Meditation for March 20th, 2016
Teaching Lessons
We all have teachers. Some of them are traditional teachers like professors, parents, councilors, older people, therapists and many other educator roles we encounter. Others are people passing through our lives and do or say that one thing that changes our path. Hopefully as we live our lives we can become a teacher in other people’s lives. Sometimes this is in the conventional sense, but sometimes we too 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 with others is wrong, or that the consequences weren’t steep enough to stop. This is where you come in, teach this bozo a lesson so that they know what they are doing or finally the stakes are too high to continue.
Not all spirituality needs to be passive. Sometimes creating rock hard boundaries for you and your tribe is more spiritual than turning the other cheek. We try to only change from within and let go of what we can’t change around us, but sometimes we can get someone change his or her point of view with a nice salubrious slap to the face.
Nature holds a balance between prey & predator. If the predators don’t succeed as predators the prey overpopulate and overrun the eco system with no 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. When we knock someone down for dressing like an idiot or treating someone badly we are being a role model. We can’t all be wise men sitting on the mountaintop waiting for the willing to climb and ask for our council, so we become the rude brute who has a big mouth. Truth always hits its mark so don’t worry about being wrong, just be willing to apologize if you are.
Or don’t. It might teach them a lesson of not always getting an apology so they can toughen a little up. 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, then we slam the laptop close 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 political werewolf,
the color centered cracker,
the aggressive date asker,
the memo writer,
the smile to your face but daggers in your backer,
the loud cell phone talker,
the kid hitter,
the woman abuser,
the bully,
the blind to social cuer,
the close talker,
the slight toucher,
the forceful religious zealot,
the angry atheist,
the never been poorer,
the rich are to blamer,
the only this way is the right wayer,
the everything is wrong so why try at aller,
the better than youer,
the my life sucks worse than yourser,
the bitch about everyone that’s not therer,
the this suckser,
the opinions about everything,
the never stand up for anything so everything is dumb so don’t blame me-er,
the passive-aggressive,
I just want to be able to shut them down,
so they know they kill 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 step-by-step guide on how to deal with them and maybe even teach them a lesson.
- Like all numerical step systems, the first step is admitting there is a problem. In this list you tell them that they are in fact a cyber bully and to please stop it.
- 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 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 picture, 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 in hopes that this will just buy them off. I’m not sure where the coins go into in 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 are in fact the person that had killed yourself last year and you are now an online Skype ghost. Hilarity ensues.
Goal
Stop being so timid. If someone is acting a fool, put that person in his or her place. They just hadn’t considered that they are being idiots until you pointed it out to them. This is what being a teacher is all about. You are putting yourself on the line to make sure this world acts the way it is supposed to.
Now get out there and regulate.