Lama Tin :kverified:

chaos buddhist
knucklehead bodhisattva
the foolish one
confounder of the dharma

my gender is liminal,
i'm just passing through.
she/her; ae/aer

discordian buddhist writings: https://www.chaosbuddha.org/

virtual poetry slam: https://fnord.rodeo

digital and print editions at https://ko-fi.com/pope_tin/shop

Also known as Rev. Odessa Cathode Ray, SubGenius (@odessa).

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2023-11-16 03:40:36

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@npub1g7e…tp42 Temba, his cheeks wide

2023-11-16 03:35:13

Darmok and Jalad slash fiction

2023-11-10 04:32:38

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@npub1grx…uxfe I live in tennessee, so my cranky idealism is just about as useful as voting. Best of luck to the rest of you, though.

2023-10-10 02:18:09

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@npub1wpj…7m4z Never let it be said that I stand in the way of anyone's spiritual growth.
https://discordian.social/system/media_attachments/files/111/208/318/325/951/411/original/26cdb098ce30405e.jpg

2023-10-09 14:41:39

Many of us practicing Discordians always know where our Pope card (or a stack of them) is. Fellow Chaos Buddhists, would you like a Lama card?
https://discordian.social/system/media_attachments/files/111/205/572/649/300/519/original/38ef74d30b902141.jpg

2023-09-28 14:13:49

lethe, or the chiming of the bell
the pastor called me to the podium
you're not taking this seriously
with hands tented over flames
i no longer think about it, i am
a deliverance which does not deliver
a full moon that hung luminous in the black sky
eyes locking on the thick oak door
my heart skipped a beat
too fond of irony and cosmetics
lying still, eyes closed, ears prickled
and in the sunlight the distant peaks
watched him, intrigued by his appearance
summer came and spread herself over the countryside
ill-omened - i was unable to come round
more complicated than a simple yes or no
no. i am dead. and dead i shall remain
these are the ones that really hurt
can you see your name in that lot?
woodworm infested the posts in the back porch
strange insects scuttled from under rocks
such things are forbidden. and yet . . .
if only you or i were innocent enough
#dada #poetry #dadaistpoetry #dadaistpoem

2023-09-22 04:03:01

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@npub1xe3…f8ud I'm curious as to what you count as their first two albums. Pretty Hate Machine and Downward Spiral? Broken is technically an EP between those two but it went platinum, so I sort of count it as a second album.

2023-09-05 15:29:59

of uncertain vintage
at first there was nothing
still, with cicadas shrilling
a deadpan, unamused glare
it began as it always did
strangely named apéritifs
emptied into cesspools
a useless sack of skin
with a pithy comment
ravished and polluted
the dreadful mortification
the scent of wet earth
the rusty taste of old fear
consigned to the waste
ahead of the midnight line
the metal twisted and buckled
causing a jolt of terror
eyes rushing like searchlights
bronze statues of all the gods
the outline of a skull
just making words on the page
they were just meant to be stories
#dadaist #poetry #dadaistpoetry #dadaistpoem

2023-09-03 02:11:37

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@npub1z6r…kt5a I know nothing about it either, but I like the sound of it!

2023-09-01 04:19:40

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@npub15js…rms8 But where can we find said zine? (When you can, no pressure ❤️ )

2023-08-31 03:45:50

Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida-Loca
Barbie Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon
Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm-Bop
#BuildASongOutOfSongs
#HashtagGames

2023-08-31 02:42:50

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@npub1y9v…t45y Howling intensifies...

2023-08-27 03:32:56

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@npub16mz…uzxf Wait until you find out what the pedals do.

