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I am "Anders Behiring Breivik"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/norway/8658428/Norway-killer-Anders-Behring-Breiviks-grooming.html
The recent tragic event in Norway where 86 teachers were yuthlessly executed like in a computer game because of their "political ideals".
I feel that this "evil" character can be a good warning for everyone to self-reflect on the dangerous of the 5 poisons within us!
I've hated alot of people in the past due to their political views, because the cause is my own insecurity. When you also mix vanity and addiction to computer games and fantasies for violence...
Terrible events will happen when all the causes and conditions are right.
I was "Ander Behiring Breivik", I don't want to be like him anymore, hence I choose to listen to what our friend Sakymuni Buddha is suggesting to change our ways.
The recent tragic event in Norway where 86 teachers were yuthlessly executed like in a computer game because of their "political ideals".
I feel that this "evil" character can be a good warning for everyone to self-reflect on the dangerous of the 5 poisons within us!
I've hated alot of people in the past due to their political views, because the cause is my own insecurity. When you also mix vanity and addiction to computer games and fantasies for violence...
Terrible events will happen when all the causes and conditions are right.
I was "Ander Behiring Breivik", I don't want to be like him anymore, hence I choose to listen to what our friend Sakymuni Buddha is suggesting to change our ways.
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Do you listen to Hip Hop? And if so, what do you think of the violence it portrays?
That completely contradicts your sentiments in the first post.
Pack it in and grow up.
NOTa, I don't believe the computer games had anything to do with it. I play video games, some violent, some not. That doesn't make me violent or want to kill anything.
Underneath Anders' terrorism was mental instability. Addiction (if it was such a thing) hints that he had an obsessive personality. To me, blaming video games is almost like blaming a killing on a gun, not the person. People kill for many reasons. Many times it's over women, property, religion, and politics. Anders had many eccentric, fanatical, extreme beliefs. I find that those beliefs are the main culprit. And you don't need violent video games to kill. People have been killing each other far longer than any game has existed.
I think it's ridiculous that people in a first-world country must die for people to feel/recognize/see the tragedy of terrorism. Almost day I watch several articles come through my twitter stream that "XX number of people died in Pakistan today in a market square". Yet nobody seems to care about them (All 34,000 of them since 2003). Those people that committed those terrorist acts in Pakistan probably didn't play violent video games. They just had deluded social, religious, and moral beliefs.
If you really want to argue against video games, here's some rationale: I know you don't like me because I'm not a straight-edge Buddhist and I cling to my poisons and delusions and such. And this probably demerits everything I say before I say it.
I also doubt you are "Anders Behring Breivik" or were. Hating people and killing people are very different. Being insecure and being mentally unstable, very different.
When you take mental instability, and mix in vanity, obsession, conviction, and a reason to act, you get very terrible things. His religiosity gave him the conviction and reason. His obsession drove him to the extremes of that religion. His instability gave him the ability to act in an inhumane way.
I really hope that you weren't that person. And if you were, congratulations on stopping at the edge. We can be loving but strong. Gentle but firm. Wisdom is most important in applying loving-kindness skillfully.
Face that fear. It is the same fear that begets more suffering. Yelling angry words and condemning them does not help anybody's suffering. Only loving-kindness can heal those wounds.
I do think that we need to be careful what we say in situations like this, as far as having compassion for the perpetrators goes. We need to exercise compassion for the victims and their families as well. And to me, part of that is remaining silent on the topic - until there has been ample time for healing - other than to give my heartfelt compassion and condolences to the victims and their families.
Namaste'
Kwan Kev
I love the question "How do we find compassion for someone who did XYZ" because it shows how we consider people solid generators of action, rather than slaves of conditioned reaction. Remember Buddha noted that we are afflicted with patterns of behavior, they are not "us" so much as a mental disease.
It might be common sense then to say "we feel compassion for people affected by suffering, afflicted with disease." The killings were terrible for all involved. Because of human ignorance, there were victims needlessly killed, and a perpetrator needlessly killing. Sad for both sides.
But because others feel attached and angry, it is really only skillful to bring up this view if they ask, so it will cool the anger. Unasked for, it is more likely to compound the clinging to solid views of self. From your side, notice that if someone is angry at Anders, that is their mental disease. So, just reach out to them in a way that works for them. Don't try to convince people to be compassionate, it needs to slowly bloom and take root deep enough to outshine the anger at upsetting phenomena like this. Then, they'll ask the question, like you did.
With warmth,
Matt
That makes them - generally speaking - gross simplifications or just plain nonsense.
Fortunately many people can see through them and place basic human sense above artificial political and religious separations. But not all people, not all the time.
Political and religious violence is of all times.
The really disturbing thing is the method of indiscriminate killing, the method of terror.
This violence has only one purpose; creating horror and outrage.
Horror and outrage is attention and that’s the goal: being noticed.
And it worked pretty well.
We noticed Breivik and we talk about his political agenda.
That’s exactly what he wants. That’s what his victims died for.
We really are all equal when it comes to the source of our wholesomeness and unwholesomeness.