The topic being the development of some kind of bodhicitta, maybe? Maybe our "neighborhoods" are too "gated" with our own prejudices and likes and dislikes?

There is a definite and obvious difference in men who are raised one way (which of course can mean a lot of things) and raised the opposite way as far as how they treat women. Perhaps they still have…

Weird how 17 cartoonists getting murdered got the world's attention but it took Angelina Jolie for anyone to notice 2000 people getting slaughtered.

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I grew up with an alcoholic grandfather. The thing was, he was a total bastard when sober but the greatest guy in the world when drunk - shame he needed two slabs of beer to even get drunk.

But where did they come from? What fueled their hate, and what brought them to organize into action? It's easy for us to say "it doesn't matter, there's no reason for that kind of action." …