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In Reply to: On the other hand posted by Miguel on April 28, 2002 at 20:06:45:
My interpretation is that there wasn't a need for an interpretation for such a simple idea, until someone came along and misrepresented all this stuff and got us all confused.
Love thy neighbor as thyself.
Shoulda made perfect sense to anyone, except gullible naive zealous individuals trying to do good by volunteering to give all to the cause of a manipulative mind-control group.
Low self-esteem combined with messiah-complex combined with do-or-die kamikaze mentality enabled us to swallow the untruth about putting ourselves last, all of the time.
If on top of that we are told subliminally or directly to hate ourselves because we are our own worst enemy, and that self is bad, and that self is against God, etc, we don't love ourselves very much. If we don't love ourselves very much, and we are supposed to love others as ourselves, we don't love people very much then, do we?
I mean therapists and researchers have discovered time and time again, people who don't love themselves because they were told they are not worth love, don't love people around them, and often abuse and hurt the people closest to them. You can trace inter-generational abuse and see the clear pattern - abusive parents were themselves abused. A good dose of loving, and being taught unconditional love, so different of what was practiced by Berg and Family, create in most cases, wholesome loving individuals who perpetuate a loving nurturing environment for their off-spring and people close to them.
