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Around 15 years back I quit my job and lived like a hermit for a couple of months using my savings and a creative frugal lifestyle so as to reduce expenses. I took the time to read books, contemplate, gain perspective and practice meditation. An interesting insight I found then was that my life had slowed down to the point where I found myself enjoying the beauty of the full moon at night , something which I had never done before. Same with the beautiful orange sun set at evening. I even wondered why no one else around is observing such free beautiful sights and seemed to be carried away by unimportant trifles with their minds elsewhere and not present. I am not a hermit now but make it a point to slow down and enjoy the free sights of nature around in all its beauty. This always puts me in a good mood without fail and destresses me. A guy can live in the most beautiful place and yet still miss its beauty due to unconsciousness or psychological time in past/future, and be perpetually miserable instead consequently.

"People are living in unconsciousness, doing all kinds of things in unconsciousness. Everybody is an unconscious robot. We are just pretending that we are conscious; we are not conscious. The moment you become conscious, all unconscious actions disappear from your life. Your life starts moving in a new dimension. Your each act comes out of inner clarity; your each response is virtuous, is virtue. To live unconsciously is to live in sin; to live consciously is to be virtuous, is to be religious. And to live in total awareness is to be a buddha, is to be a christ." ~ Osho "I cannot say to you what is right or wrong. I can say only one thing to you: be conscious -- that is right. Don't be unconscious because that is wrong. And then whatsoever you do in consciousness is right. But people are living in unconsciousness. And let me tell you: in unconsciousness you may think you are doing something right, but it can't be right. Out of unconsciousness, virtue cannot flower; it may appear virtuous but it can't be. Deep down it will still be something wrong. If you are unconscious and you give money to a poor man, watch: your ego is strengthened. This is sin." ~ Osho

Considering the moral, ecological and social repurcussions, I would say it is high time trophy hunting is banned with strict laws and regulations . https://bantrophyhunting.org/about-us/

The Self, our Being, is awareness. ~ Sri Muruganar To remain unconscious of Being is to be trapped within an ego-driven wasteland of conflict, strife, and fear that only seems customary. ~ Adyashanti The false self grows and thrives in unconscious being. When we are asleep to Being, our attention becomes entranced by mind—the vast array of ideas, images, beliefs, habits, opinions, and judgments that we have been conditioned to identify as self. ~ Adyashanti The more unconscious individuals, groups, or nations are, the more likely it is that egoic pathology will assume the form of physical violence. Violence is a primitive but still very widespread way in which the ego attempts to assert itself, to prove itself right or another wrong. With very unconscious people, arguments can easily lead to physical violence.~ Eckhart Tolle "There is no conflict in you, the Self. If there is conflict, it is between thought and thought. As long as the sense of 'I' and 'other' is believed, conflict is inevitable,". ~ Mooji

Prosecutors in Milan have opened an investigation into Italians who allegedly paid members of the Bosnian Serb army for trips to Sarajevo so that they could kill citizens during the four-year siege of the European city in the 1990s. A 2022 documentary titled "Sarajevo Safari" elucidated these accusations and maintained that the individuals involved hailed not only from Italy, but also from Spain, France, Canada, the United States and Russia. Whistleblower Gavazzeni had stated that the Germans and Engish were also involved. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/11/milan-prosecutors-investigate-alleged-sniper-tourism-during-bosnian-war https://www.dw.com/en/italy-prosecutors-probe-sarajevo-sniper-tourism-charges/a-74734131 I suppose that since most of the animals and birds have become extinct or endangered and harder to find, these bored and wealthy thrill seekers may have diversified their prey base, out of force of habit. Now that the investigation is on, I won't be surprised if some of the witnesses meet with sudden accidents or commit suicides in a short span of time, as in the Epstein and Dutroux scandals.

Strong desires in the form of cravings and aversions, are considered to be evil as per greek and eastern philosophy, and all vices like lust, greed, hatred can be sequenced to such strong cravings and aversions at their fundamental level. All crimes or flaws in conduct thus can be traced back to these vices, and ultimately to strong desires in the form of cravings/aversions. Rape can be sequenced to unconscious lust , cruelty and murder can be sequenced to hatred, dishonest theft and robbery can be sequenced to greed. The overwhelming emotional energy of such intense desires can override one's discretion and rationality forcing one to commit such acts even if one may know it is wrong, erroneous and likely to end in trouble. Cravings/aversions make the mind unconscious, reactive, negative and emotive. Being conscious or aware enables better mind management, a better perception of the situation and a more rational and positive response to the same.

