People like to live with Nature around them and not in concrete jungles. Well some people. It creates fire risks but that is a risk people are prepared to take to be surrounded by natural beauty. We have huge fires here in Australia but people still want to live in natural settings.
Also people who are karmically confused re: gender deserve respect and support from the community in the 21st century. My gay son reminded me last night that not so long ago people were jailed for being gay. C'mon do we want to go back to the dark ages? Black lives do matter. How on earth can they not? If being woke means trying to take an understanding of the issues that affect minority groups then we should all get on board.
I don't really understand confusion about gender identity but I do feel this would be a huge problem to somebody facing it. I dressed as a female at a high school fancy dress party and found it strangely liberating. Sri Rama Krishna also spent some time in his initial sadhana dressing as a woman and spending all his time with females. They accepted him as their own, he would even escort one of them to her husband's bed for marital relations. He said cross-dressing helped him see all women as Divine Mother and advised some of his male devotees that it helps overcome lust for the other sex.
Weboflife, nice to know you are from OZ, I've been there and that's an exceptional country. I just loved the nature.
I too live around nature and hate concrete jungles, but I'm doing my absolute best to avoid that my house is burnt. Contrary to my own little example though, Mr. Newsome was not doing his best (for example, the underbrush was not maintained and as you know overgrown underbrush is very dangerous. But at the end, who elected Mr. Newsome and the mayor of LA? the Californians and the Losangelinos themselves. So, I hate to say that, but they are reaping their massa karma. Very unfortunately.
Who says that gay people must be persecuted? But I would just hate that in the school where my son went, they advertised transgenderism in a positive way. That is called indoctrination and is a practice very common in dictatorships. Indoctrination. Starting to teach ideologies to very young people. Especially so wrong ideologies. Young souls should not be influenced and hurried to act on a whim. Young souls must evolve until they become adult souls, then they can decide by themselves.
Black lives matter: who says they don't? But that movement has become a flagship for Marxism, for violence, for crazy concepts like 'defund the police'.
By the way, the great Yogananda insisted in his writings that the police should receive more funds!
I don’t think you should have to say it mccoy just don’t say it. We could easily look at the ‘red’ states and say similar things because of hurricanes and tornadoes. And what about where most of the mass murders take place at schools and public events. Yes right in the ‘good old MAGA states where kids are taught to be manly and tough. I think we should remember what Paramahansa Yogananda said when he asked God why he put so much poverty in a God loving country like India ? What was God’s answer? His answer was that he tests those the most that love him the most. Let us not forget that all the SRF temples are not in the red states and MAGA states but most of them are in the liberal states and especially California where Master chose to have most his temples and his headquarters. I know for a fact because I’ve worked in most of the states…. The most meditators are right in California… especially Los Angeles… the “City of the Angels” and if we include all of Amma’s groups, the Buddhist temples the Hari Krishna temples etc. the best place to be in the United Clones of Americops is progressive California!
I’ve never experienced any advertisement of transgenderism in a positive way in schools. In fact i experienced a male chauvinist attitude towards me when I did my Hatha yoga in gym class. But i persisted because I knew there was something right about what I was practicing. When I was indoctrinated into basketball and football I was practicing Hatha yoga when no one else did. The gym teacher was indoctrinating the guys in aggressive sports while I code to go against the grain.
Your idea that Black Lives Matter is a flagship for Marxism is good to hear. It is much better then having 50% of the wealth of a nation amassed in 1 percent of the population; the summary of capitalism at its very worst. You have to ask yourself why there is so much violence in the U.S.A. the heart of capitalism and so little violence in the Scandinavian countries where social programs are strongest? And yes we also have the largest prison population. The experiment in capitalism just isn’t what is made up to be. It means a financial system for the few and poverty for the many.