#harm

[joy-haver]

there isn't a "kill all the ____" that will fix the problems of the world, because, 1. you probably can't. 2. if you did, more of them would probably come into existence, or 3. other people would come to fit the same social position. 4. There isn't a group of Fundamentally Bad Evil People that Cause All The Problems, because 5. Harm isn't caused by a type of person. everyone causes harm and an effective system of addressing harm has to contend with that. 6. you will end up expanding the definition of ____ to include whoever else you want to kill anyway. which will suck. 7. Destruction without building will leave nothing behind. New harms will arise. Old harms will continue. Because there is nothing to replace them. There is nothing Helpful being done. a better world isn't created by just getting rid of all the bad stuff and calling it a day. you have to actually make something that meets peoples needs. 8. structures of power and harm sometimes maintain themselves even if no one intends them to or purposefully wants them to. 9. systems of power will end up finding a scapegoat. they will convince you that some marginalized group are the real ____ and you should focus on them. and in your zeal and blood thirst you, or at least some of your allies, will fall for it. And you will commit atrocities. 10. The world that is created can only come from the world that is. And look, whatever group you are thinking of -- yes I mean them too. Pedophiles, rapists, murderers, sociopaths, nazis, billionaires, cops, you name it. Harm and oppression is far too complicated to ever be solved with Finding The Right Group To Kill. And there are lots of really great arguments to be made about why eliminationist rhetoric is ethically bad, or historically questionable, etc. I am open to that being added on and talked about too. But my point is that It Will Not Accomplish Your Desired Results. You Will Have Committed Atrocities and You Will Have Failed At Achieving Your Initial Goal.

#anarchism #rose baker #religious anarchism #anarchy as religion #prison abolition #harm

[terracemuse]

#Buddhism #thoughts #harm #unguarded

[roseandgold137]

they’re so little…

#Tim’s little face is killing me #tim drake #cissie king jones #harm #robin #arrowette #young justice #yj98

[vizthedatum]

Accept that you will disappoint people.

radically self-forgive yourself so that guilt and shame don't become a part of your wiring

so that you can show up and be accountable

#radical self-forgiveness #forgive #shadow work #healing #inner work #trauma #neurodivergence #queer #self love #harm #prose #love #relational love #self-compassion #accountability #growth #honesty #emotional healing #we all make mistakes #grow from your mistakes #ptsd #c-ptsd #masking #people-pleasing #codependency

[philosophybits]

One cannot suppress a certain indignation when one sees men’s actions on the great world-stage and finds, beside the wisdom that appears here and there among individuals, everything in the large woven together from folly, childish vanity, even from childish malice and destructiveness. In the end, one does not know what to think of the human race, so conceited in its gifts.

Immanuel Kant, Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose

#philosophy #quotes #Immanuel Kant #Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose #vanity #malice #harm #ego #humanity

[victoriawoodhullforpresident]

The definition of bodily autonomy as “I can do whatever I want to myself,” is really disturbing. The idea that it is unethical to intervene in someone self-harming is practically dystopian. And the corollary that someone agreeing to harm you because you asked is the ethical choice is even worse.

#bodily autonomy #harm #ethics #radfems please interact

[palatinewolfsblog]

"Words

are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble." Yehuda Berg.

#quote of the day #quote of today #yehuda berg #words #force #humanity #choice #constructive criticism #encouragement #destruction #despair #hope #energy #power #ability #help #heal #hinder #hurt #harm #humiliate #humble

[twinsfawn]

COVER ART FOR HARM (IO ECHO)

#harm #io echo #ioanna gika #album art

[salmasfoggedforest]

Hit me, bruise me, cut me

#sh #tw s/h #self h@rm #tw self destruction #self destruction #pain kink #pain slave #masochist #masochism #masochizm #masochistic #masochist sub #pain #tw pain #knifeplay #knife #knives #bruise #bruises #harm #hurt #forestmurmurs #foggedforest #red fog

[pisswater-deadgirl]

Sean Strickland vs Dricus Du Plessis - UFC 297

#ufc #mma #ufc 297 #sean strickland #dricus du plessis #mine #this blood was so artful #fighting #harm

[liquidlightandrunningtrees]

The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never lived. Even as a child, as far back as she could remember, she had done nothing but endure. She had believed in her own inherent goodness, her humanity, and lived accordingly, never causing anyone harm. Her devotion to doing things the right way had been unflagging, all her successes had depended on it, and she would have gone on like that indefinitely. She didn’t understand why, but faced with those decaying buildings and straggling grasses, she was nothing but a child who had never lived.

Han Kang, The Vegetarian

#quote #han kang #the vegetarian #surprise #fact #lived #child #remember #nothing #endure #feeling #believed #goodness #humanity #harm #devotion #understand #quotes

[skylarbee]

Hi, so I'm lowkey new here, just been a few months and I really don't understand what people mean when they say something happened on the eycte tour. I see your explanations all the time so it'd be awesome if you were able to explain some of these things and other things needed for context. And I swear, I'm too deep in to turn around now so might as well dive into it properly lol.

