1. If you're not afraid of, and disgusted by Trump, the ultimate ethics-free authoritarian, Moonie, I'd humbly ask, "Why not?" Please be specific and stick to this one point in your answer.
Oh boy, nothing like work:
I am all of those things. I am afraid that our democracy will fall. Trump makes me sick and so full of rage that I have unmentionable thoughts. But I am also aware that I am crazy, that all of that arises out of my past, how I was hurt by the indifference and lack of empathy of others, how I was blamed for being worthless, how all I am here for is to be punished by God and so much so that I had to have an ego that could deny it, the biggest ego imaginable, one that not only was right and moral, but could actually prove it, not like others who just believed in themselves without question.
That lead to a journey that ended in death. I realized there is no truth and no proof of anything. I realized that the prison of ego, the certainty it feigns, is a cage with invisible bars, built on unexamined assumptions that once exposed, lose their unconscious power to validate belief. Life is meaningless and all that remained was a monkey named Moonbeam who loves to swing by his tail and offers you a banana. Have one on me.
We all were taught to feel guilt as an original sin, that heresy from the norms of culture make us unworthy and lead to punishment. We seekers sail upwind into the face of guilt and slay dragons with swords and mirrors. When you lose everything that is sacred there isn't anything left to lose. Then you can let go and give up. A bit of that changes everything. All the programming from the past, so much of it is still there, unconscious assumptions I have not exposed, but enough undone that on a good day I can see that all my fears are just of seeing me. I know that to see them out there and react as if that were the real source is insanity. Knowledge modifies insanity by helping not to take one's insanity seriously.
So despite my fears and my disgust, I know they are not really about Trump but derive from when I was told long ago not to be him on penalty of death. I hate and am disgusted by Trump because I was taught to feel those things about myself.
2. Slavery and the long and still present tail of its after effects remains our country's original sin. No one thinks race is the center of everything. But it is at the center of so much in our country you'd be blind to say or think otherwise. Do you agree, Moonie? If not, why not?
Totally agree. Am not blind to it and haven't been since I was a child and realized that people are insane. In the video a differentiation is made between liberal colorblindness and all the authoritarian wokeness bull shit. I find it racist. I concur with much on that as presented in the video and have been pointing to that problem on the left since some on the left started demanding they not be exposed to things offensive to their beliefs as if they were suffering conservative victim mentality. Plug your ears and shout. It happening in this thread.
3. If you're not fucking fearful for our planet at our shameful and ignorantly slow response to what is a truly existential crisis for ALL OF US, regardless of what else any of us "thinks" about anything, please explain to me, personally, why not?
We may be fucked. I have seen it coming since I was a child. Grab all the gusto you can, bro, because the one who dies with the most toys wins instead of do nothing that would harm 7 generations out. But none of that will change until enough people wake up. My focus has always been on why we sleep, what it costs us, and what it takes to awaken. There are no answers that are not awareness driven. Personally, I think it may be possible with great effort and if we are actually now truly fucked, to shade the planet from space to cool things down. But there is so much to be said by those who would have to pay the required taxes. I have air conditioning, right?
Mr. Moon, good sir, this is my heartfelt plea to you not to be smarty-smart, elliptical or overly cute in your answer. PLEASE be as plain spoken and direct as you can. Thanks in advance, my friend.
We create what we fear so fear is not the answer. When people are told their fear will create the very problem they demand to be solved, and of course always by somebody else, they can become so threatened they may even try to kill you before they allow the facts to sink in.
Fear is the mind killer. There is nothing wrong with your vision, the problem, in my opinion is the reaction to it.
I hope this helps.
In not let me know.
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