inhuman humans

Trudy, 41, was raised, like most of us are, to believe in the good of mankind and to conveniently ignore its inhumanity, but with each passing year she gains insight into just how wrong that belief is and while some may say her insight is 'maturity' she believes it's a natural survival instinct finally overcoming social conditioning.

"We have ascribed so many good attributes to being 'human' that when somebody does something diabolical we call it 'inhuman'," says Trudy, ''but what if our true natures are diabolical?"

"When you look at our history -- not just at the last couple of hundred years, but since we first made a footprint on the Earth," says Trudy, "the good that we have done has been far surpassed by our diabolical deeds."

"Humans have wiped out entire species, ravaged the land, polluted the air and been in a perpetual state of warfare -- raping, pillaging and killing," explains Trudy. "What's so wonderful about us in comparison with the plant and animal kingdoms?"

"What animal species rapes its own babies or devises diabolical instruments of torture and killing?" asks Trudy. "Does that sort of thing make us intellectually superior or just plain old inhuman humans?"

"And why do so many of continue to believe the myth that animals have no feelings, no thoughts and no intelligence?" asks Trudy. "Any idiot should be able to see that the humble ant, for instance, has a social structure that far outweighs ours in terms of survival."

"When I look at the magnificent elephants," says Trudy, "I wonder how such massive creatures can survive only on plants."

"I am not a vegetarian -- yet," laughs Trudy, "but I can appreciate how the more evolved humans among us are taking up a vegan lifestyle in protest against the abominable farming of animals for human consumption."

"When you really think about, being a carnivore is not exactly a nice trait, is it?" asks Trudy."It never occurs to most of us where those nicely packaged slices of meat we buy at the supermarket came from, and what suffering some animal had to endure in order to feed us."

"I hate to admit it, but I was about fourteen years old when I finally realized where milk,eggs and meat came from," laughs Trudy. "Being a city girl, you just don't see the sheer brutality of farm life and even if you are told about it, you quickly turn your mind away because you want to believe that humans are *nice*."

"But it's not just animals that suffer from our inhumanity, it's other human beings, too," says Trudy. "Starting from bullying at school to joining an army and becoming a killing machine, or going into business and ripping people off, most people are truly awful human beings."

"We sanctify such institutions as marriage and the family," says Trudy, "but more violence and evil are committed within such relationships than in the wider community."

"Hardly a day goes by when we don't hear about some poor child being raped or killed by a family member, or some woman being bashed senseless by her partner, or some elderly parent being abused or murdered by an adult child."

"And while this sort of thing is happening on the home-front, we are out there in the wider world raping, looting and murdering other human beings in the name of religion, democracy or some other spurious motive."

"I once walked around with rose-colored glasses, seeing the good in everyone I met and conveniently ignoring the bad in them," says Trudy. "We all do this because that's what our parents, teachers, pastors and politicians told us to do and they may truly believe in what they're telling us because they, too, were raised in such a fashion."

"Now, I don't exactly walk around seeing the bad in everyone I meet and conveniently ignore the good in them," says Trudy, "but knowing how inhuman human beings are I am never surprised by diabolical behavior."

"I don't have kids," says Trudy, "but if I did I'd be raising them with different values to those I was raised with. I'd be telling them to fear their fellow human beings, not the wrath of God, and I'd keep them within my sight at all times until they are old enough to survive on their own wits."

"We don't actually eat each other -- although we probably did before we found an easy way to kill animals," says Trudy, "but we sure as hell rape, plunder and kill each other on a regular basis because, let's face it, that's what humans do."

"And, conditioning us to suppress our innate inhumanity and be *nice* only made it easier for those in control to rape, loot and kill us, as they do on a regular basis if only in the form of exorbitant taxes."

"I'm not advocating that survival depends upon allowing our baser selves to hang loose," laughs Trudy. "I'm merely advocating that we need to be intuitively aware, at all times, that someone, somewhere,is truly out to get us and in that sense paranoia is not so much a disease but a excellent survival aid!"

it's never imagination

Elvira is 40 and a child abuse survivor who’s never married or had kids because of it She lives with friends in a large apartment and she's currently unemployed.

"I really think that being an only child made me more intuitive than the average woman," says Elvira. "I had to deal with very difficult parents, and knowing when to say something and when not to, became a way of survival for me."

"If you've sensed a few preliminary signs, yet everything on the surface seems fine, and nothing bad eventuates down the line," explains Elvira, "then you tend to put your initial feelings down to imagination. Intuition is supposed to be a true presage of what is going to happen, isn't it? So, if we intuit something bad is going to happen, and it doesn't, then we must have been imagining it. Right?"

"Wrong!"

According to Elvira, this is an error in logic we all make, and it’s one that we are conditioned to make by those who wish to subjugate and dominate us (ostensibly for our own good, of course).

"Intuition is not a true presage of what is going to happen - that's precognition," explains Elvira. "Intuition is all about our feelings, it’s about how the world affects us, it's about the signs that our inner guidance picks up."

Elvira got wise about her intuition after a sad childhood in which everything she heard and saw and felt was discounted as imagination.

"Many women remember being a little girl scared of a noise in the middle of the night that our parents told us was just our imagination," explains Elvira. "I believe we all sensed quite rightly at the time that the noise we heard was very real and something bad was happening - but we were in no position to press the point."

"It was the same when we innocently told our kindergarten teachers that daddy did something to us, and when daddy was called into school to explain the situation he told the teacher that we were highly imaginative children. And daddy and the teacher would wink, make a joke of it, and the incident was dismissed."

"When enough people have called you highly imaginative," explains Elvira, "it’s easy to believe that you are. But I'm not buying that."

"I'm all grown up now and I'm not only in a position to press the point but also to trust in my intuition. No matter what people tell me, I trust my inner guidance and follow it."

Elvira explains that preliminary signs do not necessarily lead to obvious signs of trouble, but they do mean that something was wrong.

Things can either blow up or blow over.

"When preliminary signs do not lead to trouble eventuating - and they often don't, things do have a habit of blowing over rather than blowing up - we tend to lull ourselves into a false sense of security by rationalizing or ignoring these signs, pretending it was just our imagination," explains Elvira.

"If things don't blow up it is simply because someone, somewhere, made a conscious decision not to go ahead with what we sensed was happening," explains Elvira. "The same person could have decided to go ahead and then things would have blown up!"

"When things blow over this does not mean that we were never in danger. We were," says Elvira. "We sensed something was wrong, and our intuition does not deceive us. It's our survival sense. It's far more important than sight, smell, hearing and touch."

Elvira insists that Nature did not endow us with powerful intuition to deceive us - it is a survival instinct and if we want to survive and prosper we must heed what it tells us, no matter how silly.

"Never, ever, confuse intuition with imagination," says Elvira. "Imagination is a conscious decision to make something up, like writing a fairy story. Intuition, on the other hand, is something that you feel, like a bolt of lightning."

"In child abuse cases, little children are often accused of making things up, being highly imaginative," says Elvira, "and that I survived an unhappy childhood and used my experiences to sharpen my intuition is proof that any woman can overcome adversity and take charge of her life."