Finally watching #youpeoplenetflix

…thoughts to come…🤔 .Aight, I’m about to tweet some of my thoughts on #youpeoplenetflix into the abyss lol

My thoughts are fair game for discussion, so feel free to chime in! And even if we think differently about the movie, I still genuinely love you… not even kidding ☺️

Here we go: a 🧵

Quick 🧵: Now that the anecdotes and the sciences have aligned to confirm that #WhiteSupremacy is ✨in fact✨ an #embodied experience,

I’ve been revisiting my own hesitancies around blindly trusting all-White, all-cisgendered male leadership teams of humanitarian organizations. 2/5 I’m reminded that it takes muscle memory— not mere thinking— to see issues of inequity when they pop up in systems.

When you’ve lived in a body that’s so rarely minoritized/ marginalized (i.e., White and cisgendered male), it’s easy and common for you to overlook inequity.

🧵: There are many reasons why I think adding #contemplativePractices to Christianity is important.

But the main one is that the reason why we sin is often less about what we actively do

and more about the precursors to sin that we’re not self-aware enough to detect.

1/14 .Now, you may be wincing at the word "sin" and I think that's fair (I wrestle with it myself).

But for the sake of this 🧵, "sin" describes behavior that harms/dishonors the dignity of another person according to God's perfect imagination for wholeness between all things.

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The more I’ve learned about #neuroscience and #trauma,

the more I’ve realized that the lies we’re told by society about #individualism, rationalism and human agency/choice have DEEPLY confused us about

why we suffer and how we heal.

A quick 🧵 .We desperately want to believe that we make our own choices based on our own logic.

But #neuroscience is teaching us that our decision-making is SIGNIFICANTLY determined by our affective/emotional state and the ways we’ve been socialized over time.

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Aight, beautiful people! Let’s talk about the movie #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce (share your thoughts too!) #Spoilers

First, I wanna make it clear that I think this is a deeply artistic and well-done illustration of the plight and beauty of the human experience.

A thread 🧵 .I believe Humans have only ever been meant for the here and now.

But the universal plight of being human is the way that the twistedness of the cosmos fractures us beyond where and when we’re supposed to be:

Pain/suffering
Anxiety
Jealousy
Regret
**Hope
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This is an example of the way our #trauma can become our traits.

A quick 🧵:

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https://twitter.com/jryussuf/status/1530913636696350720

.When we begin thinking similarly to the friends of the main person speaking, it’s often because we ourselves have experienced a lack of safety or betrayal in groups… and often respectively.

As a result, we’ve had to repetitively stay in a self-protective stance in groups.

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