On Jul 29, 1:05 am, ornamentalmind <[email protected]> wrote:
> Slip, yes, quite the situation now…as it has been forever, no?
> ‘We’ all change, either by agreement or force. (in this context) How
> can humanity come to agreement? I posit that ‘we’ must first know how
> we are interrelated…the actual unity of us all. Without this
> recognition, the rest (other than force) seems impossible.
Tinker is not getting through to you is he. I am going to have to
convince him that winning the critcal mass of people over to peace is
a task that requires different tactics. More direct interaction.
Words are nice, but face time really makes a big difference.
I have found that getting to know people is a good tactic. You are
proposing "we must first know how we are interrelated" which seems
harder in some ways but hey, show people the picture of earth from
space, that always does it for me! I am not disagreeing with you.
Interrealted is interrelated to getting to know people.
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> On Jul 26, 3:22 pm, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > 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 -
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