In hippy-ish baby boomer and millennial circles, portraits of hindu figures can be common. I would see them on random people’s social media pages after they got into psychedelics. When I was a kid, I overheard the beginning of two adults, who just met, discussing their own seperate trips to India. I didnt hear beyond a few sentences since I minded my own business and left.

This all gives me the impression that interest in India is common. Idk if many foreigners to India actually travel to India. Perhaps I’m wrong.

Oh okay, I’ll just say appropriation.

Hinduism, with is a faith practice that attempts to amalgamate myriad traditions into a singular whole that reifies a singular ruling elite and was typically practiced by the upper caste, but Buddhism, which came as a response to Hindu elitism or local animistic/ancestral faith practices and of course areas of Islam sprinkled throughout.

Was Bhuddism was originally rejection of casts and to express equality of worth? One legend I heard about Bhudda was how he was displeased and unsatisfied with a sheltered royal life and a endless bounty of any material good he could ask his dad for. So he ran away, slept under trees, and starved because he rather be among those who were once his subjects than live a life with next to no human connection.

I heard Israeli soldiers sometimes vacation in India and listen to trance while taking ecstacy. Is that whitewashing in any way?

You may be right, I’m not confident in using the term whitewashing. I more reserve it for visual examples, like American football fans wearing Native American feather headresses at games with colors of their team painted on their face.

When it comes to actions, I don’t have many examples… I feel that if you go into the process of spiritual self work in a space where you’re a guest, and corrupt it with a white colonial attitude, that is whitewashing.

hindivatu nationalism

What is hindivatu?

What might you say to this guy? He’s genuinely very funny otherwise while I’m not as funny. I’m worried that in his eyes, all the cheery reactions to his racist joke will outshine anything I have to say. I’m still kinda speechless about it. He’d have to watch the video I think.

They might not be if he watches the video.

But yea that’s very 😬

Him doing that, or what I’ve thought to say so far? I’m not sure how to finish the last sentence I’ve thought to send. I just know he’s making fun of black people, but how could i politely convince him of that without making it seem like nagging? And in a way where he’ll be more certain to watch the video so he doesn’t just think I’m being too sensitive? The video would carry my whole argument he’s doing something wrong. My anxiety makes it so having to explain any of the video would be too overwhelming to me.

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That stops my last best visualization, which was reminding myself it’s all a puppetshow. Your visual is completely static, still, and lifeless, and I think I like it better.

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The “maintains and shapes + shapes and maintains” part is confusing me. I think it’s just saying the step from one to another can go both ways, right?

I thought about it… Rules make up a game. When you dismiss very unserious rules, you dismiss the very unserious people that set them. Inheritly you dismiss the game they’re asking you to play.

In terms of PTSD flashbacks, you can shut down multiple responses to triggers at once because the mind is literally refusing game-mode. At least partially, but when you have PTSD relief can mean a big difference. Spotting the patterns between different people who mistreat me feels like less of a submergence in pain this way.

specifically “doing things with purpose” sounds like some guru shit that doesn’t actually mean anything but seems profound if you don’t think about it very hard.

Just because theres a hippy to right-wing pipeline, and gurus base things off a concept, it doesn’t mean the concept is entirely reduced to not really meaning anything. Cult leaders start out with actual shit all the time and steer it into bullshit.

I think you’re thinking about it too hard. I’m talking about doing things with my own purpose in mind, and not reacting to the fear of other people’s reactions.

Thanks for the warning I won’t be reading that.

What seems new agey and meaningless? How does it seem that way?

Edit: Thanks. I can see a lot of things in terms of rules, so that’s why I’m focusing on that. But learning beyond rules would also be amazing.

What show is this? I pretty much only know him from Dexter.

This is dumb. Mid chocolate is already a luxury.

I haven’t heard of this until now. Is this a general occurence among feudal societies?

With those CWs, mainly about Japanese colonialism, I’m putting it on the backburner. But I’m truly intending to read the book one day.

Would you also say this is a rough journey towards him finally having friends for the first time?

It’s called From Emperor to Citizen.

I’m already proud of him for that title.

Would you say there are any main CWs for it?