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It might be less that people focus on negatives or are filled with evil, and more that extremes are always more obvious than subtitles. And that people naturally attune to what is different, it sticks out more. Like, if you're looking at a barrel of 50 fuji apples and 1 granny smith, your eye jumps to the granny smith straight off because it's different. If there is a group (like Christians, for example) where 99% of the people behave in a socially acceptable way, you don't notice that. You notice the creepy guy on the street corner with a beard down to his knees, who is screaming at you and holding a sign that says YOU WILL BURN IN HELL. It's human nature. It's also human nature to stereotype and apply one person's traits to the whole of the group. Not the most ethical thing necessarily, but it was handy in evolution. If a tiger eats your friend, you should probably avoid all other tigers forever.
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that's why you throw out the bad apple so it doesn't spoil the whole barrel. that's what I do, anyway;-)
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Keith!!!! How are you, brother?
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Keith!!!! How are you, brother?
Thanks for the poem; it was lovely! And it's nice to see you writing again.
You know, one thing I didn't mention in my post was the fact that we are the bad apple too, sometimes. But there's that turning away from the mirror problem:
Turn away! Turn Away!
Turn away from the mirror
Not for a minute
Not for a day
Maybe a lifetime
Missed on the way
I'm not the resident poet here, but that was for you bro.
Big Love
J.
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In this world, in this day and age we have to many different religions, beliefs and lifestyles that segregate people. Most peoople only focus on what affects their life and life in their own bubbles. And with the media focusing more on the bad than the good, it becomes the central point. So these people that never leave their bubble of thinking or living hear about all this bad so much from a certain group of people it just becomes common place. And in the end people don't get an open mind long enough to learn everything. They just go by what one or two people tell them.
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I tend to think of that expression as it relates to an audience or a group of people on a bus. The rules start when someone pushes the patience of the person in charge.
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People tend to dwell on the negative. The bad apple spoiling the barrel is a matter of perception, and the people who do dwell on that one individual are *allowing* their barrel to be "tainted", so who's really responsible for the stench? What happens is what we allow to happen, yet what we create (allow) is seen as something outside ourselves, in this case assumptions, conclusions and prejudices. We then project those things onto an individual (or group) and say those things are not us.
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People tend to dwell on the negative. The bad apple spoiling the barrel is a matter of perception, and the people who do dwell on that one individual are *allowing* their barrel to be "tainted", so who's really responsible for the stench? What happens is what we allow to happen, yet what we create (allow) is seen as something outside ourselves, in this case assumptions, conclusions and prejudices. We then project those things onto an individual (or group) and say those things are not us.
In some other group that same apple may be seen as normal, or viewed as unique
We are responsible for the stench.
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In the apple barrel one bad apple gives off gasses, toxins and becomes the breeding ground for all kinds of organisms that accelerate rot.
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In the apple barrel one bad apple gives off gasses, toxins and becomes the breeding ground for all kinds of organisms that accelerate rot.
Given how quickly the rotten ideas of one person can spread to any in close association, I wonder if the analogy isn't a valid one -- and perhaps part of the reason why in some religious organizations anything that deviates from the 'standards' tends to attract a barrage of critical attention.
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