Scary faces

[jelly49]

Hi all,
There is a show in Australia that they put on at 9:30 every wednesday night called "Beyond the Darklands". (I am not sure if it is an Aussie exclusive TV show or if it is shown anywhere else in the world, as I have never actually seen it).
Anyway, they put the adverts on for it during the day, and they showed bits and pieces about this week's killer. Something about "the police were shocked to find what was behind that door) and then showing his bedroom door in a scary- vibed scene. And get this - the last image you see in that approx. ten second advert for the show (don't quote me on the estimated time :P) is this killer with one of those chequered flannelette shirts and a beanie, pulling a really, evil scary face

Why does this amuse me??
Because I questioned after that advert, what's with the evil face pulling?
Surely, as a psychopath you do evil things and everything but it was as if he had pulled the face as if to say "Look at me, I'm soo good, I like to kill people." In other words, it was an ego/image thing. And in my opinion, the TV network are just as f-ed for showing some complete idiot serial killer pulling some evil face. I don't know why it amused me and peed me off at the same time (in a "how ridiculous" sense) but it made me think. The TV networks are showing these programs (with names like beyond the darklands, etc) and putting scary adverts on with freaky bedroom doors and serial killers pulling stupid faces as if to try to scare the living poo out of us.
And then it comes to that emotion. FEAR.
To walk this STO path one of the requirements is to fear nothing. We learn to be noble and brave, so we can learn see through the stupid evil faces and scary bedroom doors. The TV network puts this stuff on to scare us, with the dark themes and so on.
And I guess when I realised that this deranged psychopathic killer was pulling a face it was just a scare tactic, from he himself AND the TV network for showing the face.
So I laughed.
In these coming times, I think we have to deal with these types of issues. You can't deny that the society is getting more violent by the second.

 

[ScioAgapeOmnis]

Yeah, real psychopaths and killers don't have evil faces, they smile and can be very charming when they need to. So TV does condition people to assume bad guys look like bad guys, which makes them much easier to deceive.

I don't know how actual STO feels, but I know that moving towards STO at our level does not require in any way to eliminate fear. I think  it just requires that we question it and apply to useful things not limiting/harmful things, kinda like anger. Fear can often be misguided even when it is fear "for someone else", like when a religious mother for example is concerned for her daughter who questions the religion. Then I'd call that pseudo-concern as it is rooted in subjectivity and lies that we refuse to question, and are at the base of our interactions with others.

I think whatever emotions STO may experience would be rooted in empathy, and so would only work to help everyone. Like being afraid of giving someone wrong advice or harming when you really mean to help. This prompts you to be careful and to question what you're about to do or say, and why you're about to do/say it, etc. Although that fear can be bad too if it is paralyzing, where you never end up saying or doing anything. But sometimes paralysis is good because maybe it has a good reason, maybe you just realized that you have no idea what you're talking about and need to really stop and go back to the drawing board yourself regarding a certain subject. But if it is rooted in empathy, "bad" paralyzing fear would be worked through because at the end of the day you know you can't help anyone if you never say or do anything, but you also cannot help by doing/saying the wrong things. So you kinda work towards finding the balance of being careful but simultaneously having faith in yourself, that if you're just being genuine and open with yourself and those you interact with, things will work well. As the C's say, always strive to rise, and have faith in your interaction with the creation.