Mateo
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PureX said:
Yes, I watched an opportunistic school superintendant take control of a school district using the same tactic. Worked like a charm. Problems is, as humans, we are so easlily baited. Our responses are almost Pavlovian in thier predictability. Even the merely moderately clever of the would be manipulators of people discover this early on. When you can get folks to see themselves as either a Hatfield or McCoy the rest is child's play. I guess the question remains, what's the formula for getting someone to climb out of that box?
I would submit that resentments, and the ignoring of same, are likely not the bailiwick of any one party or "side" but an unfortunantly common denominator in the clash of the carefully constructed opposites referred to by the philosopher Hegel whose disciples daily bring us tomorrow's latest controversy. To defeat these efforts we must stop seeing ourselves as one or the other of the "opposites" we are being labeled as and not only see ourselves for what we really are but, more importantly, what we can be..
Criticism I can handle... compliments I find strangely discomfiting (likely because they are so seldom cast in my direction). I guess I just wanted you and those looking on to know that there are those of us out here who aspire to be of Christ who are not wiling away the hours waiting for our opportunity to participate in the next inquisition.
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