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[Rafael Thundercat]

15 hours ago, blankisomeone said:

Doing emotional work and seeking Truths about God's character and receiving God's Love is so much more important than realizing physicality is illusion. Realizing physicality is an illusion is just realizing physicality is an illusion, nothing more. It's not like a person gains MASSIVE spiritual progression by realizing chairs can melt.

The Character of God is very Slippery and Tricky, sometimes he wants to give you some of his Love and sometimes he denies it so he melt the chair in order to show that wanting to gain massive progression is a cheap bargain. Who are you hoping to give you the spiritual progression?

[blankisomeone]

19 hours ago, Rafael Thundercat said:

and sometimes he denies it

God denying love... You must not know God. A chair melting has nothing to do with withdrawal of love, why would you make that connection? Like I said the insight into the ultimate "illusory" nature of physicality doesn't go farther than just that. It changes nothing. Physicality exists whether it's "illusory" or not. Physicality being "illusion" is like the weakest of spiritual teachings, which is why I don't get why spiritual teachers go on about it so much. Of all the possible spiritual lessons, keep harping on this one like it's so profound.

Edited Monday at 12:42 PM by blankisomeone

[Psychonaut]

7 minutes ago, blankisomeone said:

God denying love... You must not know God

How dare you

[Basman]

I love the insight about how abundance mindset is sorta bullshit. It really cuts into the self-improvement/hippie culture you see everywhere. Abundance mindset is kinda like toxic positivity in practice. Like, if you miss out on your dream girl because your too scared to talk to her, you can have an abundance mindset and say that it doesn't matter, but the reality is that you missed out on her and you'll never get another opportunity. Physical reality is finite. Animals wouldn't need to act starved if that wasn't the case.

[Rafael Thundercat]

Perhaps it is better to say that history is written by the survivors. Hard to write history if you're dead.

 

"The real point though, is that the history you are taught is the history that serves those in power. Which history becomes popular is not neutral or objective, it's a political decision that serves someone's survival.

The question is more nuanced than who writes the history. The question is more about which history becomes mainstreamed and popularized, and why. Winners tend to have the political power to popularize history that favors them. Case in point: Christianity and Islam."

Thats why I started reading the works of Silvia Federici "The Caliban and the Witch" and many others that shows blindspots in the His-Story, forgeting the Her-Story as well. 

Also at same time I am Watching the Handmaid Tale Series at Netflix that maybe looks like what a Christian Nationalism would look like if came to be. Maybe even worst that that. Anyway. I agree that the survivors tell the story but if we look for we find out the story of the Resistance of the ones that choose not to bend to the Bullshitery.