Talk:Hundred Year War/@comment-201.42.190.134-20120219000014/@comment-3338975-20120313044757

Except you don't always have those feelings at first - it's human nature not to - and so the words (Jesus's, not mine) were apparently framed around what one would have to do in the mean time, which is to temporarily go against one's own nature and do good things for those one despises, until the good works one does for them transforms one's view of them into something postive. It's in the interrum period that the phrase really fits, feeling-wise; there's also the fact that from the outside, this change of stance may not effect much on a larger scale and one may still seem to have certain enemies because one identifies with a larger culture which hates the oppressing force (or the enslaved people; the oppressors typically despise the enslaved as well) and hasn't quite been able to transform it just yet.