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Category: Empathy

  • “What’s Good For Us Is Good For Them”

    So what do we know? Well, it depends.

    Have you ever read Plato’s Allegory Of The Cave?

    It is a story about miseducation. In the battle of nature versus nurture, nurture (which is education) can certainly almost always win if concentrated. While nature always occurs, nurture can always win over the individual. It is called “conditioning”. But nurture is not always the winner, it depends on what is being taught.

    This may be something like Kendrick Lamar’s “T.V. Off“. Let’s say the prisoners in the cave, first off do not understand or have a moral compass. Well there is a stream of video broadcast to the learners. It broadcasts all kinds of very bad and wrongful material. Sexual, immorality, disgusting, and heinous acts of wrong. The learners learn all of this material. That is what they know. TURN OFF HIS CELLPHONE PLEASE, FOR GOODNESS SAKE! 

    Every time he looked at his screen it would play. He couldn't see it (and no one else in his "layer of reality" saw it) but the people behind his nano cameras saw it. They lined up his interactions with the phone. Every single button click, every single scroll.

    So that is what they know, yet I argue that morality, to a certain degree, is natural. Even those conditioned to not have empathy do know, somewhere within themselves, when something is not right if something hurts or violates someone – that that is a wrong.

    So in a sense, these people who have been miseducated are more than likely to be propagators of atrocious over other people who have an intact moral compass. But they are like chickens with their heads cut off! They don’t know what they are doing that it is bad and they are the bad people if they act on such learned material!

    So what can we do with them?

    If someone commits a wrongful action on you, it is only natural to want some kind of justice. If these people are miseducated and know not what they do, who do we blame? They are just like miseducated kids.

    The actors who perpetrate wrongs are responsible for their actions, no one else can be, even though the root of the problem is the educators.

    Let’s look at another scenario: say someone who is competent and sane and has her moral compass intact looks at disease all day. This person studies and studies and learns about disease all day, every day! While this person is unaware, an experiment is occurring. The “stream” of disease that this person is watching and learning is being broadcast to those in caves like the Allegory of the Cave. The people in the cave have no moral compass and all they get to know is the disease. There is a major difference between the person with a moral compass and the cave dwellers. The cave dwellers, once released from their caves, the cave dwellers now ARE the disease! Whereas the competent studier of disease becomes a Maestro Doctor whom knows the disease is bad.

    Okay doctaz, yer slow… it’s okay, we understand… we’ve all been “hit” by this foreign culture that is hard to even “put a finger on”. Well, let me give you a hint to solve all of the problems of the world. The competent person with her moral compass intact was looking at porn that was the disease (as defined by a purveyors of an anti-porn religious ideology?).

    Who is in the cave? Who knows? But it has something to do with our thoughts, our actions, our choices, our DNA, our history of living, our property, ectera AND TIME (Einstein’s Theory of Relativity – What does your person emit in one breath that the aforementioned lives out for an entire year!?)

    Surely the doctor studying the disease cannot be blamed for the disease. It is the system that directs the disease material to the cave dwellers that is responsible!

    So what is good for us is good for them. (Yea because they are people, like you and I…)

    But the difference is that we know the difference of right and wrong and they, the cave dwellers don’t. Everything else is the same between us. In or through a certain lens, we can say that we are the same “person”.

    That is our common ground (probably amongst other similarities). All peoples (no matter how classified or labelled) deserve basic human rights. PERIOD. And we need to strive to achieve this feat, globally, “inter-dimensionally”.

    FOR ALL PEOPLES: Real food, real water, real shelter, real sleep, real clothing, real sex (and the right to individual preferences and abstinence), hygiene, the right to social belonging and acceptance within our peer and family groups, the right to psychological safety and real physical safety.

    Individual preferences are to be honored IRREFUTABLY regarding sex. We can achieve this through a matchmaking effort.

    We have to start there. That is priority number one.

