@wolfwoman One of my favorite quotes from Orwell, but I'd like to ask him, aren't those the same thing?
If you truly understand someone can you hate them?
Yes, sadly.
@AskTheDevil @NiveusLepus @wolfwoman A loved one who has made extremely destructive decisions.
@poemblaze @AskTheDevil @NiveusLepus My little brother committed suicide when he was 38 and that is the single worst thing in my life. I was beyond furious and cussed him out for months. But hate? No.
My MAGA family members? No. I cut some of them from my life but no hate.
@wolfwoman @poemblaze @NiveusLepus To be fair, I've probably known a lot more people than most people have, and I've also deliberately put myself close to some of the worst ones, because of the nature of what I do.
I've only ever really hated a handful of times, and only when I really did get to understand the person deeply.
@AskTheDevil Interesting. I don't really hate anyone, at present. @wolfwoman @NiveusLepus
@poemblaze @wolfwoman @NiveusLepus When I finally realize that what I am feeling is hate, it really catches me off guard. It's not something I seek out, and I don't like it. I don't like being a person who feels or expresses hatred, and I don't like being exposed to things for which my body can find no other emotion with which to interpret it.
@AskTheDevil @wolfwoman @NiveusLepus For a long time I felt a lot of anger/hatred, toward someone I felt really sandbagged me, but as time passed I realized the situation was a lot more complicated than just my view of it. This person completely cut off contact with me, put a wedge between me and others, then stole from one of the people she distanced me from. 4 years ago she died at 60, estranged from her children. She'd done more to herself than I ever could have. No anger for many years now.
@poemblaze @AskTheDevil @wolfwoman I've learned through a lot of hard knocks that situations are rarely as clean or cut and dried as my mind can make them out to be. Lots of wisdom in what you wrote there my sacred friend.