Dont listen to those trolls out there. I enjoyed every one of your submissions. I've become more open minded after viewing your submissions.
Good job.
Reviews for "SS Mail - Meaning"
This is incredibly hard to stick to whist stoned. SO I will agree with your video because you seem like a genually nice peron/people. i think character showes alot for a person.
It's hard to rate something that is both well done and addresses ambitious topics, yet nonetheless falls short of its intended goal (to reach other people). So, I gate it a fariyl arbitrary 3/5 for a worthy effort.
I think it was some of the language and imagery that stood in the way for a lot of the people who completely hated this piece. There's a lot of new age spiritualism and self help pablum out there, and the vast majority is garbage. Not that this is necessarily garbage itself. It's actually not terrible advice, and in fact, seems more sincere in opening conversation than preaching some kind of revealed truth to the viewer. That's its saving grace when it falls short, which it does on several occasions (as so many reviews are apt to point out already).
Overall, though, it's nice to see a well intentioned video like this on Newgrounds. Its credibility might be highly suspect and its philosophy questionable at best, but it's a step in the right direction in ways that are perhaps more important than mere facts or reasoned arguments. So, despite its faults, I commend it for trying, and encourage the author to keep daring to put his ideas out there.
Unbelievable. You are mislead and misleading, ignorant and ignoring...
MasonIsMe, this is meant to be educational, not comedy.
Woah what? Spirit science is on newgrounds? Holy shit you guys are really trying to spread. Props. I do however, find many of the comments here disappointing.
Those of you who are watching this and have no idea wtf you are watching. Go watch the previous videos.
You know... or don't and close your mind to an intriguing, yet socially taboo subject.
I will spend the remainder of this review to reply to some interesting opinions presented underneath my review by, Lokiferus, and JakBaronKing.
Lokiferus, you said that you either misunderstood, or were in question of whether or not he was telling people to blank things out.
My answer is this. Did he ever actually say "blank out the bad and focus on the good"? Nope. He said to enrich your life. Isn't being better informed about your world and it's status enriching? Of course it is. that is, unless you are on of those people who sit on the sidelines all day, watching the world burn and spend your time bitching about it instead of doing something about it. THAT is an example of not enriching.
The crap he's talking about:
When you turn on the news, and see "murder" here "war crimes" here. "death sentence" there "terrorism" here "global economic crisis" there.
Crap. Specifically thrown into your face to deter one from the big picture. To make one worry. To make one fear. Things in a state of fear often refuse to change.
Sure it might be interesting and important to be informed about the world you live in. But that is ALL it's worth. It doesn't often provide you with experience, or wisdom or motivation. Because if it did, you wouldn't be on your computer or watching TV about it, you'd be out there doing something about it.
"conflict is something creative." I'd like to disagree. You treat "conflict" and "chaos" as if they are synonymous, which they are not. The word you are looking for is Chaos; the process of instability occurring within a system structure to allow for realignment into higher complexities. Conflict is what occurs when one side doesn't agree with the other; when sides fear one another; polarity consciousness.
it is this "Polarity Consciousness"; this separation of psyches. That is the core problem, to the point where it's methods are no longer rationally sustainable. Nature responds with chaos to allow conditions for change and thus, evolution.
The problem with polarity consciousness is just how it sounds. Throughout history man has always "taken a side" instead of realizing the two sides are one coin; one torus. Man draws a sword and severs a wound between all things. Left brain / Right brain, Male/Female, Good/evil, Black,white Real/not real,
And the biggest misunderstood metaphor of this that has been ignored... God/Satan
And so on. Don't turn away, see the world for what it truly is. but do not waste your time. When you realize the line we've drawn between good and bad is imaginary, you realize that both (being one) can and are capable of enriching ones life. Moderation
Now as for JakBaronKing.
"To love is real really REALLY HARD."
If that is what you believe, then you do not know what love is.
Regardless of culture, love is the force of unity. Love is that which brings things together in harmony as to create. It is unconditional. Like when two notes of different octaves play and together make an even more beautiful tone. The reproduction or the birth of a star.
another good example would be Dark matter, which holds things together in the universe, VS dark energy, which pushes them apart like the contrast, fear.
"But could you love evil men? After all, hate the sin, not the sinner. But what if a man or woman was truly cruel and would not accept a shared consensus of your opinion of peace?
Is conflict just our way of life?"
I will Quote the song Reflection by Tool to answer this.
"So crucify the ego before its far to late
And leave behind this place so negative and blind and cynical
then you will come to find
that we are all one mind
Capable of all that's imagined and all conceivable."