Wiccan Whirlpool

Holy crap!

Two stories at CNN today make me cringe–one about a US Rep being vocally anti-gay, the other about a KKK shop owner.  WHEN do we live?  Why is hate such a central issue for so many people?  Why do people who claim to be against hate then throw hate back at the haters?  I mean, remember that scary death planet of evil from “The Fifth Element?”  What happened when they shot at it?  It got bigger.  “Evil begets evil,” said Sir Ian Holm’s character.

Kudos to the community of the Representative for countering her vitriol with calm and cool.  Kudos to the black minister who owns the building where the KKK shop is located.

By the way, if you’re a redneck, check out the picture on the KKK shop owner article.  Since when is being a redneck dependent upon being a bigot?  I know good ole boys who don’t hate anybody…y’all should stand up for the redneck name as a badge of honor and let those who would kill the beer buzz with hate speech know that it won’t be tolerated anymore!  Seriously, stop letting your idiots try to define you as a group.  The rest of us have to struggle with our own idiots all the time.

In UEW we talk about Karma as an equal and opposite reaction of the universe to whatever push you give it.  In that sense, it isn’t opposite the way people usually think of opposites.  When you push a little, you get pushed back a little.  If you shove hard, you get shoved hard.  It isn’t push a little then get shoved back hard.  That’s opposite but isn’t equal.

Love and hate aren’t really equal and opposite forces.  Hate is finite, and love isn’t.  When love and hate meet, hate is diminished and love isn’t.  Hate breeds hate, just as love breeds love.  However, if love meets hate in a battle, love can eliminate hate without growing smaller at its core.  Hate cannot meet with love and grow bigger, even if it seems to “win” for a small time.  Love GROWS in a struggle, and hate just gets tired.  Love can be angry; hate only gets mad.
In case you’re curious, it is my nsho that the opposite of love is indifference.  Hate is a passion that, like all passions, will burn itself out with time and/or enough fuel.  Indifference is cold and unfeeling.  It’s apathy that leaves you alone when “they” finally come for you.  Don’t be indifferent.  Just by paying attention, you’re coming down on the “love” side of the equation.