There is no "them" here. We are all in this together. Harm to any is ultimately harm to all. Having seen that in childhood, absence of compassion has always baffled me. The brilliant silk ties are strangle knots on leashes tethering ambitious "players" to a no-win game of greed. I did it for 16 years until i realized after losing to money time after time, the game is perfectly rigged to turn anything one does into profit for the already rich. Compassion is not in their vocabulary... Neither is common sense... I continue to simplify and ask myself when planning something, "Where's the Love in this?"
The teams are real. I know blue team members who decorate their Christmas tree with "blue" ornaments, e.g. Biden campaign stickers (not sure they got memo he wasn't running this time), little vx needles with hearts. And there are red team members who fly annoying rub-it-in T...mp flags still in their yard (did they get memo election is over). Perhaps more precisely: "There are not actual teams, but there are 2 groups of people who believe and act and dress as if there really are teams." Like 2 non-existent football teams (no turf, ball, etc) but some people have been duped into dressing up in their favorite jersey of their favorite team (which they've never actually seen of course in real life, but only on a screen, with results published in newspapers).
Keep doing what you are doing. Be cautious in your speech. Listen. Watch.
In your country and mine, millions of people have genuinely experienced a psychotic break with reality. It is NOT within the capability of most people of compassion to aid them, and it is now extremely dangerous for all men of reason and good will.
I work a security contract at a local hospital with a mental health services ward.
My best advice to you, and anyone that is reading this, is to avoid all circumstances where what you do or say feeds or supports their psychosis fantasy. Do not empower it -- no false compassion, no false mercy.
Similar to addiction behaviour, a psychotic will do anything and everything to maintain their fantasy, and will violently attack anyone that may bring reason or reality into that psychosis. I have the scars to prove it.
It takes months of medication in a quiet padded room and a lot of controlled dialogue to bring one individual from psychosis to something resembling sanity.
The system cannot do this for the millions of people out there right now. We never had the resources. We never will.
1. Remembers their own unfoldment from normieland into the woo
2. Holds space while keeping proper boundaries and a safe distance when needed
3. Hones their own discernment continuously
There is no "them" here. We are all in this together. Harm to any is ultimately harm to all. Having seen that in childhood, absence of compassion has always baffled me. The brilliant silk ties are strangle knots on leashes tethering ambitious "players" to a no-win game of greed. I did it for 16 years until i realized after losing to money time after time, the game is perfectly rigged to turn anything one does into profit for the already rich. Compassion is not in their vocabulary... Neither is common sense... I continue to simplify and ask myself when planning something, "Where's the Love in this?"
Option one: extend their faulty logic out to the extreme, where it becomes absurd or ridiculous. At this point, deliver your punch-line.
Option two: is best summed up by a bumper sticker that I saw when I was young, that said: “GOD IS MY PILOT. I’m just the bombardier.”
When I don’t have a lot of time, I go with option two.
They listen.
The whole universe can be grasped by tuned ears.
The whole world falls to pieces by flapping tongues.
The teams are real. I know blue team members who decorate their Christmas tree with "blue" ornaments, e.g. Biden campaign stickers (not sure they got memo he wasn't running this time), little vx needles with hearts. And there are red team members who fly annoying rub-it-in T...mp flags still in their yard (did they get memo election is over). Perhaps more precisely: "There are not actual teams, but there are 2 groups of people who believe and act and dress as if there really are teams." Like 2 non-existent football teams (no turf, ball, etc) but some people have been duped into dressing up in their favorite jersey of their favorite team (which they've never actually seen of course in real life, but only on a screen, with results published in newspapers).
Team Blue "remov[ing] our country's borders" doesn't match reality. 7.5 million Venezuelans were displaced beginning in 2014 – a crisis in the Western hemisphere – and yet in the last year of the Biden administration, border crossings were down. See, for example here: https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/border-crossings-dropped-lowest-level-biden-administration-september-rcna174574.
At the same time, Biden was ready to sign a bipartisan border bill, which gave the president expulsion authority when certain levels of border encounters were reached. See an analysis of the bill here: https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/analysis-senate-border-bill
Team Red withdrew their support for the bill because solving problems would make ginning up hysteria more difficult.
When a person falls prey to maleficent stories told in pursuit of political power, his credibility on other subjects – such as science – takes a hit.
Keep doing what you are doing. Be cautious in your speech. Listen. Watch.
In your country and mine, millions of people have genuinely experienced a psychotic break with reality. It is NOT within the capability of most people of compassion to aid them, and it is now extremely dangerous for all men of reason and good will.
I work a security contract at a local hospital with a mental health services ward.
My best advice to you, and anyone that is reading this, is to avoid all circumstances where what you do or say feeds or supports their psychosis fantasy. Do not empower it -- no false compassion, no false mercy.
Similar to addiction behaviour, a psychotic will do anything and everything to maintain their fantasy, and will violently attack anyone that may bring reason or reality into that psychosis. I have the scars to prove it.
It takes months of medication in a quiet padded room and a lot of controlled dialogue to bring one individual from psychosis to something resembling sanity.
The system cannot do this for the millions of people out there right now. We never had the resources. We never will.
Do not deceive yourself that you can do better.
"Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain
And all the children are insane
All the children are insane
Waiting for the summer rain ... yeah"