Russians are respected and loved in the global south countries, which represent over 85 % of humanity, for Russian support in their independence movements against exploitative colonialism during the communist era. Hence Russians are always welcome in our countries. Russia has a rich history of great rulers like Peter the Great, a great general like Suvorov who was undefeated in all his campaigns (whom the Duke of Wellington deeply admired and corresponded with), the world's best novelists in Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky and a good literary and artistic culture, aside from strong foundation in science and technology. So there are a lot of positives in Russia as a foundation to build upon , and hopefuly a Russia with robust democratic institutions will come up in the future.

"To differentiate the thinking mind and awareness, one must arrive solely in awareness. The thinking mind as the expression of awareness should be abandoned. When awareness is recognized, then the thinking mind is self-abandoned. Mind is changing, and awareness is unchanging. In this way, the two are differentiated. Look at the sky, which is unchanging, and the clouds, which are changeable; clouds are like the thinking mind and the space is like rigpa, awareness. The clouds change again and again, but space never changes. Awareness is both unceasing and unchanging." ~ Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche 'The mind must learn that beyond the moving mind there is the background of awareness which does not change.' ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj 'Don't mistake the weather of your mind for the sky of your being.' ~ Jeff Foster

The Indian military is the fourth strongest in world rankings, and we are interested in boosting our military, agricultural and industrial technologies and consequently, have developed a good relationship with Israel in the process which have proven expertise in the same. India is the only country on earth which has never persecuted its jewish population. Friendly ties have existed also between the indian muslim population and the Indian Jewish population even now due to religious and cultural similarities. So consequently, we are interested in developing relations between Israel and India, and create a best case scenario of friendship between Israel and Arab countries instead of incessant warfare, bloodshed and conflict between them. With the ongoing transition from oil to lithium and sodium based batteries, oil as a resource will become obsolete within a decade or two from now, which can result in the oil rich arab nations transitioning from prosperity to poverty. Israeli technology can help the Arabs build agriculture and industrialize the middle east. India has good updated legal constitution which has decriminalised homosexuality, and provide privileges for transgenders . Issue in India is lack of the necessary policing forces to implement the law with exactitude as well as the necessary number of courts to bring swift justice. A shortage of judges, courtrooms, and administrative staff, along with outdated technology, hinders the efficient functioning of the courts leading to large number of pending cases. We have over 2200000 policemen which is larger than the population of some countries, but this is still a million short with respect to ideal force levels. India is still a developing nation and we are trying to overcome these deficiencies at present. The fast improving economy however has brought incremental improvements in capabilities in the same and hopefully the deficiencies will be covered in a few years time . The arab nations have very low populations and cannot be compared to India which has the largest population in the world. Also it was not me here who first accused the Islamic nations of such systemic issues. Do keep that in mind. India has recently banned the triple talaq and criminalized by the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, 2019, though there were major protests against it by islamic fundamentalists. This however has led to reduction in Muslim men divorcing their wives over verbal speeches, text messages, Skype, emails and phone calls, and leading to better marital stability among Indian muslim couples.

Apologies for the same. India has a long relationship due to traditional ties with arab countries and have supported a two state resolution in the middle east. Well, there is no standardisation for the same, and only in progressive muslim nations are such laws in effect. You can also check out these websites showcasing how regressive Islamic laws protect the rapist rather than the victim as well as a global campaign to prevent stoning of women as punishment, https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2017/05/mais-haddad-arab-world-laws-protect-the-rapist-not-the-victim/ https://www.cmi.no/publications/6644-global-campaign-to-stop-stoning-of-women https://www.zawya.com/en/press-release/africa-press-releases/new-research-reveals-legal-systems-across-arab-league-countries-are-failing-rape-survivors-i9ut0ohp https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-23381448 https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna15836746

