Monday 10 August 2015

Post No. 739: The Profound Irrationality of War and Prejudice

I saw a documentary (released in 2012, directed by Jacqui and David Morris) last week on the life and work of photographer Don McCullin: it was graphic, harrowing, and very effective in conveying his anti-war, and anti-violence “message”. I can’t find an online link for it (I saw it via Netflix), but it left me thinking about the profound irrationality and amathia of those involved in extreme violence, which reminded me of this article last week, and I found myself contemplating the problem of how to address the problem of profound irrationality.

I’ve started an article (for another website) on a few unconsidered aspects of discrimination (such as the fact that I claim to right to judge those who judge or condemn or discriminate against me – whether consciously or unconsciously [e.g., are they amathiac, malicious, misled sheep, insecure, in denial, etc], and, inescapably, those people are revealing something unsavoury about themselves – even if it is that they are not up to date with knowledge/laws/etc … and I am going to reject the sugar coated euphemism of “discrimination affects mental health”, which some bigots interpret as meaning the problem is a weakness on the part of the victims of discrimination, with the unvarnished truth – e.g., misgendering trans people, which is always a vicious, malicious and highly personal form of violence, is so directly responsible for suicides that it should be considered a form of attempted murder); the article begins by mentioning that there are people who still, nearly five centuries after the circumnavigation organised by Ferdinand Magellan, and just over five decades after humans went into space, people who believe the earth is flat, which will lead later into the fact that you cannot change the minds of everyone, no matter how powerful or correct you are.

In fact, I recently read a quote along the lines of It's hard to win an argument with a smart person but near impossible to win an argument with an amathiac person (based on, I think, a quote by William G. McAdoo, “It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument”; this often seems to be credited to Mark Twain, but Twain said something slightly different), which is useful reminder of this. Be that as it may, however, I’ve found education and talking will enable changes to most bigots – and the gradually changing attitudes towards LGBTQIASB+ people are evidence of that, but (and the persistence of racism, sexism and other forms of bigotry illustrate this point) not everyone will be changed – which is why the great Dr Martin Luther King, Jr., said the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless”.

This is important: it, combined with:
  • having met people who do not need the education in order to, for instance, treat trans people with respect and basic manners; and 
  • cisgendered people with problems such as deep voices; 
is why some trans people do not try to “pass” (there are other reasons such as challenging stereotypes, but also many try to pass in order to prevent themselves being bashed or killed), but it also shows that it is important not to base your advocacy or psychic work for the BPLF on an outcome of getting everyone to be better human beings. Trying to do so will lead to imbalance in you, and thus health problems – maybe even emotional or mental problems. Change those who can, and (BPM) “restrain the heartless”.

The next point to consider is how to bring those who are unbalanced, profoundly irrational, or amathiac back to a state of balance. In some cases, that won’t happen until their next life, which makes the matter the responsibility of that person's Higher Self, not someone else. Of those who can be brought back, some must be BPM restrained first and foremost, others will only respond to treatment from those who they are physically with, or from people they respect – often meaning people who have been through the same experience (that latter category can include discarnates), but there are some we can help from a distance, by clearing – as is for the Highest Spiritual Good - nonBPM units, and – with acceptance of their right to use their free will to reject it – by sending BPLF healing. I may try to write a post about this sort of work at some stage …

Another point here is that exposure to extreme violence, or the threat of extreme violence can and often does lead to major problems. According to the Ken Burns TV series “The War”, the US Army figured soldiers would be utterly broken after 240 days of combat. I’ve posted other links along this line, or about the changes that can happen (e.g., to here), but there are children in places like Syria who have known nothing but war in their lives. The war in Yemen started in March this year: five months ago … in another three months, will problems of the type I am discussing start to affect its conduct and negotiations even more?



