Only logged in members can reply and interact with the post.
Join SimilarWorlds for FREE »

What makes you not a sheep?

I've just had a thought of the Jews during the holocaust being murdered by the millions not fighting back even when they were forced to dig a hold for their friends and eventually themselves. It's a complete sheep mentality if not worse. Sheep will stand around while you slaughter their mother and everyone eventually you'll end up killing them. Hence the insult you're a sheep.

So my question is how do you know you're not a sheep going with the flow of what is around you?
indyjoe · 56-60, M
I wouldn't exactly say that the Jews in the holocaust were "going with the flow"...why don't you demonstrate to us how you would fight back with nothing at all against a fully armed regime. We'd really like to see that 'Rambo'.
AliceTinker · 51-55, F
Just to clarify sheep do not "stand around " whilst someone slaughters them. The term comes from the fact sheep are herd animals as a matter of survival. So they will follow each other as they are stronger as a group.
indyjoe · 56-60, M
@AliceTinker You are so right...and they were herded too (even the author said "forced"). Any show of defiance or resistance often ended in not only their own death, but seeing someone they loved murdered right in front of them...a wife, a husband, a parent or grand parent, a child son or daughter. Love is often stronger than bravery and the Nazis knew that and used it to their advantage. Had they not stood together clinging to hope, none of them would have survived.
AliceTinker · 51-55, F
@indyjoe That gave me goosebumps 😢
indyjoe · 56-60, M
@AliceTinker Did you ever see the movie Schindlar's list? Being Jewish Himself, Steven Spielberg was passionate about that project and wanted to tell that particular story as accurately as possible. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it.
SW-User
People die all the time waiting for god to intervene, content if they do die they will be in a better place along side god. Some of the captives did fight back, there were rebellions and escapes using violence. This was mostly from the younger and physically capable, a few days of confusion, misinformation, disorientation, without food and water tends to knock any fight out of you, even well trained captured soldiers behaved the same.

As for not being a sheep, I suppose you mean being a sheep dog or a wolf, that's a good question. I dont think you know yourself, that's part of being one unless someone told you.
Miram · 31-35, F
I am not sure why you think they weren't fighting back. Even women and children fought back, take the partisan Rose Holm was in..

But at a point you need to understand surviving is more important than some subjective concept like bravery or freedom. You survive until you have a chance to really fight back instead of just die.

Sheep are those easily manipulated by an illusion of "fighting back" for political agendas.
ScarletWitch · 31-35, F
I wish the Jews turned back and slaughtered the nazis.
Like in Spartacus. Where the gladiators killed the masters who took control of their lives.
This comment is hidden. Show Comment
In the 70s I interviewed several survivors for a class project on the Holocaust. People who were actually in the camps and the villages, who survived. They described acts of bravery that someone like you probably couldn’t ever fathom. All I can say is that it’s incredibly easy to make judgments from the safety of not having been there. So you cannot know what you would’ve done. You think you do, I’ve no doubt. But you can’t possibly know for certain.
indyjoe · 56-60, M
@bijouxbroussard I grew up next door to a wonderful elderly couple who were survivors (they still had the numbers tattooed on their arms). I think your reply should get best answer, but don't count on it 'cause this this guy is an idiot.
@indyjoe Thanks, and I expect to get flamed. I saw this question and considered just blocking him. But sometimes people say such things because they really don’t know. I was in high school when I got the assignment in my German History class. A childhood friend was the local rabbi’s daughter, so she and he arranged for me to speak with several people who had lived through this. The things they witnessed, some as kids, were pretty horrific.
indyjoe · 56-60, M
@bijouxbroussard I talked with my neighbors some and learned a lot, but they wouldn't talk about a lot of things they saw and experienced though...and I could understand and didn't blame them. I'll never forget them though.
because my t-shirt says so.
Atrevido1 · 61-69, M
If you are not a sheep, you know and don't talk about it.
Force of violence does the talking when needed.
This comment is hidden. Show Comment
SW-User
my name is Guy Fawkes
IAmMaster · 31-35, M
@SW-User I want to give this best answer but... you're user name it pete. and it has numbers in it
SW-User
@IAmMaster I Made up Pete and 11

 
Post Comment