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lotus-cube
1 year ago
"Spiritual revolution" Dangerous phrasing ;D. As to forgiveness, you're only peaceful if you have the capacity for violence, otherwise you're just pathetic.
daliwali
1 year ago
@lotus-cube the russian band ΠΠΈΠ½ΠΎ first performed "Π₯ΠΎΡΡ ΠΏΠ΅ΡΠ΅ΠΌΠ΅Π½" (I want changes!) in 1986, about changing one's own heart. the soviet union collapsed in 1991.
koilwood
1 year ago
Very nicely written. I agree with so many of the things you spoke about, especially that we have been inclined to non-action regardless of how strongly we feel. There is a sort of soft manipulation that hides like a ghost in the online world, changing even the most seemingly intelligent of people into drones.
letslearntogether
1 year ago
That is why "absolute power corrupts absolutely." Stacking symbolic abstractions on top of one another can divorce perceptions from reality to the point where any action can be "justified". We must be careful with pride. There are limits to knowledge in that another's personal experience does not have a 1-to-1 correspondence to one's own.
letslearntogether
1 year ago
Forgiveness is not to acquiescence to injustice out of fear, and thus condone evil passively. It is to not allow oneself to be controlled by the ways in which one has been hurt, to voluntarily choose to heal. How many truly want peace? Or do they harbor vengence in their heart and simply want to trade places with a tyrant?
letslearntogether
1 year ago
The key is how we choose to apply our own will moment-by-moment. All black magick is an imposition of one's will upon another, specifically to derive some sense of "power", whether it take on the form of active violence or passive manipulation.
letslearntogether
1 year ago
However, each of our choices affects others, whether we are aware of the impact or not. If we have any sense of conscience whatsoever, as we learn of those impacts, we revise our methods to make them less harmful to others.
letslearntogether
1 year ago
True Justice is restorative, not punitive. It does not fall victim to "The Myth of Redemptive Violence" that acts to perpetuate violence itself. Likewise, True Mercy is not being a sycophant. There is a careful balance between individual rights and collective responsibilities. [*compare "legalism" with "hypergrace"]
letslearntogether
1 year ago
...I should also mention that, while there is quite a bit of nuance, I find "satan" = "demiurge" to be a helpful interpretation. What spirit rules the world and how? (Matthew 4:8-9)
letslearntogether
1 year ago
Ultimately, I believe that there is a fundamental "error" that has crept into the perception of humanity at the dawn of our existence, like the "three poisons" within the "wheel of samsara" that we talked about before.
letslearntogether
1 year ago
See: https://letslearntogether.neocities.org/scispirit/Sexuality/relation01 particularly the last two sections "Hope For Healing On A Fundamental Level" and "Psychosocial Neurobiology".
moheb-rofail
1 year ago
I sold my old laptop yesterday, it was lenovo ideapad 100 for what is equivalent to 20$ ππ
moheb-rofail
1 year ago
If we were neighbors I would have gave it to you for free. But sending it internationally would cost so much money.
zazilicious
1 year ago
oh lol nice!! And yeah no worries, I honestly should probably downsize some of my laptops. People just keep giving me their computers, though XD. When they want their files extracted they usually just have me get their harddrive out and files moved, and then are like "okay you can keep the laptop"
letslearntogether
1 year ago
I respect you Watchman on the Wall. That passage is to highlight a common bias of the ancient Romans. When a human sees themselves as "god almighty," then they can rationalize forcing any amount of servitude upon others "for your own good"! But as PKD said, "The empire never ended." https://letslearntogether.neocities.org/scispirit/Misc/PKD/experience
letslearntogether
1 year ago
[*for further details compare the Anacyclosis of Polybius with the Three Branches of the U.S. gubmint https://letslearntogether.neocities.org/scispirit/Misc/civstudy01 ]
letslearntogether
1 year ago
Where does "constitutional democracy" become corrupted? The only one I want to "represent" me is Christ, the perfect reflection of righteousness. For the only sign in which I shall conquer is in the Love of the Son of Man, every person from the unborn seed to the long forgotten.
letslearntogether
1 year ago
Life is priceless. Pray for the Caesars to truly become Christs as you pay the tribute to the imperial cult and the "money spell" will be broken. (2 Timothy 3) More soon.
zazilicious
1 year ago
yeee, I am like, insanely clumsy, so I have stubbed my broken toe multiple times already ;_;
letslearntogether
1 year ago
When does self-sacrifice become self-harm? A person can carelessly throw their life away if they pridefully think of themselves as a "hero", "savior", or "innovator" by doing so.
letslearntogether
1 year ago
And that is true whether we are talking about a modern metropolis filled with bugmen or suicide attacks by Jewish zealots against Rome in a 1st century Judea. Surah 2:87. ΩΩΨΉΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩ Ω Ψ§ΩΨ³ΩΩΩΩΨ§Ω Ω ΩΩΨ±ΩΨΩΩ ΩΨ©Ω Ψ§ΩΩΩΩΩΩ ΩΩΨ¨ΩΨ±ΩΩΩΨ§ΨͺΩΩΩ
letslearntogether
1 year ago
[In other words, I can deeply identify with your pains, but it cannot be resolved by becoming a Sicarii. Only peace can begat peace. π€ποΈ]
psychicnewborn
1 year ago
this world could be perfect and i still wouldnt see having children as a good thing. by not existing you completely avoid everything bad and the necessity for anything good
letslearntogether
1 year ago
@psychicnewborn - It is noble to love your unborn children so much that you never have them in order to protect them from the evils of this world, but what will we do with our own lives? Even a belief in "nothing" is a belief in something. By turning away from one thing, we simultaneously turn towards another...like the perfection of virtue and life forevermore.
letslearntogether
1 year ago
Oh yeah, almost forgot 19th-20th century Korea! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%E2%80%93Korea_Treaty_of_1905
letslearntogether
1 year ago
...remember Ephesians 6:12? Manipulations and fronts like missionary tourism, televangelism by millionaires, non-profit industrial complexes, military peace-faking, unequal treaties, and so on are spirits of the anti-Christ and of the synagogue of Satan. Neither "Christian", "Jew", nor people from any particular nation-state. The Mandate of Heaven says Matthew 7:22-24!
lotus-cube
1 year ago
Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's. Good luck on the gnostic path. I have heard that the erosion of the Abrahamic God is the erosion of the foundation of Western morality and everything else stacked on top. Some are so eager to subvert and destroy the foundations... The most progressive is the first to turn back when we take a wrong turn.
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Β«I strive to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.Β» These were presumably Plotinus' last words.
I myself am far from perfect, but sincerely striving to ease the burdens of others in constructive ways is worthwhile. Amen to the Plotinus quote.
it is interesting that Plotinus wrote a tract "Against the Gnostics", but I had actually quoted from Barnstone's translation of the Gospel of Philip, a Gnostic scripture.