| Violence is always used creatively; you cannot truly cause destruction, even if you try. dreams-evolution-2 §933 | violence
Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | ontological claim | 3 | not reviewed | 0 |
| The hatred of a generation of adults whose parents were killed in war will cause the next war. personal-reality §635 | violence
Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | testable prediction | 3 | not reviewed | 0 |
| Those who most publicly advocate the death penalty feel that they themselves truly deserve to be executed, to compensate for the enormous aggression they dare n… personal-reality §663 | violence
Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | mechanism | 3 | not reviewed | 0 |
| Normal aggression is merely 'the power to act,' and has nothing to do with violence; only when you equate power with violence do you suppress normal aggression … personal-reality §663 | violence
Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | ontological claim | 3 | not reviewed | 0 |
| The violence you inflict is actually violence inflicted upon yourself, because you are part of All That Is. dreams-evolution-2 §933 | violence
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| Violence cannot be forgiven, but must be understood for what it is: it is humanity learning through its own mistakes. early-sessions-9 §452 | violence
Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | ontological claim | 3 | not reviewed | 0 |
| Criminals, often driven by powerlessness and resentment, prove their own power to themselves through antisocial behavior; for them, aggression becomes a means o… personal-reality §662 | violence
Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | mechanism | 3 | not reviewed | 0 |
| The root of violence lies in a sense of powerlessness felt by individuals or collectives, unrelated to actual status; violence is a compensation for powerlessne… personal-reality §673 | violence
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| Because humans suppress and fail to express refusal normally, communication breaks down, making violence a distorted outlet. personal-reality §673 | violence
Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | mechanism | 3 | not reviewed | 0 |
| People project images of dilemmas or aggression they have not faced onto others, causing the masses to impose their unresolved conflicts onto larger groups, the… personal-reality §635 | violence
Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | mechanism | 3 | not reviewed | 0 |
| Wars initiated by states share the same mechanism as individual violence, both stemming from an overarching sense of powerlessness. personal-reality §673 | violence
Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | mechanism | 3 | not reviewed | 0 |
| In certain systems, the physical body may directly short-circuit itself when considering violent acts, and early civilizations even evolved a mechanism of faint… seth-speaks §562 | violence
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