Why do people not reply to our hellos and
goodbyes?
What brought my attention to this
was a trip to Paris. Before my trip, I had read that people over there
are very big on being polite and on saying hello and goodbye. Once I was
over there, I tried to practice this and I noticed that I started
having a greater awareness of others. I thought that it was a beautiful
thing that an entire city of people seemed to encourage this awareness
and respect of other people. Since that trip over five years ago, I have
kept practicing this. It is amazing how many people would rather treat
you like an inanimate object than acknowledge that you are someone alive
and worthy of mutual respect.
I
once read that one of the biggest problems in African countries where
war and killing was a commonplace thing was that children would just
walk right up to the bodies of the dead and poke and beat them with
sticks and further defile the bodies. There was a loss of the importance
and sacredness of life at the childhood level of existence.
I fear that many video games are
encouraging this attitude in children. I don't care if your a gamer and
you wish to defend or even flame me for my opinion. It's true. It is a
fact that if you pretend to do or be something, you will become more
like the thing that you are doing or pretending to be. This is an
important psychological and occult teaching.
Try reading Vonnegut's Mother Night for a an example.
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