but it makes me want an escalation, to destroy the evil, but it's another type of thinking error.
That's the hardest one to have to give up! It would be soooo much easier just to push all the evil doers off the ice floe.
but it makes me want an escalation, to destroy the evil, but it's another type of thinking error.
At any rate, I will take your words of caution to heart
Can't say for sure, but neither "situation" nor "humanity at large" seem to really be 'responsible' for the "frustration".Where do you believe it should be directed ?
Unfortunately, there already was 'similar' UN resolution passed by overwhelming majority not so long ago, and basically nothing happened on the ground in reality afterwards. It isn't the SC resolution where the US vetoes every attempt to make some change/demand on Israel.Finally! The UN just passed a resolution demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. We'll what happens next.
To what they have said, I will add something in case it helps you weigh other nuances:Exactly. No extreme militia is there to help anyone.
When you capture civilian infants and the elderly as hostages and torture and kill people, you ain't doing so in the name of peace. Same goes for bombing entire neighborhoods
This goes for all militias, I don't care who funds them or what banners they carry
We've been paying attention:
The name of the game is sowing hatred, chaos and causing destabilization, and the nationalities involved in each case are quite besides the point
There is a lot to reflect and weigh, remember that the nonexistence of Hamas is practically impossible because it is a product that serves the purposes of Israel and created by it, if it got out of control it is simply because they played with fire-desirous thinking.Q: (L) What happens to people who commit suicide?
A: Varies according to circumstance.
Q: (L) In a general sense, is there some negative karma involved in committing suicide?
A: There can be negative karma involved with many things.
Q: (L) What about the death penalty?
A: Specify.
Q: (L) Is putting a criminal to death the equivalent of reducing society to the level of the criminal?
A: You are all put to death.
Q: (L) What do you mean?
A: In one way or another.
Q: (L) Well, is there any negative karma on society, the judge, the jury, the executioner, if a criminal is brought to trial, found guilty of a heinous crime and then put to death?
A: What about war? What is better? This is open because all are murderers and suicides. It is the supreme lesson you all must learn before you can graduate to ethereal existence. Your thinking is too simplified.
Q: (L) Is there ever a situation where execution helps relieve the criminal of some of his karma that may be caused by the commission of the crime for which he is being executed?
A: No.
Q: (L) Is it better to take a criminal, such as Dahmer, and have all of society support and take care of him?
A: These are all past issues. Will be resolved soon.
Yes, perhaps what you want is for the situation to cease to exist, in that sense trying to see the conciliatory position seems more reasonable.I think my problem is in hoping for a different ground altogether and realizing that it will never happen.
I understand the principle that violence begets violence, but so does passivity in the presence of violent injustice, it turns equanimity into perpetuating abuse. And sometimes violence is the correct answer. There's dozens of examples this decade alone, Russia doesn't grow violent, it gets invaded by NATO, Syria doesn't get violent, it gets run over by NATO.
Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation.
- Avner Cohen
Do not compare” is the mantra of moral blackmailers.
― Norman G. Finkelstein
Take the worst thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by 1,000 times and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians
- Gabor Maté
No one should be doing it. Period.
The greatest joke to me is so called "war crimes". All and any war should be a crime.
Where do you believe it should be directed ?
Yes Luc, those who should be condemned should be condemned but not in the way Polish MP Grzegorz Braun did it. By extinguishing the menorah with a fire extinguisher.You directed your frustration at "humanity at large", but this makes it abstract and relativizes it, it makes the atrocities disappear from view and unanalyzable, incomprehensible.
If someone mugs you and kills your children, it's not "humanity" that's to blame, but the mugger and murderer, and those who condone him.
Your frustration should be directed at Israel: its politicians, its people who overwhelmingly are in favor of its crimes and believe its lies, its culture, its history, its normalized barbarism. In fact, "humanity" looks pretty good compared to that.
maybe part of the answer is that the karmic lesson/life plan outcome of the intruder is to be killed somehowA age old question: What are my karmic repercussions if I kill an intruder who threatens my family’s safety/lives? I recall a session where that was discussed and answered, but I don’t have the search or data recall mastery of an @MJF or @Natus Videre I’m pretty sure that it’s in here somewhere. And to what scale does that extend in theory?
Q: (L) Yeah, I did. Wasn't it that Michael Topper article? I wrote about it somewhere else, too. I think in the article I wrote something about the psychopathic state of America, that we're almost required to resist that domination for the sake of the future, for the sake of the STO position itself. Well, so in other words...
A: One thing you should consider is that the so-called "rules" that dictate that it is being less than human to defend oneself and what is right and true just may have been programmed to make one weak.
Q: (Artemis) Well, yeah, I mean if you look at Western society and values and TV, they're all about not killing people at all even if you're a good guy and even if you need to.
(L) At the same time, they promote killing with all their shoot-em-ups and blow-em-ups. There's something about that, because... It's like Jonathan Haidt who talks about the different moral systems and that the liberal snowflake moral system foundation is mainly just about not harming anybody, and nobody should ever get hurt, nobody should have hurt feelings... And that's kinda bizarre because it doesn't accommodate the fact that...
(Andromeda) In the wrong situation, it leads to hurt!
(L) Yeah. Not to mention reality itself. Well, anybody got any more questions? I'm getting tired.
(Chu) The thing about the 4D labs... We were talking earlier about free will and all that. So, how would it work at a practical level? Are there Good Guys Labs, Bad Guys Labs, and the bad guys interfere as much as they can, while the good guys are not allowed to interfere, but just to protect? Or because the person asks?
A: When asked and when it will not cause a disturbance in life lesson plans.
Q: (L) So in a certain sense...
(Joe) It's dependent on the person's life lesson plan. If their plan is to experience something nasty, then they're probably not gonna get any help. If it's part of some maneuver by some other forces trying to subvert that life plan, then you get help.
A: Yes exactly.
(Perceval) Did Caesar himself ever kill anyone?
A: Many, certainly.
Q: (Perceval) So, given the times around then being very war-like, with a lot of fighting and death going on in general... and with some kind of a Great Soul at the time coming down and... it doesn't necessarily have to be a peacemaker kissing people's feet like Jesus... But is there some thing like what we would understand as a prohibition against killing other people as a requirement for being "spiritually evolved"
A: That idea is for the most part an exaggerated human philosophical construct.
Q: (L) So the idea that...
(Perceval) That to be good, thou shalt not kill...
(Atriedes) But which religion does that come from? The most killingest religion on the planet!