2023-08-27 03:31:19

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@npub1dx6…9gu0
Meaning is nothing more than Meaninglessness,
Meaninglessness is nothing more than meaning.
Everything is exactly Meaningless,
and Meaninglessness is exactly everything.
- The Zoot Sutra

2023-08-26 23:15:32

As Arlo Guthrie once said... "I'm not proud. Or tired."
https://discordian.social/system/media_attachments/files/110/958/456/835/807/048/original/a3ef000037775673.jpg

2023-08-26 12:28:22

books and plays and invented characters
one and only one
a childhood photograph
close this book right now
what do kids know anyhow?
walk into a bookstore
drag up loose threads
a creature of time
without any discernible plan
eddying at the doors
with an extreme intimacy
a copy, word by word
slightly more grim than good
their tongues had shrivelled
extinction was looking possible
wild as a dingo on drugs
rising mist and gun smoke
looked like an accident
the naked woman on the dais
the nature of her discomfort
red and clean, polished
the skeleton of the page
the flesh and clothes
dark overcoat and formal attire
beautiful old school cemetery
green like an emerald
time-blackened gargoyles
blister in need of lancing
throbbing behind my eyes
every petty vexation
which fortune may dispense
maybe a drop of rain
once upon a time
#dadaist #poem #dadaistpoetry #dadaistpoem

2023-08-24 02:39:27

the day was a fine one indeed
a prudent simplicity
almost completely silent
tunneling out the inside
turning a cold shoulder
no one would hear
the stereotype common man
a gray flannel suit
fine fabric, but frayed
a career of conjugal felicity
engulfed in flames
a languishing existence
an accident while shaving
the emptiness of the shadows
a frail figure in the darkness
the blood of the flock
peering into rock pools
apples from the swamp
peonies bloom out of season
smoke in the air
shaped like a cross
weary to the bone
upon the cold floor
funny things, memories
forbidden watches and compasses
but death's my destination
#dadaist #poetry #dadaistpoetry #dadaistpoem

2023-08-22 18:34:51

"As members of ISKCON we lived with disdain for the present life. We were taught to think that “real life” would happen in the future, after we’d reached “perfection,” which we were told is both extremely rare and absolutely imperative to constantly strive toward (though somehow forever beyond our grasp). The best antidote to the anxiety that comes from living in constant fear of death, or in fear of what might happen to us in some imagined future, is to learn to experience our own lives now, moment by precious moment."
Oof. I feel seen. 😢
https://lifebeyondharekrishna.wordpress.com/2016/12/03/a-guide-to-leaving-the-hare-krishna-movement/

2023-08-14 18:36:36

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@npub1dj9…gxsw We mustn't forget a taco truck on every corner.

2023-08-14 15:57:15

The new #covid variant is called Eris. All hail Discordia.

2023-08-14 05:44:16

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@npub1cl2…0jfg The only people who have a vested interest in continuing the sham of money are the ones who steal and hoard it.

2023-08-14 04:25:10

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@npub1zw0…uljm Or... Leningrad Osteopetrosis

2023-08-14 04:21:50

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@npub1f5s…87cx "When the master speaks, it stops being what the master said, and becomes what the student heard"

2023-08-14 04:20:51

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@npub1zw0…uljm State-sponsored religion

2023-08-14 04:19:30

Money is imaginary. It's completely pretend. The fact that we all continue to agree that it's real blows my mind. It literally serves no purpose beyond determining how wide the rift between the haves and have nots will be. Fuck money. Post-currency future NOW.

2023-08-14 04:04:50

I have been so stressed lately that I haven't been able to write at all, which is bad enough, but when you consider that my writing is mostly either dadaist poetry or stream-of-consciousness weirdness, it's even worse.

2023-08-10 14:32:57

agave flesh does not give like man's
it's not hard to imagine
the language of the prophet
nothing new, just more cruel
butterflies, whispering colors
trembling to his lips
nothing new, just more cruel
dampness that seeped up
their ears flooded
nothing new, just more cruel
the faintest of ripples
of eels in the thames
nothing new, just more cruel
in the gloom of the deep
untraceable poisons
nothing new, just more cruel
a radical solution
quick and effective
nothing new, just more cruel
electrodes in my brain
a cacophony of energy
nothing new, just more cruel
we may not meet again
after the riots
nothing new, just more cruel
a great tide of tears
in a pool of blood
nothing new, just more cruel
#dadaist #poetry #dadaistpoem #dadaistpoetry

2023-08-09 03:04:30

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@npub1cxy…vryr It's the stage adaptation of the Disney film.

2023-08-09 02:58:50

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@npub1cxy…vryr @npub1jhg…t9mt The German language cast album of The Hunchback of Notre Dame is absolutely marvelous.

