Watching the Reality Show

**rgray222** · 13th October 2025 20:19

Bill, when I read your post, so many thoughts run through my mind. Most of us lead relatively mundane, unremarkable lives, and we all want to feel like we’re part of something bigger. People want to make a difference or, at the very least, have some purpose or meaning in their lives. At the end of the day, our emotional response to big issues is about feeling connected, purposeful, and making a positive impact. Occasionally, the facts don't matter (i.e. climate change) much because if people had all the facts, it may remove what little purpose they have in their lives. To others, becoming and staying knowledgeable about big issues makes us feel connected, and that makes a difference in most people's lives. That sense of connection to humanity gives us a touch of something exciting, it makes us feel more alive. It is like we are in the Globe theatre getting a dose of someone else's reality because it gives us a sense of involvement in humanity's enormous issues, and that somehow makes us feel less detached.

Every day, we get drawn back in searching for the updates through all our usual channels, but it never seems to be enough. What I find truly remarkable about our need for meaning, purpose, and especially connection is that it’s not just about being connected to world events like war or politics. Instead, it’s a deeper spiritual need that we are experiencing, a longing to connect to the divine. Of course, this is an inward search that is there for the taking whenever we choose to move in that direction.

**Ashiris** · 13th October 2025 20:57

Posted by Bill Ryan

I still feel that the above is somewhat clumsy and not that well expressed. I asked this before when I started the thread... but can anyone reading this relate to what I'm trying to say?
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Yes 100%. Since the fake pandemic started , I haven't watched TV since april 2020 and canceled my TV subscription.
I don't read anything about war and climate and digital ID and other muppet show misery.
Occasionally, I read the headlines on alternative news websites to see what's on the agenda. But I get the impression that those websites are also brainwashing people with fear porn news.

Regularly checking disturbing stories on social media could lead to changes in how people view humanity and the meaning of life. It's called doomscrolling.
Doomscrolling refers to the compulsive consumption of negative news, such as stories about shootings, terrorism and war.
It has really addictive characteristics.
It means that people are busy with negative news and also feel a strong urge to continue with it. They find it difficult to stop or cut down and feel discomfort when they are not working on it.
Moreover, it has negative consequences for their life and daily functioning.

So yes , I 100% agree with what you write Bill Ryan.

**norman** · 16th October 2025 13:57

As watching and seeing can be argued to be energetically opposites, here's a, slightly but only slightly flawed-by-religiosity, healthier perspective on the notion of being well informed.

Not just a greater angular field of attention and lesser angular field of 'blind-spot' but also a more nourishing embrace and less manic self erosion.

The subject matter illustrated in this expression can be considered a bracketed variable into which you could swap any field of cosmic curiosity and wonderment or worry. Also, the references drawn upon to inspire this alternative could be swapped out for others more agreeable or recognisable to a given audience. The essence is the 'energy' and the faith. Miss that and you miss the whole thing.

A Battle Beyond Human Limits
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