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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

People who would “rather believe someone non-religious over someone religious”, basing their merit of trustworthiness on the presence of spirituality alone, really need to pick up a history book and learn how many notable scientists, academicians, and just great minds of multiple generations were/are, in fact, religious.

Like, you’re not making a good point.

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'Spirituality means waking up.

Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up.

They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.

You know all mystics-Catholic,Christian, non-Christian, no matter what their theology, no matter what their religion--are unanimous on one thing: that all is well, all is well. Though everything is a mess, all is well.

Strange paradox, to be sure. But, tragically, most people never get to see that all is well because they are asleep. They are having a nightmare.'

— Anthony de Mello

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Hot Take; Slavery propagates to this day via the handing down of generational emotional abuse.

The lack of emotional education in our current school systems and the rise of private health care to treat this form of abuse when it is picked up, if ever (ridiculously priced therapy sessions and years-long waiting lists, amirite) only makes this hurdle harder to overcome for the general public, especially with the current financial recessions and rising cost of living.

When people have been exposed to this form of abuse as a child, or even just haven't received any form of emotional acceptance or education and the ignorance is accepted as 'normal'; anyone that has any power over them, (this can range from an employer, a leaseholder of the accommodation they stay in, a trusted older sibling, etc) has the ability to take advantage of their lack of awareness of their unhealed behaviours and encourage them to a point where their sense of agency is reduced to that of a 'slave', or, someone that has no free will, because it is being driven by this abuse of power. The labour of modern day 'slaves' isn't just directly physical because our transaction systems don't always work that simply anymore;

It's financial labour.

It's emotional labour.

It's spiritual labour.

It's giving your time and life direction to something that you don't believe in because you haven't been given a /true/ choice in the matter.

It's human beings /still/ taking advantage of others' weakness and abusing any form of power over them because they're too weak to take responsibility for a part of themselves that they refuse to face, debilitating and even killing others in the process.

And because the abuse of power isn't /directly/ physical, there are no laws in place anywhere in the world (that I can find, anyway; please someone tell me there are some somewhere so I can have a little hope) to defend or help people escape that are caught up in these situations.

C'mon, society. It's 2023. This HAS to change already, we're 'big enough and ugly enough' now, as my Nan used to say, that there's no excuse for "not knowing better" anymore.

Normalise every day emotional education, folks, it saves lives.