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Written by mānas on 2025-01-22 at 22:52

I am a 36 year old living in Waterloo Ontario, Canada.

I experienced severe child abuse at home and at school while growing up in Singapura, I was completely dehumanized by age 12.

My life since then has been a constant struggle to re-humanize myself while surrounded by fascists of every brand, especially Hindutva.

I successfully completed the task of re-humanizing & (re)educating myself on my 36th birthday, October 31st 2024.

My dehumanization has meant that I have been unable to form and maintain meaningful relationships.

I am currently completely ostracized and totally isolated.

I am not in community with anyone, I exist as a single individual surrounded by hurtful, hateful fascists that seek to achieve eugenicist goals towards dark-skinned people.

I have had no choice but to engage in a peaceful, non-violent struggle since I was 12 as every opportunity to incarcerate me, or worse, would have been exploited excessively by my oppressors, who continue to seek ways of destroying me.

I have submitted 2 formal complaints to the UNHRC: WHRC/10695 against Singapore and WHRC/10698 against Canada. While I expect little to nothing from these complaints, these serve as a form of documentation of the abuse I have endured over the course of my life so far.

I have been left to my own devices in order to survive, recover, and heal.

I was forced onto ODSP around a decade ago by the abusive biological casteist household and it has been difficult to force them to accept removal as trustee on my account. I am now receiving the ODSP payments directly.

I have used the available healthcare here in Ontario and found it to be insufficient.

I have thus taken responsibility for my own health & wellbeing, achieving success but also accruing significant debt - currently around CAD$15,000.

I have been committed to repaying this debt through ODSP, and I still am.

However, if anyone would find it worthwhile to contribute towards the settling of my debts, I would be most grateful.

I plan on formalizing my renunciation of all worldy desires & possessions in order to pursue ordination as a Buddhist monastic.

Thank you.

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mānas

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[#]MutualAid

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Written by mānas on 2025-01-19 at 02:06

Casteism in the Workplace,

What can we do?

Slides from a talk given by @dalitdiva.bsky.social

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mNl6iPYq704&list=PLnXqh5aflIxGPwFD9eV6Z67McwufaRtdY&index=36&pp=gAQBiAQB

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Written by mānas on 2024-12-24 at 01:03

There are the ‘official’ definitions of these terms and I have my own definitions that I had to develop out of practical necessity. I was, and still am, nowhere near a Sangha where I may be present alongside others physically. I live in a major city of Canada but it is full of arrogance and ill-gotten wealth with virtually no spirituality worth speaking of.

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Written by mānas on 2024-12-23 at 02:34

Manifest:

• Mindfulness

• Self-awareness

In order to

Implement:

• Non-attachment

• Non-violence

At ever-increasing depths of understanding

Such that the following truths are

Realized:

• Impermanence

• Non-self

Towards

Attainment:

• Shunyata

• Nibbāna

In this precious human rebirth or a subsequent rebirth

For the benefit of all sentient beings.

[#]Buddhadhamma

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Written by mānas on 2024-12-18 at 22:55

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As a footnote, I use the word ‘Singapura’ as the common name ‘Singapore’ used to cause me immense suffering merely by seeing the word. It is only within the past few years, after decades of struggle, that the word Singapore does not affect me negatively.

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Written by mānas on 2024-12-18 at 22:55

Does ‘dark-skinned’ qualify as a ‘a national, ethnical, racial or religious group’? I can't confidently say such a thing, but that does not change our experiences.

I still describe what I have experienced in Singapura and Canada as an advanced, modern, 2-stage genocide.

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Written by mānas on 2024-12-18 at 22:51

Perhaps they thought that they could, through endless abuse, convince me to accept my assignd ‘place’ in their backwards delusional reality. Nobody has sat down with me in my entire life and discussed anything with me on the basis of a shared, common humanity. I know now that this is due to their lack of intact basic humanity as adults, they approach their entire social world through the abuse derived from their delusion of ‘power’.

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Written by mānas on 2024-12-18 at 22:50

A dark-skinnned biological son of a graduate of the allegedly prestigious Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (located in Gujarat, the same state where a Narendra Modi oversaw an anti-Muslim pogrom in 2002), dying young may raise eyebrows without sufficient evidence to show that the fair-skinned males around the son were at no fault whatsoever.

