The Cycle of Hatred and War Defined: Violence is how ignorance answers the conflict and pain that is born out of what it causes without understanding this fact.
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The Cycle of Hatred and War Defined: Violence is how ignorance answers the conflict and pain that is born out of what it causes without understanding this fact.
This talk is about the real cause of war and what has to happen to bring an end to it. War is every human being's responsibility. We are part of the process. It is an act of insanity to wage war. Warring nations are just like the warring self. The UN is a great idea but it can't succeed because form is less than idea. The UN representatives represent a collective will but human beings represent individual interest, which can never bring an end to war. UN representatives can't act freely to pursue good. They are responsible to what is expected of them; otherwise, they will lose their position.
The only reason there is war is because human beings don't understand their pain. Ignorance of pain produces war. The definition of ignorance is willful disregard. We willfully disregard what we don't want to see about ourselves. We don't understand and will not look at our part in the problems of this world.
No one can be wise who does not have knowledge of God, who doesn't have a conscious relationship with a greater world that is an expression of it. We live in a world of our own making. All human beings know the value of love, understand, kindness and compassion. Real relationship is communion with the creator and the created. It belongs to an order of invisible eternals, which are principles and forces governed by reality. They sit as a basis for all that happens. Opposing forces are one of these invisible eternals. Without them there would be no growth. Here are some invisible eternals:
Two wrongs don't make a right!
All things are in scale.
The lesser is always held in the greater.
Without the vines, branches wouldn't exist.
We are each the embodiment of these principles. Invisible eternals are greater and lesser truths. Here are some greater eternals:
You reap what you sow.
Good and evil both dwell in the heart of human beings.
We have a dictator in us that does exactly what it wants to do, eat, drink rude etc. There is war inside of individuals because of conflicting desires. You can't kill evil because it is an invisible eternal. But you can strengthen what is good. When Ebola rises up in the Congo, nations come together to destroy it because there is nothing good in it. They have to eradicate it but it always comes back. You can't get rid of the darkness but you can bring light into it.
In this place called our soul there are other parts that don't mind what is wrong with us. Sadam Hussan's generals support him because they are insured of the power, they desire to keep themselves in place. Evil exists because of supporters who are under the thumb of the tyrant and his body. What gives him the power to rule? Money -- supports the machine. It is the disseminator of tyranny. In order for war to be eradicated we cannot allow it to exist within ourselves.
The only way to get rid of war, inward or outwardly is by Radical Isolation -- no trade, none whatsoever. Trade is how they get their money. This does not mean to kill or starve the people. Take away the trade. The collective will of the world will not do this. They will not put sanctions on Iraq because they will suffer. Isolate evil so goodness inherent in that country can be strengthen. How can a person recover from the dictator and over throw it for good? Radical isolation. Anger and self-pity are bad for you. Anxiety rips a person apart but we go back to them. We don't isolate them. We don't have a collective will, we are divided. We make deals with the dictator. We don't isolate it but we have a selective relationship with it.
War comes to an end when evil is isolated because God is good and the light always prevails. No one rules a country by force that doesn't cause suffering. Suffering runs us. If there was an embargo with Iraq there would be gas rationing and human beings don't want to be inconvenienced. The reason the world is the way it is because we are the way we are. We want to keep the system in place that keeps our pleasure in place. Who overcomes his enemy by force only over overcomes 1/2 his foe. Health, balance, and goodness are intended to prevail. Strengthen what is light in us by understanding what is dark. Be fully conscious and aware of the state and stop making deals with it. The more conscious the more collective will, will be strengthened.
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To Give Birth to a World Without War
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