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 Why is it so difficult to live in harmony (17)

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Why is it so difficult to live in harmony

why hate with actions, why not let it be?
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There are people in this world that don't want to live in harmony and want to cause division for the most part. We do live in a world where love is growing cold, and I'm not really surprised about that.

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We do live in a world where love is growing cold, and I'm not really surprised about that.

Do you have any evidence for that outside of your perception?

Srom(12206) Disputed
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Do you have any evidence for that outside of your perception?

Yes, the Bible speaks about it.

addltd(5144) Disputed
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I don't believe that people in this world have a n issue with living in Harmony, it is the definition of harmony that is in question. If you want to live in a world with all my rules, laws, values, ethics and morals, then feel free to live in my world. The problem is that is how too many people see it...their way or the "WarWay"

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We are all neighbors living together on this one planet, we all have something to teach or learn from one another... Know one is greater than the other, we all have the same make up..... Peace for the World........

The world is full of people battling for dominance and the establishment of their political and/or religious ideology over everyone else through fair means of foul, and by deadly violence if necessary. This is graphically illustrated in such psychopathic dictators as Hitler and Stalin and the barbaric religion of Islam. If we scale things down we can observe that in the workplace ambitious people will vie for promotion and will be totally ruthless in their efforts to climb the ladder. It is naive to suggest that no one is better than anyone else. The world consists of people with great variations in ability and intellectual prowess. The psyche' of the human race is laced with viciousness and violent tendencies.

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Well, we homo sapiens evolved to be wary of those outside of our own Tribes, that is, the packs we traveled with during our hunter-gatherer days that go back a good Three Million Years.

So we have a hardwired instinct to be wary of those different then ourselves.

We also needed to have evolved with a good deal of aggression in order to rise to the top of the Food Chain. Of all the 27 different sub-species of the genus homo, we ARE the Last Apes Standing.

And guess what?

We ARE learning to be more peaceful. To get along with each other. To practice Altruism. We ARE evolving in this area, though it may not seem so. A good reason why not is the media, who loves to fear monger and sensationalize the bad things, since those drive their ratings. To them....Good and Peace are boring.

Read this!

http://www.salon.com/2013/04/23/theworldisactuallysaferthanever/

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Because people chose to dispute me and go against everything I believe in. You're thinking about disputing me, aren't you? ;)

wisegrip(132) Clarified
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This was very clever. It forced a smile on my face. You know how to capture attention.

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I'm glad I was able to a smile on your face ;)

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Easily answered question. Democrats have no desire to live in harmony with anyone.

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Ding ding ding. This is the 100th time you have described something you do as being done by Democrats. 100 times you have admitted you are a Democrat.

I look forward to your response calling me a Democrat and completely ignoring what I said.

instig8or(3308) Disputed
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This is possibly the stupidest argument I have ever seen.

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I find this Mike Riley presents an interesting interpretation of biblical scripture relating to Sin Nature. I'm not sure how much I go along with his interpretation but he is just a sample of what he said:

Are We Born With A Sin Nature?

By Mike Riley

Filed under Bible Lessons

According to some of our religious friends, the text in Ephesians 2:3 is supposed to teach that babies are born with a “sin nature” or a “sinful nature” and that they are under the wrath of God because of that nature. But isn’t it a monstrous and a blasphemous dogma to say that God is angry with any of his creatures for possessing the nature with which He created them? (Genesis 1:26-27). Never! God is not angry with men for possessing the nature He has given them, but only for the “perversion” of that nature (Ecclesiastes 7:29 – note the word “inventions” – KJV or “schemes” – NIV). The Bible represents God as angry with men for their wicked deeds (John 3:19), and not for the nature with which they are born.

It is true the Bible says hate the sin and not the sinner I personally believe that this Mr. Riley is like so many other people in making the assumption that God is nothing but love. If God in my opinion is nothing but love then would he not have forgiven Adam and Eve for eating from the tree of life? If God was nothing but love would he have not flooded the world leaving only a handful of people alive? If God was nothing but love with there ever be a Hell?

My understanding of the birth of Jesus had to be done the way it was done because anyone born by the same process humans give birth Jesus himself would be under the condemnation of God and so if we are not born with the sin nature then Jesus should have been able to have been born by a human mother and human father. I believe we have a sin nature because it is corrupt and because of that sin nature harmony eludes us.

John 8:44

New Living Translation

For you are the children of your father the devil, and you love to do the evil things he does. He was a murderer from the beginning. He has always hated the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, it is consistent with his character; for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Supporting Evidence: Sin Nature by Mike Riley (gewatkins.net)
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The issue with living in harmony is that so many people are overly-concerned with the lives of others. These people include those ignorant to race, sexuality, religion, social class, etc., and will never cease to exist as long as the former generation bestows upon the newer one these rancid and horrid views on life.

If one's life does not interfere with your own, why intrude on it?