One of the dangers of humanity is that we retreat out of life, and thereby don't live. The modern world disenfranchises us in so many ways that we feel to varying extents helpless and unable to do anything that will make a difference.
Dolls can be a way for people to retreat, but can also be a way to help us to live. It's important to try to choose the living route rather than the retreating route. If we retreat then we simply enfranchise the big to become more powerful. We then become not humans but as robots farmed by the producers to consume, us drugged by the illusion of pleasure of consuming, and thereby the producers consuming us and our lives and our earth which we license the producers to rape.
Whether we feel incapacitated and want to retreat or empowered so that we can do something about things is only an illusion, and the choice is for all. All can do something about things and achieve.
Recently I wrote two posts which are potentially helpful - http://dollforum.com/forum/viewtopic.ph ... 03#p812003 on the subject of the doll in our lives and
http://dollforum.com/forum/viewtopic.ph ... 74#p812074
upon the subject of human empowerment.
I hope that this is a useful perspective.{my emphasis}xyz wrote:But the other bit about being angry or upset with the world, I don't see it that way. Video games are an escape, a fun way to pass the time.
I didn't say you were angry or upset with the world. That's the trouble.
You are but you're only implicitly admitting it. You're taking the videogame drug to blank it out hiding from the real things that make you, and all, unhappy.
The human race will never survive that way.
We only have one life and it's ours whilst we have it to do whatever we want to. We're not here to pass the time - we've got a job to do and we can do it . . .
Blanking out the troubles and not doing anything about them simply allows the bad things to continue which makes the earth a hell, a hell of corruption that no-one cleans up. The idea of the sources of religions (ignore the overlay of human corruptions and abuses by people who don't understand) have been with the intent of uniting heaven and earth. This is why when you go into an Egyptian tomb http://www.info-world.com/egypt/temples-pyramids-tombs/
there are stars on the ceiling and it's all about night and day, light and darkness. These things are symbolic, as are many things in the misunderstood, and in the sun rising and setting the heavens meet the earth. The sky is symbolic, a high place in your mind. So heaven is a place in the mind - the paradise from which we all come from - and into which you try to retreat or hide in videogames.
But the earth, and the human condition, is about bringing that paradise on earth, and so the kingdom of paradise to reign in the real life arena of life, life on earth, and for that will of paradise to achieve it.
Retreating into the minddrugs that dull our minds to the real world is not how we achieve it, such that we're content to leave this earth with a purgatory in which we have to escape the dangerous beasts.
There are dangerous beasts that make us angry. Large corporations raping the earth and raping its people, economically and forcing them into unpaid labour whilst the supergods of the middle east squander their abundance of resources stolen from the world at the Casinos on the French Riviera.
OK - now you see what makes me angry. That's why I asked you what makes you angry.
And unless you do something about it and create an actual heaven rather than retreating into the videofantasy promoted by people to get rich and to subjugate the earth's inhabitants, the halfway existence of purgatory and hell will persist on earth because people don't put their minds to straightening it out.
It's not straightened out by rules, or laws (*Chaplin - the Great Dictator) - and that's where the middle eastern establishment fails - subjugating the populations by rules and guilt and fear, preventing enjoyment of all sorts of human things to celebrate, such as music and dolls - but instead it's sorted out through the heart and the mind, and the will to do it - to do paradise in real life, this life, heaven.
Whilst one is drugged, one has not the will. We have to find the will, the mental freedom, and thence to do it. And our ability to create heaven on earth is the good news. All of us have the power to do it, provided we access that power from the heavens within us on earth. And we can.
The concept of bringing the heaven of our minds to our lives in life on earth gives us strength
strength to withstand
strength to be firm
strength to endure
And this is why the abusers of power like to and want to erase such places and destroy our heritage, and why places such as Palmyra are the symbolic and actual rocks in the sands.
Best wishes
Harem