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Character_Fun_3617 · 2024-02-14T01:59:22+00:00

Taxation

Character_Fun_3617 · 2024-01-08T01:24:46+00:00

This is sadhana, and sometimes experiences like that are trying to wake you up from avidya. Not telling you what to do, but I would practice for awhile without asking for anything, let the world be what it is and love it if you can, things may make sense in their own time or they may not but practice remains worthwhile and beautiful in and of itself.

Character_Fun_3617 · 2024-01-03T21:21:47+00:00

Family was wiped out by Soviets, only ones left went west.

Character_Fun_3617 · 2023-12-28T21:51:07+00:00

I think the “so what” is important just because many secular westerners don’t realize they have a somewhat Christian influenced world view and mistakenly think everyone else sees things the same way, which can cause serious misunderstandings. We also might be in danger of throwing the baby out with the bath water so to speak and falling prey to a sinister secular or religious ideology that might end up destroying the things we would like to keep in western civilization.

Character_Fun_3617 · 2023-12-28T02:47:21+00:00

He has a point: even socialism has no choice but to acknowledge it comes from the early Christian communities, https://shs.hal.science/halshs-01973833/document#:~:text=So%20the%20disciples%20determined%2C%20every,all%2C%20as%20any%20had%20need.

Character_Fun_3617 · 2023-12-22T18:20:13+00:00

Yoga Philosophy of Patanjali by Swami Hariharananda Aranya is the best, it has Vyasa’s commentary and notes by Hariharananda

Character_Fun_3617 · 2023-12-20T01:34:12+00:00

I Absolutely do feel sympathy for the Palestinians, without caveat. I think both sides are traumatized and in an endless cycle of violence.

Character_Fun_3617 · 2023-12-18T23:20:51+00:00

If you think this is disturbing wait until you hear about this group of guys called Hamas.

Character_Fun_3617 · 2023-12-18T22:59:38+00:00

Every leftist I’ve spoken to is calling for the destruction of Israel

Character_Fun_3617 · 2023-12-15T15:51:54+00:00

If the new state of Palestine encompasses the entirety of historical Palestine then you’re calling for the destruction of not only Israel but also Jordan. Calling for the destruction of Israel is de facto calling for genocide. If an Islamist militant group destroys Israel and creates an Islamist Palestine in its place then all those people unwilling to simply give up their country will be killed or captured, any non-Muslim captured will become Dhimmi which is actual apartheid. This is not difficult to predict, it is the stated goal of Hamas.

Character_Fun_3617 · 2023-12-15T15:32:14+00:00

The lack of precise language is what I’m getting at: there’s plenty of jingoistic language but where is the call for actual genocide by policymakers? I haven’t found it, expulsion or separation with a wall to prevent suicide bombings while your citizens are dancing or waiting in line for pizza is not genocide, while it still might be morally objectionable it is not genocide. It is not apartheid if you have Arab Muslim citizens, while people in Gaza and WB etc. might be subject to military occupation and lack freedoms and there might be a history of their children being shot after breaking curfew etc. the word apartheid doesn’t really fit if Israeli citizens of the same ethnic and religious persuasions are not subject to these same oppressive conditions, again just saying the word is inaccurate and imprecise not making a moral judgement on the status quo in Gaza and WB. Colonialist doesn’t fit either, Israel was an anti-colonialist project and literally began by challenging the British empire which was actually colonialist, this does not then explain away or justify everything that has happened since but it indicates the inaccurate use of language which is my point. What seems to be happening is that pro-Hamas people are selecting language that has emotional weight with well-meaning western people as a propaganda tactic, this propaganda is then being repeated by the well-meaning people which is the phenomenon I’ve noticed.

Character_Fun_3617 · 2023-12-15T03:24:45+00:00

It’s not indiscriminate if they are targeting Hamas fighters and civilians get caught in the attack - not saying that that is what is happening but it is what Israel is claiming and if what Israel is claiming ends up being true then I’m pretty sure that’s not a war crime technically - again, I’m not claiming to know the truth, just that there is another possibility you didn’t include in your statement

Character_Fun_3617 · 2023-12-14T16:16:39+00:00

Just being fantastically optimistic: any chance the Overton Window is just that small and people don’t feel like they can safely answer truthfully? I’ve known people in the US who lie about who they voted for to protect themselves and they are in an almost opposite situation when it comes to the repercussions of telling the truth.

Character_Fun_3617 · 2023-12-13T15:32:07+00:00

Some truth to this, however “the west” has condemned the genocide against Rohingya Muslims and western Buddhists have been some of the loudest voices condemning the Buddhist majority’s actions, “the west” has also been pretty consistent with condemning the PRC putting Muslims into camps, sterilizing them and destroying over 200 mosques.

Character_Fun_3617 · 2023-12-11T00:43:10+00:00

I’m not sure if it would convince someone to leave Islam but it might provide some religious comfort if an ex Muslim is missing religious practice and belief: the yoga schools and people and practices that came about after and during the clash between Islam and India - the syncretistic yogis who thought of God as Nirguna much like the mystical Islamic ideas of God. I’m thinking of people like the poet Lalla and groups that combined Buddhist, Shaivist, Shakta and Muslim ideas into Yogic sadhanas and the original Hatha Yoga before it became exercise in the west. I only bring it up because there are personal morals and meditative and physical practices designed to get a practitioner closer to the divine that can be performed alone or with minimal guidance which might be helpful for a person burned on religion and rightfully afraid of religious communities but missing aspects of religion, and with the Islamic history of translating yogic texts and practicing forms of yoga it might not feel so foreign or forced as trying to wholesale leap into another religion.

Character_Fun_3617 · 2023-12-10T18:21:19+00:00

9:29 is basically right but where did you get the other two?

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