I’d consider myself somewhere between spiritual and maybe kind of pagan, idk

Most of my practice revolves around plants and crystals (no I’m not going to sell you some alternative medicine bullshit, science and spirituality are separate and any mixture doesn’t end well) ex catholic so I burrow small aspects from that but tend to avoid it mostly. Been looking into deities lately but haven’t integrated any into my primary stuff yet.

Also been doing stuff with a tarot deck lately, that’s been fun

  • jarfil@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    17 days ago

    I was raised Catholic, but my mom got me out of religion class at school and let me take “ethics”, where we learned about multiple religions. Then I went one year to a Catholic school… and decided that I was an Atheist.

    After that, I looked at different religions, occultism, parapsychology, and other weird stuff (tarot too)… until I decided that I was going to live according to the scientific method above all, and denounce all sort of beliefs. So I became a Humanist.

    Only I’ve since lost even more trust in humanity, so now I’m a Transhumanist.

    I haven’t been able to practice much lately, but my goals were to either improve humans with technology, or to let technology (AI) take over. It gives me solace to see that even if I can’t contribute much at the moment, the world is pushing towards one of those outcomes.

      • jarfil@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        16 days ago

        “Capitalism”, as in those with more wealth having more power, has permeated humanity since forever. The most democratic, theocratic, dictatorial, communist, etc. societies, have all been, and keep being, capitalist at their core, with only a veneer of the flavor of the year.

        I’d say capitalism is intrinsic to humanity… and I don’t see any alternative addressing that core tenet. Most of humanity either exploits it, or doesn’t care at all, which leads me to having very little trust into any solution ever coming from the human side.

        • kittenroar@beehaw.orgEnglish
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          15 days ago

          The egregiously exploitative flavor of capitalism that exists today is a relatively recent development. I don’t think it’s intrinsic to humanity at all; humanity has been communist for most of our existence. Also, capitalism has a specific meaning; it means the means of production can be privately owned, and that owner gets to decide how many breadcrumbs to give to the workers.