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And the public response to this murder was met with even more over-reaction:

local coverage of public protests

It’s not that fine a line from the outside perspective.

I can’t speak for the original questioner, but your account is very new. Lemmy is a bit clannish and rightly suspicious of these types of account.

They definitely do not hate the countryside. They just want it for themselves.

This Land is My Land

I feel like this is a safe place to tell this story.

My roommate had a chameleon. Some mornings I would greet him by saying “what up, my lizard!”

All I would ever get in response was side eye.

All cold desserts are at least somewhat right-leaning. Sorry :(

I must agree here. What you say may not be fully true of rank and file professors, but it has definitely been true of those who make it into upper administration roles.

They turned higher ed into a debt factory and resisted most efforts to make sure college was actually going to pay off. They didn’t care.

I remember that one and seeing it at about that same point in time. It was very impactful.

However…

Being right doesn’t mean anyone will listen

It sucks to suck … water indiscriminately from finite aquifers to produce food to ship across the globe to feed beef cattle.

Quakers are fscking bad ass! In my experience, I have found many truly good and diligent people through my interactions with that community.

I was raised deep in Mormon country, became aware of my man-loving tendencies and how much that was hated there. So I fought my way out at great personal cost.

I now have great, but usually reserved, disdain for simple-minded god-botherers of every flavor. Devoted but unexamined beliefs are mentally and emotionally crippling to the believer, it matters not the potential depth and value of the belief system itself. If the believer is shallow, the belief is shallow.

Here’s my take on ‘spirituality’. If you haven’t considered seriously (and felt it, balls to bone) what it would mean if your treasured beliefs were mere fictional creations, then you have no spirituality at all.

In my 50’s, I have finally built some strong sustaining beliefs, a community and practices around my lifelong interest in yoga. Yoga isn’t exactly a religion, it is deeply intertwined with several religions yet has maintained a distinct identity.

Many don’t know much about yoga beyond the physical exercise aspects of it, but if you like philosophy, anthropology and history, the rabbit hole is bottomless.

Couple that with the well proven physical and neurological benefits of a sustained practice, which I have been enjoying greatly in recent years, and I have finally found a ‘spirituality’ that satisfies my scientific mind and my need for community, connection and shared meaning.

Hope that helps.

He did spend all that time in India as a youth…