I hate Jews. I hate Muslims. I hate Christians. I hate Buddhists. I hate Republicans. I hate Democrats. I hate communists. I hate fascists. I hate capitalists. I hate lazy people. I hate ambitious people. I hate fat people. I hate skinny people. I hate Chinese people. I hate Americans. I hate Russians. I hate Europeans. I hate Black people. I hate White People. I hate dumb people. I hate smart people. I hate racists. I hate sexists. I hate old people. I hate young people. I hate Anthony Blinken. I hate Donald Trump. I hate others. I hate everyone. I hate myself.
What If?
What if you woke up tomorrow and everyone in the world had decided not to hate? What if when you rolled out of bed, you thought, “There is no one in the world that I hate?” What if when I rolled out of bed, I put all my hate aside? What if no one in the world hated anyone else? What if you and I and all our friends made a choice to not hate other groups or other people?
Isn’t hate a choice? Does anyone force us to hate other people?
What if we agreed today to make the choice and promise not to hate anyone else ever again? Maybe ending hate is the only way to end war and violence.
I promise that I will not hate anyone else again for as long as I live.
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” — James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
“I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.” ― Booker T. Washington
“So I have learned it the hard way that if you love, it is your decision. If you hate, it is your decision. I am almost non-existent as far as my side is concerned: neither am I a partner in your love, nor am I going to be a partner in your hate.” — OSHO
“It is the hatred of the migrant, the terrorist, and the drug dealer – all portrayed as sociopaths – that evokes an acerbic form of nationalism, one that is not rooted in love of one’s fellow human beings but in hatred of the outsider. Hatred masquerades as patriotism while the size of the national flag grows and the enthusiasm for the national anthem increases by decibels.” — The Intimate Embrace between Liberalism and the Far Right, by Vijay Prashad, 11/23
Aging Capriciously 
Nov 08, 2023 @ 11:21:36
Yes oh yes oh yes
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Nov 08, 2023 @ 11:46:32
Keep shouting it fro the rooftops, John. Even if just a few people listen, it’s worth it. 😥
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Nov 08, 2023 @ 13:38:05
Thanks Jane, I forgot that I hate Canadians. 🙂
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Nov 08, 2023 @ 15:17:26
😂😂 Actually, Canadians fall in all of the categories you included, we just have the advantage of being Canadian! 😏
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Nov 08, 2023 @ 15:47:31
Good one. 🙂
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Nov 09, 2023 @ 13:28:46
What a predicament we are in now.
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Nov 09, 2023 @ 18:57:45
Seems that there is always room for more hate in the world. Hope things are going well for you Gladys. Maybe you will come visit us down hear sometime. You are always welcome.
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Nov 10, 2023 @ 07:53:12
Thanks John, I agree.
It’s all so depressing.
How, just how, can anyone justify the killing of children?!
Hate allows abominable actions.
How do you stop yourself hating the haters?
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Nov 10, 2023 @ 08:42:51
Hi Margaret. Thanks for taking the time to comment. I think we can get to the point where it is too much work to hate all the awful people and awful things they do. They say to hate the sin and not the sinner but it is very hard to separate the two. I think I am finally too tired any more to waste my energy hating any of them. I am not saying I will ever love them but I have had it with hate. John
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Nov 11, 2023 @ 09:08:49
My mother would tell me not to say hate. It was a strong word and I should never use it to describe my feelings toward another human being. I did not eliminate it from my vocabulary entirely, and decided I would only use it if the other party really deserved to be hated. This is what is called, “Stinking Thinking”. After reading your blog, I am going to make a conscience decision to replace the word hate with dislike, and to direct it toward the behavior I frown upon, and not the people. I have always believe that everyone has good in them, although with some it is very difficult to see the good through the evil. I know I should leave my judgement of who is good and who is evil to a higher power, who I choose to call God.
As far as a world without hate, it doesn’t exist on earth, or this world would be called heaven. ❤️
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Nov 11, 2023 @ 12:20:52
Hi Jeanine. Thanks for the comment and story about Mom. You knew her so much better than I did. I think she must have made more of an impression on my life than I realized. As for a world without Hate, we can hope and dream. John
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Dec 18, 2023 @ 15:17:07
As General MacArthur dictated the details of the post War Government of Japan, so too Israel must dictate the Constitution/charter of the new Gaza government that shall rule Gaza and the dhimmi Arab populations removed from E. Jerusalem and Samaria to Gaza.
