Month: August 2020

Forgiveness is really the act of severing the bond of anger and resentment that ties you both to the past and to specific people and situations.  It is cutting a chain.

And here is the thing: all of us have sinned.  All of us have done things which we know have hurt other people, things we have done out of malice, pain, thoughtlessness, spite and anger.  Most of us have done bad things to ourselves.  Quite often, rather than punish others for our pain, we punish ourselves, in various ways.  Addiction is a punishment of sorts in itself.  It is an introjected aggression, a grenade we create then fall on to protect others.

But until we learn to forgive others, we can never include ourselves in that blanket amnesty.  You can’t let YOUR OWN past go until you learn the process of severing the bonds of guilt, resentment, hate and anger with respect to others.

True morality never requires us to choose between our own interest and that of others.  The ideal, always, is that we all feed one another–you may recall the story of the long spoons and heaven and hell–and in so doing become happy and connected.

What is being done to Americans right now is more severe than the most severe restrictions in any of our wars, most notably World War 2.

What is being done right now has never been done to any nation, much less large number of nations, in the history of the world.  Quarantines–for known infected areas–have been a regular feature of pandemics for thousands of years.  But forbidding people from working–across NATIONS–who show no signs of illness, and particularly in response to a disease that kills perhaps 4 people in a thousand who are INFECTED with it: never been done.

What is being done right now is in direct imitation of the highly unsuccessful response of the Communist Chinese, who starved to death 50 million of their own people through stupidity and callous disregard for human life, and may have caused the deaths of more millions through their incompetent response.  We may never know the true death toll, but that they are lying about it is obvious.