    Let me say once more what our priority number one is for all of humanity:

    FOR ALL PEOPLES (no matter how one or two or neander-minotaur is classified as): Real food, real water, real shelter, real sleep, real clothing, real sex (and the right to individual preferences and abstinence), hygiene, the right to social belonging and acceptance within our peer and family groups, the right to psychological safety and real physical safety.

  • The Ethics of Quantification

    I still don’t know which word to use, quantification or quantization. I know how to describe what I am thinking of, but I do not know which word accurately describes what I am describing, or will describe.

    All pervasive and practically is what domain we are speaking in. For ease of effort we will use these words interchangeably: quantification, quantization, and entanglement. We must think out of the box on this one.

    So there is most certainly a process and an effort that has been occurring.

    It is to separate or label EVERYTHING, matter, actions, thoughts without judgement or opinion.

    This gets manifested, according to my awareness, in many different ways: commercially, with and through products and actions. It make connections that are and are not there.

    I will tell you a story. I once knew a person named Bojangles. Bojangles was a complicated man. He would cuss and say bad words often. In fact 90% of the words that he said were very explicit. He was mean. He loved and was addicted to cigars.

    Years later I was walking down the street and I look up at a sign. It read “Bojangle’s Fine Cigar Shop”. I go into the shop and a met another person by the name of Bojangles. We became friends. In fact, this Bojangles, unlike the cussing Bojangles, was nice and a very good person and very likable and honest. He didn’t smoke cigars but he sold them.

    I got to thinking about how the two Bojangles are connected. They didn’t know each other and has never met. They are totally different in certain aspects. Just their name, Bojangles, and their relationship to cigars connects them.

    But it is not coincidence. It is quantum entanglements of persons, a phenomena that occurs and is occurring GLOBALLY.

    There is no evading it. That is just a phenomena that is.

    There is electronic logic (quantum actually) involved beyond the human organism, yet intimately entwined within the human organism.

    Such phenomena prompts that we discuss what freewill is and how much freewill we have as humans!

    What causes our entanglement of persons? Simply existing?

    How do we opt out or not participate in the phenomena of inter-dimensional, global entanglements of our persons? Is it possible?

    For such a system to exist, there has to be some assumptions.

    Assumptions:

    1. That our thoughts, actions, words, efforts, etc… are being measured, quantified, quantized, and/or recorded in some way.
    2. There is a response. It is like and ebb and flow, a process that manifests from the first stimuli, in some way, shape , or form. Is the response IMMEDIATE, like quantum entanglement?

    What occurs to such a system and process when we become aware of this phenomena? Is awareness contagious? Sometimes with science experiment, the unbiased outcome is dependent on the test subject not being aware of the experiment.

    I encourage you to go to a store and absorb and analyze what is being offered and “put forth” from this store. For fun, make connections that aren’t there! Pay close, intentional attention to your thoughts. Might you consider that those connections really are there and were before you became aware of that product?

    I contend that the entangled persons can share DIFFERENT fates, and ONE (out of many?) ways we are connected is through our literal thoughts and maybe even electronically connected by clairvoyance thought transmissions.

    Now, regarding the ETHICS of such quantification. In specific, I am thinking about our persons and their “classifications”, labels, or connections to ideas, products, consumer goods, etc.

    Have we learned our lesson yet?

    It is all fine and good, and could be a lot of fun to call someone a pretty doll, but that surely needs not to lead to any wrongs. That is where the relevance of ethics comes in in this system of quantification of our persons.

    Giving human qualities to that which is not human (and not the other way around).

    Humanizing, increasing empathy, kindness, humility. This needs to be an underlying prerogative of the quantification, quantization effort of our persons.

    Let us come to terms with what reality now is, and prioritize universal humility, empathy, kindness. That is where such a system will find long-term success, an engrained ethics at the core.

  • One way I humble myself:

    I will only be on this Earth for only a short time… Let us be kind to each other.

    Wish everyone well and exercise your empathy.

    When you think about an adversary, and you think about how something bad may or could happen to that person, try an exercise in empathy. Ask yourself these questions:

    What if I were my adversary? What if that bad thing were going to happen to me instead of my adversary? Would I want that action to occur?