SeaAndSky
Senior Registered
I have heard over and over again about what people like, are drawn to, or are afraid of (lots of PTSD around here). However, no one ever talks about what they hate, hate, hate! (Or even just don't like very much because of PL experiences).
Hate is much more "unevolved" and un-spiritual than love. Fear is understandable, and gets a lot of compassion here, but hate is something we don't seem to want to acknowledge. However, just as our PLs sometimes give us pre-set feelings of fear or attraction related to certain things, I am just as certain that they create animosity as well. Is it normal, for example, to expect that someone who died in a concentration camp wouldn't "hate" Nazis? Are you still nursing a grudge against the Catholic Church because of something that happened during the Inquisition? Are you one of the many that suffered enslavement because of the Barbary pirates? Everybody has been stomped on by someone in the past--anger and animosity in these situations is no more unnatural than fear.
That's one side of the question. I'll leave the second part for later.
S&S
Hate is much more "unevolved" and un-spiritual than love. Fear is understandable, and gets a lot of compassion here, but hate is something we don't seem to want to acknowledge. However, just as our PLs sometimes give us pre-set feelings of fear or attraction related to certain things, I am just as certain that they create animosity as well. Is it normal, for example, to expect that someone who died in a concentration camp wouldn't "hate" Nazis? Are you still nursing a grudge against the Catholic Church because of something that happened during the Inquisition? Are you one of the many that suffered enslavement because of the Barbary pirates? Everybody has been stomped on by someone in the past--anger and animosity in these situations is no more unnatural than fear.
That's one side of the question. I'll leave the second part for later.
S&S