The UN must leave Gaza. Jerusalem shall establish the Arab government that rules Gaza just as did the United States imposed the Japanese Constitution following the unconditional surrender of Japan to General MacArthur. The model of the post war peace established between the US & Japan shall serve as the model whereby Israel shall establish the government of Gaza.
Just as the US forced a 14 million population transfer of German populations in the Czech Republic and Poland, Israel shall likewise impose a forced population transfer of Arab refugee populations currently residing in E. Jerusalem and all of Samaria to Gaza. Jerusalem commits to open business and trade with the new Israeli established Gaza Government and significantly invest in rebuilding the economy of defeated Gaza like as did the United States did with Japan.
The US Japanese & German post war model. The US dictated the Constitution of Japan. The US forcibly expelled some 14 million Germans living in the Czech Republic and Poland to forever end the claim that those countries occupy and stole German lands. This post WWII model hopefully it shall serve as the basis by which Israel imposes peace terms upon the defeated Arab/Palestinian people.
But quoting words from the Gemara, a far cry different from interpreting the k’vanna of the language of a Talmudic text, by making comparative precedents from other Primary sources. Refer to this former type of learning as טיפש פשט. A feudalistic addiction to Reshonim aristocratic lords! Worlds separate Jews in Israel who can learn לשמה from Jews in g’lut who cannot learn לשמה.
The Baali Tosafot מן המובחר fails to emphasize and prioritize דאורייתא זמן גרמא מצוות. The organization of 613 commandments – complete and total narishkeit. The Torah does not fit into egg-crate positive/negative box thinking. The Talmud does not define ritual halachic Judaism as the Reshonim learned. The Reshonim, not even in the same BallPark!
Talmud serves as the model for Jews to return and reconquer our oath brit homelands and rule these lands with Torah faith: צדק צדק תרדוף – common law courtrooms! The new testament counterfeit – too does not know the difference between Jewish common law from Roman statute law, has no monopoly to determine the mitzva of Moshiach!
The false God Jesus goes hand in glove with the false prophet Muhammad who did not know that prophets command mussar. Neither tuma avoda zara serves as the defining model not for the mitzva of Moshiach nor for the concept of prophets!
Just as the European declaration, that limits “peace” in the Middle East, restricted to their declared 2 State Solution – as the only solution – has no monopoly which defines Israeli foreign policy! Post ‘Final Solution’ Europe forfeited any say in shaping Israeli strategic interests in the Middle East, just as “not under the law” Xtianity does not serve as the preeminent model for the mitzva of Moshiach!
Common law Torah Judaism stands on the foundation of: “BE HERE NOW”. The study of T’NaCH/Talmud/Midrash Jewish logic applies to the here and now. A far different interpretation of הלכה למעשה. Torah scholarship today prioritizes enlarging the Torah “franchise” to secular Jewry – NOT by converting these cursed-Jews, as the Xtian missionaries attempted for 2000 years to convert despised and hated Jews (in the name of Love) to Nazi Shoah gas chambers.
BE HERE NOW – Jewish Oral Torah logic – works to govern our nation of Israel; to shape and prioritize Domestic and Foreign strategic interests and policies הלכה למעשה based upon prior good working precedents which כאילו equally apply today! The precedent model of peace imposed upon Germany and Japan fundamentally rejects the British & French UN 242 model – 2 State Solution. Strategically Israel rejects European domination of the Middle East; as if this region compares to America’s Monroe Doctrine.
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Dec 18, 2023 @ 20:30:21
Amazing that you can rationalize Genocide and a holocaust for Palestinians so well. You babble on about history with analogies that are so far off the mark as to be ridiculous. Your comparisons show an ignorance that is unbelievable and as a human being you show no compassion for the thousands of innocent Palestinians that have now been killed. And for what, so Jews can claim a land that over fifty percent of the Jewish population has no historical ties to.
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