[1] BPLF = Balanced Positive (spiritual) Light Forces. See here and here for more on this.
[2] Please see here, here and my post "The Death of Wikipedia" for the reasons I now recommend caution when using Wikipedia. I'm also exploring use of h2g2, although that doesn't appear to be as extensive (h2g2 is intended - rather engagingly - to be the Earth edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy").
[3] I apologise for the formatting: it seems Blogger is no longer as WYSIWYG as it used to be, and there are a lot of unwanted changes to layout made upon publishing, so I often have to edit it immediately after publishing to get the format as close to what I want as possible.
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(pronounced "new-MYTH-ear"; ... aka Bellatrix Lux … aka Morinehtar … would-be drýicgan or maga ... )
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I am a Walker upon the Path of Balanced Positivity, seeking Spiritual Maturity.
  • Neither eloquence nor inarticulateness inherently indicates correctness, but, as words can kill, the right to freedom of speech comes with a DUTY to be as well-informed, objective and balanced as you can be.
  • Gnwmythr's Stropping Strap: Occam's Razor only works if  the simplest solution is actually recognised as being the simplest, rather than the one that best fits one's bigotries being labelled 'simplest'.
  • I mourn the desecration of the term 'Light Worker' by commercial interests, and the warping of the word 'Light' away from 'Clear Light' by the "(Fluffy) White Lighters".
  • Presuming that everyone has, or wants, a smartphone is discriminatory, unspiritual, and downright amathiac.
  • Obsessive love may be a cover up of guilt.
  • Proxy embarrassment is both a form of control, and an internal barrier to truth, honesty and perspicacity.
  • Our entire life experience, with all the many wondrous and varied people, places and events in it, is too small a sample for statistical reliability about Life.
  • Notwithstanding the greatness of exploring the world and humanity, the greatest exploration is of mind, spirit and Soul.
  • May the world of commerce and business be recognised to be a servant, not a master, of the lives of people.
  • Life is not a struggle for status. 
  • Being accustomed to interacting via certain rules makes those rules neither right nor universal.
  • Like fire to the physical, emotions to the soul make a good servant, and a bad master.
  • The means shape the end.
  • My favourite action movie of all time is "Gandhi", although I've recently come across "Invictus" and might put that one in to that category. However, I loathe the stereotypical action movie - and, for similar reasons, I loathe many dramas, which are often emotionally violent, more so in some cases than many war films.
  • All of the above - and this blog - could be wrong, or subject to context, perspective, or state of spiritual evolution ... and blogging has been described as graffiti with punctuation :)
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The “purpose” of spiritual evolution is not the attainment of “spiritual perfection” - not in the sense of not having to evolve further, at any rate, since there is no such thing. We need to evolve in order to grow - but we can take rest breaks (hopefully well earned :) ) along the way. No, the “purpose” of evolution is, rather, to perfect our ability to learn, and thus grow.
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Females, get over 'cute'. Get competent. Get trained. Get capable. Get over 'cute'. And those of you who are called Patty and Debby and Suzy, get over that. Because we use those names to infantalise females – we keep females in their 'little girl' state by the names we use for them. Get over it. If you want to be taken seriously, get serious.
Jane Elliott
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good [people] to do nothing.
(based on writing by) Edmund Burke
We didn't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we only borrowed it from our children
Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy
Tags: bigotry, discrimination, insanity, judging others, personal characteristics, personal responsibility, prejudice, society, amathia, violence, war,
First published: Manadagr, 10th August, 2015
Last edited (excluding fixing typo's and other minor matters): Tuesday, 11th August, 2015 (edited 2nd last paragraph)


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Remember: we generally need to be more human being rather than human doing, to mind our Mӕgan, and to acknowledge that all misgendering is an act of active transphobia/transmisia that puts trans+ lives at risk & accept that all insistence on the use of “trans” as a descriptor comes with commensurate use of “cis” as a descriptor to prevent “othering” (just as binary gendered [men’s and women’s] sporting teams are either both given the gender descriptor, or neither).

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