Dude, Breakingthewall is not an Indian Hindu, but a westerner. Raze, who supports Palestine, is an Indian , and you have shown poor judgement in unnecessarily criticizing India here. India has around 1.2 billion Hindus and they do not have extermination fantasies with respect to muslims. They have much better things to do with their times like business and trade, science and technology. India is the fastest growing economy and is the fourth largest economy in the world at the moment, and it already ranks third in the world after the China and US in terms of billionaires and centi-millionaires . India is in top fourteen in terms of millionaires ranked below switzerland, has doubled its millionaire population in the last five years and adds a millionaire every 30 minutes. As per experts India is projected to become the world's second largest economy by 2038 with a gdp of 34.2 trillion dollars. India has also donated by charity billions of dollars worth of food and medical supplies as well as expertise to Palestine, Yemen, Afghanistan, Somalia, Turkish earthquake and other muslim nations saving milions of muslim lives. India has also criticized the American invasion of Iraq which killed millions of muslims, the muslim Sebrenica genocide in europe, the genocide of muslims in China, Burma, anti-muslim riots in Sri Lanka, deaths of thousands of muslims in Palestine in recent conflict, ill-treatment of muslim migrants in europe and so on. India has also condemned the killing of Afghan muslims and children during the recent border clashes between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Hundreds of poor muslims from pakistan and neighboring muslim countries have got free or cheap medical treatment in Indian hospitals not available in their own countries. Sunni-shia-ahmediya-sufi riots which have killed thousands of muslims in western Asia have never happened in India. The Indian army is the second largest in the world and has deployed hundreds of soldiers under UN command in UNIFIL to ensure peace and stability in the middle east for years due to conflict between the Jews/ Christians and Muslims there. Indian peacekeepers are also deployed in muslim nation of sudan to ensure peace and stability over there due to ongoing civil war, saving thousands of muslim lives over there as well. India has also provided humanitarian aid and medical supplies to muslims in sudan. India has the largest population in the world so it is bound to have its own share of seemingly high crime rates when not considering proportion and perspective . As per Islamic Shariat the raped victim must produce four adult males who have witnessed the crime to validate her charges. Failing to produce male witnesses, the rape victim charged with slander or adultery and punishes with 80 lashes with a whip or even stoned to death. Two female witnesses are considered to be equivalent to one male witness. I know of a case study in an islamic nation where a rape victim who was only able to bring three witnesses instead of four, was slandered of adultery and stoned to death. There are no such mandates in Indian legal system and testimony of any witness, male or female, can be used to charge the suspect with a conviction. Female Indian muslim intellectuals and leaders like Shabana Azmi and Shama Mohamed had heavily criticized the Taliban for its dis-empowerment of Afghan women by denial of education and healthcare. In the UK, the grooming gang scandal has shown that muslim men of pakistani heritage were involved in mass rapes of native white women and girls due to racial and religious prejudice. This resulted in the infamous Musk-Starmer feud early this year. This new disturbing trend has been condemned by liberal female muslim intellectuals and activists as well.

Perhaps this is a perception that comes upon enlightenment when all the karmic blinkers or filters of the mind are eliminated. You can check out this thread of mine on Gary Weber , who upon enlightenment, perceived consciousness to be omnipresent.

A nuclear war can wipe out the US, Europe, Ukraine and Russia from existence, and make a radioactive wasteland of these countries . Other countries like India can sent rescue personnel and logistical resources under UN command to evacuate survivors as in the elderly, women and children from the US, Europe and Russia and bring them to safer zones. However such rescue missions will be highly risky and dangerous with many variables involved. The alternative is to engage in diplomacy, negotiatians and bring about a ceasefire and peace. The two world wars which originated in europe killing over a hundred million people, were said to have arose due to failures in diplomacy. The europeans should learn from past lessons in history instead of foolishly repeating them .

Jacobo Árbenz, who was the the second democratically elected President of Guatemala from 1951 to 1954, was overthrown in a military coup with western military assistance and corporate backing. Arbenz had earlier fought in the Guatemalan revolution which ended the western backed dictatorship of Jorge Ubico whose policies favored the elite, western companies and dispossessed the native people of their lands. Arbenz's agrarian policies benefitting the masses however was opposed by the west which led to the overthrow of his democratically elected government, and replacement by the brutal military dictatorship of Carlos Armas. Árbenz's popular policies were largely rolled back, with land confiscated from small farmers and returned to large landowners.

American political scientist and international relations scholar John Mearsheimer elaborates on Nato in an interview... https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-john-mearsheimer-blames-the-us-for-the-crisis-in-ukraine#:~:text=We do have that say,the way great powers behave