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[ladynox25]

It's a measure of how busy my life has become lately that I only just now sat down at my computer and learned about London.

Will we *ever* learn? Will we *ever* wake up, open our eyes, and look around? Will we *ever* see that all the "differences" that we hate about each other, the "differences" that keep us apart, are no more or less than the uniqueness that makes every human being special? Will we *ever* understand that race/religion/belief/age/gender/sexual orientation/disability/ability doesn't matter, that we're all the same inside? That we are all just people? People with lives, with hopes, with dreams, with fears, with doubts, with loves, with hates, and yes, with problems?

How many bombings will it take? How many wars? How many shootings? How many drug overdoses? How many deaths and rapes and robberies and mutilations will be enough? How much carnage will we offer up as a sacrifice on the altars of hate, greed and envy?

Am I wrong to want a better world, with a better race of humans to inhabit it? Am I crazy to think that it might ever someday be possible? Am I crazy? Am I?

How many more headlines will I have to see? How many more times will I have to grieve for strangers I don't know?

God above, how much more can this planet take?

Comments

Re: Fences Make Good Neighbors

[texas-tiger.livejournal.com]

So basically, your answer boils down to: "Yes, you *are* crazy, sorry."

I appreciate your candor, although it's not likely to help my mood much. Especially since this issue seems to be at the core of my depressions.

But thanks anyway.

*hugs*

Crazy no, Idealist yes

[whiskeyrivers.livejournal.com]

Crazy implies madness, insanity, foolishness, unreasoning, deranged, or dangerous. I count you as none of those things.

It's clear that what you want is a better world, and the observation was that what you view as "better", and which I happen to agree with, is not in alignment with what the terrorists deem better by definition.

Consequently, a strugle ensues, as you each aim toward reaching your own goals in ways that seem right and moral to you. The problem is, the terrorist believes that causing people with opposing opinions of his world to suffer is righteous. His society, culture, and belief system all support this.

This incidently is why all paths can't lead to the same God. It is also the answer to "why can't we all just get along."

Until we share common beliefs, that can't happen. You either agree to disagree (which as we see, some viewpoints do not account for), or you try to attack the problem with logic and reason (a tool of the Western devil) or start hurting people as a way to strong arm people into your [Eastern] view out of fear.

Problem is, logically we've worked the problem through -- we know in advance that doesn't work. And, since it's not working, their only current recourse is to step up the program in despiration, or abandon it entirely. The latter, of course, is admitting defeat (another cultural concession that won't be had over this topic).

The question is, are you willing to hand over control of your emotional state to either the terrorists or our government? It's the same question one should ask when driving down the road and someone cuts you off.

To me, the answer is no. Worry about the things I can directly change. That doesn't mean ignore the problem, it means recognizing that your role in the grand scheme of things is different. Not insignificant, different.

Re: Crazy no, Idealist yes

[texas-tiger.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Walt.

Although I would take issue with the idea that strong-arming people out of fear is purely an Eastern way of doing things. We have all too much of a history here in the West of doing exactly that same thing.