Psycho-Babble Writing Thread 911188

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What's with the unattractive picture of the back

Posted by susan47 on August 9, 2009, at 18:41:42

sides of two women doing on this site?

 

Re: What's with the unattractive picture of the ba

Posted by Partlycloudy on August 10, 2009, at 15:54:42

In reply to What's with the unattractive picture of the back, posted by susan47 on August 9, 2009, at 18:41:42

I'm one of the unattractive women, thanks very much.

 

Please be civil/sensitive » susan47

Posted by Deputy 10derHeart on August 10, 2009, at 17:57:47

In reply to What's with the unattractive picture of the back, posted by susan47 on August 9, 2009, at 18:41:42

>What's with the unattractive picture of he backsides of two women

It's great to hear your voice more around here again, susan, but I need to ask you to please not post anything that could lead others to feel put down and to please be sensitive to the feelings of others.

You might be interested in the story of the picture - here:

http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20090707/msgs/908148.html

If you or others have questions about this or about posting policies in general, or are interested in alternate ways of expressing yourself, please see the FAQ: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/faq.html#civil

Follow ups regarding these issues should be directed to Admin, and should of course, be civil. Dr. Bob has oversight over deputy decisions, and he may choose a different action. His email is at the bottom of each page.

-- 10derHeart, acting as deputy to Dr. Bob

 

Please Read

Posted by susan47 on August 12, 2009, at 13:34:26

In reply to Please be civil/sensitive » susan47, posted by Deputy 10derHeart on August 10, 2009, at 17:57:47

All I meant was, I am unattractive from the back as well, and I don't like looking at the backs of people, I much prefer the front, especially most especially lips and eyes, eyes and lips ... that's all I meant. I could link in a picture of my own backside but I know no one would appreciate that in a good way, better not to.
This isn't meant to disqualify anybody as being a top-notch person. I'm so sorry anyone took it that way. It's really interesting how many times people read something I wrote and just go into the negative, right away, without thinking or even considering (did anyone consider? did I? I was guilty of assuming others may have understood my real meaning. I was wrong.. again.) ...or even considering there may be another meaning, another intent besides the one they automatically considered, and didn't even have the inkling to consider there may have been something else meant, something else intended, the Bad thing that they have conjured in their own mind, attributed to an innocent person ... I've done the same thing.
I'm guilty of doing the same thing. I did not mean to harm anyone's ego. I only meant that I would much prefer, Prefer you understand, not demand .. prefer to see your frontsides!!! The bow, if you please. Not the stern, darling.
That's all.
And I completely understand why someone Would not want their bow placed in a public domain like this ... because of the negative, schizophrenic and probably also True, in the world today, because of the thought that they might be endangered by doing so.
It's a sorry thing. It really is.
But like I said, I've done the same thing in the past.

 

Re: Please Read

Posted by Partlycloudy on August 12, 2009, at 14:22:45

In reply to Please Read, posted by susan47 on August 12, 2009, at 13:34:26

Actually, I don't consider myself unattractive from any side, so my assumption of the meaning of your statement was correct. I remain feeling rather upset by the original post.

Time to *stop* reading, for me.

 

Re: Please Read » Partlycloudy

Posted by susan47 on August 12, 2009, at 14:26:52

In reply to Re: Please Read, posted by Partlycloudy on August 12, 2009, at 14:22:45

Okay, I didn't mean you had an unattractive backside. It's just not my favorite view of anybody, good or bad. Yes, some people have marvelous backsides. I wasn't implying that yours wasn't. I just said mine wasn't. Didn't I?
I'm sorry you're choosing to remain upset. What a terrible drag for you. I hope your day goes better soon! You could choose to forget, and to forgive.

 

Please rephrase that » susan47

Posted by Deputy Racer on August 13, 2009, at 13:31:23

In reply to Re: Please Read » Partlycloudy, posted by susan47 on August 12, 2009, at 14:26:52

>
> I'm sorry you're choosing to remain upset. What a terrible drag for you.
>You could choose to forget, and to forgive.

