Mind-Blowing Confession: Ex-Rivers Gov Amaechi Says He Wore One Shirt for 4 Years https://www.rainsmediaradio.com/2025/04/mind-blowing-confession-ex-rivers-gov.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon Follow, Like & Share #Amaechi #NigerianPolitics #FashionStatement #Simplicity #Materialism

I think nuclear war might be less painful.

"So when Coon, also known for playing social climber Bertha Russell on The Gilded Age, mentioned in a recent TikTok video that she swears by lanolin-based Lansinoh Lanolin Nipple Cream as a lip balm—and that she has “converted a lot of people to nipple cream for their lips”—we knew we had to try it"
#marketing #consumerism #materialism #collapse #HollowMen #fools
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/nipple-cream-for-lips

Could Tariffs Improve Environmental Sustainability Outcomes? https://www.byteseu.com/906225/ #consumerism #Degrowth #environment #equity #GreenGrowth #Inequality #Materialism #Subsidies #trade #trump #WorldTradeOrganization

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RgpABHt2B7I #psychedelics #consciousness #philosophy #physics #idealism #materialism #shamanism #plantmedicine #ketamine #philosophyofscience

"The materialist conception of history starts from the proposition that the production of the means to support human life and, next to production, the exchange of things produced, is the basis of all social structure" – Frederick Engels, "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific"

A very important discussion by Engels about materialism:

1892 English Edition Introduction to Frederick Engels' "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific"

[General Introduction and the History of Materialism]
#socialism #communism #capitalism #marxism #materialism #theism #agnostic #religion #god #atheism

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/int-mat.htm

We're conditioned to measure our worth by possessions, making escaping the 'keeping up with the Joneses' mentality a lonely, uphill battle. #Materialism

We're taught to measure worth by possessions, a lesson that steals our contentment before we even understand it. #Materialism

**Unpacking the effects of materialism on interpersonal relationships: A cognitive approach**

“_Three studies (N = 1389) employing correlational and experimental methodologies showed that materialism leads to heightened expectations and standards for a significant other, which are associated with poorer interpersonal outcomes. Specifically, materialism heightens the ideal standards that one has for a close other around achievement (e.g., ambition) and positive image (e.g., attractiveness), which are linked to higher conflict and lower relational satisfaction._”

Moldes, O. (2025). Unpacking the effects of materialism on interpersonal relationships: A cognitive approach. British Journal of Social Psychology, 64, e12795. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12795.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Psychology #Relationships #Materialism #Academia #Academic @psychology

Church and marketing: a contemporary spiritual challenge
In the modern world, where consumption and materialism reign supreme, the message of Matthew 6:24 resonates with increased relevance. This verse challenges us on the duality between our spiritual life and our material concerns, highlighting ...

#Church_and_marketing #God_and_Mammon #Materialism #Matthew_624 #radical_authent...
https://en.bgospel.com/authenticity-vs-profit-church-and-marketing-today/?feed_id=7387&_unique_id=67dfb51fe42eb

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I consider the #Vedanta #worldview to be a prerequisite for a #sustainable future for the West. Why? Our worldview led us inevitably to #materialism. As a side dish, we got #egocentrism and #selfishness. The result was ruthlessness in the expansion of the economy, in the #exploitation of nature for our selfish purposes. The root of our current problems lies in our thinking: in our worldview and our view of #humanity.

A quotation from John Caird

It is not the fact that a man has riches which keeps him from the Kingdom of Heaven, but the fact that riches have him.

John Caird (1820-1898) Scottish theologian, academic, preacher
(Attributed)

Sourcing, extensive notes: wist.info/caird-john/75562/

Descriptions of reality are at best faint, latent impressions wholly dependent upon the chaotic scaffolding of language. The qualities of experience are absent from the analytical sciences. The experience of biting into a juicy apple is beyond the explanatory power of scientific measure, or even the most cogent literature. Yet the perceiver of qualities, the mind, is relegated to the mere rank of epiphenomenon. A truly daft state of affairs. It is mind that is irreducible.

— With Lenin, Against Hegel? 'Materialism and Empirio-Criticism' and the Mutations of Western Marxism.

In this article Alberto Toscano considers three texts that allow us to explore the place that a recovery and reinterpretation of Lenin’s ‘Materialism and Empirio-Criticism’ played in setting the agenda of European Marxist philosophy after the crisis of ’56.

https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/with-lenin-against-hegel-materialism-and-empirio-criticism-and-the-mutations-of-western-marxism/

What remains of organized #Christianity is bad both from a communist POV because it's idealist & represents #conservative & #reactionary social forces from a psycho-spiritual POV because it forcefully substitutes oppressive #dogma for firsthand ecstatic self-knowledge.

#Materialism is just better.