Death Threats vs Boredom

[another bob]

Greetings, Friends!

Perhaps this might be an appropriate time for a bit of self-inquiry. For example, if we were to honestly examine our deepest personal motives behind the compelling interest in these various types of dramatic scenarios, we might recognize that we are always seeking to quell an internal sense of boredom, doubt, and discomfort by identifying ourselves with the plotline, in the same manner we use movies and related entetainments as a distraction from our personal sense of life-level dissatisfaction.

We are always stimulating the motor and thinking mechanisms to overcome boredom, doubt, and discomfort and achieve well-being and pleasure. But those very mechanisms, by being constantly stimulated and brought to a point of achieving some sort of enjoyment, become insatiable. We require more and more remarkable stimulations of body and mind to achieve a relative degree of pleasure. The more we think, for example, the more extraordinary our thinking must become to satisfy us. We become addicted to the pursuits we can engage through motor activity and thought, and we are constantly agitated by this motivation. We feel always haunted by our limitations, our difficulties, or boredom, doubt, and discomfort.

When we feel uncomfortable, we generally employ some physical means for achieving release or a sense of pleasure. Social life, sexuality, all kinds of physical activities are used as means for overcoming chronic discomfort. Likewise, because boredom is an emotional state, we are always seeking emotional stimulation through entertainments, the play of our relationships, aesthetic enjoyments. And we always seek to overcome doubt through activities of the mind, through reading, pursuing conventional knowledge, participating in speculative internet forums, and so on.

In the typical setting of the usual life, these means, physical, emotional, and mental, are constantly, chronically, in every moment, used in pursuit of a sense of pleasure, well-being, and release from these chronic difficulties. Fascination with space operas, world endings, alien involvements, conspiracy rumors, ascencion schemes, etc. all serve to distract us from the fundamental condition of boredom, doubt, and discomfort at the core of our experience.

We keep hoping that something will hapen externally to change this sense of dissatisfaction with existence, but it never does, because nothing that has happened, is happening, or will happen in the external world has the power to touch and heal the internal conflict and sense of separation from source we perceive at the heart of our being. In other words, we are always attempting to modify our experience by placing our bets on external changes, but this strategy is bound to fail, since only an internal revolution at the heart will break the spell of our self-imposed bondage.


Blessings!

[RMorgan]

Hey Bob,

Really nice thread.

I always though that we have enough interesting fascinating things to deal right here on this little blue planet, that we don´t need to come up with sci-fi stories to make things more exciting.

I agree that all this stuff is just a big distraction.

Meanwhile, the whole middle east is getting invaded by the tyrannic western elite. The US is becoming a fascist state with concentration camps spread all over it, ready to be activated. We´re also close to WWIII as we´ve never been before.

However, lots of persons seem to be more interested in unfunded sci-fi stories and new age celebrities death threats...

You know, if I were studying psychology, this would make a nice graduation thesis...

Personally, I think this kind of game is pretty worn out.

It´s always the same old recipe:

-Find a controversial theme to explore and use your creativity to make it even more fantastic.

-Create a website or blog, do a nice SEO work on them to attract readers. Create some videos and articles and post them on the website. Update it once a week and always leave a hook in the end of every article, to make readers come back for more next week.

-Participate in forums to spread your "theory" as much as you can. Wait until it grows like a snow ball.

-Things have grown. Find ways to get into lots of conferences and to sell lots of book and dvds.

-When asked to prove your "theory", just give a vague answer, say you can´t reveal more at the moment (to increase suspense) and also say that if you reveal more, you would put your source´s lives in danger.

-Your sources should always be very mysterious characters as well. The more mysterious the better. Preferable, they should use the "answer with no answer" or "answer with another question" techniques; It works pretty well to keep the suspense.

- To make things more credible, get another new alternative celebrity like you to confirm your theories, and you confirm his theory in exchange.

- To create the climax, get yourself a death threat. (Particularly, last week we had one death threat and one kidnapping rumor at the same time, from two celebrities that support each other.)


You know, Brazil is famous for it´s soap operas. I know such recipes very well. I know how it works...

Cheers,

Raf.

[Cartomancer]

Well said. Many of these dramas are like a car accident that you can't stop looking at even though you know it may be distasteful. The drama sometimes distracts you from the reality of what is going on. The whole Fulford/Wilcock drama is a prime example. When broken down it seems like a plan to burst the gold bubble by flooding the market with the "hidden gold." There probably is no hidden gold. They are just in the process of making gold worthless and this story is part of it. Instead everyone is arguing over why David cried or is he for real etc? No one is even thinking about why this is happening.