Posted on: 04/19/16 01:18AM
RomyHime said:
I think I honestly never considered that aspect when seeing one of those pictures...
Tags like this still make me feel pretty uneasy, but I'm glad that there always might be a positive background to them, in a way.
Learning about all kinds of different standpoints is always very valuable.
This might be a bit of a stretch, and extremely stupid on my end, but now I'm curious if there can be any good intentions behind the whole "forced"-topic.
(I'm talking solely about the fetish/fantasy here, obviously I'd never try to put the real act in a positive light or support it in any way. It really isn't my thing either.)
Sorry if that question is inappropriate or ended up being too off-topic.
I'd also like to thank you for the clarification concerning my previous post, Dirty_Harry.
What you said.. actually means a lot to me.
I would say there is a positive and negative perspective of everything, and I do mean everything. I'm not referring to "the bright side" as most people mean it, e.g. "the bright side to quadruple amputation is no dirt under fingernails amirite?" The reason I think this is because every situation and circumstance is inherently neutral. Assigning positive and negative meaning to them is our jobs as experiencers. It can be very hard though when certain meanings to known situations are ingrained into our understanding of the world around us by our surrounding culture. (This includes me. I'm no guru.) I got a cold recently that messed with the sound of my voice for a few weeks. Most people would label that as a negative thing because it's "bad" to be in a state of low health. I however decided to treat it like a test of my ability to define things in positive ways against opposition. I actually had a lot of fun playing with my distorted voice. I could do things with it I couldn't do otherwise, and that cold was about the only way I could do it.
I mean, that's a pretty mild example though. What if I got terminal cancer? That's surely inherently negative, right? I firmly believe even the most "serious" of situations can be defined and experienced positively. There would be no point in fighting against the inevitability of death, so accept that as given, then perhaps see this as an opportunity to... Well, I'm going to end up feeling a little pretentious if I try to come up with positive ways to deal with that, but if I was thrown into that situation, then I would find a way to do it. I'm in no way saying it would be easy though. I'm rambling. Oh well.
One way to view the idea of "forced" is to stop and think about what it means to be forced. Are you being FORCED to stay on the ground, and is your FREEDOM to just step onto the wall and walk on the ceiling being LIMITED by such a force? Well, yes. How do you cope with this? We're so good at just dealing with our lack of superpowers that we don't even think about it. What if, as an example, the situation occurred in which I handcuffed you to a pole against your will for exactly 3 hours and didn't do it again? What should you spend your energy doing during that time? Moping? Shouting? Seething? Crying? Plotting revenge? These all seem like normal reactions, yes? When was that last time you had 3 full, uninterrupted hours to yourself where you have nothing to do and worrying about the usual things is pointless? Sit down and meditate. Reminisce about the past. Do something you wouldn't otherwise have gotten the chance to do in a long time. Yes it's wrong for me to have done that. I did perform that act from a place of negativity, but it can still be fully interpreted and experienced in a positive way by others. To be a bit more general, we're very limited in the choices we can make and should make. Sometimes we're more limited than other times. It doesn't matter though. If you were a limitless god, then you wouldn't be able to have the experience of process. When you're a god, the instant you want something is the same instant you have it. To be limited in certain ways gives you a whole separate array of experiences you couldn't explore otherwise. We're really explorers in our limitation. How's that for a positive outlook? The degree of limitation matters not.