DWQA QuestionsCategory: Human CorruptionThe “Darwin Awards” is another Internet invention, going all the way back to when the Internet was in its absolute infancy. Wikipedia describes them as “… a tongue-in-cheek honor that originated in Usenet newsgroup discussions around 1985. They recognize individuals who have supposedly contributed to human evolution by selecting themselves out of the gene pool by dying or becoming sterilized via their own actions.” One 2022 incident up for nomination is a man who broke into an Italian grocery store, and pausing for a drink, attempted to pull a single bottle of water out of a pallet that was part of a towering edifice of water pallets stacked to the high ceiling. As a result of his effort to quench his thirst, he ended up tipping the entire stack and it collapsed on top of him, killing him instantly (or one hopes it was instant!). Once again the “Darwin Awards” comes across as a celebration of human incompetence and helps to reinforce the widespread conviction in it. What is Creator’s perspective?
Nicola Staff asked 2 years ago
It is not human nor divine to make fun of someone for a failure, even when it seems inexplicable and requiring a true lack of intelligence or competence, depending on the nature of the dilemma they get into. People who have one of those moments when something goes wrong, and they literally fall on their face, would not appreciate the joke, at their expense, of others laughing at their plight when it might have been quite painful and even causing a serious injury. Yet people will do so. This is at once a natural mechanism for releasing tension. That is a simple way of viewing it, as basic human nature, but this does not speak to how much is human nature and how much is a perverted and lessened morality and level of sensitivity that is then interpreted as representing human nature when, in fact, it is not "human nature" at all but "human nature gone wrong," a perversion of humanity in making fun of the underdog—the person who messes up in some way. Divine beings would see that as simply a circumstance, most likely the result of lack of experience, and not that the hapless victim of their own unawareness or miscalculation in getting into trouble, they would be sympathetic, realizing they had been there before themselves, and especially when people travel beyond their comfort zone in trying something new they have not engaged in very much because their interests largely lie elsewhere, so it is to be expected they will falter, they will lack competence, perhaps for a good long while, if they are taking up something very demanding. You can take one of the greatest athletes anywhere and give them the task of learning to play a violin, for example, and what will be demonstrated will almost certainly sound wretched and perhaps, from a human perspective, laughable, but that does not make that great athlete an idiot or a bumbling incompetent, they are simply a beginner, they are unpolished, they are untutored, for the most part, and it is not even a reasonable expectation to excel at something requiring deft movements learned through many, many long hours of practice and developing an ear for music as well as the fine motor coordination and subtlety of motion, and so on, required to have true skill and artistry. The same would be true of someone who spent their youth practicing the clarinet and playing in bands and wind ensembles and were suddenly invited to fill in as a football player. You would not expect that individual to compete well and become a star wide receiver tasked with making a final play to win a game with a long pass downfield in Hail Mary fashion—the odds are extremely low of executing that feat, for the same reasons. So this is the difference, fundamentally, in how light beings view personal activities and performance compared to what humans think and feel. The latter do not look very deeply, they only see what is on display and if they can find fault with it, will do so, and for many it will be humorous even though they themselves might not do any better personally, but they have seen great athletes, great musicians, great artists, what have you, and will find it amusing to watch others struggle to even reach a level of basic competence. That is a kind of insensitivity and the requirement or need for release of tension through laughter is really a function of the level of pathology, in being out of alignment on the part of the observer, to not be more understanding, compassionate, and forgiving in their judgment of others. That is ingrained because the interlopers have seen to it in making everything a competition, a contest with winners and losers. Their whole mode of operation in manipulating human society is the strategy of divide and conquer; they do it in every setting, in the kindergarten classroom as well as on the high school football field, college sports, and the professional arena; all become proving grounds for excellence and a quite intense personal struggle, with the hope of not looking stupid, because if they mess up they will be judged harshly by coaches and fans as well; all of that is nondivine but a standard way of seeing and experiencing things in human culture.