Episode Transcript
[00:00:25] Speaker A: Good evening, everybody, and welcome to another episode of the Positude podcast. I'm your host, Maggie Hartley, and I'm very excited to be here again this week, sharing an hour with you, discussing current events, learning things, maybe sharing a recipe or a joke now and then, just having fun and enjoying each other's company, just like you would in your own living room over a cup of coffee, having a conversation with a friend.
[00:00:52] Speaker B: I'm very pleased to announce that this.
[00:00:54] Speaker A: Week we will be airing on a.
[00:00:57] Speaker B: New station, the Trim radio network out of South Carolina.
[00:01:03] Speaker A: Very excited to bring my shows to all of the new listeners on that network. Welcome and thank you for joining me. I hope that you find my shows enjoyable, and I hope that we become friends. I hope that you can gain something from my shows, and I'm very thankful.
[00:01:21] Speaker B: And honored to be here.
[00:01:23] Speaker A: This is a veteran owned and operated station, so anyone that's listened to me for the many years I've been on the radio knows that that's a cause.
[00:01:33] Speaker B: Very close to my heart.
[00:01:34] Speaker A: So, again, very thankful and grateful to be here. Anybody who's listened to me for any length of time knows that I'm here to promote the positivity and negate the negativity, or at least shed light on the negativity and come to grips with what it is that we find negative in this world and defeat that negativity to become more positive, to become more whole, to become more complete, more balanced, to bring and spread sunshine to the world. Now, having said that, that does not mean that I'm Mary Poppins all of the time. What some of you will come to discover is that I have very set ways of thinking. Not to say that I can't be swayed, and I'm not always willing to learn and to change my opinion as things dictate, whether it be.
As we grow. Personally, we're all going through a metamorphosis of sorts. It's a process. We're all learning and growing. And so, as that happens, sometimes our perspectives on things change.
But at the same time, I'm very, very steady, and I'm very grounded, and I believe what I believe. And I do have pretty strong opinions on certain topics.
One of those is toxic people. And the feelings that are encompassing and the feelings that are elicited and the feelings that are evoked from people that are negative in nature and harmful in nature. Just hateful people. And while I've been guilty, sometimes, anybody that's listened to me again for years would know I have my own opinions. And there are topics and groups that I really am not fond of. I really try to make an honest effort to be more gentle in my approach. Let's say, as I grow and learn myself, I've had to learn tolerance. I've had to learn patience.
[00:03:40] Speaker B: I'm still learning a patience.
[00:03:43] Speaker A: And there are many things that we struggle with as a whole and as individuals, because we are all connected. We are all a ripple in a pond. And anybody that's listened to me for a while knows that. That's pretty much my catchphrase. We're all a ripple in a pond. And one thing that I've noticed this week, before I do my shows, I should let you know that I pray and meditate on what I'm going to talk about. I'll think about it. And there have been so many weeks, I can tell you that before I'm ready to record the day before, I have absolutely no idea what I want to discuss on the show. And I'll pray and meditate on it. And always, you know, it just throughout the course of that day, or a lot of times it happens to me. As I first wake up in the morning, I'll have this nudge. I'll either go onto a site that I look at for news, whether it be telegram or some sort of social media site, or I'll have had an occurrence, an interaction that's happened, you know, maybe a day or two before that's been on my mind and something that I think would benefit to share with my listeners.
But a lot of times I wake up in the morning, honestly, after going to sleep and praying on it, and the topic will just appear. I'll wake up the next day, and within the first hour or two of my day, if it doesn't come to me immediately, something will show up and I'll just know that's what I want to talk about today. And that's what's happened to me today. I went to sleep last night, and I really wasn't sure what I wanted to talk about. And I started my day over a cup of coffee this morning, which is my fuel. Anybody that knows me also knows that I am undeniably a coffee addict. I know it's not the best thing for me, but it's definitely what I get going on. And I was looking at my phone and I was looking at telegram, and I was looking at some social media specifically.
And in the course of five minutes, I came across two clips that were extremely distressing to me in nature. And when you're a highly sensitive person, such as myself.
And honestly, I would bet that a good percentage of the people that listen to me are also highly sensitive people because they're drawn to my shows for a reason. There's something that brings them in, something that they can identify with. And I try to be identifiable as a host.
I try to show you and give you examples of ways that I have struggled in my life and things that I've had to overcome because I feel it makes me more identifiable. And I feel that there are so many people out there, and I've just talked about this a couple weeks ago, but there are so many people out there that are so high and mighty on these broadcasts, and they're acting as though they're so much better than everybody else. And I have to admit that there have been shows that I've done where upon playing them back, I kind of sound a little egotistical at times, and it's something that I'm working on because that truly is not my nature as a general rule. However, if I'm firm and steadfast on an opinion, it may come across that way or it may ripe somebody the wrong way.
But anyway, I'm looking at these stories, and as a sensitive person or an HSP highly sensitive person, I felt this just almost tangible blowback from the energy that came at me from these pages by the comments that people made on these little clips and also the energy that emanated from the actual clips themselves.
[00:07:51] Speaker B: Let me explain.
[00:07:53] Speaker A: There was a clip that I watched, and I'll actually play it for you. I don't know how well it's going to traverse the airwaves and how clear it's going to be. Although admittedly, when I played it myself for the first time, it sounds like just loud noise and a lot of babble, and maybe that's just the way that my, my physical body interpreted it because of the energy that I felt behind the speech that was given, let's call it, but it was shared from a page called Watch Chad. It's, he's a guy, Chad Prathere, and he's all over social media. He's a cowboy. He started off as a comedian, and I actually thought he was pretty funny. He used to do these clips about politics and the right, and I found him utterly hysterical, although not entirely politically rather correct. However, I'm not entirely political correct either, so I could identify with his comedy. And then he made a brief stint into politics, and I don't think he.
