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Abbas Beydoun: I do not know, because I think that these issues can not be achieved easily by just volition. I guess this question is simplified and it is rather good intention than being question. |
Alvaro Restrepo: Easy question, easy answer: Obviously nowadays the word love has become a kind of outworn and devaluated term, and this may seem anachronic. But I think that, maybe because of my role as an educator, I grant a huge importance to love in educational processes. If we do not start from the very beginning to educate our children with love, we will never succeed in getting rid of violence, anger and hatred. So these three words are reactions – reactions, as the human being is a reactive being that reflects what it experiences. And if it has even been educated with violence, anger and hatred, it will give back the same violence, anger and hatred. It is always said that the one who commits a delinquency has at some time been misused and this turns out to be a vicious circle. |
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Andries Botha: Well, first thing, is to try to stay out of its way. Secondly, I think we need to understand, or try to understand, what constitutes the basis around which this – where does it come from. I don’t believe that we should just merely just accept that violence, anger and hatred becomes the leit-motifs of our contemporary culture. I think we need to, wherever we find it and experience it, first of all, get out of its way, and secondly engage it in order to understand it. Understand it - it has a basis, it comes from somewhere. It doesn’t just exist in a vacuum. |
Angaangaq Lyberth: I’m so glad you asked that question, whoever you are. Have you ever heard about something called love and compassion, equality and trust, recognition and acceptance of one another? When I think of it, how we can contrast the violence, anger and hatred, I think of those because those are the ones which will allow you to be recognized, accepted, recognized, loved, respected in each circle no matter where you are. That is how I feel that we can contrast it. There’s enough violence as it is. There’s enough anger as it is. There is enough hatred as it is. Without them the spirit of the world can be so beautiful. God, I have traveled around the world now so many times and realize how beautiful it can be if only we could realize that the beauty is worth having not looking through the lens of the violence, anger and hatred. Did I make sense to you? I sure hope so. Next time you ask the same question I would put you responsible to help the world ridding of itself of hatred, violence and anger. Thank you. |
Anthony Arnove: I think the question is potentially quite abstract because the question is do we root anger, do we root hatred and violence in individual attitudes or do we see them as having social roots. I think the reality is that they have social roots. These emotions, these conflicts have origins in history, have origins in people’s social and material circumstances. There is nothing innate in human nature that leads to anger, that leads to hatred, that leads to violence. We are not inherently xenophobic, we are not inherently antagonistic towards one another people. Whether or not, we have those beliefs, whether or not we have those attitudes, depends on our social circumstances. And what history shows is that we can change social circumstances and reduce violence, reduce hatred. But, also it shows something really important, which is that in struggling to change history, in struggling to change our material circumstances, in struggling for example basic economic transformation to meet basic human needs, people change themselves, change their attitudes, find their circumstances changing even in that process of social change. So, for example, you see how workers in the United States in the history fighting for basic and economic rights. They have come to understand that racism, that sexism, that homophobia, that nationalism divide and weaken their movements. And therefore, you can have a process of consciousness raising among people who formally may have had racist or sexist ideas, have had xenophobic ideas come to challenge, come to question those beliefs. And so, really, the first step is in changing these is to set about the process of collectively organizing to try. |
Anuradha Koirala: You can counteract violence by wanting to provide peace and love natured by faith. |
Anuradha Mittal: Well, when I think about how to counter violence, anger, or hatred, I think the only way that I can do it is through passivism, love, and forgiveness. That’s the only way that one can actually challenge violence, anger, or hatred. Again, it is passivism, love, and forgiveness. |
Ashok Gangadean: This question is interesting because it can be read in different ways obviously. I call out the questions, how do you? And it could mean how does one in general, or how do you, me, counteract violence, hatred and anger, and I take it very personally in the sense of how do I? And speaking from my point of view and as a global philosopher, as I had studied the great teachings of our teachers and teachers across the planet, across our cultures through the ages. And all of these teachings have seen that the source of anger, hatred, violence comes from a consciousness, a form of making yourself and your world and using your mind and technology of thinking. And again, I keep going back to ego based or egocentric culture and self-making, where one separates oneself and the other and processes information and the screen of ego awareness. And not realizing that that is at the very source of anger, frustration, rage, violence by its very nature. Once we make the link between violence, rage, anger and our technology of consciousness and to recognize that we have been taught by our great teachers an alternative form of consciousness that is non-violent and one that brings peace and tranquility and harmony and justice and compassion and love and mutuality and respect and dignity. That is the culture of integral holistic awareness where we come in touch with reality, which is the field of interconnectivity and interrelations and deep dialogue. If we enter a consciousness of deep dialogue, global consciousness, global spirituality which is acknowledged by high science, that realizes that reality is a profound field of interconnectivity. So it really is about science and objective reality. When we come into connecting in this way, we overcome the deep sources of alienation, fragmentation and violence and anger and rage, frustration, emptiness, nihilism that comes with ego-mental culture. |
