justin_o_guy2 wrote on 07/10/16 at 08:50:17:Awwwww, Shadduppp.... I'm MAD, and I don't WANNA forgive.
You can do mine for me. Okay, I gotta go outside and kick something,, GRRRRRR!!!!!
No you don't
I would feel safe in stating I believe you have a loving and gentle heart!
I believe most rational people only want to get along.
Of course we feel better when others share our beliefs, and kinda "judge" them, assigning a general wrong or misguided label to them, if they don't.
We don't often try and wrap an understanding about what it is they say or feel. We push back in a defensive manner, they likewise, and all we garner from such an encounter is ill will.
It's hard, we have been propagandized since the beginning, and it has gotten way more sophisticated.
If we were to label those influences that lead us away from a sustainable peace, we might call it evil, or sin, yet, that is just a little to vague, abstract, or maybe "religious", we need something more familiar, as if we could touch it, to make it real.....
And that is where we slip into the thinking its circumstance, others, etc, that are the cause of all the divisiveness in our life/world.