Acknowledging fault Prior to the situation becoming this bad,
an acceptance of the other side's point of view and even an apology can go a long way.
Not exact matches
At the close
of the twentieth century, with ecological deterioration accelerating and the nuclear threat ever with us, we need to feel not
acceptance but the challenge to join forces on the
side of life, for while we, like all creatures, are ultimately part
of a universe that is brutal and may well end, we have, while we live, a part to play different from that
of any
other creature: we are responsible agents who can join with our loving parent to help our own and
other species to survive and flourish.
If we were to apply Niebuhr's real politics, with its ready
acceptance of the inevitability
of conflict, to the present nuclear situation, it could well mean «a perverse preference for the war
of mutual annihilation, simply because the war
of mutual annihilation means, at least, that the
other side doesn't win either.»
The two - kingdoms theory allowed too much disengagement on one
side and too much
acceptance of state authority on the
other.
The Kasper spin was then picked up by some
of the usual media suspects, who called on the usual Catholic talking heads on the port
side of the Barque
of Peter, who took matters further by speculating that the apostolic exhortation would open up even more revolutionary paths, involving the Church's eventual
acceptance of same - sex marriage and
other matters on the LGBT agenda.
Even, improbably, Jeremy Corbyn has used it, telling his delirious fans in his leadership
acceptance speech, «I want us to stand up and say «we want to live in a society where we don't pass by on the
other side of those people rejected by an unfair welfare system»,» and motivating them again 18 months later at the start
of the 2017 Election campaign by claiming, «we know that the people
of Britain don't pass by on the
other side.»
Rejection and
acceptance are two
sides of the same coin — you don't get one without the
other.
Well, now there is wider
acceptance of the things I say, and I know a lot more on the solutions
side than I did then, but the reality that the climate people kinda dismiss the TEOTWAWKI climate people, and both sorts
of climate people tend to dismiss the straight collapse people, and everybody ignores the resources / collapse people, and all these people kinda ignore each
other to one degree or another... that continues.
The repeated but new patterns
of sharing their deep and sometimes dark and shameful
side with
others enables them to gain and give
acceptance and care.