"I hate you one and all. Damn your eyes!" Sam Hall - Johnny Cash
Hate has always been a strong word. Sure I am hate work at times but do I really hate everything about it? Ok, I do hate the Packers, well sometimes. I guess not so much when Ryan Grant & Aaron Rodgers are on my fantasy football team leading me to a championship in my league. I used to say I hated Elton John & Micheal Jackson, yet here they are on my IPod shuffled in with the rest.
Maybe it has just me but I have learned there isn't much to hate in the world. Really most people are even keel and probably feel the same way. Sure there are things I don't prefer but at this moment I cannot think of one thing I truly hate. Nor could I ever find a reason to be hard headed enough to say that I hate all of something or someone.
Yet right now there are millions of people in the world that say they truly hate someone else, or a whole race/country of someone elses. But I guarantee they really don't know those people. It is easier to hate things you don't know or understand, especially people. Dehumanizing them, not looking into their eyes and seeing them looking back at you. Yanks said they hated the Rebs and vice versa, yet every night they would stop fighting to sit and chat with each other as brothers.
Why do we have to be so inclusive in everything we do. Why does all of Israel have to hate all of Palestine and so on. Is there someone leading the charge of hatred or is it just because it has always been that way? When you fall into the rut of the back and forth, it takes a bigger person or a stronger will of the people to change history to stand up to the hate.
Hate is a pretty strong word. One that I try not to use and I wish others could take up that cause.
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Semantically speaking the word 'hate' much like the word 'love' is grossly overused in English because the language has few other choices to describe an emotion with so many varied degrees.
I think the Rebs hated the Yanks more after the war then they ever did before or during. I am not sure the Yanks ever really hated Rebs, but were pissed they left the union. Plus, the Yanks hate the Sox :).
I think there is genuine hate in the middle east. A lot of people have had everything else stripped away from them and hate is the easiest thing to cling to.
Yanks and Rebs not might have been the best example but it was fresh in my mind having watching How The West Was Won the night before. I know there is geniuine hate out there but i still believe it is because it is all they have known. I do support the 10% rule that there is always this section of bad out there but i think given the option to think and choose for yourself good pervails. oh well this was not my best effort anyway although I think it flowed better than most. I need to get back to something that will allow me to be more discriptive and try to be a better writer. I feel like all I've done is give my opinion on things. Then again i am more of a debater i think. my wife would agree with that.
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