Rilles

I will never become a boomer. Said every young boomer ever.

This will be planet earth in about 500 years I think.

How much water do you drink? You need to stay well hydrated when you take these types of pills.

Cops did another woopsy. Like they do a 1000 times every year...

What will be the response of the rest of Europe if Russia invades Ukraine? Im not big on geopolitics...

Dont play dumb. You know exactly what that quote means. Its a finger pointing to something, dont stare at the finger.

It takes an extreme amount of meditation to reach those states and they probably wont last. Meditation is important, dont get me wrong, but its a tool, for deeply hidden biases there are better tools. Deconstructing thought patterns helped me overcome social anxiety, so I know this works first hand.

Meditation has never helped me change my core beliefs, Shadow Work and Deconstruction is better for that, radical honesty and questioning of the mind.

Its circumstantial, we have to look at it case by case. Sometimes things are obviously racist and we should call that out, other times its more messy. The problem is that racism is getting more hidden and dogwhistly which narrows anti-racists focus too, what is racist today wasnt as racist 20 years ago, and thats good, we need to become more conscious, but conscious doesnt mean witchhunts, conscious means education and changing the culture, for example, how is Hollywood portraying Arabs in their movies?

I think racism lies on a spectrum, you can be extremely racist or you can be unconciously slightly racist, for example, sometimes if I see an Arab man on the train I will think "terrorist?" and feel a teensy bit nervous but at the same time I know its because I have been taught this by post 9/11 culture, I dont make a big story out of it, I just let myself feel it and move on with my day, I dont think its possible to eradicate your bias 100%, not in this climate, were way too underdeveloped for that. But its important to do Shadow Work on racism, if you are afraid to be racist and get triggered when someone calls you out and constantly have to put up a front of being the good guy you probably have some hidden biases you havent worked out.

Great examples, dont be afraid to post clips. I like this quote by Mandela "When I walked out of that prison I realized if I didnt let go of my anger and resentment I would still be in prison."

Global economic crash.

I love this movie, its also a great example of Yellow thinking.

Absolutely, thanks!

I dont actually know exactly what he did, I will have to look that up.

I could post the whole movie tbh...

https://youtu.be/qq8zFLIftGk Tankman 1989.

Is this referring to something?

https://images.app.goo.gl/m5ArfJCiJBjCuH8Z8 A picture of karma.

Its just how I look at it, I dont necessarily subscribe to the Buddhist notion of karma.

Imo karma is not about good or evil, karma is what you get when you put something into a system without being conscious of what it could lead to. Simplest example is being a warlord who rapes and murders families, dont be surprised if those close to those families come back and hang you when/if you lose your power. So karma is not some ethereal thing, its just cause and effect. Another example is destroying the environment, if you piss in the river dont be surprised if you get piss in your faucet.

Pure chimpery - Leo Gura