A picture is worth a thousand words

[michaelrc]

I'm wondering about the cosmic trigger? How much angst is needed until their plan becomes derailed. I just don't want to view the links. I have folks here with emotional pain what would almost drowning in it accomplish? I want to hold myself together for others the best that I can. I could be wrong on this however.

 

[Phill4]

I felt completely angry and furious and frustrated when I saw the ones on the sott article.

hopefully all these things will end soon, it has to have an end.

4d STS feeding on these events.

maybe the trigger will be the mass migration. Then Europe will have to choose whether they want to keep self mutilating themselves economically or allow some social progress... just maybe.

 

[Aliana]

The lack of empathy from most people is astounding. People are so comfortable in their lives and lack even the imagination to picture themselves in the shoes of the refugees. Can you imagine being a parent and going out to by inner tubes and water wings for you children because you're about to take them across the ocean in a raft to a foreign country where you know no one, don't speak the language and have no money, food or prospects? And you're doing his because your own country is unlive-able!

Maybe because this situation so dark and so terrible that thinking about the horrors of it would force people to see the reality of the world we live in and it's just too painful to be shaken from their comfortable lives.

I am continually gob-smacked by the ignorance of most people who are content reading the main-stream news and seem to lack the ability to question the nonsense they are being fed on a daily basis. And I tend to agree, that just keeping that narrow focus enables them to continue living in their cosy bubble, so they don't have to consider the horrors of what is really going on in the world, or even to question the reasons why these things are happening. Perhaps many of them simply cannot handle knowing much of the truth about the world we live in, and on some unconscious level they know this - and so keep themselves immersed in their little fake worlds. What they don't realize is just how much worse things will be for them in the not so distant future when they are forced to awaken.

 

[Phill4]

I am continually gob-smacked by the ignorance of most people who are content reading the main-stream news and seem to lack the ability to question the nonsense they are being fed on a daily basis. And I tend to agree, that just keeping that narrow focus enables them to continue living in their cosy bubble, so they don't have to consider the horrors of what is really going on in the world, or even to question the reasons why these things are happening. Perhaps many of them simply cannot handle knowing much of the truth about the world we live in, and on some unconscious level they know this - and so keep themselves immersed in their little fake worlds. What they don't realize is just how much worse things will be for them in the not so distant future when they are forced to awaken.

I think many times is not a priority because there is no need, so anything is fine for them.

Once you tap on their ignorance they are likely to listen to what you say, others who have strong identification with their country use that feeling alone to feed their arguments regardless of any reason.
Others just find it difficult to see people dying and can't handle it and shut it out.

I think that is why posting SOTT is important, because sometimes that all that they get.

A person who uses his time to read and explore these things and still argues back at you is a lost cause that deserves to be put up in his place, I had someone arguing about the confederate flag and I pretty much explained
to him how his circle of friends, and four walls in his room was all the world he knew.

Sometimes a well put together approach on these subjects when they voice their opinion catches their attention.
no knowledge is better than wrong knowledge.

 

[Thebull]

Surely there is a sort of mass manipulation about the picture of the little boy on the beach, I think so. This picture has two sides, like a dime. One side is that people react emotionally, they feel the horror of the situation, can maybe ask themselves what is the reason of all of this, can feel empathy, feel how it is to have a child that dies like that. The other side, I was thinking looking of all the posts in FB of this picture, is that we tend to forget the mass, big huge mass of people behind this little boy. Is like we just see a little boy but this is just a grain of sand, around you have thousand of thousand of thousand of people that are here, waiting in terrible conditions, no water, no food, dramas, hysteria, etc. and we don't see pictures of them, or maybe so little. Maybe I am exaggerating the analysis. I don't like to be manipulated, so I protect always when I see too many about one situation. What I mean is that the problem, the real problem is the mess in Syria, the war. Our politicians. How they are guilty of murder, destruction, bombing, torturing, massacring, annihilating Syria. This little boy on the beach tends to make us -maybe- to be distracted. Also, personally, I don't want to forget the other little boys and girls, from Syria, that are living a true hell waiting without food, without water with their parents, waiting, waiting.

I agree with you loreta. I'd also add the west have first destroyed Libya and its ongoing in Syria. 2 countries destroyed without a thought for any living person. Never is it mentioned by the msm linking these events. It is so sad yet so clear what's going on maybe people should start smearing that over face book as well as the horrific pictures. I'm sure that happens but fb is probably so manipulated these messages disappear as well. We're probably at the point of no return now it's so sad what the psychopaths are doing and have done continually on our beautiful planet to all living things, it has to stop!

