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Let's not bring religion here and compare two Devils and decide which one is a lesser devil. It is laughable to say one woman is more oppressed than another woman. Basically both women are oppressed. It's important for the men to be educated on how to respect women and their basic human rights and treat them as a human being. Oppression of women is a serious matter. Whether it is caused by religion or not is not even relevant. Women need to be liberated not oppressed. A sick hateful society that wants absolute control on women tries to oppress her by making rules and rituals and by threatening her safety and by judging her and shaming her when she tries to fight back Our country has a long way to go in learning to respect a woman's basic rights of safety and freedom

It's still way better than how Indians treat women. The treatment of women in India is appalling. If you think Christianity doesn't treat women better then look at western society, what do you see? Do you see women in the kitchen? Do you see women fully dressed and fully covered from head to toe? Do you see women not having boyfriends? Do you see women not getting abortion? The answer is No. Western women and basically Christian women do whatever they want and they have the full freedom to do what they want and the men respect their choices, not like Indian men. If an Indian woman tried to be liberated she will be called a slut or a feminist or a bad woman and men like you might defend her rape by saying that she is not respectfully dressed. Christianity might have many dogmas but in reality it is a religion that offers greatest respect, freedom and love to women. It doesn't degrade them. That's the reason why western women feel free. All the dogmas in Christianity are only in books but not in real life. Hinduism is completely opposite. All the good things about worshipping and respecting women are only in books and movies but not in real life. Huge difference. If men in India really respected women so much then I wouldn't be facing so much harassment in my daily life from Indian men. Learn to accept reality. Just because you are not an Indian woman, you can't deny an Indian woman's claim or prove her wrong First be in her shoes and feel what she goes through. If you have empathy and care and understanding for Indian women you would want rape to stop and you would not be worried about what a woman wears because it's her body and her right and her freedom to wear what she wants. Get out of that sick patriarchal mentality. That's what Indian men need to do. They need to start respecting women instead of treating them as property that they can abuse and control.

This is perfectly true. Indian male mentality is one of the sickest in the world and there is complete lack of respect for women. It's a horror show. It is justified by the culture they have, the culture created by the patriarchal men and the religion created by the same men. Both are designed to degrade women. This is the main reason why I left Hinduism and turned towards Christianity. The religious beliefs about women in Hinduism is like mental sickness. It's terrible. All sorts of atrocities against women are justified in this religion. Hinduism has some great concepts for spiritual growth but when it comes to women, hinduism is very hateful. Indian history is bloody red with atrocities against women but it's carefully hidden from the world because the men don't want to feel responsible. They use the word "slut" to shame a woman and justify her rape. They even dissect a rapist's mentality rationalizing his behavior saying that he did it to punish the woman. Rape is not a punishment, it's a crime. It's a crime commited against women by sociopathic men who know that they will get away with it. They are not punishing the woman and the woman is not a slut, however an Indian man will try to make you believe that it's the woman who was not respectfully dressed and the man had to punish her, which is so illogical and absurd and is victim blaming and victim shaming. The government of India had to take strict action and enforce rules to stop all sorts of cultural atrocities against women including Sati(Suttle-burning of a woman who lost her husband by telling her to jump in the funeral pyre) and dowry (a woman would be burned alive if her family didn't give enough dowry to satisfy the husband's parents) and female infanticide basically female child genocide (killing of a female child because she was considered a burden and the family wanted a son instead of a daughter), amniotic fluid testing to carry out abortions of female babies and list goes on and on... The government of India has done a good job (not a great job) but nevertheless the government has helped control and stop a lot of the hateful evil practices and rituals carried out against women in the name of patriarchal tradition, culture and religion. Indian women are still fighting strong against this evil patriarchy. Maybe it will take some time but hopefully it will happen where an Indian woman will not have to worry about living in constant terror or harassment and rape or any other atrocity.

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@Annoynymous yea that is true. I remember when I once wore a skirt to my office. It was the first time I wore a skirt. It was my birthday. Probably 2 years ago. And the guy at the office kept turning around and staring at my legs and making me very uncomfortable. He would constantly drop things on the floor just to look under my skirt. I really wanted to go home as soon as possible but I was tired of all the men staring and shaming me. I hurriedly got into my car and went home and didn't step out of the car till I reached close to the elevator. It was the most embarrassing moment of my life. After that I switched back to my jeans and T shirt and never wore a skirt again...

