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When I was in Congo and experienced talking to the women that had been raped, the tortures, the children that had killed their parents or raped their sister at
by pipio21 10y ago
When I was in Congo and experienced talking to the women that had been raped, the tortures, the children that had killed their parents or raped their sister at gunpoint and even being involved in a shooting, with bullets whistling over your head I entered into a psychological shock.
I could not stop thinking: This can't be real, this can't be reality BUT IT IS reality. You start realizing really what the people experienced in WWII and how reality surpasses fiction, how terrible and how amazing life could be.
I was an avid reader but it is one thing to read on the safety on your house and a completely different thing experiencing it in reality. I can't stand reading war novels now like War and peace because it really hurts me after experiencing some of it.
And then you have this "living dangerous" thing in which you want more and more of this war experience, like going deeper in the jungle and talk with people in arms even when you are risking your life and a mistake means death.
You watch things you don't want to remember but you want more and more for some stupid reason.
VR will be a great tool for people learning but it could be dangerous with some things too.