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here is something you can't understand
#14165216 - 03/22/11 03:15 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Have any of you pondered the possibility of killing another person? I don't mean in any sick fantasizing way, people get caught up in situations and shit happens.
Do you think you're capable of it? What would drive you to it? How do you think it would change you.
The thought entered my head because I had to chase off my sisters junkie ex con sociopath boyfriend a knife point a few times and and it left me really hoping the motherfucker doesn't come back around. If not for his sake then the sake of my soul.
I am very peaceful by nature, violent natured people repulse me... but to protect the safety of my family, my own life, or the life of a loved one I... I think I'd be able to kill if it absolut ly came down to it. Actually I know this with most certainty because I nearly did.
But even if the person was scum and I was 100% in the right... it would torment me for the rest of my life. What are your thoughts, not about my situation... just speculate about yourselves.
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I wouldn't lose any sleep over killing people I thought were the bad guy.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: here is something you can't understand [Re: Icelander]
#14165362 - 03/22/11 03:47 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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If it came down to me or him, there wouldn't even be a thought or regret.
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Re: here is something you can't understand [Re: Icelander]
#14165369 - 03/22/11 03:48 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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A history of perpetual violence has unfolded thanks to people's uncanny ability to convince us there is such thing as an "enemy," though it's definition and face continually changes.
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Re: here is something you can't understand [Re: The Whale]
#14165387 - 03/22/11 03:51 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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The Whale said: A history of perpetual violence has unfolded thanks to people's uncanny ability to convince us there is such thing as an "enemy," though it's definition and face continually changes.
You're right. All we do with violence and abuse is pass the torch down to the next generation. It's up to the individual to break the cycle of action and reaction. projection and resentment. Revenge and Justice.
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Re: here is something you can't understand [Re: Icelander]
#14165391 - 03/22/11 03:52 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Define "Bad Guy"
This aint Boondock Saints we're talking about,
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Re: here is something you can't understand [Re: The Whale]
#14165392 - 03/22/11 03:52 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Enemies do exist. Anyone trying to take my life or a friends without just cause is my enemy.
But of course just because my govt sez someone is my enemy doesn't make it the truth.
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Re: here is something you can't understand [Re: Icelander]
#14165665 - 03/22/11 04:43 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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It's up to the individual to break the cycle of action and reaction.
According to R.A. Wilson's interpretation of Buddhism, that is part of the "good work" to be undertaken. It is the acknowledgment, transformation, and then re-direction of negative energy.
Turning anger into blueberry muffins: this makes God happy and stifles nuclear proliferation while enhancing oxytocin proliferation.
It's a win-win, sergeant. But it ain't easy.
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Re: here is something you can't understand [Re: The Whale]
#14165702 - 03/22/11 04:50 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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All the nice sunny meadows and bunny rabbits vanish when someone is coming at you with a knife and deadly intentions.
Violence sucks, but when it's thrust upon you, you respond in kind or get hurt or killed, and no amount of pithy phases can change that.
The unfortunate consequence for the world is the ugly place you see around you right now. No matter that a billion people profess peace and love, all it takes is one tiny piece of dog shit to ruin the entire soup.
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Re: here is something you can't understand [Re: The Whale]
#14165724 - 03/22/11 04:54 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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It is impossible to know if what you are doing in any moment is good or bad But you can calmly make a qualified guess based on experience and that's the best way to make decisions - not to get carried away so to speak
What is just cause for killing someone? Is it that that someone has killed or is going to kill
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Re: here is something you can't understand [Re: Ferdinando]
#14169087 - 03/23/11 10:17 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Ferdinando said:
What is just cause for killing someone? Is it that that someone has killed or is going to kill
Or you can end a needless cycle of violence. Do you know what a life sentence is Norway? 12 years. Why? Because they believe that just because someone does something bad doesn't make them a bad person, and that they can be rehabilitated. Their murder rate is something like 0.8 per 100,000 compared to the US which is like 8.5 or something.
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Re: here is something you can't understand [Re: learningtofly]
#14169254 - 03/23/11 10:47 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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And the victim gets to come back to life after 12 years - a fair exchange.
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So you're a fan of lex talionis?
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Re: here is something you can't understand [Re: learningtofly]
#14170049 - 03/23/11 01:15 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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lex talionis is a result of social conditioning and sustained overuse of senseless brain pathways don't blame those who are slaves or victims of any kind of nature trying to make things better is way better
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Re: here is something you can't understand [Re: learningtofly]
#14173877 - 03/24/11 01:50 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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learningtofly said: So you're a fan of lex talionis?
You're not a fan of fairness?
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Re: here is something you can't understand [Re: Poid]
#14174762 - 03/24/11 09:17 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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fairness is just part of habitual thinking it does not really exist in any other way than as a mental construct it should be observed and let go of immediately IMO in favor of preserving other forms of life
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Re: here is something you can't understand [Re: Ferdinando]
#14174781 - 03/24/11 09:22 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Ferdinando said: fairness is just part of habitual thinking it does not really exist in any other way than as a mental construct
What's your point? 
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Ferdinando said: it should be observed and let go of immediately IMO in favor of preserving other forms of life
I don't really understand what you're saying here--why must one "let go" of fairness in order to preserve "other forms of life"? What other forms of life are you speaking of?
Do you really have no problem with people who get away with treating others unfairly?
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Re: here is something you can't understand [Re: Poid]
#14174847 - 03/24/11 09:44 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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it's like right there is no right other than as opposed to left
does fairness = eye for an eye or does eye for an eye only = eye for an eye (man punching or removing or whatever an eye as exchange for similar act towards himself) fairness does not really exist, it's just a meaningless concept based on math
do I have a problem with the first time a man looses an eye? as much as the second time
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Re: here is something you can't understand [Re: Ferdinando]
#14174945 - 03/24/11 10:07 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Ferdinando said: it's like right there is no right other than as opposed to left
does fairness = eye for an eye or does eye for an eye only = eye for an eye (man punching or removing or whatever an eye as exchange for similar act towards himself) fairness does not really exist, it's just a meaningless concept based on math
I personally attach meaning to it, so it's not subjectively meaningless to me.
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Ferdinando said: do I have a problem with the first time a man looses an eye? as much as the second time
So you have as much a problem with the second person who took out the first person's eye in retaliation for having his eye taken as you have with the first person who took the second person's eye out without any provocation whatsoever?
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