#CassadyRosenblum is a memorable alumna of #SurvivingTheFuture, not least for sharing images like this with us all!

Now she's starting a new print magazine — Thunder Perfect Mind — devoted to the goddess (▼)

"By goddess we do not mean a girl deity so much as the intelligent, pulsing power of life itself. She speaks as an archetypal force who lives inside of all of us—men, women, and every other expression of her wild, teeming creativity."

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thunderperfectmind/thunder-perfect-mind

#ThunderPerfectMind #Goddess

i'm teaching myself coptic so that i can do my own translation of #thunderperfectmind and hopefully one day memorize it in the original

in 2024 i mentioned doing the translation aspect without actually learning coptic but using previous translations + my own interpretation of just the coptic conjunctions + rhythm, but now i'm going to do it more thoroughly

it's uhh... difficult to learn... a lot

#coptic #gnosticism

ok! hear me out!

what if i translate Thunder, Perfect Mind into Toki Pona

is this project scope creep or is this synergy #thunderperfectmind #tokipona

ok so at this point my intended projects for 2024 are:

retranslate and memorize Thunder, Perfect Mind #thunderperfectmind
learn Toki Pona #tokipona
release an album of music entirely generated in a spice circuit simulator #electronics
release music that i can submit to Radio Free Fedi #music

also: repair my bass amp and my microbrute #synth at some point
also: figure out what i need to do to go back to school
also: get into #battletech minis

trans voice training tip!

instead of "heat from fire, fire from heat", try

I am called life and you have called me death.
I am called law and you have called me lawlessness.
I am one you pursued and seized.
I am one you scattered and gathered together.
I am one before whom you are ashamed,
and to me you are shameless.
I am the woman who attends no festival
and whose festivals are many.
I am godless and one whose god is great.
I am one you studied and you scorn me.
I am unlettered and you learn from me.
I am one you despise and you study me.
I am one you hide from and you appear to me.

#thunderperfectmind

rather than refer to them as "maybe Barbelo, maybe Sophia, maybe Isis", I like to think of the speaker of Thunder, Perfect Mind as simply "The One With The Thunderous Voice"; whoever that might be at any moment. the goddess of Thunder is a goddess who can be me, whenever my voice has power behind it, whenever it is Thunderous. #thunderperfectmind

something i like about Bluesky is using feeds as search via third-party tools:
1: giving me a feed of all my own posts in random order, or in order of likes
2: filtering all of the last week’s posts via regex *and* like count simultaneously

basically i try to go reply to anyone who mentions #gnosticism on the whole site, and my own posts on #thunderperfectmind or gnosticism get traction

i’m sure they’re here but i’m still trying to figure out how to connect with the esoteric weirdo shitposters on fedi

I have an ongoing frustration with Taussig with regards to where the line breaks occur, and the occasional omission of the word "and", nd how he includes the pronouns that Barnstone omits, but doesn't include them in every line--just for lines where they might be surprising

e.g. for the previous section, this is Taussig's translation:

I am both awareness and obliviousness
I am humiliation and pride
I am without shame
I am ashamed
I am security and I am fear
I am war and peace

In mine I have restored the "PE" to the "ANOK PE" where it occurs, and only in the lines it occurs:

I Am He, both knowldedge and ignorance.
I Am He, shame and fearlessness.
I Am shameless.
I Am ashamed.
I Am strength and fear.
I Am He, war and peace.

#thunderperfectmind

I figure my readers are Just Now Learning that in Thunder, gender is fucked. It is not just a poem concerning the divine feminine, and pre-Taussig translators did us a disservice by downplaying that The Thunderous One uses he/she pronouns.

Like usual, taussig retains more of the structure than Barnstone

Pay attention to me
I am she who is disgraced and she who is important
Pay attention to me, to my impoverished state and to my
extravagance
Do not be arrogant to me when I am thrown to the ground
You will find me among the expected.
Do not stare at me in the pile of shit, leaving me discarded
You will find me in the kingdoms
Do not stare at me when I am thrown out into the condemned
Do not laugh at me in the lowest places
Do not throw me down into those slaughtered viciously

But the lines aren't exactly right? "Pay attention" is on the same line as "I am she" in the coptic.

Furthermore, the structure of 3-6 is so powerful to me: Don't, and. And Don't, and. But Don't, and. But Don't.

But Taussig loses that structure by omitting the conjunctions, so in mine I have restored them. #thunderperfectmind

if you read #thunderperfectmind out loud every day it will *change you*, it is the most powerful thing in my life