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    ML light posted an update 5 years, 3 months ago

    For one, or many, to lose their Hope in Reconciliation, especially those who believe in the tenant of Forgiveness, may be one of our greatest losses.

    I must say that Rene Girard’s thesis on Mimetic Conflict becomes truer everyday! The real question is that if we continue down this path, which is by no means compulsory, who, or better said in this exact moment, what will take the place of the Scapegoat? And if we commit said Sacrifice, what subsequent Ritual of Tradition will then emerge?

    What is most preferable, one may rhetorically ask, Peace or Conflict, Reconciliation or Sacrifice, Life or Death?

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      Nidster - replied 5 years, 3 months ago

      The true blessing of the act of Forgiving another of a Tresspass accrues to the person doing the Forgiving…

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        FiatLux replied 5 years, 3 months ago

        In the long run, I always have hope. I want to say all good things are possible in the short to medium term too, but I don’t believe it at the moment. Might it be helpful to affirm it, whether or not I believe it? Is belief that your intention is possible a prerequisite for it to have a positive effect on the field? (I honestly have no idea, so feel free to chime in!)

        Personally, I’d settle for peace with or without reconciliation. I haven’t really thought it through, but the idea has occurred to me that sometimes the best (or only) way to avoid conflict is an amicable separation. As in: the governed separating themselves from dependence on, or hope in, those who govern; and the people who strongly value the principles of the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights separating themselves from those who don’t. Even just a de facto separation of some kind might help.

        I think Mr. Global wants and benefits from conflict in the U.S. On the other hand, if the central government becomes seriously authoritarian and tyrannical, then–if I had the choice–I personally would prefer secession if it meant living in greater freedom, even if it also meant giving up any hope of getting back the missing trillions or getting Uncle Sam to pay his liabilities.

        Again, I haven’t thought it all through, so I might be spouting a bunch of nonsense.