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Several questions...?

One of the things that makes life unbearable are those people who are ignorant/mean/negative/etc. Those people are the terrible examples for the religions they represent. I believe we should all love and accept each other..... but I always seem to find myself hating the ignorant/mean/negative and producing my own force of negativity. Should I embrace my other side? Trying to balance my positive and negative? Or should I try to find a way to stop my own ignorance towards those who anger me? Any advice on how I could stop it and become completely positive?

(I'm agnostic)

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  • .
    Lv 4
    10 years ago
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    There are a lot of them out there, dear. You don't need to take their nasty abuse. And to hate is natural human emotion, don't t feel bad about it.

    A good read on this would be Carl Jung. I highly recommend his approach on how to balance the negative and positive side of us.-:)

    http://psikoloji.fisek.com.tr/jung/shadow.htm

  • Nous
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    Look at the posts from "Ray Balthazar" who claims to be agnostic but just posts terrible hatred, bigotry and persecution towards atheists!

    It seems that is what agnostics do so your ignorant/mean/negative/etc. must be because you are agnostic!

    Acceptance of a supernatural claim tends to promote cooperative social relationships. This communication demonstrates a willingness to accept, without skepticism, the influence of the speaker in a way similar to a child's acceptance of the influence of a parent. By encouraging this kind of behavior where the most intense social relationships occur it facilitates the lack of skepticism and deters more open minded thinking.

    They are christian, Muslim or the other religions depending where they were born simply because they were indoctrinated by their parents as very young children. They will go on to indoctrinate their own children and those will go on to indoctrinate their grandchildren!

    Atheists have the intellect to see through the conditioning and escape into the real world!

    Agnostics have the intellect to see through the conditioning but lack the courage to throw of the conditioning entirely.

    Sadly Christians, muslims and others are still held firmly prisoner by the self perpetuating brainwashing!

    Source(s): University of Missouri-Columbia. Arizona State University
  • 10 years ago

    Sure. I regularly like working on reducing my own negative reactions to negative people. The main role models who inspire me are those few who are famous precisely because they were able to accept a 'hit' from somebody when they didn't deserve it at all. Those people come across as strong, and as leaders. Gandhi. Martin Luther King. Jesus.

    But even real people like you and me can do it, and feel a sense of being larger-than-ourselves. Here are a few stories about same:

    http://christianityinreallife.blogspot.com/search/...

  • 10 years ago

    Very simple. Love for one another means accepting people for the good and bad in them.

    That means of course you don't have to support their nastiness.

    If someone offends you in so many ways, despite your best efforts to understand them, then constructively ignore them.

    You cannot rationalize why people act the way they do, nor can you justify their irrationalities.

    You can, however, maintain your own thought process.

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    At great risk of sounding like a Christian I will quote you these scriptures.

    Matthew 22:37-39

    37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

    My God forgive me for quoting the bible.

  • UNICO
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    Princesa, isso que voce cita em seus argumentos é bobagem. Deus não existe, Jesus cristo nao existe, espirito não existe, diabo não existe.

    Eu existo.

    simplesmente.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Oh shut up!

    Source(s): agnostic me
  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    this question is illegal

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