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Forth ❤️‍🔥@forthrighter• about 5 years ago

Was reading a bit about the life of Krishnamurthi - the early parts sound totally crazy https://t.co/WdQglbkxWM

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8/18/2020

Forth ❤️‍🔥@forthrighter• about 5 years ago

Replying to @forthrighter

he was "discovered" by the theosophical society after his father had been a member, and it sounds like things got very complicated quickly https://t.co/jvZn9J1t7P"Discovery"_of_Jiddu_Krishnamurti

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8/18/2020

Forth ❤️‍🔥@forthrighter• about 5 years ago

Replying to @forthrighter

they did "occult examinations" on him (a 14 year old) and supposedly discovered information about his past & future lives. Then other Theosophists apparently had interacted with him in those....

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8/18/2020

Forth ❤️‍🔥@forthrighter• about 5 years ago

Replying to @forthrighter

...and that became a matter of status in Theosophism. Which is creepy, since it seems apparent they were propping him up within the theosophical society as a totem

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8/18/2020

Forth ❤️‍🔥@forthrighter• about 5 years ago

Replying to @forthrighter

But then later in life he dissolves the same group (Order of the Star in the East) that did this to him. 🤯 And that's just *one crazy anecdote* from this man's life.

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8/18/2020

Forth ❤️‍🔥@forthrighter• about 5 years ago

Replying to @forthrighter

here's what he said shortly after dissolving OSE https://t.co/8hlEXPvCTo

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8/18/2020

Forth ❤️‍🔥@forthrighter• about 5 years ago

Replying to @forthrighter

he seems to have taken aggressive steps towards the end of his life to ensure that no one else would claim to be his "successor" and that no one founded a school on his back, so to speak

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8/18/2020

Forth ❤️‍🔥@forthrighter• about 5 years ago

Replying to @forthrighter

(Pause for a moment, to think about what a heavy trip it would have been for an occult organization to pick you out at age 14 and tell you that you're the "World Teacher") https://t.co/hfUXFW8ACI

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8/18/2020

Forth ❤️‍🔥@forthrighter• about 5 years ago

Replying to @forthrighter

Side tangent: to pick a person and elevate them is a form of Millenarianism. The idea that there will be some moment or change where the world will transform (a savior, an apocalypse, whatever). Seems spiritually lazy, since then...you only need to wait. https://t.co/dcx8Zls50s

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8/18/2020

Forth ❤️‍🔥@forthrighter• almost 2 years ago

Replying to @forthrighter

https://t.co/b94Q7uTKmI

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10/12/2023

Rusty@Rusty_Swarf• almost 2 years ago

Replying to @forthrighter

@forthrighter and here we are on twitter, in our banal transhuman condition, nostalgic for the unmediated human experience

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10/12/2023

Forth ❤️‍🔥@forthrighter• almost 2 years ago

Replying to @H0B0_elite

@H0B0_elite https://t.co/2TWMm1v4vs

Forth ❤️‍🔥@forthrighter• almost 2 years ago

@deltasleep Quote: “Dare I go right off the precipice Following the footsteps of no one else Found myself between routine and heartache Knowing it was not a life to lead Cold and all alone Still, I feel more at home Sleeping rough under this tree Than back in district three” Damn

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10/12/2023

Rusty@Rusty_Swarf• almost 2 years ago

Replying to @forthrighter

@forthrighter only spiritually lazy to those lacking adequate delusions of grandeur!counterpoint: it's a sure fire way to ensure that the most charismatically unhinged of your successors will keep trying to change the world

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10/12/2023