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by Lindsay » 11 Jul 2011, 04:42
Texas dad dumps 4-year-old boy on highway, or…why God is an Asshole
At 3am Rico (father) stopped his vehicle on the side of the highway, and threw his son Angel into a patch of cacti. There the boy remained abandoned for over three hours, with several hundred cactus needles stuck into his body.
Now, this is quite a stark example of what happens when we abdicate our Self-Responsibility to a belief in ‘God’ – where we allow such a point of accumulated possession to compound within us due to feeding this belief, that we will listen to voices in our head telling us what to do – not taking a moment to investigate what we are participating in and the subsequent outflows of such participation, because…we can just blame it on ‘God’s divine plan.’
I mean, the symbolism of his son’s name alone reveals some pretty fucked up shit in relation to ‘fallen angels’ being cast from heaven. Looking at the point at a physical level, Angel was definitely placed in a position of being banished, being ‘cast aside’ and left for dead – however, Angel wasn’t the ‘sinner’ here; Angel wasn’t the ‘demon’ – his father was indeed responsible for being demon-possessed within his own thoughts, and instead of seeing this, he allowed a child, a child he himself created – the innocence of Life – to ‘take the fall’ for him. What an asshole fucker of a ‘God’ to tell someone to do such a thing, and what an asshole fucker of a human to obey such a command. Time to stop believing that our thoughts are gospel – if it’s in this world, if it’s in Rico, it’s here because each and every one of us has accepted and allowed it – thus, we must stop all thoughts within ourselves, we must forgive ourselves for turning a blind eye to the consequences of our thoughts, to ensure this type of shit ENDS – forevermore. And if you reacted by thinking : ‘I am not responsible for what this fucker did to his child’ then you just proved the entire point of this blog – thanks.
Instead of Rico standing up within himself and facing himself within/as Self-Honesty, instead of Forgiving himself for accepting and allowing himself to abdicate himself to his possessed thoughts to such a degree that he was willing to harm innocent life, instead of Rico investigating what exactly he was creating, as the God of himself, manifesting his god-awful world through participation in thoughts with no SELF-Direction, he deliberately decides to create an entity within himself in which to project all the points he is too afraid to face – leading to such spiteful separation that he allows his thoughts to direct him physically, as manifest consequence, to abuse, choke, and abandon his son in order to not have to face his own creation. This, is what we call cowardice, beyond measure.
This point of ‘hearing the voice of God’ is promoted extensively, specifically in Christianity, where followers belief that they have a ‘unique and special’ connection to God through their ‘relationship’ with Jesus Christ, and through this their able to ‘talk’ to God. What about that whole thing Jesus stated about loving thy neighbor as thyself? Yeah…exactly – doesn’t quite fit here, as people would rather follow voices in their head than actually live the words of Jesus, in fact, because that would actually mean seeing others as ourselves, which would mean caring for others, and giving to others what we ourselves would like to receive, and letting go of our perceived ‘relationship’ to nothing other than our mind, which creates absolute atrocity in this physical reality – just take look around, and you will see for yourself what happens when we follow our thoughts – one huge mess. I’m quite sure Rico would not like to ‘receive’, what he ‘gave’ to Angel.
Point blank – this is unacceptable, and not only that, but it was barely covered in the news.
In an Equal Money System we stand to create Heaven on Earth, where ALL are cared for in a proper manner that will allow each one to Live a dignified Life. No one will be cast aside, no one will be banished, as there will be no God to listen to when we’re all here together in this physical reality, as physical Gods, ensuring the best possible Life for all, as one with and equal to ourselves – instead of existing up in our mind, totally separate from reality, believing ‘God-thoughts’ are giving us some important message to act on.
Resource:
“Texas dad dumps 4-year-old boy on highway.” The Spokesman Review. Associated Press. June 29, 2011. Web. <http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2011/jun/29/4-year-old-texas-boy-dumped-highway/>
SWEETWATER, Texas (AP) — A father abandoned his 4-year-old son along a West Texas highway, and the injured boy spent several hours alone in the dark before a passing motorist picked him up, police said. (full article here)
At 3am Rico (father) stopped his vehicle on the side of the highway, and threw his son Angel into a patch of cacti. There the boy remained abandoned for over three hours, with several hundred cactus needles stuck into his body.
Rico told Saginaw investigators that God told him to choke the boy and expel him from the car, Kelley said. There was bruising on Angel’s throat, he said.
Now, this is quite a stark example of what happens when we abdicate our Self-Responsibility to a belief in ‘God’ – where we allow such a point of accumulated possession to compound within us due to feeding this belief, that we will listen to voices in our head telling us what to do – not taking a moment to investigate what we are participating in and the subsequent outflows of such participation, because…we can just blame it on ‘God’s divine plan.’
I mean, the symbolism of his son’s name alone reveals some pretty fucked up shit in relation to ‘fallen angels’ being cast from heaven. Looking at the point at a physical level, Angel was definitely placed in a position of being banished, being ‘cast aside’ and left for dead – however, Angel wasn’t the ‘sinner’ here; Angel wasn’t the ‘demon’ – his father was indeed responsible for being demon-possessed within his own thoughts, and instead of seeing this, he allowed a child, a child he himself created – the innocence of Life – to ‘take the fall’ for him. What an asshole fucker of a ‘God’ to tell someone to do such a thing, and what an asshole fucker of a human to obey such a command. Time to stop believing that our thoughts are gospel – if it’s in this world, if it’s in Rico, it’s here because each and every one of us has accepted and allowed it – thus, we must stop all thoughts within ourselves, we must forgive ourselves for turning a blind eye to the consequences of our thoughts, to ensure this type of shit ENDS – forevermore. And if you reacted by thinking : ‘I am not responsible for what this fucker did to his child’ then you just proved the entire point of this blog – thanks.
