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by perfmode 6y ago
Abolition of the Prison-Industrial Complex
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by perfmode 6y ago
You mention the word merit. Are you advocating for meritocracy?
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by perfmode 6y ago
I'm sensing frustration. Can you help me understand what you're advocating for?
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by perfmode 6y ago
i understand this is possibly intended as hyperbole. yet hating a probability or a unit of measure is like hating a cloud or a tree or a ray of the sun. it just is. and this attachment this rejection of what is engenders a senseless sufferi
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by perfmode 6y ago
historically, it is simply called consciousness in various traditions
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by perfmode 6y ago
it is evident that people don’t actually converge on singular sets of beliefs in this way. but for sake of argument let’s put that aside and suppose we actually do. even with this, this doesn’t address the concern of actuality versus appear
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by perfmode 6y ago
“While the United States represents about 4.4 percent of the world's population, it houses around 22 percent of the world's prisoners.” The movement begins in the United States, but it is ultimately a global humanitarian concern.
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by perfmode 6y ago
prisons in the united states emerged on the heels of the abolition of slavery it seems we have at some point forgotten the main aim it was put in place for... and even so, we see that extensive without oversight, people running the systems
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by perfmode 6y ago
this wikipedia article has some in depth responses to your line of inquiry. it also presents common positions of those in opposition to abolition: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_abolition_movement
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by perfmode 6y ago
thank you for this. to support your use of the word radical, i wish to offer: etymologically, “radical” comes from “radix” meaning root. to be radical in this context means to strike at the root of the problem. it means to reason from first
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by perfmode 6y ago
how do we know that achievement is of value? how is it possible to know what is _actually_ of value as opposed to what is _apparently_ of value? in your profile you mention: > I do software nowadays, but I'm constantly looking for o
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by perfmode 6y ago
how would you characterize the industry in which Medium operates? how would you characterize Colin’s domain expertise? what sorts of connections do you imagine Colin might have? according to what you’ve communicated, whether you see the val
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by perfmode 6y ago
what strategic value is it customary for board members to bring?
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by perfmode 6y ago
by mystery, i mean much more than that which is not known. i mean to convey: something that is difficult or impossible to explain. something that is deeply interesting and provokes wonderment. what is more difficult to explain and understan
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by perfmode 6y ago
is there a greater mystery than existence itself?
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More Than Tuskegee: Understanding Mistrust about Research Participation(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
3 points by perfmode 6y ago|0 comments
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Racial Bias in Perceptions of Others’ Pain(journals.plos.org)
5 points by perfmode 6y ago|0 comments
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40 Years of Human Experimentation in America: The Tuskegee Study(mcgill.ca)
3 points by perfmode 6y ago|0 comments
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by perfmode 6y ago
difference... bad... unethical... all of these are concepts in the mind. in truth, it is all simple ignorance and a case of mistaken identity. there is no bad... good... no ethics... no this or that. this is how the world will be until we a
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by perfmode 6y ago
it is the nature of thought to be entirely unglued from reality. any experience which takes place while in a state of identification will leave behind psychological imprints. and ultimately all psychological imprints veil us from our true n
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by perfmode 6y ago
> If you take a paycheck from someone, you're implicitly agreeing to carry out their instructions and their vision for their business what makes you so sure?
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by perfmode 6y ago
As others have offered, there is no "need" for anything in particular. It's a-okay if you do not care for it. Plenty of people live rewarding lives without any explicit quest. Plenty of people accidentally live in alignment w
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by perfmode 6y ago
"Present me and future me..." "why should..." all these... also thoughts... questions like these... undecidable... * thoughts are the words of your language in your mind. * The ego is thought. * The ego is the I-thought.
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Ramana Maharshi(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by perfmode 6y ago|0 comments
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by perfmode 6y ago
Wittgenstein is special. what are his books if not non-dual pointings?
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by perfmode 6y ago
Books and scriptures serve to indicate the existence of the Higher Power or Self and to point the way to It. That is their essential purpose. Apart from that they are useless. However, they are voluminous, in order to be adapted to the leve
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by perfmode 6y ago
Amen. * We as people tend to believe our own thinking. * The ego controls all thinking. * The ego is the cause of all human sorrow and suffering. * The ego uses thought to preserve its imaginary self. * The ego can create an argument agains
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by perfmode 6y ago
Thanks for the link to that manual. It is indeed quite direct. Self-Enquiry is like a ROP exploit for hacking consciousness.
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The Holy Men of India(realization.org)
57 points by perfmode 6y ago|60 comments
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by perfmode 6y ago
truth, brother cull gas exterminate let’s call it like it is

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