Please don't post anything which could lead others to feel accused or put down. The use of "I Statements" can be a little confusing at times, so I am offering you a chance to rephrase your apology to PartlyCloudy. You have already been warned about civility and sensitivity in this thread, and I hope you will take this opportunity to avoid a block.

If you have any questions regarding the posting policies on this site, please read the FAQ, located at http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/faq.html#civil Follow ups to this action should be directed to the Administration board and should themselves be civil.

Dr Bob has ultimate authority over all administrative issues on this site, and may choose at any time to revise or reverse any action taken by a deputy.

Deputy Racer

 

Re: Please rephrase that

Posted by susan47 on August 14, 2009, at 16:12:40

In reply to Please rephrase that » susan47, posted by Deputy Racer on August 13, 2009, at 13:31:23

All right. I realize everyone has issues. I'm sorry I upset Partly Cloudy. She has a lovely rear end and she should post it on the site all the time. As should everyone else who believes their backside deserves posting. Personally, I didn't find it cute although I suppose I should have. I can see that it was done with a sense of humour which I don't possess.
I'm sorry I offended so many people, especially Partly Cloudy because I think she is probably an outstanding person and very supportive.

 

So funny that just as I thought I was alone,

Posted by susan47 on August 15, 2009, at 0:38:56

In reply to Re: Please rephrase that, posted by susan47 on August 14, 2009, at 16:12:40

up comes someone to take Offence at something I said.
It's just really really funny, and it shows me things about people I never wanted to see or to know.

 

Re: blocked for week » susan47

Posted by Dr. Bob on August 15, 2009, at 1:03:26

In reply to Re: Please rephrase that, posted by susan47 on August 14, 2009, at 16:12:40

> Personally, I didn't find it cute

Please dont post anything that could lead others to feel put down.

But please don't take this personally, either, this doesn't mean I don't like you or think you're a bad person, and I'm sorry if this hurts you. I hope that you choose to remain a member of this community and that this community helps you, if needed, to avoid future blocks.

Partlycloudy, I'm also sorry if you felt hurt.

More information about posting policies and tips on alternative ways to express oneself are/is in the FAQ:

http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/faq.html#civil
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/faq.html#enforce

Follow-ups regarding these issues should be redirected to Psycho-Babble Administration. They, as well as replies to the above post, should of course themselves be civil.

Thanks,

Bob

 

Dear Dr. Bob

Posted by susan47 on August 26, 2009, at 18:39:48

In reply to Re: blocked for week » susan47, posted by Dr. Bob on August 15, 2009, at 1:03:26

If I posted only that which could lead to others being put down, I wouldn't have posted any of the following:

On August 12, 2009, at 13:55:45

.stuff like that ... it's just so corrupt out there, and everyone is complicitly blind.


on August 9, 2009, at 15:37:46

.all the Bastards Advertise, and we are the idiots who have given them the information with which to target us.

Most Horribly:
on August 9, 2009, at 19:22:02

.At least half the humanity of this planet could be done without
(without apology, knowing about corrupt, sick people who rape, torture (!?!?!?), take advantage of, behead and play a sick version of kickball with the head yes this is a true story, and many, many, many, innumerable, it seems, other stories like this one . Mankind is ill and has never been more ill than right now, simply because there has never, that we know of, been this MUCH humanity here at once before. And it is getting far, far worse than we ever could have imagined, or wanted to know, had we seen what is coming.
So no, without apology. In past human history, parents have cannibalized their very own children when they were starving. Without apology. Open your eyes and see yourself, see your human-ness, it stares back at you, it is truly inescapable.
No, I am not Mad. No, I am not angry. I just see, and listen, with all eyes and all ears, Open.

