Born to love taught to hate
7 years ago in #love by tim-rumford (52)
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Wasn´t it the Buddha who said,
"Hating someone is like drinking poison
and hoping the other person will die."?
One would think, that loving is so much easier than hating,
but apparently people find it easier to hate than to love
and I can only imagine that this is because they have more self-hate than self-love inside of them.
To be able to truly love other people you must love yourself first,
because otherwise this so-called love is only a projection of one´s needs onto other people, who will never be able to fully fulfill it anyway.
But if you hate someone, they will always be able to fulfill your needs.
so true @likedeeler
Very good point about self hate and being able to love yourself first. In situation where people are taught hate as a form of love... I can't imagine how screwed up inside they must be.
That particular quote is very hard to trace, I tried. He did say something very similar about resentment. But nonetheless true. - I wanted to add that the people who killed young Matthew were also young and one was female. They were over 18 but still very young. I imagine they were raised in a climate where racism, intolerance and homophobia thrive and is normalized how else could three young people come to decide this was a good thing to do unless they were taught it.
There is always the odd violent psychopath where their minds are not right from birth but this was not that. We sadly dealt with that in my hometown recently where a young man brutally murdered a young child. This happened too close to me and my friends. Yes his childhood was not great, but it wasn't horrible either. He was raised around good people. I have to think those are two separate kinds of issues. Sorry off track a bit. Memories still raw.
Your post made me cry. I'm focusing on all the good. Powerful words.
Thank you Melinda, yeah I got emotional about it all over again today for some reason. Then I decided to re watch the movie. Probably not my best decision. Warning the first scene is his murder. A really tough watch.
But it was a well done movie for its time. And there is a message of hope in it. It certainly deals with the problem of hate from many perspectives.
Trying to understand the ununderstandable is not easy. We all have our frameworks through our parents and education exactly as you are saying. Love is the key, nice post
Thank you for reading it. It is so true. I am blessed to have been raised by decent parents.
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@tim-rumford Thanks. I spent ages studying groups a while back and never really looked at the Christian ones because there are so many of them (and as I'm not a Christian I preferred not to get into it in case I misinterpreted anything). But there was always this very weird looking group that was so out there I had to wonder if it was actually REAL! Yes, that was WBC. So thanks for this very interesting probe....they are real then. Could raising a child in hate (any kind of hate) be considered emotional/psychological abuse? it is SO against nature, as you say.
Thanks! If there was a law about it they surely have been through court about it, likely more than once. There second hobby is suing people. Also members give up 30% of their income.
Yeah sadly they exist. And while I have many problems with christianity, this particular odd church is certainly far from the norm.
You're so right. None of us are born learning to hate because of the so called " differences that we learn later on in life. We don't know anything about hating someone because of who they are. It's ridiculous how we segregate ourselves based on skin color,sexual orientation, religious affiliation, our monetary status, and so much more. I still remain hopeful that this world can still become more equalized and sympathetic as time goes by. It's way past time!
Yes so true, thanks for taking the time to read my post.
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