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Anti.'s avatar

So in other words, if someone is angry, bitter or "hard to like", which you would call "being an asshole", or maybe neurodivergent or disabled, they are not included or welcome?

"The community is not a magic utopia, just like our families weren’t, & we don’t all just magically love each other, or even like each other, let alone agree on every political issue. I think about people I know who are mean or angry or bitter or “hard to like”—& disabled—and how that confluence is not a surprise or an accident, because many of us are indeed in a shitty mood, mean, or bitter from withstanding decades of ableism & the isolation that it brings."

~ Piepzna-Samarasinha - Care Work"

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Penni Livingston's avatar

I went to play about Buckminster Fuller at one of his geodesic domes on the 90th meridian Friday night (at the center for Spirituality and Sustainability). It was fantastic and guess what his scientific opinion is? What we need most to save our society is to add integrity to systems. Dr. David Hawkins, psychiatrist extraordinaire, wrote that the way to raise our vibrations is to bring more integrity to the experiences. What is missing when we deal with megalomaniacs? Integrity. Being an asshole is acting in a way that is not integrous. Thanks for this session.

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