and with nowhere else to look that isn’t complete darkness, i stare back into its face and scream back, and then i am awake, and i am screaming

or im afraid to be ostracized, or even that im wrong. maybe its not that. maybe the figure isnt what i see it to be, or hear it or feel it. what if the figure is good, and im what is evil. it closes in closer and closer until the shadows are all i can see and the screaming is all i hear

what if they ran errands for their neighbors who are at risk of being picked up by immigration cops or organized a network to facilitate that

instead of individual victories***

ymmv for sure, and many people have families too dangerous for this, but these inflection points in the year are important. maybe this year you can achieve a collective victory against regime propaganda, as individual victories against family members which they will just ignore in a week anyway

don’t fight your family; fight their sources. respond to illogical reasoning with investigation, not castigation or lecturing. bring them along, show them what it really means to research a topic.

no skateboarders post

im ripping off the hundred thousand songs of milarepa. you can tell because it’s almost beat for beat the same exact story. the character references this because she is a buddhist in the same lineage that milarepa founded. im ripping off a sunday school story don’t get it twisted

As Confucius said: “What on earth are you saying? What on earth are you saying? What on earth are you saying?”

it seems to me that ethnonationalism is more important to judaism in the minds of some than belief in god, his covenant, or his laws. i don’t believe that, of course, as i have my opinions on judaism supported by listening to practicing jews, but some people clearly do.

i would also be 100% wrong if you asked a different kind of buddhist that doesn’t believe that

this framing i always see is ridiculous. if i said, for example, “if you don’t believe the dali lama is a reincarnated tulku of avalokitesvara then you are anti-buddhist” then i would be 100% right if you asked some buddhists about the matter.

area vampire severely disappointed once again having attempted to play chess when the game is checkers

why on earth did he say that in response to me? if somebody said to me i looked like i believed everything a graph told me i would put a curse on his entire fucking bloodline right then and there.