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// ? ?An easy way to create an?Us?is to create a?Them. ? ?//

A much better way is to have well thought out belief systems. ? Believing in hating outsiders is a dreadful way to live.

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Not love, not hate, but the passion for ignorance is the most fundamental passion of man.

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On Aug 12, 2024, at 11:37, Darrell King <DarrellGKing@...> wrote:

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Humans are genetically configured to be social. Pack instinct--the species? uses groups to survive. Children learn from the role modeling of elders. Elders?learned from their parents. The average human needs an Us to belong?with.

An easy way to create an Us is to create a Them. Pointing at someone as an alien automatically and necessarily makes me a member of Us.

Perhaps this is why we should learn to accept everyone? A universal Us?

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On Sun, Aug 11, 2024 at 9:10?PM David Smith via <dvdcsmth=[email protected]> wrote:

This is not survival but suicide.? Something seems seriously warped in their collective belief system.? It's as though they live to hate outsiders and to inoculate their many children with a compulsion to do the same. ?"I hate, I rage, I kill.? Pass it on."

On Aug 11, 2024, at 10:41, Darrell King <DarrellGKing@...> wrote:

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David asked:? Why should a large group of people with a large amount of land continue over generations to live in active hatred of a tiny group of people with a tiny plot of land?? How soon is soon?

And Darrell mused: Because both groups have built up mental stories of what is 'right' and what each 'deserves'? How can I let my side down by questioning the story when it is foundational to the group I claim membership in? To do so would?threaten my very belonging, an outcome antithetical?to the survival intent of the human social instinct. Doesn't much matter if this is the more rational course because it is survival psychology and survival (of the individual in order to propagate the species) is a biological imperative.

I am full of useless philosophy this morning!? ?

On Sat, Aug 10, 2024 at 4:39?PM David Smith via <dvdcsmth=[email protected]> wrote:

Why should a large group of people with a large amount of land continue over generations to live in active hatred of a tiny group of people with a tiny plot of land?? How soon is soon?

On Aug 10, 2024, at 14:34, a1thighmaster via <thighmaster=[email protected]> wrote:

2.? Is the conflict in the Middle East going to go global?

Probably not, but it isn't going to go away any time soon.

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Aloha,
Celeste Rogers