Hate

[gratitude28]

Storm's post yesterday got me thinking... what is hate????
I think hate is a thoughtless emotion. I don't think you can be rational and have hate. Hate is deep, blind, dark. The opposite of hate would be passion, I would think...
I don't think I experience hate. I know as far as my mother goes, I suffer anger, dislike, annoyance and many other emotions where she is concerned. But I don't have hatred for her. I don't really think I have hatred towards anyone or anything. By the same token, I am wondering if AI have true passion for anything. I don't think I have ever experienced boundless passion either.
Anyone have ideas on the subject????

[pennyplant]

Well, I think I have experienced both feelings. 

I have hated people who I thought ruined my life, who made me feel like less than nothing, who betrayed me.  One of those people died many years ago and I didn't even care.  We had been friends once and that bond was completely severed.  I think it became hate.

Passion, hmmmm.  I don't know if passion is the same as love or not.  I felt like I met my soulmate once.  That seemed like passion.  It made me feel very happy.  Among other feelings.  Passion, just wanting to grab the whole world, wanting to do or be anything, feeling like that could actually happen.  I felt that way once.  Maybe I don't really know what passion is.  Complete involvement?  Desire?  Energy?  Power?

Yes, I would be interested in what others have to say about this.

Pennyplant

[Hopalong]

They both make me nervous because they are so focused on another.
In my 50s I now feel I never want to leak out of myself so much as I have in the past.

I felt rage once or twice. But not hatred.

I have felt passion way too many times, at too high a cost.

I want happy love. Love with a lot of laughing in it. FUNNY love.

That's my goal now.

love,
Hops

[isittoolate]

Hi
When it comes to passion, I think of the the passion I've always had for being a concert pianist! That is where I put passion in my thoughts, a passion over flowers, art, music, etc.

Hate is a very difficult word for me to use, as anyone that I supposedly 'hate' it is for different reasons!

I thought I hated this guy who borrowd $600.00 and disappeared, but in the long run I was ashamed of myself for lending the $$.

I  once hated my ex son in law, a Narcissist, but with no contact I don't think of him much at all. Same with the psychopath I lived with.

I didn't hate my raging father, but I never had any respect for him, plus he gave me the 'willies'. (The memory that pretty well most comes to mind is when we were all in the barn doing the chores, and he was wandering aroung mumbling and grumbling then hollered,"I don't know what in the hell I did to deserve 5 lazy little bastards like I got".) i was shivering in me high top rubber boots while trying to milk 6 cows before school and was totally baffled at his statement. A sister was milking the other 6 cows.Then we had to separate the milk and slop the hogs, then bed the cows. I just couldn't see l-a-z-y!

So I can think of more, but the actual word HATE does not rear its head over anyone at present.

Izzy

[Hopalong]

CB,

It ws APPROPRIATE.

 

Hops (ihatehim!)

[gratitude28]

I agree, CB. That would definitely produce a blind emotion in me. I didn't think I was capable of hate until you wrote that... but I could be in a situation like that.
More to ponder...
R/Beth

[Peapod]

“You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love.”
Sri Chinmoy

just interesting...
P x

[liberty]

I have felt hate for both my parents. But it's worse with my mother because she continues to harass me. I don't think it's a good thing though and I feel the need to get it out of my system but I'm not sure how. Perhaps time.....

Lib

[axa]

Interesting one........  think I agree with Sri Chinmoy.  I think to hate is the other side of the coin of love.  I think if you are capable of love you are capable of hate.  I am not suggesting that people who love go around hating also but that to have the capacity for one you have the capacity for the other.

I have wondered if I  hate XN and I don't think i do.  I think he is pathetic, cruel, evil but my feeling for him is not hate, it is ......... well maybe somethink like pity at a very great distance.  I never want to have any contact with him because I think he is toxic but it is not hate I feel towards him.  I am very very pleased to realise this as I am also aware that I so do not love him.

Thanks for topic.

By the way I was reading somewhere that hate can be a healthy state as it may be the state that enables us distance ourselves from distructive situations........... any thoughts. 

axa

[pennyplant]

Well, I definitely prefer to stay away from the people I hate!  The ones I have hated have not been good for me or to me.  They have actually had it in for me.  So, not wanting to be around them was safer for me, that's for sure.

Pennyplant