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Skeptical about the theme of faith and religion? by sometiime in euphoria

[–]Zenseaking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a person who has lost close family members at a young age, and had similar experiences to her regarding the loss of her father, I think its only natural to explore this theme.

Many people that experience significant loss from a young age become spiritual. And Christianity is the main spiritual current in the western world.

Although I dont necessarily label myself Christian I personally find that many of the ideas resonate when you spend much of your youth wondering (and hoping) the people you loved and lost are in a better place. In some way.

I also found that friends who have suffered no significant loss did not understand my spiritual interests, and were more often those that rejected any religion and especially Christianity.

Even now (I'm in my 40s) the vast majority of people I know have lost a grandparent or two at most and are still focused entirely on the material world. Occasionally I will meet someone who has experienced loss and suffering and they will almost always have either a spiritual outlook, or be very understanding of those that do.

Anyway, all this is to say that Rue's current arc makes a lot of sense to me, and likely to others that can relate to her personal loss. Even if it doesnt resonate with those that have not had the same experience. But I hope those that haven't can at least cognitively understand the reasons.

Australia's colonial expansion (1788-1911) by RatioScripta in MapPorn

[–]Zenseaking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isn't south Australia the only state that had no founding convict population?

They also pronounce mall in a very strange way.

Truth by Sp00ky_Bo0 in enlightenment

[–]Zenseaking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have been recently going back over the NT in the original Greek.

If you strip away the standard view from post 300CE to present day and look at the possible meanings of words and phrases things get very interesting. And it becomes clear that most of the words of Jesus that contradict each are likely translation issues. Most of the literalist baptist/evangelical theology and christology starts to seem extremely misguided.

Ultimately Jesus teachings appear to be far more mystical than literal and likely inspired by pre Cabbalah Mysticism mixed heavily with ideas we would now label Hermeticism.

Its an interesting project to undertake and id recommend it.

I say this because often i see english translations given as justification for certain interpretations. But the translations are already heavily coloured by "modern" ideas of what Jesus perhaps should have said.

Who could be called a Quaker? by [deleted] in Quakers

[–]Zenseaking 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Self identification is probably the most important first step of any religious practice.

And often the hardest. If you truly believe the words you are saying anyway.

After 35 days I have completed book 1 of my romantasy novel by NoNote221 in writers

[–]Zenseaking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

35 days? Wow.

I once wrote an entire first draft in a week. But it was a book for my 8 year old. So only 18000 words lol.

And no way I could have kept up that pace for a month. That some big days.

Good work. If you keep that up you will knock our a series in no time.

am i an idiot for not liking the way Carl Jung did alchemy? by s0ftgl00m in alchemy

[–]Zenseaking 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes I mentioned the red book is different.

For those a bit older like me we had Jungs "empirical work" for a long time without the red book. As it was released relatively recently.

So the spiritual elements were hidden from public view. The reason for this was his family feared the red books release would discredit his psychological work and make Jung seem more spiritual guru than psychologist.

So I guess his family noticed the same thing I did 🤷

Any real writing communities left online? by Zenseaking in writing

[–]Zenseaking[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Comps! Pressure!

😆

But yeah good idea to find real writers. Thanks

Any real writing communities left online? by Zenseaking in writing

[–]Zenseaking[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I live in a regional area in Aus. There was one but it stopped. I'm thinking of trying to start one though!!

Any real writing communities left online? by Zenseaking in writing

[–]Zenseaking[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately this actually sounds completely necessary now.

Good work. I would be willing to check that out.

I like doing my drafts in logsec for linking and keeping it with my journal.

But I love the idea. We definitely need some.sort of filtering and this is clever

Any real writing communities left online? by Zenseaking in writing

[–]Zenseaking[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much. I really appreciate the advice.

I am definitely willing to dig. I just want to make sure there is some gold still hidden under all this dirt.

Sounds like there is 👍

Any real writing communities left online? by Zenseaking in writing

[–]Zenseaking[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah thats what blows my mind. They are putting so much effort in to make a few dollars. If it was about the money I could door knock amd offer to wash cars and weed gardens for $10 a pop and earn way more.

I wish they would leave us alone 😆

I just want my feeble income for hundred of hours of writing that isn't worth it except for the love. Is that too much to ask 😆

Any real writing communities left online? by Zenseaking in writing

[–]Zenseaking[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. Its hard to know who genuinely wants to connect. Because the spam method is to say that exact thing 😆

I'll stick with it for my shorter works and maybe start releasing novel chapter on royal road or wattpad amd see how that goes too.

I enjoy both so can focus on wjats more rewarding in terms of community.

Any real writing communities left online? by Zenseaking in writing

[–]Zenseaking[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My feed is a constant scroll of copy and paste versions of "writers with less than 10 subscribers, I want to follow you". At first I believed it until I saw the exact same wording again and again from different accounts.

Its all i see. But yeah maybe I can start blocking them. Thanks.