[00:08:59] Speaker B: Did very well with that.
[00:09:00] Speaker A: And he also developed some musical ties and started a group or whatever. And so he and his girlfriend, now he's got a girlfriend and both have pages or whatever. But anyway, it's watch Chad. And he put a clip up about AOC, and there was a speech that she was given, and I'm not sure where she was, but she's got this vibe going. It's almost like a wannabe gangster combined with a really bad, almost imitation of a horrible one of a Baptist minister. I mean, her hands are flailing, and she's screaming and yelling and pointing, and there is rap music playing in the background at this rally or speech, whatever it is that she's given, but just her energy around it, and that she's exuding. She's inciting violence, in my opinion. She's inciting hate, in my opinion.
[00:10:03] Speaker B: Now, these are all the same guys.
[00:10:04] Speaker A: That occurred, accused Trump of all of this stuff when he was in office, and still do when we go back to those January hearings and, you know, the whole thing that happened at the Capitol and all of that, and I just find it totally deplorable. Well, and she's one of the deplorables, right? So doesn't that fit? Although I didn't coin that phrase, that's probably why that word popped into my head. But it's just disgusting in nature. And I feel as though when we're at a point on the planet, as I've talked about on previous shows, where we really need to be raising the energy and the vibration of the planet as a whole, we need to come together. We need to put aside our differences and join as one, because that's really the only way we're going to defeat the evil forces is by putting aside all the crap, quite frankly, and the BLM and all of these movements and just everything, and realize that this is still the Roman Colosseum. This is, and I've talked about this before, too, and I know that I sound redundant sometimes, but I really need for everybody to understand that this is truly a psyop, to divide and conquer.
[00:11:30] Speaker B: Because if we all come together, black, white, purple, pink, yellow, whatever our religious.
[00:11:35] Speaker A: Beliefs, our racial beliefs are the way that we were raised, all of that, just put it aside and realize that we're all part of the same whole. We're all connected energetically and spiritually and from creator, source, whether it be, whether you call it God, universe, whatever it.
[00:11:54] Speaker B: Is, we're all one.
[00:11:56] Speaker A: And if we put aside all these differences and come together, we can totally defeat these evil forces.
[00:12:04] Speaker B: And that's what they're afraid of.
[00:12:06] Speaker A: So situations like this coming from somebody who I would consider consider marginally intelligent at best, going off on a tangent and inciting violence and inciting hate and pitting one side again against the other, it's just so non fortuitous in nature, but that's what the goal is, right?
[00:12:34] Speaker B: So anyway, her speech and then the.
[00:12:36] Speaker A: Other clip that I have was about what could have been a very tragic event. When I researched it, I found conflicting views.
One place said that it was a clip and the people survived. A woman commented that the people perished.
[00:12:52] Speaker B: I don't know what the truth of.
[00:12:53] Speaker A: It is, but as I watched the video, and I'll explain the background to that video in a minute, the comments that followed were just positively so hateful and just degenerative in nature that it really bothered me because I feel like.
[00:13:16] Speaker B: That'S all social media is anymore.
[00:13:18] Speaker A: And even though that's a really obvious statement to make, I guess I really didn't realize how bad it had gotten.
It seems as though every comment that's made on so many of these posts always come down to some sort of political debacle between the people that are commenting on these posts. We've got something that was a potentially very tragic event, and I'm sure it was extremely tragic to the people involved and very, very upset setting, physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually.
But to have people commenting the comments that they were making, which were totally unrelated in nature to the event and just the snowball that ensued and how deep the comments went into the negative side, it turned into political bashing, it.
[00:14:12] Speaker B: Turned into personal bashing.
[00:14:14] Speaker A: I just.
This is why I'm not on social media a lot. I do use it, and I use it in a very limited manner. I use it to get my news stories, and I use it to kind of keep my finger on the pulse of what people are doing and what.
[00:14:32] Speaker B: The trends are and what they're following.
[00:14:34] Speaker A: Because a lot of the trends that are popular now are being put forth by the dark powers that be to get us on another downward spiral, whether it be my gosh, I can remember talking on a show with Ira years ago on my original positude podcast, when he was my co host about makeup and the evils behind makeup and the desensitization of children in a sexual manner, and how the makeup was used as a means to sexualize our children and that I believe that certain things were being put into that products or those those products, as well as spellwork and music and all of that. I just feel as though there's really a hard push on social media, whether it be from trolls, whether it be from paid people to respond to these things.
But I just feel as though it's gotten a lot stronger lately, this whole divide and conquer, spreading, hate spewing negativity. And it just bothered me, and I wanted to do a show about it. So the first clip, AOC, and she's literally throwing signs, screaming, and just, there are people there. I don't hear loud cheering, but I do hear people cheering from what she's saying. And I just. It's disgusting to me. Let's listen to it and see what you think.
There you have it. Now, this is a member of the United States Congress.
[00:16:51] Speaker B: When in the history of our country has it ever been okay for a member, an elected official, a member of.
[00:17:03] Speaker A: Our congress, to behave in such a manner? It's totally disgusting.
[00:17:09] Speaker B: She's asking people if they're prepared to.
[00:17:12] Speaker A: Fight, which in itself is inciting violence.
There's nothing about this that seems okay to me. And the energy behind it, I have to admit, admit it is dark energy.
