I re read your post and it is interesting -- I sincerely did not wish to draw attention to the word fear in your post I merely used the chance to underline love and fear.I see another opportunity to comment also in relation to making people aware of the road we travelled so to speak and I am leaning towards loving peolple into spontanoeus loving.I am aware of so many instances where people I know were loved to wholeness and indeed where regimes were toppled with love. I am aware that love is not only some "little" idea of a God it stands out on its own disarming and drawing us. I say this because it seems to get slotted in as a God thing and in many cases there are so many different Gods for people and no God for some and some have a God that perhaps they are trying to teach how to get it right. With absolutely no disrespect to anybodys God I am now clear that love stands out as a winner even if one has no God and dare I say it even if there never is a God. So I am really underlining the Global love that is not teachable but when we use it we find that people respond. In working with victims of abuse and violence I became aware that, to listen is to love, to ask the "terrorist" how do you feel now and perhaps keep his/her candle alight untill it is visable, is to love, to throw my arms around one of my foster daughters when she nearly choked another one of the girls(letting her know that I knew she was in pain and letting her feel it with my support) is to love. In that particular case it was the first time that she got in touch with it all - prior to that she got indifferent as people condemned her and gave out to her. So how to get a balance between talking to people and letting them know our ideas and our frustrations and indeed our hard efforts and to listen to them.I am aware that there are ways to minimise "terrorism" but they are largely untried. Every human being is loveable and loving. The idea "love your enemies" has been largly misused and misinterpreted. We have been led to believe that it is to do with " because God Said so" -- but it is not a command it is a loving suggestion that if we do all will be "well" and if we dont neither them or us will be well. So as I have talked on a bit am I really loving you at all. So the question is I suppose how to love our enemies and what is love. I have simply talked on and on and this is not listening so there you are. Pierce in top gear --slow down Pierce.