Comments on: It’s not that I want people to live in fear http://natebettger.com/2008/09/29/it%e2%80%99s-not-that-i-want-people-to-live-in-fear/ Building bridges, connecting community, village alchemy . Sun, 08 Jan 2012 15:42:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: 30,000 troops and my proactive complaint « Nate Bettger | Bend | OR http://natebettger.com/2008/09/29/it%e2%80%99s-not-that-i-want-people-to-live-in-fear/#comment-1014 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:06:10 +0000 http://natebettger.com/2008/09/29/it%e2%80%99s-not-that-i-want-people-to-live-in-fear/#comment-1014 [...] vote” and other such controversial things (“Post-election thoughts” and “Fear-Mongering“… I try to stay out of it and focus on what is happening in my local community and how that [...]

]]> By: bob Pearson http://natebettger.com/2008/09/29/it%e2%80%99s-not-that-i-want-people-to-live-in-fear/#comment-475 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:26:56 +0000 http://natebettger.com/2008/09/29/it%e2%80%99s-not-that-i-want-people-to-live-in-fear/#comment-475 My sense is that most fear comes from isolation and individual perspectives. If we can see ourselves as equal to, as the same as, as no better than, as family with, as friends to, and as dependent on all the other people in the world we will begin to live out God’s way of living. Until we can get beyond the sense of individually being better, richer, more powerful, more in control of, or more separate from the other people in the world, we will live in fear.

So, go out and get to know someone who you think you are different from, or unrelated to, or afraid of and make the world less fearful.

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