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cyberdad
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17 Nov 2014, 10:02 pm

Humans are capable of understanding that we are genetically identical and that we evolved from a (very) small population of survivors in Africa who then spread across the globe.

However most of us believe in that pigmentation in the epidermis can influence how we behave and is enough to create an attribution error that some humans are (not really) equal. Most of us also believe that an old bearded man in white robes created us in 7 days and watches over us impatiently expecting us to pray to him and punish and persecute those who don't. I describe these as a form of mental illness that is inherited from the previous generation and likely to be passed down to the next.

Until the majority of humanity (and i do mean the majority) get over this collective "inherited mental illness" we will never be one.



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18 Nov 2014, 3:21 am

Hi all :-)

Thank you all for this wonderful forum, I learned more about myself in the last month, than I did for the last 37 years combined.
Well, back to topic. This is exactly how I feel about "the others".. Sometimes I feel like I am "an observer in a kindergarden"

I daily see "them" behave unbelievably recless in many ways, and even if I cant make this a much better place,
I sincerely do feel a great responsibility for all of them, make no mistakes, I am no better than anyone, but they do so many things the wrong way...

After all we have only one world, and its "theirs", but it seems to me that they need some help.
I am a Jedi without power, somehow I didnt get to finish my training before they put me here.

Hopefully this makes sense to some of you :-)



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18 Nov 2014, 5:58 am

Eiael wrote:
I am a Jedi without power, somehow I didnt get to finish my training before they put me here.


Welcome...my advice to you paduan; follow Master Obi Won Kenobi's strategy when he went into exile for years on Tatooie after Anniken joined the dark side and the emperor rose to power. As Sun Tzu mentioned in the "Art of War" one must retreat and wait for a time when you can use your power.



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18 Nov 2014, 6:23 am

senecafox wrote:
Do you ever feel like you see everything differently than most people?

i do not know how other people see things. i have never considered it much.

senecafox wrote:
Do you feel more like you belong to the human community than to your individual country?
i feel i belong in the niche that i have gouged out for myself. i belong in the house that i bought and i belong in the world i have set up around me.
i do not have any capacity for spiritual thought. i do not feel i belong in any group of people.

senecafox wrote:
Like you tend to think about the interests of all humans or humanity as a whole rather than just each country separately?

there is a lot of misery happening around the world, and i can i am glad that i am spared it.
i do feel sorry for people when i think of how hard it must be for them if they are in poverty, and i know they did not deserve it, but i seldom consider things concerning people at large.


senecafox wrote:
Do you feel like each human being is another version of yourself and you can't really understand the concept of fighting for your country by harming people from another country because you don't see what makes them matter less just because they're members of a different country? Because in your mind we're all the same... and countries are concepts created by society which hold no absolute truth or meaning... or is that just me?

i would not say that it is just you, but it is not me.