#true progress

[pumpkin-the-girlie-girl-vixen]

The Audacity of People: A Reflection on Accountability

As I sit here, staring at the words on my screen, I can't help but feel a sense of frustration and anger. "The audacity of people, to blame you for how you reacted, but never recognized what they did to make you react that way." These words resonate deeply with me, and I'm sure with many others who have experienced the same kind of emotional manipulation.

How many times have we been told to "hold ourselves accountable" by someone who doesn't practice what they preach? How many times have we been made to feel like we're the problem, when in reality, we're just reacting to the hurtful words or actions of someone else?

It's a classic case of gaslighting, where the perpetrator tries to shift the blame onto the victim, making them doubt their own perceptions and emotions. It's a tactic used to avoid taking responsibility for one's actions, and to maintain a sense of power and control over the other person.

I remember the countless times I've been told to "calm down" or "get over it" when I've reacted to someone's hurtful comment or behavior. I've been made to feel like I'm the one who's overreacting, like I'm the one who's being too sensitive. But the truth is, I'm not the one who's being hurtful or abusive. I'm just the one who's reacting to the hurt that's been inflicted upon me.

It's time for us to stop being blamed for how we react to the hurtful words and actions of others. It's time for us to stop being made to feel like we're the problem, when in reality, we're just trying to protect ourselves from further harm. It's time for us to hold others accountable for their actions, and to demand that they take responsibility for the hurt they've caused.

We deserve better than to be treated like this. We deserve to be respected, to be heard, and to be believed. We deserve to be treated with kindness, compassion, and empathy. And we deserve to be held accountable for our actions, just like everyone else.

So the next time someone tries to blame you for how you reacted, remember that you're not the problem. You're just a person who's trying to protect yourself from further harm. And don't let anyone make you feel otherwise.

[revive-turtle-island-now]

Stop funding the U.S. military, 100%.

Bernie Sanders is a gross pro-U.S.A. scumbag, just like every other White House resident. He may not be as horrible as Trump but isn’t really any better, since both parties support the genocidal fascist U.S. empire.

Cutting funding by a measly little 10% for a brutal industrial complex that deliberately, purposely demolishes democratic regions for oil and money, will not put an end to the brutal U.S. empire.

Keep in mind, the U.S. military and the U.S. police forces are very closely linked in terms of morality, like peas in a pod.

There should be zero funding for the U.S. military, as they do not truly defend anyone, but are violently warring against anybody they deem “filthy commies”.

And the U.S. military should also have its funds and money taken away, given to worldwide human rights/peace charities, especially in the countries U.S.A. has severely harmed. Otherwise, U.S. scumbags in power who oppose the complete halt of funding their brutal imperial regime should be heavily, openly  sanctioned by all global south nations.

U.S. military funding should be halted completely, and cut by a full fledged 100% for U.S.A.’s disgusting, genocidal crimes against various peoples, from Mexicans to Asians to Native Americans and Africans they have maimed.

We must get very serious about anti-U.S. activism and anti-colonialism, and establish native tribal/black autonomous zone People’s Liberation Armies (PLA) as people-run alternatives to the U.S. military.

Anyone who still gives even a mere penny to the U.S. government/military is not worthy of being called a human being.

[libertyfreak2014]

Well, here’s progress, in the censorship arena: “I’m watching ‘Jerry Maguire’ on Peacock & I discover that it’s completely uncut.”

[locusnegotium]

I notice a false dichotomy presented in the episode, "Patty," of TGP (happiness zombies versus a finite paradise) because it fails to include the potential for human beings to be renewed into a form that's capable of eternal expansion and discovery, increasing layers of enlightenment, and new dimensions of creativity.

We could, hypothetically, grow exponentially into infinity, as our Father ever increases, and would thus never outgrow our "playground" or the borders of possibility (since such a thing does not exist even in our current universe.) This would be "True Progress," rather than the mere, directionless change we sometimes encounter on Earth.

The problem of experiencing eternity via our current lens of time and "years" is also solved when we understand the afterlife as existing outside of time, new moments "stacking" while never truly passing (I think of the building of choir voices in "Vuelie" from Frozen's soundtrack.)

Even now, a sliver of Heaven and the True Design glints from within us--our lives are enriched by new discovery, whereas being stuck in a metaphorical fish bowl tends to drain our passions and atrophy our minds. In a True Paradise, we would simply be designed differently, with different impulses and different limitations. We wouldn't desire evils, endings, or escapes from what is fully ours--we would be designed for this new garden, this new universe, and it would be designed for us, moreso than it is here on Earth.

The people in the party scene of the aforementioned episode are still, essentially, in the same psychological "form" they occupied on Earth--the same Base Creature. Their capacity for new experiences is still finite; they're still leaky vessels, and are essentially still capable of suffering--the particular kind of misery they experience can still be found on Earth in boredom or through too much internet exposure.

I've made the case elsewhere that meaning is not derived from finity, suffering, or any intrinsic negative, and thus whatever positives exist do so independently and of their own merit (and it is only our current limitations that make it seem the opposite); this reopens the door for unending joy. It isn't any more profound to thank death for life's meaning than for a victim to thank her abuser for a once-broken, now-healed bone. Everyone has bones, the majority of which go unbroken over the course of our lives. A negative is still a negative even if it is, by our standards, "natural."

One might make the case that, if we were to change to such an extent as to be liberated from our potential for woes altogether, after a certain point, we wouldn't be human anymore, but I look back on an old post, "Show me a permanent state of the self," and I recognize that we're always changing moment to moment, even in incremental ways. I feel, even if we had to change forms--physical, emotional, spiritual, psychological--becoming something else wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing.

Disclaimer: I loved TGP and highly recommend it.

[libertyfreak2014]

So, I'm @ a dr's appointment with my Dad's mother & they did not have an associate at the door 2 take our temperatures. I told her that, to me, that's a sign of progress.

[libertyfreak2014]

GM Announces Goal to Eliminate Gas and Diesel Vehicles by 2035

The automaker is focused on electric vehicles and wants to be completely carbon-neutral by 2040.

[libertyfreak2014]

House votes to federally decriminalize marijuana

The MORE Act would mandate a reassessment of prior marijuana convictions and invest in social services for people caught up in the war on dr

[locusnegotium]

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses