I’m a big fan of people finding a spiritual or religious practice that works for them but if you’re required to pay money to a particular person or buy a certain thing regularly from a certain place I don’t think that’s a spiritual practice. You may have been scammed.
No matter what kind of religion or type of spirituality you wanna get into there are free resources and/or cheap one time purchases that’ll get you there. I’ve never bought a Bible for myself I don’t think. They just kind of end up at my house. I got my Buddha statue for like 12 bucks. Like don’t listen to people who are trying to get you to buy their courses. The universe will hear your screams whether you have paid or not.
I agree with all of this, but also a substantial portion of the people paying thousands for meditation retreats have more money than anyone needs and deserve to get fleeced
Poor and middle class people go into extreme debt every year getting roped into self help and spirituality scams. That scummy tv preacher isn’t getting all or even most of his fistfuls of money from rich donors. He’s preaching prosperity gospel to everyday folks looking for some relief. And no matter who you are or how poor you are, when you’re desperate enough you start to believe charismatic people who say they can make all your problems go away if you’ll just buy their book.
People who refuse to learn how something works and then get mad when they don't know how to do something like to say, "I'm being proactive" frequently.
i feel like it's absolutely crucial in the social justice world to take "he a little confused but he got the spirit" and similar sentiments/situations as a Win. intent is so much more important than saying it right the first time! if someone is approaching with scuffed language and incorrect terms but they're visibly being as polite as they know how, that person is a friend and should be treated better than what their words might invite in someone else's mouth.
[ID: A series of four square images, each with a white background and a black line drawing of a person in baggy clothes, with layered shoulder-length hair and large round glasses, with occasional shading. Each image has handwritten text across its top and/or bottom.
The first image shows the person full-length, and says, “it's hard to live in a world that wasn't built for me”.
The second shows them chest-up, with two undetailed people on either side with big smiles. The text reads, “when i'm struggling, people tend to say:” (and in speech bubbles from the undetailed people,) “you can do it!” “i believe in you!!”
The third shows the person from the shoulders up, looking down and afflicted, with more shading than the other drawings. There are blank speech bubbles coming from off the image on each side of them. The text reads, “i know they're being nice but their expectations for me make me feel worse when i fail”.
The fourth image shows the person from the shoulders up, looking more neutral than in the previous image. The text reads, “sometimes, i wish someone would just say, "it's okay that you can't"”. End ID.]
Absolutely, cults will always try to recruit you when you’re vulnerable and unbalanced.
Trauma and grief are major unbalancing factors. But a lot of smaller, more subtler things can also make you unbalanced and vulnerable. Anything from starting a new job, getting married/divorced, moving to a new place.
Not sure, but it’s definitely interesting. (I just saw your comment and then looked up the Wikipedia page on the growth mindset.) It seems to be built on a confusing set of beliefs, as summed up in the example that starts the Wikipedia article:
One experiment tested the notion that girls are more likely than boys to see intelligence as malleable when told that society is biased against women in mathematics. In the experiment, some girls were told that a stereotypical biased society might be the cause for the gender gap in their field. Other girls were just given factual information that there was a gender gap in their area. They were then asked to perform a math task. The girls who believed there was a bias against women in their area showed higher achievement.[8]
If this is true, then it’s relevant to discussions of a growth mindset. But I’m not sure it really is true.
I have no idea why this line of thought came to be so popular. I’ve seen it come up even in “progressive” circles. It seems to be accepted as some sort of simple, intuitive truth, but it doesn’t seem to have the simple, intuitive truth thing going for it. (In particular, it seems to suggest that social change may be unnecessary for personal change, which seems suspect to me. But I’m not at all an expert on either of these things.)
Maybe there are other positive things about it that I don’t know about.
there's always a vocabulary police - pretending they aren't the vocabulary police.
"can't is a four-letter word."
"you don't have to. you could choose not to."
the entire thing those growth mindset people have going on
"if you say 'I don't have time for that,' you're being lazy" - no I'm being polite. Otherwise I would have told you, "I'm not devoting energy to your nonsense."
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I'll help you invade a country you used to occupy. Then we can go back to being mad at each other perpetually
I have no right to complain, not about my appearance nor about my health.
I have all the tools and knowledge to transform myself into the best possible version and until I tried everything, I simply refuse to complain about anything.
When a disabled person tells you they can't do something, don't disagree. Don't argue. Don't say "of course you can!" or "just try!" or "don't be negative!" or "don't give up in advance!" We know our limits better than you do, so just listen and adjust the plans accordingly.
republicans will be like “good news, everyone! we have passed legislation that will make it legal for us to shoot you in the chest” and dems will respond with “we have listened to the SCIENTISTS and the SCIENCE says that being shot in the chest is bad! and that is why we are proposing a BOLD counter-legislation that would provide FREE bulletproof vests to individuals making less than $30,000 per year!” and leftists are like “um yeah I guess if those are our only options I’ll pick the dems but why is it legal for you to shoot us in the chest? maybe they shouldn’t be able to do that in the first place? where’s that option?” and dems will be like “shut up and vote blue no matter who you stupid fucking hippie” and then you find out that the private company that makes the bullets and the vests funds both parties
there's always a vocabulary police - pretending they aren't the vocabulary police.
"can't is a four-letter word."
"you don't have to. you could choose not to."
the entire thing those growth mindset people have going on
"if you say 'I don't have time for that,' you're being lazy" - no I'm being polite. Otherwise I would have told you, "I'm not devoting energy to your nonsense."
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The brilliant American-British author, Henry James once said: Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. Don’t you hat…
Don’t fall for it when people try to manipulate you with things like this.
There is no shortage of racists, imperialists, and white supremacists in the United States. You can be neutral and leave.
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everything in the extended universe is canon
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leadership style: your boss appears halfway through a task that had nothing to do with him, observes you or five minutes, directs you to do the exact thing he thinks you're doing without contributing in any meaningful way, and then takes credit for it.
This is also how 7Нabit$ was written
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Building a Culture of Trust
We live in a democracy based on principles and the rule of law. But as Plato understood, any democracy would need guardians whose mission it
The same person who wrote an intro to a book about building trust through honesty based on concepts in a book he wrote, is also attached to this company that produced this video about the honorability of the police. This companies products on trust have been covered by the Washington Post, who also started a database of police shootings. One of the Covey company's cited factors in building trust is not withholding information. The Washington Post is attempting to catalog underreported fatal shooting statistics. "This is because reporting by police departments is voluntary and many departments fail to do so." (Washington Post)
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the training doesn't pass the Bechdel-Wallace test
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