He developed a philosophy he called Triads, which involved ordering all experiences of life into three-sided engagements — friend, enemy, stranger; advance, retreat, remain still — and acting according to which reference seemed to apply.
Out-group is bad: competitor, enemy, stranger, evil and worshipper of idols.
The word "Apache" -- the tribal name for N'de people -- originally came from the Zuni word "apachu," a derogatory term that means "enemy strangers".
In When Science Meets Religion: Enemies, Strangers, or Partners?
She finishes performing, hands me the microphone and says, "Was that okay?" Friends and family, yours, enemies, strangers in every argument in every encounter, every exchange I will tell you, they all want to know one thing: was that okay?
Fantasising about killing – himself, others, enemies, strangers, whatever – is another Marilyn Manson trademark and I'm wondering how to raise this when he starts telling me, in his circumlocutory way, about his mother's death.
There was not a hint of tension or awkwardness in the room of 200 people, many who would have been enemies, strangers and/or considered monsters not long ago.
Anyone outside the bubble is muted and considered to be an enemy, a stranger — someone not worthy of being understood, only of being condemned.
The training, based on the Tibetan Buddhist practice of lojong, consists of cognitive exercises that strengthen students' attention and explore the nature of suffering how it arises in ourselves and others, of human interdependence, and of the randomness of labels that we assign to other people (e.g., friend vs. enemy vs. stranger).
Cab drivers named Muhammad were now feared as the enemy within; strangers on the street were improbably embraced like family under a canopy of fliers for the missing.
The innovators here are emerging societies and alternative communities -- not "kin-enemies" but alien, "stranger-enemies".
