maybe they’ll come back!

yeah, makes sense. I can't shake the feeling that bsky is like a party with a lot of wonderful people, but you just know that some really personally interesting meaningful conversations are being had in some small corner or nook somewhere, but you don't know where it is

what does ‘quality’ mean to you? I’ve been feeling this too, and wondering what other people have been thinkjng

in general, it’s meaningful to have ownership, to feel like one can have a positive stake in a place. the distributed atprotocol and the portability of connections seems to actually mean that this has potential beyond a “service” or “platform”.. so you’re seeing people letting themselves care

“the practice that says we’re all in this together; the practice that knows how to accept a blow to the heart; the practice that tries to love the tender hearts inside the people that have hurt us the most; the practice that accepts the inevitability of this all”

a person dedicated to hatred is a person deeply starved of love, a person who does not believe that love exists and has trapped themselves in hell by acting in such a way as to make themselves as unlovable as possible

it’s ok Brooke! the words were emblematic of a particular cruelty that’s popular these days - ‘proudly joking about righteously inflicting harm’…

which it seems like maybe was the point of your joke, too, so I guess we might on the same page. thanks for clarifying.

the most hateful person you’ve ever met was a baby once. nobody is born that way. things happen between being a baby and now to turn people towards hatred and they are all heartbreaking

“are not my intentionally harmful actions justified because it is against the Bad people?”

this fills me with a mix of sadness and anger; can’t people see that this is the history of hurt and war? that this logic is poison, poisons the wounded and the wounder alike??

magic lies within a practice that you might never share

at the center, each ______ I meet is a hiker, traveling in the terrain of their self. in everyone’s face I see the glimpses of a sincere and depthful practice that can mostly never be shared, will never be seen. these hikers I respect, their path their own.

if you are or were on the cusp of changing your life to align more with your dreams and ideals, what would push you over the edge?

yes! the right lessons emerge when they’re needed… whether we like it or not! :) thanks again.

I’m just here to say: talking to others who have been on the path for decades more than you have is incredible. they don’t have the answers, only you do (or having the answers isn’t helpful) but they hold the familiarity of moving through a question. so much wisdom in age.

you can move without having everything figured out. with the movement comes information that is used to recalibrate and shift direction. so get out there. mess up. make mistakes.
the Knowing comes with the doing.

hi! we haven’t really interacted but I wanted to thank you for sharing your story. it’s beautifully written and an important one. as someone who has been on both sides, it resonates deeply. I’m now so glad to have learned what I did when I did, and your piece is a helpful reminder this morn. thanks.

good luck!

I think there’s a particular voice that wants to emerge here that’s distinct from Twitter, for me. something bubbling under the surface, neither alt nor non-alt, but some other way of relating and being online, in another (more optimistic) social experiment of a place…

(upon reread my comment feels like a disagreement, which it isn’t - more of a “yes, and i think knottedness might be a helpful metaphor”)

mmm - my opinion is that modalities that offer theories of wrongness risk pathologizing parts of the self. instead of wrongness, I think of a knot - which isn’t made of anything, but the rope getting in its own way. I think therapies should/do have theories of knottedness, instead

noticing

sometimes I just love this city, and the millions or people in it, and how strange and different each person is

thx mr skeletal!

..!!!

yes.

the energy says: “the things that need saying out loud: say it.”

I’d love some, thanks!

whoa, I especially love this one; strong vivid energy

sometimes I just love this city

YES. and also in the same light: people’s greatest virtues are born out of their worst vices, and it’s precisely because they’re linked that everyone already has the capacity to transform