Please don't read this thread unless you don't mind reading about somethng so truly... Inhumane.
Imagine the most despicable act you can think of, times it by 10 and you might be close.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
So there I was, yesterday browsing a forum, I happened to come across a link someone posted, wasn't sure what it was so I clicked it......
An amazonian tribe, with a hole in the ground... nothing much I thought until they had this small child, about 4 years old, rather distraught.... and proceeded to bury him.... alive..
Your probably thinking this can't be real, but it looked real... Apparently shown by a western reporter to bring attention to it to the outside world....
It's left a burning image in my head, haven't been able to sleep since, can't get it out of my head.... I'm not sure why im posting this to tell you all, maybe I'm just hoping one of you know about it, and know it to be a hoax...
I haven't seen it and I fully intend not too. I do remember being shown a beheading video before as a joke and it really messed with my head for a while. No matter how many times we see death artificially portrayed in movies/games, etc, it is a totally different experience when we know it's real. Seeing how cruel humans are capable of being is not something that makes comfortable viewing. I do think seeing something like that can really alter the way a person sees the world, even if it is only a video.
People do some horrible things in this world. Growing up and finally connecting to the world around me helped me really put humanity, our actions, and the true value of human life in perspective.
This next part is a bit of a tangent, but still in a similar vein I hope.
I never really fully understood 9/11 and how horrible it was until this year. I was just around 13 years old when it happened, and I didn't really know how to feel about it. I knew it was horrible, but all I really knew were movies and video games.
So seeing the planes crashing was just bizarre to me. I understood that it was an awful, violent, criminal act. But I only recently really started putting myself in the shoes of the victims and their families. Then I realized that those weren't planes exploding, those were my family members, my best friends, my fiance, my brother, myself leaving people who loved me behind. Brothers, Sisters, Mothers, Daughters, Soon-to-be parents.
The people who died were no different from the people I love, and their love for others was also no different than mine. I'm nearly in tears just thinking about it again, and I am really glad about that. I feel human, and I value the rest of humanity in turn. I think about this every time I think badly about another person.
A few weeks ago I watched some Youtube videos from that day, and was reduced to tears. But I knew it needed to happen. I don't want to feel nothing when I hear about something so horrific. Humanity is still humanity no matter how jaded we are by the media and entertainment. There was one in particular that haunted me. A man was on the phone with a 911 operator saying that he needed to get out of the tower, and he was panicked. Then at the end of the phone call he just goes "Oh god, no. No. NOOO--!" and it cuts off. I listened to one of these once-faceless victims watch the last two seconds of his life, and react to it.
Then from there, it was an exponential effect on my outlook of the events. Every victim that day died an equally tragic death. It's hard to feel connected to each and every victim because there were just so many of them. But that's a common problem in the world; so many deaths just turns into a statistic. And tragic events turn into a media shark pit. I feel like the reporting is so phony and detached that we don't always really see the scope of what happened.
The movie theater shootings really killed me yesterday, too. My new biggest fear is waking up to hear that another person did another horrible thing, and more families were torn apart by it. I don't wish death on even the shooter, but I wish his actions never would have happened in the first place.
And strangely enough, I can feel the pain when I look at historic American Civil War photos, too. I can't imagine picking up arms, and shooting my friends from the South. But that's what they did. American Vs. American. Mind-blowing when you think about it, no matter whose civil war you put in perspective.
The same goes for the holocaust, school shootings, Hiroshima, and whatever else I look back on. People have become people to me, and it's an awakening realization of what humanity has been through.
Edited.
I vowed to myself not to get angry, and I walked right into it.
So edited!!!
Reading this just reminded me of someone showing me a stupid,sickly video of terrorists that caught a russian soldier,then proceed to butcher his head off his shoulders, with a knife,while still alive.it was really upsetting.i feel sick now thinking of it..i wasnt expecting that when he showed me.
my ' mate' said..' youve gotta see this'.....
wot a tool..wont forget that image,and his gargle of pain ever..i dont understand why people have stuff like this,its not entertainment at all.so i understand how you feel....bork
That is pretty disgusting. I also wonder why the hell people have these videos in the first place, let alone share it. They have to have something missing in their brains to not feel repulsed by it.
Very nice thoughts there man. I never want to see these videos. I feel terrible just hearing about them.Originally Posted by Killipo
Originally Posted by Killipo
Nice post, it's a shame more people aren't like you killipo, the world suffers from a severe lack of compassion for our fellow humans. Not many people seem to really care about anyone else, almost everyone is very individualistic, hostile, vain etc.
We are a world that has come to see murder, rape, violent attacks as normal, as though it's unavoidable and these people are somehow have genetic problems. I for one don't accept that, I think could do so much more if we are focused our attention on solving these problems together. Personally I don't believe any real improvements can be made with the current banking system in place. When people are hungry, suffering and need money for food and such, obviously they are going to commit crime, beat people up, it's going to (and is now) causing so much added suffering.
In greece right now, immigrants are being beaten and tortured by the greeks. Sadly, I think it's the tip of the iceberg, as more countries follow suit with austerity, more and more of this is going to happen, it's completely unavoidable.
We have come to accept the situation in Africa as normality, I think that really puts things into perspective in regard to how primitive the human race still is. I'm sure almost all of us have seen some advert of some little african kid, crying his their eyes out because they are starving to death, or some kid in a hospital bed struggling to breath, a bag of bones....
Then you see articles such as the one I saw a few days ago, the super rich are hiding at least 21 trillion in offshore tax havens.... It's pretty disgusting, makes me feel quite sick... Noty suggesting they should give it all away, but ****... gotta find some balance.. When some own 10 mansions, 70, cars, whilst others starve to death, are homeless...
And one more thing, somehow talking about this has become a bit of a taboo, we shouldn't complain about this or talk about it... What the **** is up with that???
Well Picklezz, Merlin had said "Do you think knowledge is power? Knowledge is pain." I had written a diatribe on 9/11 but got rid of it coz I didn't want to create more pain - and my message was the most miserable by a good margin.