[00:17:28] Speaker B: But at the same time, her desire.
[00:17:33] Speaker A: To want to come across as a.
[00:17:35] Speaker B: Tough girl is laughable to me. I don't find her threatening by any.
[00:17:40] Speaker A: Means, shape, or form. I feel like this is acting and bad acting at best. However, the energy that's around it does not feel good to me at all, if that makes sense. The fact that there are people in the crowd that are cheering her on and clapping really troubles me because we should be way past this. We should be at a point where we're able to recognize that this is a psyop.
But the sad fact remains that there are actually people out there that are buying into this with both feet, even in an instance such as AOC, who, out of all of them, seems to me to be the least believable and the least genuine out of that whole bunch.
It just boggles my mind.
But here we are on the planet, and we'll talk about ways to get over that kind of feeling later on in the episode and what we can do to be more positive, but troubling, to say the least for me, when I'm barely into three sips of coffee and I've got to look at that and listen to that and realize that we're just really not evolving to the degree that I'd hoped we had. Bye now.
More troubled by the fact that this is allowed to go on on our social media and that everything is so extremely one sided. I feel as though we should be, if I had my druthers. We would be talking about ways to work together and heal the planet, the environment, ourselves, each other, and work together to form a better spot, a better.
[00:19:36] Speaker B: Place for all of us.
[00:19:37] Speaker A: But, you know, that's just the nature of who I am, I guess. And there's not much I can do to change it. But what I can do is we can discuss this, and we can educate people that if you're on social media, please, please use it as an educational resource. No, use it as a form of entertainment. Yes. To keep our finger on the pulse as to what the other sides are doing. Yes. And when I say other sides, that in itself, that statement is very inaccurate, because what people need to understand is there are two sides of an evil coin. As much as we try to and want to believe that the other side is good, the other side is righteous. The other side, rather, is just what I choose to believe, and what I.
[00:20:39] Speaker B: Am very firm in my conviction in.
[00:20:42] Speaker A: Believing is that there are simply the lesser and the greater evil at play. And the only ones that are out truly for our well being is ourselves, humanity as a whole.
And in order to get rid of all of this, I agree, we need to vote somebody else into office, unquestionably, to seemingly change the tides. I think that that would help. It would help with the morale of the country, and that's really the root.
[00:21:17] Speaker B: Of it for me, is the morale.
[00:21:18] Speaker A: Of the country needs to change. And I feel as though. So getting somebody like Trump back in office could possibly be the way to do that. However, having said that, we need to be aware of the fact that nobody in politics is truly out for our best interests, 100%. There's always a degree of being bought and paid for, and there's always an underlying agenda, and that might be a.
[00:21:45] Speaker B: Very bitter pill for some of us.
[00:21:47] Speaker A: To swallow, but that is the utmost.
[00:21:50] Speaker B: Truth of the matter.
[00:21:51] Speaker A: And so, yeah, we need to have somebody different in office. We need to have a better political candidate.
You know, we know the elections are skewered.
We know that there's a lot of stuff that goes on the behind the scenes that we don't quite understand and we may never know the truth of.
However, we do need to have an upstate of more positivity in the political arena. And in regards to who's in charge of our country, I will absolutely admit to that. Just keep your eyes open.
Keep your eyes open. So that was the first one. Now the second one. The comment section says on January 7.
[00:22:34] Speaker B: 2022, a water pipe burst at Beach Mountain Resort in Avery County. North Carolina, blasting skiers with freezing water while they were on the lift. The burst occurred while an uninjured guest.
[00:22:47] Speaker A: Skied into a water and air hydrant.
[00:22:50] Speaker B: During snow making operations, which was located under a loaded chair. The resort's safety team and operations worked to safely drain the system and unload the lift.
[00:23:02] Speaker A: Two people were taken to a local hospital with non life threatening injuries. Another comment claimed that the people had died, that they had suffocated or drowned from the force of the water coming up at them while they were on.
[00:23:17] Speaker B: The ski lift, from this, what looked.
[00:23:19] Speaker A: Like a geyser, actually from the burst water pipe.
[00:23:22] Speaker B: And then another comment said that the.
[00:23:24] Speaker A: People were taken to the hospital, that they jumped down and were bruised all over their bodies, but were okay. That's not where I'm going to this. The clip shows people on a ski lift, and it shows them stopped, and it shows this incredible amount of water.
[00:23:43] Speaker B: Shooting up, as I said before, like.
[00:23:45] Speaker A: A geyser, and blasting them while they're on the chairlift. And obviously, it's extremely distressing to watch, let alone because I'm empathic, feeling the emotions of the people around and the people on the lift. It's just utterly all encompassing to me. And it's upsetting because I can feel the sadness, the fear, the pain, all of that. Just the fear, all of it. And I'm looking at the comments, and I'm totally flabbergasted.
I'm going to read some of these to you so that you have an idea of what, what, in case you're not on social media and in case you don't read these comments, what we're dealing with as a society.
[00:24:33] Speaker B: First one I see, everyone not wearing.
[00:24:36] Speaker A: Deodorant should be punished like this.
[00:24:40] Speaker B: The police came and shot the people in the chairlift.
Japanese toilet. Be like, in other words, saying, that's.
[00:24:50] Speaker A: Like a japanese toilet. The clip that was shown season passes for life. They're getting punished for something they did.
[00:24:59] Speaker B: Mistake will still cost less than a cheeseburger and fries there. Yeah, they're dead. Rip.
[00:25:07] Speaker A: I think somebody's gonna own a new ski resort.
