Very reminiscent of USA.

+1 for correct understanding of “tulpa”. We need to be aware of our ideas and ideals we create and sustain. Not all tulpas are what we envision. They are, otoh, all teaching spirit-guides.

Beautifully articulated!

Hence my comment about poorly aware people and outmoded ideas. It’s shocking how we allowed our educational system to become so gutted, basic inferential logic has suffered so much, and how poor and stressed we’ve allowed ourselves to become that neutral and ambiguous comments are triggering visceral emotions rather than curiosity and exploration. I was busy and am decreasing screen time in general, so I didn’t take time to type all that out. Instead I returned to my work, had a nap, went for a walk, had lunch, finished my work for the day and am relaxing. And have decided to spend screentime learning something exciting and interesting - re-creating. Thank you for taking the time to type it up. Enjoy your day/afternoon/evening.

With utmost respect friend, that’s what you chose to read into it. The comment was neutral and didn’t imply you, specifically, nor any particular group. It’s just noticing that some people do, for whatever their reasons. If a neutral, observation triggered a strong reaction in you, it could be worth your time to explore that.

When did I say you did?

Media keeps saying “criminal.” Exercising Constitutional rights does now make anyone criminal, natural born citizen or not. I gave up on mediaite being unbiased long ago, but we need to call out language of complicity.

That’s not really true anymore, but poorly aware people cling to outdated ideas

Hear me out for a wild idea: businesses could offer living wages, benefits, and work-love balance.

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I thought Nazis like the sitting president?

It’s the same thing. We think when we do a thing to others, in thought, word, act or omission, it’s justified, but when someone else does it to us, it’s different. That someone need not be the same individual or group, can be of a slightly different but related form, and it can be decades later, so we fail to relate. Karma is an invitation to confront our shadow selves, work with the shadow, recognize why it’s there, how it no longer serves us, love it, forgive it and heal. We fail to recognize the invitation, accept it, do the work, we keep getting opportunities for that, sometimes in incrementally harsher forms. That doesn’t mean boundaries and enforcement/correction are inappropriate, but that those things are a fool’s errand, and will repeat the cycle eventually, without having done our shadow work. There are a bunch of YT Videos if you care to know more. If not, that’s ok too. Be happy and well (btw I mentioned in the prior post that Buddha said he didn’t know if there is an afterlife and it’s moot).

So I hear you about afterlife. Buddha didn’t address it and basically said it’s irrelevant. And since it’s not instant, and often returns to people from other sources in many ways, we often don’t associate correlation.

Bear with me a moment. If the kingdom of heaven is within, eg a state of being, look at perhaps the diary of Anne Frank. That is heaven. She lived in inner harmony, with a clear conscience. Dark triads understand emotions, they have them. They just can’t imagine anyone else feeling sorrow, pain, etc. I dare say most of the populace don’t seem to grasp realistic ideas of love. If they’re told they are loved with intermittent rewards and constant neglect, trauma bonds form. But how many who don’t get constant “I love you” in words and cuddles can draw the line from working overtime to provide extras, pay for extracurricular activities, making sure the vehicle is safe and maintained as love? Mowing and raking, cleaning, cooking? We’re so wrapped up in our own traumas, we tend to not consider what led our loved ones to have avoidant or inexpressive attachment style. And it takes work on both parts to resolve serious issue or part with love and forgiveness.

Now imagine the emptiness and inner turmoil inside the dark triad types. Every abusive word and deed is generated by that. Even if they don’t believe they need therapeutic intervention, they live with that.

PTSD, C-ptsd, CTE, were all poorly understood and treatment (societal) was retribution and isolation. We still do that with people we know had suffered abuse, from public leaders to school shooters. What lasting benefit does that bring society? Real solutions are expensive in time, money, consistency, but without them, dark triads keep being in business and social leadership positions, school shootings still happen. That is collective karma for collectively and continuously failing to address issues.

Life isn’t fair. It rains on the day of someone’s long awaited celebration, but also on the garden that yield sustinance. A life ends, another begins. The universe seems equilibrium, not equality and will balance itself. Dharma is the ability to accept that, in peace. The changes we seek in society means facing and fixing the worst of ourselves and strengthening the best. If we want leaders who aren’t twisted and corrupt, we have to take the time to fix ourselves, our own twistedness and corruption, and modeling that best behavior clearly and consistently to the generations behind us. It’s a slow process, not McDonald’s drive-through or you get McDonald’s drive-through solutions with McDonald’s drive - through results, like Bernie Madoff, hrc/djt, retributive segregation like CECOT, Rikers and Guantanamo and death penalities.

We all want better working conditions, better social conditions, better pay, how many are willing to suffer, die, to make it happen, or even get off Lemmy to attend public meetings, talk to neighbors with differing beliefs IRL? So we keep doing what we’ve been doing and keep getting the same results. That’s karma, failure to learn the lesson and correct ourselves. Dharma begins with understanding I can’t fix anything until I fix me, or have at least made consistent demonstrable progress. Then I have to put the same effort in my community where I can realistically contribute, take risks and be willing to suffer personal consequences for rewards I personally may not reap.

Apologies if I have to come back and clean this up. My device is doing a things where my field of vision is the beginning of this post, not where I’m typing.

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Thank you. You too.

Pshaw! Who wouldn’t want an expensive personal tracking and monitoring device?!

No worries. It was opaque and others may have needed to understand.

I saw it and thought it was plain to see.

I posted a reply to the other person’s comment then accidentally hit delete rather than edit and had to repost it.

Pro-life. 🙄

Mainly because the drugs administered as anesthesia and loss of consciousness weren’t enough and people botched them in myriad ways, from my current understanding.