​Are you serious? Seriousitis is what many people have and believe me it is serious, seriously. I have had it up to here with "serious people". I know there is a law against complaining about anything, but why respect laws, i never agreed to any of them. There needs to be only one law: arrest and incarcerate all "serious" people and let them be in the same cell and sentence them to death by boredom, a hard and painful way to go.

Are there any insignificant people among you? There must be someone who feels that way, not everyone can be signifcant. It is necessary to have both or what is the point of having these words, etc.

Yet its hard to find anyone who feels insignificant, it seems everyone feels special in some kind of way. I am sure however, that there are cultures where such comparisons have no signicance as everyone is granted certain status, that raises them above insignicant. But, imagine China with those zillions of people buzzing about. I believe that in this kind of culture it is possible for people to reach a stultifying degree of feeling insignificant, like baby chicks might feel, if they had the intelligence, as they are being swept along a conveyor belt, soon to be crushed for dog food.

Certainly some people seem more significant than others, but where I live, everyone seems equally significant, i''m glad to report. There is a neighbor, an ecuadorian with only one eye, his other eye has no eye and is just empty. He walks about in a very humble, insignificant way as he seems to live alone with his dog.

Why would one wish to champion the insignificant, because perhaps, these are the poor, suffering people who hardly can get by, for whatever reason. And one's heart goes out to them, some of them may never had had a chance, who knows how people become whatever they are, perhaps they endured humiliation, or whatever, black people who seem to have the cards stacked against them with systemic prejudice, women, with centuries of injustices against them, and so many other groups that have been vilified and maltreated. If we only could know how each person has become who they are, I am sure that we would feel compassion easier. It could be a very important step to bring the human family together.

Who will champion the bugs and worms that we haphazardly kill? One can choose between killing ants in one's kitchen whenever you see one or letting them live. This being the case, I wouldn't be the one to be standing up for them. I leave that to you. Who will stand for the cockroach? The rat? Not me, though rats can be great pets.

Who stands for the insignificant, our lost brothers and sisters? I'm kind of busy/overwhelmed with things and have no time to give. I am hoping that some kind hero type will step in and do the deed, so to speak.

And finally what's the buzz on flies? Their brains must be exquisite, since they are able to fly better than most all flying creatures, yet they seem so annoying. Who would put their body between the swatter and the fly? There are seemingly so many unpopular things. Maybe you have felt unpopular some times in your life? We could bond under that banner, standing for unpopular things. These would be the heroes of today. To love the worst. It seems like the roadway to sainthood, to joy and jubilation.

Are you awake? I do not believe it. I think you are still under the control of your ego, your false sense of who you are. It may seem arrogant to assume that, and I hope I'm wrong, but... how can you say you're awake when the governments of the United States are constantly at war, that is, killing, murdering and maiming in enormous numbers? people indiscriminately, littering huge areas, making millions of refugees, wars that aren't necessary, that aren't defensive, that don't serve the American people in any way, and hardly anyone looks up? When all that money they earn and spend on the military could feed the world and erase hunger and do so much more good?

The government is criminal, really criminal and if the people are so awake, how can they incessantly commit large-scale atrocities in front of everyone and everyone happily accepts it? You could be dressed in white, “working on yourselves”, on a “spiritual path”, chanting the name of God (does God really have a name?), or exhaling loudly at others and imagining that it is “spiritual”. But how spiritual is someone who blindly stands by while these atrocities fill the entire world? Why aren't all spiritual people activists? Perhaps because they are not really "spiritual" but just think they are. The illusion of the ego is not who you really are, it is also equally possible with the illusion of "spirituality".

We are born into a world that is broken, that is out of control, that is corrupt, that is unjust. There are so many things that need to be fixed. If your house is on fire, your main goal is to get out of the house and help put out the fire. Awake! Get out of the house and put out the fire!

I think if you're not an activist, you're not really spiritual, you're just deluded. However, not all activists are spiritual, but all spiritual people must be activists.
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¿Estás despierto? Ja!

