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rskenderian -> RE: Would you favor public flogging to be brought back certain offenses and what would those offense (3/31/2007 4:41:18 AM)
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ORIGINAL: SirDiscipliner69
.... playing real time version of video games with their vehicles.
Funny .. almost. Coincidental; yes.
i was driving with a friend of mine in my 20's like a manic, going 50 or 60, weaving in and out - like i always did - in a busy and complicated 'strip', and i turned to him and smiled and said "Y'know, driving is like one big video game." Upon which i immediately smashed into a truck that had stopped to take a left-hand turn and totaled my car.
My friend was carried away by ambulance in a neck brace.
A girl walking by stopped, asked what happened and chatted a few minutes ... and she ended up leaving her phone number on my car. My friend was doubly pissed.
The hobby of jogging was pretty much killed when the media got ahold of some psychological analysis stating (correctly, i do believe, though not for everyone) that people who jogged or ran, were, in fact, subconsciously really running away from their problems. This analysis was ALL OVER the news and various shows and newsprint. The jogging craze ended there-upon, and nobody even ever jogged, since nobody wanted to be seen as running away from their problems.
Now, if you have a lot of problems, and you just need to HAVE to subconsciously run away from them ... there's nothing like a sports car. No, you cannot drive too fast nor too far to fast. It is unbearable when someone is in front of you only doing 45 on the twisting country road. The ultimate horror is getting 'trapped' between cars ahead and cars behind. Time to freak out, and go for the pass, even if it means people in the other lane have to drive off the road - cause i'm not going to ... i'm just outta here, end-of-story.
Now, when i got a motorcycle - wow - i swear i could lose my problems behind me and they could not catch up. My problems were simply too afraid to keep up with my dare-devil stunts, like screaming up a bumper-to-bumper morning rush hour two-lane highway ... in between the two lanes of cars at 80mph.
or hoping those concrete blockades up ahead were *just* wide enough for me to get through at 90mph while being chased by the police.
But, that was in my 20's
i don't have the tolerance for such things anymore, but i understand them very well. There's always more than meets the eye - but, regardless, i should NEVER have been allowed to drive. Period.
There's always a reason people do the stupid things they do. It doesn't mean they should be allowed to continue, though.
But i can say that i grew up entirely alone, and there was no-one in my life that had a clue. i had to figure out everything myself - the hard way - by making all the mistakes. i didn't have a "family". No respectable male figures. No role models. Nothing.
Ultimately, i would say that my - and so many other young people's - inability to 'behave' properly or meld with Society is Society's flaw and fault. i can say that i learned nothing of any Human value what-so-ever throughout school. i learned absolutely nothing about what it is to be a Human Being. i learned nothing about myself. i learned nothing about the Society i lived in.
i learned nothing of any importance what-so-ever.
Such things were not even attempted to be taught to a new citizen in this Society.
i didn't even go to school after a while; i went to the library, took out ten heavy books a week and read prolifically - looking for the answers that nobody was teaching me. on my own. alone. While being criticized and punished for it.
The very people who suffered at the hands of my driving deserved it. They deserve everything they get.
You take some like myself and place them in this complete madness called "Society" and You don't teach them anything except how to add fractions, You beat on them for being 'different', they grow up completely alone, are neglected and pawned off everywhere, send them to inhumanely-built buildings called schools where every teacher ("Hey, teacher!) has a vendetta ("You're just") or is simply clueless and can only succeed in being ("another brick in the wall") Thick as a Brick.
...and You're expecting ....?
In Hartford, Connecticut, the city i lived in for about 10 years, if You are anywhere in that city, and they know You have $1,000 cash on You, they will kill You for it. They will jump You from behind, smashing Your head with a hammer, and ten of them will pile You onto the ground and beat and kick You to death and take that $1,000 and then fight amongst themselves for it, probably meaning another 3 deaths.
The price of a Human life? About $250, in Hartford, Connecticut - as it ends up.
We have to do SOOOOO much better than institute public flogging or being angry or being hateful. This planet will not survive that; there's no room, no time for it. i think it is pretty obvious that this is the beginning of the end. If those who can, don't rise to being full Human, then we are not going to make it.
Anger and hatred will not solve anything, but will perpetuate and accelerate our own decline. i have been angry enough in my life, and i have learned to hate enough, that i know full well just how useless it is, that it does not solve any problems, and that it does ALWAYS create more problems.
i understand that Your post was intended with humor; but even THAT can't be afforded anymore. The last thing we need is more fuel for anger or hatred - even if it comes in the form of a bit of dry humor. Because it DOES fuel more anger and hatred, and is the real reason why You posted it - You're pissed off.
i really know a lot about being pissed off. i understand.
But there is no time left for it.
"People that refuse to see the genocide and attrocities that are going on right now in the world simply because it does not immediately impact their little portion of the universe"
Everything begins at home. Everything beings with the individual. Stopping genocides and atrocities is impossible, and people everywhere are terrified, trying to keep from drowning. The guy down the road with the half-million dollar home is terrified and is trying to hang onto everything he has. Everyone is doing that.
We have the ability to elevate ourselves as real and actualized Human Beings, and to create a true and real Human Civilization for the first time in the history of this world.
But when a child with an IQ of 190+, immeasurable by any standardized or unstandardized testing, who can and will do everything and give everything he has to solve these problems, who would devote 100% of himself to that, given the chance, is suffering right next door to you and cannot function, who's fault is that, and how much does this world lose out.
Never mind what's happening on the other side of the planet.
It's really, really bad enough here, and until we can rise to our fullest Humanity, it makes zero difference to be concerned with anything else. That destiny is already done. That fate is already true.
It can be stopped by one thing; each person willing to rise to their fullest Humanity and the formation or a true Human Civilization, based on Human, not based on some Darwinism's survival of the fittest - called "capitalism" or "survival of the speci[fic individual person]" of "Competition".
As long as we operate under animal law, and as long as our 'Society' is based on animal law, we will produce animals trying to survive, competing against one another, hating, fighting, dividing themselves apart and set upon each other.
i can't see anything changing under this contextual premise. Actually, it won't and can't.
This universe doesn't not want our consciousness and sentience any longer; we will destroy ourselves; that is already written in stone - and to think otherwise, well, look around. Look at Your post.
i'm not criticizing, because there's no room for it here. There's nothing to get angry about. The opposite. There is every reason to actualize and Love; and Love begins with forgiveness - for Us at this time. If we cannot rise, become Human and forgive, well, that future is already obvious.
i don't watch the news; i don't need to. i think i already know exactly what is happening.
Thanks for reading,
- richard "puppy"
P.S. my vanilla ice cream cone is gone, and now i have symbologies. i can write more conceptually now [8D]
<editted fro spelign>
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