Audrey Kitagawa: It is the responsibility of each and every one of us to counteract violence, anger, and hatred by developing our spiritual discipline and to be able to tap into our inner forces of love and to be able to share that love, express that love, to be that love itself. It also calls upon us to develop our values, our spiritual principles and practices in daily life that we may ultimately live life with loving kindness, compassion, understanding. And this is something that we all must do for violence, hatred, and anger begins within the individual and is made manifest and projected outward. So how a society behaves is ultimately represented by the collective consciousness of the individuals within it. So each person has responsibility to be able to counteract violence, anger, and hatred with love. Love is ultimately what makes life meaningful and makes life worth living. |
Avi Primor: Where is hatred from? Mostly it comes from fear. If man is not able to understand the other, if man does now know who the other one is, if man perceives the other one as something mysterious, man begins to ask questions. What kind of complot is going on - among the others, among the minorities, among the neighbour's, among the strangers? This strangeness arouses suspicion, this suspicion stokes fear, fear rakes hatred and hatred leads to violence. So there is only one way to avoid this - education. The one have to get to know the others, they have to know more about others, especially about the direct neighbours. Man should know much about the minorities living in their surroundings. One should not say they are somehow different, I do not even know and I even do not want to know how they are - far from it: One has to know more! The more one is able to understand others, the less one fears him and then there is no hatred and no violence any more. This actually is the core of the whole problem. Of course it deals with education and the problem is that the education is still very different nowadays. Every nation has its own history books. In some cases single clans have their own history, sometimes even families, and the history is not only antagonised against others, but it restricts to itself and this is a way not to appreciate, not to understand others and then suspect the other ones, fear, hate and fight against them. So we are to have education and as far as possible the same education for everyone. by Avi Primor |
Benjamin Fahrer: Ohm shanti, shanti, shanti. Opposite of peace -- violence, anger or hatred. These are so, oh man, things happen in our world that make us angry. That then we begin to hate that which makes us angry and we react with violence. These three are a trinity of emotions that you have every right as human being to feel. When they cut down Julia Butterfly Hill, I heard her speak recently, amazing woman, and what she said was that when they cut down the tree, they cut down an ancient redwood tree that’s been growing for 2,000 years. You have every right to be angry. She had every right to be angry. When something happens in our lives that makes us angry, if that’s what is you are feeling, you have every right to be angry. If you suppress that, it becomes a none -- it will build up and come out in a violent way. But, you have every right to feel angry but it’s how you respond. You should not act of that anger. They should come from a place of compassion, of love, of knowing then those that caused these acts that has now made you angry. Most likely, you don’t really know what they‘re doing truly. And if they do, man, it’s really sad. They are coming from a very sad place and it’s that compassion towards them, of them being so disconnected from nature and from the world that they’ll cut down the trees and destroy that which is sacred. It will make us angry but we must act from a good place in our heart, come from a good place. |
Benson Venegas: Love, tolerance, and understanding. In the context of peace, dialogue, and pluralism of opinions and opportunities can make the difference. We need to move foreword. We need to really create a society where violence is not the way of expressing or communicating among people. We need to talk. We need to dialogue. We cannot continue this monologue where people just really reinforcing this trend or the power against others. We need to re-educate ourself, to listen, to really talk, to really have a better way of interacting or connecting ourself with others. In modern society in these times, people are disconnected. You go home, you wake up in the morning, you go to work, you focus on your computer, you get in your computer cocoon, at work, you get out work, you go for dinner, you go back home, and you have less and less interaction with other people. You don't speak to your neighbors, you don't know who are your neighbors, you don't know the people in the street; just become a lonely person in yourself. And this disconnection is in some way or the other being the spark-fire for some of the violence that we see today. So we need to shift from that paradigm, really trying to link people, to bring people together, to really have better communication, to dialogue, to speak, to listen, and in that way we can really build consensus. We can build real democratic values. We can really build better societies. |
