Leave “pride movements” where they belong: politics and pageantry. Animism isn’t a movement. It also doesn’t need recruitment. There are no gods to satisfy. It is a personal understanding of what it means to be connected to everything. No. It’s not at all necessary to have an awareness day for animism, an animism week or month, there are no collections to be made, no souls to save. We don’t need to make pride events for every aspect of our being. They are nonsensical except for being another venue to profit off of a specific community. Every event attracts vendors (because they help pay for the event). So animism pride events would become gatherings to hawk “pseudo-spirituality” gimmicks to people who attend out of curiosity.

In the US, if you don’t want to agree with someone, you don’t attack their points, you attack them personally. That way you don’t have to argue against the points and can distract the focus of the conversation altogether.

In this thread: People so upset about using the word cunt they are willing to ignore the actions of some celebrity contributing to the culture of excess that is harmful to our world, while at the same time making herself look like an uneducated child by tossing threats that have no bite. She’s now Mini-Elon to me.

Well they only need the content their users are subscribed to, not all content on the fediverse.

Lemmy servers aren’t meant to be “big”. I left lemmy.world for a smaller instance. If the admins of Lemmy.World want to just keep growing and thus increasing their costs, that is their choice. It doesn’t mean all the users need to cough up money. THAT is capitalist propaganda. If the person who runs an instance can’t afford to run it, then don’t run it. You can escape from the system that is stacked against you, the system that demands you pay for every little experience you have, every little resource you use. You do that by giving and sharing with each other and quit acting like a vulture looking for scraps.

I think of spirit as the essence of being. All things that exist have an essence of being just by existing. All things are following their intent. Whether it’s a bird, a tree, a rock, water, people. It encompasses all we can perceive with our senses and things we can’t. Wind, heat, these are energy and therefore exist and have an essence of being.

Just joined today and I feel like I’ve found my tribe.