What triggers Hate? Do you embrace it?
Is hate a good or evil attribute for us to have?
Is it a Yin that we must have, to go with our Yang, --- to be at our best? — Gnostic Christian Bishop
What triggers Hate? Do you embrace it? — Gnostic Christian Bishop
Is hate a good or evil attribute for us to have? — Gnostic Christian Bishop
We have biases to protect us. Should we not embrace and celebrate them all, be they good or evil? — Gnostic Christian Bishop
Born with a criminal mind and a delinquent attitude, I have likely worked harder to learn why I should love myself than most. — Gnostic Christian Bishop
I think this depends. When does the hate come up? Is it habitual - iow are there other emotions we have a harder time facing, so we convert fear or grief or confusion to rage? Is it a response to rage? I do believe it is good for me to accept my rage and hate, though often I am looking to see what may be underneath, if it seems like I am avoidng something I find more unpleasant.Is hate a good or evil attribute for us to have? — Gnostic Christian Bishop
I agree with the spirit of this, but I don't consider hate evil.Jesus said to love ourselves. That would include embracing our evil side. — Gnostic Christian Bishop
What triggers Hate? Do you embrace it? Is hate a good or evil attribute for us to have? — Gnostic Christian Bishop
I agree with the spirit of this, but I don't consider hate evil. — Coben
Or cofused minded people. We make mistakes. — Coben
Or cofused minded people. We make mistakes. — Coben
Just take a PSYCH class. — Swan
I'm more on Swan's side than not - hatred is a mere silly self-indulgence, even if it's only for adverts and such. For grown-up apes, the question is what do we want to do about things that don't seem right, and such questions are best not approached in a state of childish emotionalism. — iolo
I think there's some truth in that, but there is also a lot of malice out there, and sometimes in here. — Coben
And a lot of stupidity. For example, I once encountered someone who suggested that it would be true that our planet is hexagonal — S
Give the guy some credit, S. — god must be atheist
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If Derrida is right about claiming that there is only "différance", then "love" is only possible in terms of its other which is "hatred". Should we therefore be thankful for the existence of the phenomenon "hatred"? After all, a — Daniel C
What an amazing coincidence. I remember a guy presuming that the idea that the earth is hexagonal has predictive value as part of a strawman argument rather than using the actual, non-strawman argument presented in the post he was responding to. The sad thing is the guy who presumed that is not stupid. I used to think it was malice, but the tragedy is it's neither malice nor stupidity.And a lot of stupidity. For example, I once encountered someone who suggested that it would be true that the shape of our planet is hexagonal, so long as the theory was useful enough in terms of predictive power and so on. — S
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