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Bill Joy: In my own life, raising my children, and they are two years apart and sometimes they fight with each other and they get very angry at each other. And these feelings are very real. So the first thing I have to do is I have to acknowledge the feelings. And sit them down and allow them to talk about it. It’s not easy for them to get past it. And I find that the hardest things to get past are kind of grudges, feelings that something bad has happened and they find it unacceptable and they simply can’t let go. They keep going in their mind back to an incident that’s troubling them and being unable to move on. I think a lot of the anger and violence and hatred in the world is because of slights that people perceive from others and of things that people did to others that leave people feeling they want to get revenge. Many of these things actually did happen but unless we confront the compassion in ourselves to try to move past them, to try to be the peacemaker-- I often tell my kids you guys get in a fight, but one of you has to be the peacemaker, somebody can be the peacemaker, someone can have enough compassion to try to bring the thing to an end and to try to start to work together in a different spirit. I think that that compassion, that dropping repeating the pattern is the key to trying to being to counteract these strong and real but negative feelings. by Bill Joy |
Bora Cosic: Off course we can’t counteract the violence with violence, by doing so we don’t achieve anything. To those who hate we must not show our own hate and to the anger (evil) of others we must not show our own anger (evil). Primarily we should increase our own conciseness, which will help us not to be violent, angry or evil. After that if there is enough of us we can show collective resistance by: peaceful acts, persistent contravention, continues announcing of own opinion, not agreeing upon any negative phenomena, not keeping silent towards evil, getting reed of cowardice which leads to the slavery. So we should primarily be free, strong-willed and doubtless people. Last but not least we shouldn’t make from our opposition towards bad governments a new profession. by Bora Cosic |
Brian J. Weller: Okay, this is a great question. I’d like to answer this question really from an inner perspective rather than sort of a behavioral perspective. I feel that the core answer to this is by spending time in silence every day, restoring a sense of balance in ourselves. I think we get caught up in the busyness of each day, the stress and strain, the worry, the chasing time, and I think the way to end violence and hatred is, actually, ultimately an inner battle. We do that by spending time in silence, getting back into balance. That’s really what meditation is about. It’s about spending time in nature. Actually, one of the most amazing things to do, if you’ve ever done this, is to just try spending 24 hours sitting on a log out in nature; just with some water, no food, no radio, no iPod, no distractions – just spend time. What you’ll notice is that the mind will come up with all kinds of crazy stuff. Your thoughts will become very weird for a while. Just stay with that and stay through that and everything will settle down. Then, you’ll find a level of restfulness and peace and I think that’s the way to really resolve violence and hatred is to transcend it within one’s self. You’ve got to stay in the place to let it through. So, good luck. |
Catherine David: It is not easy to answer this question in an easy way. I believe that there are a 1000 ways and a 1000 situations. If it is a situation of violence, of hatred and indirect anger, one can ignore it, one can be autistic, one can also deconstruct in certain cases, if it deals with physical violence, extremely approached, I believe that one cannot always be [……………] but one should be able to answer to the violence even if it is not a solution. But I think that one should be a little bit reasonable and responsible. From time to time, I think that unfortunately we can only answer to violence by violence. |
China Keitetsi: I look on my own experience, abused and saw others abused, I had to look back on the lines of my own sins, and try to compare with those who are responsible; try to compare as other sins. Then you kind of have a balance. And also I tried to realize more of what I have today; the freedom I have today, where I live today, how I eat today. And then looking back my anger was going down more, down more, but it also depends on where one lives. I live in Denmark and this was a big, big challenge for me and also meeting Nelson Mandela. It helped me to realize that anger eats you up. It's better to use your energy into doing good than using your energy into being angry and have revenge and hatred. I think I'm more calm, more happy, because I also think that I have no more energy left in me to feed a bad heart, to raise an evil heart. I think I've used most of my energy to go on to survive, to gather my children, to be with my children. But also my suffering have teach me one thing; it have made me know that what I wish for me is the same I should wish for everybody in our world. And I think now I'm more closer to someone's suffering because of my own suffering and I've realized I’m not the only one who's suffering. I'm not the only one who lost people and this have helped me to take away my anger and try to do good. For me, meeting Nelson Mandela was, of course a challenge,...[Video Ende] |
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