[00:25:10] Speaker B: Waterboarding extended.
[00:25:12] Speaker A: That's one way to get an enema.
[00:25:15] Speaker B: Dinner is ready.
[00:25:17] Speaker A: I am enjoying the. This. Ha ha. Nailed it.
[00:25:21] Speaker B: Just jump, big babies.
[00:25:23] Speaker A: It's not that far.
[00:25:24] Speaker B: Simple. That man has a dark secret.
[00:25:27] Speaker A: He is hiding, and God simply hates him.
[00:25:30] Speaker B: I hope he's indian.
[00:25:31] Speaker A: Is he dead yet? The only thing that makes sense to me would be karma. There are a plethora of comments of.
[00:25:39] Speaker B: People saying jump just jump?
[00:25:41] Speaker A: It's not that high. How come you didn't jump?
[00:25:43] Speaker B: How stupid are you not to jump?
[00:25:45] Speaker A: Why didn't they jump? And then also, why didn't somebody help them? Why didn't they take their snowboards and do something? Try and deflect the water? Why is everybody standing there watching? Why is the one guy filming in that sense? I absolutely agree. There are many instances of videos that are on social media watching horrendous things happen.
These people are just viewing it all and taping it and doing nothing about what's going on.
[00:26:17] Speaker B: That part I agree with.
[00:26:18] Speaker A: The comment with the police came and shot the people in the chairlift, though started a whole other thread that was also nauseating to me.
[00:26:28] Speaker B: Someone wrote, was that supposed to be funny?
[00:26:31] Speaker A: And the person wrote, another person wrote.
[00:26:33] Speaker B: I mean, it kind of was.
[00:26:34] Speaker A: Police shoot people for no reason.
[00:26:36] Speaker B: It's a thing.
[00:26:37] Speaker A: It still happens. Someone else wrote, yep. Should have just complied with their order.
Someone else. Dude, I laughed out loud hard at this. Regarding the cops shooting, that's probably the most believable outcome in the comments.
[00:26:52] Speaker B: Haha.
[00:26:53] Speaker A: Someone else.
[00:26:54] Speaker B: Two chicken nuggets and a french fry.
[00:26:56] Speaker A: Later, the ski lift operator finally just.
[00:26:58] Speaker B: Put the ski lift in gear and disembarked all the rest of the skiers.
[00:27:03] Speaker A: Someone else wrote, I literally bursted out laughing at that comment. Oh my God, I'm laughing way too loud.
That only happens in America.
And then back to the police brutality.
[00:27:16] Speaker B: No, absolutely it doesn't. Police brutality is rampant in Africa, Asia, Europe, South America, the Middle east.
[00:27:22] Speaker A: Then another. Did you see the video of the cops shooting into a neighborhood because a pine cone fell on his patrol car?
And then he's one of the ones that come to mind all the time for me talking about this. And then another anti police psyop still going strong. Eat z bugs, Mandy. And then another.
[00:27:40] Speaker B: It's true.
[00:27:40] Speaker A: This is actually illegal in that state.
I sort of laugh because in America.
[00:27:47] Speaker B: It could happen and does happen.
[00:27:50] Speaker A: Somebody else who have they shot for no reason?
And then somebody else giving a very long comment about a 2016 episode where there was supposedly police brutality and then somebody else. While I agree with you, those were bad and the officer should face punishment. Don't just find someone random and shoot them for no reason. You said police shoot people for no reason. That's not true.
Somebody else wrote, jealousy is one hell of a thing.
[00:28:22] Speaker B: Oh, you're a criminal.
They came and started screaming, get down, get down.
[00:28:28] Speaker A: Meaning the cops. 911 sent out the cat and the tree.
[00:28:32] Speaker B: Specialty team.
[00:28:34] Speaker A: Somebody else.
[00:28:35] Speaker B: Why were they black?
[00:28:37] Speaker A: Somebody else. If this is in tge us, that's possible.
Somebody else wrote, that's hilarious.
Did you vote trump somebody else? So what you are trying to say is they died, right? Right.
[00:28:52] Speaker B: I'm waiting for the punchline.
[00:28:53] Speaker A: You can't trust anyone online anymore. Another they're getting punished for something they did. Is anybody else seeing the trend here where people are calling it karma?
They did something against God. They did something to deserve this. No one else must have taken offense to that as well because they wrote, remember your comments when your family members die.
Wow, someone else. Yeah, her karmic card has expired, actually. I believe and think, where's your so called God when kids get hurt? And then the woman corrected her comment and said, I said, when they do die because everyone dies, will you still think this way about your own family and then somebody else?
[00:29:36] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:29:37] Speaker A: Still doesn't explain lots of bad things that happen to innocent people, like children. I like to stay positive, but things happen for a reason.
[00:29:44] Speaker B: But it's hard with or with all the hard things happening every day around the world.
[00:29:48] Speaker A: So we go from picking on cops, people judging what they should have done, people talking about someone filming, which, as I said before, I agree with, we've got racial slurs in there. We've got trump comments in there. We've got got people, a lot of people judging about karma and God and that these people somehow deserved what happened.
Not a lot of comments about, oh, my God, those poor people. Are they okay? There were some, but the majority was to the negative, and a lot of it was people laughing at these other people's trauma, at their pain.
Imagine how you would feel if you were in that situation. I can't even fathom making comments, horrid, awful, hateful, nasty comments, and people actually thinking that this scenario was humorous and that it was something to be laughed at.
It just, it boggles my mind. And that's one part.
