I have always wondered if chronic anger (often leading to rage) doesn’t, in fact, lower one’s intelligence with regard to getting nuance. One who has the ability to get nuance, in the sense of picking up different shades of meaning, context, and differing implications, certainly can’t be of a mind that is easy to anger.
Going on this trail, I would also surmise that those who are quick to anger much prefer their ideas to be simplistic, or belief-based—or they like their ideas in easy to understand “either this or that” frames. But life is not simplistic even though mankind is wont to make it so.
Especially in religion this is often the case wherein a simplistic belief in some kind of creator god seems necessary. By comparison, the more nuanced understanding might question such a belief showing its contradictions as did the Buddha. I think it is easy to conclude from this that the religious fanatic doesn’t get nuance; who takes his own anger to be righteous anger and truly justified. Paradoxically, the more angry he becomes the more he turns religion into dogma.
who gives a *** about nuance you **hole - get f*** in enlightened first - then write about it and stop filling up the net with intellectual cr** like this SATNAM
Posted by: buddy | February 10, 2009 at 07:36 PM
LOL, haft of the American population, mostly rednecks, are filled with this anger mindset. They in turn, voted for that redneck and angry president that created endless suffering to the world.
I heard most of them are so angry that most likely will suffer cardiac arrest in their 40's. No pace maker is going to be powerful enough to overcome the rage these people do to themselves. Like El Busto presidente said > good ridden! :)
Bodhiratna
Posted by: Bodhiratna | February 10, 2009 at 12:23 PM