 

[loreta]

I'm wondering about the cosmic trigger? How much angst is needed until their plan becomes derailed. I just don't want to view the links. I have folks here with emotional pain what would almost drowning in it accomplish? I want to hold myself together for others the best that I can. I could be wrong on this however.

I think it is very important to keep a space inside where we feel protected and where we can recharge energy, listen to music, read, walk outside and look at the sky, talk with people, talk with children. And everyone is different, some people can deal with these images, for others is harder.

This morning I watched only at one picture, just one. In one picture you have all, and not just horror, you can see in the picture love, you can see help, you can see contact, you can see beauty also. A picture is like a map, a map of emotions and also a map of reality, of what it is and of what should be. In the picture that I was watching a man is taking a little girl that is crying. The man looks strong, his arm is around the little girl, protecting her from the water. So I looked at the man, his strength in his body, also his strength in his visage, the determination and also a sadness in his eyes. But he is strong,maybe the father of the little girl. It is on this father I concentrated, I know how much fathers and mothers in the Middle East, in their culture, how much they love their kids. This love is in the strength of the arm around the little girl.

Sometimes imagination is very important to survive this world, some poetry, some prayer and you can pray just seeing a picture. This morning I prayed just looking at this man, this mysterious man, this stranger that this morning is part of my life, and all day I will bring this energy of him in me, because we learn always from others, their lessons are teaching us lessons.

Just some thoughts this morning.

 

[luke wilson]

Some pictures were banned apparently from spreading through the social media that is fb...

http://usuncut.com/world/facebook-banned-photos-europes-refugee-crisis/

Please deactivate link as I cant.

Warning, pictures of drowned refugee children.

 

[Juba]

Some have criticized the Independent newspaper's decision to publish the images on grounds because they are too graphic???

And that's half the problem, isn't it? These people don't mind that children suffer this grotesque fate - escaping NATO's global holocaust - they just don't want to see it.

Agree, and most of all "they" don't want us to see this kind of atrocities, because as the name of the topic said: a picture is worth a thousand words, and could make problems to the PTBs, at least in a form of massive outrages and civil unrest or something even "worst" could happen, for example civil petitions and demands for receiving refugees, like in Iceland.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/more-than-11000-icelanders-offer-to-house-syrian-refugees-to-help-european-crisis-10480505.html

 

[casper]

Here you have a series of pictures about refugees. They are really good, they express this tragedy and they are pictures that we have almost never seen. They are hard, make us feel sad but I think they can give emotion, connection. I think that pictures, in this drama, shows us what is really happening. Words sometimes can not express the real horror of what is happening. When I look at these pictures it is not my intellect that reacts, it is my eyes that becomes full of tears.

http://hd.clarin.com/tagged/inmigrantes

The death of three-year Aylan manor and his three-year brother Rihanna rocked the whole world. Artists around the world have decided to pay homage to the deceased drawings Aylan using hashtag #KiyiyaVuranInsanlik or #HumanityWashedAshore. Caution! Some illustrations are very disturbing

More on link:
https://translate.google.hr/translate?sl=hr&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=hr&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jutarnji.hr%2F17-ilustracija-koje-oplakuju-smrt-3-godisnjeg-aylana-i-covjecnosti%2F1409768%2F%3Ffoto%3D1&edit-text=

 

[Palinurus]

Here's another one:

Indian artist Sudarsan Pattnaik works on a sand sculpture depicting drowned Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi at Puri beach, some 65 kilometers away from Bhubaneswar, on September 4, 2015. Charities helping refugees saw a surge in donations on September 4 across Europe as people shocked by the heart-rending images of a drowned Syrian boy on a Turkish beach dug deep to help out. The photos of the lifeless body of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi, lying on a beach in Bodrum, Turkey, have triggered a wave of emotion across the continent, despite deep divisions among European governments on how to deal with the crisis. AFP PHOTO/ASIT KUMAR

Source: _https://www.anpfoto.nl/search.pp?page=1&ShowPicture=33989114&pos=1

 

[loreta]

This is very interesting, this answer, creative answer. It is individual but it touch the mass. I just hope that next time Israel will attack Gaza these artists will react in a similar way, to touch the mass with their art.

