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Re: No constitutional protection for abortion in the US
Will it? We’ll see. You’re more optimistic than I am. If it does, it must have triggered the “right” people this time. Black/brown women and Indigenous women have been sounding the alarm for a long time. Hillary warned us what would happen if the far right got those Court seats. It’s gonna come down to voter turnout…. Or money…. WITH the American peoples ability to educate themselves on this shit and know what’s going on and how.I’m not hyper confident about that, either
Vastmind
Re: Funny Stuff
@Bunks said:
I think we need a "confused" button
I didn't do a good job explaining. I was reminded of how much of my suffering is self inflicted illusion I'm welcome to stop. Maybe even more relevant to me the second time around.
Re: No constitutional protection for abortion in the US
@FleaMarket said:
From a legislative perspective, what is the likelihood for right-to-choice laws to be voted on and adopted throughout the local, state, federal level going forward? I'd think allowing for it to be voted on would show our majority interest for choice rather quickly?
State by state it will vary widely. Many red (Republican) states are implementing some seriously harsh and draconian laws. Virginia's Republican governor, on the other hand, is proposing basically France's 15 week cutoff.
Going forward though, there are going to be many horror stories and gross injustices that will begin to put a face to prolife policies that have up until now mostly been imagined fears. We're not unavoidably stuck in a dystopian downward spiral, this will trigger a response in the opposite direction.
person
Re: All things Sport(s)
You know how Russia has been excluded from Sport competitions, and all manner of global events, because basically Putin is a power-crazy little despot with criminal intentions?
Can't we do the same with America?
Seeing as they're intent on slowly destroying every single right there could possibly be for half of its population, I think that can be classed as a crime against humanity.... can't it?
federica
Re: No constitutional protection for abortion in the US
Watch the video Aunt Fede posted above.
Vastmind
Re: No constitutional protection for abortion in the US
Watch this - And WEEP.
https://mbasic.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=378990994121738&id=341163402640457&_rdr#tempwin
federica
Re: Fear of Existing
@ravkes said:
Not sure if this is supposed to be here. But after tripping LSD in 2009 I became extremely self-aware and I developed this realization that I exist and somehow I exist while reality isn’t logical. It’s like I woke up from a dream and everything was just socially constructed. However I panicked and developed some serious PTSD and fear. Fast forward 13 years later after having some “reality breaks” that felt like depersonalization/derealization. I am seeing that the fear inside is that I exist in a situation that doesn’t make any sense to me. This scares me and I start to panic and think I’m in a simulation, or panic around the fact that I’m existing without knowing how or having an understanding of reality in absolute terms.However recently I have been forced to face these fears. I just can’t live in fear constantly. I have practiced meditation and read about Buddhism — how would a Buddhist approach this? Can anybody relate?
Thank you.
False Evidence Appearing Real
I fear and I ought not to fear, but because "I" fear, I fear because I fear...
Fear feeds the sense of self, and the stronger the fear, the stronger the sense of self becomes and so the cycle of fear continues...
Form is Emptiness...Emptiness is Form
Meditate on Anatta
If you were to go to Africa to photograph the wildlife, you could walk all over the plains looking for the different animals. Or you could sit by the watering hole, where all the animals eventually come. Likewise, practice becomes very simple if we pay attention, carefully and non-reactively, to our suffering, that is, the contractions, restrictions and stresses in our body, mind and heart. For the sake of liberation, what you do and don’t need to know will come to you if you simply watch your suffering and its cessation. You will see the grasping and you will see the possibility of genuine happiness that comes from releasing that grasping. May you know the peace of non-grasping to both self and no-self.
Shoshin1
Re: Fear of Existing
I doubt you'll find anyone here who doesn't relate.
Is life a choice between snoozing or wakefulness?
How best can this life be lived, is a question,
where only within this present fleeting nanosecond,
can its answer be truly met.
and a fostering of some compassion & love towards your own innate state of fear would be a typical Buddhist approach.
Welcome to the chaos.
how
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
I just listened to a podcast between Sam Harris and Michael Pollan, about Pollan’s new book How to Free Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics. Very interesting, and I might get the book.
Jeroen