"Enjoying The Show" As The World Burns


I started reading the article. I was struck by what the aforementioned Katie says:

“If Someone (God, ‘what is’), pulls my baby from me – if that’s what it takes, I’m there. Take the baby. Tear my baby from me. Throw it in the fire….My discomfort is my war with God.

You see, there are NO choices. What is, is.

This is almost a carbon copy of what Theodore Illion denounces in Darkness Over Tibet, in the part that narrates the hero of the history letting himself be eaten by rats and insects and leaving his children to die:

I looked at beautiful Dolma. I looked at the sun generously filling with his radiant light the courtyard of the monastery, and wondered whether the poor hero realized what dreadful blasphemy he was uttering.[...] I compared the poor hero in the Tibetan play with the glorious figure of Hamlet, who intensely feels the dreadful tragedy of being only a man and nothing but man. Being a genius and capable of the most intense feelings, Hamlet suffers infinitely more than the Tibetan hero, but nevertheless he has the courage and nobility of character to face his troubles as a creature without any thought of escape or "salvation".[...] A scene came in now in which the hero exalted the happiness of giving away everything. "If the rats eat the first half of my meal, I give them the second half," he exclaimed, in what a heretical spectator might have called a fit of religious hysteria. [...] Dolma seemed to have a bent for the latter. She asked me whether I considered the attitude of the hero in the play a proper one for a really religious person. " No," I answered. "Shall man be selfish, then ?" she asked. "Is it wrong to try to be good ?" "No, but it is wrong to try to be like God." "But God is good. Trying to be like God leads to goodness." "The creature must not overstep its limits," I said, "by trying to be like God. If he does so, he acts like the angels who revolted against the Creator.​

In short, this Katie Byron, makes the fatal mistake of putting herself on God's level. In the process ruining hundreds of people. That is evil.

Now yes, sorry for the off-topic. But I thought it was relevant because somehow enjoying the show while the world burns involves responding appropriately to every event, be it joy or suffering.
 
Personally, what cats do on their own is their business, but if I’m around, the mouse gets saved and put outside, or killed quickly to put it out of its misery.

My girlfriend always makes this point. If you abuse someone in the privacy of your home that’s one thing. If you do it in front of me, you don’t get to say “mind your business”. You made it my business and involved me by doing it in my purview.
The Wave Chapt. 11 :
There was no longer any blame for anything. It was just what is. This is nature. This is God. And God has two faces: Good and Evil. We can love them both, but we can choose which face we manifest, while always loving unconditionally both faces.
Session 13/09/2009 :
A: Silence in the face of "evil" is equal to participation unless there is a good reason for the silence that serves a higher goal.
From these above comments and others, it looks like the consensus comes down to asking "Now that I'm aware of the reality, what do I choose to align with ?"

As per the Cs teaching, to love is to know.
Hence, by knowing about the psychopathic nature and the 'darkside' as part of everything, we do love it by definition, and accept its existence. To acknowledge is to love, to give its due, it doesn't mean that we agree with it, though.

I think we'll agree, however, that the world can't, won't, and shouldn't be changed, as it's what we need to learn. But once we've learnt what we need through it, we can choose what aspect of life to represent, i.e. Creation or Entropy, and expose/denounce/protect against what goes the opposite way.

Notice that Entropy denouncing Creation would go countercurrent, nonsense... So free-will is entitled to be defended.

If any of this makes sense, another tricky question.
My 2 cents.
 
It's a joy to see hypocrites in broad daylight, psychopaths acting in broad daylight, bandits acting in broad daylight. It's so instructive. And to see the “banality of evil” in broad daylight. That's where we are. Learning protects us. The Palestinians and their suffering teach us about hell. They are our guides. It's a very hard lesson. We see, thanks to them, how far humanity has descended. And then, thanks to the Palestinians, we learn about conscience. We look around us and most people don't even know where Palestine is. This ignorance, too, is a lesson we need to look at, and in broad daylight too.

In Andrei Tarkovsky's masterpiece, Andrei Rublev, a philosophic film about the human condition, a monk painter of icons decides not to speak as long as the horrors of war continue and not to paint any more. To speak no more, to remain silent and observe. Of course, whether God exists and whether God permits these atrocities is an important question for Andrei Rublev. It is a question and for him, the answer is to remain silent and observe. By remaining silent and observing, the monk is a witness. He learns about the human condition. He learns about God, about hell, about love, about the heart.

Keeping silent, not to keep quiet, but for a better and more profound look at what it is. This is the silence within, which is also joy, peace.
Thanks for sharing about Andrei Tarkovskys film
I watched that last night - what a mastepriece !!

here is the link if anyone is looking for a good quality film to watch ;) its in a different league entirely !! excellent .

 
Thanks for sharing about Andrei Tarkovskys film
I watched that last night - what a mastepriece !!

here is the link if anyone is looking for a good quality film to watch ;) its in a different league entirely !! excellent .


Thank you for sharing this, it's been many years since I first saw this film. Many of Tarkovsky's films are very esoteric and difficult to penetrate and understand, but this one is a visceral look into the human condition, and how we survive under great external stress. Just a brilliant counterpoint to such a film as Apocalypse Now, showing the savagery of war and its scarring influence on the human soul. It depicts how a man still maintains his faith in Christ and the soul in the face of unbelievable suffering. An absolutely superb film which everyone should see, even if it's only once. I've poured myself a large cup of tea and will be watching this classic again tonight! Thanks again.
 

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