We Can Live Without Wars
Igor writes:
Now I am reading the Baal HaSulam’s article “The Freedom.” Cool article! It is as if he wrote it today. And a lot of questions arise.
Here, for example, it is written: “…we must be watchful not to bring the views of people so close that disagreement and criticism among the wise and scholarly might be terminated, for the love of the body naturally brings with it proximity of views. And should criticism and disagreement vanish, all progress in concepts and ideas will cease, as well, and the source of knowledge in the world will dry out.”
Question: But isn’t it because of disagreements that all these wars are happening today? Wouldn’t it be better if there were no disagreements?”
Answer: No. Then everything would be very unilateral, one-sided. Without contradictions, humanity would not be able to move forward and develop.
Comment: So, in principle, all these wars are necessary?
My Response: I am not talking about wars. Everything can be settled by other methods. You do not have to fight right away!
Question: Why do we always want to resolve disagreements with wars and drastic decisions?
Answer: Like little children, this is what humanity looks like today.
Question: Baal HaSulam is talking about completely different solutions?
Answer: Absolutely about all disagreements! We need to decide everything when we sit together and discuss.
Question: Igor writes further: “But there are no people who would like criticism. People lie when they say the opposite. Is it possible to educate a person so that he will want criticism?”
Answer: Of course. Contradictions are where truth is revealed.
Question: So you can accept criticism?
Answer: Without criticism, how can a person develop?
Question: You even want it, it turns out?
Answer: I do want it, of course.
Question: And you do not resist it?
Answer: I do not resist at all. On the contrary. The more criticism, the more opinions and disagreements, the more can be revealed: who, where, how, and why in this way did the Creator create society, man, and us in such a contradictory form. And only in this way is the truth comprehended.
Question: So you are saying that what a person should desire is a result of criticism?
Answer: Truth is learned through argument.
Question: Next. “Why, having declared at the beginning that criticism is creative, we later come to the point of destroying it?”
Answer: Because everyone likes to put pressure on the other until he agrees. And if he does not agree, I will kill him.
You see how everything is done in the world. Our egoism prevails over all other opportunities to discuss and grow.
Comment: But on the other hand, we say that egoism is our nature. It must stick out.
My Response: After all, we have to correct it somehow.
Question: So our task all the time is to saddle it?
Answer: Yes.
Question: When is criticism constructive and when is it destructive?
Answer: You can see it from here. When it leads to mutual discussion and ultimately agreement, it is positive. And when it leads to contradictions, even to the point of war and destruction, then of course, it is harmful.
Comment: But humanity always comes after all the wars…
My Response: And that is egoism, which we do not work with. There is nothing you can do about it.
Comment: But after the wars, it comes to the conclusion that it is advisable to sit, talk, discuss.
My Response: This is because war still gives some kind of awareness of evil. But then again.
Question: “If you come to internal criticism, does the external one disappear?” asks Igor. “So we can say that external criticism is an indicator that internal criticism is absent? Is this true or not?”
Answer: Yes, yes.
Question: And the question: “What happens in a corrected world full of goodness, love, as you say? Is there criticism there?”
Answer: It all depends on a person’s upbringing and how he educates himself.
Question: Here we have come to a world that is full of love and kindness. We are heading there. Are there any criticisms there?
Answer: There is criticism, of course. Necessarily. There are a huge number of opinions and contradictions, but all this is discussed and constantly brought to some common denominator along which all of humanity advances.
This is what is called that everything is decided at the level of love.
Question: “Love will cover everything”—is this what they say? Is this how things work in a corrected world?
Answer: Of course. And only over disagreements, disagreements remain.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/6/23
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