hi there and welcome! :)

hmm, what happened on the eycte tour... we don't know really and i haven't seen too many people discussing it. as we know things changed a little between them a year or two after it, so i'm guessing (this is just what i think!) that they fooled around too much and had to deal with the consequences, which were less pleasant than they thought they'd be? as someone who had (homo)erotic relationships with two of their best friends (not at the same time 🤣), i'm telling y'all NOTHING good can come out of it and no matter how much you try to fool yourself and each other that it won't change anything - it will. it will change everything. even if we only look at the shit they got up to on stage, the closeness, the kisses, the not-so-friendly embraces and other fruity shenanigans, that must have had some effect on them and their friendship, especially because they did it routinely and got too used to it, and before they knew it, it was all over and they went on to do their own things, breaking the routine (or the bad habits, ey?) and being apart from each other. i don't know, and i can only hope that i am totally wrong, but then we have a song like 'killing the joke' from miles... "interstellar, dressed in leather, drinking bitter boy, you know the plan, but you never knew the ploy" / "since you've been gone, left the TV on, let the milk go sour, let the bills pile up" / "'cause you're my top, you're my top, you're my top one-hundred shows, why do I always have to go killing the joke?" - which is a sad break up song and which i've seen people theorise that it could be about what their closeness during the eycte tour did to them, and perhaps how one of them (miles, most likely) 'ruined' what they had by wanting something more from the other, only to be rejected/things not working out the way they thought they would (i'm not sure if i agree that this is what happened; i would think it was more a mutual realisation and agreement to stop messing about but who knows!). the 'top one hundred shows' line can only make me think of them and miles' tweet that said that the eycte tour was the best tour of their lives and we saw how incredibly happy they were. and 'killing the joke', well, as i've said, these 'harmless' games are only so harmless until one of them realises something which causes everything to change for the worst. actually, i feel like 'the element of surprise' could be tied to 'killing the joke' as it kinda discusses the same theme ("and once it’s started it’s so tricky to stop"!!!) and if you want a sloppy 'analysis' of it, here it is

#sorry i couldn't give an answer which isn't just our theories 😂 #whatever happened i think that it must've had to do with them taking things too far/not realising what they were doing and #what consequences it would have #and just how alex sings it: once you start you won't stop until something bad happens and you are forced to. even if you know it's doing yo #harm #milex #tlsp #eycte tour #the last shadow puppets #anon #killing the joke

[wiirocku]

Proverbs 19:23 (NLT) - Fear of the LORD leads to life,    bringing security and protection from harm.

#Proverbs 19:23 #fear #the LORD #leads #life #bringing #security #protection #harm #wisdom

[fuwaprince]

Um excuse me ma'am may I also be protected by the endangered species act of 1973 👉👈

#Federal agencies cannot jeopardize listed species' existence or destroy critical habitat (Section 7). #Federal agencies will use their authorities to conserve endangered species and threatened species (Section 7). #it is illegal to “take” an endangered species (Section 9). “Take” can mean kill #harm #or harass (Section 3). #not a jest

[vizthedatum]

I’ve been in therapy for a while - was mandated to go by my school in senior year of high school (my first therapist was an asshole and got fired - he yelled at me and stuff but I didn’t report it), then really briefly in sophomore year of college, and then consistently since 2017 after I exited a very tough relationship (I remember my obgyn telling me how worried she was for me, told me to go to therapy, and told me that maybe I should admit myself to the local psych ward for a bit… while he was in the waiting room). I’ve had a couple therapists since 2017 including a brief stint at an IOP. I refuse to be admitted to any psych wards due to my trauma of seeing my brother be admitted on and off for over a decade (and I guess, other reasons).

I think I considered my therapy more seriously in 2017 but I didn’t really internalize my lessons and stuff until very recently.

It took a long time for me to dissect my sense of self, and I’m still working on it.

I have a lot that I’m undoing from my childhood.

Simply going to therapy isn’t an overnight, or even overyear (I made this term up), fix! Meaning, therapy is just one ongoing thing you’re doing for your self-care.

It’s okay that it takes you a while to wade through your life to figure out where you’re headed.

It’s okay if you succumb to your old patterns time and time again. I know I have! They’re patterns for a reason - it’s been very hard for me to break out of them, but I know I’m making a lot of progress.

I didn’t even fully acknowledge my transness and neurodivergence until 2021. (Also me: I didn’t even fully consider myself disabled until 2014 when my doctor (who diagnosed me with interstitial cystitis) told me so. But like I’ve been disabled my entire life - and I’m so burned out by telling myself I’m not.)

Being your authentic self is hard especially when society tells you that you should do XYZ and then you’ll be healed.

I remember my current boss responding to me “Still?” after I told her I was still healing after several weeks of a horrible bout of physical infection, physical flare ups, and a huge exacerbation of my PTSD symptoms last summer. She didn’t even know about my chronic disabilities or the traumatic events of my life - all she knew was that I had a couple of doctor’s notes about how I had an infection and I needed to recover.

I have come to accept that people will not understand the chronic nature of what I go through, let alone the mental aspect of it all. After all, my high school counselor told me I’d be homeless because I was missing so much school due to my migraines - it didn’t occur to her that I was a high achieving student or that I may be going through other underlying health or environmental things - she told a teenager that, and it’s haunted me ever since.

I have disappointed so many people in my life.

But I know that moving forward, I have to stop feeling so much shame about being me. Even if I disappoint myself, I must forgive myself and keep going.

I am loving myself more and more all the time.

#healing #neurodivergence #chronic pain #chronic illness #therapy #disabled #disability #interstitial cystitis #trauma #audhd #autistic #adhd #sometimes I feel so lonely even though I’m not #self love #prose #heartbreak #harm #medical trauma #therapy journey #healing journey

[philosophybits]

Even if its messages were as harmless as they are made out to be — on countless occasions they are obviously not harmless, like the movies which chime in with currently popular hate campaigns against intellectuals by portraying them with the usual stereotypes — the attitudes which the culture industry calls forth are anything but harmless. If an astrologer urges his readers to drive carefully on a particular day, that certainly hurts no one; they will, however, be harmed indeed by the stupefication which lies in the claim that advice which is valid every day and which is therefore idiotic, needs the approval of the stars.

Theodor W. Adorno, "Culture Industry Reconsidered"

#philosophy #quotes #Theodor W. Adorno #Culture Industry Reconsidered #beliefs #harm #danger #culture #society