Jag, Jag, Jag...hela universum kretsar kring detta Jag. Tydligen. Eftersom vänstern enligt vanligtvis felunderrättade källor inte längre är Woke, så antar jag att de kraftigt tar avstånd från denne tröttsamme kulturkrigare? Jag menar, artikeln är faktiskt publicerad i Expressen!
Eller nej?
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Observera att hon inte med ett ord nämner könsdysfori och trans-begreppet. Trots ganska uppenbara kopplingar till just autism. Fortfarande en helig graal för vissa...?
The only mature person on the web? The title of this video *isn´t* click bait. I´m talking about his attitude more than his opinions, although he obviously has a point about the anti-Semitic jokes (which I wasn´t aware of)...
It´s happening, fam. The Second Religiosity is now. Make of this content whatever you wish.
Ganska anmärkningsvärda uppgifter, detta. Om jag förstått saken rätt har den kristna högern i USA approprierat begreppet "existentiell hälsa" och försöker bevisa att volontärarbete är en central del av detta för att slå mot välfärdsstaten (eller välfärdssystemen - det finns ingen utbyggd välfärdsstat i USA). I Sverige verkar det hela däremot ha blivit ett alibi för Ulf Kristerssons mer särpräglade aktiviteter, som kritiker anser luktar korruption lång väg...
Myndigheten vill inte publicera rapport om existentiell hälsa
Speaks for itself. Free will denial has always been one of the most silly cyber-atheist talking points, so I suppose it´s a good thing for those guys that we know have objective scientific evidence (as opposed to, you know, mere personal anecdotes) that Voluntarist Free Will really does exist, I mean, duuuude, who knew?!
Tja, det är *något* märkligt med de här undersökningarna. Exempelvis: vad hände mellan 2012 och 2018? Kollapsen efter detta kanske kan förklaras med COVID-pandemin? Eller har Pisa-undersökningarna helt enkelt ändrat metodik?
Etniska svenskar har betydligt högre resultat än invandrare, men det finns en allmän trend också som ser ungefär likadan ut för alla undersökta grupper. Och den trenden är just nu "fritt fall"...
Some contrarian content from Michael Tracey. Note that the prosecutor seems to be "Woke" and looks like a stereotypical "evil feminist", so presumably the Alt Right keyboard warriors who demand the death penalty for Lindsay Clancy are siding with "the damn liberals"? And in Massachusetts! Ironic if true...
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JMG is just repeating some old stuff here, but...he is right (more or less).
I sometimes wonder if the prevalence of doom porn has an even more "mundane" explanation: some people don´t think *anything* will change. The doomer stuff is their way of fighting grey boredom in Suburbia.
And yes, I´m old enough to remember the Y2K nothing-burger. Plus a number of other nothing-burgers, both of the apocalyptic and Eternal Progress varieties.
My prediction is that JMG will still be writing this stuff about 2050! ;-)
My result on the "Tellegen Absorption Scale" was only 5 out of 34. So is *that* why I never have any spiritual or religious experiences? Or almost never. Damn. I suppose I will never see the sky fairies and their luminous orbs...
An American wakes up from a coma, speaks Swedish?! (Not his native language).
It seems both neuroscience and psychology are in crisis. Sabine Hossenfelder has the updates. Shit like this will eventually make the public (including the educated part - they are the only ones paying attention anyway) skeptical towards the entire scientific establishment. And maybe even the project itself? Which I wouldn´t consider a positive development. Note also the crises in quantum physics and cosmology...
I somehow managed to miss this Britt Hartley video. It´s called "The ugly side of atheism / 5 things I hate about atheists (as an atheist)". The most sensational move is when Hartley uses secular psychology and evolutionary theory *to undercut the claims of atheists to rationality*. How can atheism be "rational" if our senses are fundamentally unreliable? Exaaactly...but this is of course a popular *Christian* argument against atheism! Here used by a fellow atheist to cut the perfectly "rational" (male) on-line atheists down to size.
I suppose we could call "Britt Hartley´s dangerous idea"...
The main reason, I think, why Hartley is so controversial in (male) atheist on-line spaces is that she "wants to both have the cake and eat it". In a very real sense, she wants spirituality without Spirit and religion without God. Differently put, she wants to keep the social and psychological dimensions of religion without the metaphysics. I think her (male) atheist detractors (and presumably her religious detractors, too) see this as a kind of LARP. A quasi-religious LARP, to be exact.
