(10-23-2016, 11:12 AM)anagogy Wrote: Those things Minyatur mentioned are surface illusions of our identity, (parts of us that will be discarded at death, just like any material possessions we've accumulated) we are spiritual beings having a temporary physical experience, and if you focus and identify with those temporal characteristics to the extent of seeing more differences than similarities between others, then guess what? You get racism, sexism, bigotry and all that other negative stuff. And it doesn't matter if you are doing it for "good reasons" or to fight what you perceive to be the evil injustices of the world. The effect is the same. The focus on differences to the exclusion of similarities and commonalities simply makes the differences more and more active players in your experience which leads to the aforementioned examples of separation. It just activates and exacerbates the vibration of separation and disharmony.

anagogy Wrote:You seem to have ignored the part where I said:

(10-22-2016, 12:51 PM)anagogy Wrote: And by the way, I wasn't stating it as some kind of absolute rule, just as a fitting adage to the context of the discussion. Truly, if an intention were "pure" and non-contradicted, and sustained, attention would naturally gravitate to the correct vibrational focus for accomplishing the intent. However, many people start off with good intentions which then devolve to something that is, shall we say, "less pure".

Quote:All I can tell you is that I don't see victims as aggressors -- it's a flat out misinterpretation of what I'm saying. It's more like: I'm walking along a path and find someone who has been attacked by a wild animal, the wound is bleeding and they are picking at the wound, causing it to bleed more profusely, and I say, "If I were you I would stop picking at the wound, you are making it far worse." And they say, "I'm trying to find the source of the pain. I have to keep picking at it till I find the source and then I can make it stop." And I say, "It actually doesn't work that way. What you are doing only leads to endless pain. Leave it alone, stop picking at it, and it will heal. You are preventing your wound from healing."

And people just keep picking at the wounds, because they can't understand that their actions are preventing the very thing they are desiring.

anagogy Wrote:What makes you think I'm scoffing at it? It's fine for people who need or want it. But some people seek more encompassing (higher density) wisdoms.

(10-23-2016, 12:26 PM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote: Do you think that explaining it in this way can help the average nigh-harvestable person rise above racism/sexism? Because what you are saying isn't necessarily incorrect. It just doesn't seem to soothe any wounds at this moment in time.

(10-23-2016, 12:26 PM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote: So your response to finding a person stranded out in the woods, wounded and in pain, is to scold them and tell them why your way is better than their way, and that their way is causing them even more pain?

And then, as you say, they continue to pick at the wound. So maybe a different course of action is called for?

(10-23-2016, 12:26 PM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote: You said that Q'uo was "unintelligible and nonsensical" to you, but conceding that sometimes "fluffy love" is needed. In third density, "fluffy love" is always useful IMO.

(10-23-2016, 12:26 PM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote: I think wisdom is also about knowing not to project your lessons of wisdom upon those who are explicitly asking for compassion. Wisdom is intended to be informed compassion, not the expression of love without compassion.

Love is what heals. Wisdom doesn't heal, wisdom is just the process of getting better at using love to heal.

(10-23-2016, 12:51 PM)anagogy Wrote: I don't think most people are actually capable of grasping it. I'm simply fascinated by the metaphysics of manifestation and I share it with those who have ears to hear it. With most people I meet I don't go into any sort of detail about it because they don't have the base of understanding for it to be useful, I merely try to redirect their attention to more positive avenues, but on this forum I'm addressing people who are presumably searching for advanced truths (maybe I was wrong to assume that).

Quote:Well, first off, no analogy is perfect. Secondly, I find in interesting that you interpret it as "scolding". Because it isn't actually scolding -- it is friendly, helpful, and supremely useful advice, but it is quite often that people misinterpret intentions.

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(10-23-2016, 12:26 PM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote: You said that Q'uo was "unintelligible and nonsensical" to you, but conceding that sometimes "fluffy love" is needed. In third density, "fluffy love" is always useful IMO.

I was saying that that particular quote was unintelligible and nonsensical to me.  Respectfully I disagree, if it was always useful, then no higher density being would ever come to the conclusion that an excess of it was "folly when seen through the eyes of wisdom". It can be imbalanced and disproportionate just as anything can. That isn't to denigrate it, it has a place and a purpose.

