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Prejudice takes many forms, and those who forget their own personal responsibility for the destructive effects of judgement, incur the final injustice. The peo

Prejudice takes many forms, and those who forget their own personal responsibility for the destructive effects of judgement, incur the final injustice. The people we choose to 'hate' and 'despise' - for religious, political, industrial, or .. other .. reasons - end up being a part of the universe that we isolate ourselves from. The universe is bigger than you. Get over it. Make friends. Prejudice against the lives of others is a little step closer to the grave.

themodelplumber 13y ago
Bravo. There's also something to be said for persuasion through friendship and tolerance. E pluribus unum and all that. There are many different textures in a good melting pot.
- fit2rule 13y ago
  I imagine a world where the vast, arbitrary .. human .. distance between magic and science are embraced by the world at large, and not shunned by the ruling technocratic order. What if, in fact, we could discuss the vast magick order here on Earth so comfortably well that one day, we do it on the Moon? I wonder if we will go to Mars with purely scientific purposes in mind? I hope not.
- fit2rule 13y ago
  I imagine a world where the vast, arbitrary .. human .. distance between magic and science are embraced by the world at large, and not shunned by the ruling technocratic order. What if, in fact, we could discuss the vast magick order here on Earth so comfortably well that one day, we do it on the Moon? I wonder if we will go to Mars with purely scientific purposes in mind? I hope not.
  - h1karu 13y ago
    "We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together." -Terrence Mckenna
6d0debc071 13y ago
Isolation from the things you hate seems likely to be a highly desirable outcome for people who feel that way.
- fit2rule 13y ago
  .. and so goes the big wheel. Wouldn't you rather just not hate, though?
  - 6d0debc071 13y ago
    Personally? No, my hatred has been of use to me in the past. I doubt I'd be where I am today if I'd not hated where I was. And while !Me might have been okay with staying there, provided she didn't hate it, !Me would be far less the sort of person I want to be than I actually am. She'd lack many of my pleasures. The absence of hatred is not by itself the presence of joy. Of course, hatred can also cripple you, rather than push you to grow: The unrewarded genius who consoles themselves that it's the world that's stupid in not respecting their genius, rather than themselves for not putting the effort in. But that's a matter of context: honesty, self-knowledge, self-confidence, knowledge about the world. Simply because some hatreds are unproductive hardly renders the emotion itself malign, no more than joy is malign simply because some people find it in the destruction of others.
    - fit2rule 13y ago
      Well, I've had my 5 minutes worth. ++good.

themodelplumber 13y ago

Bravo. There's also something to be said for persuasion through friendship and tolerance. E pluribus unum and all that. There are many different textures in a good melting pot.

fit2rule 13y ago
I imagine a world where the vast, arbitrary .. human .. distance between magic and science are embraced by the world at large, and not shunned by the ruling technocratic order. What if, in fact, we could discuss the vast magick order here on Earth so comfortably well that one day, we do it on the Moon? I wonder if we will go to Mars with purely scientific purposes in mind? I hope not.
fit2rule 13y ago
I imagine a world where the vast, arbitrary .. human .. distance between magic and science are embraced by the world at large, and not shunned by the ruling technocratic order. What if, in fact, we could discuss the vast magick order here on Earth so comfortably well that one day, we do it on the Moon? I wonder if we will go to Mars with purely scientific purposes in mind? I hope not.
- h1karu 13y ago
  "We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together." -Terrence Mckenna

6d0debc071 13y ago

Isolation from the things you hate seems likely to be a highly desirable outcome for people who feel that way.

fit2rule 13y ago
.. and so goes the big wheel. Wouldn't you rather just not hate, though?
- 6d0debc071 13y ago
  Personally? No, my hatred has been of use to me in the past. I doubt I'd be where I am today if I'd not hated where I was. And while !Me might have been okay with staying there, provided she didn't hate it, !Me would be far less the sort of person I want to be than I actually am. She'd lack many of my pleasures. The absence of hatred is not by itself the presence of joy. Of course, hatred can also cripple you, rather than push you to grow: The unrewarded genius who consoles themselves that it's the world that's stupid in not respecting their genius, rather than themselves for not putting the effort in. But that's a matter of context: honesty, self-knowledge, self-confidence, knowledge about the world. Simply because some hatreds are unproductive hardly renders the emotion itself malign, no more than joy is malign simply because some people find it in the destruction of others.
  - fit2rule 13y ago
    Well, I've had my 5 minutes worth. ++good.