Pickle, thanks so much for sharing your insights! I think you are right on. That thing with the tears and energy: It sounds like you grounded some major energy to make it available for others.
That's exactly what I was thinking (in addition to just raising compassion, as Pickle just explained).
I don't watch the news so the only way I found out was here and some posts on facebook. I still haven't watched any of the news footage. I tend to be very empathic and will start crying very easily when I see the suffering of others. I'd already been doing that a lot when seeing videos and reading stories of the children killed by drone strikes. I consider the whole drone war so absolutely heinous, even more than conventional wars, because the entire country being attacked is living in constant terror of being randomly hit, even if they're not living in a designated 'war zone.' The example was given: Imagine if a serial killer was believed to be hiding out in Anytown USA, and the military sent in drones and blasted neighborhoods randomly, and every week several more American families were blown to shreds (drones tend to shred the human body, not just kill but shred it). How would Americans react? Can you imagine the outrage? Can you imagine the climate of fear and terror?
These drone strikes are doing just that, in as many as 7 countries, right now. The STS entities are having a feast, because of so much terror being generated, that is disproportionate to the number of people actually killed.
So when I heard about the school shooting, it just amplified what I had already been feeling, regarding those non-American children. I felt compelled to raise awareness of other children who continue to be murdered by our own military. Where is the outrage over those children? Where is the compassion, the tears, the prayers?
When I mentioned these ideas, some accused me of being 'political.' No, it's not about politics. It's about speaking up on behalf of those who are falling through the cracks, as though unimportant because they're not American. Every child, or even adult, killed is equally tragic.
And yet, as Pickle pointed out, there is a greater purpose to this: to raise compassion. And as Icaro pointed out: to raise awareness of other children (and their families, in other parts of the world who need compassion just as much.
Another potential purpose of this catalyst is to raise awareness of the effects of psychiatric drugs on young people. It's well known that side effects include suicidal and homicidal tendencies. People who got off those drugs describe the overwhelming urge to kill themselves or others. It's important to note that all of the school shooters were on such drugs, so there's an obvious connection. Thus it's not just a case of some 'bad guy enjoying killing others' but an actual victim to these evil, EVIL drugs.
This video is quite an eye-opener to the ticking time bomb that most people are oblivious to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhO0Pul_F...e=youtu.be
This one is much more in-depth, very heart-wrenching, but very well-done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gazEyr86RVY
On a higher level, it's all agreed-upon catalyst. But on the level of catalyst, it's to awaken people to not only compassion, but to the atrocities of the pharmaceutical drug industry.
(12-16-2012, 12:31 PM)Icaro Wrote: My thought about the event was that it was a lesson having to do with the ignorance involved in war. Children die every day in American's names, yet it is largely ignored in many minds. My sense was that this event was an attempt to make aspects of that conscious,
That's exactly what I was thinking (in addition to just raising compassion, as Pickle just explained).
I don't watch the news so the only way I found out was here and some posts on facebook. I still haven't watched any of the news footage. I tend to be very empathic and will start crying very easily when I see the suffering of others. I'd already been doing that a lot when seeing videos and reading stories of the children killed by drone strikes. I consider the whole drone war so absolutely heinous, even more than conventional wars, because the entire country being attacked is living in constant terror of being randomly hit, even if they're not living in a designated 'war zone.' The example was given: Imagine if a serial killer was believed to be hiding out in Anytown USA, and the military sent in drones and blasted neighborhoods randomly, and every week several more American families were blown to shreds (drones tend to shred the human body, not just kill but shred it). How would Americans react? Can you imagine the outrage? Can you imagine the climate of fear and terror?
These drone strikes are doing just that, in as many as 7 countries, right now. The STS entities are having a feast, because of so much terror being generated, that is disproportionate to the number of people actually killed.
So when I heard about the school shooting, it just amplified what I had already been feeling, regarding those non-American children. I felt compelled to raise awareness of other children who continue to be murdered by our own military. Where is the outrage over those children? Where is the compassion, the tears, the prayers?
When I mentioned these ideas, some accused me of being 'political.' No, it's not about politics. It's about speaking up on behalf of those who are falling through the cracks, as though unimportant because they're not American. Every child, or even adult, killed is equally tragic.
And yet, as Pickle pointed out, there is a greater purpose to this: to raise compassion. And as Icaro pointed out: to raise awareness of other children (and their families, in other parts of the world who need compassion just as much.
Another potential purpose of this catalyst is to raise awareness of the effects of psychiatric drugs on young people. It's well known that side effects include suicidal and homicidal tendencies. People who got off those drugs describe the overwhelming urge to kill themselves or others. It's important to note that all of the school shooters were on such drugs, so there's an obvious connection. Thus it's not just a case of some 'bad guy enjoying killing others' but an actual victim to these evil, EVIL drugs.
This video is quite an eye-opener to the ticking time bomb that most people are oblivious to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhO0Pul_F...e=youtu.be
This one is much more in-depth, very heart-wrenching, but very well-done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gazEyr86RVY
On a higher level, it's all agreed-upon catalyst. But on the level of catalyst, it's to awaken people to not only compassion, but to the atrocities of the pharmaceutical drug industry.