Why Amanda Todd Killed Herself (satire)

this article isn't for the formalism of a normal article. so i'm not going to capitalize the appropriate words for the politically correct people.

anyway, i have sided with both parties in this tragic series of events. it was a teen suicide, which is a rising statistic among teens today, mainly due to unhealthy practices of self esteem raising in the public education system without the necessary checks and balances of exposing children to a wide range of ages in school.

all we do to children is raise them to be compliant workers, nothing more.

having said this, i don't believe public education is broken. i believe the government has broken it for us. with the incessant drive to make money, we are forgetting key values that my generation and the generations before it taught but that the modern world mocks.

this is also why more seniors are also committing suicide at growing rates too. all an old person has to do to die early is to be subject to care in an elderly care facility, and subject to chemical restraints for dementia when the best relief for dementia is daily exercise and the feeling of being useful in a society that focuses unhealthily on youth.

which brings us to Amanda Todd, the poster girl of online bullying, cyberstalking, and other maladies within this youth culture today.

last year we slut shamed miley cyrus, that irish girl, and amanda todd, among many other girls too numerous to name.

i don't have any respect for the shamers and the haters. you take your morally high ground today, but yesterday you might have been surfing for porn.

hypocrisy!

i could think of many reasons why amanda todd killed herself: the wrong people were paying attention to her, the cretins who mocked her and goaded her into killing herself, the perverts who wanted to have sex with her, and especially of all the lack of quality time with parents in an intact family.

however blame never solves anything. this is why the kody maxson outing as her so-called tormenter is off the mark. the real culprit is everyone who wished amanda would pick a better bleach next time.

people who want kids, before you even have one, remember this:

the internet will never be a safe place until you daily live the moral values you want your future children to have. so if you're a mouth breather on the Daily Capper, watching the crap on cameracapper, then i urge you, don't have kids. if you do, sell your computer.

over the years i have been many youtube account go stagnant when a pervert has scared a kid off the site. why? she's in grade school but she looks and acts 18.

all you perverts do is ruin the internet. without self control, all you have is your internet.

i pity you because without the internet you are nothing, a nobody, a bunch of people who would watch a person drown instead of saving her, because that's what you did from 2010 to 2012 as you watched this tragedy unfold and refused to help because nobody wants to be a hero or a blackmailer.

of course, given that the NSA is monitoring the Internet, and the FBI too, i wonder if the real reason why capping isn't exposed is because they are gathering evidence right now as we speak.

i supposed that's why nobody discusses it on googeplus. instead,everyone patted themselves on the back for stopping bullying.

out of all the kids that detest the bullying of amanda todd, few of them are brave enough to start an anti-bullying club in their school. that's because they're trained to be an audience, not a participant in society. public education has serve us so well.

what does that say about public education today?

me, i think the best role model for young girls online is not amanda todd, it's the porn star at duke university. at least, she's not drinking bleach, slitting her wrists or hanging herself.

The Five Spiritual Faculties and Its Potential In Education

Spiritual progress are dependent of the emergence of Five Spiritual Faculties — faith, vigor, mindfulness, concentration and wisdom. The conduct of the sentient being is governed by his sense-based instincts and impulses.

As we progress in our spiritual practice, new spiritual forces gradually take over. In the end the five cardinal virtues dominate and shape everything we do, feel and think. These virtues are called, in Sanskrit and Pali, indriya, variously translated by faculties, controlling faculties, or spiritual faculties. The same five virtues are called powers (bala) if emphasis is on the fact that they are "unshakable by their opposites."

Control (indriya) as a spiritual faculty prevents the Five Evils from dominating the mind. Mindful practice such as the meditation of samatha, which calms the mind so that it carefully observes both the mind and the Five Consciousnesses in the meditation of vipasyana.

Thus self-control arises, not because of the calm mind, but because when the mind becomes calm, the Five Spiritual Faculties arise.

Despite meditation's use in cognitive behavior therapy, those faculties still arise within the secular setting and in the absence of Buddhist mindful practice. Without the use of Buddhist training, these faculties — without spiritual guidance mdash; are wasted. Thus, cognitive behavior therapy becomes a replacement for biomedical control through medication.

If the Western public education system allowed for meditation and Buddhist spiritual guidance, then it is possible for the student to excel under the current curricula. As a result of such spiritual training, not only would a child be ready for post-secondary education, s/he would be ready for the world.

There would be less behavior problems in children and consequently improvement in their ability to learn.

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Reference:

"The Way of Wisdom: The Five Spiritual Faculties", by Edward Conze. Access to Insight, 5 June 2010, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/conze/wheel065.html .

The Three Factors of Adolescence

The following are notes made on Brent Cameron's interview with Joseph Chilton Pearce in March 2005 issue of Common Ground.

The adolescent's rapid physical development of the human brain itself occurs predominately in the pre-frontal lobes.

Along with the brain's growth spurt, which ends around age 21, comes the potential for:

1. A high sense of idealism
   
   • present models of idealism
     
   • occurs as early as ages 11-12
2. A sense of hidden greatness
   
   • the conviction that deep within the heart-mind is a core of self that is very great and that if people just realized how great they are, they would respect them.
3. The sense of great expectation
   
   • something tremendous is supposed to happen around the next corner or the next hill moment by moment
     
   • this is a heart-felt sense which will lead to their next stage of evolutionary development.

Commentary The interview makes the conjecture that public education tries to grow minds for university, not for human transcendence.

In doing so, the State might be sowing the seeds of discontent in its citizens.

For this is done for money, and not always for the benefit of the children.