Immigration has a context.

In what sense?

The more issues you have to deal with

Thank you for sharing. Yes, these were mainly triggers that led me to eventually leave the church. I have grown up, and I have realised that I could actually come back aware of what is behind the curtain (or the priest in that case)... But the reason I will not do that is the impact the church and my catholic education had on me. It made me feel divided, separated from God and from myself, separated from nature, and cut me off from other spiritual traditions that were despised in religious class (when not erased by the church in history). It took me a long time to find that back and I am still struggling for this. I re-learn to trust my guts and feelings, to live my life more connected to my intuitions, my heart and the divine. Reading about Jesus helps me for this but the church (and institutionalised religion in general) does not. I need to draw my own spiritual path and share with others the fundamental message of all religions, which is always Love.

To heal is to be able to feel more.

It was more the practice and the Church that I found hypocritical. About the practice, I guess it's the same on every religion, people claim things and pray, but behave unaccordingly, that is what stroke me as a teenager. I was always wondering: have they just listened to the scriptures read by the priest? So I started to think that the style had taken over the content. As for the Church, its hierarchical functionning, silence in front of repetitive child abuse, the questionable legitimacy of the pope throughout history, the appropriation of the relationship with God (through indulgences then confession), among other things... The doctrine itself is in my opinion very reductive when defining God, at least in its popular version, by opposition to the thoughts of Meister Eckhart for instance. Are you a Catholic?

I disagree. The Bible itself is subjected to diverging interpretations, amplified by translations, cultural and personal biases, etc. For that I may be called an heretic and some people in various spaces and times would have me killed in order to "achieve" unity. But we can choose to be united, right now, in Love. ❤️

I discover right now the formulation of the simulation hypothesis. I met it before in movies, books and philosophy but never went further. It relates to the general idea that our reality is an illusion, or at least a very narrow perception of a bigger reality... I think you would like the Conversations with God books as they give another perspective on this idea: life as a simulation by God for God, to have the experiences of God (very simplified summary).

have you read or come across the followings? Neale Donal Walsch's "conversation with God", Deepak Chopra's thougts about quantum body and health, Etienne Klein about time, or ancient scriptures from India? I am exploring this at the moment and somehow feeling how all of this is related... I would like your thoughts on some of this if any. For the context in short: I was raised as catholic, found it hypocritical but had some mystical experiences convincing me of the reality of "God", left religion and put spirituality aside, got a kid, put spirituality in the center. So far pleased to have found and read about your own investigations!

Have you been to Paris? Because this is simply not true.

I have seen a lot of posts about Charlie Kirk these days, especially striking ones from , but none about Melissa Hortman in june (I just learnt about her death by accident). Maybe I was less active then, or nostr users are politically biased (at least the ones I follow). He was a father. She was a mother. They were both killed for their ideas. And this kind of things happens all the time everywhere in the world. It's ok anyway, sometimes we realize that something is wrong only when it hits nex to us. Defending free speech applies to all. #freedom #freespeech #peace

Sure. I just would like to understand if you mean "morally justified BECAUSE society should not have to pay for this" (to focus on other matter for instance) or if you put aside two uncorrelated ideas.

Wild! 😃

You mean: financially justified?

I see the world through the load of my mental and emotionnal history. The lighter I make it, the lighter I can be.

I get it, but I would rather say that violence is authority at last resort. Supreme authority does not need violence to rule.

Never thought of it that way. I will next time I eat spicy!