Category: the Rant Board
Look around this black nwhite world and the people in it.They fight and justify then bloodshed in the glorious name of religion, people hate the colour of another's skin, his or her god, or the country of origin..
Now see how the hatred tears at the very fabric of humanity,look at the lives destroyed watch the people crying in the streets,as the dead pile up...
Now look inside yourself and you'll see the hate fighting to escape and ask yourself is it worth it to pander to this cancer....
Now look at those who hate spewing their venemous words .Listen to what they say and laugh hard at their ignorance...Why!? Must we hate those we do not know!Be pround but keep an eye on your arrogance.As the sad state of our world sinks in remember hate returns times 3!...
We choose to hate the people we don't know because of the impression they give to us, the way they react, the senseless attacks they make when people do not conform to their views and the somewhat irrational notions they have, one of them being that they are right and everyone else is wrong, so if someone is wrong, they are right. Perhaps if people treated others the way they would like to be treated themselves, and thought before they spoke, type etc, such anxt would not exist.
Nay, it would exist because hate is an inevitable bi-product of humanity.
I think that hate is such a harsh term. Yes I realize that in all walks of life we have people who express hatred towards others, be it through racism, ageism, a personal grudge harboured by one individual towards another for whatever reason. But I think that very few people are actually capable of “hating” another individual. Because to hate someone would mean that you wish harm on that person, or group of people, would mean that no matter what happened to them, you would be happy, because you hate that person so much that any bad thing happening to them would leave you without emotion. And I don’t think that most people think like that. I think we’ve all said in the heat of an argument “I hate you”, and we’ve all got angry and spoken harsh words and said what’s on our minds, but I don’t that could be seen as hatred. I do agree that it is possible to dislike someone intensely, but I think that there is a vast difference between that and hating someone. And after all, it is not possible to like everyone, people will always do things which we disagree with, personalities will always clash, if everyone agreed with everyone else’s views the world would be a very dull place, yeh it would be all rosy and lovely and no one would ever go to war, but no one would have views of their own because everyone would have the same views, and thus discussion would never happen, because there would be nothing to discuss.
I totally agree... I don't think I'm capable of hating someone. It's such a strong emotion and to hate, you have to care so much about what happens to that person. It is said there is a fine line between love and hate. I think that hits the nail on the head. In my earlier post on this topic, i was responding to people's off the wall idea of hate, not the true meaning.
No to hate you need is a complete apathy towards the person's well being....as difficult as it is to imagine I have never hated anyone in my entire life,I'm able to draw a line under my emotions and say if i cross that line its too late there's no going back...its mostly a case of perspective.
...Also I'd say there is far too much dislike bordering on hate on this site....I've rarely seen such simmering anger and dissatisfaction with life,people,circumstance ect..
No to hate you need is a complete apathy towards the person's well being....as difficult as it is to imagine I have never hated anyone in my entire life,I'm able to draw a line under my emotions and say if i cross that line its too late there's no going back...its mostly a case of perspective.
...Also I'd say there is far too much dislike bordering on hate on this site....I've rarely seen such simmering anger and dissatisfaction with life,people,circumstance ect..
I agree with all that, but I am less willling to accept that you are all incapable of hating someone. Indeed, neither you nor I am in any position to make a judgment on that. We do not know what the future will hold. I remind myself and the rest of you at this point that Lord Tebbit said the same thing prior to the Brighton bombing in 1985, where his parliamentary colleague Roger berry was killed and Lady Tebbit permanently disabled. He has since said that he hates the IRA, and one can well understand that. so we don't know what the future will hold, and until we're put in that situation, we can't say whether we would be capable of hating someone or not.
"I will not allow any man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him"...
Booker T Washington African American educator.
It's certainly possible for people to hate someone. For me, I hate people when they mistreat others. But that's just me. And i think Goblin makes a fair poitn that people fight about so many useless things nad too much.
There are a lot of people I dislike, but I can't say I hate them. I think at this point the people I would hate are the really toxic ones who are too emotionally needy and who want to drag me into their drama and all. No more drama, dammit!
exactly, the drama is over as one particular zoner proclaimed last week. And another thing that annoys me, and I know Labyrynth will agree with me on this one: why do you americans have spring break and winter break in schools? It's Easter break and Christmas break for goodness sake! Or have you all sold your souls to placate the hypersensitive but at the same time highly intolerant fundamentalists? Next time anyone dares to throw that politically correct claptrap at me, I will remind them to thank their lucky start that they live in a tolerant society where you don't get your hands lopped off for criticising the government.
And then I'll go to Iran and put up a Christmas tree outside every mosque.
We're not all Christians, Lawlord.
Actually, we do call our winter break, Christmas break. But I don't think spring break has anything to do with Easter; that's why we don't call it Easter break. Easter usually doesn't even fall within that week. *smiles* I think at one point, I mean because I don't remember right off whether or not we still do this, but we would get the Monday after Easter off from school, and we do call that day, Easter holiday.
Leilani
ok fair enough not all are christians, so i take it then that, apart from those of you who practice other religions, the rest do not exchange gifts at Christmas then? and would be happy to go to work/school on christmas day?