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RE: What if we consider America’s gun problem as a spiritual disease?
Mental Illnes. Collective insanity. Nietzsche's half-joking remark: 'In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.' Yes! And the Mother Teresa (now the third or more St. Theresa!) quote. and this: Is it possible that there is a greater, deeper societal disturbance that our children have intuited? After all, as we know, children learn not from what we say, but what we do.
Beautiful, kind, and gentle thoughts! Thank you for this.
Bless your big heart, Carol. There is a tyranny of fear that binds and blinds us, Blake called it "mind-forg'd manacles." But, if we are true and live well, we are not murderously insecure, greedy, nor wrong others. Something of all this madness, our sins, the children have inherited and, now, they are dying of it...
Here's to more desperately-needed Beauty, Kindness and Gentleness in our mutilated world. Only Love, Yahia