Could it work on a mass scale? Maybe. After all, civic religion is a thing. Still, since the LARP is supposedly rooted in our most basic psychological make-up, sooner or later the participants might feel drawn to actual religion, seeing it as "the real thing" or "the missing ingredient". Why not assume that a psyche molded by evolution to "feel" or even "see" Spirit *actually feels or sees Spirit*? The metaphysics are real. Especially if the LARP is very self-consciously modelled on explicitly religious communities (say Christian ones). I think Hartley´s (male) opponents see her as in some objective sense too "spiritual" or religious.
As usual, there is also an discussion on how atheism is male-coded (it´s cold, hard, rational yada yada) whereas religion and spirituality are female-coded. Hartley never says it out loud, but I think she suspects that her male critics see her as "the weak and confused woman" who can´t let go of her emotional support blanket.
Hartley has controversial takes on a few other topics, too. Would secularism really turn the United States into "Norway"? (I assume she means Sweden!) Do atheists really have higher IQ than religious people?
Could be interesting to watch.
What if there are no solutions to the climate crisis, the demographic crisis, the migrant crisis, the AI crisis (the real one), the autism crisis, the IQ crisis, the energy crisis, the ecological crisis...did I forget something? Well, American Coke still contains corn syrup rather than sugar. Tastes like shit, apparently. Or corn.
Welcome to kali yuga. And samsara...
Is ChatGPT really *Charnel Ground* GPT? Here is a defense of Tantrism (including - at least implicitly - the extreme practices of the Left Hand Path) written by the Artificial Intelligence.
Here is a controversial question: Is there a path, perhaps in Tantrism, which does include even personal anger, bitterness, and the need to feel superior, and so on?
This is a controversial question, and the answer depends very much on what is meant by "include."
The short answer is:
That distinction is fundamental.
In Vajrayāna, there is a famous saying that the kleśas (afflictive emotions) are not rejected but transformed.
For example:
However, this does not mean:
"Remain angry."
It means that the energy underlying anger is recognized without the grasping, aversion, and delusion that make it destructive.
Wrathful deities such as Mahākāla or Vajrakīlaya appear terrifying, but traditional commentaries generally emphasize that their wrath is compassionate wrath, not personal rage.
They are said to be free of hatred.
The picture is similar.
In Śākta and Śaiva Tantra, fierce deities such as:
may display terrifying anger.
But traditionally this anger is not interpreted as wounded ego.
Rather, it is cosmic, protective, or purifying.
The deity destroys ignorance or injustice without being psychologically consumed by resentment.
There are traditions that deliberately use powerful emotions as fuel.
For example:
In these contexts, the practitioner does not pretend the emotions are absent.
Instead, they become material for practice.
This is one reason Tantra has often been described as an "alchemical" path.
But alchemy transforms lead into gold—it does not declare lead to be gold already.
Your mention of "the need to feel superior" is particularly interesting.
Classical Buddhist psychology generally treats this as a form of māna (conceit), which is considered an obstacle.
Even if one is objectively accomplished, clinging to superiority is seen as reinforcing the illusion of a fixed, separate self.
Similarly, many Hindu traditions distinguish between healthy confidence and ahaṃkāra (egoic self-identification).
Tantra does sometimes ask the practitioner to identify with a deity and think:
"I am the deity."
But this is not meant to inflate the ordinary ego.
Rather, it is intended to undermine the ordinary ego by replacing it with an enlightened identity that is ultimately dissolved into emptiness or pure consciousness.
Yes.
Some historical Kaula, Kāpālika, and related Tantric groups deliberately violated social conventions.
However, even these traditions generally claimed that such practices were undertaken:
They did not usually teach that ordinary resentment or arrogance should simply be indulged.
Modern psychological interpretations—especially those influenced by Carl Gustav Jung—sometimes speak of "integrating the shadow."
That idea has often been compared with Tantra, although they are not identical.
Jung would generally say that acknowledging anger, envy, or pride is healthier than denying they exist.
But he would not usually recommend becoming dominated by them.
Likewise, Tantra often says that denying powerful emotions can make them more unconscious, while transformation requires bringing them into awareness.
Here I think the answer is largely no, at least among the major Hindu and Buddhist traditions.
