RAISING THE LEVEL OF DISCOURSE

It is overcast and cool but I am having a great day. I had a good sleep and I have been having a nice Morning. I am getting a very late start on my blog and for no particular reason.

I have something on my mind I would like to discuss. I enjoy the political satire and the attacks on the folks I don't agree with, but I am troubled by the extent of the negativity. Can't we be nice to each other?

Because we have taken separation to the nth degree, there are many people in error and their errors are sometimes atrocious, but it is error. Folks don't see their own errors, at least not why they are in them, we tend to justify our opinions and decisions on some trumped up [not a pun] moral grounds; as distorted as it may appear to us, at the time, those in error cling to the belief.

We have become so divisive that we demonize those in the other camp as not redeemable. People who are attacked for their opinions are rarely edified. Folks tend to take a firmer grasp onto their ideas when attacked. If they are in error we drive them further into their error.

Can we attack the ideas and not the people holding them? Can we criticize their beliefs without demonizing them? If we really believe we are the ones who are right and they are in error, can we approach the situation as educators and not condemners?

I own up to the fact that I get a chuckle out of some pretty negative stuff aimed at the other camp, especially some of the cartoons. I have also been appalled at times.

In our division between those wanting connection and those wanting separation, which is the choice between love and fear, we will find people whose separation from most of humankind puts them in a very erroneous state. From our point of view they may be very wrong. They are not devils.

As we realize that love is the only energy we want to embrace, we must also learn to forgive those who are temporarily embracing fear. I say temporarily, because we will all sometime turn to the light. Some of those, deepest into the dark, may take a few more lifetimes.

We have all been in error. We know that an attack on our person rarely helps us see the light. We know that love and forgiveness will provide a better approach.

Hopefully we can raise the level of our political discourse. One more interesting observation; the people I meet in our local community, our family and friends do not express a fraction of the negativity I experience in both the alternative and main stream sources. I wonder if that is just my experience?

I have dishes to wash, which are now languishing in cold water. Hmmm can dishes languish?

Love and Peace, Gregg