And,
.Ignorance is free, and freely given and shared in a guise of smart-*ss*d righteousness.
on August 12, 2009, at 13:39:45
.I am not an American (thank goodness, but I'm no better either,.
I wonder if the schizophrenic United States government will find it their right to abuse me for being honest, without threat, just being honest about the way I feel from what I witness and see and hear all around me . I have many criticisms of my own countrys policies of blindly closing both eyes and feeling in the dark, and the pocket my government puts its hands into is the same as any other corporate fraud, corporate greed, corporate policy, corporate money, corporate advertising, corporate promises it will never end. Only a severe thinning of the human population is what is about to occur as nature takes her course, with all eyes open. All ears hearing. Listen. Humankinds errors have been too many, and too great. There will be a great thinning. There will. And I, I will be dust, as will you, as will we all .. how we get there is all that ever mattered, and we were blind. Deaf. Blind. There is no religion that will save any one of us although many religions have forecast that future from the past. From the past. We have not changed in time. Not all of us care about what we have become our children and should they have children also god forbid there are great terrors about to come, Listen. Our children and our childrens children will be asking, hands raised, palms open, what have they done? They have sacrificed us. They have sacrificed us, so that they could Have.
on August 12, 2009, at 14:12:43
.become Enlightened. And .if you write to defend the keeping of outdoor cats, you write in ignorance about the state of Nature this day, that would be Today.

on August 12, 2009, at 14:24:42
.Are you sneering or smiling?.... and .you kind of have that Sopranos look.

Oh, heres a good one, on May 30, 2007, at 23:17:48
.Heavy, heavy heaving f*cking shitinthesky Sigh.
F*ck
You.
on May 31, 2007, at 20:40:57 .F*ck the Everly Brothers.

on August 11, 2007, at 23:49:21 .Heavy effing sigh, baby.

on July 31, 2009, at 16:01:51, most offensively for some poor sobs, (there, another thing you can Block me with, Dear Bob and Deputies, .there is no god. And this is ripe with possibility, .my Rights as a Human Being usurp your rights, because I was luckier, I was born here and you were born there, and misinterpretation, surprised I didnt hear from anyone but why would I? Nobody reads this stuff, am I right? Okay then.

on July 31, 2009, at 20:56:44 you wiener, you absolute wiener and You are a bastard of the first order, the first degree, do you understand that,

on August 2, 2009, at 0:52:56 .that a full-grown woman of 52 would refer to herself as a "girl". I mean, really, what utter crap. Speaking of myself of course, but I suppose others in the same place might be offended. Im sure there are many of us.

 

BTW: Dr. Bob

Posted by susan47 on August 26, 2009, at 18:49:56

In reply to Re: blocked for week » susan47, posted by Dr. Bob on August 15, 2009, at 1:03:26

I'd like you to consider something; seeing the backsides of two people was a shock, considering that not too long ago, in my recent memory, in fact, within the last couple of years, there was a rear-end experience that many babblers had to see, unfortunately, and I was completely triggered by this photo and unfortunately, didn't realize it until afterwards. So that is why I posted it was unattractive. It was far too reminiscent of what recently happened here, which was a Crime. A true crime. A crime which was really really sick, and when I come onto Babble, I still wonder what photo I'm going to see.
So you see, not all of us have forgetful memory banks. At least, not when it comes to some things.
And I would expect a supposed professional like you, "Dr" Bob, to understand something like this. I would have expected you to make some queries before indulging in some Susan-battering of your own.
Quite frankly, I am disappointed that PC has indulged herself in these hurt feelings because she made a decision to take this her own way. It is unattractive because it is much too reminiscent of something Very Bad, from a Sick mind, that happened on Babble, and it was triggering. Did I trigger something of PC's? Obviously. The same trigger lots of people have, and it's meaningless to take offence because you think someone else didn't see you as gorgeous. That was only PC's interpretation, I tried to make myself understood, but I'm not giving PC leeway to treat me like sh*t because she's taken it upon herself to be offended, in fact, I would rub that wound until she explores it and gives it up, life is too short to be offended that you think somebody doesn't want to see a picture of your backside.
The jerk who put his *ssh*l* and colon up here a while ago certainly wasn't offended that we thought it was the ugliest thing we'd ever seen. I'm quite sure of that.
AND I AM NOT MAKING A COMPARISON TO PC'S BACKSIDE!|!!|! It was a trigger. Does anyone get that???
Dr. Bob, I'm disappointed in you.
You're a lot more nearsighted than I gave you credit for.
But then, you're an administrator of a board, to me.
Nothing more.

