QUOTE(esoterica @ Aug 24 2010, 10:31 AM)
>>They deserve compassion
lol, they are cattle
Um, can you explain what exactly you mean by this? I assume you mean that they=most people? And they are like cattle as in they live through what, habits? social norms? inherited evolutionary archetypes? You are being both vague and condescending at the same time. I am guessing you mean that you think people for the most part do not think for themselves and for that reason deserve being associated with a very negative reference.
I have a question for you. Do you know people? This might seem like a joke at first but I am being serious. I'm a fairly sociable person like most of us (have friends from church, college, work, family, online) and when I really get to know and understand someone you can see where everyone has gone through so much to get to where they are. Young or old I have never met one of these "cattle". They all are thinking, loving, alive and wonderfully
human. That doesn't mean they aren't out there but I do not believe this condescending stereotype if appropriate even if it was right, which it is not, and in this case it appears no thought was put in it at all. "Lol, they are cattle" No thought was put into that, you just assumed an immediate disapproving concept that involved people as a whole being all around stupid and laughed about it.
So I do agree that there are people like "cattle" out there. I think they are the poorer, the uneducated. People that haven't had it as good as us, born in some third world country. Or maybe born into the ghetto of NYC, either way those people are like "cattle" at worst but look at where they are. Or maybe it's the successful manager at a restaurant who clings to her security of habit because she had problems as a kid, maybe it was the middle aged night shift security for your mall whose mom's boyfriend bashed him around every time he got drunk. Would you do better if you were anyone of them? I doubt it. I don't want to be misunderstood here, when I say 'would you do better' I mean you Esoterica, not the sacred-magick community in general. Some of them being naturally excellent thinkers might change, it does happen.
I had already expressed what I thought of your posting quality when I -repped you earlier. At least Godlyman wanted or pretended to want to help people. But no, they don't deserve compassion, they are cattle. "Lol" how funny.
This post has been edited by ☞Tomber☜: Aug 24 2010, 10:24 AM