#beliefs — Public Fediverse posts

I find it fascinating that many cultures envision heaven as a place of peace and reward, reflecting a deep human hope for something beyond this life.

#heaven #afterlife #spirituality #beliefs #eternity

I find it fascinating that many cultures envision heaven as a place of peace and reward, reflecting a deep human hope for something beyond this life.

#heaven #afterlife #spirituality #beliefs #eternity

I find it fascinating that many cultures envision heaven as a place of peace and reward, reflecting a deep human hope for something beyond this life.

#heaven #afterlife #spirituality #beliefs #eternity

I find it fascinating that many cultures envision heaven as a place of peace and reward, reflecting a deep human hope for something beyond this life.

#heaven #afterlife #spirituality #beliefs #eternity

I find it fascinating that many cultures envision heaven as a place of peace and reward, reflecting a deep human hope for something beyond this life.

#heaven #afterlife #spirituality #beliefs #eternity

I am starting to unroll a yarn on imaginaries: growth versus care 🧶

#imaginaries #beliefs #progress #polycrisis #commoditization #commodification #faith #hope #conversion #reconversion #climateMitigation #emissions #ecologicalTransition #transition #energyTransition #lockIns #power #knowledge #traditions #transformation #ecofeminism #technoCriticism #technique #development #sustainableDevelopment #hegemony #mindsets #ideologies #collectiveSafety #desire #narratives #growth #modeling #modelling #forecasting #exploitation #extraction #civilization #tech #technology #domination #philosophy #criticalThinking #resources #commodities #acceleration #criticalTheory #digitalization #engineers #separation #exploration #discovery #degrowth #growth

Laws are often designed to enforce a certain way of life. For example, people can physically live in boats, RVs/caravans, tents, under trees, etc. But, in the US, one usually can't get a government ID, a bank account, a job, insurance, etc without a residential address.

#law #culture #wayoflife #society #government #norms #values #beliefs #prejudice #identity #citizen #citizenship #work #banking #insurance #residence #boat #rv #caravan #camping #homeless #homelessness

#EmotionalConditioning #Manifestation #MindPower #FutureSelf #NeurologicalHardware #EmotionalReprogramming #Beliefs #Hypnosis #SelfImprovement #PersonalGrowth #EmotionalConditioning #Manifestation #MindPower #FutureSelf #NeurologicalHardware #EmotionalReprogramming #Beliefs #Hypnosis #SelfImprovement #Visualisation #Visualization #PersonalGrowth https://mastodon.social/@biohackingpathway/116999420807770756

Nick Brumfield wrote a review of "The Night of the Hunter" movie. He analyzed it as an example of cinema set in Appalachia before the idea of Appalachia was resurrected and codified in the 1960s.
https://expatalachians.com/the-original-hillbilly-horror-movie-the-night-of-the-hunter

#misogyny #community #adultism #psychology #psychopaths #attachment #religion #christianism #beliefs #faith #hope #NightOfTheHunter #movie #RobertMitchum #Appalachians #serialKillers #crime #predators #Laughton #GreatMigration #GreatDepression #Appalachia #hillbilly #horrorMovie #history #AmericanHistory #whiteHistory

Priest, Tanaka, and Weber have revised their SEP-entry on paraconsistent logic, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-paraconsistent/

#sep #paraconsistent #explosive #logic #philosophy #logiikka #filosofia #matematiikka #mathematics #paradoxes #beliefs #dialetheism #consistency #inconsistency

#EmotionalConditioning #Manifestation #MindPower #FutureSelf #NeurologicalHardware #EmotionalReprogramming #Beliefs #Hypnosis #SelfImprovement #PersonalGrowth #EmotionalConditioning #Manifestation #MindPower #FutureSelf #NeurologicalHardware #EmotionalReprogramming #Beliefs #Hypnosis #SelfImprovement #Visualisation #Visualization #PersonalGrowth https://mastodon.social/@biohackingpathway/116297064462301176

We're taught that "education ends bigotry," yet the worst homophobes I've known in my 70+ years were some of my teaching colleagues, followed closely by medical professionals, and electricians. Curious! #bigotry #endbigotry #civilrights #civilrightsmovement #equalrights #equalrightsmovement #racism #sexism #bigotry #homophobia #endsexism #endracism #endhomophoboia #xenophobia #endxenophobia #education #beliefs #mores #superstition #superstitions #bigots #racists #teaching #school #schools

A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt

As long as we are not actually destroyed, we can work to gain greater understanding of other peoples and to try to present to the peoples of the world the values of our own beliefs. We can do this by demonstrating our conviction that human life is worth preserving and that we are willing to help others to enjoy benefits of our civilization just as we have enjoyed it.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1951-12-20), “My Day”

More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/82…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #America #beliefs #civilization #helping #humanlife #life #sharing #understanding #values

17 Foolish #Beliefs in #Hinduism

For centuries, #rituals, #superstitions, and #dogmas have shaped daily life in India under the weight of #religious tradition. From #astrology and #reincarnation to cow #worship and #miracle claims, countless beliefs are repeated without question. In this video, we expose 17 of the most foolish and damaging beliefs in Hinduism — not to mock, but to reveal the cost of holding on to #illusions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbUJ6Yh6Vvk

'“Work” must lose its centrality in the minds, thoughts, and imaginations of everyone. We must learn to see it differently: no longer as something we have—or do not have—but as what we do.'
~ André Gorz cited by @aworkinglibrary there: https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/exit-strategy

'The assertion that slop-makers will replace most jobs is a pathetic attempt at resurrection: only work that has been demeaned into the grave could be supplanted by such boring and obsequious ghosts. The real work has always been elsewhere. Perhaps it’s time we follow where it takes us and leave the dead to their tombs.'
~ Mandy Brown

#exitStrategy #exit #pivot #beliefs #burnOut #hope #ecology #ecologism #politicalEcology #degrowth #quotes #quote #MandyBrown #AISlop #genAI #generativeAI #book #career

"We should first examine how colonisation works to decivilise the coloniser, to literally dumb them down, to degrade them, to awaken them to buried instincts, to greed, to violence, to racial hatred, to ethical relativism."

