I am more than happy to follow just about anyone on X. Seriously! But if you post literally nothing, what is it am following exactly??
Cβmon people! π
This is so true! I made the mistake of watching one of those beheading videos from Iran or whatever and it messed me up for life. π³
And I love horror movies! But itβs 2 very different things.
When I recently wrote about the possibility of a public execution being livestreamed, several people responded by telling me theyβd been watching videos of beheadings, torture, and other atrocities since they were children, and that seeing another human being killed wouldnβt bother them in the slightest. They seemed to think this somehow proved me wrong when I said that witnessing such things changes us. But desensitization isnβt evidence that something has no effect on you. Desensitization IS an effect. If youβve spent your entire life consuming images of human suffering, how could you possibly know what kind of person you might have become without them? How much compassion you might have developed? How much sensitivity you might have retained? And just because some adults have conditioned themselves to view human suffering as entertainment doesnβt mean children should be subjected to it. Once something like this is put on the internet, it becomes impossible to contain. It gets shared, turned into memes, and inevitably reaches people who never chose to see it.
Everyone has heard the phrase βyou are what you eat,β but very few people seem to understand that this applies just as much to the mind as it does to the body. Everything you repeatedly give your attention to becomes part of the material from which your inner world is constructed. If you spend years feeding your body garbage, your health will eventually reflect it. And if you spend years feeding your mind hatred, cruelty, violence, and human suffering, your inner world will eventually reflect that as well. You may not even recognize the changes, because theyβve happened so gradually. This is what we mean in alchemy when we say, βThe laboratory doesnβt lie.β You can tell yourself that none of it affects you, but that doesnβt make it true. Thereβs a tremendous difference between having the strength to face human suffering and developing an appetite for watching it. One can deepen our humanity. The other can slowly destroy it.
At 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who never married and had no children, walked through the park in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying because she had lost her favorite doll. She and Kafka searched for the doll unsuccessfully.
Kafka told her to meet him there the next day and they would come back to look for her.
The next day, when they had not yet found the doll, Kafka gave the girl a letter "written" by the doll saying "please don't cry. I took a trip to see the world. I will write to you about my adventures."
Thus began a story which continued until the end of Kafka's life.
During their meetings, Kafka read the letters of the doll carefully written with adventures and conversations that the girl found adorable.
Finally, Kafka brought back the doll (he bought one) that had returned to Berlin.
"It doesn't look like my doll at all," said the girl.
Kafka handed her another letter in which the doll wrote: "My travels have changed me." the little girl hugged the new doll and brought her happy home.
A year later Kafka died.
Many years later, the now-adult girl found a letter inside the doll. In the tiny letter signed by Kafka it was written:
Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end, love will return in another way.
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God is dead
But itβs not my fault
Eve has no shame again
Lip stain for sale on my tik tok shop
I take off my clothes
And i do my makeup
Love without intimacy
Look but donβt touch
.. are you looking?