Having murder, rape, pillage, suicide, torture, etc... thoughts is *very* far from actually acting it out in reality. why are some people so afraid of these thoughts? b/c they are often “closeted”:
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An additional 12.5% percent of the problem is related to personal relationships. E.g. a colleague steals your work, cheats, etc.. "How can X kind of people be so morally BAD." Because there is a declaration of absolute badness, it's basically an accusation of Evil.
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The first step is to accept that you are indeed, calling X or the entire group of X as Evil. This is hard because the specific crime often doesn't fit the accusation of EVIL. However, these everyday feelings are equal/greater than the feeling created by Big Events on the News.
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This means that instead of solving the Big Problems of the world to resolve the question of evil you can start solving the everyday problems and do the same thing. E.g. ask why WON'T you humanize your colleague?
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So the first 50/25/12.5 percent of the problem can be summarized as: Resolving self-hate. Resolving other-hate. Resolving mundane-hate.
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Another 6.25% would be "serious hate". E.g. if you dislike people like Musk/Oil Barons. People who are obviously Doing Big Important Stuff but don't seem to be all that moral. This is the "Why doesn't my moral superiority give me greater worldly power!!!" complaint.
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The resolution here obviously is that this attitude of expecting favors from "God" implies a corrupted morality. E.g. in spiritual circles often there is a desire or hope that some Magical State will give them Super Perspective or Godly Understanding.
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Another 3.125% is "I can only be happy if X is gone" where X is something deeply personal like back pain, inability to talk to opposite sex, family conflict, etc... The resolution here is that these things are PART of you whether you accept them or not.
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Similar to resolving other-hate or mind-hate the first step is acceptance, then letting go *only* after you understand why that pain is there.
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I could go on with the remaining 1.5625% and so on but u get the gist.
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