That is a misconception.
On Jul 28, 3:00�pm, iam deheretic <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am not sure but it seems most of the extreme hatred comes from those who
> call them selves the conservative right, but that never makes sense to me.
> Allan
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> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 6:45 PM, retiredjim34 <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > Slip - a very interesting and timely topic. Thanks for introducing
> > it.
> > � � I agree that our community, local, regional, national or
> > whatever, used to be far more friendly, given to helping one another,
> > gracious, gentlemanly and gentlewomanly, willing to reconcile and
> > forgive. Now extremeism, hatred, and revenge seem to be so prevalent.
> > I think a large part of this change is due to political gerrymandering
> > - the drawing of political boundaries to encompass only those of a
> > particluar party, or viewpoint, or attitude. Thus, to get elected the
> > candidate had to be extreme, and this extremeism had carried over into
> > our communal life. There are hardly any moderates any more, whereas
> > when political boundaries used to be drawn without regard to -isms,
> > moderates got elected and were our leaders. The Supreme Court had an
> > opportunity to strike down political gerrymandering a few years ago
> > but did not. So we are stuck in a society now filled with extremeists.
> > Anyway, that's my two cents. Jim
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> > On Jul 26, 3:22 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.
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