i was at a stop light, and i saw a middle aged woman drive by with blue hair… you know the kind….’coexist’ bumper sticker kind of thing.
i felt a wave of judgement and dislike come out of me. which then pissed me off. i dont know a single thing about her. ive never talked to her, ive never met anyone who knows her, and yet im condemning some woman i dont know based on 1/2 of a second.
Fuck that. I dont feel like letting social media political theater trends define my world view.
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God bless you, sir
Completely and totally rational
Good
“Whenever you are able to observe your mind, you are no longer trapped in it”
Eckhart Tolle
Mindfulness 🫂💜
you arent me.
you dont know what it was based on. youre projecting youre defense of your comfortable relationship with prejudice onto me.
Sorry, meant to encourage you and failed.
Nah, he's just trying to let you know that its okay to feel hate, fear and anger. When you try to deny them, end up dying your hair blue.
I'm suggesting that is your way of thinking, yes.
Well, maybe, but if that's true I haven't come to that realization yet. I'm not going to judge the person, just whether I'd like to associate with them or not. Like you said, you don't know them. But I will do a risk benefit analysis and decide if I want the trouble in my life, particularly if the traits I'm using to deduce is entirely deliberately self imposed. If I tattoo a swastika on my forehead, I'm trying to tell the world something about myself. A guy that doesnt go for that type of thing would be ill advised to ignore it and treat me like he knows absolutely nothing about me.
Unfortunately, your primal brain will keep doing this inevitably to a certain degree. It needs to decide within the first second or two if something or someone is a real danger to you or not. And, for good measure and evolutionary success, it'll also establish if you can eat it or mate with it.
