Lila9

Why Hamas steals humanitarian aid from civilians?

No, I already talked about what I think of Bibi, Jewish terrorism and Ben Gvir alike folks.

Israel is a nation-state, so of course, it will be biased, it has its own survival agenda and doesn’t claim to be neutral. But the UN is not a nation state. It presents itself as neutral and as a source of integrity, while this is not the case.

Yes, there are more anti-Netanyahu channels and news sources than pro-Netanyahu ones. Netanyahu often mentions this to portray himself as a victim and an underdog in the eyes of his supporters. He markets himself as a scapegoat lol. He presents this as if people criticize him not because he is a corrupt and Machiavellian leader, as he is, but because those who criticize him are evil and corrupt themselves.

The UN has its biases and agenda as well. Even the UN is not developed enough to be a truly unbiased, uncorrupted, truthful, and wise source of information. Aside from some UN employees participated in the October 7 attacks, whether directly or indirectly, UN peacekeepers literally can't keep their dicks in their pants, especially around children from vulnerable places, but women as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_abuse_by_UN_peacekeepers In my opinion, they are actually white supremacists and racists, but covert. disguised under the guise of progressivism and wokeness.

This is the nature of news and media, being biased and presenting reality in a way that confirms their bias and political agenda, often by omitting important details or avoiding necessary critique. Some people don't realize it. Yes absolutely, the same goes for the US. That's why people shouldn’t rely on just one news source. It seems that many here rely too heavily on Al Jazeera as the ultimate source of truth about this conflict because it confirms their bias. However.... if they are serious in their attempt for a better understanding of the situation, they should at least acknowledge the pro-Hamas bias present in their coverage. Al Jazeera is like Channel 14 in Israel, the most right-wing news channel here, and most people in Israel don’t even take it seriously. It would be absurd to base my perception of the conflict on this channel. I'd end up more ignorant, misinformed, and radical by relying heavily on it. Even if the most right-wing channel in Israel is seen as relatively liberal in other countries because of how they frame their ideologies and present them in a way that appeals to liberals (like Al Jazeera does), it doesn’t change the fact that it’s a highly biased source.

The opposition to Hamas is still weak, with only a few hundred openly opposing them in the largest protest since October 7... However, as the war continues, more voices will emerge, tired of the conflict and angry at Hamas for leading them into this tragedy. They call for Hamas's downfall, with the slogan "Bidna Na3eesh" meaning "We want to live" Pro-Palestinian supporters should back these voices, as should every conscious person. Sadly, many are blinded by Hamas's ideology, believing terrorism against Israel is the only way to "liberate Palestine," even though innocent Gazans will suffer as a result. They sacrifice Gazans' lives to advance their ideology and justify terror attacks on Israel. When Israel responds, they feign concern for the casualties, but in reality, they care more about the ideology than the actual lives of Palestinians. They ignore the fact that Hamas hides among civilians in places like hospitals and schools and don't criticize it, despite claiming to care for innocents. These individuals are happy when Gazans die in Israel’s response, as it allows them to blame Israel and America, reinforcing their ideology. But when innocents are killed by Hamas or other Arabs, they remain indifferent. Pro-Palestinians support violent resistance from the comfort of their homes, far from Gaza or the West Bank, willing to sacrifice Palestinians for their cause. .

It does not mention that the protest is specifically against Hamas or that Hamas was shooting at the protesters. In reality, they were protesting against Hamas, and Hamas was shooting at them too. Al Jazeera has a clear pro-Hamas bias. What is so difficult to acknowledge? They never dare to say anything negative about Hamas, ever. Isn't it suspicious?

I agree 🙏

Poor elephants. They should be left alone, far, far away from us. https://www.treehugger.com/can-elephants-really-paint-4864229

You will not hear it from Al Jazeera. Hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza are protesting against Hamas and for peace. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g71lk09npo They have been controlled for years by extreme right-wing, worse than Ben Gvir, terrorists (Hamas), who play with their lives and receive significant international support through manipulation. But unlike Israel who is currently fight to maintain its democracy, Gaza don’t have a liberal party to oppose Hamas, they are literally stuck between their extremists and Israel's extremists.

I’m sorry for your loss. Like you, I’ve tried to make sense of it, and I’m still trying. My best advice is to allow yourself to grieve. However long it takes, this is the only way to heal and make space in your mind for other aspects of life to enter. My interest in death has deepened, and I’ve become more curious about life after death. I came across the work of Raymond Moody and others, who studies near-death experiences.