Aimé Césaire in "Discours sur le colonialisme", 1950

#entanglement #othering #civilisation #lineOfColor #raceMaking #beliefs #squash #brutalization #complicity #epistemology #coloniality #genocide #racism #colonialism #Césaire #AiméCésaire #whiteness #quote #quotes #citation

Heterosexuality is a regime of political oppression 🧶

"Just as racism produces race and not the other way round, sexism produces sex through the relationship of domination that reduces the dominated to things or natural objects."
… said Natacha Chetcuti-Osorovitz summarizing Monique Wittig

#materialism #beliefs #subjugation #radicality #EstelleSays #materialistFeminism #naturalism #appropriation #sexism #heteroSexuality #saphism #heteroNormativity #feminisms #history #MoniqueWittig #Wittig #literature #homosexuality #lesbianism #feminism #internationalism #patriarchy #linguistics #writing #minorityStudies #universalism #queer #constructivism #antagonism #culturalHistory #lesbians

"Freedom can be granted, but it remains a “legal fiction”. […] Rights cannot be bestowed upon those constructed as Slaves, non-Humans, or property, especially when such a status is the contingent basis of the worldview through which rights are given their coherence."
by Scott Campbell @susurros

“Peace, within an antiblack world, is a fallacy (much like freedom). The metaphysical infrastructure that supports the fiction of the white human is sustained by antiblack violence.”
by Calvin Warren, in Ontological Terror

(continued) 🧶

#othering #modernity #whiteness #whiteFragility #whiteSupremacy #quotes #antiBlackness #slavery #BlackMastodon #AfroPessimism #beliefs #institutionsDeceive #justice #judicialBias #legality #legitimacy #IHL #internationalLaw #law #OPT #WestBank #JewishSupremacy #liberation #israelPalestine #raceMaking

"Palestinians despise the courts. We hate the sight of a judge, knowing all too well that they are no different from the interrogator. We loathe the law and all it stands for in our context—a tool for oppression cloaked in legality. Even the lawyers, perhaps universally disliked, evoke our mistrust. But for us, the courts represent more than frustration; they are the place where our oppressive conditions are translated into legal language, where the weight of colonial domination is formalized with a veneer of legitimacy."
by Abdaljawad Omar, in “The ICC warrants: Palestinian skepticism and the glimpse of justice,” 2024, https://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/the-icc-warrants-palestinian-skepticism-and-the-glimpse-of-justice/

cited in https://fallingintoincandescence.com/2025/05/18/afropessimism-and-palestinian-liberation-an-essay/

@palestine 🧶

#othering #modernity #whiteness #whiteFragility #whiteSupremacy #quotes #antiBlackness #slavery #BlackMastodon #AfroPessimism #beliefs #institutionsDeceive #justice #judicialBias #legality #legitimacy #IHL #internationalLaw #law #OPT #WestBank #JewishSupremacy #Mondoweiss

The Most Absurd #Beliefs People Actually Follow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1DI5yN2B_8

#Atheism #ReligiousHistory #Philosophy

Why do so many people still cling to beliefs that defy #logic, #evidence, and basic #commonsense?

In this video, we dive deep into some of the most #bizarre, #irrational, and downright #absurd beliefs that millions around the world still take seriously — from ancient #superstitions and #magicalthinking to modern-day #religiousdoctrines that contradict #reality.

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In pharmacology, an #antidepressant refers to a fairly diverse set of molecules that do not have the same modes of action, the same therapeutic effects or the same undesirable effects.

A common goal: to target monoamines, neuromodulators

Generally speaking, these are molecules that target what are called #neurotransmitters, including serotonin, noradrenaline or dopamine. When a neurotransmitter attaches to receptors in one neuron, it transmits an electrical message that can be transmitted to another neuron. It's kind of like a relay race. There are over 20 different types of synapses, each of which conveys specific messages and are involved in this brain activity differently."

…

#cognition #SilentSunday #wellness #medicine #antidepressants #health #medicines #science #psychology #neurosciences #brain #suicidal #suicide #depression #mood #confidence #bias #beliefs #selfDepreciation #mentalHealth

"Placing the individual and his or her ability to free him or herself from a social world perceived as shameful is not particularly subversive; it is the most widespread mode of explanation today. Far from emancipation thinking with a more markedly collective character, which envisions classes in struggle against structural dominations, this ecology is a tool for social acceptance which is all the more effective in that it presents itself as an attainable and individually gratifying #alternative".

Aude Vidal in "Egologie : Ecologie, individualisme et course au bonheur" (Egology: ecology, individualism and the race for happiness) @anthropocene

#believe #faith #hope #ecology #sobriety #institutionsDeceive #Vidal #ecologism #politicalEcology #degrowth #consumerism #quotes #quote #economy #shopping #capitalism #climateChange #beliefs #hegemony

Even more interestingly, think about #friends and #family that you think you mostly share your #political #views with. See where you #disagree with them, and how that might represent differences on these two axes, and where your guesses about their values would put them on the chart.

You might find that people you thought believed "mostly like me" are quite close on one axis, but far apart on the other.

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#politics #beliefs #differences