There's a lot there to answer to - I'll give it a go. The Palestinian situation is everyone's responsibility. We humans are a weird lot, we can "live it up" while others of our species are tortured and in dire situations. That only gives fuel to psychopaths who know humans are like this. One day it will be our turn because psychopaths are never satiated. And to reiterate, wanting to blow people up, will not advance humanity in the least. It shows consent for violence. The way to deflect violence is to condemn it in peacetime and make the conditions (through social cultivation) unfavorable for so much as speaking in threats of violence. Violence must be condemned outright and that makes the conditions unfavorable for violence. What would replace it would be reason, communication, debate. All done with words. And no words should be censored, because all words can be debated. This perspective is the perspective of half the population - the feminine perspective - which doesn't get an airing and where most females are not even aware there is such a perspective (that's because we have all been trained by solely the man's perspective). That is a fact, it is not a bias. The way to solve that is for women to speak up and to be heard in as much a ratio as men are.
Nicely presented...Go, women! I'm an eight-year widower now 81 yo, dad of two daughters, 56 and 53...repeat: Go, women!--Speak up and be heard!
I'll take some issue here, based on my (male?) cup-half-empty dourness: "And to reiterate, wanting to blow people up, will not advance humanity in the least. It shows consent for violence." Doesn't it equally or better show righteous anger; a refusal to accept further endless humiliation; hopelessness; desperation...? (HDThoreau: "The mass of humanity live in quiet desperation." ... that desperation eventually erupts into disquiet-cum-payback violence...tragic but understandable and compelling, no?)
Yes indeed it can be that however it's indulgence in revenge and not thinking at all, because if you're going to kill because you're angry that someone killed, then it just keeps on perpetuating death. It's like a circular firing squad. We have to go beyond this barbarity. We need proper structures and principled behavior and practice them and teach it. We must discourage any going to war, and any execution. The enemy is death, entropy and the energies that use humans to do this. The opposite energy is reason, regeneration, solutions, negotiation. And we need to set up those structures as we are at the end of one era and the beginning of another. You sound like you are blissed with two daughters and they with a father who elevates women. So honor to you. You are a rare model of which boys and many men can look to as an alternative to the mainstream models. We will not be able to make it without women being heard - in equal proportions.
Please, please, please, Denise Ward: Start right now with the intention and passionate determination toward becoming elected in 2028 as our POTUS! I've been thinking of this a lot of late and will type here: How good/enlightened would it be for the POTUS to interact with her constituents by re-engaging FDR's weekly "fireside chats"?
Those chats sound wonderful. But there is no need to be pressie to do them. We can start anytime we get enough people. I do think our greatest hope out of this mousetrap is through dialogue where everyone is involved. That will give us the taste of individual sovereignty, and it will open the dam as no one will want to go back. I really appreciate your encouragement! However I not just hate politics - I detest them! I think it's a dying concept too. Admittedly it's very pervasive however I am sure more people do not vote than do vote. That's meaningful but we need to do something with that.
There's a lot there to answer to - I'll give it a go. The Palestinian situation is everyone's responsibility. We humans are a weird lot, we can "live it up" while others of our species are tortured and in dire situations. That only gives fuel to psychopaths who know humans are like this. One day it will be our turn because psychopaths are never satiated. And to reiterate, wanting to blow people up, will not advance humanity in the least. It shows consent for violence. The way to deflect violence is to condemn it in peacetime and make the conditions (through social cultivation) unfavorable for so much as speaking in threats of violence. Violence must be condemned outright and that makes the conditions unfavorable for violence. What would replace it would be reason, communication, debate. All done with words. And no words should be censored, because all words can be debated. This perspective is the perspective of half the population - the feminine perspective - which doesn't get an airing and where most females are not even aware there is such a perspective (that's because we have all been trained by solely the man's perspective). That is a fact, it is not a bias. The way to solve that is for women to speak up and to be heard in as much a ratio as men are.
Nicely presented...Go, women! I'm an eight-year widower now 81 yo, dad of two daughters, 56 and 53...repeat: Go, women!--Speak up and be heard!
I'll take some issue here, based on my (male?) cup-half-empty dourness: "And to reiterate, wanting to blow people up, will not advance humanity in the least. It shows consent for violence." Doesn't it equally or better show righteous anger; a refusal to accept further endless humiliation; hopelessness; desperation...? (HDThoreau: "The mass of humanity live in quiet desperation." ... that desperation eventually erupts into disquiet-cum-payback violence...tragic but understandable and compelling, no?)
Yes indeed it can be that however it's indulgence in revenge and not thinking at all, because if you're going to kill because you're angry that someone killed, then it just keeps on perpetuating death. It's like a circular firing squad. We have to go beyond this barbarity. We need proper structures and principled behavior and practice them and teach it. We must discourage any going to war, and any execution. The enemy is death, entropy and the energies that use humans to do this. The opposite energy is reason, regeneration, solutions, negotiation. And we need to set up those structures as we are at the end of one era and the beginning of another. You sound like you are blissed with two daughters and they with a father who elevates women. So honor to you. You are a rare model of which boys and many men can look to as an alternative to the mainstream models. We will not be able to make it without women being heard - in equal proportions.
Please, please, please, Denise Ward: Start right now with the intention and passionate determination toward becoming elected in 2028 as our POTUS! I've been thinking of this a lot of late and will type here: How good/enlightened would it be for the POTUS to interact with her constituents by re-engaging FDR's weekly "fireside chats"?
Those chats sound wonderful. But there is no need to be pressie to do them. We can start anytime we get enough people. I do think our greatest hope out of this mousetrap is through dialogue where everyone is involved. That will give us the taste of individual sovereignty, and it will open the dam as no one will want to go back. I really appreciate your encouragement! However I not just hate politics - I detest them! I think it's a dying concept too. Admittedly it's very pervasive however I am sure more people do not vote than do vote. That's meaningful but we need to do something with that.