12-14-2017, 08:33 PM
That's literally the logic I had after my initial blow up.
Large Distant Change begins at I. I must change for the world to change.
This change is not wrong, it is a choice of discipline of the self. To see not them and I, but Us.
Unity starts with yoU.
You are me. I am you. We must work together.
Sadly it is a layered and reinforced, conditioned mentality, these things that bring us to separation. Even in the face of positive motives, we can so easily see something so vastly differently from what it intended and desired. Further in some areas we're all the hurt animal called Terran. When our hurt wounds are tended to, the pain makes us recoil.
It's the burning sensation as ointment is applied to a cut that tells you it is beginning to heal.
It's the deterioration of muscle and the burn from it that leads to stronger muscles.
We must hurt to heal I am beginning to think.
I think if we hide this hurt, we are not exposing it to be tended to. To hide behind anything, from pride to shame to politics to statistics, we have to show the doctor our wound so she can heal it, not conceal it and speak of it in a myriad of ways.
Everyone is everything. It'd seem we need focal points to discern what is manifested, a common point is radical prejudice, sub-points of that are terrorism, racism, and sexism.
We all contain a little bit of that by inference of being infinite beings of infinity.
We must accept this and forgive this, of ourselves, of others.
No one is perfect because we're all imperfect, which paradoxically makes us all perfect the way we are.
I can't speak of the media influences of specific areas, only broadly, and as we all see, that has led to problems with discussion. It halts discussion for debate and argument.
I think we need guidelines for discussion of 'isms', most notably, racism and sexism. So that we can have a structured means of working through these catalytic issues in a way that helps us not respawn the very catalyst we communed in threads to work upon.
I see a powerful desire to work on reconciling racism and sexism in this forum, we have communed in several threads to discuss these topics and virtually all of them devolved into point proving labels and opinions. Again and again we fall to ego and seperation and fail to see each other as equals.
I will admit to doing this myself, if others would admit this too, we might be able to accept some underlying concerns that avail themselves, and put them on hold long enough, to be still, long enough to find a sort of trickle of light in this matter, a ray of love to follow towards.
Let's talk about creating something instead of ending something.
Let's transform this want to end something into a want to create something new. A better way to take over the previous way.
To transform sexism and racism into a distant history. To educate others on the equality between us all rather than teach about past ways of differentiating each other. It's good to educate on history but no one says Hitler's Genocides are being learned and enacted, so its still good to provide realization that things like racism and sexism occur, but we must portray them and guide those learning of these things, that they are wrong and go against everything that stands for the word, UNITED.
That there are reasons for everything, that we can't stereotype people and expect a good outcome if we do it broadly. Obviously there are some exceptions such as stereotyping a gang member as dangerous, or a mentally unstable person with physically violent tendencies, or a person whom is known to manipulate others.
But beyond exceptions, generally speaking, sexism has to be transformed into gender equality and mutual understanding. Racism has to be transformed into cultural equality and mutual (diplomatic?) understanding.
Jesus turned water to wine.
Can we turn prejudice into acceptance?
Large Distant Change begins at I. I must change for the world to change.
This change is not wrong, it is a choice of discipline of the self. To see not them and I, but Us.
Unity starts with yoU.
You are me. I am you. We must work together.
Sadly it is a layered and reinforced, conditioned mentality, these things that bring us to separation. Even in the face of positive motives, we can so easily see something so vastly differently from what it intended and desired. Further in some areas we're all the hurt animal called Terran. When our hurt wounds are tended to, the pain makes us recoil.
It's the burning sensation as ointment is applied to a cut that tells you it is beginning to heal.
It's the deterioration of muscle and the burn from it that leads to stronger muscles.
We must hurt to heal I am beginning to think.
I think if we hide this hurt, we are not exposing it to be tended to. To hide behind anything, from pride to shame to politics to statistics, we have to show the doctor our wound so she can heal it, not conceal it and speak of it in a myriad of ways.
Everyone is everything. It'd seem we need focal points to discern what is manifested, a common point is radical prejudice, sub-points of that are terrorism, racism, and sexism.
We all contain a little bit of that by inference of being infinite beings of infinity.
We must accept this and forgive this, of ourselves, of others.
No one is perfect because we're all imperfect, which paradoxically makes us all perfect the way we are.
I can't speak of the media influences of specific areas, only broadly, and as we all see, that has led to problems with discussion. It halts discussion for debate and argument.
I think we need guidelines for discussion of 'isms', most notably, racism and sexism. So that we can have a structured means of working through these catalytic issues in a way that helps us not respawn the very catalyst we communed in threads to work upon.
I see a powerful desire to work on reconciling racism and sexism in this forum, we have communed in several threads to discuss these topics and virtually all of them devolved into point proving labels and opinions. Again and again we fall to ego and seperation and fail to see each other as equals.
I will admit to doing this myself, if others would admit this too, we might be able to accept some underlying concerns that avail themselves, and put them on hold long enough, to be still, long enough to find a sort of trickle of light in this matter, a ray of love to follow towards.
Let's talk about creating something instead of ending something.
Let's transform this want to end something into a want to create something new. A better way to take over the previous way.
To transform sexism and racism into a distant history. To educate others on the equality between us all rather than teach about past ways of differentiating each other. It's good to educate on history but no one says Hitler's Genocides are being learned and enacted, so its still good to provide realization that things like racism and sexism occur, but we must portray them and guide those learning of these things, that they are wrong and go against everything that stands for the word, UNITED.
That there are reasons for everything, that we can't stereotype people and expect a good outcome if we do it broadly. Obviously there are some exceptions such as stereotyping a gang member as dangerous, or a mentally unstable person with physically violent tendencies, or a person whom is known to manipulate others.
But beyond exceptions, generally speaking, sexism has to be transformed into gender equality and mutual understanding. Racism has to be transformed into cultural equality and mutual (diplomatic?) understanding.
Jesus turned water to wine.
Can we turn prejudice into acceptance?