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user-inactivated  ·  2372 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: October 25, 2017

I have a Chick Tract on my desk given to me by a very nice lady the other week. It's called "Soul Survivor." It is absolutely charming and if I didn't know that these things are serious, I would have considered this to be one of the best parodies ever written. I will treasure it until I somehow accidentally lose it in a pile of paperwork.

Texted Dala that the way the world is going, I'm seriously considering becoming an ascetic. For some reason, my phone auto corrected it to aesthetic. I now have two radically different but equally compelling options into how I'm gonna re-write my life. The only question is, how does one exactly pursue becoming an aesthetic?





tacocat  ·  2372 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Find a gallery of them. Some are very not charming.

user-inactivated  ·  2372 days ago  ·  link  ·  

There's actually nothing charming about an exclusionary religious world view. But for what they are . . . they're, uh . . . something.

kleinbl00  ·  2372 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I enjoy their punitive innocence. It's as if Jonathan Edwards wrote Archie comics. The mind that can contain the maxims of a Chick tract is a passionate, child-like place.

goobster  ·  2372 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    ... how does one exactly pursue becoming an aesthetic?

Become Lady Gaga? Or follow her lead?

tacocat  ·  2372 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Here's a classic that has some charmingly hilarious idiocy

https://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp

I wonder if it's better than the movie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Dungeons_(film)

kleinbl00  ·  2372 days ago  ·  link  ·  

One who pursues and appreciates aesthetics is called an aesthete. It's not a bad thing to be. One can absolutely be an ascetic aesthete without any cognitive dissonance.

cgod  ·  2371 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That was the print on the wall of my dentist office when I was 6.

It's burned into my brain and hopelessly associated with waiting and teeth.

user-inactivated  ·  2372 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I've been reading up on aesthetics today. The Wikipedia article has everything from philosophy to psychology to politics. What a ride.