I see many posts throughout the course of a day with comments such as these, but these just seemed a little bit more abrasive today for some reason. Or maybe I actually paid more attention than I usually do, but this is what we've come to. And instead of just, you know, wishing the people well, hoping everything turned out or questions and, you know, inquisition as to, are these people okay? Did they survive what happened? We have all of these other things that are coming up in the thread that are just nasty and negative and hateful. And somehow I knew we were going to traverse the political at some point in that conversation. And there it was in the thread, they had to bring the political aspect into this and the bashing of police into it and the, the talking about, you know, were they indian? What is that even, unless it's making fun of the bidets, as that one earlier comment was, the indian bidets. I mean, but even so, people, this is horrible to me. I was watching one the other day with a young girl who's a struggling musician and she's trying to get famous. And granted, she does a lot of her videos for airplay and doesn't everybody? I guess it's just the trend nowadays, especially with things like TikTok. TikTok, to me, is just.
It's abhorrent. I won't join it. A lot of information seems to come from it, I will admit that. But I'm happy to get the TikTok videos that have the information contained from something like telegram for now. I'm not really ready to go on TikTok just because there's so much absurdity that's out there on that platform. In particular, however, you know, this woman was, she's singing, she's trying to start a career, and people are on there. You're fat, you're ugly, you're trashy. Why are you dressed like that? Your father's a pervert for filming you. You're sleeping with your father because he's promoting you. I mean, there is something kind of weird about that, I'm not going to lie.
If you watch the channel and the father, he seems to be lurking a lot in the background, which is distressing. However, you know, the comments are just, like, so rude and so nasty and so hateful or sexual in nature. This is a girl that barely turned 18, and people are just putting totally nasty sexual comments on there about her behind.
It's just awful what would happen if it was all just positive and there were just funny stories about kittens and dogs and nature and wildlife and natural cures and ways that we can help each other and different organizations that are helping our homeless, our elderly, our veterans.
[00:34:01] Speaker B: Our sick, our need.
[00:34:03] Speaker A: Wouldn't that be great? That's what I tried to do with the original positude podcast, and we will get back to that is sharing happy stories. It was sharing miracle stories. It was sharing fun stuff so that people had something to grasp onto that was positive to bring them up in their normal, dreary work day. A lot of people listened to it at their work because it was clean and content and it was uplifting and it was positive and it just spread that powerful message. And although we still try to do that and I do want to get back to that format. I'm going to do that in the second half of this episode. I'm going to share some knowledge and some information that will help you to maintain your positivity and to kind of wash off the negativity that happens to. I just would like to say that we really shouldn't be on social media that much. And if we are, try and limit what you watch, what you listen to.
Maybe not be nosy like I did and go into the comments because it just seems like that's just a pet of vipers in and of itself.
[00:35:14] Speaker B: What's the solution here?
[00:35:16] Speaker A: Stay off social media. That would be the easiest solution. But wouldn't it be nice if everybody would just be kind to each other? And yeah, the comments were all about, oh my gosh, is everybody okay? What did they do to save them?
[00:35:28] Speaker B: Did they live?
[00:35:30] Speaker A: My condolences to the family. And if not, if it were a tragic occurrence, how about, you know, maybe starting a GoFundMe or something legitimate for that family and everybody chipping in a quarter. Not to say that there aren't a lot of tragedies on the planet where if we were to do that with every single one that we saw, we wouldn't all be broke. If we're not broke already. Thank you Mister Biden, and thank you political structure that we have in place right now.
However, it just, it would be a lovely thought, wouldn't it?
Just my musings and my ramblings here on a Monday afternoon as I record the show. But we're getting ready to take a break before we do that. I used to be the person that would argue with people that put negative comments years ago on a post. It was back then it was MySpace, if everybody remembers MySpace. But I literally, you know, would argue with some people. And then I thought, how much of a waste of time is this? This is somebody that even if I met them, and we happen to be going back and forth, volleying rather on social media about a political something or something totally unimportant, what a waste of my time and energy.
Decided I'd rather take that time and.
[00:36:49] Speaker B: Energy for the most part and devote.
[00:36:50] Speaker A: It into helping people and not dwelling on the negativity that's contained in those things because you're not going to get anywhere. A lot of times it's a bot, it's a paid troll.
These people are put on there just to upset the apple cart.
And that's kind of where I was going with this as well is, I believe a lot of the stuff that's put out there there is to bring down the energy and the vibration of the planet. That is, some of those people that were putting those negative comments out there that disgusted me may very well have been paid to do that type of thing, to create that negative atmosphere, to create that negative environment.
[00:37:29] Speaker B: Or at the very least the ones.
[00:37:31] Speaker A: That inserted the political comments.
Quite possibly they could have been paid.
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[00:39:00] Speaker B: Pay our bills at the same time.
[00:39:03] Speaker A: The song for my break is from my good buddy Pat Carr. Pat's an amazing original artist from Louisiana. You can find him all over the place. He's on Reverb nation, he's on Soundclick. He's everywhere. You find quality music. You can reach him at HTTP Colon Backslash backslash www.itunes.com petcar. Check him out, support his music and tell him Maggie sent you. On the second half of the Positude podcast we'll talk about some positive ways to combat some of the negativity we're encountering on social media and in general nowadays. We'll be back right after this. Stay tuned folks. Thanks for listening.
[00:39:56] Speaker C: When it comes to my baby I have got a mean street to my wife when it comes to my baby I've got a mean street 2 miles wide.
So if you messing with my woman then you see me coming, you better run away and hide I got a pretty little woman, she don't treat me too bad, she cooks my breakfast in the morning, she loves me when I'm sad you take me to the doctor when I feel and knowing ill she give me all that love until the clock stands still.
