I worked with the MBTI (Myers Briggs Type Indicator) for twenty years. No measuring of human personalities will be perfect, but this has played out both in my personal life and working with large groups of people enough to know it has some validity.

We are born incredibly different in the way our minds work, what we are good at, what they focus on, and those differences influence our choice of careers, mates, hobbies, and politics. Our family of origin will influence these more strongly for some personalities than others.

We did not get a vote. There are both strengths and weaknesses to every personality type.

God made us this way for a reason.  Both ways are needed for balance and effectiveness and learning to love across our differences is what Jesus was about.

Jesus raised the bar with his willingness to love those different from him including the enemy soldier and to even forgive those that could not understand and accept that, so crucified him.

The root of all evil is fear. And NO ONE is immune to fear. What we fear is different because of our inborn personality differences. We DID NOT get a vote on this.

Throughout history men who use power to dull their human fears have abused it. 

They are still abusing it.  And their strongest weapon is turning people against one another by playing on their fears.

They legitimize our fears to use them to divide and conquer us.

Sadly we are witnessing this right now in the best form of government humanity has developed. No system is perfect, because humanity is not perfect. But our Democratic government has been hijacked by the unbelievably rich who have no personal understanding or sympathy with those who have to struggle to just keep themselves and their families alive.

Because of our differing fears, we have enabled this.

Some people are born with minds that both question the status quo and look ahead to consequences from it. These minds worry about the planet and work to find solutions to the problems they see coming. They worry about people all over the planet, often more than the ones right in front of them. Their fears are about what affects all. And they don’t fear those different from them physically and culturally.

Others trust tradition and what they know firsthand. They are only truly comfortable with the familiar.  They will literally lay down their lives for those they understand. They are incredibly kind, but afraid of the unfamiliar and different.

Our different fears control us and divide us. And they make us all vulnerable to the power hungry.

BOTH sides’ fears are legitimate.  Both sides’ fears divide us and defeat us because we cannot understand the others’ and that way work to minimize the actual threats feared by each.

Nothing is perfect. There are no perfect solutions or protections from all of our varied, but legitimate fears. But unless we work together it simply isn’t going to matter, because we are ALL going to lose both our freedom and our planet.

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