Meditation for March 21st
Teaching Lessons
We all have teachers. Some are traditional teachers, such as counselors, parents, older people, therapists, and many other educators we encounter. Others are people passing through our lives, or strangers who say something that changes our path. Hopefully, as we live our lives, we can become teachers in other people’s lives. Sometimes this is in the conventional sense, but sometimes we also teach lessons just in passing. We should all be teachable and let no person be our better, for every person is a valuable asset of wisdom.
Some people need to be taught a lesson. A lot of people walk through this world without any idea that some of the ways they interact are wrong, or that the consequences weren’t steep enough to stop. This is where you come in: teach bozo a lesson so they know that they are doing something wrong.
Not all spirituality needs to be brutal, but we need to create rock-hard boundaries for ourselves, rather than turning the other cheek. We try to change only from within and let go of what we can’t change around us, but sometimes we can get someone to change their point of view with a nice, salubrious slap to the face. We think we don’t have power over other people, but we do; we need to drop the nice guy act or the “not my problem” schtick and lash out.
Nature holds a balance between prey & predator. If the predators don’t succeed as predators, the prey overpopulates the ecosystem, overrunning it without regard for the consequences. We as humans in a society have that same responsibility to make sure that people don’t turn into dumb fucking bunnies eating all the crops. We make ourselves ready to eat people.
We are teachers, even if we think we don’t have anything to teach. When we knock someone down for dressing like an idiot or for treating someone badly, we are teaching people. We can’t all be wise men sitting on the mountaintop waiting for the willing to counsel and ask for our counsel, so we become the rude brute with a big mouth. True, we don’t always hit the mark, so don’t worry about being wrong, just be willing to apologize if you are.
Or don’t. It might be about teaching them a lesson not to expect an apology all the time, so that they can toughen up a little. As we shield ourselves with technology, our skin gets too thin to withstand other people’s words. If we find our loved ones cowering behind a computer screen, screaming with all caps and defending the world with harsh language and trolling the commenting weak, we close the laptop and tell them what’s up. Most strong commenters can’t talk like they write. Teach!
Prayer
Zeus,
Can I get your strength?
I need to stand up to the line cutters,
the reckless driver,
the pushy spare changer,
the angry friend-zoned vague Facebooker,
the pcolor-centeredolf,
the color-centered cracker,
the aggressive date asker,
the onmo writer,
the smile to your fake daggers in your backer,
the loud cell phone talker,
the kid hitter,
the woman abuser,
the bully,
the blind to social cues,
the close talker,
the slight toucher,
the forceful religious zeal they have
the angry atheist,
They have never been blamed
The rich are a blamer,
the only way wEverythingt wayer,
, everything along, so why try at you,
Mytter than youer,
the myyoursucks worse than yourser,
the bitch abhorrence that’s not there,
this suckser,
the opinions about everything,
they never stand up for anything,g so everything is dumb, so don’t blame me-er,
theive-aggressive,
I want to be able to shut them down,
So they know they’re having a good time.
Amen.
Craft
One of the biggest assholes on this planet is a cyber bully. You can’t ever see them in person, so it is easier to hide behind a username and say whatever they want. A lot of them get a kick out of teasing you to tears. Here is a guide on how to deal with teaching and maybe even teach them a lesson.
- As with all numerical steps, the first step is to admit there is a problem. In this list, you tell them that they are, in fact, a cyberbully and that they should please stop.
- Match their insults with some of your own. They might try to play it cool as you go nuts on them, but you’re getting to them. Cyber bullies hate it when you write really angry threats in all caps.
- If there is a profile, learn what you can about this person and go for their weakness. If you can’t get anything, assume they are fat. Just keep saying they are fat. They might try to tell you to stop, but tell them to prove they aren’t fat. If they send you a, it’s real, don’t believe it as real. If it is a live feed, say you think it is an actor. This can only be settled in real life because the Internet is such an easy place to lie on.
- Tell your parents. No matter how old you are, tell your parents. This person is bad, and your parents know how to handle terrible cyber bullies.
- Send them Bitcoins, so that this will buy them off. I’m not sure if the coins go into my Mac, but maybe Bitcoins only work on PCs.
- The final straw is to kill yourself and a year later haunt the five friends on their Skype chat until they, one at a time, kill themselves as they slowly find out that you, in fact, are the person who killed yourself last year, and you are now an online Skype ghost. Hilarity ensues.
Goal
The biggest reason people act like idiots is that ignorance is bliss. We are in an era where people have turned their backs on decorum because they have been told they are exceptional, so they think they are entitled to special treatment. It’s up to us to teach them humility, to teach them that they are actually not that special or unique. They are just another bozo on the bus. Without us to knock people down a peg, they will continue their ignorant ways.
Now get out there and regulate.