Quote:Again, if somebody sees me as lacking in compassion, then they don't really understand what I'm about. Sometimes the most compassionate acts don't always seem outwardly as such. Sometimes the medicine that helps, tastes terrible going down.  

(10-23-2016, 01:05 PM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote: If you were an entity who was alone and wounded and a stranger came upon you and told you essentially to "stop it", would you assume they were offering you friendly and helpful advice?

(10-23-2016, 01:05 PM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote: I said this is about third density. You are talking about "through the eyes of wisdom" (5th density and above). The other part of that quote is that martyrdom is "the salvation of third density". What about that?

(10-23-2016, 01:05 PM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote: I'm of the opinion that if a doctor is aware that his medicine tastes terrible and gets feedback as such, that maybe mixing a little sweetener into the serum might make it more palatable and therefore make the patient more likely to ingest said medicine for its cumulative effects.

(10-23-2016, 01:22 PM)anagogy Wrote:

(10-23-2016, 01:05 PM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote: If you were an entity who was alone and wounded and a stranger came upon you and told you essentially to "stop it", would you assume they were offering you friendly and helpful advice?

Well, that is overly simplistic in my opinion. But if someone explained, repeatedly, ad infinitum, that that thing I was doing was doing the opposite of what I wanted it to do, I would hope one might pause and at least ponder the efficacy (or lack thereof) of one's behavior.

(10-23-2016, 01:22 PM)anagogy Wrote: It is the salvation of third density because there is so little love here, but as Ra states in that same quote that it ultimately creates a mismatch in the ultimate scheme of energy balance. It is an absolute relief to the harsh reality of 3rd density but that doesn't mean that there aren't more finessed and refined applications of love that become apparent with higher density wisdom (that are still wholly applicable within this realm). Why use a rock to hammer out a distortion when the scalpel is available? I've seen plenty of situations in my life where tough love had far more of an efficacious impact than unrelenting fluff. Different strokes for different folks. There are many different teachers. A message is never going to resonate with everyone universally. That would be an impossible and unrealistic expectation.

(10-23-2016, 02:06 PM)octavia Wrote: One can only be of service to another to extent that the other self desires to be served. If one entity offers another entity a perspective, and this entity says "no, I do not agree with this, and I am not interested in pursuing it further in any way", it is not useful to reiterate that which the entity has already dropped via their own discernment. As such, to explain, repeatedly, ad infinitum, to an entity who is not calling for help, who is not calling for that perspective, is to tread perilously close to the territory wherein a perspective is thrust upon another entity unwillingly and most unhelpfully.

(10-23-2016, 02:06 PM)octavia Wrote: If it is already agreed upon that depending on the situation, different blends of love and wisdom may be called for, and if service is understood as a case by case basis depending upon an entity's distortions and the nature of their calling, then it may already be seen how it is most inefficacious to apply whatever has been useful to the entity who hears the call as a sweeping model of understanding concerning those who have suffered at the hands of others. For the nature of their calling and the proper blend of love and wisdom that is thus called for may not be whatever has been useful in the past for the particular entity who hears the calling.

(10-23-2016, 02:25 PM)anagogy Wrote:

(10-23-2016, 02:06 PM)octavia Wrote: One can only be of service to another to extent that the other self desires to be served. If one entity offers another entity a perspective, and this entity says "no, I do not agree with this, and I am not interested in pursuing it further in any way", it is not useful to reiterate that which the entity has already dropped via their own discernment. As such, to explain, repeatedly, ad infinitum, to an entity who is not calling for help, who is not calling for that perspective, is to tread perilously close to the territory wherein a perspective is thrust upon another entity unwillingly and most unhelpfully.

People ask for help in different ways, and not all of them are verbal. People are free to reject my message if they want, I don't force anything on anyone. I don't force feed my message down peoples throats like many activists do. I've simply been responding to the people who engage my posts for the most part. If somebody doesn't want my input, they need only stop engaging my posts.

It is that simple. Keep in mind were are in a thread titled, "You create your reality." Do you expect me to talk about ponies?

(10-23-2016, 02:06 PM)octavia Wrote: If it is already agreed upon that depending on the situation, different blends of love and wisdom may be called for, and if service is understood as a case by case basis depending upon an entity's distortions and the nature of their calling, then it may already be seen how it is most inefficacious to apply whatever has been useful to the entity who hears the call as a sweeping model of understanding concerning those who have suffered at the hands of others. For the nature of their calling and the proper blend of love and wisdom that is thus called for may not be whatever has been useful in the past for the particular entity who hears the calling.