When it comes to my baby, I've got a mystery 8 miles long.
[00:41:54] Speaker A: When.
[00:41:55] Speaker C: It comes to my baby, I have got a means to get miles long, don't keep fooling with my baby and you see me maybe you better run on down I was out with my baby, some joke start getting fresh.
I said to him, man, you bout to get into a mess. She told me you don't have to worry, you don't have to start a fight just give me a little love and I'll always treat you right.
Wadde when it comes to my baby, I got a mean street 2 miles.
[00:43:33] Speaker A: Wide.
[00:43:40] Speaker C: When it comes to my baby, I've got a mean street 2 miles wide so I've been messing with my woman and you see me coming, you better run over.
[00:44:13] Speaker A: And we're back. That was mean streak. Ironically, by Pat Carr. We're talking about social media negativity and ways that we can combat that. And one thing that we can do is we can work together and we can share our knowledge, share our positivity with others. How do we do that? Well, in the book highly sensitive person.
[00:44:34] Speaker B: How to thrive when the world overwhelms.
[00:44:36] Speaker A: You, by Elaine and Erin. There are some examples there that maybe we can follow. She says, what are we good at?
[00:44:43] Speaker B: What's it good for? I have mentioned four repeated experiences I've.
[00:44:47] Speaker A: Had with HSP's highly sensitive persons. Spontaneous, deep silence creating a hallowed kind of collective presence, considerate behavior, soul and spirit, directness and insight. About all of this. These four are strong evidence to me that we, the royal advisor class, are.
[00:45:05] Speaker B: The priest class, supplying some kind of ineffable nourishment to our society. I cannot presume to label it, but I can offer some observations.
Creating sacred space I like the way that anthropologists speak of ritual leadership and ritual space. Ritual leaders create for others those experiences which can only take place within a ritual, sacred, or transitional space set aside from the mundane world. Experiences in this sort of space are transformative and give meaning. Without them, life becomes drab and empty. The ritual leader marks off and protects the space, prepares others to enter it, guides them while there, and helps them return to society with the right meaning from the experience. Traditionally, these were often initiation experiences marking life's great transitions into adulthood, marriage, parenthood, elderhood, and death. Others were meant to heal, to bring a vision or revelation that gave direction, or to move one into closer harmony with the divine.
Today, sacred spaces are quickly made mundane.
[00:46:08] Speaker A: They require great privacy and care if they are to survive.
[00:46:11] Speaker B: They are as likely to be created in the offices of certain psychotherapists as in churches, as likely to occur in.
[00:46:18] Speaker A: A gathering of men or women dissatisfied with their religion as in a community practicing its traditions, as likely to be signaled by a slight change in topic or tone in a conversation as by the donning of shamanic costume and the.
[00:46:33] Speaker B: Outlining of a ceremonial circle. The boundaries of sacred space today are always shifting, symbolic and rarely visible.
[00:46:40] Speaker A: While bad experiences have caused some highly.
[00:46:43] Speaker B: Sensitive persons to reject anything striving to seem sacred, the majority feel most at home in such a space. Some almost spontaneously generate it around themselves.
Thus they frequently take on the vocation of creating it for others, making HsP's.
[00:47:00] Speaker A: The priest class in the sense of creating and tending sacred space in these.
[00:47:05] Speaker B: Aggressively secular warrior times.
[00:47:10] Speaker A: I'm jumping around here. She also then goes into prophesying, and then there's a segment, how we inspire.
[00:47:16] Speaker B: Others in the search for meaning if.
[00:47:19] Speaker A: You'Re uncomfortable with the role of prophet.
[00:47:21] Speaker B: I don't blame you. However, in an existential crisis, you may.
[00:47:25] Speaker A: Still find yourself elevated to a soapbox or even a pulpit.
[00:47:28] Speaker B: It happened to Viktor Frankl, a jewish.
[00:47:30] Speaker A: Psychiatrist who was imprisoned in a nazi concentration.
[00:47:34] Speaker B: In man's search for meaning, Frankl, an.
[00:47:37] Speaker A: Obvious HSP, describes how he often found.
[00:47:40] Speaker B: Himself called upon to inspire his fellow prisoners, how he intuitively understood what they.
[00:47:45] Speaker A: Needed and how badly they needed it. He also observed that under those awful.
[00:47:50] Speaker B: Circumstances, prisoners who could gain from others some kind of meaning in their lives survived better psychologically and therefore physically well.
Sensitive people who were used to a rich intellectual life may have suffered much pain.
[00:48:06] Speaker A: They were often of a delicate constitution.
[00:48:08] Speaker B: But the damage to their inner lives worth less. They were able to retreat from their terrible surroundings to a life of inner.
[00:48:15] Speaker A: Riches and spiritual freedom.
[00:48:17] Speaker B: Only in this way can one explain the apparent paradox that some prisoners of a less hearty makeup often seem to.
[00:48:25] Speaker A: Survive camp life better than did those.
[00:48:28] Speaker B: Of a more robust nature. For Frankel, meaning is not always religious. In the camps, he sometimes found his reason to live was helping others. At other times, it was the book he was writing on scraps of paper or his deep love for his wife.
[00:48:43] Speaker A: It, says.
[00:48:43] Speaker B: Eddie Hyselom, is another example of an HSP who found meaning and shared it with others during those same difficult times. In her journals written in Amsterdam in 1941 and 48, too, one can hear.
[00:48:56] Speaker A: Her striving to understand and transform her.
