Demons who enter your circle
Must be pushed out.
No matter what world you walk in — office, school, temple, prison, or the streets — there is an underworld populated with demons. These are people who are avaricious, aggressive, sadistic, and cynical. They not only take advantage of others without compunction, they delight in it. They find pleasure in seeing others suffer.
The why of it cannot be answered. There is only the fact, with no metaphysical meaning or other ramifications. It is not karma, it is not fate. If these people decide to attack you, it is circumstance. You must fight or be mowed down.
Compassion and humility may be among the most treasured of human virtues, but they are not useful in conflict. A beautiful gold statue of your most adored god is a treasure, but you would not use it as a weapon. Virtue is to be value in the proper context; only a sword will do in battle.
Whether an attack is physical — assault, rape, murder — or whether it is mental — business intrigues, emotional abuse — you must be prepared. It is best to prepare for conflict by learning as much self-defense as possible. You will not become a bully or a monster, but instead, you will learn that you an respond to any situation. If you are never attacked, that will be wonderful. Training will still help you work out your fears, inhibitions, and anxieties. In the case of conflict, no one, not even a veteran, is ever sure that they will come out alive from a confrontation. But they resolve to go in there and give themselves a fighting chance. This in itself is a triumph over evil.
I’ve almost never found it necessary to physically defend myself, but have thought many times about taking martial arts classes for the discipline and training. I think my own strategy is more to avoid causing anyone to feel the need or desire to do me phyiscal harm.
I have suffered emotional abuse, and have learned to defend myself against that fairly well. I can certainly hold my own in just about any argument. I n business, I have worked to be financially free of the need to work so I don’t worry much about business conflicts anymore. I think overall, I’ve worked to reduce the amount of conflict in my life, and learned a lot about how not to create conflict. I did enough damage to myself by contributing to conflict with other people in the past, and now, I know myself well enough to see how unecessary those conflicts were and how I could have avoided them.
But yes, of course, sometimes you have to fight and stand up for the things you believe in. I’ve seen many people express their disappointment in the democrats these days for their lack of fight and standing up for their principles. I think there will be a new generation that needs to emerge in this country of fighters willing to stand up for the beliefs that have held this country together. The current divisiveness, the deliberate lying to increase the divisions between people, have got to end.
I have no intention of watching Bush’s pack of lies and half truths today. We don’t need his hateful attack on social security to drive people even further into poverty, all in the name of making things better for them. People are so fooled by Bush’s words, and fail to consider the true effects of his actions. We need fighters willing to stand up for the people again, to have the better interests of this country at heart instead of their own pocketbooks. Defense? Yes, we need defense – defense of those who are unable to defend themselves – the poor, the elderly, the working class who don’t have time to look behind the lies and see how they are being used. The young people who haven’t seen this all happen before, and don’t know that when they are old, the money they need to retire won’t be there for them.
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