 

And in our lifetimes too » susan47

Posted by Sigismund on August 26, 2009, at 21:14:23

In reply to Dear Dr. Bob, posted by susan47 on August 26, 2009, at 18:39:48

>Mankind is ill and has never been more ill than right now, simply because there has never, that we know of, been this MUCH humanity here at once before. And it is getting far, far worse than we ever could have imagined, or wanted to know, had we seen what is coming.
So no, without apology. In past human history, parents have cannibalized their very own children when they were starving. Without apology. Open your eyes and see yourself, see your human-ness, it stares back at you, it is truly inescapable.
No, I am not Mad. No, I am not angry. I just see, and listen, with all eyes and all ears, Open.

 

No. If I posted only that which Did Not lead to

Posted by susan47 on August 28, 2009, at 22:56:26

In reply to Dear Dr. Bob, posted by susan47 on August 26, 2009, at 18:39:48

others feeling put down, etc., to finish the original idea. The idea is, I really don't care too much about others feeling put down if I think I'm telling the truth as I see it.
And I've always known people who back away from that because they just cannot handle it, they don't know what to say. So they say stuff like this,
WTF??? As PC posted to me on Babblemail.
WTF?
And as America tortures and incriminates innocent people, and the Muslim world becomes more and more fundamentalist and angry, back-against-the-wall-stop-screwing-with-our-reality and leave us the F*CK alone
(although I am not Muslim, but I can imagine how one would feel, as America continues to push her self-given right to exert her self-indulgent might, what US Customs calls "Homeland Security" ... and that doesn't sound right, calling the US a "Homeland" is like the US trying to take the right of a person to have any other country named as my "Homeland" away .... it's too authoritarian, it's too obvious ... and we are all as a collective World just standing there allowing the US to do this to everyone, to finger the world, and call this country, this America, (as though Mexico and Canada were not also part of America) ... taking the right to call itself America and then now also taking the right to call itself the homeland.
My homeland is not America.
In the eyes of the United States government, who has yet another President who allows himself to be ignorant of all the under-the-table and behind-closed-doors things that happen in his own government ... in medaieval times, there was a system ... a citizen, an ordinary citizen, anybody, could be employed to check up on anyone performing a government service, and then report about their performance .. and apparently, this worked and it kept many many levels of governance honest.
We're so dulled and dimwitted now, we can't seem to see the value in anything that isn't programming our heads.
Blind, blind and stupid, and in the end, we will all get what is coming, and no mistake about that.
I am at this time writing from what we call a "free country".
And I know my opinions could be controversial and could get me into trouble, if we were to believe what we see on television, that wonderful mass marketer and promoter, if we were to believe what television is feeding us, it's possible the writer of stuff like this could become a hit target.
And I guess that's all we really are in the end, you know that, right?
In the end, we're a mass of meat and bone.
And that is really disturbing.
Because it means that the magic is ephemeral.
And we don't appreciate the Life we have.
We're buried to realities, here in this "Homeland", this "America" .. insulated and all trying to beat one another to the who gets to retire with the most toys Wins.
Blind.
And Stupid, apparently.

 

That is, 'Who-Gets-To-Retire-With-the-Most

Posted by susan47 on August 28, 2009, at 23:04:58

In reply to No. If I posted only that which Did Not lead to, posted by susan47 on August 28, 2009, at 22:56:26

-toys, who-gets-to-go-on-the-most-cruises, who-gets-the-nicest-retirement-car, on and on ad nauseum, mentality of this society.
And everyone seems to want the biggest piece of that particular pie.
And there aren't enough pieces.
And so what the f*ck do you think is going to happen?
Ask yourself.
Ask in the quiet and the dark of your room at night, and listen to the answer the wind brings to your ears.
Listen.
Carefully.

