Gadfly, I'm not following you, really!!!
I just want to add this viewpoint, that I think it is very "Theta" to hate injustice, to hate abuse, to hate the damage done by a vicious, violent cult that has always been based on financial fraud for financial gain...
...in the early days it was making medical claims for doing Dianetics auditing, you can throw away your glasses, etc. It's been allowed to evolve into what it is now, and the evidence I see is that there is a secret plan in place to morph it into all these hydra headed other forms (front groups, RTC CST, etc.) NOT called Scientology, just as Dianetics morphed into Scientology when it got a bad reputation, that this was part of a master plan to KSW throughout the world, not matter what happens to the Scientology Organization.
In some situations, it's very Theta to hate oppression, hate greed, etc. and to want to do something corrective and positive about it.
So don't be afraid to hate...it's a healthy human emotional reaction to certain stimulae...just don't get stuck there or build your whole life and persona upon it. Be willing to experience it and move in and out of the feeling, as needed. We have those feelings to help us survive as a species...don't numb out, or deny them, just use them, don't let them use you!
I will try to explain a bit better.
The aim in my post was to take a look at the current modern SOCIAL use of the term, concept and related actions. Such as "hate-speech", "hate-groups", etc. These ideas get LOTS of mileage in the media these days. And in politics.
I was talking about the way OSA spins things to
appear as "hate", because various social and political institutions have been set up to address "hate". In the past, and probably even now, OSA has inserted members into various Internet discussion boards to appear as crazy, over-the-top
hateful critics, so that they can then chronical the examples of "hate" and spin it against the discussion area that they don't like. Now you might say, you HATE how they do that. I simply observe that they do it, and try to point out their nasty misrepresentations to others.
I don't like what they do. Meaning I have no affinity for what they do. I have no desire to be around people who behave in that manner because I see it as slimy, low-handed human behavior. But I feel no "dislike" - meaning some emotion
against their actions. I have rarely ever hated anything, as some intense personal emotion, even when people have done really nasty things to me, though of course I find those people distasteful and I tend to thereafter choose to have nothing to do with them. Maybe real full-blown raging "hate" serves a purpose for some people, but it never has for me. I find it quite useless. And that in no way diminishes my ability to point out and be very critical of people and groups thought to be deserving of hate by others.
I never "thought" myself into being this way, through some ideal or discipline, but instead, that is how I have been. In other words, I didn't latch onto some book or set of ideas that discussed "not hating", and then tried to become THAT, but instead, I just never did. I am trying to describe how I have observed myself over the years. Of course, OSA would hate it if I couldn't be made to appear as some irrational "hater", because they hate THIS more than anything - a person who can calmly make decent arguments about why the C of S is so fucked up.
I don't "hate greed'. I just have no use for it. I don't "hate oppression", I just have no use for it. I don't even "hate" terrorists. Again, I just have zero use for them. And, anyone who has read what I have to say about the C of S and oppression leaves no doubt that I view them very unfavorably. I just LOOK at it for what it is, have no emotional response at all, and simply find these things you say are okay "to hate" as disinteresting, not desirable, not worthy of any admiration, etc.
Do you possibly mean "hate" as a METAPHOR? In that sense I suppose I may hate some things, but only as a very loose metaphor.
My view on nearly all emotions is that they cloud my perception. That is based on nearly 60 years of quite sincere personal examination all along the way. Of course, I still have attitudes and views of things that I find abhorrent. I can easily find fault with them, explain what is wrong with them to others, but I have no "hate".
Again, it works for me.
But also, I have been on a path to "transcend" being a human (as an animal with various instincts). That is partially why I got into Scientology. I thought that it was a path that could lead me up to "higher states of consciousness". Part of my aim was to abandon and transcend what you describe as "those feelings to help us survive as a species". Also, never forget that ALL is evolving, including the human species, and the part that Man's mind plays and the part that Man's emotions (and animal instincts) play may be shifting in balance and importance as the Universe unfolds.
I don't suppress, or numb out, or invalidate "hateful feelings". I just don't have them (anymore). Though really, I never had them much even in earlier life. You might find that impossible, because possibly you do have them. Don't make the mistake of extrapolating YOUR personal view and experiences onto all others.
What you find in yourself may not always exist in others. Just saying.
Also I do not see that any "want to do something corrective and positive about it" requires any degree or type of hate. When I spent the time to write my detailed essay on the Three Scientology Beliefs, that very well delineates the MIND TRAP aspects of the Scientology belief structure, I did it from a motivation of "wanting to do something corrective and positive about" handling the problem known as Scientology. Seeing, ackowleging, recognizing, and doing something about evils, to me, does not require that I "hate" it in any way. And, for anyone who has read my essay, I did a pretty good job at pulling back the curtain of Oz on Scientology, maybe better than most, yet it rested on NO foundation of "hate". See?
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