http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2635557/9yearold_boy_found_hanged_at_school.html

I attended grade school at Stewart’s Creek Elementary for three years… when I discovered this article several months ago, it made my blood run cold. I was held back in the first grade here. When I was bullied at this school, my father told me to fight back, but he didn’t teach me how, when, or why this was so important. His advice, although remiss of detail, is just as valuable now as it was then. However, when I fought back, I was sent to the principal’s office and was subjected to corporal punishment. I am consistently amazed by how much the issue of bullying boils down to the influences in family, and authority, more than simply peers. It’s a side of the story I don’t think most who haven’t survived the actual experience of being bullied, even perceive.

I’ve read a lot of articles about this incident, and perhaps the most perplexing conundrum of Montana Lance’s suicide is that he had been sent to the principal’s office prior to his body being discovered in the restroom. It doesn’t require a psychology degree to determine that the triggering factor in his death may be not only the bullying of peers, but worse yet, whatever “discipline” or “punishment” may be awaiting him from the hands which pull the strings: adults. 

The Department of Education’s recently released, super-special 10 page letter on harassment and bullying is little more than a farce, an obligatory consolation to the backlash of grief and outrage over the suicides which have occured with increased frequency. A cunning cover of issues which they have contributed to for countless years. Simply put, corporal punishment needs to be specifically abolished in all schools, including private institutions, and childcare facilities.

Here’s the operative message: ”Go ahead~ stand up for yourself, WE dare you, because when you do… WE~ the authority, will simply slap you back into place, our place.” This place has special tests, and labels, will likely be noted on your academic record as “a history of behavioral difficulties”. Once this occurs, the survivor becomes viewed as an incredible witness, is discounted so the volume is turned down on reality and truth… it seems like it should be fiction. But this is really happening, and it’s causing the epidemic of bullying to compound itself.

I know how this works, I’ve seen and experienced it firsthand, so many times. Looking back at my life, I can see that just because I survived, doesn’t mean that I lived. And respectively, just because I lived doesn’t mean I was able to thrive. Everyone deserves to be able to thrive. However, not everyone knows how~ from the time we are young it becomes hardwired into us. The expectation, a notion to run to authority for some definition of justice. When I did so~ as my mother had advised… I learned the value of silence. A cost which could never have determined its worth.

Is the U.S. Department of Education’s letter from the Office of Civil Rights, a good start…? Sure. Will anything actually change until they are able to look in the mirror and address the influence(s) of corporal punishment, and family dynamics which are contributing to the patterns of bullying…? Unlikely.

In light of recent tragedies i can only hope this is not entirely uncalled for, the only reason i feel inclined to share is that these are some of the particulars of my own experiences and my survival of the bullying & abuse which is epidemic…

I can understand the shock, to many people the atrocities which have occured are unjustifiable. Rest assured there are reasons for what is happening… Each empire has had its fall, brutality & aggression is scientifically proven 2b a leading natural effect of overpopulation. It is inherent in our animalism as a species, and a direct process of our so-called progress. However, there is HOPE.

Perhaps history repeats itself when we have not yet learned from it, or adapted our behavior accordingly.

 Humanity was meant to thrive in smaller communities, wherein unity may be more easily attained. Rest assured, oppression & abusers have no future here, without assimilation & spiritual transcendence of circumstance, continuing evolution cannot be acheived. ”Bully’s”  are acting out of a mentality which is being perpetrated and perpetuated by our society & the actions, & labels of its ailing systems. The mentality is much more pervasive than the label: victim.

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The TRUTH which is being concealed:

each living sentient being has the ability to source creative outlets and inlets for qualitative and quantitative healing and restoration;

each living sentient being has the ability to become beyond the defeatist mentality and label, of: victim.

each living sentient being has the ability to be of service in the lives of other sentient beings… 

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To be(come) a survivor is not easy, it can require more strength, more faith, more trust, more courage, and a different love than many could ever fathom. It is often considerably less than dignified. To be a survivor is to respect the law, it is opportunity & discovery to live and thrive. And to be sure, mortal law is much different than human law. When one chooses to become mortal, only e-motion can regress that individual to the (slavery of a) human state. Mortality is certainly not perfection. It is simply a new aliveness, and another awareness; mortality seldom involves itself in the majority or the politics thereof… it is the refusal of a label (human) which consistently defines itself by mindless violence  

“Do what thou wilt… shall be the whole of the law~ HARM NONE” this specification, originally of the order of Thelema~ although simplistically sound, is dangerously vague to those who have little internal moral compass, and the collective has lost sight of exactly what manner of behavior merits virtue. It has become too accustomed to the antiquated governances of an ephemeral system of “justice”. So much so, there may be little hope they (the collective) can even do justice for themselves at a soul level. This law, mortal law, was a wandering thought; lost with so many of the contrivances for power during the historically murderous rise of religion. 

The actions of individuals cannot be scorned, without magnifying the corrupt systems where these atrocities originated. Yet, the cycle(s) of blame, shame, and guilt (authored by religion) are a trap… it’s part of what creates the endless futility of the proverbial “hell”, and has kept the cycle spinning for thousands of years.

 A final thought: there IS a difference between murder and killing… Herein lies a paradox: Could (self) murder to avoid murdering another, actually be killing instead of the purported murder that suicide has been labeled by traditionalism…?

If someone who is being tormented, abused, oppressed &/or bullied murders the bully, is this action justified not only as a relief to themselves, but for others who would be hurt by the murdered bully; or by their revenge do they automatically assume the title of bully and karmic infection of its corresponding spiritual malady? What about self defense which does not include killing or murder? Can punishment be a form of bullying or abuse…? Perhaps these are questions only a fictional sociopath forensic investigator (Dexter Morgan), two deceased teenagers (Eric Harris & Dylan Klebold), or an imaginary British terrorist (Edmond Dauntes) could answer, but the recurring theme & poignant questions which it raises are worth considering for everyone, again… What actually constitutes “harm”…? What would you do if this were the only law…?

Another great resource which may help to promote T.S.P. (The Strengthening Project)…