Again, I haven't forced my message on anyone. I'm simply responding to you people who keep engaging my posts. And also, keep in mind that you are not the supreme high chancellor and decider of what every body is looking for, so while my message not be for you, someone else might welcome this truth wholeheartedly. Again, I'll repeat, I have forced nothing on anyone.

Every being receives exactly what they need, because that is the nature of distortion, or karma. It attracts those requisite lessons that will serve to eventually ameliorate those distortions.

(10-23-2016, 02:25 PM)anagogy Wrote: My message is very simple and its not a new teaching: you create all of your experiences: the good, the bad, and the ugly (if you are the one infinite creator, how could it possibly be otherwise?). If people don't want to accept that, that is their choice, and I hope they are happy with it. I prefer a more empowered perspective.

(10-23-2016, 02:44 PM)octavia Wrote: Hello Anagogy,

My first paragraph speaks specifically to the analogy that was given.

My second paragraph concerns an incompatibility between the analogy and the assertions made concerning the nature of service.

(10-23-2016, 02:44 PM)octavia Wrote: The ideas shared earlier concerning whether it is advisable to explore race, sexuality, and so on, and to what extent this can be done before the viewer sees more dissimilarities between entities than similarities, and the evaluation of the modern phenomenon of what have been called Social Justice Warriors, are indeed complex proposed corollaries to the principle that an entity creates their own reality. As such they are subject to hearty debate even if each entity within the discussion subscribes to the principle of the entity who creates their own reality.

Quote:People are free to keep subscribing to their misguided and accusatory divisive ideologies that attempt to correct disharmony by introducing a focus on more disharmony.

(10-23-2016, 10:29 PM)Aion Wrote: Ahaha Oh man, this right here, is so snide I'm impressed. Oh, forgive me, that is probably a misinterpretation of your clear wisdom... I kid, I kid.

(09-23-2016, 09:27 PM)sjel Wrote: I have been thinking about this constantly the past two months, viewing my environment as a pure reflection of my self. I am creating the reality I live in. So what about things like rape? How is the rape victim creating that reality. Or fighting parents. What does one do to love the conflict.

(10-23-2016, 01:22 PM)anagogy Wrote:

(10-23-2016, 01:05 PM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote: If you were an entity who was alone and wounded and a stranger came upon you and told you essentially to "stop it", would you assume they were offering you friendly and helpful advice?

Well, that is overly simplistic in my opinion. But if someone explained, repeatedly, ad infinitum, that that thing I was doing was doing the opposite of what I wanted it to do, I would hope one might pause and at least ponder the efficacy (or lack thereof) of one's behavior. As for whether they saw it as friendly? Perhaps not at first, but in time they would see its helpful nature.

Quote:A message is never going to resonate with everyone universally. That would be an impossible and unrealistic expectation.

Quote:Analogies don't always paint a clear or reliable picture, but they can be fun.

Ra Wrote:Each experience will be sequentially understood by the growing and seeking mind/body/spirit complex in terms of survival, then in terms of personal identity, then in terms of social relations, then in terms of universal love, then in terms of how the experience may beget free communication, then in terms of how the experience may be linked to universal energies, and finally in terms of the sacramental nature of each experience.

Ra Wrote:With the green-ray transfer of energy you now come to the great turning point sexually as well as in each other mode of experience. The green ray may then be turned outward, the entity then giving rather than receiving. The first giving beyond green ray is the giving of acceptance or freedom, thus allowing the recipient of blue-ray energy transfer the opportunity for a feeling of being accepted, thus freeing that other-self to express itself to the giver of this ray. It will be noted that once green-ray energy transfer has been achieved by two mind/body/spirits in mating, the further rays are available without both entities having the necessity to progress equally. Thus a blue-ray vibrating entity or indigo-ray vibrating entity whose other ray vibrations are clear may share that energy with the green-ray other-self, thus acting as catalyst for the continued learn/teaching of the other-self. Until an other-self reaches green ray, such energy transfers through the rays is not possible.

Ra Wrote:Blue ray is the ray of free communication with self and with other-self.

