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I pray for the world

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The time is past for philanthropy, for missionary work, for good samaritans and kindly advisers. We are all in it together. History has come to that point. We have run out of time and space and boundary lines. We are all crowded together on a planet which must find universal brotherhood and sisterhood, across lines of class, of race, of religion, of nationality—or we will all go down, whether it be nuclear holocaust or endless civil war.

Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches 1963-2009 (via probablyasocialecologist)

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In existing bourgeois society men are dominated by the economic conditions created by themselves, by the means of production which they themselves have produced, as if by an alien force. The actual basis of the religious reflective activity therefore continues to exist, and with it the religious reflection itself. An although bourgeois political economy has given a certain insight into the casual connection of this alien domination, this makes no essential difference. Bourgeois economics can neither prevent crises in general, nor protect the individual capitalists from losses, bad debts and bankruptcy, nor secure the individual workers against unemployment and destitution.

Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring, from MECW vol. 25, 301 (via weil-weil)

Right!

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What are you talking about, you sound deluded. Like the current leaders of the world suck. On every level because they’re not centered on what’s right for humanity. They’re selfish, greedy, self-aborbed. Everything religion goes against, and you’re ok with that. 

Say it with me-

👏 Religion 👏 has 👏 no 👏 place 👏 in 👏 politics 👏

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To socialists who say “don’t shove your religion down my throat.”

To socliasts who say “don’t shove your religion down my throat” do you understand where this language has come from?

The earth orginated as a Kingdom. We were always suppose to live in a Kingdom and this was suppose to be a beautiful place where everyone shares, lives, breathes and loves within the rules of the Kingdom. To be able to laugh and be happy, without anyone making you feel bad, or judging you, or taking what you said to mean the wrong thing! That is true freedom. Kings and Queens (Monarchy) were holding and defending the faith which was the Church. Yes, they had all the wealth, yes they had all the power. We live in a heirarchical universe, where everything has it’s place. For someone on Earth who believes in their faith, they actually appreciate this because they understand their place in the beautiful world as a part of a bigger picture. They are not insecure about it and they have love for everyone. Class, gender and sex is not an issue for them and they don’t need to point out “isms” because that they simply don’t see it that way. It’s a different way of being that, when you’re oppressed, you can’t see. It’s a different way of being that, when you’re in the machine you just cannot see. 

By saying “don’t shove your religion down my throat.” Do you understand you are repeating a slogan that was indoctrinated by Marxist theory and the idea is twisted so you deny people for their right to speak? Do you realise you’re being manipulated to pull others down and that it is part of a wider plan to tear humanity apart? I hope you see that now, and I hope you care enough about humanity that you can shift your energy towards loving others and creating something beautiful in this world, because that’s why you’re here. 

If you don’t accept heureticals and the bible as a form of human history than you’re denying a version of history and humanity that got you where you are today and it comes across ignorant. That’s just a simple fact. Human nature is what keeps us human and it’s what keeps us united. Religion is a study of human nature. To admit there is human nature, keeps us united. 

There is no reason why you can’t learn about God or have a connection with it. It’s not taboo. Don’t be a by-product of media and messaging, don’t be a sheep. Explore it for yourself and make up your own mind. And honestly, the God you’re thinking of is probably not the God I’m thinking of.. people have been deluded in their understanding of the experience of God and Universe. “Don’t shove your religion down my throat.” puts you in a position where you automatically don’t want to have that experience, but this is cultural programming that it’s ok to deny that part of your existance. It’s a phrase the current day humanity has on repeat and they don’t question it. I wonder how much of what we say we actually think about or understand where it originated from. Have you questioned why you say that? I can tell you what, it’s not because you thought about it. It’s because someone told you to say it. 

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That’s not really socialist then, because socialism, as you may know is just a reform of communism, and communism generates inequality.  There’s no reason why a billionaire should give their money away. You have to realise that. It’s not the responsibility of a billionaire to change the world. And it’s been proven, donating ‘money’ in the form of money makes no difference to people’s lives. “Poor people” are poor because they live in a state-run country or socialist state. They’re dying because of state-run countries and proxy wars. Wanna know who’s in charge of those?

Anytime someone tries to make an argument against socialism by saying something along the lines of “but WHY should WE support LAZY people who don’t want to work and just want to live off everyone else’s work????” I’m like bud those lazy people ur talking about,,,,, they already exist,,,,, they’re called billionaires my guy. I’m just saying we shouldn’t let poor people die.

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Wait, hang on. 

So you’re a lefty I gather. And now you’re finally a police state. But you don’t like it.  :)

In unequivocal terms, the UK is a police state. We have just lost our right to protest (if they are deemed ‘annoying’ - which will be interpreted to be any protest the government doesn’t like). This means anyone in the UK might face prison for exercising our right to protest. 

Please, please I’m begging non UK folks- to simply know this.

If the right to protest was lost in the US it’d be all over the internet. But nobody is here for UK folks. 

This is just as trans people and gay people and marginalised races and poor people are being hit with economic and social harm and are more likely to protest. 

Know about us- make sure the UK government is shamed for what it is doing. In the meantime, the UK citizens have some violence to plan. 

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We’re human beings with a spiritual connection to a realm we can’t even fathom. We live on this earth, running around for the most part pretty aimlessly told to look over there when really the answer is right here. 

