What We Don’t Understand

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Lori Grosser Rhoden
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since 2009-10-10

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0 posted 2016-07-20 04:45 PM

What we often don’t understand
is that we can hate…
as a knee jerk,
not thought about,
what we don’t understand.

What we don’t understand
we are more apt to shun
than approach with curiosity.

The differences in society,
so deeply ingrained
and trained,
from birth to dirt,
to separate
along a mosaic of lines,
our curious minds
ask the wrong questions
of themselves.

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2016-07-20 05:03 PM

Yep, you are absolutely correct, Lori. I know I have, many times, knee-jerked into reaction when I didn't understand the whole picture. I am sure it may even happen again, but maybe my knee-jerk reaction won't be a bad as they have in the past. Good poem which gives the reader thoughts to pursue . . .

~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~

Lori Grosser Rhoden
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since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

2 posted 2016-07-20 05:09 PM

Thanks Jerry,
I keep thinking about all the haters out there that don't realize how much they are a part of the problem. ~L

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

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South Louisiana

3 posted 2016-07-20 05:59 PM

Yup! No doubt they are a major part of the problem

~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~

Ari Squire
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Posts 488
In The Phallus Lane

4 posted 2016-07-22 12:13 PM

quote:
"The differences in society,
so deeply ingrained
and trained,
from birth to dirt"

Of course. I taught my children my version of "right and wrong". I presume other parents teach their version and kids with no parents can make their own. I'm not overlooking the laws of Man or God. Paying too much attention to the former rather than the latter was not included in my version. Folks may not like "haters", but if they hate "haters"...clearly they become one themselves. (Good Haters?)

quote:
What We Don’t Understand

Who's we? Right or wrong I speak for myself.

Loving Linny Jean is poetry.

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

5 posted 2016-07-22 06:31 AM

Bless your heart Ari! You got to the heart of what I was trying to say about hate and hating haters and then who can tell the difference. ~L

JL
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since 2004-04-01

Posts 6128
Texas, USA

6 posted 2016-07-22 10:14 AM

Great write, Lori!

JL

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,and with all your mind. Love your neighbor as yourself.
Maranatha!

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