[00:48:59] Speaker B: Experience historically and spiritually, and always inwardly. Slowly, a gentle, quiet, personal victory of the spirit grows out of her fear and doubt.
One can hear in her anecdotes how.
[00:49:12] Speaker A: Much people began to find her a deep comfort.
[00:49:15] Speaker B: Her last words, written on a scrap of paper and thrown from a cattle car headed for Auschwitz, are perhaps my favorite quote from her we left the camps singing.
[00:49:27] Speaker A: The book goes on to say, we.
[00:49:29] Speaker B: HsP's do a great disservice to ourselves.
[00:49:31] Speaker A: And others when we think of ourselves.
[00:49:33] Speaker B: As weak compared to the warrior. Our strength is different, but frequently it is more powerful. Often it is the only kind that can begin to handle suffering and evil. It certainly requires equal courage and increases with its own own type of training. Nor is it always about enduring, accepting, and finding meaning and suffering.
[00:49:53] Speaker A: Sometimes actions involving great skill and strategy are called for.
[00:49:57] Speaker B: One freezing winter night during a blackout.
[00:50:00] Speaker A: A barracks filled with despairing inmates begged.
[00:50:02] Speaker B: Frankl to speak to them in the darkness. Several were known to be planning suicide. Besides the demoralization caused by suicide, everyone in a barracks was punished. When one occurred, Frankel called on all his psychological skills to find the right words and spoke them into the darkness.
[00:50:17] Speaker A: When the lights came back on, men surrounded him to thank him, tears in their eyes, and HSP had won his own kind of battle. Hillison also wrote about Rilke, somebody that she studied.
[00:50:30] Speaker B: It's strange to think that Rilke would.
[00:50:32] Speaker A: Perhaps have been broken by the circumstances in which we now live.
[00:50:36] Speaker B: Is that not further testimony that life is finally balanced evidence that in peaceful.
[00:50:40] Speaker A: Times and under favorite circumstances, sensitive artists.
[00:50:44] Speaker B: May search for the purest and most.
[00:50:46] Speaker A: Fitting expression of their deepest thoughts, so.
[00:50:49] Speaker B: That during turbulent and debilitating times others.
[00:50:52] Speaker A: Can turn to them for support in.
[00:50:54] Speaker B: A ready response to their bewildered questions, a response they are unable to formulate.
[00:50:59] Speaker A: For themselves, since all their energies are.
[00:51:01] Speaker B: Taken up in looking after the bare necessities.
[00:51:04] Speaker A: Sadly, in difficult times we tend to shrug off the spiritual heritage of artists.
[00:51:09] Speaker B: From an easier age.
[00:51:11] Speaker A: With what use is that sort of.
[00:51:13] Speaker B: Thing to us now?
[00:51:15] Speaker A: It is an understandable but short sighted reaction and utterly impoverishing.
Whatever the times, suffering eventually touches every life.
[00:51:27] Speaker B: How we live with it, and help.
[00:51:29] Speaker A: Others, too, is one of the great creative and ethical opportunities for highly sensitive people.
This is so true.
So we can all take part in this. We can all try to swing the tides. We can all help people by showing our suffering what we've experienced what we've been through and how we've dealt with it. Or we can just simply help. We can be a positive light, a positive beacon in these troublesome times. Even though it seems like obviously I'm comparing social media to Auschwitz, that's not really what I'm doing here. I'm trying to explain that we can look at certain situations, even if it's a quick video, see someone suffering, share in their suffering, and spread love and kindness rather than hate.
[00:52:24] Speaker B: In the book the wind is my.
[00:52:25] Speaker A: Mind, the life and teachings of a native american shaman by Bear Hart. He writes, people often ask for my advice and counseling, but overall, the best advice I can give to anyone at any time is never complete a negative statement.
[00:52:43] Speaker B: You might start out thinking it, but.
[00:52:45] Speaker A: Don'T complete it because you're about to.
[00:52:47] Speaker B: Enter it into the computer up in.
[00:52:49] Speaker A: Your head and it could come true. We've talked about this on previous shows, the power of positive thinking and how if you formulate a thought, it could change everything.
Whether you believe in alternate timelines, whether whatever it is that you believe in, negativity is just not something that you want to engage in, he says your subconscious responds to whatever you put into your conscious awareness. When you put information into a computer, it responds to that information and you see it on the screen.
[00:53:19] Speaker B: Similarly, there's a crew of workers within you, sub personalities or whatever you want.
[00:53:24] Speaker A: To call them, who are going to see it, that whatever you put into your conscious awareness comes out that way.
[00:53:30] Speaker B: So if you put in something negative.
[00:53:32] Speaker A: It'S going to come out negative. When a captain on a boat gives.
[00:53:35] Speaker B: A command, the crew below doesn't argue with the captain.
[00:53:38] Speaker A: No, I think you ought to go this way or that way or at this speed. They don't say it's right, wrong, moral, or immoral.
[00:53:45] Speaker B: They just respond to what they're told.
[00:53:48] Speaker A: What you feed your subconscious can transfer.
[00:53:50] Speaker B: Not only into your attitude and your.
[00:53:52] Speaker A: Thinking, but your body in time will.
[00:53:54] Speaker B: Feel the brunt of it, particularly if.
[00:53:57] Speaker A: It'S heavy duty stuff.
[00:53:58] Speaker B: We attract the situation that you are most afraid of.
[00:54:02] Speaker A: You are going to attract some fear is healthy because it makes you cautious.
[00:54:07] Speaker B: But when you're overly afraid of something.
[00:54:09] Speaker A: You'Re going to attract that very same fear thing.
