NaibofTabr

These people are cartoon villains.

Well for starters Thich Naht Hanh has written a lot of books. Personally my next recommendation would be No Mud, No Lotus. There is a fair amount of conceptual overlap between his books, so it's probably not necessary to read every book he's written unless you find his specific philosophy compelling and want to emulate it.

I think of Being Peace as a good entry point for a person looking to change their mindset, a sort of reset. It's good guidance for getting some control of the emotional noise of daily life, especially anxiety, fear and anger.

A good next step is Getting to Where You Are by Steven Harrison. This has practical guidance for regular meditation as a practice, without any of the mysticism. It is a signpost on the path to self-regulation and self-acceptance (but I think not the best starting point if you don't already have some grounding in mindfulness and meditation).

After the others, I think Journey Without Goal by Chögyam Trungpa is worthwhile. This one does lean heavily on the religious background of its philosophy, and I think it's necessary for the reader to know what they're looking for while reading it, to understand the mythology as allegory. The value of this book is in changing your concept of how life might be lived entirely, a sort-of restructuring of your perspective on existence and your path through it. I don't think it should be jumped into without an established foundation of meditation practice. Frankly, if you haven't already established patience within yourself and built that place of internal calm, and taken at least some steps toward self-understanding and self-acceptance, this won't do you any good. I think it's important to note that in spite of the title, some people heard this message and believed that it was a pathway to enlightment as some sort of end goal. No such thing is promised, and if you go into it expecting that you will get lost.

So yeah,

1. Being Peace - find calm, and begin meditation practice
2. Getting to Where You Are - self-acceptance, and refine your meditation
3. Journey Without Goal - self-knowledge, and looking forward

...in that order.

Some other books I'd recommend which kind of extend these ideas:

• Rules For A Knight by Ethan Hawke
• The Analects (of Confucius)
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
• Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu

I think that change only comes through a big, imaginative idea

This seems overly optimistic to me. I think the historical record demonstrates that broad sociocultural change primarily happens after some great destructive crisis (war, famine, plague, etc) during which the status quo breaks down and a lot of people die, and the survivors have to pick up the remains and try to patch some form of society back together like a jigsaw puzzle where half the pieces have been burned in a fire.

Sometimes, the survivors get together and try to imagine a better future, saying to themselves, "we don't want our children to have to go through what we just went through." More often, the person or people with the most resources left after the crisis take control, attempt to form society such that it sustains and increases their current power, and repeat the same old cycles of exploitation and selfishness.

The positive, left, and negative corona discharges

Ah yes, the three charge polarities:

• positive
• left
• negative

Or, hope and fear/despair are two sides of the same coin.

Yes, and both only produce anxiety - either in despairing over what might happen, or hoping over what might not.

It can be difficult to explain why you doing orient your life around something like hope though.

If I understand what you mean, I disagree. Orient your life around something rational. Planning will do you better than hoping, any day of the week.

Unless you believe that the admin's comment was made in the context of suggesting that "Zionists" (unspecified - generally?) should be killed while in combat (specifically), I think all of that is irrelevant to the issue at hand.

Given all of the discussion around this incident, it seems clear that the admin was proposing murder, not warfare.

Saying that anyone should be killed based on their personal beliefs or political views is fucking heinous, no matter the context.

Only one claims ownership of the land where TSMC is based, and threatens to conduct a military invasion to enforce that claim.

The US' interest is in maintaining the status quo for Taiwan - independence. The US has not attempted to dictate trade relationships for Taiwan or threatened to take military control of their country.

The most immediate question is probably, how long can your country remain functional without TSMC?

If they are, then they can look forward to re-federating in the future.

But, as I said above, removing the problem person is only part of what the community should require.

And based on what @Grail@multiverse.soulism.net said, that may not be forthcoming.

To some extent, none of that matters. There is no justification for calling for the extra-judicial killing of anyone, no matter how much you dislike their politics. That's just murder.

You might say that some people should face trial for their behavior, and you might support the death penalty as a punitive measure, and those statements might be valid and permissible.

Saying that anyone should be killed based on their personal beliefs or political views is fucking heinous, no matter the context.

I suppose, but only if you consciously recognize it as a form of self-therapy (which I would still just categorize as meditation) and don't expect anything practical to come from the prayer session (which is what most people mean by the term prayer - asking a higher power for help - and which I would categorize as delusional).