In hindsight, the Dominionism Cult was started in the 70s to take over America. The fascists have been the same this whole time. Checkout “Totalitarianism in America” by Chris Hedges. My mom was in this cult in the 90s, and I have disgusting memories of going to secret meetings where they taught ppl how to brainwash ppl and become their “friend” so they could use them. Now it’s rich ppl and republicans, same MOs though.
The advice I got that helped eventually when I was depressed was “keep your sense of humor.” That was really hard to do, but I settled for appreciating irony. Like dark irony prettymuch, like for instance when I was a kid and learned about the fall of Rome, I was like “how cool would it have been to have been alive at the time and see it happen firsthand?” Cut to 3 decades later and I’m finding out. Helps me keep perspective.
I’m disabled now, so can’t do much, just like it’s hard to feel like you can do much when you’re depressed, so I’ll share this quote that gives me hope, purpose, and joy, and maybe it’ll help you too:
“From the standpoint of spiritual work it is the love with which you do or do not do or contemplate things that is your essence and your gift and, indeed, your vocation within the Earth plane.” - Q’uo via Carla, November 15, 1998 https://www.llresearch.org/channeling/1998/1115
Part of it was natural, part of it was training. I drew so much my right hand would cramp, so I learned to switch to my left for breaks. It does fine detail well, but not the sweeping arcs my right can do.
This is the sweetest thing 💜
I’m ambidextrous lol, I don’t know any lefthanded people tho
Forgetful 💜
Trump defunding USAID will kill 14 million people. I call that murder.
Bird of Paradise! Yours?
Thank you, good read!
That Trump cutting funding for USAID will kill 14 MILLION PEOPLE, and we’re not calling him Hitler or Ghengis Khan. Wtf.
Hire product designers and artists to go to every high school art classroom and ask kids “If you could invent anything in the world, what would it be?” and then draw it for them. So they can get a taste of that feeling that they too have something to contribute to the world. Put the ideas up on a site like kickstarter, with the profits going towards their college education. Nvm, fuck that. I’d pay for college for everybody.
I’d also travel while I could before the planet gets much hotter.
I feel like these are small goals left over from when I was younger bc I can’t properly conceive of what a world without scarcity for me and everyone else looks like. I’d start with the housing problem though, bc that’s what I’m facing rn.
I would use one of these almost every day if it were in walking distance
I like the etched one! The heat printed one looks too busy on the brown background and with that wallpaper. I kind of like the idea in another comment of etched flowers below and heat printed “B” above.
Check out www.lawofone.info. The first few sessions (they’re short) say what happened in ancient Egyptian and South American cultures when aliens came and tried to share the simple thought that “we are all one.” Shit devolved into human sacrifice. Apparently we can’t handle anything even approximating religion.
How do you know they don’t?
Yeah, I’m 42 yrs old. A long time ago I sacrificed what lvl of English I did know in order to use “lol” - I’m not giving up em dashes.
Looks like my future if the fascists win
It took me a minute after joining lemmy to realize an upvote for bad news is basically “Hey, this article is worth reading and talking to ppl about”