Anthistémi: New Conflicts & The Same Principle

It scares me to hear people speak with such anger and hatred towards people they have never meet. It's like watching someone being trapped in their own prison where the only contact they have is there own oppressive spirit feeding off their suffering. It gets so bad that they cannot look at themselves anymore as there own source of suffering and the thought that there is no one else for the cause of their suffering is too painful to face. That is why it's so important for us as Christians to face our own demons and let Christ bridge that deep chasm. His Grace needs to be an active edge that has empowered us to overcome before we can lift that edge towards others. I myself know that the Sword of Truth you lift is double-edged and if you lift it the blade will stare right back at you and ask, 'Dear friend have you removed the log that's in your eye?'

I know there is a desperation to be on the right side of history that we'll create a human being into a cliche' for the purpose of having an enemy.

This total lack of understanding about clinging to absolute views and fundamentalism is the most dangerous thing. There is nothing else. If you do not let your mind go to absolutes then you have to remain objective and empathetic; you don't have a choice!

This is the law of, 'Do not judge yet ye be judged'. Hear Maya Angelou

How it starts. Turn them into monsters and then those people de-humanize the weakest among us, but it's the same disease, both are wrong. Don't turn others into monsters and don't turn others into objects of weakness. If you understand this, then you understand how terrible the disease is. You can look back on any conflict in history and see the same principle. Do not de-humanize anyone into less than human nor into monsters. Otherwise you will forget of the wickedness we're capable of when judgments of others become very easy.

Rain, hail, and snow,
Ice too, are set apart,
But when they fall-
The same winter
Of the valley stream
~Ikkyu Sojen

All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return ~Ecclesiastics 3:20