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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (79906)	5/25/2000 10:35:00 AM
From: Rick Julian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

But X, there must be an element of proportion in this hatred thing. I can understand hatred when one's fellow countrymen are lying dead and dismembered on the streets in a world war. That hatred stems from the very real fear of annihilation, and is, in this specific instance, understandable. But in my experience of people who use the word "hate" on a regular basis, they apply it to cirumstances which are far less threatening. I have a friend who "hates" video editors, he "hates" athletics, he "hates" sushi . . .he's big on hate, and it reveals to me a basic, fundamental fear of things unknown. In his case, (among many things) he is fearful of his music being judged or tampered with by editors, he is fearful of his lack of physical prowess, he is fearful of raw, unfried, unprocessed foods . . . There are consequences to this baseline of fear and loathing, and they reverberate througout his experience of living. I can't change him, he has become so attached to this lens of perception, that he probably fears the prospect of living life without it. He, I assume, experiences some form of comfort by having a worldview in which he has some cognitive anchors, but from my perspective it is a terribly limiting way of living. There is so much love and beauty in this world. There is also evil, and ugliness,but I'd reserve hatred for only the most extreme cases, and I simply don't encounter that with any regularity. Very rarely, if ever, I'd say. But that's just me.