(April 13, 2015)
It is interesting
how the Zoramites had such a compulsive need to “follow” those that believed in
God. Once those people had left and
taken up with the Ammonites, there was no reason for them to ever be a concern
to the Zoramites again. And yet, the Zoramites
felt compelled to follow them and seek to continue their oppression of them.
This
struck me as a good example of a very real characteristic of human nature. There are groups of people for whom it is not
enough to get what they want – they need to make certain that disfavored
individuals or groups are destroyed.
Whether it is, in my situation, the fact that I have someone who each
and every time I withdraw from conflict that person escalates, or the active
attempts by certain people to find offense in each circumstance (searching the
internet for hours to find someone saying something for which they can be
offended), they pursue until there is no place left.
It is, I believe, because a person in the grips of a
certain type of issue cannot deal with the idea that there are places where others
are free to find happiness and peace – particularly the happiness and peace
that they lack. If they cannot be happy
or at peace (and they refuse to look at their own behavior for consideration of
whether that is the source of their unhappiness), then no one else can have
happiness. And rather than consider
themselves as potentially the source, they seek out conflict so as to always
have a convenient target to blame.
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