RE: Why Guns Won't Solve Our Problems And Neither Will Gun Control - Here's My Alternative Solution.
i disagree about fear. hate can actually be loving - as I demonstrated in the post i linked to. the desire to protect self does not need to involve fear - it can be the result of past experience of actually having been harmed. even a strong individual who has the capacity to deflect all attacks and thus not be fearful can still hate that they are constantly being attacked and, in fact, the extreme dislike that hate IS can actually be part of the process of defending self.. So hate is only a label to describe one end of the polarity of attraction/repulsion that is an absolute requirement of free will. without hate the mechanics of free will could not support real free will.
I think the 'bad reputation' that hate has mainly stems from judgements about what hate is and the blame that hate falsely receives based on a lack of understanding about free will mechanics.
We do disagree, indeed.
Hatred is a result of fear and fear is as opposed to Love as it gets.
Your definition of hatred as extreme dislike is not taking it out of the fear-spectrum by any means.
Anyway, I agree on the importance of opening our hearts.
Working on the heart made me realize that my hatred for 'the happy slaves and their masters who are nothing but higher slaves' was in reality fear I did not want to admit to.
Once I realized this, I was able to replace fear with Love. Changed my life.
if hatred is a result of fear then so is dislike. i dislike coffee but i don't fear it.
Why do you dislike it?
i feel it places burden on my internal organs as it is a diuretic and I also don't like the taste - it's not something I feel I need in my system.
Your body decides what is good for it and what not.
Dislike is a mild form of fear, indeed. In this case the fear or putting something detrimental into your body. Sometimes it's rational, sometimes not.
I am quite aware of my feelings and I do not feel any fear of coffee. It is possible to understand situations and to freely choose without fear.
Are you afraid of turning left when you want to turn right?
That would depend a lot on what is on the left :)
You do not need to agree to the idea that fear and love are at the root of our behavior.
It's all about definitions, as I said.
My point is just that we learned to deny fear and that it comes in many forms and shapes and most of the time it is very subtle and we are not aware of it.
I simply disagree that fear is an omnipresent feeling response to that which is not preferred. Fear's cause is often in definitions and so if we have definitions that do not include anything that cause a fear response, then there's a good chance there will be no fear generated. Fear can be held in denial, yes - yet it is just as much a denial to say that 'fear is always present in response to that which is not preferred'.