HATRED.

by Blueblades 6 Replies latest jw friends

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  Blueblades

  Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all unifying agents.It pulls and whirls the individual away from his own self, makes him oblivious of his well-being and future, frees him of jealousies and self-seeking.He becomes an anonymous particle quivering with a craving to fuse and coalesce with his like into one flaming mass.

  The history of such men as, Hitler, Chiang Kai-sheck, Stalin, etc.demonstrates that this is true.

  It is understandable that we should look for others to side with us when we have a just grievance and crave to retaliate against those who have wronged us.The puzzling thing is that when our hatred does not spring from a visible grievance and does not seem justified, the desire for allies becomes more pressing.It is chiefly the unreasonable hatreds that drive us to merge with those who hate as we do, and it is this kind of hatred that serves as one of the most effective cementing agents.

  Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance.A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunies for both.

  From Eric Hoffer, the true believer.

  I'm trying to make sense out of all this hatred going on around the world, where the innocent ones are trapped in the middle and suffering great pain and loss of lives because of HATRED.

  Can you make any sense out of all this Hatred?

  Blueblades
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  Sassy

  I don't know about the world's hatred. If you had asked me two years ago if I understood the word hatred I could have said no. But I do now. For one individual. When I hear his name or see anything in connection to him, my skin crawls. I've changed every phone number I can to avoid hearing his voice. I hate him so much that I wouldn't care if something happened to him..

  and that bothers me.. because I have been abused and hurt in all kinds of ways, but I never hated anyone before... I have always been a person with a great amount of compassion and forgiveness for people.

  but for me to put this on a grander scale such as the montrocities happening.. my new knowledge of the feeling of hate, does not help me understand that..
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  Satanus

  It's our monkey nature surfacing. Remember, we are 98% chimp. We just express it on grander scales because we are more intelligent, more capable and inventive.
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  aniron

  Using the old chimp excuse.

  Having 98% the same genes as a chimp means nothing. The other 2% can be made up of millions of different DNA strands. Just one strand is enough to make us totally different from a chimp.

  We also 50% the same genes as a banana and 75% of the genes of a nematode worm. Maybe that explains why I hang round witha bunch of men and can't sit still.
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  MorpheuzX

  I think I largly argee with SS here. We're a species that evolved quicker than any other and has thought up all these "fantastically horrible" ways of dispatching each other for land or oil or some other resource.

  Maybe if our species can survive a few hundred years more we'll have moved past all this idiocy; but I doubt it.
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  DanTheMan

  It is all very depressing indeed.

  I keep trying to find some sort of sanity and happiness since leaving the JW's, but the news of the world keeps screaming at me that humankind is hopelessly violent and destructive.

  I don't think the west has the cajones to stand up to radical Islam, the passionate hatred uniting these people is terrifying.

  Stop the world, I wanna get off.
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  xenawarrior

  Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction....The chain reaction of evil -- hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars -- must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

  --Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)