Instead of Rico standing up within himself and facing himself within/as Self-Honesty, instead of Forgiving himself for accepting and allowing himself to abdicate himself to his possessed thoughts to such a degree that he was willing to harm innocent life, instead of Rico investigating what exactly he was creating, as the God of himself, manifesting his god-awful world through participation in thoughts with no SELF-Direction, he deliberately decides to create an entity within himself in which to project all the points he is too afraid to face – leading to such spiteful separation that he allows his thoughts to direct him physically, as manifest consequence, to abuse, choke, and abandon his son in order to not have to face his own creation. This, is what we call cowardice, beyond measure.
This point of ‘hearing the voice of God’ is promoted extensively, specifically in Christianity, where followers belief that they have a ‘unique and special’ connection to God through their ‘relationship’ with Jesus Christ, and through this their able to ‘talk’ to God. What about that whole thing Jesus stated about loving thy neighbor as thyself? Yeah…exactly – doesn’t quite fit here, as people would rather follow voices in their head than actually live the words of Jesus, in fact, because that would actually mean seeing others as ourselves, which would mean caring for others, and giving to others what we ourselves would like to receive, and letting go of our perceived ‘relationship’ to nothing other than our mind, which creates absolute atrocity in this physical reality – just take look around, and you will see for yourself what happens when we follow our thoughts – one huge mess. I’m quite sure Rico would not like to ‘receive’, what he ‘gave’ to Angel.
Point blank – this is unacceptable, and not only that, but it was barely covered in the news.
In an Equal Money System we stand to create Heaven on Earth, where ALL are cared for in a proper manner that will allow each one to Live a dignified Life. No one will be cast aside, no one will be banished, as there will be no God to listen to when we’re all here together in this physical reality, as physical Gods, ensuring the best possible Life for all, as one with and equal to ourselves – instead of existing up in our mind, totally separate from reality, believing ‘God-thoughts’ are giving us some important message to act on.
Resource:
“Texas dad dumps 4-year-old boy on highway.” The Spokesman Review. Associated Press. June 29, 2011. Web. <http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2011/jun/29/4-year-old-texas-boy-dumped-highway/>
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Re: Lindsay's Blogs
by Lindsay » 21 Jul 2011, 17:43
Has hacking affected the media’s credibility worldwide? <-- link to blogpost.
Has hacking affected the media's credibility worldwide?<-- link to video
The above video is in response to the phone-hacking ‘scandal’ that recently took place in Britain involving several workers for the News of the World tabloid who used phone-hacking to procure ‘the scoop’ on the rich and famous – or – the juiciest gossip they could get their dastardly paws on.
This blog isn’t about the phone-hacking scandal though, directly anyway, it’s about another scandal – the scandalous acts humanity has committed in spite of Life due to apathy and severe lack of Self-Responsibility.
In this video the BBC interviews various people in Russia, Pakistan, and Columbia to get ‘the scoop’ on whether or not they have experienced themselves as affected by the phone-hacking scandal in Britain, and within this whether their perceptions of the media have been influenced because of it.
Here’s a statement from a woman who was interviewed in Moscow, Russia, which I would like to specifically take a look at (20 seconds into video):
‘I don’t find it normal, but I do accept that such as the job of specific people. I think that if I choose to be a teacher, I have to act as one; or if I choose to be a saleswoman, then I should never scream at my clients.
The same with journalists – they have to do what they have to do. If they receive the task, they have to fulfill it – this is money, this is life. Therefore, I think that everyone has to do his job at any cost.
If I was a journalist, I would probably do the same.’
So, what is revealed here in this woman’s words is what most people on this planet accept and allow as well, wherein she states that although she sees the deception – ‘I don’t find it normal‘ – she still accepts it as just the way it is, because one must ‘do what they have to do‘ to survive in this system and make money ‘at any cost.’ She has accepted that one must submit to the system/their job no matter what; that one must be ‘a good little slave’ even if it means disregarding Life, disregarding one’s accountability, disregarding the consequences of one’s actions and who/what may be affected by them – all within the belief that ‘this is money, this is life.’
To be clear – this is NOT Life!
What she is describing here as ‘the way the world works’ – is NOT Life – it is enslavement. It is compromise. It is limitation. It is complacency. It is accepted and allowed victimization and perceived dependency upon a system WE have all participated in creating, but have ‘given up’ being accountable for due to self-inflicted amnesia/self-denial accumulated over ages of abdicating self’s Responsibility for all that is Here, as oneself.
Meaning, for example, this entire phone-hacking scandal is merely a representation of the gossip/scandalousness each one of us has allowed within ourselves – within our mind as thoughts to entertain ourselves so as to not have to face the reality of what is actually going on in this world, because simplistically – it wouldn’t be in this world, it wouldn’t have manifested in this world – if it didn’t first have its inception within each one of us.