Two other issues that Indian women face in the country are Acid attacks... A lot of them happen and the blame is usually placed on the woman. Men make statements like "it's her character, she deserved it" tons of victim blaming if the victim is a woman. Violence as a result of a rejection - its very frequent in India that if a woman rejects a guy (even a random guy) it immediately results in violence and murder. It's as though a lot of Indian men cannot take rejection fairly. They justify it with violence. India is a great place for spirituality. But when it comes to the treatment of women, it is in the dark ages.

There is awareness in India about the unsafe situation of women to the point that I have also turned off my social media to Indian men. I have faced ton of sexual harassment on buses, on the streets and even at my office. It is sick. But only awareness is not enough. India is a deeply male dominated patriarchal society. I don't want to demonize Indian men because there are lots of Indian men who are good. But it's a fact that women suffer horribly in terms of sexual assault and rape almost on a daily basis and the world doesn't recognize it since the political parties in India try to hide it. Indian men cry victim whereas the real victim is the women. I know I will get down arrowed for this statement. It takes an enormous courage for an Indian woman to even open up about the situation. I had decided to open a thread about rape in India but there are lot of Indian guys on the forum so I decided not to out of fear of being objected and demonized. The demonization of women in India is intense almost to the point of Dehumanization. Any woman who wants to speak up is easily called and branded a feminist and put away. I cannot even talk about it in public because if I did I will face serious consequences like physical violence. Here is a link that describes the situation that happened to an Indian woman who decided to fight against rape by starting a campaign called "Shame the rapist" and the moment she did it, her car was vandalized and she received death threats. It's that serious. https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN0LA2FA20150206 The fact that I'm responding to this thread is in itself a courageous move. Most Indian girls wouldn't talk about it out of shame and fear instilled in them by the patriarchal society. You will also observe a remarkable phenomenon online. You see a lot of Indian men but you see very few Indian women. That's because Indian men are notorious at chasing off Indian women out of the online space. Most Indian women are scared to upload personal details about their location as a result. I never tell people online the city I live in. Because there is the ever present threat of being stalking by Indian men online. Indian women are just told to disappear by their family in order to have some basic protection because the law doesn't protect women enough. So if I complained about a stalker to the police, they will tell me that it's my fault that I allowed it or just tell me to suck it up. I'm kinda glad you brought it up. The most common question that most Indian men ask me regularly is "where do you live?" "which city do you come from?" and I always remember to avoid that question and never answer it. For security reasons. But like I said awareness is not a solution because Indian women are well aware of the problem. And so are men. It's the law that needs to be strict towards bad behavior of men. There needs to be proper punishment and enforcement of laws and rules and make sure that victims of assault, rape and harassment get justice.

3 new words to be used in the De La Luna tarot deck. One is fleridysus And the other is erysterium And the other one is Iggleshius Both represent the artistic aesthetic appeal of spirituality and mysticism. Fleridysus represents the floral and beauty related aesthetic appeal. Erysterium represents still objects and food related aesthetic appeal. Iggleshius - the therapeutic artistic aesthetic appeal associated with images of nature and such that promote relaxation and calm and beauty and love, joy, healing, pleasantness, peace, restoration, positivity.

The De La Luna or De Luna tarot deck will be an evolving deck with numerous guidance pointers continuously added to the deck as the deck evolves over time. How to do match the column with the deck Column 1 - situation You are tempted to spend money on something Column 2 - a card picked out of the heap A card that says "save money now for a free tomorrow" That's how you match the column and get a resolution for your situation. Over time and insightful work, these resolutions will be more accurate and streamlined to be a perfect fit to any situation. It's best if the Luna guidance cards come with messages related to them like a reference chart or with messages on the card itself along with the card name.

Concept for the De La Luna.... This is going to be a daily permanent deck It will contain many cards. Each card will be a guidance point throughout the day and throughout the year. Since you see the moon everyday this is an everyday deck. It will be about intuition, general guidance, prediction, guidance pointers, analysis of the past and the current, prediction for future, connecting the dots, daily guidance, Synchronicity, matching an element of the card to any given situation and thus resolving the situation. Like match the column. Very accurate matching of situations.

