You won't hear this in therapy culture, but something men have known for millennia is that an accusation of cowardice, in the right context, can be a truly empowering act of kindness.
It immediately moves someone out of contraction (fear) into expansion (anger), which they can then choose to use to overcome the frightful object (courage). On the other side of that obstacle, that personal exercise of power, is glory, growth and joy.
(The spirit is first a camel, then a lion, and finally becomes a child.)
Of course you can't do this with most strangers, you have to already have a relationship that can bear occasional antagonism. But between soldiers, say, or spiritual friends, or brothers, it can be a potent reminder of your shared values, a powerful actuator, a poem of the breath that moves the heart toward greater truth.
🇵🇸 "Why didn't people in Gaza try peaceful protest?"
They did. In 2018, thousands of Palestinians took part in 'The Great March of Return', demanding they be freed from Israel's blockade and granted their right of return to their ancestral homeland.
Over 70 percent of the population of Gaza are considered refugees, expelled from or descended from people expelled from Palestine in the so-called Nakba, Israel's ethnic cleansing of the land in 1948.
The protestors demanded right of return, and an end to the blockade of Gaza, which is illegal under law as a form of collective punishment but has persisted since 2006.
Israel responded by shooting the peaceful protestors, treating anyone approaching the fence around Gaza as a legitimate target - including children, the disabled, and medics. Human rights groups universally condemned this targeting of peaceful protestors.
Between the first protest and November 2019, more than 35 thousand protestors were injured, 7,996 with live ammo.
Israeli snipers usually targeted the protestors legs and knees. Half the injured protestors were crippled for life.
"Happiest Man in China", taken in 1901 by British anthropologists after deciding to document the Chinese. The Chinese didn't know photos were a "serious matter" and decided to be goofy, hence the pose and smile!
there were probably vegetarians/vegans in the matrix who refused to eat meat for ethical reasons when in reality their efforts were for nothing because the animals weren't even real...
With every company making their own streaming services and filling them with ads, people are probably going to start preferring to buy DVDs of shows again.
The temperature that encourages us to start wearing a jacket in the fall is the same temperature that encourages us to stop wearing jackets in the spring
In the future, some kid somewhere while scrolling pornhub is going to see their parent or grandparent on there and it’s going to be a very weird and disturbed day for them.
Humans no longer evolve from natural selection resulting from nature and constraints, but rather preferential selection from individual and societal factors.
When the younger, tech-savvy generation gets older, they will be probably be passing down their steam accounts to their grandchildren, especially accounts with a considerably large library.