Trans Community

I wonder about the future of the “trans community”. Now, when most people hear or use that term, they only think of transgender people, but when I hear or use it, I can also think of people that identify as being transracial, or transabled, or transage, or transpecies, or transhuman. So it could be interpreted as being so much bigger than just that one group of people. I would say right now transgender people are getting more support and becoming more accepted, and I support this change, but I wonder how much farther the others have to go to get accepted. I don’t see transracial or transabled people being accepted anytime soon because Rachel Dolezal didn’t attract popularity and many people get offended by things like blackface or brownface or whiteface or redface, cultural appropriation, and about Hollywood stars that aren’t disabled playing roles as disabled people. And I don’t see transage people getting accepted more soon either because some people think convicted pedophiles use it to explain their crimes, there’s still that stigma around pedophilia too which can tie into it, and from my own experience, when someone acts older or younger than they are, they often get made fun of or shamed and so become ostracized that way. Lastly, I think more discussions about transpecies and transhuman people and their rights will probably happen soon, out of necessity, because of scientists experimenting with gene editing, such as reportedly making a mouse 4% human recently, and how humanity is attempting to merge with machines through devices like Neuralink. So, struggles for acceptance perhaps will never end and be continuing on and on for the long-term.

You Are The Master Of Your Fate

“The axiom, ”As you thinketh in your heart so you are,’ is the most startling truth ever uttered about humankind. What an amazing statement it is — for it reveals that we are possessed of the power to create and rule ourselves and our environment by the choice and mastership of our thoughts!

The wonderful fascination of this saying lies in the all-embracing statement which it so directly makes. It covers every possible action we take, and clearly states that we are capable of exercising unlimited powers. Look which way we will, we cannot escape from the finality of this decree.

The beauty of this saying is that it is true, just as it is written. You ARE a world within yourself, and you ARE master of yourself. It matters not how well or ill you may exercise your powers of mastery. You are the unquestioned thinker of your own thoughts, which are the tools of your trade. You are the master craftsman of your own designs, and you build constructively or destructively as you will. You make yourself sick or well, rich or poor, strong or feeble, sorrowful or joyous by the character of the thoughts you think.”

-C.W. Kyle

George Ohsawa

I was researching a Japanese philosopher. I think some of his words are important today, so I wanted to share them. His name was George Ohsawa. He stated there was only one incurable sickness in the world, which is arrogance, and if the patient does not regard himself as sick, he cannot submit himself to a cure. This is because the arrogant man does not need to see, because he claims he already sees almost everything!

It Is Always Possible

“Be kind whenever possible, it is always possible.”

-Dalai Lama

The Crooked Tree

“In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, ‘Look at me…I’m tall, and I’m straight, and I’m handsome. Look at you…you’re all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you.’ And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, ‘Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest.’ So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day.”

-Tom Waits

Life Is Full Of Beginnings

“Life is full of beginnings. They are presented every day and every hour to every person. Most beginnings are small, and appear trivial and insignificant, but in reality they are the most important things in life.

See how in Nature everything proceeds from small beginnings. The mightiest river is at first a rivulet over which the grasshopper could leap; the great flood commences with a few drops of rain; the sturdy oak, which has endured the storms of a thousand winters, was once an acorn; and the smoldering match, carelessly dropped, may be the means of devastating a whole town by fire.

Have you yet discovered the vast importance of beginnings? Do you really know what is involved in a beginning? Do you know the number of beginnings you are continuously making, and realize their full importance? If not, come with me for a short time, and thoughtfully explore this much ignored pathway to success and a life well lived.”

-James Allen

Will You Get Up When You Fall Down

I once read a book by this guy, inspiring stuff.

Karens

There was this comedian I liked, his name is Patrice O’Neal, and unfortunately he passed away in 2011, probably for a reason, since many of his fans state how crazy, angry, and fired up he’d be if he were alive today since the world is so different and politically correct and disagreeable to him, and other comedians, compared to how it was when he was alive, although he was ahead of his time with his jokes about the issues of workplace relations, before the #MeToo movement brought it to prominence. Listening to old recordings of him, I once heard this joke where he said he loved being black because he could talk trash in front of white people about white people, and they just had to sit there and take it, agree with him by admitting that yes, they are evil. I thought it was funny, but I think the joke also revealed to me something wrong with race relations and the world today. It’s because we sometimes shame people today so people won’t be shamed in the future! This kind of shaming can wrongly cause some people to put other people into categories in which they do not belong; an example of this could be someone seeing a “Karen”, that deserves shame, acting terribly and being stupid online and then begins labeling all white women as “Karens” afterwards, when not all white women are, and don’t deserve shame. Again, this is another reason why in my own life I try to judge individuals more than groups. And some people are telling white people collectively, not just white women collectively, to be ashamed simply because of the color of their skin, since it’s the same skin as other white people that had shameful lives and committed shameful actions, which they could not control or choose at birth, like Patrice O’Neal did for fun and comedic effect. So they’re doing the exact same thing some awful white people did unrighteously to many black or brown or other different skinned people before by making them feel unnecessarily ashamed, inadequate, labeled, or different just for existing, being born, and the things they couldn’t control. So when a lot of people speak about how much they want equality and justice a lot of times nowadays, I think they really mean vengeance, because for them it’s more about attacking an entire group, with people that did nothing wrong, rather than the individuals doing wrong, and sometimes people can get unjustly attacked and pay and suffer for the mistakes of their family or other people in the group that they are a part of. So people are unnecessarily tearing and always unnecessarily tear each other down in order to rise up, and I don’t think that’s how it should be; I wish it was different. I think it should be the opposite, we all should attempt to cooperate together kindly, not act like a “Karen”, and all people should be trying to empower others as they rise up.

Agent K

This was a video that I’ve seen some people share when arguing online.

As You Thinketh So You Are

“The axiom, ‘As you thinketh in your heart so you are,’ is the most startling truth ever uttered about humankind. What an amazing statement it is — for it reveals that we are possessed of the power to create and rule ourselves and our environment by the choice and mastership of our thoughts! The wonderful fascination of this saying lies in the all-embracing statement which it so directly makes. It covers every possible action we take, and clearly states that we are capable of exercising unlimited powers. Look which way we will, we cannot escape from the finality of this decree.

-C.W. Kyle