I don`t know how much of you are firm with John Steinbeck`s Of Mice and Men. To me this is one of these tales I could never forget.
The story of George and the retarded Lennie is about a special love. Lennie has uncontrolled powers which finally kill Curleys wife. They want to lynch him. George shoots and kills Lennie before the mob arrives...
George became the hitman of Lennie. He saw no other way. To him it was an act of love. He wanted to save Lennie from being torn apart by the mob. An incredible story...
in some extraordinary cases we may find undersanding for such acts. There are really unbelievable circumstances people have to face. I just wanted this to mention.
In most other cases hitmen do not act out of love.
I have read reports from killers having been asked after they got arrested. Many told of curiousity to watch somebody die. Johnny Cash in Folsom Prison Blues:
But I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die
When I hear that whistle blowing, I hang my head and cry...
Then they said, it became a usual thing. Many were culturized men. They had patience to wait for the right moment. They observed the victim a long time. Then they went and killed them.
Funny how stupid we are - a normal hitman we call a criminal while military hitmen are honored and considered heroes.
I`d like to go a step further expanding the meaning of hitman. The most obvious connnotation to hitman is killing somebody meaning to take somebody`s life.
I am fully aware of my humanity. It took many years discovering the meaning of being human. There are two conversions necessary - one to the divine and one to your being human.
My job as philosopher is not collecting academical merits nor sharpening any profil neurosis as many do. I have not the tiniest interest. My job is to observe and to raise an objection whenever I think. I do that not because I love fights, the opposite is true. I do it because I am an attorney of humanity, for humanity is under threat by different hitmen.
The body killers are a problem in corrupt societies and such of war. The other kind are mental and spiritual hitmen. They try to kill humans by taking their humanity. The most sophisticated way is denying their humanity by neglecting natural limits. Here I come to the core of the phenomenon.
I have problems when people speak of conquering 3D in order to reach what they call 5D.
I have problems when people speak of conquering duality in order to reach unity they call end of duality.
I have problems when people speak of conquering pain in order to reach love as pleasure.
In my understanding there is absolutely nothing to conquer and nothing to overcome, because limited 3D (some call it with time dimension 4D), duality or polarity and love as pleasure and pain belongs to the natural constitution of being human which I opted to come here.
It is impossible for me to aknowledge any attempts to call those constititions obstacles which need to be conquered. No, they are not and never will be obstacles. And neither they are remnants of an unenlightened era which had to be conquered.
The opposite is true. They are not remnants nor distorted members of an formerly unholy family which tortured mankind. No. They are natural constitutional appearances of humans. There is nothing to overcome but to much to figure out. And figuring out happens by awareness.
And by awareness opening doors to figure out something is happening like a peeling of an onion - you just let go instead of conquering...
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