New Age spirituality has become a cesspool of garbage

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And unfortunately the 'woke' are the ones misusing this term to attack any white person who takes an interest in another culture. For example: you like watching anime, reading manga, or playing Japanese video games? QUIT STEALING JAPAN'S CULTURE WHITE BOY!! !"

Who is profiting off these anime, manga, and video games? If they are being sold by a Japanese company, or even by an American company hiring or buying from Japanese artists, then it's not appropriation.

The internet I don't thinn is really that reliable anymore. Too much misinformation out there these days.

The internet's full of grifters for sure. You have to either have some amount of subject matter expertise, know how to sift the experts out of the noise, or be interested enough to put your wading boots on and keep em on for a long time - esotericism / occultism / spirituality is probably worse than global warming in that regard.

I think you're missing my point. I'm not the one claiming it's cultural appropriation for Americans to enjoy Japanese entertainment.

My point is to suggest things you could say back to these people, who are apparently mis-using the concept of cultural appropriation.

No Man's Land

You're in uncharted territory.
We can't tell you who you are or where you're going.
We can't tell you what will be approved of or not approved of.
You're on your own.
With each passing year you'll feel your own vitality modulate a bit.
Everyone feels it.
No one really knows what it is or how to explain it
It just sort of happens as such.
We just do, on our own, minding our own psychosis and personal swarm of gnats and stinging thoughts.
Some have roles they're forced into by family
Some have roles they're thrust into by friends
Some have roles thrust upon them by city or country
Still there's a remainder that no one can peg, judge, nor really direct.
They can't tell you if you're doing it right
They can't tell if you're doing it wrong
If you're doing it right the reward is future and uncertain
If you're doing it wrong the penalty equally future and uncertain
They can only ever vaguely see what's going on
One might look to a God but that God remains silent.
We know there's a cosmic light illuminating the works
But it refuses to tell us where we are or where we're headed
The best we can gather of it's will is in the faces of those around us.
And in the way nature stacks the cards for or against us.
It's as if we, the tides, and what happens around us and to us is its language.
Our major events in history are it's verbs and we are its nouns.
Even there a lot of us are stuck.
There's no map, there's no where to go
All too often God turns us toward the liquor or porn store.
Does God loath himself or herself?
That I'd like to know.

^You’ve inspired me to get back to my writing.

I'm starting to think Trump was merely a puppet exploited by America's right wing extremists so that they could shake the whole system up and gain authoritarian power.

Maybe the only reason he's losing relevance lately is because the GOP feels they no longer need him? They're moving on to even more dangerous whackjobs like DeSantis.

They say that religion is finnished in the industrialized world. Done. That seems to be true in western Europe, and in Canada. But the US seems to be an outlier among industrialized countries where religion seems to still be going strong.