On Jul 29, 7:39 am, Molly Brogan <[email protected]> wrote: > Reconciling the world. This is a very broad topic. Within it, you > bring up myriad other topics to support a cynical and pessimistic > view. I too have moments of feeling like this but, lucky for me, they > are brief and a broadening of view is where I find relief.
The view is not cynical or pessimistic but a view of the "reality of the world". Nothing was mentioned that doesn't exist and all is available in one form of news or another. >>Slip > > I think that for each of us, reconciling the world is the life long > learning of reconciling the tree of the knowledge of good and evil > (duality) with the tree of life (non dual). This one, age old, > change in perspective makes all the difference in reconciling the > world. It can also take a lifetime to understand and accomplish. Sounds like personal experience being generalized for the global community. The thread basis is that people are "not" interested in reconciliation, "each of us" is not relevant. <<slip The > gift of duality< Duality, good and evil is a "gift"? A gift from whom? How is evil a gift? So we must have pain to understand joy?<<slip You use "we" and "us" quite often but I don't see the rest of the world thinking on the same lines. Everyone does not understand what you and I do. <<slip I sure there are those who are exerting a great deal of effort but that is nothing new, the religious community has been for thousands of years attempting to get people to reconcile, love one another, "do unto others as....etc" , it's not working, it's dreamland fantasy world. Fact is, it's getting worse because most see the viability of the alternative. My post is not a view, it's real time reality. <<Slip > > 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. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
