Not only in Guantanamo

Thanks to Sigrun for linking this in her Norwegian blog.

Takk til Sigrun, som har skrevet om dette på norsk i sin blogg.  

Neglect of Medical Evidence of Torture in Guantánamo Bay

Does anyone know of studies on neglect of medical evidence of child mistreatment in mental health care?

Parents keep a child’s gender secret

Here is the article

I am fascinated by the response: “Their announcement was met with stony silence. Then the deluge of criticisms began. Not just about Storm, but about how they were parenting their other two children.”

What do you think?

"It’s OK to be Takei"

WOW!

Det motsatte av hat

En norsk oversettelse av “The opposite of hate” er nå i Ansvarsbloggen

Og den norske versjonen av “Getting  my ducks in a row” er også der, under tittelen “Gjete kongens harer”

UPDATE: Getting my ducks in a row

It’s not about ducks, it’s about a thick pile of handwritten notes on their way to becoming blog entries.

It’s also about the fruits of … well, fruitful … dialogues I’ve had with interesting people, and about being asked: “Could you please write about this?”

It’s also about having promised to translate certain blog entries … I’m working on it, and not least on editing the translation someone kindly did for me

And it’s about two very interesting seminars I’ve been to recently, on “The Aware Ego Process” and on Nonviolent Communication. I feel like a python who has swallowed a pig (two, actually) whole, and now needs time to chill out and digest.

It’s about “life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans”.

And it’s about plans: My Blog Plan for now is to post short entries that I’ll be linking back to later.

Comments and questions are very welcome – I haven’t  figured out how to write that in the “comments” section, and I’d really appreciate it if someone would explain how to do it.

The opposite of hate is …

What is the opposite of hate? I’ve been googling this question, and I’m inserting some of the replies I found, in the order that I found them.  

I:

Rabbi Bradley Artson reports his conclusion from an international conference on hate in Oslo:
 
“In other words, the opposite of hate is law. The Prime Minister of Norway even bolstered that claim by quoting from the statesman/philosopher Edmund Burke (18th century England) that, ‘When bad men combine, the good must associate, else they will fall one by one.’”

II:
From “The Nazis’ Most Important Arsenal During WWII” by Jan Lee.

Quoting from “Belonging and Genocide: Hitler’s Community 1918-1945” by Thomas Kühne (also spelled Kuehne)

“The opposite of hate is what I call belonging and togetherness.” The Nazi process of indoctrination negated any concern for other individuals and communities than their own, and is broken down in the book in five stages:
– creating a “people’s community” that was limited to Aryan membership;
– camaraderie both on the front and on the street;
– the establishment of societal ethics that not only endorsed genocide but required it;
– community-wide complicity in genocide and oppression;
– and an atmosphere in which apathy and despondency toward helping the “outsider” thrived.

III:
From Yoga Sutras of Patanjali 2.30-2.34: Yamas and Niyamas, rungs #1 and #2

The opposite of hate is not love.
The opposite of hate is non-hate,
letting go, releasing of that hate.
Then, love naturally arises.

IV: From Upon the Rainbow 
in a context of   EMDR therapy:

“He read to me from a book – didn’t give me the title – about hate and its parts – resentment, vengeance, etc. Part of what he read said that the opposite of hate is not love – it is indifference. That is already what I want – I’ve said from the beginning that my goal is to be able to run into them (the church people) in public and have it not affect me at all. I don’t know that I fully hate them, because some of the “symptoms of hate” (so to speak) that he read, I’ve already gotten over, or never had. He continued and read a couple of pages about forgiveness as well. He wrote down the name of a book that the book he was reading from referred to – Forgiving the Unforgivable by Beverly Flanigan.”

I had to look up EMDR therapy, and found
 a description here. From my viewpoint, 
any therapy that describes emotions
 and reactions as “inappropriate”
and “negative”
 is best avoided.

V:

From answers.yahoo.com
  
Uncle Remus 54:

“I always thought the opposite of love is fear and the opposite of hate is compassion.”

VI:  

My suggestion is closely related to Kühne and Uncle Remus 54:

“The opposite of hate is recognition.”

I am going to write more about this and explain where it comes from later; for now I’d like to round off with two more quotations:

Rollo May:  “Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.”

Elie Wiesel: “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.”

What does this look like from where you are standing? 

Altruistic robots

There’s an interesting article here.