Dear elders, i am in a unsettling dilemma, you see, when it comes to peace, i am for it, i understand the concept, and love the idea, but when it comes to an enemy, or a individual who inflicts pain or harms you in another way, how do you respond i think it is important to love your enemy just as your friend, but is this practical? i have contemplated to just-war theory, but it still doesnt seem right but neither does complete, all-out pascifism i have considered meshing the two, loving your enemy, whether they are a threat or not, while being able to defend yourself im just confused and need to get it out any advice is helpful many thanks
i have no problem with resisting real aggression on our own soil. but that's not what's going on now with the US in the middle east. what's going on now is pure imperialism no matter how the hawks try to paint it.
Hi Action Lad ... I think this is completely up to you and no $&ยง-ism of the world will meet your own better knowing from the heart. If you believe into the concept of enemies, there they are ... like if you believe into fear or hate, you give it power and control that is yours by origin and it will remind you over and over again to take it back. So it all starts (and ends) inside yourself. And maybe it's not really about how you treat friend or foe, but how you treat your own self in the mirror of your own choices then, and come to peace with your own self and make the best of the lessons you draw. Those in your life who are able to trigger strong emotions, actually take you to your own deeper truth. Enemies are powerful teachers who help you find the obstacle inside. Still, the obstacle is yours, as is the emotion ... it's not theirs ... and you are the one to recognize it, and not blame them for putting your nose on it. Maybe the only real enemy is the hate itself, and our program of denial ... when we forget who we truly are, and the freedom we came here (and will leave again) with. How can another be an enemy then ? Still, we don't have to like them ... but there's always the option to just leave them alone and not take things overly personal. Peace, man
those 2 said it about as well as I could. If the middle easterners came over here and invaded MInnesota, I'm not saying we should sit back, then fight, but they aren't, we're trying to manipulate this with claims of false WMD's and being forced into it by souless corporate conglomorates like Halliburton. We think we are helping save lives over their, but we are running the death rate higher and higher