New tarot deck De La Luna tarot deck or De Luna The modern English poetic usage when personifying the sun and moon has taken up the French or Romance gender for sol (masculine) and luna (feminine), instead of retaining the Germanic grammatical genders where the sun is feminine and the moon masculine. Recorded in the spellings of De Luna, Luna, and Luno, this is an Italian and Spanish surname, but of Roman (Latin) origins. It derives from the ancient word 'lumina' meaning 'light', and describes either a person who came from a place called 'Luna' or one who lived in a house with an open courtyard. First card The Luna The deck is still in its infant stage and in the making. So can't decide its ground theme and concept just yet

I'm planning to write a book in the future called spirituality and mysticism and going to include all of my beliefs and concepts in it.

Copied from forum I've read this version mate... I can't say I really enjoyed this. My path has been Self Inquiry, and Prabhupada focuses on bhakti (devotion to Krishna) which I can't really resonate much with. If you resonate more with non-duality, get the Bhagavad Gita but from a writer who has a non-dual commentary. I'm afraid that I don't know precisely what authors do have non-dual commentaries of the Bhagavad Gita, but I'm sure someone on this forum can help I've heard that the translation by Eknath Easwaran is better for us nondualists. I've also read The concise yoga vasistha translated by Swami Venkatesananda, and I liked it more than Bhagavad Gita. It was amazing. I've yet to read Ribhu Gita and Ashtavakra Gita, but I think The concise yoga vasistha (Swami Venkatesananda) probably beats them all. Edit: well, I didn't see that it must be in your native language. My excuse is that I just woke up. You will have to buy the version which exists in your language. I guess any version is better than no version.

I feel like I need an energy bottle of love, joy, peace and hope.

I'm so fed up with life. It's so tiring Discouraging. No matter how much I try to get back up, something happens again and I go down. This regular struggle is tearing me apart. It's too much sometimes.

Finally my tarot decks are complete... Phew

Monster Tarot Deck Card 1 Hydrazonthus Card 2 Leviathan Card 3 Megalodon Card 4 Bagathor Card 5 Hippopodus Card 6 Mastodon Card 7 Hydra Card 8 Behemoth Card 9 Hogh Hydra Card 10 Beelzebufo Card 11 Zanthazar Card 12 Zerrighalesteus

Gohan city deck It should be called Gohan tarot Or giyonuss tarot set 2cards plus 1 card for city 3rd card for the devil 4th card for the adjective Gohan Gohan adjective. Helena the brave and the founder Vanessa the softer Valjey the devil or villain. The man the hero 6 card Gohan tarot set

I had an NPD boyfriend in 2018. And it took me a year to just realize that he is NPD and in November of last year I finally broke up with him. NPD goes undetected unless you are alert and educated on it. I Googled his behavioral symptoms some months before and a chance reading on narcissistic abuse caught my attention and that's when I began to realize that all of his behavior matched the pattern of narcissistic abuse. I would personally say that rarely ever does an NPD heal. It's almost next to impossible. Maybe after a lot of therapy but I just never heard that someone recovered from it. So the best thing is to leave that person before further damage is done. That's what I did. They don't change. Even if they change its for a short while. I used to hang onto the relationship thinking that it he is my twin flame. That is such a fallacy. You can't allow yourself to be abused by a twin flame. Allow a good human being to be your partner. Some of the traits to determine if you are suffering narcissistic abuse are They gaslight you They try to control you They constantly maintain their status of being superior in the relationship They want constant praise They switch off communication as a way of punishment They do exactly what you don't want them to do They never do what you want They never give you compliments They will engage in affairs or bring up a third party as a way to isolate you They don't like being told. There is thing which I call the narcissistic trap. They use this a lot. What it means is they tell you or expect you to do something and then bash you for doing it. For example if you are driving fast, they would whine about it and tell you to go slpw. If you go slow, they would start complaining it as well. So you feel trapped. You don't know what will impress them and they like your confused state Narcissistic Projection : they do this a lot. Let's say they are lying about something. And you don't know about it. Then they are going to accuse you of lying even if you didn't. They project their own behavior on others. Hallmark of a narcissist - the litmus test of narcissism. They will treat you like a disposable. They will use you as long as they want and then drop you. They lack emotional connections and they treat people as objects, as means to get their ends. They are many more symptoms of their abusive behavior however right now I can't recall all of them. One is that they constantly manipulate a lot. I'd stay away from them. Having experienced it myself it caused a lot of damage to my self esteem and growth. You feel stripped off everything in the process of feeding them

So tired

Now my spiritual journey is going to be focused more on Living and discovering the truth Living in love Healing

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