In Stranger in a Strange Land, the protagonist Michael Valentime Smith, a human raised on another planet, makes a very astute observation about laughter: we more often than not laugh about the things that make us uncomfortable, things we don't know how to approach or deal with.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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People laugh at others disabilities because they cannot see the form of their being.
Their being cannot control everything, it is given things that it does not have a say in accepting ie/ this girl would most likely not accept a chicken phobia if she had the chance to pick and choose her emotional state before birth.
By form of being then, i mean, what you are.
Now what you are, is actually identical to others, in so far as everyone fears, loves, likes and dislikes and will eventually have to die.
Differences in these things is what makes us take notice that we are all different, suddenly realizing one fine day that we are actually all the same. I say this because if we were not decieved into believing that we were in fact all different, like these people who have a laughing feeling when they see the girl, we wouldnt know the truth about what we are, which is trully ONE form of existence.
This means that when these guys watch the girl, they first notice that they are different than her and see her fear, as based on a scale of worth given to them by their culture, a laughable cause. Really they have no choice in the matter, until they see the mistake in logic that causes laughter to bubble up in their emotions.
However, if one of those dudes were put in a room given 10 minutes to live, they would be screaming for dear life exactly like this girl. But because they see that normally people are afraid of death,the other guys who also laughed at the girl, wouldnt be laughing at their friend who is frantic because he believes he is going to die.
They just wouldnt get the feeling to laugh because they would willingly relate the experience back to their fears, and would most likely be concerned about their friend.
If they could see that the FORM of the things they are scared of, is exactly the same as the FORM of the thing the girls is scared of, they wouldnt laugh but actually feel a sense of compassion for her.
By FORM i mean, the FORM of fear, is that it strikes us as undesirable and for the most part uncontrollable. The quality that we fear, may differ between individuals, ie. they are scared of something, another is not scared of.
They have confused quality of fear with the FORM of fear and therefore their minds subconciously generates feelings of laughter when they see another suffer, at something different from what they would. When really their fears and no different at all, from the persons they are laughing at.
I used to laugh at retarded people. because they make wierd sounds. notice the logic wierd, un normal, substandard, different from the norm. In fact, i still get urges to laugh at them, if i do not actively change the prespective i am observing them through.
Does that make me a bad person? Depends on how you see bad...I will tell you that i have control over it, because i understand the dynamics of feelings and how what you believe correlates with what you will feel. I think i get the laughter subconciously, where it surfaces and i begin to dissipitate it....IF I CAN that it, through re-wiring the brain.
You see, it isnt people that are wrong in feeling certain things for NORMALLY WRONG ways. ITs simply a matter of the beliefs, core beliefs, they have about life that CREATE the reactionary feelings, of which many think they have no control over, until they reach older ages...
Now we can begin to get into what i have learnt and was portraying all along....
Our thoughts are tool to create the reality you are in.
If you choose to create a reality, you will see that you will have a conflict inside of you. One side believes one thing - the subconcious and the concious trying to convince the ALREADY long since convinced subconcious. SO its like trying to talk to an old person who is really set in their ways...
ACCEPTING these IRRATIONAL subconcious thoughts given to us at a young age, is the first step to clearing any room for lasting change.
And if you try, it will be the first step to properly convincing these dudes(if you are in touch with them) that their laghter was unawarranted and created for them. YOu will have inadvertently woken them up from their slumber of sunconcious ZOMBIE, into creator of concious limitlessness birds free....well atleast you'll give them the info nessecary to start that process because ill tell you HWAT....this is not an overnight feet, changing the sunconcious. It surely has been a process for me....no doubt and continues to. TICK tock LETS ROCK on dude. Peace and love ya!
JLM
-------------------- The mind is a creative tool. It searches to protect you, through message sensations(feelings). It is no different than a computer, you need to make sure its anti-virus program is in check and that it doesnt have a script that limits your experience, because of to much precaution. And remember the computer does not appear to respond to words of anger and frustration - just give it input, in the form of new meanings that you know to be true and its messages to you and the limits it lays out for you, will change. Guilt is an outcome of believing you are the cause of the problems. Yet, we are not a cause to something, we see is negative or bad - Unless you believe your intentions are directed towards a bad outcome....
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