--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn <emilymae.reyn@...> wrote:
<snip> > I don't care where or how often the photo was posted - I find it horrific, > period. Â I looked at it out of context and I'm glad it's deleted. Â It hurts > to look at it. But, remember, I'm nowhere near where Xeno is staying in my > "left brain" so to speak, which is how his text comes across on his reaction > to the photo. Â Triggers? Â Excuse me? Â We are talking about one of our own > species committing suicide in front of us. Â It's painful to see. It has happened again just recently (I am not posting the photo). NEW DELHI â" A Tibetan exile who set himself on fire [March 26, 2012] in India to protest a visit by China's president died Wednesday, while hundreds of other activists were being detained. Jamphel Yeshi, 27, set himself alight Monday at a demonstration in New Delhi. He ran screaming past other protesters and the media before falling to the ground, his clothing partly disintegrated and nearly his entire body covered in burns. "Martyr Jamphel Yeshi's sacrifice will be written in golden letters in the annals of our freedom struggle," said Dhondup Lhadar, an activist with the Tibetan Youth Congress. "He will live on to inspire and encourage the future generations of Tibetans."Â Self immolation never seems to serve the purpose that its practitioners seem to think it will accomplish. While Judy felt that Nabby's post trivialised the death of that previously misguided Tibetan I think the behaviour of these people trivialises their own lives. Rather than making people think deeply about the situation they are trying to underline with their bold display, they usually just create a shock in the nervous systems of those that manage to hear about it, see images of it, etc. Somewhere inside the ego says 'That could be "me"', and with that, whatever message was to be conveyed by the incendiary performance gets lost in an experience of fear generated in the observers as they feel their own mortality. Except as an afterthought, this does not inspire people, it weakens them by undermining their comfort zone rather than inspiring them to pursue their goal, and in the process eliminates one protester. It is not like a courageous march in the face of an enemy attempting to bring the enemy down, it is sacrificing oneself needlessly which is a benefit to the enemy. > Barry, from a distance, you must realize how angry you sound. Â Do you ever > try read your posts with any objectivity? Â Go have yourself a good > cry..you'll feel better and less paranoid. Â In the year I have been on this forum, Barry's style has been pretty consistent. I do not experience his writing as angry, it is too automatic for that. I sense Judy gets angry, but I also feel she has a wider range of intellectual interests than Barry. She shows a lot more passion than Barry. Barry is far more calculating, I do not think he is being led on by his emotions to the extent that you are implying. On forums as elsewhere, alliances form, dissolve, depending on what we like or dislike, or are interested in at the moment. For example Vaj, Barry, Curtis, which some here equate with the godhead of evil, are three very distinct personalities. Curtis is the most down to earth from what I can tell, and the most interactive of the three. Vaj is kind of secretive, so I find it hard to tell what he is about. And Barry is a kind of mystery too, but I see him playing the cat to the mouse on the forum, but he actually does not seem interested in the kill, just in pushing the button and observing the result. Now Judy is interested in the kill when her passion is up but sometimes I think her arguments are more about syntax than the content. But I do not want to over-generalize. If we are heated up by this photo that Nabby posted, maybe we can take a moment of silence in the wake of those unfortunate departed. The silence is not for them, or even in memory of them - they are gone - the silence is for us, to re-establish who we are in relation to a world that sometimes changes more and in more ways than we would prefer.