If you’ve ever said “I’ve never used my degree”, the reason why is because it’s communist ideology. A lot of the arts subjects’ theory is communist, convoluted and impractical.  And that shit just don’t work 

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The hegemonic machine of ‘’Western’’ biomedical psychiatric institutions as we know it emanates from our innate desire, to continuously advance our understanding of the mind. Psychiatry originates from the Greek words “healer” and “soul”; a healer of the soul. Unfortunately today, as a system, the hegemonic relationship between psychiatrist and patient has been eroded by a robust capitalist economy driven by totalitarian management. 

The perpetuating force of administratively shackling people to a DSM label highlighting their mind’s ‘dysfunction’ only serves to benefit the body politic. The individual body fails to benefit from what is becoming the ‘total social fact’, that is mental illness. Terms like depression and anxiety are being thrown around all too lightly, a growing trend since World War 2. These labels misconstrue the phenomenological experience of the individual, not as a byproduct of psychiatric practice itself, but rather as a result of the narrative that works to marginalise class difference and coerce social consensus. 

As the Marxist saying goes, “Capitalism will sell us the rope that we’ll use to hang them with”. It can be easy for associations to slip into the temptation of perpetuating illness for monetary gain with the absence of having a true intent to heal.

Western psychiatry recently expanded its interest to Eastern spiritual practises. Let’s note however, Indian psychiatry including the Ayervdic practise existed around 3rd century BCE. Kirmayer (2015) explores the implications of taking Eastern spiritual practices, that is mindfulness and meditation and incorporating them in Western psychiatry. He found:

“Since Buddhist meditative practices are concerned with embodied awareness and the cultivation of clarity, emotional balance (equanimity) and compassion, and since all of these capacities can be refined and developed via the honing and intentional deployment of attention, the roots of Buddhist meditation practices are de facto universal”.

The cultural implications of a hegemonic psychiatric system means that we relinquish our choice of treatment of our “psyche” to a system that is disinterested in the actual healing of the patient.

We have benefited from Western biomedicine immensely. We do not benefit from the hegemonic structure under which it is administered or the culture it creates.

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Who’s really for the people?

*Trigger warning in relation to deaths from covid and suicide*

 Disclaimer: I’m a 25 year old Indigenous/Australian female. (Her/She)

Leaders of Melbourne and Sydney are tempted by Totalitarian tendancies. The way the government manages the state according to covid cases makes no significant difference to the long-term outcome and the bigger picture.

It doesn't matter how a Government manages this, in Japan they opted for monitary stability over protecting the vulnerable so yes, they have had a lot of covid deaths. That’s also been poorly managed. Let's face it, people will die of COVID, people die of other illnesses and suicide. We've had 17 deaths of covid this week in Australia, only 17. But more people are also losing their businesses, teenagers are killing themselves and we're seeing White Supremacist protests in our cities. The states are going mad looking for something to unite over, because our current politicians can't stand up lead a country, and I when say lead I mean truthfully give us the information so we can act in accordance with that.

Let people sit on the fence, let people think for themseles. That’s the beauty of living in a free trade economy where we can move freely and think for ourselves. It’s our freedom of choice and expression that we want. This isn’t a war between being vaccinated or not. It’s having the correct information in order to do so. 

If you think otherwise, move to Ukraine and Poland. Please. It's absurd to me that someone living in a free democratic country can tell someone else their individual agency doesn’t matter when only a few generations ago, this entire country went to war for their freedom. This sense of actual freedom I think has been skewed by a generation who don't appreciate the freedoms we actually have and have fought for.

If governments communicate truthfully with the people, the ruled do what needs to be done voluntarily. If the Government panics, governing on a day-to-day basis and the media feeds us bullshit, obviously we’re going to tilt our heads in question. 

So it begs the question, what’s really going on?

Whether people die of COVID or other causes, they are dying. We can't keep striving for an unachievable number, while a large portion of the community suffers for reasons the Government won't consider. We can't remain in and out of forced lockdowns, boasting mandates and police law while the media feeds us with "You're sick, look at all these cases, look at these people for breaking the rules, they've been fined".

How is that helping anything? Not only is Totalitarian, it's doomed to fail. It is failing.

I want to know what the Government plans to do for the next 5 years. What solutions to the COVID pandemic can they come up with that are NOT KPI focused wholesale lockdowns that serve to promote Australia's free trade economy !? Contingency plans? Anyone? This obviously isn’t working. 

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That’s what long-distance lovers do- they save up all their emotions, stuff it within, and when someone asks them about it- they go blank. They don’t understand how to start, which part to unlock, and how to give away the bits of their story without exploding all at once.

trustonlystars | J.

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Obsessive, vain, devious. FUCK

y’all i got obsessive, ingenious, familiar lmao

original post by @hairless

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Teusday night thoughts

It’s not that I don’t care about climate change. It’s that I have other things I care about more. Like my crypto wallets and the ongoing war between Israel and Palestine. 

I think “climate change” is not an accurate phrase to be describing our planet’s current environmental turmoil. The globe, as science knows and indicates is an ever changing temperature ball and has gone through immense heat waves and ice ages. The biggest threat to the environment is not individual usages, it is the over-production of plastic and the military. 

I’m sorry, I know it’s sad for people to grasp that animals die and go extinct, but if you were to look at the past 300,000 years and the simple concept of evolution; animals die and reproduce and are subject to mutilation, cross breeding, extinction and change all due to their environment and needs. The only difference between now and then is that now the human species has a high developed level of consciousness and feels for other sentient beings around them. This defintely makes things twice as hard. 

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Meirl

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Oh the negligence. Well not really since the best thing a president aka Trump ever did was withdraw troops from the Army and initiate the shaking of hands between North Korea and America. So no bushy that makes you look like a sizeable bastard.