The Morphism of Peace and Love => A Good Massage
Alexander, Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, Ghenghis Khan, Tsunetomo and lots of other male dominators from oh so many cultures and periods of history are scary because they USED other human beings as tools for their own ends and because they simply assumed War was inevitable, so they "reasoned," why not just win at whatever the cost which usually meant PRE-EMPTIVE strike. Whatever little bit of DNA-code that "naturally" allows or forces the human species to undertake vast wars against ITSELF should in my opinion be snipped, modified and reconstructed towards that other type of gene which seems to underlie the social-sexual behaviours of Bonobo's. Of course, those religions that support in-group versus out-group mentality through separatist rituals and mystical justification of repression, and thus, are MERELY another manifestation of the SPECIES-KILLER gene, would object violently to this proposal because it would be against their religion. Some enlightened masters figured this "they versus us" mentality is the source of all evil and tried with whatever they had to show others that peace is possible. But this attitude is extremely rare. For example, the founder of Aikido was a master of three martial arts and I studied this art for about 7 years in Honolulu with Yoshioka Sensei. In Aikido, the ethical ideal of no harm to others and yourself is embedded throughout the practice. So, I asked Sensei, "Sensei, you preach 'peace, peace, and love, love' but all we learn in our techniques is only how to kill the other. How can we achieve peace and love when this is all we learn?" His answer is remarkable, "You must learn to stop thinking 'kill, kill' and give your partner a good massage."
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