Delta4Embassy
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"Fear is the mind-killer." - "Dune"
Sitting outside of late enjoying a spate of uper 70s, low 80s days including this one I'm about to go out and enjoy, I've encountered a lot of bees. We have big black scary-looking carpenter bees here. Especially around my unit because I know what they are and consequently don't go after them with a fly-swatter like a neighbor does. I know they don't have stingers, and while big and loud buzzing near you, ultimately harmless. Plus as I've learned they're not interested in me, but in defending their holes and females therein. They're just hovering near the hole fighting off marauding males.
With yet another media story making the rounds after a shooting in Texas, I'm struck thinking of bees. If I didn't know the Texas shooting happened, didn't read the threads here about it, it wouldn't upset me. For all intents and purposes, it wouldn't have happened since only what we know of exists - to us. Things we don't know about vastly outnumber the things we do and consequently we only know about a tiny fraction of things.
It occured to me earlier that the things that bother me don't actually exist except on tv and the internet. All the rest of the time I have no awareness of their existence or occuring because they're not happening here. So I'm basicly choosing to allow things that don't exist for me to upset me by letting them come into existence through the tv or interent. Which reminded me of a saying, "there are no victims, only eager volunteers."
If you're afraid of something, try forgetting about it and don't repeat whatever act led you to knowing about it again. If something on the news upset you, don't watch the news. If a thread upset you, don't read those sorts of threads. The solution to this comes from within, not from without. Islam isn't the problem, we are.
Sitting outside of late enjoying a spate of uper 70s, low 80s days including this one I'm about to go out and enjoy, I've encountered a lot of bees. We have big black scary-looking carpenter bees here. Especially around my unit because I know what they are and consequently don't go after them with a fly-swatter like a neighbor does. I know they don't have stingers, and while big and loud buzzing near you, ultimately harmless. Plus as I've learned they're not interested in me, but in defending their holes and females therein. They're just hovering near the hole fighting off marauding males.
With yet another media story making the rounds after a shooting in Texas, I'm struck thinking of bees. If I didn't know the Texas shooting happened, didn't read the threads here about it, it wouldn't upset me. For all intents and purposes, it wouldn't have happened since only what we know of exists - to us. Things we don't know about vastly outnumber the things we do and consequently we only know about a tiny fraction of things.
It occured to me earlier that the things that bother me don't actually exist except on tv and the internet. All the rest of the time I have no awareness of their existence or occuring because they're not happening here. So I'm basicly choosing to allow things that don't exist for me to upset me by letting them come into existence through the tv or interent. Which reminded me of a saying, "there are no victims, only eager volunteers."
If you're afraid of something, try forgetting about it and don't repeat whatever act led you to knowing about it again. If something on the news upset you, don't watch the news. If a thread upset you, don't read those sorts of threads. The solution to this comes from within, not from without. Islam isn't the problem, we are.