¿¿Estás despierto? No lo creo. Creo que todavía estás bajo el control de tu ego, tu falso sentido de quién eres. Tal vez parezca arrogante asumir eso, y espero estar equivocado, pero... ¿cómo puedes decir que estás despierto cuando los gobiernos de los Estados Unidos están en constante guerra, es decir, matando, asesinando y mutilando en números enormes? la gente indiscriminadamente, ensucia áreas enormes, hace que millones de refugiados, guerras que no son necesarias, que no son defensivas, que no sirven al pueblo estadounidense de ninguna manera, y casi nadie mira hacia arriba? ¿Cuando todo ese dinero que ganan y gastan en el ejército podría alimentar al mundo y borrar el hambre y hacer mucho más bien?

El gobierno es criminal, realmente criminal y si la gente está tan despierta, como pueden cometer incesantemente atrocidades a gran escala frente a todos y todos lo aceptan felizmente? Podrían estar vestidos de blanco, “trabajando en ustedes mismos”, en un “camino espiritual”, cantando el nombre de Dios (¿realmente Dios tiene un nombre?), o exhalando fuerte a los demás e imaginando que es “espiritual”. Pero, ¿qué tan espiritual es alguien que ciegamente se mantiene al margen mientras estas atrocidades llenan en el mundo entero? ¡Por qué no todas las personas espirituales son activistas? Tal vez, porque no son realmente "espirituales", pero simplemente creen que lo son. La ilusión del ego no es quién eres realmente, también es posible igualmente con la ilusión de la "espiritualidad".

Nacemos en un mundo que está roto, que está fuera de control, que es corrupto, que es injusto. Hay tantas cosas que necesitan ser arregladas. Si su casa está en llamas, su objetivo principal es salir de la casa y ayudar a apagar el fuego. ¡Despierto! ¡Sal de la casa y apaga el fuego!

Creo que si no eres un activista, no eres realmente espiritual, simplemente estás engañado. Sin embargo, no todos los activistas son espirituales, pero todas las personas espirituales deben ser activistas.

Living virtuously, nobly, living your principles is a spiritual path, like being grateful when a dog doesn't bark. These are relatively easy things for every human being. Many people may be compromised and parasitic, but they could drop all of that and regain their humanity. Of course, capitalism creates a rapacious tone that is linked to crime and corruption. And we are all under this domain, this control. It seems so absurd to have to pay to live on this planet. We are the only creatures in nature that do this. There is no other way to hold everyone accountable for their actions, many people falsely assume. There is always a lot of work to be done in order to live and prosper and someone has to do it or civilizations would simply disappear like the pyramids in Mexico. Nature is unstoppable, and we are nature.

We are all trapped by the powers that be and we must transform ourselves to rise to the occasion. We are trapped because capitalism makes it impossible for us to see ourselves as one. It pits us against each other. We can never unite under capitalism. It's predator and prey, all the way.

Perhaps we need to think of ourselves as the same kind of animal. Most animals find the best way to live. Think of herds of buffalo or muskox, they live as one, in whatever way is best for everyone. The monkeys are more like humans and can live in a group that has toxic behavior. We are all experiencing life as a human. A very different kind of animal. Perhaps the most ridiculous animal of all, with our clothes, makeup, the way we walk and dance, so many things about us are ridiculous, but don't forget that ridiculousness has a very sacred aspect. If you think about it for a second, one could imagine that we all have something divine going through us, that makes us such a different kind of animal. The divinity is our consciousness. Knowing this, is what is unifying. Oh, you are my long lost brother...to feel this way about everyone. To leave the illusion of separation.

We can be controlled simply by the beliefs we hold. Chains and handcuffs are hardly necessary. It's like George Orwell's Animal Farm story.

"I call on my ancestors, I don't know them by name, I don't know where in the world they are from. But I ask them to help align my purpose with our highest collective purpose." someone else said that. Camus writes: "In the depths of winter, I finally learned that there was an invincible summer within me." In this, lies our hope, we will break through our cemented world of slavery like a plant growing through a crack in the sidewalk.