(10-24-2016, 12:05 PM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote: Ah, is that the kind of introspection from repeated catalyst with others that prompted you to soften your tone and post the gif at the top of the page?

(10-24-2016, 12:05 PM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote: I think a big thing that the Law of One teaches is that love resonates with everything. Love is the true healer. It seems you want results obtained through your wisdom. The fact is, if you just love and accept something and let it go, you will transform it with more rapidity than if you think about it and try to analyze it. I think you've missed my point about how love and compassion are the foundation for wisdom. If we aren't consciously and repeatedly trying to open the heart chakra more, to move energy into the blue ray, I think we're missing the point of third density.

So, my question is, do you think you're trying to balance more love with your wisdom or more wisdom with your love? What is your life path, what "higher lessons" are you focusing on? I'm just trying to get a perspective why you don't think crystallizing the heart chakra is part of the curriculum.

(10-24-2016, 12:05 PM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote: I'm not trying to make this into a meat debate, and I'm fully prepared for my analogy to be ignored. I'm just trying to flip the perspective to try to break through your cognitive dissonance. You are projecting to others that they should be at a place where their gender/race are just an "article of clothing". This is a pretty high-minded thought for third density entities. We all make choices that separate us, and we are attempting to reunify as best as we can. This is obvious. The blue ray, wisdom, is about communication - talking these things out. Exchanging words and each of us making little choices every day to move closer to unity, with encouragement from each other. When someone tries to share something with you, and you post a dismissive gif, this is, IMO, indicative a blue-ray blockage, because you are saying that the other person's reality is invalid and you aren't going to listen to them.

(10-24-2016, 12:05 PM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote: Again, to reiterate my point, that is not to encourage separation by the discussion of race/gender, but to ALLOW the discussion of race/gender by those entities who need to talk about these things. You may see it as trivial, destructive, separatist, a waste of time - but to cultivate the blue ray is to cultivate an allowance for others to speak/experience these things, even if it is beyond where you are now or if you have just never experienced it. To create and hold a space where once can communicate and feel accepted and maybe, hopefully, understood. If you have a different definition of the blue ray/wisdom supported by the Ra material, then I would be happy to hear it.

(10-24-2016, 12:05 PM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote: Again, to reiterate my point, that is not to encourage separation by the discussion of race/gender, but to ALLOW the discussion of race/gender by those entities who need to talk about these things. You may see it as trivial, destructive, separatist, a waste of time - but to cultivate the blue ray is to cultivate an allowance for others to speak/experience these things, even if it is beyond where you are now or if you have just never experienced it. To create and hold a space where once can communicate and feel accepted and maybe, hopefully, understood. If you have a different definition of the blue ray/wisdom supported by the Ra material, then I would be happy to hear it.

Ra Wrote:To answer your second question more fully we may say that it is correct that radiation without the necessity of response begins with blue ray although the green ray, being the great transitional ray, must be given all careful consideration, for until transfers of energy of all types has been experienced and mastered to a great extent, there will be blockages in the blue and indigo radiations.

(10-25-2016, 12:05 PM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote: Ra says if we see a hungry entity we feed it. If we acknowledge the hunger in an entity, are we focusing on separation?

(10-25-2016, 12:05 PM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote: When someone who is white, straight, male, etc, tells people who aren't that they shouldn't talk about their mistreatment under this social regime, what happens is repression, and a feeling of not being understood.

(10-25-2016, 12:05 PM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote: This quote literally said that these things don't exist and talking about them reinforces separation.

(10-25-2016, 12:05 PM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote: I'm addressing a blue-ray blockage (huge lack of understanding each other) because I see it in this thread, I see it in other threads, and therefore recognize that it is a part of myself. I'm trying to talk this out and to articulate things for people who are being oppressed and unable to articulate these things themselves. People who have left the forums or limited their interaction because of this perceived oppression.

This may be off topic in the context of the thread, but in the context of the greater discussion of the forum, it is not.

(10-25-2016, 12:05 PM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote: I continue to address this blue-ray issue because I feel we still haven't come to a place of understanding, which, according to my interpretation of the Ra material, is the hallmark of the blue-ray energy transfer. I also recognize 100% that I am being hypocritical. But, in my hypocrisy, I am attempting to convey a point.

