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thegingeryoneI really hate how this one person likes to turn actual issues into 'spiritual experiences'.
Like...I'm telling her about how my area is rife with crime, and she's responding about humanity as a whole being in infancy, and remaking the earth...and it's just like...
Buddy. Pal. My guy. You can have whatever spirituality you want, but these people weren't easily swayed as naive young souls, they were swayed because this area is a fucking garbage-fire of drugs and poverty with very few ways out. It's not a philosophical argument about human nature, it's about "hey this area is rife with criminal activity, bad health and shitty job prospects, can we maybe do something about that?"
Like...I'm telling her about how my area is rife with crime, and she's responding about humanity as a whole being in infancy, and remaking the earth...and it's just like...
Buddy. Pal. My guy. You can have whatever spirituality you want, but these people weren't easily swayed as naive young souls, they were swayed because this area is a fucking garbage-fire of drugs and poverty with very few ways out. It's not a philosophical argument about human nature, it's about "hey this area is rife with criminal activity, bad health and shitty job prospects, can we maybe do something about that?"
