Another depressing post, but I see your points and I don't have arguments against them at the moment. At least at the end you offer the "do what you can" answer. We can do better.
On Jul 27, 3:53 am, deripsni <[email protected]> wrote: > "We" have never had the "ability to reconcile in the world" because > "we" are not in control. We elect government officials who seem to > have their morals automatically extracated within months of attaining > their position of "control". The peaceful citizens of the world would > probably attempt to do things differently, but at what cost? If one > goes about "treating your enemy as your brother" or whatever the Bible > admonishes, we would most likely be run over by a hoard of abusing > thugs who wants what we consider ours, and no amount of niceties will > convince them otherwise. > > If good ever overcomes evil (maybe by slipping a love drug into > communal water supplies), the world would soon be over populated, and > the cycle of death would reinvent itself. This may be a pessimistic > outlook, but to me its just the way it is and there seems to be > nothing much we can do to change it. I'd like to think that I am doing > my small share of spreading love and acceptance, but these words often > fall of deaf ears, drummed out by the incroachment of modern day > stress. > > On Jul 26, 6:22 pm, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Are we losing the ability to reconcile in the world? Have we slipped > > so far from the understanding of brotherhood, of forgiveness that we > > have simply become a world of hatred and revenge. We are literally > > mortified by the specter of terrorism that is plaguing the world. The > > mindset of terrorism is anchored in the inability to allow forgiveness > > to override anger and instead caters to hatred, anger and violence > > towards those deemed the wrongdoers without regard for the harm > > imposed upon the innocent bystanders. > > Aside from that our culture seems entrenched in the business of > > revenge, we rather employ legal means to inflict suffering upon those > > who we think have done us wrong before we would sit down directly and > > discuss the problems. Politics seems to be leaning more toward > > instilling anger and fears among us which leads to a polarization of > > society while most media seem devoted to divisive and anger driven > > reporting with a general attitude of who is to blame. > > Can we ever stop sending messages attached to missiles, bombs and > > bullets? Our attempts to establish peaceful means of resolution have > > failed miserably because there is never a general consensus on any > > issue. We sanction and punish to no end in order to force change but > > to no avail. People are at war in every quadrant of the planet while > > new agitations are festering in the background waiting to emerge as > > full scale skirmishes.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
