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When everyone's been marinating in propaganda their entire life, common sense is often non-sense.
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Coming to a mature understanding of the world is the slow, humbling process of realizing that the socialists and anti-imperialists have been pretty much right about pretty much everything, and that everyone who calls them crazy or extremist is wrong.
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Lord, please let me love myself the way western centrists love criticizing the brutality of non-western governments while ignoring their own.
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They snatched the slingshot out of the child's hand because he might hurt someone, then a few short years later they handed him an automatic rifle and gave him the power of life and death over people in a village overseas.
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Alternate answer to Fermi's paradox: we haven't met the aliens because a civilization far more advanced than our own would have matured emotionally and spiritually beyond the need to sail around the galaxy molesting the natives like a bunch of fifteenth century Europeans.
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Whether or not you will make the best decision in a given moment has a lot less to do with what's happening in that moment than with how consciously you have lived each moment leading up to it.
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Deep inner looking will reveal a kind of "event horizon" to your field of experience beyond which there's only emptiness. Deeper looking will reveal that your perception of your field of experience is actually coming from that emptiness. That emptiness is therefore your true self. This is the only sensible place from which to take your stand.
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Putting truth before all else makes it harder to be comfortable, but it's also the only path to real lasting happiness.(Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher).