Thank you so much for this deeply insightful exposition of the true motives and spiritually/mentally/emotionally healthy state of Matt Nelson and Aaron Bushnell as their final blazing moments on Earth cried out for justice in Palestine. I just finished a painting of Bushnell’s very intentional self-sacrifice. It followed a painting of Shaban Al Dalou, the 19-year-old Palestinian who was burned alive with a IV in his arm after an Israeli strike on the grounds of the hospital where he was recovering from injuries sustained in a strike 10 days earlier. Both were painful in the extreme to paint, and brought a host of thoughts and feelings to the surfaced. I hope to post them with essays at least a quarter as revelatory as what you’ve written before long and now I’m determined to include links to what you’ve written about Aaron and Matt. It’s a sad and horrible time when thoughtful young men of conscience are driven to such extremes to condemn the our society’s acceptance and enabling of genocide. Thank you for making sure the mainstream narratives have a heavy counterweight of truth and exceptional active compassion available for people to balance their perspectives and activate their own consciences.
The article actually addresses some of these questions/points. Give it a read when you get a chance and see what you think. The goal of the article is actually to facilitate some deeper thinking on the matter
I read the whole article. I still maintain that his actions were lost in anonymity. He killed himself, very few noticed and nothing has changed.
If he indeed was not mentally ill, he could have served his cause more effectively by sticking around to do something about it!
Rather than saving lives by losing his own, like the Buddha did, he took his life and people are still dying.
On another note, why aren’t any of the Palestinian People revealing the location of any the Hamas criminals responsible for starting this whole debacle?
Surely someone knows where they are hiding and possibly where the hostages are being kept.
An anonymous tip could bring all this misery to a rapid conclusion.
Sorry, it's MENTAL ILLNESS that drives a man toward SELF-IMMOLATION. Buddhist do things like that for street cred. A military man does it because he is desperate and weak.
That certainly is an opinion some hold. Once you get the chance, give the article a read and ponder some of the points made therein. You might be right but you might also have some things to reconsider.
Does glibness and loose-cannon bravado give you 'street cred' ? Mental illness is a complex phenomenon, characterized by diverse behaviors and states of mind. You're in no manner qualified to make your diagnosis of either man, you have no professional insight, and no professional would ever make a diagnosis remotely, they'd do necessary clarifying interviews,... but none of that discernment or rigor for you. You can 'sticky note' others with your characterizations and aspersions of them until you're blue in the face, but your own words say far more about you than they do about the targets of your arrogance.
These 2 men must remain alive in our hearts and actions.
Thank you so much for this deeply insightful exposition of the true motives and spiritually/mentally/emotionally healthy state of Matt Nelson and Aaron Bushnell as their final blazing moments on Earth cried out for justice in Palestine. I just finished a painting of Bushnell’s very intentional self-sacrifice. It followed a painting of Shaban Al Dalou, the 19-year-old Palestinian who was burned alive with a IV in his arm after an Israeli strike on the grounds of the hospital where he was recovering from injuries sustained in a strike 10 days earlier. Both were painful in the extreme to paint, and brought a host of thoughts and feelings to the surfaced. I hope to post them with essays at least a quarter as revelatory as what you’ve written before long and now I’m determined to include links to what you’ve written about Aaron and Matt. It’s a sad and horrible time when thoughtful young men of conscience are driven to such extremes to condemn the our society’s acceptance and enabling of genocide. Thank you for making sure the mainstream narratives have a heavy counterweight of truth and exceptional active compassion available for people to balance their perspectives and activate their own consciences.
What a shame! He took his life to make a point and it didn’t move the needle 1 millimeter!
Makes you wonder what is going through a persons head?
Did he think that this act would cause a groundswell of outrage and finally change things for good??
People get so caught up in their own little dramas, they don’t see that in the grand scheme of things it means nothing!🥺
The article actually addresses some of these questions/points. Give it a read when you get a chance and see what you think. The goal of the article is actually to facilitate some deeper thinking on the matter
I read the whole article. I still maintain that his actions were lost in anonymity. He killed himself, very few noticed and nothing has changed.
If he indeed was not mentally ill, he could have served his cause more effectively by sticking around to do something about it!
Rather than saving lives by losing his own, like the Buddha did, he took his life and people are still dying.
On another note, why aren’t any of the Palestinian People revealing the location of any the Hamas criminals responsible for starting this whole debacle?
Surely someone knows where they are hiding and possibly where the hostages are being kept.
An anonymous tip could bring all this misery to a rapid conclusion.
Sorry, it's MENTAL ILLNESS that drives a man toward SELF-IMMOLATION. Buddhist do things like that for street cred. A military man does it because he is desperate and weak.
That certainly is an opinion some hold. Once you get the chance, give the article a read and ponder some of the points made therein. You might be right but you might also have some things to reconsider.
He's a coward. These men's courage and conviction makes him feel like the piece of trash he actually is.
I hope you get that SSDI for your mental illnesses soon! God Bless You, Stay icy!
To Dr Jeffrey - Jasmine is an example of what I am talking about.
Dude, you're a dick🤷♀️ Why? 🤣
You're a fucking coward. You wish you had these two outstanding men's courage and conviction. And you also have a public humiliation kink.
Does glibness and loose-cannon bravado give you 'street cred' ? Mental illness is a complex phenomenon, characterized by diverse behaviors and states of mind. You're in no manner qualified to make your diagnosis of either man, you have no professional insight, and no professional would ever make a diagnosis remotely, they'd do necessary clarifying interviews,... but none of that discernment or rigor for you. You can 'sticky note' others with your characterizations and aspersions of them until you're blue in the face, but your own words say far more about you than they do about the targets of your arrogance.