Love and Illusion

2004-6-24 14:29:00

Robert Writes:
and the only way to eradicate this evil is by justice; living God's law of love. There are terrorists because there is injustice and not the reverse - it is NOT terrorists who create evil, it is a lack of love.

Blayne:
Nonsense those terrorists are responsible for their choices! They chose to perpetrate injustice on their fellow man and they will pay the consequence regardless. It is not their fellow mans fault they chose to do evil.

JJ:
In support of your logic, Blayne, one might ask what made the Jews and Romans terrorize Jesus with crucifixion. Was he not showing them enough love?

It is true that when a normal person with a balanced belief system is shown love that anger can sometimes be neutralized. If we were just dealing with angry people then Robert may have a point.

But what makes a terrorist or a dangerous enemy is not anger but illusion. When, because of indoctrination or merely drawing wrong philosophical conclusions, a person or group decides a certain group of people are the enemy then no amount of love will change their minds. The enemies of Jesus, is of course, is the famous example of this. They may have thought he was a nice fellow, but it did Jesus little good because their belief system was threatened. Showing more love would have done Jesus little good, but if he had convinced them that he would cease teaching then they may have left him alone.

It is interesting that Hitler admitted that many Jews were nice people but he taught the Nazis that for the "greater good" that any love toward the Jews as individuals had to be ignored and the cancer must be eliminated. Because of this illusion it made no difference how magnanimous the Jews were toward the Nazis.

Some of the 911 terrorists had good relationships with Americans, one I read about was even married to an American woman. Some on their last day of living went to Las Vegas and had some final fun. They liked America so much that they spent their last day, not in some Islamic pastime, but a traditional American one. They did not crash the planes in the buildings because of personal hate or because they were treated badly by Americans, but because of illusion in their belief system. Illusion in the belief system will cause a person to kill his own loved ones, his friends, his countrymen, people who love him and even his own Master as was the case with Judas.

The Dark Brotherhood works through illusion and if the illusion cannot be dispelled then the only defense is to defeat or neutralize these people to render them harmless.

Hitler's Germany is the prime case in point. Their illusion could not be dispelled so they had to be defeated. No amount of love would change them. In fact, Hitler and many Germans loved the English and had great respect for them. England was their enemy only because illusion dictated that the "chosen" must rule.

Let reality govern my every thought, and truth be the master of my life. DK