Kill With Kindness.

15 Oct Kill With Kindness.

Kill With Kindness.

Contentious issue, but let's not hesitate.

Palestine and Israel, right now, but almost every other country throughout history, has engaged in conflict that results in killing.

Sides are forming as to the rights & wrongs and which side is at fault.

Let's be clear.

"There's nothing "wrong" with anything.

"Wrong" is a relative term, indicating the opposite of that which you call "right".

Can there ever be a justifiable reason for killing anything?

Is killing an appropriate political remedy, spiritual convincer, or societal problem-solver?

Is killing something you can do if someone is trying to kill you? Would you use killing force to defend the life of a loved one? Someone you didn't even know?

Is killing a proper form of defence against those who would kill if they are not in some other way stopped?

is there a difference between killing and murder?

The state would have you believe that killing to complete a purely political agenda is perfectly defensible. In fact, the state needs you to take its word on this in order to exist as an entity of power.

Religions would have you believe that killing to spread and maintain knowledge of, and adherence to, their particular truth is defensible. In fact, religions require you to take their word on this in order to exist as an entity of power.

Society would have you believe that killing to punish those who commit certain offences (these have changed through the years) is perfectly defensible. In fact, society must have you take its word for it in order to exist as an entity of power.

Do you believe these positions are correct?  Have you taken another's word for it?  What does your self have to say?

There is no "right" or "wrong" in these matters.

But by your decisions you paint a portrait of Who you are.

Indeed, by their decisions, your states and religions have already painted such pictures."   - Neale Donal Walsch, Author, C.W.G.

So just Who do you think we are? Who do you think you are?

That, my friend, requires you to think - for yourself.

Not to simply accept the decisions of others. or the ideological laws they lay down.  In that, you give up control of Who you are and allow others to do your thinking for you.

The usual stories appear in the media of righteousness and who is on the side of evil.

Fanning the flames and entrenching positions.

Conveniently forgetting, or blissfully unaware, that a thing cannot exist without its opposite.

You cannot demonstrate love until you can demonstrate not loving.

There is no lightness to be seen without darkness.

All it takes to end war tomorrow is agreement - agreement to stop killing.

Kill them, instead, with kindness.

Feed the hungry. Give dignity to the poor. Grant opportunity to the less fortunate. End the prejudice which keeps masses huddled and angry, with little promise of a better tomorrow.

The crisis now unfolding can be solved by a handful of people with power, but there is weakness on both sides.

The response of the weak is revenge.

The response of  the strong is to forgive.

The response of intelligent people is to ignore.

Killing them with kindness will cost much less, long term.

This is a war neither side can win.

The beliefs and convictions of either side will not disappear, even if the structure that supports those beliefs is obliterated.

If neighbours cannot live side by side, there is little hope for humanity.

There are no rights or wrongs - just a demonstration of Who Do We Think We Are?

I pray those with power are intelligent enough because where there is power, there is always resistance.

Religion has many stories to demonstrate a belief - here's one from Conversations With God by Neale Donald Walsch.

"The Little Soul."

There was once a little soul who knew itself to be the light. This was a new soul, and so, anxious for experience.

"I am the light" it said, "I am the light."

Yet all the knowing of it and all the saying of it could not substitute for the experience of it. And in the realm from which this soul emerged, there was nothing but the light. Every soul was grand, every soul was magnificent. And so the little soul in question was a candle in the sun. In the midst of the grandest light - of which it was a part - it could not see itself, nor experience itself as Who and What it really is.

Now it came to pass that this soul yearned to know itself. And so great was its yearning that one day I said, "Do you know what you must do, little one, to satisfy this yearning of yours? You must separate yourself from the rest of us. and then you must call upon yourself the darkness."

"What is the darkness?"

That which you are not and the soul understood.

And so this the soul did, removing itself from the All, going into another realm. And in this realm, the soul had the power to call into its experience all sorts of darkness. And this it did.

Yet in the midst of all this darkness, did it cry out: " Father, Father, why hast thou forsaken me? Even as have you in your darkest times."

A simple parable of how we experience that which we are not, to create that which we are. And how those that inflict darkness on us, do so  to enable it.

Kindness is one of my core values, but I now understand how complex is the definition.

Thanks for reading.

Chris.

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