Horrors of Reality

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[venting]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNURaaxE1zw[/youtube]

And what of war stories?
Human beings, left as decomposing masses - stories too numerous and soul rending to give due time.
Silenced by the indifference of reality - but not before the rape, torture, murder and annihilation of home, self, family & culture.
Oh, but humanity isn’t the only object to be discarded at the mercy of time.
All conscious beings get to roll their loaded dice, and draw from the stacked deck.
Misery bestowing misery.
But don’t forget, this is all love.
This is the greatest expression of omnipotence & omnibenevolence.
Can’t be more compassionate than this.
Self determination costs so much, but is truly worth the price.
Or so powers greater than ourselves assert.

" We’re all evil, remember? We brought this on ourselves.
Our misery is our own fault and we should be ashamed.
And if you don’t straighten up, it’ll get Worse.
You think you’re better than that mass of fermenting atrocity?
You think your values matter?
Watch as they’re trampled into putrid sludge that we’ll drown you in.
Let’s see how pretty your values are once we’ve expressed our omnibenevolence. "

I’m not really in the business of salvaging the weapons of war.
Monuments in their celebration and idolization.
I’ve seen enough. Your assertions are offensive.

But I’m an idiot, so let the tides wash me from your consideration.

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Want a better world?

Remove cruelty.

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A few months ago,
a discovery was revealed.
There was a ring of people,
from less economically advantaged locations,
that found a new way to make an income.
Turns out there’s richer people, economically speaking,
that have acquired tastes.
Killing people is generally illegal everywhere,
but this mercy isn’t bestowed on all.
Monkeys are very similar to us,
as so these savvy entrepreneurs recognized.
It’s risky to torture, mutilate and murder people.
The stakes are high.
Ah, but there are plentiful other animals,
which inhabit less industrialized environments,
with communities seeking financial comfort.
Why not provide a business opportunity?
I watch,
from the comfort of my home,
or the portable device in hand that contains the world,
while you,
my dear business associate who I’ve never met,
( unless of course, watching stops cutting it ),
while you,
share the civility and compassion our species has nurtured.
Show these inferior animals,
the great heights we’ve reached with our superiority.

Lucky monkeys, right?
Not all monkeys know such blessings.

Or you know, you could be a starving kid with a bullet the only thing in your stomach.

[ That comment was about as tasteless as our species ]

When they torture you, it is the dehumanization that leaves the greatest scar.
You are treated as less than human, less than the other that can freely do you such harm.
Your humanity is being contorted and strangled.
The injustice burns away and poisons your spirit.

Again, in the past, if your tribe treated you so, they were your tribe no longer.
If your family treated you so, they were your family no longer.

You are now alone, and you have only yourself to rely on.
Ostracized by one’s own sense of justice.
You no longer identify as one of those,
who do such things.
You must carve your own identity…
ideally dissimilar to what you’ve encountered.

The seeds of misanthropy sprout quickly,
beside the dumpster-fire of one’s spirit.

Let us look upon the world,
to catch our bearings…

:astonished:

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I could spam horrible shit, but it’d be belabouring the point.
Like, somewhere in existence, a community is suffering the most of any community ever to be.
Some brutal tyranny of hell made reality, with beings that can suffer to extremities.

But I digress:

[Thank iam for the introduction. Crossed his work, but never connected a name.]

The above quote, was one of the primary points of this thread.
Others were about facing truth, personal processing and to outlet.
Also because my hand was swayed. :-"