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kurdish black tea with rose & cardamom from Murî ( rating: 3.6/5) not usually a fan of astringent black teas but i liked how deep its sapidity still was, righteously balanced with the floral. Slicing ginger root yesterday urged me to consider why the verb "gingerly" is derived from the plant. What does it mean exactly to take delicate action upon a subject? The online thesaurus provided "precisely" and "accordingly" as its most equitable synonyms, but I can't help but feel dissatisfied with its supposed parallels. To take action gingerly, yes, entails a certain precaution, but not necessarily a causation for accuracy. It means to move small, to move dearly, to take gentle care with the way you have chosen to perform such action, more so for the sake of feeling ...
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"Has God a hand in this? Then it is a good hand. But has he a hand at all? Or is he a holy fire burning self-contained for power's sake alone? Then he knows himself blissfully as flame unconsuming, as all brilliance and beauty and power, and the rest of us can go hang. Then the accidental universe spins mute, obedient only to its own gross terms, meaningless, out of mind, and alone. The universe is neither contingent upon nor a participant in the holy, in being itself, the real, the power play of fire. The universe is an illusion merely, not one speck of it real, and we are not only its victims, falling always into or smashed by a planet slung by its —its captives, bound. by the mineral-made rope of our senses."
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