 

Which Shows Your

Posted by susan47 on August 28, 2009, at 23:15:23

In reply to And in our lifetimes too » susan47, posted by Sigismund on August 26, 2009, at 21:14:23

That your are inevitably, as am I, as are we all every one, part of the problem. Everyone. There is no one whose being part of a "solution" is a bigger contribution than their simply having become part of the problem by simply being.
Just being, is the problem.
Because we have shown collectively and individually that we're incapable of change in the time we had allotted to us.
That is what we are left standing with.
And anyone who cannot see that is either hiding in his or her religion, and that is a very, Very Big Contributor to the Problem here, make no mistake. Make no Mistake.
Religion is a thief-in-the-night, religion will take what you call your soul and sell it to the lowest bidder ... the card that allows you to be complacent in the face of your dread mortality, the card that allows you to feel Saved, the card that allows you to think that this is not All there Is, and therefor the most important.
Religion is the thief who takes your desire to make the most of This Moment, and put it aside for later.
Religion is mumbo-jumbo for the simple-minded, and sometimes also for the strong-minded but weak-willed ... and I don't give a f*ck Who I might be Offending.
So either hiding in religion, or "faith", or self-given Authority of another type, perhaps academia .. or fake science.
And there are fake scientists. People who daily try to make honest scientists look dishonest ... there is a lot of fake science in our world, and fake people who believe the fake science because they are uneducated in the facts.
The facts being contained in the mirror, and the facts.
And the facts are, humans are slowing asphyxiating themselves in their self-created atmosphere.
And there's gonna have to be a whole lot more vegetarianism, and fast.
And people are going to have to give the thought of a "housecat" a whole new meaning.
And to be honest, I could just about murder any cat I see wandering the neighbourhood.
That is how much I care, and how human I am.
No less than you.
Take note.

 

Re: Please Read » susan47

Posted by Kath on August 30, 2009, at 18:20:13

In reply to Please Read, posted by susan47 on August 12, 2009, at 13:34:26

Post #1
>What's with the unattractive picture of the back
sides of two women doing on this site?
Post #2
> All I meant was, I am unattractive from the back as well

~ ~ So let me get this right...not only is it an unattractive picture of my back side, but you're owning up to having an unattractive back as well as moi & the other person in the pic??

> It's really interesting how many times people read something I wrote and just go into the negative, right away, without thinking or even considering (did anyone consider? did I? I was guilty of assuming others may have understood my real meaning. I was wrong.. again.)

~ ~ I'd be interested to know what other conclusion might have been jumped to. Maybe I'm just being dense.

Kath

 

Re: Which Shows Your » susan47

Posted by Kath on August 30, 2009, at 18:32:42

In reply to Which Shows Your, posted by susan47 on August 28, 2009, at 23:15:23

Susan,

I'm sorry to hear that you were triggered. Being triggered is obviously not a pleasant experience & I'm always sorry to hear that someone has been triggered. Sometimes I am even nervous that my 'subject line' will trigger a person if it says, ***.........trigger*** because even the one word could be a trigger.

I though of the picture of PC & I as this:

A photo of 2 friends standing with their backs to the camera.

As opposed to:

A photo of 2 women's backsides.
There certainly were numerous parts of us in the photo - not just our bottoms!


The only reason it was from the back was that apparently that's a customary way for photos of Babblers to be shown on PB.

I don't usually visit this 'board', so only read this now.

Kath

 

Re: Please Read » Kath

Posted by susan47 on September 7, 2009, at 0:18:34

In reply to Re: Please Read » susan47, posted by Kath on August 30, 2009, at 18:20:13

No. You misunderstand me. I am saying, incorrectly as usual, as always, to some people, that I don't like seeing the back of anyone, I don't care if it is Raquel Welch or Britney Spears or Madonna, I don't like the backs of people.
I have a problem with people walking away, and looking at the backs of people. It feels ... snoopy. Like, they don't see I'm seeing this side of them .. and I don't like what I look like from behind, either, because I like seeing the fronts of people.
Get it?

