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plural, auDHD, trans, kinky, asexual/panromantic, physicalist, spiritual, compassionate, wounded — I⁠/⁠we are a lot, and it's all tangled up

they/them pronouns; individual alters vary, if you can keep up; we use singular, plural, and mixed pronouns for myourselfs interchangibly

bigots and fascists begone! I want a world based on equity, truth, sharing, justice, and self-expression — unity in diversity.
We live in Eden, if only we would cooperate instead of compete.

The Bigger Thing

November 2024 — Lyss, Zani

I believe in something bigger than me, whether it's nature or the universe, or Tengri, or the Dao, or an unknowable god. I suppose not having an answer is good daoism. Once I name the bigger thing, it becomes smaller in the mind. So, I'll just have to go on not knowing what it is I believe in!

I'm not proposing ignosticism; a concept of the higher power is in principle meaningful. Neither am I proposing ietsism, because I don't require this power to be transcendent. It's just that even ascribing a good name to the Dao is intractible given our squishy little human brains. Better to never settle on a single idea, but rather always be approaching from a new angle. Is that a form of ecclectisism?, an embrace of the ineffable?, does it matter?