Over the past few days, i guess this has been the longest time since i have stayed away from blogging, i have been thinking quietly and now I am ready to scribble. You see, i was thinking of the events happening in the Middle East and if i should say anything of if i should be quiet. No one wants to venture an opinion because they are afraid of stepping on another's toes but by saying nothing we silenty agree to witness and go along with things...even if they are wrong. it reminds me of a certain donkey, Benjamin. For those who know of Animal Farm, they know of what i speak. I will speak today because the state of events now is threatening to ruin my happy-go-lucky attitude.
Today, i depressed myself very early in the morning by reading the S.Florida Sun-Sentinel. I've been noting the very biased opinion of the newspaper. The newspaper favors the Israeli side of the story and the only article about Lebanon's side was copied from the Chicago Tribune. Now, it is important to note that I do not support this war and therefore, I have strong opinions of both sides. I am beginning to think that--no actually i have thought this all along--that these people are just bloodthirsty. See, it does not matter which side wins. Eventually, one side will be destroyed or badly damaged and then the so-called "winners" will destroy themselves when they get bored again.
Whatever this fight was started for, it has now become a mockery of religion and "peacefulness." There have been many people who were ousted from their homeland whose race still pays the price of that displacement. Think of the native indians. They settle for some casinos and government help. I understand the holocast was a horrific thing and Hitler was most probably an anti-Christ but there comes a time when the fighting has to stop. Fences need to be mended.
Another thing is the mentalities of the people. I have my opinion on Muslims. There are few of them whom i like and they are my friends....yet, there are many who share Wahhabi mentality and I cannot begin to understand their string of thought. When i think of this mentality, the hopes of fences being mended are dim. This is a think-in-the-matchbox mentality (not box...that's too big and i cannot think of a box smaller than a matchbox). Hatred is a single maggot that brings the whole maggot family of violence. When one does not build, why does one want to destroy?
One holy book gives instructions about killing Jews but where did the hatred start. Why must they be killed? What is the justification? Because one race does not like the other??? this is the only religion that is intent on killing at such an enormous level. for a religon whose members claim it is a religion of peace, i have not seen much peacefulness. Maybe I am blind but I am looking around me and there is not much peace-evidence to draw from.
Normally, i will respect someone's beliefs but that respect only goes as far as the willingness to kill. I cannot and will not understand the need to kill for something material. A building or a place is still material even if it is deemed "holy." the only things worth fighting for are the things that you can take with you after you die. that leaves precious few except for a good name.
okay, meanwhile in the United States, who is funding Israel in the mission to destroy most of Lebanon (a secular state...with some off-shoot insurgent groups--Hezbollah there, Hamas elsewhere), our president seems to forget that there is trouble and we are going to be held responsible. he is busy vetoeing bills for Stem cell research (a move that pissed me off bigtime) and fighting against gay marriages in his "moral crusade." meanwhile, there are wars in Afghanistan, in Iraq, an almost nuclear standoff with two psychos, and an American-funded war in the mid-east. How's that for a man who fears God? what about the ten commandments? "Thou shalt not kill?" when did we lose sight of that. Where is the "but" in that statement?
See, for many of us, it is not about what guy wants to sleep with another guy or if parents want to save their newborns from potential diseases later on in life. It is about me being able to pay for the exorbitant school fees that seem to increase every semester. It is about trying to make as much money Why can't the battles be fought on designated battlegrounds and the murderous minds destroy themselves only? Why do the innocent people suffer the most for these fools' mentality? Anyway back to the US involvement. i wonder what kind of "moral crusader" is more opposed to gay marriages and stem cell research and yet has no concern about human life and the loss of it. Seems as if at the end of it all, he will be the president with the most blood on his hands! yesterday i was thinking to myself and i realized that the next elections are in 2008. this means that we only have to endure 2 more years...hopefully. I think for some, myself included, we do not care anymore which side wins...this is as bad as it gets..i doubt anyone else can be worse than this guy!
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