My favorite James Baldwin line: "There is a reason, after all, that some people wish to colonize the moon, and others dance before it as an ancient friend."
i wish so bad i could share about all of the cool shit i see people doing behind the scenes in terms of building mutual aid infrastructure and self sustainability. genuinely real movement shit, done with little to no recognition. people are moving, with hope or without it.
the exoteric understanding of karma is that god punishes evil people directly with lightning bolts from the sky. this is obvious nonsense as any cursory inspection if the world reveals. the esoteric understanding of karma is that it is literally ordinary non-supernatural causality, not in the physics sense but in the sense of how the world natively responds to goodness and evil. evil is inherently destructive of goodness, it means eating the seedcorn so you starve next winter, it means taxing the peasants into oblivion so they don’t have anything you can tax anymore. evil can gain in the short term by vampirically leeching off of goodness but this structurally never works in the long term and makes you enemies in the medium term. goodness and only goodness is what produces real flourishing. that’s karma
@alialjbour29 I hope enough time has passed that some of those feelings have abated. If only it was so easy to give you a warm cup of your favorite beverage and the simple company of someone who cares enough to just sit with you, or some damn way to just stop all this horror. Hold kitty tight.
@SurvivingCFS I am so frustrated to come to understand ur last situation, which should've been ur escape, didn't work out. I apologize for centering myself in my last comment. I have a sense of love for u, idk, maybe you kind of remind me of myself. Maybe I see myself more in others these days
@CarrieCnh12 They keep cutting down trees all around my town. Makes me so mad. Big ones. Growing trees by sidewalks like they don't grow, then killing them when they disrupt the stupid soulless cement.
@SurvivingCFS Thank you for sharing this. It made me realize my child is able to operate out of curiosity & choice, I think, instead of all the other things. I am struggling so badly w/understanding what I did to deserve them not being w/me. I guess at core, I am willing to pay for their peace
A horrific video shows an Israeli soldier assaulting a Palestinian child in the village of Al-Ygheer, near Ramallah in the West Bank, during an Israeli army raid on the village today.