212. In Trouble Together

Profound. I have 4 children and have discovered this also. Thank you!

I love, but sometimes. I get into trouble. There is a beauty in the breakdown that has many times in my life shown a truly unconditional love that could hardly be explained without g-d.

This act of loving patience is so powerful and realistic and comes at a real good time for me. I'm looking back in a different way and learning from what people have said about me. For one thing said: I would have made a great mother-as a matter of fact I was one-to a bunch of musicians and artists who as was put acted great acrimoniusly but not harmoniusly-and their music and art is a reflection of this fact-even though I have written about them in the past in an angry way they were my children so I tend to vascilate in my ideas on exactly how to cope with how they acted with each other actually-but my behaviour with them was loving..as G-d would have wanted me to be---all ears-always the listener-conveying the idea of "Don't compare yourself to others"- Thank you for listening

Mass psychology is inseparable from news writing. Newspapers CREATE news by sharing ideas which people copy or respond to. Newspapers change the world by sharing ideas which shape peoples thoughts, opinions & actions. Therefore a newspaper can quell violence by sharing peace inducing ideas. A newspaper can prevent additional violence by keeping the entire population calm (by sharing peace inducing, soothing ideas, while intentionally withholding information which might lead to more violence.) Newspapers create wars by sharing ideas which agitate people & newspapers end wars by sharing ideas which calm people down. It is very easy to spark a fire but putting a fire out is very difficult & the fire will consume everyone it can including the person who sparked it therefore it would be best if journalists would make a conscious effort to prevent major catastrophe by keep everyone calm (by printing only the most peace inducing articles while intentionally withholding agitating information.)

Normally sensible individuals commit horrific crimes when influenced by other people which is y I must carefully ? & analyze everything, especially when "everyone else is doing it." 2 to a billion people perpetuate horrific crimes together, crimes they would never commit if they function alone, as individuals. Sensible individuals commit horrific crimes because they r swept into a fantasy perpetuated by rallies, speeches, TV, radio, newspapers. Think 4 yourself because "wars r not fought 4 territory, but 4 words. Man's deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible 2 being hypnotized by slogans as he is 2 infections diseases. & when there is an epidemic, the group mind takes over." Every single war is avoidable & the damage is considerably lessened when the sane people think 4 themselves instead of allowing themselves to b brainwashed by misleading slogans & images perpetuated by highly charismatic but sick individuals in rallies, TV, newspapers, speeches & classrooms.

No, we cannot do the wrong thing simply because everyone else is doing it. After every single genocide, including the Holocaust, the murderers always say exactly the same things:

1. "I did it because everyone else was doing it."

2. "I was just following orders"

It may be important to love, but it is not acceptable to sin simply because everyone else is committing the same sin. And those few who refuse to sin while the rest of the group was sinning (like those who sheltered Anne Frank's Family, and Schindler) are always remembered as heroes once all of the horrible mass psychosis is over. Wasn't the Tribe of Levi was granted special status because they refused to worship the golden calf while everyone else did? The phoenix was granted eternal life as a reward for refusing to eat the forbidden fruit offered by Eve, while all of the other birds did eat of the forbidden fruit (The Legends of the Jews, by Ginzberg).