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- Oct 2023
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Violence begets violence.
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- There is a massive need for collective therapy on all sides
- Everyone values (human) life as sacred, yet deeds that intentionally bring about death reveals that our value of life as sacred is ONLY APPLIES TO ONE CULTURAL GROUP.
- The creation of a relative conception of the word sacred creates
- ingroups (where the sacred applies) and
- outgroups (where it does not apply)
- The intentional death of a person due to war, along with current practitioners of angst-basted anger gives rise to the next generation of hatred
- Hence, today's abused become tomorrow's abusers
- It is paradoxical that each side of warring cultures have highly learned religious men who give their blessings to the sacred ingroup warriors
- It is the lack of genuine understanding of the abuser-abused cycle that keeps both sides locked in armed conflict
- There is a massive need for collective therapy on all sides
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