Now, this type of commentary by an ‘everyday citizen’ is precisely why/how we have landed ourselves in the state of absolute atrocity manifesting here on Earth. The question isn’t ‘has hacking affected the media’s credibility worldwide?’ – but: has turning a blind eye and suppressing that we ALL are responsible for what is Here in this world affecting HUMANITY’S credibility worldwide?
We ARE the media. The MEdia is a direct reflection of us – you and ME, duh.
We are diminishing ourselves extensively by not seeing HOW we have created a world wherein it is acceptable that rape, murder, war, torture, child abuse, starvation, poverty, greed, gossip, scandal, exploitation, manipulation, brainwashing, slavery have been allowed ‘a place’ here to flourish and grow as an infectious dis-ease that we all are sick with.
The cure to this sickness of self is Self-Responsibility, Self-Accountability, Self-Honesty, Self-Forgiveness and actual Self-Correction that stands eternal – no relapse.
To ensure this highly contagious dis-ease no longer infects future generations, support an Equal Money System, and stand up for/as Life. Time to stop accepting this system of abuse as ‘just the way it is.’ We have the ability to change. We have the ability to stop being slaves. We have the ability to forgive ourselves and start anew. Not only do we have the ability, but we have the response-ability – to Life – to the children not yet born. Get a Life.
Has hacking affected the media's credibility worldwide?<-- link to video
The above video is in response to the phone-hacking ‘scandal’ that recently took place in Britain involving several workers for the News of the World tabloid who used phone-hacking to procure ‘the scoop’ on the rich and famous – or – the juiciest gossip they could get their dastardly paws on.
This blog isn’t about the phone-hacking scandal though, directly anyway, it’s about another scandal – the scandalous acts humanity has committed in spite of Life due to apathy and severe lack of Self-Responsibility.
In this video the BBC interviews various people in Russia, Pakistan, and Columbia to get ‘the scoop’ on whether or not they have experienced themselves as affected by the phone-hacking scandal in Britain, and within this whether their perceptions of the media have been influenced because of it.
Here’s a statement from a woman who was interviewed in Moscow, Russia, which I would like to specifically take a look at (20 seconds into video):
‘I don’t find it normal, but I do accept that such as the job of specific people. I think that if I choose to be a teacher, I have to act as one; or if I choose to be a saleswoman, then I should never scream at my clients.
The same with journalists – they have to do what they have to do. If they receive the task, they have to fulfill it – this is money, this is life. Therefore, I think that everyone has to do his job at any cost.
If I was a journalist, I would probably do the same.’
So, what is revealed here in this woman’s words is what most people on this planet accept and allow as well, wherein she states that although she sees the deception – ‘I don’t find it normal‘ – she still accepts it as just the way it is, because one must ‘do what they have to do‘ to survive in this system and make money ‘at any cost.’ She has accepted that one must submit to the system/their job no matter what; that one must be ‘a good little slave’ even if it means disregarding Life, disregarding one’s accountability, disregarding the consequences of one’s actions and who/what may be affected by them – all within the belief that ‘this is money, this is life.’
To be clear – this is NOT Life!
What she is describing here as ‘the way the world works’ – is NOT Life – it is enslavement. It is compromise. It is limitation. It is complacency. It is accepted and allowed victimization and perceived dependency upon a system WE have all participated in creating, but have ‘given up’ being accountable for due to self-inflicted amnesia/self-denial accumulated over ages of abdicating self’s Responsibility for all that is Here, as oneself.
Meaning, for example, this entire phone-hacking scandal is merely a representation of the gossip/scandalousness each one of us has allowed within ourselves – within our mind as thoughts to entertain ourselves so as to not have to face the reality of what is actually going on in this world, because simplistically – it wouldn’t be in this world, it wouldn’t have manifested in this world – if it didn’t first have its inception within each one of us.
Now, this type of commentary by an ‘everyday citizen’ is precisely why/how we have landed ourselves in the state of absolute atrocity manifesting here on Earth. The question isn’t ‘has hacking affected the media’s credibility worldwide?’ – but: has turning a blind eye and suppressing that we ALL are responsible for what is Here in this world affecting HUMANITY’S credibility worldwide?
We ARE the media. The MEdia is a direct reflection of us – you and ME, duh.
We are diminishing ourselves extensively by not seeing HOW we have created a world wherein it is acceptable that rape, murder, war, torture, child abuse, starvation, poverty, greed, gossip, scandal, exploitation, manipulation, brainwashing, slavery have been allowed ‘a place’ here to flourish and grow as an infectious dis-ease that we all are sick with.
The cure to this sickness of self is Self-Responsibility, Self-Accountability, Self-Honesty, Self-Forgiveness and actual Self-Correction that stands eternal – no relapse.
To ensure this highly contagious dis-ease no longer infects future generations, support an Equal Money System, and stand up for/as Life. Time to stop accepting this system of abuse as ‘just the way it is.’ We have the ability to change. We have the ability to stop being slaves. We have the ability to forgive ourselves and start anew. Not only do we have the ability, but we have the response-ability – to Life – to the children not yet born. Get a Life.
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Re: Lindsay's Blogs
by Lindsay » 07 Aug 2011, 20:32
DR Congo: Cholera epidemic now reaches thousands – Equal Money System Solution
This is the consequence of each of us accepting and allowing a system that has inequality inherently built into its structure, wherein simply points such as clean drinking water and proper sanitation are disregarded for some (most), while others can sip down the most ‘pristine’ water from Fiji while having discussions in squishy swiveling leather chairs about where to drop the next bomb in what they believe to be a crusade against ‘terrorism.’
