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  5. Posted

    5 minutes ago, PurpleTree said:

    La Sagrada Familia is still getting built in Barcelona聽

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    Cool, nice to know that such projects still exist. I would love to see this sort of beauty in other types of buildings as well, not necessarily only religious ones.

    The modern environment is too dull and sterile. There's more focus on efficiency and building cost rather than beauty and color.聽

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    8 hours ago, Rafael Thundercat said:

    Good that you brougth this one up. This sort of stuff for me Is material to study Optics, Fashion or what would be called Monkey Games.聽

    Don鈥檛 get me wrong, aesthetics is important.

    But in its deeper sense, it鈥檚 not always about appearance, it鈥檚 about substance too. Ideally, I believe there should always be balance.

    We, as a society, are too focused on the aesthetics of image and the physical, while we completely abandon the aesthetics of substance.

    Beautiful minds, beautiful souls, beautiful thoughts, beautiful ideas, beautiful actions, beautiful dreams, they鈥檙e important too.

    The beauty of the image gives a hint of the beauty of the substance. Without beautiful substance to back it up,聽the beautiful image loses its meaning.

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  9. Posted

    Oh yes, it feels like the Dark Ages. But at least there were beautiful cathedrals in the Dark Ages...

    Where are the cathedrals now? No one builds them anymore :(

    I'm looking forward to the moment when I can speak about today's affairs as something from the past.

    I鈥檒l probably be quite old, and I鈥檒l probably scare children with horror stories about this era lol聽

    In the meantime, I鈥檒l do my best to keep my sanity by educating myself with high-level sources, emotionally supporting myself and others, and focusing on spiritual development. It鈥檚 actually a great opportunity.

  10. Posted

    Objectification sucks regardless of gender.

    Very few humans want to feel like an object. Some men love to argue that women love to be objectified. It only shows that they have never been objectified.

    Some people condition themselves to look in a way that makes others objectify them, until someone really objectifies them and then they're like: "Shit... this isn't nice. Is it?" They feel small.

    I am sorry that you went through that, but luckily it seems that you can handle this well and that there is no physical threat to you.

    As a woman, I can say that I have experienced much worse things with an immediate threat to my body and safety, from men of all ages.

    There was no year without objectification in my life, since the age of 10 or 11 at least.

    And I got so used to it that I no longer give a shit.

    I just accept it as a tragic part of being a woman.

    Someone will objectify you, fetishize you, dehumanize you, or overly sexualize you in some distorted way, no matter where you are and no matter what you wear. As a woman, you should expect that and handle it the best you can. The safest way for a woman is often to just ignore it.

  12. Posted

    Your brain may be naturally more schizotypal, which means that you are more creative and more prone to psychosis. This is something common in spiritual people, but you have to learn to ground yourself in reality and not get lost in your mind.聽

    There are practices such as mindfulness, being in nature, grounding, breathing exercises and physical activity which can help connect you聽to your body/present-immediate reality and to ground you.聽

  13. Posted

    4 minutes ago, Twentyfirst said:

    Zionism has zero pros for Jews, Americans, or the Middle East. It has about 100 cons

    It's dangerous because it requires war and violence on innocent people and brainwashing of it's own people just to get by and will never allow for thriving聽

    The truth is your ancestors fucked you and now you want to blame everyone else for being hating you just because you were born a Jew.

    Nope. Your parents or grandparents were shady and stole shit and now people are pissed at you for it. They knew that their actions would have consequences later on for their offspring聽but obviously they didn't care.聽

    Unless your ancestors are from Palestine and not Europe?

    And here it goes again. I will not participate in the same arguments over and over. Especially with your tone. What are gaining from spreading your hate across the politics forum with the same hostile arguments? Aren't you bored of yourself?聽

  14. Posted

    1 minute ago, Leo Gura said:

    When pure, turthful, and loving man聽achieves that level of success, he will be called a fraud, and worse.

    The same goes for a person who is not purely truthful and loving but achieves a certain level of success. People will often call someone successful a fraud.
    Just because many people call him a fraud doesn't mean that he is truthful and not a fraud.
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  16. Posted

    1 minute ago, Leo Gura said:

    @Lila9 Israel is egregiously wrong.

    This is perfectly obvious if you not a Zionist.

    I understand.
    I don't define myself with labels like Zionist because it is a vague and too general definition.
    I am an individual.
    I don't see the point in demonizing one side while ignoring the flaws of the other and seeing how their actions affect each other.

    If only demonizing Israel/Zionism is acceptable and any other criticism is not allowed, then there is no point in me even posting here because I would be interfering with this echo chamber. I have already did.聽

  17. Posted

    1 hour ago, Husseinisdoingfine said:

    Serious question for those who know a thing or two about military tactics, maybe Israeli people here who have done mandatory IDF service.

    But are the Hamas聽Yassin聽RPG's actually effective against IDF聽Merkava聽tanks?

