That’s what projection means though. It’s the part of ourselves that’s too uncomfortable to consciously face, good or bad, so by running from it, we see it everywhere. Various religious people call it running from G-d. It is running from ourselves, and everyone does it to varying degrees. When it’s called out in us, our immediate reaction is denial and anger. If we can sit with ourselves and admit it, investigate and see where it comes from and if it’s rational or not, we can begin to move through the rest of the grief process (eg grieving the death of a false self), and seek corrective measures.

It’s because these churches that take rapture/ascension and a whole lot of other stuff literally when it should not be (Jesus was asked why he kept talking in parables, and said simply some aren’t ready to hear it) are taught that "go be fishers of men” literally means “go proselytizing.” They are taught it’s an act of love (although the method of engagement can certainly belie that), and part of loving our neighbors, because obviously if we do, we worry about a literal hell. I was brought up in a church like this, and I take none of it literally anymore, but it took a long time to get here.

Anyway I’ve gone about as far with it as I can for the moment, without better understanding Judaism better, because I’m pretty convinced most of us learned wrong. And I don’t think it’s permissable for a gentile to learn Torah unless they’re converting, unless I’m mistaken, so I’m muddling along as best I can.

Oh wow. That means there’s a non-zero chance they’re lying about treating the extraordinarily renditioned well.

Edit: thank you for answering.

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Well collective karma is real, and they think by throwing some into the volcano it won’t erupt. But the volcano is going to do what it does, eventually.

It’s rather unfortunate that no one gets to see other perspectives. And it’s messing with my hope that the USA can get better, because it’s feels like this: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/8939607

These people are willing to accept the “lesser evil,” but it’s the same evil, and they are condemning poor people and PoC to have to deal with it, because we’re the buffer. But they won’t stop at us.

Moreover, this is the censorship they screen bloody murder about with the “great firewall.” Absolutely zero introspective ability effort.

I’ve already seen accusations of Mali and Burkina Faso being ruled by brutal military dictators who execute dissenting parties.

…This position did not arise from an independent analysis but from a political line that, while critical of neoliberalism, followed the dictates of German foreign policy, which distrusts governments that escape Western control.

And the regular citizens of the West loudly criticize our own governments while kicking furiously at any building blocks offered us that aren’t precisely of the shape and size demanded by that same neoliberal policy. There’s only so much mutual aid can do, especially when real wages are less and less and prices for necessities are more and more.

In 1988, he financed and trained Christian Democrat activists in Chile who promoted the “no” vote in the plebiscite against Augusto Pinochet. While this may have seemed like a progressive action, its objective was not necessarily social justice but rather the strengthening of a political alternative aligned with the economic and geopolitical interests of NATO. The Atlanticist elite had already used the dictator to impose its neoliberal doctrine and geopolitically align the southern country, so they chose to discard him.

This explains POTUS and hand-wringing Democrats. Is Trump’s desperate bid for his family’s eternal power because he (subconsciously or not) sees the writing on the wall? It also brings Graham’s twisting in the wind to stay relevant into sharp relief.

Maybe it’s not for Russia but against what some may view as a more immediate threat? I really don’t know, obviously.