The question that begs to be asked here is: who are the ACTUAL terrorists?
Those that deny basic necessities to some of the world’s most vulnerable people? Those who drop bombs and celebrate the death of innocent civilians, as if this is ‘the way to go’ in ending the ‘terror’ in this world? Those that fail to report such atrocity, but instead deem the latest scandal from Hollywood to be worthy of front-page news?
Who ARE these people?
They are YOU and ME.
We are each responsible for ALL that is here – all the terror, the atrocity, the abuse, the suffering, the disregard of Life – it is here, because we have each decided, whether tacitly or outright, to accept and allow this abomination to continue. Each day we participate in and perpetuate a system of such terror that “1,145 children in DRC have died in a measles epidemic this year. 115,600 children have been infected. As if this was not enough, there is a third epidemic, of poliomyelitis” all due to improper hygiene conditions, which is clearly money-related.
We are not separate from this. We ARE this. This is who we have allowed ourselves to be as humanity. We have allowed ourselves to turn a blind eye to what is happening on this very Earth, which is here in unconditional support, yet we believe we are ‘owed’ something for being here, and through this we take actual life, we take the actual breath of life from others in order to preserve ourselves, believing it is our right to walk this Earth and not care who has to suffer as long as we are ‘safe’ = the ultimate terrorist.
It takes actual Self-Movement to be a being that cares. It takes actual Self-Care to see that we are all here Equally, as Life. It takes actual Courage to give to another as you would like to receive. It takes actual Self-Dedication to, in each and every moment of breath, make decisions that are within the principle of what is Best for ALL.
We believe it is so much easier to be apathetic and complacent, yet that is merely short-sited programming that inhibits one from seeing that it is absolutely and totally exhausting to keep up this entire charade, as we have to continuously find ways to feed ourselves energy and to remain distracted so as to not have to take a Self-Honest look at what we are creating here in this One Life we each have.
What is happening in the Congo, which can be seen in places all around the world, is a direct outflow of a money-system which is based on profit, greed, and obvious inequality – not Life – no, not Life, at all.
Support an Equal Money System, where money is given the value of Life; where no child is left to die from easily preventable diseases that can be taken care of simply by us working with each other, not against each other, to demand proper conditions that ensure a dignified Life for All.
To stop the terror in this world, we must stop the terror in ourselves; we must stop fearing survival to such a degree that we are willing to let others die from the dis-ease we have created in ourselves. We are so afraid of having what is happening in DRC happen to us, that instead of placing ourselves in their shoes, we turn our backs. Who would you be if your water no longer ‘magically’ came out of your faucet at your command?
This is unacceptable.
This reality we share at the moment isn’t actual Living, not even close. An Equal Money System will create the conditions for Life to be born Here. Life will rein in an Equal Money System, not terror.
We must learn to Forgive ourselves, and from this Equal Money is the ultimate act of Forgiveness, as an expression of who we are when we no longer spite Life.
Source: Belov, Timofei. “DR Congo: Cholera epidemic now reaches thousands.” Pravada 26 July 2011: 1. Web. 7 Aug 2011. <http://english.pravda.ru/health/26-07-2011/118594-congo_cholera-0/>.
‘The cholera epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is spreading and has reached thousands of people, according to the UNO’s World Health Organization. So far two hundred and sixty-five people have died – the UN calls it an epidemic – and it is spreading across the frontiers. As if this was not enough, DRC confronts measles and polio epidemics as well.
With the NATO countries busy spending money on weapons to bomb hospitals and to support terrorist attacks in Libya, this is a story which will only with tremendous difficulty reach the pages of the corporate press which is intent on whitewashing NATO war crimes and lying about the Libyan terrorists being unarmed civilians.’ (pravada.ru: full story here)
This is the consequence of each of us accepting and allowing a system that has inequality inherently built into its structure, wherein simply points such as clean drinking water and proper sanitation are disregarded for some (most), while others can sip down the most ‘pristine’ water from Fiji while having discussions in squishy swiveling leather chairs about where to drop the next bomb in what they believe to be a crusade against ‘terrorism.’
The question that begs to be asked here is: who are the ACTUAL terrorists?
Those that deny basic necessities to some of the world’s most vulnerable people? Those who drop bombs and celebrate the death of innocent civilians, as if this is ‘the way to go’ in ending the ‘terror’ in this world? Those that fail to report such atrocity, but instead deem the latest scandal from Hollywood to be worthy of front-page news?
Who ARE these people?
They are YOU and ME.
We are each responsible for ALL that is here – all the terror, the atrocity, the abuse, the suffering, the disregard of Life – it is here, because we have each decided, whether tacitly or outright, to accept and allow this abomination to continue. Each day we participate in and perpetuate a system of such terror that “1,145 children in DRC have died in a measles epidemic this year. 115,600 children have been infected. As if this was not enough, there is a third epidemic, of poliomyelitis” all due to improper hygiene conditions, which is clearly money-related.
We are not separate from this. We ARE this. This is who we have allowed ourselves to be as humanity. We have allowed ourselves to turn a blind eye to what is happening on this very Earth, which is here in unconditional support, yet we believe we are ‘owed’ something for being here, and through this we take actual life, we take the actual breath of life from others in order to preserve ourselves, believing it is our right to walk this Earth and not care who has to suffer as long as we are ‘safe’ = the ultimate terrorist.
