20 hours ago: Utopia? why not! A paradygm shift from behavioural science towards science of the mind...no longer will it be appropriate to just collect data on human yearnings and needs and use it to manipulate stock markets and wealth..but for what it was intended...to provide us with a map to build the greatest wealth and happiness for the mind...how do we take ourselfs out of the modern gladiator motif and evolve into a sentient being whose ability to experience the world around them is no longer filtered through the dominant ideology which is one of greed and violence...science of the mind...all the things that we know to bring peace,joy inclusiveness,empathy are prioritized as the foundation of education and behaviour..no more ROME...humane actions by human people who participate fully in behaviours,laws,beliefs that allow them to feel fully the wonder of life without the parasite of violent ideology farming us for reward...no more pirate motifs,knights of the round table,witches,princesses,kings,all their stories gone and along with it their ridiculous motif of superiority and entitlement...but its so normal I challenge you to be able to see this violent ideology
21 hours ago: I have not had many of the experiences you talk about ...exams..and grilling humiliating initiations...but I have hit my head on the giant truisms of life that violently conflicted with what I was led to believe was true..as a result I spend countless ,years trying to witness the system at work that portrays itself as a benevolent caretaker of the chosen...I have witness a patterning of diminishing the relevance of the lesser by making them voiceless within the sea of the dominant ideology. Things that are not suited to this ideology are denied,diminished or kept out of sight. As a inidivdual who wishes to lead a life as genuine in my ethics and morals as my self control would allow..a speech in my teenage life that forewarned of later truisms would have greatly reduced the nomadic wanderings in order to FIGURE it all out. I feel that it is a cruel act to enable good humane people to participate in inhuman practices(greed,hoarding,imperiialism,pollution,racism,sexism,,ect) without fully realizing what they are doing. This manipulation of facts and truth allows me to participate in organized violence by entrenching me in an ideology of i beliefs,behaviours and laws as the norm. that I am not in agreement with...I am very sad that my culture has such a blind spot for its own faillings and is to this day unable to fully take control of its own behaviours which it still perpetuates as it drags in each new member.
1 day ago: Ben it is this logic which would reinforce my embracing death to save another...but it slips so easily away from my daily life,that I de evolve back into my physical sense of self and would self preserve my body...I cant seem to walk the talk...not everyday..thankyou for restating a more enlightened way of looking at life
1 day ago: In my mythic mind I save people and I fall to my death...so it would depend on the day preceeding the event that is to say Is it a mythic day or not...sometimes im keen on embracing death in an act of bravery and some days im fighting like a squirrel with rabies to the death over something that is not essential...I have thought of this question many times and I get no consistent answer..sorry
1 day ago: of course if entertainment is reliable,or legitimate it is similar to education and will build a vast storehouse of catagories that will build empathy ect...but where is this body of entertainment located?
1 day ago: My parents stuck together and it was very not good for most of the family. My mother was depressed all the time and became sick eternally...to cover her depression...she constantly complained it was us kids who made her feel pooly...so my dad routinely beat and did cruel acts to manage us....the house was dead with a terrifying calmness...neglect was everywhere as everyone hid to avoid conflict...I began cutting myself,mybrother overate ,my mom is on antidepressents and my dad disappeared to spend all his time at work...to watch two adults who are unhappy is not a good role model...no one is happy...I believe my brother would not have committed suicide had my parents been a better example of what one should strive for in life...not enduring misery for a fictional account of the perfect family
1 day ago: thankyou Colleen..Of course you are the person to wisely install the voice of quiet reason into the hearts of those around you..that has been your job forever..Dont worry im fully aware of a self depretiating element to my character and am secretly working to uninstall it...and Im very close...so thanks again for your wisedom,(off topic...I like your haircut)
1 day ago: small things....really small,,sounds weird,but I have a habit of observing really small things,bugs,rain ,snow,wind, and when I do it fills me with wonder and get this HIGH that leads me away from depression..its a weird reaction to pain that I wish others could have,a weird cognitive twist...just getting distracted from agony by a sense and fascination with otherness. An obsession with observation,understanding,patterns. When it comes to movies Im a fan of the absurd,weird puppets cartoons,japenese mythologies(Spirited Away) or the Matrix...or accepting adversity like Little Miss Sunshine...Food...vegetarian mostly. based in science of nutrttiion..I believe I am lessening suffering...and Dance...It has little to do with thinking and is as close to a child like sense of freedom I can get to....it pleases me to do something so simple and uncomplicated and yields miles of generous energy and positivity free to anyone who dares to dance like no one is watching
1 day ago: NO WAY...IM here to be used up,to be designing to exhaustion,to make life better for anyone who dosent have issue with my essence (of course there are a few) I should be writing childrens books to raise respect for nature,confirm the raised questions about questions of cultures,past and present,I should be harbouring pregnant single moms, and cooking good food for all the exhausted workaholics,writing dance and artistic peices to allow the ghosts of emotion to hold witness and be experienced as credible,inventing gagets to fill in all the little annoying adversities of life(how do you open a door holding a coffee0 ECT ..BUT .I do one haircut at a time and look outside,and hope someday there is someone more visionary then me more effective,braver who builds all these human bridges and frees all the good hearts that yearn
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