Theos-Talk Archives (July 1999 Message tt00060)

Friends and I also recently got the movie on VCD but have later learnt that
the whole story is fictional.

M.P



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From: owner-theos-talk@pippin.imagiware.com
[mailto:owner-theos-talk@pippin.imagiware.com]On Behalf Of clint mccray
Sent: Monday, July 19, 1999 2:05 PM
To: theos-talk@theosophy.com
Subject: Theos-World things seem hopeless


hello,

i've read the key, and some other religious writings.
i just watched the movie The Blair Witch Project.  Crazy movie. A true
story, documentary in which these students went into a haunted wood to
film sites of known ritual killings for a class project.  the girl in
charge was a fanatic about always taping what was happening.  i have
not done my research fully, but am convinced the sequences were real.
The three students bodies have never been found, the footage shown was
unbelievably realistic.  Nothing gruesome, just the emotional torment
experienced by the three as they get find piles of stones, get lost,
run out of food, and discover they are being hunted nightly/daily by
some unknown force.  Satanic pranksters/killers haunt them and take one
by the fifth day out, leaving some body part wrapped in an ever
recurring bundle of twigs.
They are continually finding areas in the wood seemingly forbidden and
filled with twig figures in the shape of the man making five points.
In the end the last scene they end up in this horrifying house with
bloody handprints on the walls (child size) and strange symbols  The
house is totally thrashed and three stories with a basement.  The
missing friend is screaming downstairs and as each of the remaining two
enter their cameras pan the room and end up falling to the ground.
I am so upset realizing not only could what I have seen been real, but
that there are thousands of these unholy murders going on yearly in the
world.  I am wondering what is the motivation to torment and kill the
innocent.  Why does this happen on the planet I live on?  Who are these
people who believe it is the right thing to do?  How can anyone be
motivated by "evil"?  What is this thing called evil.  To answer the
Kama Rupa seems weak and undefined, unless to murder and maliciously
torture and hurt is the natural way of the animal, and I don't see that
in nature.  To say that it is simply a selfish motivation for power or
a sense of power also seems unstable.  Are these people insane, is that
the only acceptable explanation.  If not, what could their souls
possibly gain from such malintent?
      I understand this is a site to submit for publication, but this is
the only place I know to post questions to someone on a more informed
level than myself about such things.
      No one seems to care about the true dilemnas in humanity.  No one
I talk to thinks of these sort of things and I am feeling very alone,
trying to put the answers together.  Is Humankind just a complete mess,
all of us insane on some level or another...all of us trying to prove
to ourselves we have purpose, power, knowledge.  While in reality only
animals endowed with enough intelligence to hurt more capably.  Does
reason only serve to justify our own behavior in the end?
      The Key seemed to put together a lot of strings for me, and help
me understand, but the actuality of the darkness in humanity...mindless
wars, people starving with plenty of food at hand, ritualistic
killings, the masses' apathy toward suffering, my own apathy and sense
powerlessness...my own anger and hurtful feelings toward
others...Things seem Hopeless... Someone please respond, and if you
don't have a good answer why people are so horrible, I understand, but
don't pretend that you do


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