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Originally Posted by Dirty
While reading this I imagined you typing this somehow while peacefully meditating or something. We'll have to disagree on hate. I have no problem with hating someone or something, I think anger and hate are just emotions that are evoked in people and it's human nature to feel these emotions when certain buttons are pushed. Nothing we say on a music forum is going to change what they do and I don't see it as taking the higher road or whatever by "seeing through their ignorance and hate." I'm not trying to "fight" their hate with more hate, I'm just saying I absolutely hate them. They are the purest examples of asswipes and for me, my hate feels legitimate. The WBC members bring absolutely nothing to this Earth aside from hatred and infliction of pain. They give this world absolutely nothing positive and I feel the world as a whole would be better off without them. Their deaths would bring me joy. And there's no scapegoat or excuses for my hate, it is MY hate and I fucking hate these douchers as if you couldn't already tell my my pages of ranting and raving. Sure, hating them might not solve anything, but are we really looking for a solution here? How is forcing myself to try and feel peace and use my wisdom solving anything either?
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Well, you can't force yourself to feel peace. But by making peace your goal, you start to change yourself and how you see the world. When you do that, you start to influence others around you. This in turn gives you a stronger support base to become more peaceful. And so you set yourself on a positive feedback loop, and draw others into it as well. The scope of the effect of this is really irrelevant. Any effect, however limited, will be positive. That's really what matters.
Everything that exists brings something positive to this world. Everything, at some level, however obscure, has something to contribute. Sometimes it's really hard to see. But, if not for them, we wouldn't be having this conversation, right?
"What is the good man but the bad man's teacher? What is the bad man but the good man's work?"