Recent scenes from North Korea
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Interesting how our emotional center works, although it probably only does this when it isn't developed. I mean no offense when I say this Ellipse as it's not directed at you specifically but just humanity overall. Your post simply reminded me of it. We can easily be roused to tears by a picture, an article, or something similar as we focus on it at the moment. But in comparison to the much more powerful and worldwide suffering this particular picture can be nothing. And yet we grieve for it because it is there in front of us at that moment. Whenever I catch myself being emotionally disturbed by a particular injustice or oppression or suffering, I tend to now ask myself, "Why am I crying for this now, what about the millions, billions of cases of far worse suffering happening every day that I'm not personally privy to, why am I not crying for them?".
I have no answer, because I have no reason, no excuse. And just to make the distinction, I'm not using this thought to repress my emotions about a specific situation in front of me, but just the opposite, to remind myself that I should be just as upset and just as disturbed, even more so, about all the millions of people who are suffering and dying and starving and being figuratively and literally stepped on by the psychopaths all over the world every moment.
How can I claim to have a heart if I only cry for some, the tiny minority I happen to see in a sad picture, and not the overwhelming majority I am not witnessing but whose suffering is no less real and no less painful?
No wonder war pictures are banned in US media. The sleeping emotional centers of the population can only be roused by direct visual stimulation, very few are capable of caring in the more abstract sense, just by understanding that horrors are being committed.
I have no answer, because I have no reason, no excuse. And just to make the distinction, I'm not using this thought to repress my emotions about a specific situation in front of me, but just the opposite, to remind myself that I should be just as upset and just as disturbed, even more so, about all the millions of people who are suffering and dying and starving and being figuratively and literally stepped on by the psychopaths all over the world every moment.
How can I claim to have a heart if I only cry for some, the tiny minority I happen to see in a sad picture, and not the overwhelming majority I am not witnessing but whose suffering is no less real and no less painful?
No wonder war pictures are banned in US media. The sleeping emotional centers of the population can only be roused by direct visual stimulation, very few are capable of caring in the more abstract sense, just by understanding that horrors are being committed.
anart
A Disturbance in the Force
Ellipse said:
Hi Ellipse, could you explain to which problem you are referring?
E said:
Assuming, first, that the emotional center is functioning normally at all - which in the vast majority of cases, it is not. This is due to our 'unnatural surroundings' - and all the trauma and pain inflicted very early on that results in a shutting down of the emotional center. One cannot progress in the Work without a properly functioning emotional center and for most 'modern' people, this is one of the earliest obstacles to overcome - to truly activate their full emotional centers - to really 'feel'. fwiw.
I understand the point of SAO. Maybe a picture reminds us of the terror of the situations all of the others are in. It may be interpreted as a symbol for a global distress. I think that what makes one sad in this particular picture is not these women we see (they have a job and they probably enjoy their life, who knows) but the condition of women in the world, as they are manipulated by PTB and their psychopath servitors. Yes we must be sad for men too as they are also victims of mind slaving. Well, IMHO, it is not too bad to feel the suffering of others by watching into reality. (my english is improving, spell check found only 3 errors!)
cholas
Dagobah Resident
mkrnhr said:
Guessing you didn't really mean all women, right mkrnhr? Palin and all...
I found little disturbing about the photo myself, as far as woman being in the operating positions of heavy artillery. Plenty of men and women are involved in these wargames. Maybe it's different in other countries?
cholas :)
You got it. Being in this forum, defining a human being is subtil. You remark remembers me of something : the lady in dress in Matrix (the movie). Is she a woman or not? Well, it depends upon the context. If we are in the Matrix, she's a woman. If we try to free from the matrix, she's not. That's the same here. Given all the information about psychopaths and organic portals, talking about women who are victims of the system restricts the definition of women in this context. All women and men and children who are the victims of the system exclude naturally such characters like S. Palin because she doesn't fit into the actual definition of women :)
That's who I feel it.
You got it. Being in this forum, defining a human being is subtil. You remark remembers me of something : the lady in dress in Matrix (the movie). Is she a woman or not? Well, it depends upon the context. If we are in the Matrix, she's a woman. If we try to free from the matrix, she's not. That's the same here. Given all the information about psychopaths and organic portals, talking about women who are victims of the system restricts the definition of women in this context. All women and men and children who are the victims of the system exclude naturally such characters like S. Palin because she doesn't fit into the actual definition of women :)
That's who I feel it.
