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ARE YOU SELFISH?
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by [Rehua075 ]

2004-10-31  |     | 



Are humans selfish by nature? Do you call yourself unselfish and you are a considerate person and you do concern for others around you? Well let me ask you this; is the world around you or not? Why in this day of modern age, the children are still growing up not knowing much about the people and culture of the outside world?
Who is your man worth worship in your mind? Does our education system have the purpose we want for our generation and next?
How can we sit and listen when humans are dying all around us physically, mentally and spiritually? Are humans selfish by nature?

Common scenario: when a life first comes into this world itself does not have any human characteristics? but have the same physical form as an animal and chemical like functions rather similar to a plant.

The child goes through a period of peace before gaining the power of understanding and communicates its thought by speaking. As the child grow, it starts to judge, decide and learn basic questions such as right and wrong, good or bad, slowly forming the child's basic personality.

When the child gets to the age of around 5 or 6 the first stage of its personality is formed and began to learn things from its close surrounding such as the behavior of objects and people by observing and watching but learning about things and people far away only through the media and school books, which created an image of things the child assumes he understood.
At this age the things forming the child's image of the world are done by the ones that are most close by, usually consisting mother and father with rest of the family and having no or a few friend from outside his family does affect the forming process also. Therefore, the child lives in a small world and by not knowing much about the outside, the child find happiness easily through basic everyday things.

During the teenage years roughly around high school the child begins to expand his world and less time sharing with people used to be close by, the child spend more time with people his age and sharing the same tasks through out the day, so the child starts to make friends he likes and the skill of communicating increases and commonly the child will learn that humor is based majority on others misfortune?
Small alliance will form during these years too, and the child will either dress or act in order to fit in the alliance that he/her has chosen, by then the world in the child's mind consist him, his friend, his country, but anything or anybody that is from another culture, community or anything from outside his level of understanding he will assume he understand them with stereotypes from the media, prejudice, racism will form if he "fears" anything that is different.

At this stage, the child will go further with his mentality of assuming he knows the world until he reaches adulthood, but is the mentality formed correctly? You might debate that what is the real definition of correctly? Normal? Right? But there is no way of knowing the truth point of separation? who has the ability to tell you what's really normal or abnormal, right or wrong, black or white? is there grayness in all of them? Then what's between right and wrong then? Humor?

I don't really understand politics, but on the news I hear the war between America and Iraq, why the media has given us an image of American being the heroes and the other terrorist? For any conflict to occur between two parties there is always 4 factors to consider;
1. What has America done to cause it (their fault)
2. What has Iraq done to cause it(their fault)
3. What is America right about? (their view on other parties fault)
4. What is Iraq right about? (Their view on other parties fault)

As you can see that each party has its own right and wrong, but for a conflict to occur obviously the parties are using only on factors of what the other party has done wrong. Why not confront themselves on what they have done wrong first? For example, for a human being to use himself as bomb, to sacrifice, to kill people using self destruction? takes so much courage, man without fear? hero or terrorist? Why America don't think to themselves as what made those souls to do such a thing? What have they done to cause this? And Iraq, is killing children and innocent people really necessary? If it's so then what's the message they really want to send out? Why is there fear to give up to America? Why has Iraq made America their main target?

Think back to all those main dictators, Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, MoZenDong and many more, what we really know about them, We know they all sacrifices their own people and then signs of doing the same to the rest of the world, yet none really succeed, when world war 2 finished, there was a sign of countries competing, just look at the space program between America and Russia building and advancing to be the superpower? when the American first landed on the moon, the thought of America to be the next powerful country is formed, but think on this, after the WW2 the whole world was in a time of peace while countries rebuild but if a country fears of another country they will concentrate on rebuilding the military too, making it stronger in order to give an image of fear to other countries? America might not know it or even didn't intend it to be like that, but fear in humans creates things negative, the whole world witnessed the Hiroshima event? In other word, America felt that fear of others... too much power gives desire to dominate.

Well I am not picking on America but this country is so powerful both in creating fear and creating happiness (music, movies, luxury of being famous and rich) and the country's internal conflict wasn't as bad as the other countries, so after WW2 America rebuilding speed was faster than any other. Like I said, I don't know much about politics but in the past decades America has interfered a lot with other countries internal warfare, but in my mind this is a process of one way to spread the economy, military, and authority to the rest of the world like a network.

If America was doing the right thing of using its advanced technology to keep the whole world at peace, people would surely give in and accept help, preserve the human race through peace, but America made one fatal mistake, no let me rephrase that? emotion of fear created one fatal mistake through America?K the media.

Who else in the world has the ability of making movies, music, fashion that will be watched worldwide, America, their media is so mainstream to the younger generation of the world it become their second source of learning material beside school education, this second source of learning is actually the material that will change a lot of things of the world if used in a right way. People would say, "well, it is just a movie, I watch it for pleasure" uh-uh wrong, the process of learning never stops, let me ask you this; what do you know about the people of any culture or country, what do you know about the tragedy or natural disasters around the world? You may think you know exactly how it happen or what this culture of people are like, but is it the truth that you think you knew, Did you grew up in that culture? Did you witness that event with all your 6 senses? And where did you think you first learnt that? The education system we have today? People around you, Or the media.

Unfortunately I have to give an example of the ugly truth about media in New Zealand?K on the issue of what Asians and kiwis thoughts and image of each other through the media stereotyping
I will keep this simple, the radio station "The edge" one of the host is an Asian, the only Asian host in a mainstream nation wide radio station, but he "acts" in a certain way that influenced a lot of younger or even older people an image of Asian being weak, dumb, can't drive well, and just spoiled rich students? but if an Asian played in the All blacks or had album out with Scribe the image would certainly change.
Labor work is considered the lowest paying job among Asian countries, but in New Zealand labor work is up there as an average or even above average way of making a living, but Asians doesn't fully understand or even recognized this, so in their mind Asians stereotype kiwis as primitive and unintelligent? when I walk down the street, the first impression of me is the typical Asian student, "wrong", I drop out at 6th form and was a fisherman until recently. My first car was a 82 Ford falcon xa, second car a 67 Chev Impala, I can change my way of speaking depending on the person or group, and my best of friends consist of different cultures but I always express my point of view by standing in the middle. As a creature on this earth named human being,

Media affect human to human relationship.
True?
Then please point out the mistakes made through media.
Media and education need to be altered, true?

If humans can create and express happiness, then we can also create and express fear, true? Would ones happiness lead to ones fear? Not likely, but depend on the source of that happiness, if gained from a source such as greed, lies, others misfortune?
Selfish happiness creates fear in others.

If your mind think that all this suffering around the world doesn't affect you and you are wrong, it will affect you by surprise, mentally, physically and then spiritually, but then again, you may think by that time you are either too old or already passed away, so you would just do things to make yourselves comfortable while you can, but what would happen if someone tell you that the mind doesn't die and it is forever? Or when the world and all creatures are facing extinction through war and excessive natural resource use, What would it take for you to look at this whole world as a part of you? That our mind is filled with the same thing and our action is not irrational.

Well it's clear that we don't fully listen and cooperate with any human authority figure, if humans need someone as God, our creationist or a form of infinite power to convince you, then it would be too late. True?

As war is happening within, so war is happening without
As suffering is happening within, so suffering is happening without
As greed in above, so greed in below
As hatred in above, so hatred in below


As life of one only knows good, so life of other knows only good
As action, so reaction
As them, so us
As you, so I
As one, so one.
Everything moves and corresponds in an circular form
Is the logic undeniable?

There is so many ideas, events, people I want to talk aabout but before I do that,
Let me ask you this again, "are human selfish by nature"






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