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angry thoughts, a dissection
genkaku
Northampton, Mass. U.S.A. Veteran
As if you needed more boogers, there was this, passed along in email
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My ears literally could not keep up with the speed of his talking (Thank goodness for the subtitles, but they were as fast as his irritating and almost computer-generated-like voice!
I'm with you, @federica
Speaking of angry thoughts ....
For me, the speed and machine-like quality of the narrator's voice was something like an onomatopoeia of the 24/7 shouting/arguing broadcast by the facebooks and the Fox newses of the world. Perhaps the American accent is irritating, though?
Wonderful video, I think, considering the vitriolic falsehoods and caricatures on the internet. Turn it OFF!
Time to put a little more genuine Scotch whiskey into the toddy. Perhaps some of grandma's 'special' brownies would help.
How about some Gran Marnie ice cream?
A few scoops and you won't be worrying about those nasty thought viruses at all.
Must keep taking the probiotics ...
Don't understand. Great video. Don't knock it.
Believe me, where I work the televisions are always blaring FOX NEWS. People make those stupid, angry choices.
TURN IT OFF!
Around here, some folks wonder how "Those people" got radicalized.
If you watch Fox News briefly (not too long, it will rot your brain), you will see how easily people can be radicalized and intelligent people rendered 'mindless'.
I believe it was a man called Adolph or one of his cohorts who said "If you repeat a lie enough, it becomes the truth." Fox news proves the point.
Even Fox doesn't consider it's news to be news. (Though they mislabel it 'entertainment'.)
By the way, Australia, you can take Mr Murdock back, he's created enough mischief over here. Maybe you can put him deep in the Outback with one canteen of water and a snickers. Perhaps you can drop Mr Trump in with him. Just tell them they are on an episode of 'The Survivors'.
Then again, the locals might get a bit upset what with the new riffraff in their neighborhood. Sorry, bad idea.
Bad monkey mind! No bananas for you tonight.
Here's another take on the infectiousness of angry thoughts, from Google Searches:
AN ANATOMY OF HATE SPEECH (SEARCH):
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/opinion/sunday/the-rise-of-hate-search.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region®ion=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region&_r=0
That is why we all have to show in our own lives, in our own actions, that there is another path. Instead of hate and ignorance, compassion and understanding.
Instead of the lazy path of intolerance, we must tread the more difficult path of dialog, of brotherhood, of openness.
It is easy to blame 'them', who or whomever 'they' are. It is much harder to accept personal responsibility and accept others without prejudgement, without bias.
I'll stop here, for it takes more than preaching to the quire. It takes living and acting with and on this principle in the saha world, the real world.
Peace to all