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Originally Posted by Ross
there is so much negativity and character assassination here it is frightening.
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It is a normal psychological reaction to associate what is being said with who says it. So, instead of discussing what is put on the table, people attack the person. This is the history of humanity.
Yet people talk of love. Love this and love that. I love you all but you better think as I do.
This is unfortunate to the extreme, since without the respect of the person, not respect of the ideology but of the person, then it is impossible for people to really talk.
And really talking demands really listening. And people don't listen. They analyze from their point of view, and they call that critical thinking. They do not allow what they put on the table to be shot at in order to find out where there might be a fault in the structure, they will protect the ideology by attacking the other in hope of showering him with discredit.
Who really learns something in an exchange? If all people are ready to take is what they already believe is right, or what they already believe they know, then what are they learning?
What we know is not important. It is what we don't know.
If people stopped fighting the people and sat together to really study, really objectively, what is on the table, we would find it extraordinary how much people would actually learn outside of the combined fields of experience. People, when they are free to speak, can say a lot more than thoughts would have allowed them to say. It is because people do not feel free to speak, because they feel judged by the memory of the race, by the consciousness of the race, that they enclose themselves within the limit of what is correct to say, so they adopt a stance acceptable by this or that large group of ideologists.
There is not a single ideology on this planet that will stand the test of time. Not one. They are all contributions to human devolution.
So, in that case, what is it exactly that people have to defend all the time, and that is not even the product of their own reality but is obviously acquired?
If there was really love on this planet, as much as the spoken word could be sharp as a razor blade, it would never be a destructive act on the person.
Destructive acts on the person, character assassination, all that sort of things, are directly part of the manipulations of hidden forces that want conflict to perpetuate. So long as conflict perpetuate within the mind, it will be projected onto others.