It takes to much effort to hate

kenpodragon

In my life I have learned that in order to truly hate someone or even to hate something. I have to spend so much time carrying around all the files of memories that give me the reason to fill that way. I have to think about the person, the thing or the place. I have to envision the past or the reason that caused the hate and I have to basically allow those thoughts to direct my day.

Yet when I love someone, like my wife, or something or some place. I only have to see it and the feelings just fall into place out of thin air. Like they were just part of me and not something I had to drag along to remind me of the feelings that surrounded my day.

Love seems to flow from the world, from the sky down to the ground naturally. Hate seems to be the things we put in between that feels out of place. So perhaps I am lazy, and I do not want the extra work. It just seems that it takes to much effort to hate, so I am going to just drop it in the trash on the way out and not bring them along in my day.

My thought

Dragon

shera

All depends how we hate,hating what is bad and wrong is good.But using hate to hurt a person(s) is wrong.Hate is wrong when it hurts the person who is hating.Its good to let go sometimes and forgive for OUR benifit.

kenpodragon

I guess it comes down to just not liking the extreme of the word hate. I might dislike something, or not favor a certain thing. I just do not like to hate things. When I think hate. I see visions of "Nazi death camps", "War", and "Racism." All of which are the vision of hate I can not let drive my inner self. I just decided I do not want to hold such things high on my mental shelf.

My thought

Dragon

Crystal

Usage: Hate is the generic word, and implies that one is inflamed with extreme dislike.

We abhor what is deeply repugnant to our sensibilities or feelings. We detest what contradicts so utterly our principles and moral sentiments that we feel bound to lift up our voice against it. What we abominate does equal violence to our moral and religious sentiments. What we loathe is offensive to our own nature, and excites unmingled disgust. Our Savior is said to have hated the deeds of the Nicolaitanes; his language shows that he loathed the lukewarmness of the Laodiceans; he detested the hypocrisy of the scribes and Pharisees; he abhorred the suggestions of the tempter in the wilderness.

jack2

Good post Kenpo, and I agree with shera too - for our own sake, it's best not to hold on to resentment, hate, and such negative felings if at all possible.

happy man

Good piont kenpo, very good point.

love from HM

kenpodragon

Crystal,

Your post brings up a question for me. Was Jesus setting a example, that said "if others live by standards different then us, or do things that are not in our set rules. That we have a right to hate them?" I ask this, as I think the Christian church has shown they do this in history. Your comments enforced that feeling in me, as they quoted an example in a way I had not thought of. What I wonder though, is hate in a man, leading him to love or blocking it's entrance into his life.

My thought

Dragon

Edited by - kenpodragon on 5 November 2002 17:16:34

Crystal

Oh no..quiet the contrary!!

If you notice he hated the "Action" not the "Person"

Our Savior is said to have hated the deeds of the Nicolaitanes; his language shows that he loathed the lukewarmness of the Laodiceans; he detested the hypocrisy of the scribes and Pharisees; he abhorred the suggestionsof the tempter in the wilderness.

I think it is very important for us to hate evil actions..it keeps us from crossing any lines.I do not however believe we should hate a person.

Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer. --1 John iii. 15.

pettygrudger

But Jesus didn't hate the prostitutes, he didn't hate the tax payers, he didn't hate the common criminals - who he hated were those that purpoted to be speaking for GOD, but who's actions were contradictory to Gods word - the golden rule.

Also, while we're talking about hate - I don't think that's the emotion that gets us.....I HATE many things, but it doesn't affect my life. Its anger that will eat you alive - that's the one that you have to look out for. You can resign yourself to "hate" something or someone - and generally still live with that decision regardless of how "happy" you are.

Brummie

I hate parsnips but apart from those I think Kenpodragon is on the ball in the original post.

Brummie

It takes to much effort to hate

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