"Spiritual Correctness"

[APeacefulWarrior]

I appreciate your confidence. I just feel that the energy gets misdirected. It gets misdirected, at the least, in my mind. I'm pretty sure that if I reread the OP that I wouldn't be able to think of anything to add. I know myself too well. And, to be honest, I thought that the OP was perfect as it was. Nothing really needed to be added. I just think that the derailment was a whole host of negativity. The thread didn't need that. It gets very distracting away from the OP.

I tend to see the flow of energy in any situation as being largely like the flow of water. Even the mightiest river can be re-directed, if one puts the right pressures in the right places. A situation really only succumbs to unproductive negativity (which I suppose I'd define as "negativity that only reinforces itself without other benefits") when people involved give up on trying to view it any other way.

Catalyzation is largely a matter of choice. While there are extreme\edge cases, by and large we can still take whatever's given and polarize it in either direction. It just requires a certain amount of willpower and knowledge to see how that polarization, or redirection, might be accomplished.

At any rate, I find it more useful to at least attempt such redirections. Even if they don't work out like one plans, they tend to teach something about the ways of love and\or wisdom just from making the effort.