 

And I Don't Like It.

Posted by susan47 on September 7, 2009, at 0:21:18

In reply to Re: Which Shows Your » susan47, posted by Kath on August 30, 2009, at 18:32:42

I'm so sorry I had to explain myself once again, and that Doctor, Dr. Bob, didn't get it either.
Obviously.
Being blocked is too much like punishment.
Nobody with a brain in his or her head would ever, Ever, consider punishment as a means to bring about change in a person.
Unless, of course, you're abusing your Power.
Get it?
I certainly did.

 

Re: Please Read » Kath

Posted by susan47 on September 7, 2009, at 0:27:46

In reply to Re: Please Read » susan47, posted by Kath on August 30, 2009, at 18:20:13

Kath, what you did was, you flipped off the high diving board and put your own meaning where mine was.

 

If you need to show your backside ... and it is a

Posted by susan47 on September 7, 2009, at 17:35:47

In reply to Re: Which Shows Your » susan47, posted by Kath on August 30, 2009, at 18:32:42

back side, not on the frontal or the coronal or the saggital, but the dorsal view .. does that suit your offended sensiblities a bit more? I don't believe there was even this much aggression shown towards the absolute Criminal who (that? Surely, not a human being!!!) .. monster who posted his colon and gross, ugly droopy bag here for the world... sick slender-fingered smelly-holed of that it is certain, ring-bearing *ssh*l*, literally ...
so Kath and PC, who won't read anything Susan47 posts anymore because she might be triggered, and is too sensitive and delicate to have commentary about her photo, but no problem, apparently, putting a photo up here .. why do something so public and then not be able to handle the reactions of others? Did you think you would only get positive commentary? Really? Seriously? Isn't that a little egocentric, I mean, did it serve anyone to get that upset over my remarks? And no, I can't stand the fact that there are photos of people here at all, unless they're anonymous babies, and even then it doesn't erase what happened here at Babble -
if you have to stand with your back to the camera, my question for you is Why? Why Bother? Can't we have some beautiful landscape or flowers up there? Why do we constantly have to look at views of people ...what could one's motivating factor possibly be in having his or her own image on the site? Aren't there enough beautiful things we could be looking at? The other thing, why bother with a photo at all? It was hacked into once, couldn't it be done again?
Why take the chance? It seems extremely irresponsible of "Dr." Bob to be taking that risk. I don't care who says what, computers can be hacked, programs can be hacked, it's irresponsible and self-aggrandizing.
And why oh why, is this "Dr." Bob so silent and non-comittal, but still pulling the photo strings, still pulling the pupeteer's strings ... it's all about power.
I can start my own blog that no one would ever visit, and that would be really really depressing, but I mean I can see why it would look like too much of a responsibility to put your name on a site like this one. Too much work, too much hassle, not lucrative enough.
Lucrative.
A physician's favourite word, in private, whispers upon whispers, moans and groans and grunts and growls ... lucrative, is this lucrative enough for me?
Is it good economics?
The fundamental problem with our societal structure .. morality gives way to economics, to religion, to politics ... the natural world, the mother who sustains us all, is completely sidelined and second-guessed and given NO RIGHTS whatsoever ... and people continue to kill and maim others, and create great destruction and evil ... and I disagree with Salman Rushdie's character's words, words that reflect something like this and I use this without permission but then, my words are so gloomy, why would anyone read them, no one reads what I write anyway, unless there is an opportunity to Take Offence .. and there are many, many of those ... Saleem Sinai writes... "if everything is planned in advance, then we all have a meaning, and we are spared the terror of knowing ourselves to be random, without a why; or else, of course, we might - as pessimists - give up right here and now, understanding the futility of thought decision action, since nothing we think makes any difference anyway; things will be as they will." ... I disagree that there's terror in knowing myself to be random, without a why .. in fact, there's great hope there, because I get to invent myself, to live in This Moment, Here Right Now ... and it is not true at all that nothing we think (or do) makes any difference anyway; things will NOT be as they will, because Fate is a human invention, a human-made idea, in the primal part of the brain a search for meaning, to bring life to our hallucinations, our dreams of being a warrior ... a turning towards a belief in something "greater" or "more powerful" than oneself .. knowing yourself to be powerful and able to do great and wonderful things seems to be too much for a very very many people to be able to handle in a Good way. Without a belief in a god of one religion or another. Without the need to take hours and sometimes lifetimes in ritualistic, often, very very often, warring practice. And it is true what Doris Lessing writes (once again no link to Amazon .. why the f*ck Amazon? Because it's the easiest, most convenient choice to link to? Are there no other online booksellers? Of course there are, even stupid little Susan knows that, there are MANY online booksellers who would LOVE to be linked into this site .. did Amazon strike the most lucrative deal? Why only Amazon? Don't even BOTHER to try responding to that question, I'm not interested in self-justifying b*llsh*t. The fact is, by being on this site one restricts oneself to someone else's idea of the parameters of the world .. this is television, this is movies, this is our culture, their culture, Any culture ... restrictively is how so many of us define ourselves, unable to look beyond and beyond, unable to imagine oneself capable of even the slightest change ... so much

