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INDIVIDUAL BULLIES AND NATIONS THAT ARE BULLIES:
ALL THE SAME
Here nowadays, dealing with hundreds and hundreds of persons each year, it has been seen that more and more people – female and male alike – are refusing to tolerant abuse from a partner. They are “feeding into a refusal.” Others are taking even more overt action.
Research or not, some at the lower ends of the various hierarchies that exist all around the globe are rebelling against their oppressors who are at the top of the hierarchies.
The research was not available
in 1953 by the time I reached the sixth grade at Atkins Elementary School and
had already tolerated three years of abuse from Donnie Leone, Donnie being the
fierceness and most notorious bully in the entire school.
Each morning, teacher Bruce Middlebrooks stood on morning duty. His assignment
was to watch over the students on the playground where students gathered,
waiting to hear a bell ring which was the signal that the doors of the school
had been unlocked so we could begin moving to our classrooms.
Almost every morning, Bruce Middlebrooks would watch as Donnie approached me
and put me in a choke hold, demanding that I say, “I give up!” before he would
release me and strut away.
(Often in films I have seen
alpha males swaggering away from their most recent victim and I flash on Donnie
and conclude, “Ah, so that’s what happened to him. He moved to Africa and
nowadays he’s molesting the helpless and downtrodden on the savannah.)
To understand why humans sometimes contribute to their own stress levels by
inaction, it might help to ask, “Why did I stand there and wait for him?”
One reason was because
everyone knew that to run from Donnie was to be caught eventually and then to
be abused even more, so most just stood there and took his abuse, as happens
with many baboons on the African veldt that are at the lower end of their troop’s
hierarchy.
Stubbornly and pridefully, I would resist the urge to surrender on the first
demand, and the choke hold would have to reach a point where physical
unconsciousness was seconds away before I succumbed to his demand and said in a
guttural, animalistic manner, “Uhhh . . . gheee . . . uppppp.”
Then as Donnie walked away to seek out his next victim on the low end of the
schoolyard hierarchy, I would look at Bruce Middlebrooks and wonder,
“You sorry SOB . . . why don’t
you ever come over here and help me?!” At that point, I had not yet developed
the understanding that it is usually useless to wait for help from “the
authorities” and that sometimes I would just have to help myself.
So one day, bent over at the waist trying to catch my breath with the palm of
one hand resting on a knee and the other hand rubbing my sore neck, I saw the
feet of Bruce Middlebrooks come into view. I looked up and he asked, “Why do
you like being abused?” I said, “Are you nuts?”
He said, “I’m the one who is
nuts? Hardly. I’m not the one being choked every morning without fighting back.”
I said, “Yeah, and if I fight back I get sent to the principal and get licks” (“licks”
being swats administered with a wooden paddle / board, applied across my rear
end as I bent over the principal’s desk).
And Middlebrooks said, “So you prefer being choked to being hit on the butt
with a board?” I said, “I prefer neither.” He said, “In that case, what if you
might get choked one more time only and get a few licks one more time only and
then be done with this nonsense?” (Wow. Some of those words could as easily have
come from Maharaj.)
“F.: What?”
B.M.: “Stand up for yourself. Go on the offense to defend yourself. When you
are approached, cold-cock Donnie Leone. Hit him in the nose as hard as you can
when he approaches and knock him on his ass.”
F.: “Yeah, and then you grab me by the ear and tug me to the principal and he
beats me with his board.”
B.M.: “Not if I don’t see you fighting.”
F.: “How would you not see the fight?”
B.M.: “You never know what distractions might come up on a schoolyard full of
students.” And with that, he walked away. As I watched him disappear, I said, “Hummm.”
That afternoon and all night, my stomach was upset, knowing what might be
coming the next day. Then I concluded, “But my stomach has been upset every
morning for years upon seeing Donnie Leone approaching. What the heck.”
The next morning, with scores of classmates all about and with Bruce
Middlebrooks watching me as Donnie approached, I turned back to watch as Donnie
as he drew closer.
Then I turned again to check on
Bruce Middlebrooks’s reaction, only to find that he was not standing where he
had been a few seconds before. He was walking away, pointing at two others
students and shouting their names, though they did not appear to be doing
anything wrong at all.