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Written by mānas on 2024-12-18 at 22:50

I am positioned with privilege. Even as I have tried unsuccesfully to build my life through conscious awareness of privilege to the extent possible and doing all the hard work that I know I am capable of, rather than accept the short-cuts of privilege. My potential demise may have had to be calculated and planned more carefully, I suppose.

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Written by mānas on 2024-12-18 at 22:45

Is there a global genocide underway against dark-skinned people? It definitely seems that way from where I am sitting. This genocide operates in developed countries at all levels. I suppose some may be disposed of more “easily” from the perspective of the operators of these countries who can't afford too great a level of ‘excess deaths’. Not that it makes those lives any less important to have protected and to remember today.

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Written by mānas on 2024-12-18 at 22:38

Skin lightening creams were and still are popular in India. A problem with those products arises for castes without excess finances to expend on such tactics. However, if they possess fair-skinned members, a form of eugenics can be practiced to gradually dispose of, through seemingly ‘natural’ causes, the dark-skinned members, thus lightening themselves and positioning themselves better for permanent servitude to their chosen fair-skinned onwers/masters.

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Written by mānas on 2024-12-18 at 22:38

However, when I take the factor of skintone into account, I think it becomes clear that there is a sinister, vicious, depraved globally-present set of forces that seeks to destroy any and all melanin that doesn't operate in subservience to fair-skin.

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Written by mānas on 2024-12-18 at 22:38

“just fine” with the caveat that on account of the privileging of ableism within capitalist societies, this exists only on paper while in truth there is plenty of serious dukkha present that is conveniently layered over with consumption.

I found it difficult to apply the definition as it had been provided.

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Written by mānas on 2024-12-18 at 22:37

There are other Indians doing just fine.

As far as I understand my ethnicity, there are others of the same ethnicity doing just fine.

There are other North Indians doing just fine.

There are other Hindus (not that I am or have ever been one) and Buddhists doing just fine.

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Written by mānas on 2024-12-18 at 22:37

I struggled initially with defining my life in Singapura and Canada as a two-stage genocide.

The definition says:

“In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:”

(https://www.un.org/en/genocide-prevention/definition)

Which national, ethnical, racial, or religious group could I claim that my lived experience proves the presence of genocidal forces?

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Written by mānas on 2024-12-14 at 02:30

“The tax situation is out of hand. The government in Canada at the federal level is incompetent beyond belief, and it’s become uncomfortable for me in my neighbourhood in Toronto,” he added.

awwww

https://mas.to/@dmacphee/113648595319604467

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Written by mānas on 2024-12-10 at 14:21

My reasons for claiming this are simple.

I don't have a lot of data nor the resources with which to carry out research. However, I have my own lived experience. And I have news media, as well as social media through which I can attempt to piece together what is/has been taking place.

What I have found is clearly kind, loving, compassionate, and peaceful people subjected to extreme levels of abuse by allegedly religious/spiritual families.

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Written by mānas on 2024-12-10 at 11:24

I have not experienced serious spirituality or religion in my lifetime.

What is easily, readily available & accessible is a fascist's implementation. I don't know where the serious practitioners are, but all I have seen and accessed in my life are another thin, nearly-transparent façade for the activities of fascists.

I assume those involved in such fascist implementations of religions and spirituality are also involved in the façade of 'democracy'.

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Written by mānas on 2024-11-24 at 22:53

“… Now you know your worth. So go forward into relationships without fear, because you can't truly fall. You can only gain experiences, and those are what you value most. Just be honest, always be honest, and things will shake out ok.

Your glittering depths are a sight to behold. I hope you enjoy this new experience of being dazzled by yourself.”

• @dyani – letter to myself - look at you

https://dyani.bearblog.dev/letter-to-myself-look-at-you/

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Written by mānas on 2024-11-23 at 23:35

On a more positive note, I am proud to read about people who have had struggles with mental health in the past but are able to confidently say that they are today doing much better and able to consistently address any concerns that happen to appear.

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