 

Judgment

Posted by susan47 on September 7, 2009, at 17:38:33

In reply to If you need to show your backside ... and it is a, posted by susan47 on September 7, 2009, at 17:35:47

And I am allowed to make my judgments, it is irresponsible, in my view, and self-aggrandizing, in my view, to take the chance of others being damaged and saddened by suddenly viewing a very, very nasty sight, so that one may add interest in the form of photos .. no doubt, of oneself.

 

Rant

Posted by susan47 on September 7, 2009, at 17:58:08

In reply to If you need to show your backside ... and it is a, posted by susan47 on September 7, 2009, at 17:35:47

.... Doris Lessing knew what she was talking about in her book "Prisons We Choose to Live Inside" ... most likely, out of print, but a book more important to us as humans now than ever before, becoming more and more crucial to understand stuff like this, that there are people who Enjoy War, who delight in the killing, the maiming, the raping and pillaging, the blood, the adrenaline, the power. And the risk.
There are many, many people like this on Earth. Many. Too many. Training suicide killers and child soldiers, children raised to be absolute monsters with no conscience awakened yet, able to do great Harm.
And so it becomes ever more important to take one's individual power to do the right thing, to be non-warring, non-dominant, to begin an official plea for the sanctity of Life, to respect ALL life, the life of the smallest creature to the largest, the most seemingly insignificant plant, the abundance of the beauty of this planet's natural rhythm and life force ... but man is really so ashamed and full of enmity for himself that he will murder his neighbour with no compunction to do otherwise, should he find the right justification. We all take planes boats trains cars buses, and perhaps it is only the poorest of us who is the most innocent .. or perhaps not, perhaps the poorest of us sells his children or maims them to become more efficient (here we have, once again, economics, the economics of starvation filling the atmosphere, a pale stench compared to ours of greed and dominance and need of luxuries!) ... to become more efficient as a beggar ... we think we are so civilized in the white world.
We do well to remember this: there go I, and the Grace of God has nothing whatsoever to do with it.
Nothing. It is your own choice; why not take it and be remembered for being Good, for your graceful handling of that which you were given, remembered for being part of a Great Solution.

 

Our Children

Posted by susan47 on September 7, 2009, at 18:01:34

In reply to Rant, posted by susan47 on September 7, 2009, at 17:58:08

Why would they be unlike us in any way? What have we taught them, what are we showing them teaching them telling them what are they mimicking of us?
I say, Everything is a possibility.
We need to be the change we seek.
So simple. Asking so seemingly little, were it not for mankind's greedy blind eye.


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