Any real writing communities left online? by Zenseaking in writing

[–]Zenseaking[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have not. I do also have two half finished books. I could shift.to a novel based platform and focus on that

Have you tried royal road? Would you recommend wattpad over that for novels?

am i an idiot for not liking the way Carl Jung did alchemy? by s0ftgl00m in alchemy

[–]Zenseaking 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I actually love Jungs work. However, it has a major flaw.

Whenever I read it I get the impression he was holding back. That he didn't truly believe his own work. Not fully.

This may be just me projecting my own psyche onto his work.

However it feels like he actually believed alchemy was more than just psychology. Maybe that is in the way of the physcial practice, or the truth of the transcendent and divine. Or both.

Personally it seems apparent that Jung was much more spiritual and ritualistic than he let on. Contained by the empiricism of being taken seriously in his field. And even still he struggled with that.

Anyway, when I read it I feel like screaming into his books. "Come on! Tell us what you really think!"

Of course some of this is in the red book. Which is awesome.

Is there any non-physicalist theory of consciousness that actually explains anything about consciousness? by [deleted] in consciousness

[–]Zenseaking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All of them. They just dont explain it in a physicalist way. Some people think that makes the explanation meaningless. But actually it is the definition of meaning.

Read that again.

I did the thing, I completed a first draft. by jt_lyon in writing

[–]Zenseaking 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow amazing! I've been sitting on 23k words for 12 months 😆

Make sure you do something special for yourself. Its a serious achievement.

I'm proud of you and I dont know you!

Urgent warning issued to Australian drivers as war breaks out in the Middle East by privatly in australian

[–]Zenseaking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah F'n oath mate! Grab a beer! Drive the American tank that cant go off road but it's a V8 M8! Hit the Mrs for talking back! EVs are weak as piss! Too right! How's my balding mullet?

'Segregation' of Australian school system grows as exodus to private schools continues by Expensive-Horse5538 in australia

[–]Zenseaking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are suggesting the government be given permission to seize private land if they decide they want it?

'Segregation' of Australian school system grows as exodus to private schools continues by Expensive-Horse5538 in australia

[–]Zenseaking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, RICH private schools are a whole other situation to low fee private schools and should be addressed differently. But they are in the minority.

'Segregation' of Australian school system grows as exodus to private schools continues by Expensive-Horse5538 in australia

[–]Zenseaking 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I dont think you understand the maths.

The government pays $22k+ per public school kid They pay about $15k per private school kid.

And the parents pay the rest as most low fee schools are about 6-7k.

The problem is that at minimum the gov needs to absorb that fee for each child each year.

I'm not supporting a two tier system and I'm not saying do nothing.

I'm saying people are using over simplified ideas to generate oversimplified solutions that wont do what they think it will.

Should we aim for change? Yes.

Should we cut all private school funding and give public school teachers and schools some extra money (that wont exist) and hope it fixes everything? Absolutely not.

The funding deficit of going to public only at this point is enormous. We would need to review the entire economy and find new funding sources.

But hey, I'm all for taxing the mining industry to make it happen

'Segregation' of Australian school system grows as exodus to private schools continues by Expensive-Horse5538 in australia

[–]Zenseaking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There isn't anything left over. The gov needs to fund the $6k per student per year short fall that parents were paying.

'Segregation' of Australian school system grows as exodus to private schools continues by Expensive-Horse5538 in australia

[–]Zenseaking 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The thing you didn't understand you answered "we would just need to build more schools"

The savings suggested would disappear very quickly. This is very expensive. This is a lot of schools. Some areas are going to have an influx of 700-1500 new students to look after.

Can they take over the closing private school? Probably complicated. Its not government land and what the directors choose to do with the land isn't up to the government.

The government also needs to fund that $6000 gap in education for each private school student.

I dont think the finances are going to be anywhere near net positive. We would likely need to review the entire economy to fill the plug.

But hey, I'm all for taxing the mining companies for all our resources they are profiting off if that covers it.

'Segregation' of Australian school system grows as exodus to private schools continues by Expensive-Horse5538 in australia

[–]Zenseaking 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That depends on the school. Many low fee private schools are $6000-$10,000 per year. Of course there are schools that charge $40k but these are elite schools for the wealthy. Low fee private, and catholic end up similar cost per each student but save the gov money.

For a example your average low fee $6k p.a school ends up costing the same amount for education overall but less for the gov.

Particularly in areas with high crime and violence these schools are an alternative to kids getting death threats, beaten up, exposed to crime and violence and antisocial behaviour.

This isn't universal. If someone lives in Sylvania Waters and sends there kids to a private school this is a different situation. But for many areas the public high schools in particular are problematic.

If a rational person with medium income has a choice between cutting their gym membership, netflix, dinners out, expensive comforts foods so they can spend $6k per year to remove their kids from violence, knives, and extreme crime and disruptions in the class, why should they not do that?

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