I don't think that. My point is that evolution takes strange paths and can differ significantly between species, even relatively close ones. We are closely related to chimpanzees, yet our evolutions are different. I think that evolution is not very likely to completely remove primitive instincts from intelligent animals because they are so fundamental to survival. However, these intelligent animals can use their intelligence to manage their instincts wisely and avoid acting on primitive instincts when there is no survival threat. Humans do this to some extent, but I believe they can do better. They don’t use their intelligence wisely enough, often channeling it into the wrong things, like spending vast amounts of time and money on expanding to Mars while actively ruining our own planet, even though we still have the power to save it, but we doing nothing. Or creating guns and engaging in constant wars and destruction. And maybe, if some animals were given human intelligence, they would use it more wisely, or at least their period of unwise behavior would be significantly shorter and less destructive than ours. Who knows? This is all very hypothetical. Currently we are the biggest mess on earth.

This is exactly our tragedy and what makes us so devilish and so alien in comparison to animals. We have the potential to do better, yet we choose the path of intentional ignorance out of our grandiosity. Ironically, we suck because we think we are omnipotent and omniscient, and this grandiosity prevents us from actually getting closer to those ideals and from manifesting our potential. Once we overcome our grandiosity and start to look inward, then I would say that it is not an insult to animals to call humans animals. Animals are innocent, and their ignorance is truly unintentional. Art is important, as is creativity. But humans are not there yet on a collective level. Truly creative people are not appreciated in society and are often pushed back. We have so much potential to do even better art and be more creative, but we resist it. As an artist, I have learned that the biggest obstacle to creating is the ego. We are still collectively heavily controlled by it. Even if we save the planet, we will still need to do mental and spiritual work. Saving the planet is only the beginning.

I totally respect it.

It doesn't matter whether humans create art or not. As a collective, humans are highly irrational. How can a creature be so intelligent and so irrational at the same time? We have everything we need to make life peaceful and sustainable for the entire Earth's population, yet we choose to ruin everything, including ourselves, out of ignorance stupidity or greed. We have even disconnected from our animal instincts, if we were truly connected, we couldn't afford to destroy the planet we are fucking living on so heavily. Where our life instinct went to? Why humans as a collective prefer still objects and illusionary concepts like money over life, health, true holistic prosperity? No animal does that. Animals act in violence when they usually have no choice. But we do this out of ego and narcissism.

Perhaps, or maybe this is just what your fragile human ego wants to believe. Not all the evulsions are the same.

Calling humans animals is an insult to the animals.

How do you know? Do you speak from a direct experience?

Because reality is real. unlike dreams. There are real-life consequences in reality, unlike in night dreams. There are things you can do in dreams with 0% real-life consequences, but you can’t do them when you are awake without consequences. If you cut your hand in a dream, there is no real harm to your hand. But if you do that when you are awake, you may suffer from real consequences that affect you. Saying that there is no difference between a night dream and a waking state is not accurate. Just because reality is complex and susceptible to our subjective interpretation doesn’t mean that it is illusory. The illusion in reality is our subjective, biased, and corrupted view of it, our perception of it, but not reality itself, which we can’t even accurately or fully grasp. Our perception of reality is also limited by our biology, making it very difficult and even impossible to fully understand reality, as our senses may not perceive it fully accurately in the first place. Our senses perceive reality good enough to meet our survival needs, but not to fully understand it. We can only theorize and invent concepts to understand reality, but those concepts are illusory. Reality itself is just the playground in which all illusions happen. Reality is what there is. Illusions can’t exist without reality, there must be something real to create illusions and sustain them. It’s the same as light not being able to exist without darkness. If everything is light, then there is no light.

Meditation describes the bridge between you and God/higher self/higher power, in my opinion, this is an accurate term.

