Urgent Humanitarian Appeal: Save 6-year-old Yamen Baroud
Yamen is fighting for his life as cancerous tumors cause rapid, life-threatening deterioration. He urgently requires immediate medical intervention and treatment outside the Gaza Strip before it is too late.
On the edge of the world in Norway, the spectacular Prekestolen, or 'Pulpit Rock', rises 604 metres (1,982 ft) above a fog-filled Lysefjorden.
π½: pilotviking/ig
βSymphony Of Destructionβ - Megadeth
Dave Mustaine has said the songβs riff came to him while driving, and he pulled over to record it on a cassette.
Kier Starman walks away with complete impunity and will continue to enjoy a good life, with all the luxuries, even after being implicated in war crimes against the Palestinians.
Meanwhile, the next puppet to take Kierβs place on the perch has been selected, as one would expect...
βAll you need to systematically hack millions of people is just the data.β
The author of the first βGender Bill,β giving legal structure to disembodiment, created his own self-described, technological religion worshiping freedom from form. He was mentored by the head of the Human-Cyborg Center at the National Science Foundation, who studied cults, and by Googleβs Ray Kurzweil.
The gender industry is a castration cult.
Castration is not healthcare.
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@imBISLY When it comes to Luffy, it's not just about how strong he is; luck and the support of his friends also play a role.
An overpowered character would be boring, predictable and not relatable.
A spirituality that is uninterested in ending war, genocide, poverty and injustice is a dead spirituality. If you hold your time on the meditation cushion as something separate from the weeping mother clutching a small body in Lebanon, youβre wasting your time.
Sometimes I get asked why I only occasionally write about βspiritualβ matters like awakening, egoic delusion, inner work etc, but from my point of view everything I write is about that stuff. To oppose the injustices and abuses of our world is to directly interface with the mechanisms of humanityβs struggle to become a conscious species.
The overwhelming majority of what people call βspiritualityβ in our society is really just glorified escapism. Itβs about avoiding reality by focusing on good vibes, nice feelings, and comforting stories about the nature of the cosmos. Some of the most unpleasant individuals Iβve ever encountered considered themselves deeply spiritual people, because for them spirituality is about creating a Spiritual Person identity to feel good about yourself rather than engaging in uncomfortable confrontations with the repressed materials within you that are the source of your personal dysfunction.
And this happens to align nicely with the whole of mainstream culture under the western empire; our entire civilization is built upon psychological compartmentalization and avoidance of uncomfortable truths. If we paid too much attention to all the war, imperialist extraction, exploitation, injustice and abuse that western society is built upon, weβd never consent to the political status quo which holds those abominations in place.
Authentic spirituality moves in the exact opposite direction to all this. While false spirituality is about turning away and avoiding, true spirituality is about turning towards and facing. Turning and facing all the uncomfortable realities about yourself, your internal dynamics, your trauma, your maladaptive coping mechanisms, your belief systems, your interpersonal relationships, your community, your society, your nation, and your world.
Authentic spirituality doesnβt separate inner work from outer work, because with enough investigation you discover that βinnerβ and βouterβ are imaginary distinctions created in the mind. For every abuse or dysfunction I have seen βout thereβ in the macro world I have found a micro version playing out in my own subconscious. For every delusion-based mechanism I have found within myself, I have seen a reflection of that same mechanism in the large-scale strife of the human species.
So if you keep doing the work, at some point you lose the ability to see spiritual liberation as separate from writing an essay about Gaza. Your ability to hold subtle self-enquiry apart from anti-war activism evaporates into the ether. You just move to bring whatβs endarkened into the light, however that happens to play out in a given moment.
You wonβt often see this modeled for you in spiritual teachersβββeven the very skillful and enlightened ones. Their focus is on keeping their teachings open to everybody, so theyβll avoid saying things that might turn away someone with awful politics in the hope that that person can start doing the work and wake up eventually.
And hey, fair enough. Westerners with shitty power-serving worldviews are the people whose delusions the world most urgently needs rescuing from. Whatever gets them removing the scales from their eyes is probably a helpful thing.
But the rest of us shouldnβt look to those teachers as role models in this regard. Donβt mistake an enlightened teacherβs avoidance of politics as a signal that enlightenment looks like avoiding politics. Internal clarity is by its nature a radically political development, because it naturally leads to a deep compassion for all the anguish in our world, and we live in a world whose anguish is largely caused by politics.
True spirituality is the never-ending process of getting real about whatβs real. Letting the light of truth pervade every aspect of the human adventure, from our unexamined habits of perception and cognition, to our understanding of global power dynamics. And letting our actions flow from there.
@Bash1024B@dbs_10_10 Uub is the human reincarnation of Majin Buu. Akira Toriyama, never assigned him a real-world ethnicity such as Black or Indian. Be that as it may, I think it would make more sense to have a character of colour rather than Piccolo, who is clearly green lol...
Yngwie Malmsteen - Fire in the Sky
Rad track from Yngwie's "Magnum Opus" (1995). I love this record from start to finish. Feat Michael Vescera on vocals, Mats Olausson (RIP) on keyboards, Barry Sparks on bass and Shane Gaalaas on drums.https://t.co/aRTSoeibg1
The digital ID agenda isn't going away. When you combine it with facial recognition and AI you end up with the Technocratic surveillance state I've been warning about for years.
Exit & Build is the answer: https://t.co/IWIy9cDoLn