"You create your reality"

[anagogy]

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?"

I would agree that teaching self sufficiency is a superior course of action, I just think you and I have very different ideas of what constitutes the transmission of that self sufficiency.

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.

If I come across as unsympathetic and dismissive, then I apologize. I don't mean to come across that way and I'm really not an unfeeling monster, I promise. I just get disturbed and set off when I get the distinct impression some individuals are sharing certain anecdotes to promote a personal agenda rather than because they are seeking true consolation and healing or to help others in some way. We all make assumptions and get cynical and combative at times and it is something I'm trying to balance in myself (truth be told, if if I were practicing what I'm preaching I would have never pushed against the topic in the first place, activating the vibration of it further, so I can admit that my own motivations were not as altogether pure as they should have been).

Anyway, I don't think we are going resolve our differences in perspective on the topic of reality creation (and its implications in regards to social progress and healing) any time soon, and I don't feel I really have anything further left to contribute. I doubt hashing these thoughts out another couple of pages will change that so I think I'm probably going to bow out of the discussion. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, even if I don't agree with all of them. Overall I think there has been a good exchange of catalyst and different perspectives have been shared.