It takes actual Self-Movement to be a being that cares. It takes actual Self-Care to see that we are all here Equally, as Life. It takes actual Courage to give to another as you would like to receive. It takes actual Self-Dedication to, in each and every moment of breath, make decisions that are within the principle of what is Best for ALL.
We believe it is so much easier to be apathetic and complacent, yet that is merely short-sited programming that inhibits one from seeing that it is absolutely and totally exhausting to keep up this entire charade, as we have to continuously find ways to feed ourselves energy and to remain distracted so as to not have to take a Self-Honest look at what we are creating here in this One Life we each have.
What is happening in the Congo, which can be seen in places all around the world, is a direct outflow of a money-system which is based on profit, greed, and obvious inequality – not Life – no, not Life, at all.
Support an Equal Money System, where money is given the value of Life; where no child is left to die from easily preventable diseases that can be taken care of simply by us working with each other, not against each other, to demand proper conditions that ensure a dignified Life for All.
To stop the terror in this world, we must stop the terror in ourselves; we must stop fearing survival to such a degree that we are willing to let others die from the dis-ease we have created in ourselves. We are so afraid of having what is happening in DRC happen to us, that instead of placing ourselves in their shoes, we turn our backs. Who would you be if your water no longer ‘magically’ came out of your faucet at your command?
This is unacceptable.
This reality we share at the moment isn’t actual Living, not even close. An Equal Money System will create the conditions for Life to be born Here. Life will rein in an Equal Money System, not terror.
We must learn to Forgive ourselves, and from this Equal Money is the ultimate act of Forgiveness, as an expression of who we are when we no longer spite Life.
Source: Belov, Timofei. “DR Congo: Cholera epidemic now reaches thousands.” Pravada 26 July 2011: 1. Web. 7 Aug 2011. <http://english.pravda.ru/health/26-07-2011/118594-congo_cholera-0/>.
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Re: Lindsay's Blogs
by Lindsay » 14 Aug 2011, 23:19
GOLD Standard is NOT What's Best For All
Max Keiser & The Gold Standard: Best for All?
(same post - different blogs)
Max Keiser & The Gold Standard: Best for All?
(same post - different blogs)
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Re: Lindsay's Blogs
by Lindsay » 20 Aug 2011, 06:12
Why Millions Can Die and We Don’t Care: Is Being Numb Really Comfortable?
"One death is a tragedy. One million is a statistic."
~ Joseph Stalin
In an article posted by Psychology Today on August 15, 2011 entitled: "Statistical Numbing: Why Millions Can Die and We Don't Care," the author David Ropeik reveals the point of how we as humanity tend to consider and place our attention more towards singular beings in need of assistance, rather than considering the assistance that is required for mass amount of beings - or one could say: "the whole."
The way in which Ropeik goes about revealing this finding was by first, at the beginning of the article, relaying a personal story of four year-old Khafra who lay in a refugee camp hospital on the brink of death due to starvation and extreme malnourishment. Ropeik expresses how Khafra's mother is "helpless, sad beyond comprehension, but herself too malnourished to cry."
He then goes on to disclose startling statistics in relation to the famine in the Horn of Africa as a whole, which:
"has left more than 12 million people malnourished, including half of Somalia's population. The U.N. says 640,000 Somali children are starving, and more than 29,000 children in southern Somalia have starved to death in the last 90 days."
After this he states:
"Which of those two paragraphs was more emotionally powerful? It should have been the second, shouldn't it, based on the scale of the suffering, 640,000 starving kids to one? But the first paragraph almost certainly carried more emotional punch."
This is a relevant point to take a look at. Ropeik proceeds to provide further evidence, revealed through experimentation, that we as humanity fail time and time again to consider the "big picture," but instead give less when more are involved to consider. As Ropeik states:
"This statistical numbing begins at anything more than ONE!"
Exposing how we've created a point where we become "less empathetic" (as if that even exists) when we're in a situation where we must stand in more than ONE beings' shoes. Well, newsflash! Unless we can stand in the shoes of EVERY SINGLE BEING IN THIS ENTIRE WORLD, we're fucked. Plain and simple people. Plain and simple.
That's precisely why I placed "less empathetic" in quotes, because if we find a reason to not give to another as we would like to receive, and by "giving to another" I mean ANY OTHER, not just that one picture of a starving child, or that ONE you "want" to "help" while excluding others - if we find ONE reason - we are being deliberately abusive, as we are deliberately finding justifications and excuses to not stand for ALL that is here, as ourselves.
Clearly Ropeik shows how we've allowed ourselves to be directed by our limited emotions, instead of what is actually here in the entirety of this ONE reality we ALL share together; where each and every breath we breathe is counted, accumulated, and has manifests consequences - here - in this ONE reality, wherein not just ONE is affected, but...the whole.
So, if we miss being here for ONE breath in order to participating in the emotional reactions of our limited mind, we're not here in this ONE reality to make practical decisions based on what is Best for All, thus we disregard Life, and what becomes manifest as consequence?
Look around. Look in a newspaper. Look at the news. Look out your front fucking door. Most importantly though, look inside yourself - that is where the answer to every question can be dis-covered, and it ain't pretty.
