/hobby/ - Hobby

Hes the bane of NPCs and the establishment. He single handledly kept the value of mythology, supernatural and the paranormal alive during the peak years of modernism and post modernism. Academics, modern Europeans, and experts have been trying to destroy him ever since.

But the establishment is in decline. They have to watch as all their worthless ideas (like new-atheism, and moral relativism) all fall into the waste bin of history while Jungs ideas get stronger and stronger.

Jung's major beliefs is that a primary goal of every human is/ought to be the process of individuation (the processing of becoming a self)–which he wrote on the backdrop of rising collectivistic pressures via shifting global geopolitics. For Jung, there is a distinction between ego and self, where ego is a narrow band of consciousness that exists primarily in a space of tension between unconscious factors (which includes shadow) and social presentation (persona).

He further believed that people share a collective unconscious, which is that we inherit cultural motifs and symbols that then get continuously represented across different cultures and time; however, they manifest in a way relative to the culture of the time. So, 'Hero' may be an archetype, meaning stories involving heroes transcend cultures and time, but 'Batman' is a specific manifestation that emerged in American culture in the past century.

One archetype then is the 'shadow', which represents unconscious elements that are in conflict with our ego ideal (how we think we should behave or be–especially in front of others). These can include unfulfilled desires, fears, perceived weaknesses, shame-inducing idiosyncrasies, etc. The idea is that the 'self' in the Jungian conceptualization involves actively seeking these archetypes out via either psychological analysis or a process Jung calls Active Imagination. In either case, the general idea is to actively confront these aspects of our unconscious and integrate the awareness–and the process by which the awareness was obtained, into our conscious understanding of self.

Jung's ideas overlap with the likes of Jacques Vallee in terms of the intersection of psychological concepts and the mystical. Myth and folklore were of prominent sources of information in Jung's formation of his ideas; however, there is an impact of poor translation and creative liberties taken in sources Jung used unwittingly.

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Thread for talking about webcomics. Share your favs, discuss latest updates.

I recently discovered "basket of guts"
https://basketsofguts.thecomicseries.com/comics/1#content-start
A story about a lich that comes out of his crypt for world domination and find the world evolved and then quickly end on the run from a "modern" state security services.
Really liking it so far. Good mix of genres, starting from a standard fantasy world and instead of freezing it in time add societal and technomagical development. Also I find it pretty funny. Not everything translated yet sadly.

its on leftypol that I discovered Out Of Placers (apparently created by a furry artist, which explain the horniness)
https://www.valsalia.com/
Pretty interesting world building.

Finished since quite a while but at the time followed schlock mercenary. Goofy SF about a mercenary company.

On a more smutty side, I like alfie by incase.

For the non storyline webcomics, existential comics, oglaf and SMBC are my favs.

So you might be looking at the name of this thread and thinking Language learning as a hobby? Why yes, this thread is to be dedicated to those that are learning a new language as a hobby.

Not only this but to provide resources for those that wanna get help with their progress and just talk about their language learning journey.

Any puroresu fans here?
Puroresu is Japanese pro-wrestling. I realize there's a /wooo/ thread but puroresu is quite different than WWE or pro-wrestling you might encounter here in the US. It strives for a more sports-like feel and tells stories in the ring rather than people talking at each other or doing stupid antics. It's still fake (and people watching know it's fake), but it tends to be faster and harder hitting. It's also a lot less commercialized - you pay to watch online and there aren't any commercials.
The top two puroresu companies in Japan right now are New Japan Pro-Wrestling and its sister company STARDOM (which is women's wrestling). For my money, STARDOM is actually the best pro-wrestling company in the world to watch right now, as it tells the best stories, has the most compelling talents, and puts on consistently entertaining shows.
The main picrel is Zack Sabre Jr., who is the World Heavyweight Champion of New Japan. He's British. I chose him because he's also an outspoken socialist. The other picrel is Saya Kamitani, the World of Stardom Champion and *the* best person in all of pro-wrestling to watch at the moment.

Zack Sabre Jr. vs Bryan Danielson
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9gktyw

Saya Kamitani vs Tam Nakano
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9im4so

A few other favorite (modern) matches of mine:
Utami Hayashishita vs Syuri
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CvvdjXWPvY

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So i remember a while back, while i was lurking, that we had a language learning thread here too.

Personally i think it is better suited in /edu/ but i understand how it is a hobby for some folk too, so here is the thread.

https://leftypol.org/edu/res/25414.html

Whilst we are waiting for episode seven, i see no reason why we should not discuss what we have seen already.

I personally enjoyed the show, and the symbolism of how the characters personalities in relation to their bodies was quite interesting.

Hey all, I was curious at to what you guys think about the SCP Foundation shared universe.

So I know pretty much nothing about working on cars because I'm a fag, the most I've ever done is change a tire. But the brake light came on the dashboard in my Toyota Highlander a few days ago and I took it to a brake shop who did a free inspection but quoted me $1500 for a brake job, so I decided to finally learn how to do this shit myself. The mechanic told me the rotors needs replacing but I looked at them and they seem perfectly fine to me and I haven't felt any wobbling or anything when braking, so I think it just needs new pads and brake fluid. I watched a couple of Youtube videos on how to change brake pads and brake fluid and I ordered a set of brake pads for my car from RockAuto for about $50 and a brake bleed kit from Amazon for $20 and I bought a quart of DOT3 brake fluid from a local Dollar General for $10. I have sets of metric wrenches and sockets from working on bicycles years ago and my neighbor has a floorjack and jackstands I can borrow so I think I have everything I need. I know to not let air bubbles into the brake line and to not put any stress on the brake line when taking off the caliper, is there anything else I should know? I don't want to screw this up and end up killing myself driving my car later.

Old thread (v1): https://leftypol.org/hobby/res/7136.html

The practice and principles of Permaculture are one of the most important tools for not only creating a sustainable socialism, but also for repairing the damage done to the global ecosystem by capitalism, and lessening your individual reliance on the current capitalist system.Permacultural practice and socialism are two very powerful allies, and learning about permaculture should be necessity for modern socialists and communists.

Was she a Stalinist? She sure as hell never did anything wrong.