 

[Alana]

Surely there is a sort of mass manipulation about the picture of the little boy on the beach, I think so. This picture has two sides, like a dime. One side is that people react emotionally, they feel the horror of the situation, can maybe ask themselves what is the reason of all of this, can feel empathy, feel how it is to have a child that dies like that. The other side, I was thinking looking of all the posts in FB of this picture, is that we tend to forget the mass, big huge mass of people behind this little boy. Is like we just see a little boy but this is just a grain of sand, around you have thousand of thousand of thousand of people that are here, waiting in terrible conditions, no water, no food, dramas, hysteria, etc. and we don't see pictures of them, or maybe so little. Maybe I am exaggerating the analysis. I don't like to be manipulated, so I protect always when I see too many about one situation. What I mean is that the problem, the real problem is the mess in Syria, the war. Our politicians. How they are guilty of murder, destruction, bombing, torturing, massacring, annihilating Syria. This little boy on the beach tends to make us -maybe- to be distracted. Also, personally, I don't want to forget the other little boys and girls, from Syria, that are living a true hell waiting without food, without water with their parents, waiting, waiting.

I agree with you loreta. I'd also add the west have first destroyed Libya and its ongoing in Syria. 2 countries destroyed without a thought for any living person. Never is it mentioned by the msm linking these events. It is so sad yet so clear what's going on maybe people should start smearing that over face book as well as the horrific pictures. I'm sure that happens but fb is probably so manipulated these messages disappear as well. We're probably at the point of no return now it's so sad what the psychopaths are doing and have done continually on our beautiful planet to all living things, it has to stop!

I think that it is our responsibility, those of us who are aware, to point this out every chance we get.

War=refuggees
Europe,US, everyone who aids and supports all these wars is responsible for the creation of refugees
Europe is now a wealthier continent (well, parts of it) because of looting the countries in the Middle East and Africa (and now even some European countries through economic wars), where from the hundred thousands of people flee because they can't have a life of meeting the basic necessities there anymore.

It doesn't have to be long, just a short sentence in a conversation, or a social media posting, whenever possible.

Some pictures were banned apparently from spreading through the social media that is fb...

http://usuncut.com/world/facebook-banned-photos-europes-refugee-crisis/

Please deactivate link as I cant.

Warning, pictures of drowned refugee children.

You are right. I just checked and the posting I made on FB last week with these pictures is now gone

 

[loreta]

You are right Alana. I try to do this every time, every day. I am obsess by war, the most grotesque action in this planet. I think and I wrote about that the other day in Facebook, the problem in this refugee crisis is not coming from Syrians but from our leaders and because we live in Europa, the problem is ours, also. We have a little part (or maybe a big one) in what is happening in Syria, in Libya, in Yemen, in Afghanistan, in Iraq. People point to the politicians and their incompetence for what is happening, for wars and destruction. But who voted for them? Who is using all the facilities that this society is having at a very high human misery far away? I will not continue because you know what I mean.

Refugees: war.
War: because our conformism and indifference.

To put the emphasis in war and that the problem of Syrian refugees is an European problem, not just politically speaking but social, cultural. We live in a culture that we don't care at all about war.

 

[1peacelover]

To put the emphasis in war and that the problem of Syrian refugees is an European problem, not just politically speaking but social, cultural. We live in a culture that we don't care at all about war.

Until it is at our doorstep. In this case, the refugees are at the door of many of the countries that attacked the population that had nothing to do with the political decisions of their leaders. How many of these "politrickians" were really democratically elected? Or is this too an illusion of free will expressed through those in power?

 

[loreta]

To put the emphasis in war and that the problem of Syrian refugees is an European problem, not just politically speaking but social, cultural. We live in a culture that we don't care at all about war.

Until it is at our doorstep. In this case, the refugees are at the door of many of the countries that attacked the population that had nothing to do with the political decisions of their leaders. How many of these "politrickians" were really democratically elected? Or is this too an illusion of free will expressed through those in power?

I think it is not just a vote question. It is a question about conscience. Our responsibility has its limits but responsibility we have, to a certain point. By my way of life, by my way of how I see others, how I see myself, how I understand the world. I think, but this is my point of vue, that every gesture or act or decision you do in your life has its consequences. Your choices, what you buy, what you think about others. We are all manipulated to a certain point, our responsibility is to be aware and see that my silence and my conformism is part of the problem. Or not? My ignorance is part of the problem. My egotism. My narcissism. My individualism. etc. But maybe I am totally wrong! Evidently I am not guilty of the existence of psychopaths. But I can be guilty if I am mute of what these human insects do to others. I am not guilty of genocides! But yes if I am not conscious of these genocides. I think so...