And when I state: Look in a newspaper. Look in the news. - Realize:
"Statistical numbing plays a huge role in what the news media covers, and what it doesn't, since the media are in the business of bringing us information we are likely to pay attention to, and our attention is less drawn to numbers than stories about individual people (which explains the success of the narrative device of weaving stories about big issues around a personal example). Less coverage means less concern, because we certainly can't be moved by these tragedies if we don't know much about them. And public concern drives government policy, so statistical numbing helps explain why nations so often fail to expend their resources to save people elsewhere who are starving, or dying of disease, or being raped and murdered, in the tens and hundreds of thousands."
Everything is specific.
If we find ONE single reason to not stand for a system that will ensure dignity for ALL, that is an abomination to the fullest degree. As it's not about charity, that's abundantly clear if one dares to be self-honest, but about creating a sy stem where Life reins - not money, not emotions, not greed, complacency, and apathy - no: LIFE, and that's it.
So, we go about playing "helper" for a single being all because we've numbed ourselves to "the whole" that is ripping at the seams. Thus, trying to sew up one individual patch of the entire fabric of existence will NOT and CANNOT stop the entire fabric from bursting, as it's the ENTIRE FABRIC that requires to be re-sewn; re-sewn as in: an entire new fabric must be woven; woven with threads that are stable, secure, and made to last the test of time, as they are created by/through solid principles which consider and honor All Life Equally.
Being numb is not comfortable. No . We've simply "trained" ourselves to be comfortable with our discomfort; with the discomfort that we experience whenever we do, for a fleeting moment, consider what we're actually experiencing within ourselves, or consider "the whole" - wherein we then immediately retreat back to the perceived "safety" of our mind, where we've learned and been conditioned to suppress, escape, extinguish, sabotage, and trample any possible ability to love our neighbor as ourselves within the realization that our neighbor IS ourselves, as what happens to our neighbor could happen to ourselves, and what is happening to our neighbor IS happening to ourselves, we've just become too comatose and stupefied too see this, thus we believe ourselves to be immune. NOTE: We cannot be immune when we ARE the dis-ease.
Time to dare ourselves to care, and to stop allowing ourselves to be directed by emotions, as they are only revealing the fear we accept as ourselves, the fear of "who we are" as what we have become - as individuals, as human beings - numb to the statistics which reveal the truth of ourselves, as the accumulated abuse we participate in on a moment to moment basis, which is indeed bursting at the seams - this entire fabrication...is about to blow.
Who will you be when it inevitably does?
Will you be here? Breathing as Life? Loving thy neighbor as thyself?
Or will you still be trapped in the confines of your mind? Believing yourself to BE your emotions?
http://www.equalmoney.org
Source: Ropeik, David. "Statistical Numbing: Why Millions Can Die and We Don’t Care." Psychology Today 15 August 2011: 1. Web. 19 Aug 2011. .
"One death is a tragedy. One million is a statistic."
~ Joseph Stalin
In an article posted by Psychology Today on August 15, 2011 entitled: "Statistical Numbing: Why Millions Can Die and We Don't Care," the author David Ropeik reveals the point of how we as humanity tend to consider and place our attention more towards singular beings in need of assistance, rather than considering the assistance that is required for mass amount of beings - or one could say: "the whole."
The way in which Ropeik goes about revealing this finding was by first, at the beginning of the article, relaying a personal story of four year-old Khafra who lay in a refugee camp hospital on the brink of death due to starvation and extreme malnourishment. Ropeik expresses how Khafra's mother is "helpless, sad beyond comprehension, but herself too malnourished to cry."
He then goes on to disclose startling statistics in relation to the famine in the Horn of Africa as a whole, which:
"has left more than 12 million people malnourished, including half of Somalia's population. The U.N. says 640,000 Somali children are starving, and more than 29,000 children in southern Somalia have starved to death in the last 90 days."
After this he states:
"Which of those two paragraphs was more emotionally powerful? It should have been the second, shouldn't it, based on the scale of the suffering, 640,000 starving kids to one? But the first paragraph almost certainly carried more emotional punch."
This is a relevant point to take a look at. Ropeik proceeds to provide further evidence, revealed through experimentation, that we as humanity fail time and time again to consider the "big picture," but instead give less when more are involved to consider. As Ropeik states:
"This statistical numbing begins at anything more than ONE!"
Exposing how we've created a point where we become "less empathetic" (as if that even exists) when we're in a situation where we must stand in more than ONE beings' shoes. Well, newsflash! Unless we can stand in the shoes of EVERY SINGLE BEING IN THIS ENTIRE WORLD, we're fucked. Plain and simple people. Plain and simple.
That's precisely why I placed "less empathetic" in quotes, because if we find a reason to not give to another as we would like to receive, and by "giving to another" I mean ANY OTHER, not just that one picture of a starving child, or that ONE you "want" to "help" while excluding others - if we find ONE reason - we are being deliberately abusive, as we are deliberately finding justifications and excuses to not stand for ALL that is here, as ourselves.
Clearly Ropeik shows how we've allowed ourselves to be directed by our limited emotions, instead of what is actually here in the entirety of this ONE reality we ALL share together; where each and every breath we breathe is counted, accumulated, and has manifests consequences - here - in this ONE reality, wherein not just ONE is affected, but...the whole.
So, if we miss being here for ONE breath in order to participating in the emotional reactions of our limited mind, we're not here in this ONE reality to make practical decisions based on what is Best for All, thus we disregard Life, and what becomes manifest as consequence?