I have never felt aversion to my period, nor shame about it. Since the first time I received my period, a month after I celebrated my 14th birthday, I have been neutral about it and have seen it as a natural aspect of my life. I feel connected to my body, and I find it difficult to see something coming out of it as ‘gross.’ I remember that in school, I had female friends who were afraid of a rebellious blood stain on their pants during their period, with the potential of others seeing it. I was afraid too, but I admit that I had worse and bigger fears in my life than a rebellious blood stain on my pants that someone might notice. I think that I was even secretly proud of my period, and I still am. I don’t care much when a stranger somehow discovers that I have my period because I did nothing wrong. I already suffer from the pain, and I don’t want or need the additional mental burden of doing extra stuff to hide it as if I were a criminal trying to cover my crime. In the last few years, I have learned even more about my menstrual cycle. I have learned about the four phases women go through every month. Each phase differs and has many dimensions, such as biological, psychological, and spiritual. The phase of the period is when the hormones are very low, and the energy is low. The body feels very old and tired, the body aches and acts weird. This phase is symbolized by the “crone” archetype, and it is a time for contemplation and rest. In ancient times, women were allowed and encouraged to rest in a quiet place during their period, but in the modern world, women have to function and socialize as if they have the same hormones as men, without actually having the hormonal system of men. I hate working during my period and a few days before it because I have mood swings and low energy. My body is physically weak and aching at that time. I have the need to contemplate and think about my life. I don’t want to be around others much, I want to eat tasty and nutritious food and rest. I want to take hot baths and be left alone with a book or my journal. Luckily, I have a flexible workplace in which I can take a day off or work less when I need to, without many questions, but it wasn’t like that in my previous workplaces, and I had to insist on it sometimes. I wish there was more awareness and compassion for women and the fact that women have a different hormonal system than men. Women have a monthly cycle, while men have a daily one. Men’s energy is highest during the day and decreases as the day ends until the next day, this process repeats itself every day. Women, on the other hand, have a few days in a month, around 10 days, that cover two phases out of the four of the menstrual cycle, in which they have relatively high energy (to work, socialize, and be in their “doing” mode). The other two phases are the more low energy, difficult and longer ones, like the luteal phase and the period phase itself. Society is very ignorant about the female menstrual cycle, and women are ignorant about it as well. Today, women are very disconnected from their bodies and hate them, demonizing them to various degrees. And it saddens me. The liberals pretend as if women are identical to men, overlooking our hormonal differences from men, while the conservatives demonize everything related to female biology, such as pregnancy and the period. Both fail to acknowledge the hormonal and biological differences between men and women without demonizing the other or putting one above the other, while adjusting the system to equally suit the needs of women and men, not just men. This results in women paying the price of surviving in a system designed for the biology of men.

Socializing may be a form of suffering for some people and can severely affect their mental state. I am one of those people, and I believe what Leo says about his personal experience because I have the same experience. I do seek connections, deep connections, and sometimes I get tiny crumbs of it when I socialize, but it is not enough for me. It is never enough because most social interactions don’t prioritize true connection, instead, they often revolve around satisfying needs like seeking validation or approval, share shallow information, kill the time, entertain etc. Rarely is it about genuine connection and intimacy. I deeply value human connection and intimacy and genuinely want to be seen and to see the other. However, it is very rare to form such deep connections with people nowadays because of the very structure of our capitalist and patriarchal society, which values individuality, being busy, and achievement over connection and intimacy. Spirituality makes me feel connected, meditation and my dreams also give me a sense of connection, nature, art and reading as well. Meaningful and deep conversations with people make me feel connected too, especially when they are vulnerable and authentic (though it’s rare because it requires intention and courage as many people, like myself, suffer from fear of intimacy and vulnerability and find it difficult to be authentic). But merely socializing with people who talk for the sake of talking, and entertainment for the sake of it makes me feel alienated and miserable.

Since I discovered the sacred geometry theory as the underlying structure of both physical reality and consciousness, I have been seeking ways to incorporate it into my spiritual practice. I found this channel run by an artist who draws mandalas based on sacred geometry principles. He starts almost every mandala with the Flower of Life structure, which serves as the foundation for any sacred geometric shape. The process of drawing mandalas, especially in such a technical way that requires precision, accuracy, and concentration, brings the mind into a uniquely serene meditative state. This may be preferable for those who find it difficult to meditate in stillness but have a love for art. One can learn a lot from the free tutorials on his channel, but he also offers a course and a free Discord group on the topic. I have not subscribed to his course yet (maybe in the future when I will have more time) but I have learned from the free tutorials and the content he shared. I have been enjoying it for a while and thought I would share it here. Here, he is drawing a mandala based on a crop circle (Milk Hill, 2001) The crop circle, like most if not all of them, is also based on sacred geometry principles, demonstrating how universal sacred geometry is.