So he's expounding on the negativity and the negativity in thoughts and how that.
[00:54:17] Speaker B: Can pertain to social media, too.
[00:54:19] Speaker A: If we, if we go along with those threads, if we post negative comments and hateful comments, if we're thinking those negative thoughts that's going to carry over into our whole being. I have some pamphlets on Buddhists that I actually got from a famous buddhist.
[00:54:34] Speaker B: Temple years ago in New York City.
[00:54:37] Speaker A: And while it's talking about trying to change someone's religion, it is sort of a parallel as far as ways of thinking.
[00:54:44] Speaker B: No, forced conversion is one of their rules. It was never, however, the buddhist way to proselytize in the sense of forcing ideas and beliefs upon an unwilling audience, much less to exert pressure of any.
[00:54:57] Speaker A: Kind or any kind of flattery, deceit.
[00:54:59] Speaker B: Or cajolery to win adherence to one's own point of view. Buddhist missionaries have never competed for converts in the marketplace, so that speaks to.
[00:55:09] Speaker A: Trying to force your opinions on someone else. Even though it's in the scope of converting a religion, it's still parallel. Doctor S. Radhara Krishman writes in that book, no unkind word.
[00:55:20] Speaker B: There was never an occasion when the Buddha flamed forth in anger, never an.
[00:55:24] Speaker A: Incident when an unkind word escaped his lips. Also by Van Piyadasi man today is.
[00:55:31] Speaker B: The result of millions of repetitions of thought and acts. He is not ready made. He becomes and is still becoming. His character is predetermined by his own choice, the thought, the act which he.
[00:55:43] Speaker A: Chooses, that by habit he becomes in.
[00:55:47] Speaker B: Their guide to a happy life. When I value my familial ties more than property and belongings, no resentment will come between me and my siblings. When I am careful with words and.
[00:55:57] Speaker A: Hold back hurtful comments, my feelings of anger naturally die out.
[00:56:01] Speaker B: Also. Rather talk rather than talking too much, it is better to speak less. I will speak only the truth.
[00:56:07] Speaker A: I will not twist the facts.
[00:56:09] Speaker B: When I see others do good deeds, I must think about following their example.
[00:56:12] Speaker A: Even though my own achievements are still.
[00:56:14] Speaker B: Far behind those of others, I am getting closer. When I see others do wrong, I.
[00:56:18] Speaker A: Must immediately reflect upon myself.
[00:56:21] Speaker B: If I have made the same mistake, I will correct it. If not, I will take extra care to make to not make the same mistake. Human beings, regardless of nationality, race or religion, everyone should be loved equally. We are all sheltered by the same.
[00:56:36] Speaker A: Sky, and we all live on the same planet earth.
[00:56:40] Speaker B: If a person has a shortcoming, I will not expose it.
[00:56:44] Speaker A: If a person has a secret, I.
[00:56:45] Speaker B: Will not tell others.
Praising the goodness of others is a.
[00:56:50] Speaker A: Good deed in itself.
[00:56:51] Speaker B: When people are being praised and approved.
[00:56:53] Speaker A: Of, they will be encouraged to try even harder.
[00:56:57] Speaker B: Even Abraham Lincoln wrote, when I do good, I feel good.
[00:57:01] Speaker A: When I do bad, I feel bad, and that's my religion.
[00:57:05] Speaker B: Seneca said, consider when you are enraged at anyone what you would probably think.
[00:57:11] Speaker A: If he should die during the dispute.
So we can draw from different cultures as to how to act or behave or to think. But the bottom line is we can all be teachers as was said earlier, and we can all set examples.
So by spreading positivity and not engaging in that type of negative comment, and.
[00:57:32] Speaker B: Certainly not being hateful or hurtful in.
[00:57:34] Speaker A: Our words, that can help. What else can we do to help beside turning off social media?
Say a prayer for those people.
[00:57:44] Speaker B: Send positive of energy to the people.
[00:57:46] Speaker A: That suffered, and send energy and healing thoughts to the people.
[00:57:50] Speaker B: Maybe that wrote those comments that possibly they can see the error of their.
[00:57:55] Speaker A: Ways and maybe you can put some.
[00:57:58] Speaker B: Love in their heart and have them.
[00:58:00] Speaker A: Second guess that comment.
Boy, that was kind of rude. Maybe I shouldn't have said that.
[00:58:05] Speaker B: Maybe I shouldn't have laughed at that person's misfortune.
Maybe I could do something to change.
[00:58:11] Speaker A: The situation in general by just not responding to these stories that I see in a negative light. Keep those thoughts to myself. We're all a work in progress and.
[00:58:24] Speaker B: We can all work together to help change the vibes.
[00:58:27] Speaker A: And yeah, it upset me to see this stuff on social media because I feel like it's overtaken it. And I do feel as though there's an agenda that way.
[00:58:35] Speaker B: But having said that, we can all help shift things positively in a different.
[00:58:41] Speaker A: Direction if we try together and we are all a work in progress.
[00:58:45] Speaker B: Seneca also said, a gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. So everything we've gone through, all of our experiences, help to shape who we.
[00:58:58] Speaker A: Are, but they also allow us to father God. Source universe allows us the free will to be able to choose how we want to react to a situation. Are we going to choose to be polished, or are we making the choice to stay a rough stone?
Either way, each has its own inherent beauty, but the choice is ours as to whether or not we end up as part of a beautiful pendant or a faint glimmer along the roadside.
Thank you all for listening. I hope to see you next week. Contact me at maggie heartlook.com. good night everybody.