Look around. Look in a newspaper. Look at the news. Look out your front fucking door. Most importantly though, look inside yourself - that is where the answer to every question can be dis-covered, and it ain't pretty.
And when I state: Look in a newspaper. Look in the news. - Realize:
"Statistical numbing plays a huge role in what the news media covers, and what it doesn't, since the media are in the business of bringing us information we are likely to pay attention to, and our attention is less drawn to numbers than stories about individual people (which explains the success of the narrative device of weaving stories about big issues around a personal example). Less coverage means less concern, because we certainly can't be moved by these tragedies if we don't know much about them. And public concern drives government policy, so statistical numbing helps explain why nations so often fail to expend their resources to save people elsewhere who are starving, or dying of disease, or being raped and murdered, in the tens and hundreds of thousands."
Everything is specific.
If we find ONE single reason to not stand for a system that will ensure dignity for ALL, that is an abomination to the fullest degree. As it's not about charity, that's abundantly clear if one dares to be self-honest, but about creating a sy stem where Life reins - not money, not emotions, not greed, complacency, and apathy - no: LIFE, and that's it.
So, we go about playing "helper" for a single being all because we've numbed ourselves to "the whole" that is ripping at the seams. Thus, trying to sew up one individual patch of the entire fabric of existence will NOT and CANNOT stop the entire fabric from bursting, as it's the ENTIRE FABRIC that requires to be re-sewn; re-sewn as in: an entire new fabric must be woven; woven with threads that are stable, secure, and made to last the test of time, as they are created by/through solid principles which consider and honor All Life Equally.
Being numb is not comfortable. No . We've simply "trained" ourselves to be comfortable with our discomfort; with the discomfort that we experience whenever we do, for a fleeting moment, consider what we're actually experiencing within ourselves, or consider "the whole" - wherein we then immediately retreat back to the perceived "safety" of our mind, where we've learned and been conditioned to suppress, escape, extinguish, sabotage, and trample any possible ability to love our neighbor as ourselves within the realization that our neighbor IS ourselves, as what happens to our neighbor could happen to ourselves, and what is happening to our neighbor IS happening to ourselves, we've just become too comatose and stupefied too see this, thus we believe ourselves to be immune. NOTE: We cannot be immune when we ARE the dis-ease.
Time to dare ourselves to care, and to stop allowing ourselves to be directed by emotions, as they are only revealing the fear we accept as ourselves, the fear of "who we are" as what we have become - as individuals, as human beings - numb to the statistics which reveal the truth of ourselves, as the accumulated abuse we participate in on a moment to moment basis, which is indeed bursting at the seams - this entire fabrication...is about to blow.
Who will you be when it inevitably does?
Will you be here? Breathing as Life? Loving thy neighbor as thyself?
Or will you still be trapped in the confines of your mind? Believing yourself to BE your emotions?
http://www.equalmoney.org
Source: Ropeik, David. "Statistical Numbing: Why Millions Can Die and We Don’t Care." Psychology Today 15 August 2011: 1. Web. 19 Aug 2011. .
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Re: Lindsay's Blogs
by Lindsay » 05 Sep 2011, 13:05
Perspective: Too-Much-Ness / Overwhelmingness
Further expansion on the point of ‘too-much-ness’/overwhelmingness:
A point that has recently opened up for me, which I am currently walking in my process, is the point of ‘too-much-ness’/overwhelmingness, and how to effectively ‘walk out of’ existing within the limitation of experience, to fully integrating self-realizations physically, practically, as self.
Due to what we have accepted and allowed as human beings, we currently exist within layers upon layers of ‘experiences’ that we have accumulated throughout our life, and thus then begin to develop and embed these experiences physically and mentally as self-definitions, as well as projections out into the world within which everything we participate in gets filter through.
So, an example of this would be where we, through out ‘life-experiences,’ build a concrete foundation, and each self-definition/projection becomes like a room in this building, as the ‘structure of ourselves’ that we have built to protect ‘who we are,’ as who we believe/perceive ourselves to be. Thus, this building is more like a ‘church’ as we go along developing our self-religion, as our self-beliefs, and create a ‘sacredness’/’holiness’ out of this structure.
Therefore, when we begin to self-realize that all that we have believed/perceived ourselves to be was a lie, built with the material/tools of self-deception, self-dishonesty, self-sabotage, self-manipulation - each self-realization brings an ‘earthquake,’ which shakes the entire foundation of our self-created structure.
The ‘overwhelmingness’ that comes with these quakes is actually a cool point, as it is an indicator that there is movement, that there is a disintegration of the layers/walls that have been protecting and containing the ‘religious ceremonies,’ which are now being exposed.
However, the overwhelmingness is also an experience, thus not real, but can be used as a self-supportive tool, for a moment, while self walks physically, practically the points required to develop the ability to integrate self-realizations immediately, without the ‘earthquake’ as the foundation has already crumbled. The point now to be walked is building an entirely new structure with the material/tools of self-honesty, self-care, self-forgiveness, self-correction, and practical living.
What I have also seen for myself is that if I don’t immediately take the experience of ‘too-much-ness’ and investigate/let go of/self-forgive the point, then I allow the experience to create layers over the initial self-realization, which is a self-sabotage mechanism that manifests a timeloop – so, the quake happens, but instead of clearing out the disintegrated material and starting anew, I rebuild the walls out of the same material, and one can see that this creates quite a difficult walking, as it further strengthens the foundation/structure as self-beliefs/self-definitions and the entire self-religion with me as ‘God’ putting everything ‘back in it’s proper place.’
