I'm very touched by your post. I agree with all of it, and this most of all: "Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering."- Yoda, Star Wars Episode I (it goes against everything I believe in to quote something called The Phantom Menace, but there you go.) Don't let your fear of things that are different or that you can't understand allow you to make those things less human. People allowed that to happen before- they let Hitler tell them that the Jews would take all their money and make off with German women- and it led to such suffering that the people who were at the camps can still recall the stench sixty-five years later.
To me, everything that's not Love, starts from fear. The only reason to not fear is knowing. Only if we know each other and respect each other, we'll find peace.
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Date: 2010-04-12 10:34 pm (UTC)I agree with all of it, and this most of all:
"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering."- Yoda, Star Wars Episode I (it goes against everything I believe in to quote something called The Phantom Menace, but there you go.) Don't let your fear of things that are different or that you can't understand allow you to make those things less human. People allowed that to happen before- they let Hitler tell them that the Jews would take all their money and make off with German women- and it led to such suffering that the people who were at the camps can still recall the stench sixty-five years later.
To me, everything that's not Love, starts from fear.
The only reason to not fear is knowing.
Only if we know each other and respect each other, we'll find peace.
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Have you heard of AFS? http://www.afs.org/afs_or/view/what_we_do
I was in the Czech Rep for a year in this program, and volunteered for 2 years.