This weekend (January 1st, 2017) I heard many a person bid good riddance to the year that just passed (2016). No doubt, it was one of the most contentious 12 month periods I’ve experienced in my fifty plus years. But if we want 2017 to be markedly different, we’ll need to handle some things differently. Here are some suggestions:
- Spend more time and energy engaging the people in our community, and less time protesting the things we don’t like.
- Recognize that hating on people that we consider to be “Haters” or “Hateful”, only promotes more hatred.
- Look for things to be inspired by instead of focusing on things to be offended by.
- Find new and better ways to express love and hope, and give less voice to fears and opinions.
- Make a conscious effort to leave things better than we find them.
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Thought for the Day – Us and Them
Posted in Commentaries, Opinions, Social / Political, Thought for the Day / Quotes, tagged boycott, brothers, capitalism, conservatives, Donald Trump, hate, haters, liberals, mock, Nancy Pelosi, poisonous atmosphere, protest, religion, socialism, taunt, worldview on February 5, 2019| Leave a Comment »
The proverbial “We” or “Us” (i.e. people who share our values/worldview) have a tendency to put our hate in a different category than the hate spread by the proverbial “Them” (i.e. people who don’t share our values/worldview). We see “Them” as haters, and view their hate as toxic. While we consider our brand of hate as being justified, and maybe even virtuous. Whether it is a hatred of Donald Trump, or Nancy Pelosi, of religion, or godlessness, of Socialism, or Capitalism, of Conservatives or Liberals or any one of the million other things we choose to hate, it all mixes together to create the same poisonous atmosphere. Martin Luther King Jr. observed that, “Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that”. We won’t get better as a society by continuing to berate, mock, taunt, protest, boycott, slander, threaten and attack each other. As Dr. King rightly concluded, “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
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