I looked back and Donnie was ten feet away, six feet away, three feet away,
then two feet away when I formed a fist behind my leg with my dominant left
hand, then drew back and then - catching Donnie totally unaware - I brought
forth what some today would call “a sucker punch.”
I struck Donnie before he ever suspected the blow was coming; in fact, he walked right into the blow, increasing the force of my punch to the center of his face even more.
He fell backwards onto the
ground, clutching his nose and then looking down into the palm of his hand
which was filling rapidly with a huge volume of blood that was flowing quite
steadily from both nostrils. His eyes were huge, but his mouth remained closed.
With new-found courage, I told him, “Leave me alone and leave everyone else
alone or you’re going to get more of the same every morning!” As I turned and
began walking away, my eyes met those of Bruce Middlebrooks. I saw a wide,
tooth-revealing grin cross his face before he turned and walked away.
Many classmates began
applauding as I walked toward the front doors of the school. (Hearing their
applause, I might have begun swaggering a bit, or maybe even strutting. That is not a
posture that should have been reinforced, so their is no endorsement of the method used. It matters not that it was shared because Maharaj noted: what the realized will do under any given circumstances will be done spontaneously.)
From Louise Sterling in Cape Town, S.A.:”Perhaps this research will feed
into a refusal amongst the oppressed to put up with exploitation, abuse,
narcissistic capitalism, the One Percent, the lies, and the BS. Because it is
LITERALLY killing them.”
Yet at the heart of this series in not a focusing upon individual bullies alone. At the heart is the expanded view which includes businesses which abuse consumers; local and state governments which abuse citizens into order to advance the personal agendas of “leaders”;
nations’ governments which
abuse the people whom they hold influence and control over; and the governments
of others nations who rush to defend their “abusive allies” and help their nation
friends maintain power and control.
TWO OF THE ROOTS OF CONFLICT
Again, fewer want peace; more want war. Such is the case when persons are driven by their personality types fears and desires.
1. Conquering nations - driven by the personality styles and the personality
disorders of their leaders and citizens - can trigger conflict,
or
2. the consciousness-inspired reactions of persons who have been conquered can
inspire continuing conflict because of the natural desire of the manifested
consciousness to be free.
Is it any wonder that the sages have long recommended being free of personality
/ personalities and their hidden, desire-and-fear-based agendas?
When dealing with cold-hearted bosses or power-hungry CEO’s or egotism-driven
politicians or abusive spouses or conquering nations (all of whom can display
the traits of the Sociopathic Personality Disorder), people often feel trapped;
then, being driven by the
natural desire of the consciousness to be free, conflicts will often manifest
when dealing with pathological types.
Sociopaths - whose numbers are increasing worldwide - are obsessed with
control, and their either-or thinking leads them to believe that “either I am
in control or you are, and if you are in control, I will be harmed; therefore,
better that I take control and harm first.”
That desire to control can lead persons to try to force their religious beliefs
on others or it can inspire leaders among the most warlike nations to believe
that they have the right to take control of the Irish Isle which is 40 miles
away or to take control of The Falkland Islands which are 8000 miles
away;
can inspire leaders to believe they have the right to invade Central American
nations that are 1000 miles away or have the right to invade Iraq which is 7000
miles away or have the right to invade Vietnam which is over 8600 miles
away.
And all of those actions are preceded by adoption of the “either-or” belief
that “either you are for us or against us, and if we conclude that you are
against us, our military forces are coming your way.” The non-realized never
consider a third, “neit-neti” option.
During the U.K. / Falkland Islands conflict, the fact that the U.K. had no right to conquer lands and people around the globe during the height of their colonialism and no right to cling to them as they still do today.
That did not deter then-U.S. President / actor Ronald Reagan from sending the Brits critical fuel, intelligence, and ammunition for their Falklands campaign.
The same is happening now as the U.S. is seeking to provide Israel with a $2 billion military aid package and has deployed a carrier group to the shores of Israel with a second likely on the way as well.
When little guns are used, nations that have assumed the “parent persona” role bring out the big guns. More on that later.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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THE EXPLANATION
Yeshu'a (Jesus) and Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis were spot on:
"No one shall ever see 'the kingdom of heaven.' It is within"
and
"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
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