Some traditions value:
But bitterness—understood as long-term resentment, grievance, or delight in another's downfall—is generally regarded as binding rather than liberating.
Your question points toward a real tension in spirituality. Some paths emphasize gentleness and gradual purification; others are willing to enter directly into powerful, difficult emotions. Tantric traditions are among the latter. Yet their aim is not to sanctify egoic anger or superiority. Rather, they propose that the very energies involved in those states can, through disciplined practice, be transformed into wisdom, fearlessness, and compassionate action.
So if someone found themselves saying, "My practice has brought me face to face with my anger, pride, or bitterness," many Tantric teachers might respond, "Good—now you know what needs to be transformed." They would be much less likely to say, "Excellent—keep cultivating those qualities as they are." The distinction between using an emotion as the raw material for transformation and endorsing it as a spiritual goal is one of the defining features of both Hindu and Buddhist Tantra.
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Sometimes, I feel like I´m 10,000 billion years old. Yes, I´m suffering from some kind of compassion fatigue. As you may have noticed.
This one is a bit extreme. Or no? Judging by the description, the fake Cambridge professor was *obviously* a pathological liar. So how was he able to go on for so long?
Able. Or enabled...by somebody.
Or maybe by the rather infamous Mr Nobody. Since I can sense a lot of structural issues in the background, including a number unrelated to Woke. Maybe the Cambridge scandal was overdetermined.
Eftersom Peter Kadhammars artiklar om "Sveriges skuldbälte" alltid blir låsta tänker jag ta mig friheten att citera honom lite här. Observera att de som hjälper de fattiga svenskarna i Filipstad öppet använder "IQ-argumentet"! Observera också att de flesta nyanlända invandrare lämnat kommunen, till viss del för att den infört aktivitetsplikt för socialbidrag. Förstår dem faktiskt. Vem fan vill röja sly för att få ut...vad...6000 kr? Fast det som egentligen fick mig att reagera var det där med begåvningsreserven...
Framtiden är här.
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När det gäller invandrare formulerar vi problemen utan bekymmer. Det gäller ju de andra, de som oftast saknar röst och som är föremål för debatt snarare än deltagare.
Men när samma problem gäller ursvenskar? Det svenska ”hjärtlandet” som kristdemokraten Ebba Busch uttryckte det? Det svenska hjärtlandet är också ett utanförskapsområde. Tonen i Filipstad är hård. De är hårda mot sig själva.
Anette Bäck Davidsson, diakonissa i Svenska kyrkan, hon är noga med att använda femininformen av yrkestiteln diakon, säger:
– Många saknar go. Ungdomar kan säga, ”jag vill inte städa på banken”, ”ska jag gå upp i morgon också … nä”. Det finns många lågbegåvade. De kan inte planera. De blir överraskade. Vinter! Det är kallt ute!
Du säger lågbegåvade?
– Eller vad ska man säga? Särbegåvade?
Prästen Erik Flodberg säger:
– Här har vi ett socialt och genetiskt arv som sträcker sig långt tillbaka. Alkoholism är genetiskt betingat till 60 procent. Du får områden där det är fler alkoholister än i övriga landet. Var femte person jag begraver har dött på grund av alkohol. Vissa veckor är det alla.
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2023 införde Filipstad aktivitetskrav för socialbidrag, det som nu blir lag i Sverige.
– Aktivitetskravet har bidragit till att folk flyttar, säger kommundirektör I Hannes Fellsman.
Befolkningsminskningen har varit markant. 2019 hade Filipstad 10 500 invånare, nu är de 9 700. Av dem är 400 utrikes födda. Andelen utlandsfödda har minskat från 22 procent av kommunens invånare till fyra.
– Gruppen nyanlända minskar. En del har hittat jobb på andra ställen, andra har flyttat på grund av aktivitetsbidraget. Man kan fråga sig vad aktivitetskravet leder till när alla inför det lika hårt? De längst ner trycks omkring i landet.
Han är urless på att prata om problem och utanförskap, kommunledningen har bestämt sig för att sprida en positiv bild av Filipstad, stan ska inte förknippas med jämmer och elände utan framtidstro.
– Några holländare har flyttat hit, säger moderata kommunalrådet Christer Olsson, och en kanadick. Vi har utnämnt Filipstad till världens knäckebrödshuvudstad. Ingenstans i världen tillverkas så mycket knäckebröd.