    Because Hamas keeps publishing these GoPro footages where they hit tanks with RPG rounds. But does that actually do anything? Tanks are really heavily fortified, and Hamas rarely聽shows the aftermath of vehicles they hit.聽

    Do these RPGs actually decommission tanks? Or is it just for show?

    Not at all. This is just for a show.

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    14 minutes ago, gambler said:

    Tell me more about how the UN is secretly infiltrated by white supremacists and therefore biased against Israel, but conveniently enough, are a credible source when it comes to the war and humanitarian crimes that America, Britain, etc. have committed in the Middle East. Just incredible.

    It has a Stage Green bias and sees the world through Stage Green lenses.

    It has a savior complex, much like many toxic Stage Green activists.

    People or entities with a savior complex secretly believe they are better than the victims they claim to help (I.e, they think that they are better聽because they are Western and white).

    They need the victim to feel superior and good about themselves and secretly wish for the victim to remain in a victimized state so they can continue being saviors forever. They loathe the victim and do everything to keep them in a state of victimhood. They don't really care about actually "saving".聽

    This all may happen unconsciously.聽

    UN is helping to so many poor continues for decades but nothing significant changes. This tells a lot.聽

  24. Posted

    @Raze and @zazen

    I hope that the humanitarian crisis in Gaza will end soon. I truly mean it.

    I gain nothing from starved children or innocents, believe me. This is a tragedy and I hope that this was not the case.聽

    The IDF is made up of all sorts of people: conservative, liberal, religious, secular, Jewish, Muslim, and Christian.
    Their opinions vary, their ideologies vary, and they are all very different people.
    What they have in common is that they live in Israel. They know they want and need to defend it because their entire life is in Israel. Considering that Israel is surrounded by Islamic radicals, this is a valid and realistic goal.

    Are they sadists who want to sadistically starve Palestinians? Hell no.
    In fact, the majority of Israelis are conflicted. On one hand, they want to weaken Hamas and similar groups because they pose a direct threat to life. You need to understand that Israel is a small country, and a terror attack like the one on October 7 is a huge trauma that revives old fears of the Holocaust. People in Israel learn about the Holocaust from a very young age.

    The first long book I read as a child was about the Holocaust at the first or the second grade. This is deeply ingrained in Israel's consciousness we always thought that we should never allow such a thing to happen again.

    In the beginning, Holocaust survivors were criticized by local Jews when they immigrated to Israel for not resisting Hitler and allowing themselves to be killed. So when we said "never again," we truly meant it.

    And now that there is a country, and we are strong, this shouldn't happen.

    But when "never again" turns into "again," despite everything, it brings up all sorts of emotions, fear and the collective feeling that the ground has disappeared from under our feet.

    Thousands of people in such a small population is a lot.

    And behind every person who has been murdered, there is a family, friends, and colleagues who are deeply traumatized. If we count all the IDF combatants who have been killed in the fight, their families and friends, and all the people who have lost loved ones in terror attacks or have survived such attacks, it turns out that every Israeli is traumatized to some extent.

    So, it is natural to be angry and want to eliminate Hamas and similar entities.

    And it is also natural for extremists like Ben Gvir and radical right-wingers to become more dominant.

    On the other hand, the very vast majority of Israelis don鈥檛 want to harm innocent people. They are not sadists, and there is no celebration of death. There is a deep value placed on life. The vibe is that we all just want to be left alone and want all the best for Palestinians. I have heard it from all sorts of people in Israel so many times.聽

    Israel does what it believes is effective in pressuring Hamas to release the hostages. This is part of its war strategy. Whether this is moral or not, or whether there are alternative solutions, is arguable. Do I personally promote it? No.

    But am I expert in war strategies to tell what should be done or not? No.

    There is a moral dilemma. In an ideal world, every problem would have a solution.

    But in reality, people and countries must face moral dilemmas.

    Sometimes the only way to fight immorality is by immorality.聽

    For now, it seems to be working because Hamas is now interested in negotiation.

    The pressure seems to be effective.

    I have read that Hamas is considering the "Hudna," a well-known Muslim strategy pretending to surrender to gain momentum and then launching a surprise attack again. But this time, I hope Israel鈥檚 authorities will be smarter, will not fall for illusions, and will no longer believe Hamas鈥檚 deception.

    And that the voice of those who oppose Hamas, in Gaza, will get stronger and stronger and that he rest of the world will be there to support them. Including the Arab world.聽

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  25. Posted

    13 minutes ago, Raze said:

    There is no aid entering Israel has now blocked it.

    Israeli media itself reported the idf was letting it be taken by thieves.

    https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-11-11/ty-article/.premium/the-idf-is-allowing-gaza-gangs-to-loot-aid-trucks-and-extort-protection-fees-from-drivers/00000193-17fb-d50e-a3db-57ff16af0000

    It says that IDF "refraining from action due to concerns that harm to aid workers could provoke international criticism".

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