(10-25-2016, 12:05 PM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote: This point is that we have racial and gender issues as part of our planetary consciousness. This isn't attempting to revictimize people, it's acknowledging their previous and currently ongoing victimizations. When someone who is white, straight, male, etc, tells people who aren't that they shouldn't talk about their mistreatment under this social regime, what happens is repression, and a feeling of not being understood.

(10-25-2016, 12:05 PM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote: I originally responded specifically to one quote that was quoted again and agreed with. This quote literally said that these things don't exist and talking about them reinforces separation. I'm of the camp that talking with each other about these things causes healing. Not talking about them leads to repression. Repression is a negative transformation of the mind.

(10-25-2016, 12:05 PM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote: I can concede that in Canada, this probably not the case as thoroughly, but here in America, we are programmed from a young age, through media, to have extremely skewed feelings about gender roles and sexual identity and racial identity. I recognize this within me and I think everyone needs to get to a point where they realize they need to break out of this programming, which takes a lot of time and effort. When white dudes say "This programming, these biases don't exist", what it sounds like is that they haven't actually addressed this programming. In fact, they are buying into the current programming that just talking about race and gender is "causing separation". That people who are "social justice warriors" are bad. We need warriors for social justice!!!

(10-25-2016, 12:05 PM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote: I know, from 30 years of experience as a woman, and I think almost all women would agree with me, that "rape culture" is real. We are taught to be afraid that a man might jump out from around the corner and rape us because we're too inebriated or not wearing enough clothing. The ubiquitous acceptance of pornography addiction doesn't do anything to alleviate fears. My mother in law is constantly trying to buy me weapons so that when I leave work at night I'm "protected".

My point is not to blame men for this, since as you see from my example, my mother in law perpetuates this too, but for men to be aware that this is a reality for almost all women. To say that we shouldn't talk about this, or that gender doesn't exist, seems willfully ignorant.

I read this quote yesterday and I think it's applicable:

Ra Wrote:To answer your second question more fully we may say that it is correct that radiation without the necessity of response begins with blue ray although the green ray, being the great transitional ray, must be given all careful consideration, for until transfers of energy of all types has been experienced and mastered to a great extent, there will be blockages in the blue and indigo radiations.

(10-25-2016, 12:05 PM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote: I'd really enjoy more of a discussion of what it means to seek love with and without wisdom, from other interpretations of the Ra material. I believe there is a fundamental misunderstanding about what wisdom truly means, and I'm interested in achieving a greater understanding.

(10-25-2016, 01:42 PM)anagogy Wrote: I don't think anyone was suggesting to not acknowledge the suffering, just to not "wallow in it". In the context of your example, it would be akin to pointing out the entity is hungry, and spending your time finding someone to blame for it, and listing all the causes of it, and quoting statistics about how everyone you know is hungry, and that hunger is such a huge problem, rather than just getting on with feeding the person (which is focusing on the solution rather than the problem).

Quote:Why do you have to qualify it with "white, straight, male"? (and why even go to the lengths to make those assumptions about people? Do you think everybody on an anonymous internet forum shares every little detail about themselves?) Shouldn't it bother you if anyone were to do that, regardless of their physical characteristics? Do you see how its not your focus on the repression that is the actual main "problem"? You are attacking a perceived repression with yet more repression (of the people you think are responsible), and are further singling people out based on racial/gender characteristics. That is the divisive aspect of all of this (and a prime example of why these SJW groups are ultimately self defeating).

(10-25-2016, 02:44 PM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote: Don't you understand how in context, this is necessary? I mean, not to the hyperbole you make, but if I were to just hand a hungry entity food, I'm just helping it in that moment. They will come back to me tomorrow still hungry, "wallowing" in it. If I want to actually solve their problem, we must talk about it and address it within the context of their current life experience. "Teach a man to fish" - we shouldn't just say "Hey, there's a whole ocean of fish over there, why aren't you helping yourself?"

(10-25-2016, 02:44 PM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote: I'm really trying very hard not to repress based on skin color and gender. And I wasn't making assumptions, I was just making juxtapositions. My point that I've been attempting to make this whole time is that when you are not the demographic that is traditionally and systematically repressed and being talked about in the current discussion, it doesn't help when you are dismissive towards these people's experiences that have caused them real pain.