For example:
The other day I had a headache and began to investigate what this ‘pressure’ could be; as I did this, the points began to loosen and release themselves - several realizations were revealed, wherein the ‘overwhelmingness’ created through seeing clearly what I have accepted and allowed ‘burst my bubble’ – causing a release of tears to pour forth.
Thus, I was able to see these self-beliefs, which keep me trapped in the steeple of my self-built church – steeped in self-religious brainwashing – where I rely-on these self-beliefs to define who I am, creating a personality-experience which I spread/trumpet as ‘the gospel of Lindsay.’
So the overwhelmingness created by/through the self-realization as the earthquake that shook me down to my very foundation, was a clear indication that I was ‘on the point,’ thus assisted me in providing the necessary feedback to begin integrating the realizations; to begin building-upon the new structure and not allow myself to sabotage the moment.
This is a constant and continuous walking, as one must understand that having a realization is not ‘enough’ in terms of integration, and that is precisely why overwhelmingness can be a cool tool while we are walking ourselves out of defining ourselves according to experiences, and to thus not judge these moments, but to simply breathe, remain stable, and embrace these moments with gratitude, as it is all part of getting to know ‘who we are’ so we are able to let go of all that which is not real, so we can actually Live.
Below is a Video-Interview with Bernard Poolman - discussing the point of 'too-much-ness,' or what others call: overwhelmingness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlumUIImUBw
Further expansion on the point of ‘too-much-ness’/overwhelmingness:
A point that has recently opened up for me, which I am currently walking in my process, is the point of ‘too-much-ness’/overwhelmingness, and how to effectively ‘walk out of’ existing within the limitation of experience, to fully integrating self-realizations physically, practically, as self.
Due to what we have accepted and allowed as human beings, we currently exist within layers upon layers of ‘experiences’ that we have accumulated throughout our life, and thus then begin to develop and embed these experiences physically and mentally as self-definitions, as well as projections out into the world within which everything we participate in gets filter through.
So, an example of this would be where we, through out ‘life-experiences,’ build a concrete foundation, and each self-definition/projection becomes like a room in this building, as the ‘structure of ourselves’ that we have built to protect ‘who we are,’ as who we believe/perceive ourselves to be. Thus, this building is more like a ‘church’ as we go along developing our self-religion, as our self-beliefs, and create a ‘sacredness’/’holiness’ out of this structure.
Therefore, when we begin to self-realize that all that we have believed/perceived ourselves to be was a lie, built with the material/tools of self-deception, self-dishonesty, self-sabotage, self-manipulation - each self-realization brings an ‘earthquake,’ which shakes the entire foundation of our self-created structure.
The ‘overwhelmingness’ that comes with these quakes is actually a cool point, as it is an indicator that there is movement, that there is a disintegration of the layers/walls that have been protecting and containing the ‘religious ceremonies,’ which are now being exposed.
However, the overwhelmingness is also an experience, thus not real, but can be used as a self-supportive tool, for a moment, while self walks physically, practically the points required to develop the ability to integrate self-realizations immediately, without the ‘earthquake’ as the foundation has already crumbled. The point now to be walked is building an entirely new structure with the material/tools of self-honesty, self-care, self-forgiveness, self-correction, and practical living.
What I have also seen for myself is that if I don’t immediately take the experience of ‘too-much-ness’ and investigate/let go of/self-forgive the point, then I allow the experience to create layers over the initial self-realization, which is a self-sabotage mechanism that manifests a timeloop – so, the quake happens, but instead of clearing out the disintegrated material and starting anew, I rebuild the walls out of the same material, and one can see that this creates quite a difficult walking, as it further strengthens the foundation/structure as self-beliefs/self-definitions and the entire self-religion with me as ‘God’ putting everything ‘back in it’s proper place.’
For example:
The other day I had a headache and began to investigate what this ‘pressure’ could be; as I did this, the points began to loosen and release themselves - several realizations were revealed, wherein the ‘overwhelmingness’ created through seeing clearly what I have accepted and allowed ‘burst my bubble’ – causing a release of tears to pour forth.
Thus, I was able to see these self-beliefs, which keep me trapped in the steeple of my self-built church – steeped in self-religious brainwashing – where I rely-on these self-beliefs to define who I am, creating a personality-experience which I spread/trumpet as ‘the gospel of Lindsay.’
So the overwhelmingness created by/through the self-realization as the earthquake that shook me down to my very foundation, was a clear indication that I was ‘on the point,’ thus assisted me in providing the necessary feedback to begin integrating the realizations; to begin building-upon the new structure and not allow myself to sabotage the moment.
This is a constant and continuous walking, as one must understand that having a realization is not ‘enough’ in terms of integration, and that is precisely why overwhelmingness can be a cool tool while we are walking ourselves out of defining ourselves according to experiences, and to thus not judge these moments, but to simply breathe, remain stable, and embrace these moments with gratitude, as it is all part of getting to know ‘who we are’ so we are able to let go of all that which is not real, so we can actually Live.
Below is a Video-Interview with Bernard Poolman - discussing the point of 'too-much-ness,' or what others call: overwhelmingness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlumUIImUBw
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Re: Lindsay's Blogs
by Maya » 05 Sep 2011, 13:49
Thank you Lindsay for sharing this point. very cool support
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