Reply #129: Thank you for this thread, bleever, and also all the people who added

[Nothing Without Hope]

their share of hope and FORWARD-looking energy. We need this very much.

I believe, too.

I know that, for the majority of people, being KIND feels good and so will spread if it isn't punished. Kindness is contagious, maybe even moreso than the hate and fear by which the monsters seek to manipulate all the good people who fill this country.

In the same way, forming a COMMUNITY of wide-awake individuals sharing goals, sources of learning and beauty, and discoveries feels good. There is no comparison with the blind black isolation the monsters seek to impose in order to overwhelm the many with the power of the few.

You don't have to be "trying to be good" according to a codified religion for kindness and sharing to feel good. It is part of the heart of all of us (except those sad, sick people who are for whatever reason incapable) and it is at the basis of the best hopes for a world future. We are built from the inside out for a community of glowing individuals linked through the soul.

I believe, and it is not a blind faith.