(10-25-2016, 02:54 PM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote: Minyatur, no offense, I know you probably put a lot of thought and love into your post, but it's really difficult for me to continue to reply when my posts get chewed up and each sentence has its own counterpoint. I wish I had the time and energy to continue this discussion further and maybe even resolve it, but I see that this is something that needs to happen in the future yet. We are still quite far from a place of reaching true understanding of each other. I feel I have belabored my points and if you feel that my desire to do that has manifested more separation and control, well I suppose that is your means of receiving this catalyst. I appreciate all of your thoughts and all that they have contributed to my own personal resolution of truth.

(10-25-2016, 04:33 PM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote: I think it's nuance and appreciating the infinity of the Creator, and the most exciting part about service to others.

Minyatur Wrote:It touched me when SMC shared about herself, like I said, but sharing stories of others is trying to make it not about her own healing.

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SMC came to this thread and shared what she shared not to seek healing, but to deny that she creates her reality through an attempt at making others disbelieve they create their reality through the use of examples of people who are unrelated to this forum.

(10-27-2016, 06:17 PM)Bring4th_Austin Wrote:

Minyatur Wrote:It touched me when SMC shared about herself, like I said, but sharing stories of others is trying to make it not about her own healing.

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SMC came to this thread and shared what she shared not to seek healing, but to deny that she creates her reality through an attempt at making others disbelieve they create their reality through the use of examples of people who are unrelated to this forum.

I cannot imagine where you get that idea from or how you presume to understand someone else's intention in simply sharing a story. Sharing testimonial of people who have experienced something similar, something traumatic, and something systemic is a way to show how it is systemic, how it exists beyond an individual experience. Perhaps someone resonates with a story of someone else's experiences and thus shares it to better express their own feelings or experiences. It's up to an individual to determine what is in support of their own healing.

(10-27-2016, 06:17 PM)Bring4th_Austin Wrote: I can't say my opinion on the first question is very eloquent or intricate. I trend greatly towards Octavia's eloquently expressed opinion, in that it might be ultimately true that we are the Creator, that which creates all things, and some level of our being creates the situation we experience. However, we simply cannot understand the dynamics of how this really happens. I simply do not find the concepts discussed in which a person "attracts" these things to themselves to be useful unless that attraction can, in some way, be distinguished and recognized (which it cannot). We add in the fact that we exist in a reality with billions of other individuals "attracting" things and we get a very vast and impenetrable system of intermingling "attractions." The majesty of such interconnected metaphysical dynamics does inspire awe, but I really can't believe it is as simple as has been spelled out anywhere in this thread.

(10-27-2016, 06:17 PM)Bring4th_Austin Wrote: (It may be useful to point out that Ra talked about random events and catalyst – perhaps only seemingly random, but random enough for Ra to call them such. Meaning that for all intents and purposes we could possible experience something both random and traumatic.)

(10-27-2016, 06:17 PM)Bring4th_Austin Wrote: When the perception of this complex dynamic of "attraction" is so muddled, I think it does a disservice to those who experience traumatic or hurtful things at the hands of others to pop up and remind them "Hey, you created this!"

(There are some rare situations where such a statement will help the person shed the identity of victim and find the ultimate power to overcome their trauma, but this is quite exceptional.)

(10-27-2016, 06:17 PM)Bring4th_Austin Wrote: Getting to the second question, to tell a victim not to dwell upon their incident also completely ignores the mysterious and impactful nature of trauma (both personal and cultural). It's impossible to "just not dwell on it" when there are constant reminders, whether from your outer environment or inner environment, of the things which continues to affect you. This could be true of a victim of rape or also on a broader sense of those who fight against things like racism. To place responsibility of a trauma on a person because they are "dwelling on it" hurts far more than it helps. And the unfortunate thing is that this so often (though not in every case) comes from the type of person who will consistently dismiss the aggressor and focus only on the victim.

(10-27-2016, 06:17 PM)Bring4th_Austin Wrote: This mentality, however, similar to that of informing a victim of their hand in their experience, often ignores the aggressor. Yes, perhaps approaching social justice issues with a certain tone causes people to recoil and be closed off to your ideas, but those people who recoil are driving the separation just as much (if not more) than those attempting to bring attention to a social issue. The burden, in my mind, is on the socially privileged to be more accommodating and patient.