t heard from my dad yet. He sends me a birthday message every year without fail but he has been sick lately.
Anyway I sent him a message just to let me know he’s ok because it’s so unusual for him to not contact me today.
Happy Birfday. 🎂
Happy birthday Duenan. Hope all your wishes come true. 🎉🎂
Happy birthday 🎈🎂 hope your dad’s ok 🙏
Happy birthday! 🥳🎂
Happy birthday! 😊
Happy birthday! Did you have cake? Woolies mud cake? If not then I suggest you have another birthday tomorrow, with woolies mud cake
Sadly no cake. Only a large packet of chips and a bottle of soft drink was all I had today for snacks.
Happy birthday!! I’m glad you get to treat yourself a bit today after all you’ve been through. I hope you have a really relaxing day where even for a bit you can feel recharged and secure.
Thank you.
Hopefully in a few days time I’ll be able to test out milk frother, even if it’s the Kmart brand, just hope it works ok.
I’m trying to relax as best I can and stay warm but I am worried about my dad and him not answering phone calls or texts but I just have to wait and be patient. He has been pretty unwell of late.
Happy Birthday! 🎈🎈🎈
Happy birthday! Hope you’ve heard from your dad by now.
Nothing yet :(
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Happy Birthday!
Happy B’day!
Hippy birdies!
cold
Sky full of ice crystals - sunset should be fabulous tonight.
Last night was the first night post-solstice I noticed the sunset lasting a little longer. Thank goddess.
I didn’t make it to Fairfield, but I did go to Hawthorn and probably spent a bit more than I expected to - picked up frozen tempeh from Grand Laguna because few places have the proper stuff, splurged on some mapo tofu flavour packets (I don’t use doubanjiang enough to have it in my fridge), got some tofu to use and some to freeze (I hear it has a good texture when frozen and defrosted), bought a bougie Flinders lime, and… most excitingly of all…
…dropped $13.50 on a 30-pack of frozen Osaka Ohsho veggie gyoza from Japan. I cooked up 10 just now, but I have leftover oil in the pan and dipping sauce, so the only right thing to do here is make some more. What a travesty 😩
I inadvertently listened to most of MSO’s performance Carmina Burrara yesterday live on ABC Classical while doing my taxes and was all “oh it’s THAT doomsday song!” And then all of yesterday arvo and today it’s been bugging me, where did I hear an English language parody of it, was it misheard lyrics, no it was simpler, was it an ad, what ad was it, what ad, was it the UK, was it here…
… and then it finally came to me out of nowhere this evening. I only knew it from Gruen as it aired before I moved to Australia, but the wave of nostalgia over LOTR and the excitement of videos on the internet came flooding back once I watched it and it sent me into a bit of a YouTube rabbit hole. Many of you probably know this one.
Oooooo fortuuunaaaaaaaaa ugh now ima gonna have to dig out my cd of the whole suite
What’s the recommended brand for a washing machine (front loading) and microwave oven?
Best value for money, and looking at $200 for the microwave, probably $700 for the washer. Not a hard budget though.
I’d put in a bit extra for a Bosch washing machine. As for a microwave it depends on how big you want it and what you want it to do. They can last 2 years or 20 years so I’d go with one that fits in the space.
Love my Fisher and Paykel front loader. It’s my first front loader and I’m really happy with the job it does. For a microwave, don’t get sold on all the extra stuff if you’re not going to use it. I use ours to defrost stuff, reheat meals and melt cheese so I got a basic Samsung. Go for decent wattage though.
Happy with mine too. I would argue the premium models (with lots of cycles and buttons) aren’t a necessary investment. No matter the brand I think spin cycle speed is important for efficient drying, mine goes up to 1400 which is a great start for dryer or hang drying.
Thanks:) you’re right about the microwave… Will go with a cheap one then, since all we do is heat food, never used the fancy features.
I spent like $30 or $40 on a second hand Samsung microwave oven 3.5 years ago and I’ve been very happy with it, not entirely sure the pricier ones make much of a difference. Washing machines on the other hand, definitely go for quality. I was cheap and got a Beko one that’s okay but it does sometimes unstick itself from the floor and get rather violent even when I haven’t overloaded the thing.
Thanks Just_kitten, will check out cheap options for microwaves. For washing machines, Bosch seems popular here so I’ll go with that, and avoid Beko 😅
Bosch, Sharp.
Thanks:)