2023-08-07 12:22:11

Had a lucid dream last night for the first time in a long time. I think I've just made the house I grew up in into a lucid dreaming trigger, because I dream of it a lot. I knew I was dreaming, and consciously wanted to explore every detail of the home I loved.
Exploring, I opened the washing machine and found it had a fake (plastic molded) load of laundry in it. I closed the lid, said "No, I want this to be real." Opened it, and the clothes were real this time. Then I put in detergent and started the machine. Every detail was exactly as I remembered it.
Other people fly in their lucid dreams; I do laundry.

2023-08-07 03:50:26

Inspired by @npub1q5k…xkvc
https://discordian.social/system/media_attachments/files/110/846/289/901/372/813/original/3b0e38d0aad13cc3.jpg

2023-08-07 03:26:08

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@npub1q5k…xkvc I love this SO much.

2023-08-07 03:11:06

As Pope, I hereby canonize Paul Reubens as a Bodhisattva of Chaos. May he yet lead all to enlightenment.

2023-08-06 18:09:39

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@npub1kut…c7av I was thinking something similar, but with second.fnord.rodeo, which only says "This ain't my first fnord rodeo"

2023-08-06 17:58:47

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I'm thinking of making it the hub of an old-school Webring.

2023-08-06 17:55:41

I don't know why I bought this domain, other than it was $2 and made me laugh. https://fnord.rodeo/

2023-08-06 16:03:54

I am quite happy and grateful to report that Transmissions from the Chaos Buddha is now a part of the Library of Eris. Thanks to @npub1203…9p8a for the offer of inclusion.
https://libraryoferis.org/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=LOE00147

2023-08-06 13:33:42

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@npub1chl…p000 This is the most true thing about religion I've ever read.

2023-08-06 13:32:02

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@npub1j04…y47s When we read Moby Dick in high school, we had a quiz on which one of the questions was to name several examples of things occurring in threes in the text. My teacher did not accept my answer of "Ahab's three limbs."

2023-08-06 13:29:10

The sound of enlightenment is perfect cacophony.

2023-08-06 02:52:04

i will be smiling forever
the eyes are gone
no. not her. me.
i learned to fear
on the cruel white
of the paper
trying to speak
crying hunger
grave and bony
still ravenous
shadows across
the universe
ghosts and damp pine
taking deep breaths
burial rites
remain righteous
to man and god
haunted, haunted
with death itself
overwhelming
stuff the dead with
white noise to drown
out the sound of
oblivion
#dadaist #poetry #dadaistpoem #dadaistpoetry

2023-08-06 02:47:30

"Even in my youth, I theorized that philosophy was nothing more than thanatology wearing a fake moustache and goatee." - John Albedo, _Cannibal Club_

2023-08-05 22:43:19

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@npub1gyl…z05q I used to have a theory that serial killers declined as the Internet arose, because people who needed an outlet for their disturbing psyches found themselves right at home here.

2023-06-27 02:54:17

During my time as a Hare Krishna I was taught to rely on my guru for basically the whole of my practice. I spoke with him nearly every day even though we lived in different states.
When I left ISKCON I found a new guru, thinking that now that I'd left the corrupt organization everything would be better, but it was just more of the same. Still, I regarded him as nearly infallible... up to a point, it turns out. One day he told me that Krishna would be returning as Kalki-Avatar within our lifetimes, an material existence would be ending. Once doomsday entered the chat, I saw myself out.
Today I can see the methods that gurus use to enthrall and entrance their students, and the methods they use to subtly shame and demean them, keeping them both subservient and motivated to please. I can see it, and I feel disgusted when I do... and yet, I still feel the attraction to working at the feet of a guru. As if ... if I could just find the one, the truly enlightened master, then I would finally find my place.
Since leaving Krishna Bhakti I've become basically Buddhist. I studied with a Secular Buddhist group for quite a while, under the guidance of a monk from the Gelug tradition. It's a secular group, there were no claims of divinity or proselytizing. He never characterized himself as enlightened, or as an authority over anyone in any way. The group is, objectively, NOT a cult. But I still have distanced myself from it, just because I have such mixed feelings about being part of a group like this again.
And I hate that, because they are wonderful people and I support what they are doing.