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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Griffon: [QB] Glassman, We all struggle to love as we are created to love. I have read the three books you suggest. In fact, one does play a role in my developing understanding of nation-state/colonialism. "Big Cotton" should be required reading at some level. I find part of the struggle to love as we should is the fear of truly getting away and renewing. The drive to succeed implants in us a view of relationship that is warped because it is based on competition, a microcosm of the nation-state if you will. In that model, relationships are extrinsic to being. If relationships are not constitutive of being the old addage used after someone has done some terribly uncaring thing: "Nothing personal, it's just business." But to love is to allow relationships to be intrinsic, or constitutive of who we are, a part of our very being, as modeled within the Trinitarian relationship; how we treat others can never be just business because it is intimately personal. See that view that it is okay to do things to each other in business that we would not do outside of business is at the heart of our difficulty to love fully and freely. Isn't it amazing and tragic that we are taught in our very competitive system to "kill or be killed?" That very philosophy, not a Christian, Jewish or Muslim philosophy mind you, led to global domination and it's an utterly morally-bankrupt and relationally-stunted philosophy, literally a religion unto itself. And we must undo it, must have the courage to relearn, if the world is ever to survive. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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