It is important, while we ponder, to ponder things from all sides... and to see what those who have a different motivation think.
To see an exact opposite view...one that is jarring, old, unmovable, see this & the comments to it.
It is the case there is a v. deep divide.
To see an exact opposite view...one that is jarring, old, unmovable, see this & the comments to it.
It is the case there is a v. deep divide.
I wrote a bit about this earlier... some thoughts on the depth of the divide...
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See if there is a discernable difference in tone and content in this thread.
One of the great failures in times like this, where the foundations of one's world view are being challenged, is the ability to make distinctions.
So the words Always and Never slip out in a desperate attempt to not have to consider ones reality any deeper.
So the words Always and Never slip out in a desperate attempt to not have to consider ones reality any deeper.
Challenge at that level is not easy and is not pleasant.
Yet it is precisely what Lincoln called for, those "better Angels of our nature". And what he told us was the way...That "As our times are new we abandon the worn out dogmas of the past, and think anew...".
Yet it is precisely what Lincoln called for, those "better Angels of our nature". And what he told us was the way...That "As our times are new we abandon the worn out dogmas of the past, and think anew...".
This is the challenge before us, now as then.
The lessons from those days are relevant to our own.
One lesson must be to abandon concretized worn-out beliefs. Especially those shallow in their insight, wrong in the grouping of All into Always...
The lessons from those days are relevant to our own.
One lesson must be to abandon concretized worn-out beliefs. Especially those shallow in their insight, wrong in the grouping of All into Always...
In absolute, vital, rebuke, and contradiction to such blinkered nonsense as "they all just wanted an excuse to riot and kill..." - to be found in the comments...
There is this collection of truths...
[see the thread]
There is this collection of truths...
[see the thread]
A few snapshots of the comments...for the record. 
