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Of course, like everyone else who is sane and rational and kind, Amy and
I sincerely wish for you and those you care about that 2011 will bring
for you all everything that you want and need for your highest good and
greatest joy.
However, like everyone else who is aware of what is going on in the
world as New Year's Day 2011 approached and has now receded into the
past, I'm very sad, a bit fearful and starting to get angry at all the
people in the world who want to add even more suffering to the world's
peoples when they could easily stop their madness and work for change in
a peaceful way.
The future belongs to those who would enhance and ensure life and
freedom, not take it away in the most evil of fashions with depraved
indifference to other people. No religion can long survive when its
followers make war and suicide the prime method to insure their
religion's survival, ask the Aztecs. Don't know any? That's why! The
Aztecs made perpetual war and human sacrifice their main occupation and
paid the price - a great civilization that failed.
A calamity like the terrorist cancer
on the world calls all religions into question. Religion is obviously a
good thing if it can bring solace and comfort of any dimension to the
bereaved, the sick and the injured.
I realize that the human mind seeks comfort from the threatening
randomness of sudden death and the eventual cessation of living that we
all face by trying to find some meaning in it. I understand this but my
brand of religion is not dependent on faith in underlying meaning to the
horror of life. I am a nice, moral person who is kind to everyone I
meet (until they show me I'm wasting my time) because I realize that we
are all in the same sinking boat and we might as well be nice to each
other because this might be our last moment and this might be all there
is. I'm not saying that I don't believe it is possible that there is
life after death - heck, I speak and listen to the dead all the time, or
it sure looks that way - but I am not so pompous and fearful that I
cannot admit that I may be wrong. There may be nothing except what we
see and experience and all the niceties of religion may be nothing more
than humanity's whistling past the graveyard.
I don't buy that "God/dess works in mysterious ways" business. I
don't know about you, but terrorism and war, those
are all a bit too mysterious a way for any conscious deity to work -
that's more the way selfish, unfeeling murderers like the Islamist
terrorists work and I reject their actions as anywhere near religious or
useful in nature. And if anyone here is reading these words and
thinking that I either risk or deserve pain, suffering or death because
I've somehow slandered the noble jihadist lunatics trying to ensure
Islam's place in the world as a religion of peace (Ha!), then you prove
my point. What other religion could I say something against and have to
fear that I would be hurt or killed for it?
If I were a Muslim I'd be
ashamed of the people who had hijacked my peaceful religion and I would
do all that I could to make sure that these lunatics were prevented from
hurting anyone and giving my religion of peace a bad name. I haven't
been very impressed with the number of Muslims who've been cooperating
with the forces of peace and democracy. Are they afraid to speak because
they'll be hurt or killed? That's more reason that they all have to
stand up at the same time and take back their religion from its
hijackers. Freedom is not free and neither is religious freedom.
I am an American and I can say what I think without fear and anyone
who threatens people for what they say is a coward and on the wrong side
of history. I love history for what it can teach us so that we don't
screw up like so many before us have.
I am an Aquarius, a sign known for extremes like eccentricity and
genius, humanitarian ideals and a strange detachment from people. Though
our emotions are as strong and deep as anyone's, the way we deal with
them is quite different. In general, Aquarians detach from their
emotions to deal with them. That is why we can seem so cold when we come
up with some way or formula for dealing with a complicated situation;
we take emotion out of the equation both to see the situation clearly
and to figure out a way to prevent the problems from arising again.
Aquarians try to take out and use what is good from the past to solve
the problems of the present so the future will be brighter.
So my way of dealing with the immensity of the death and destruction
that is being force fed anyone who watches the news is to go back into
history and see what was done then. And you know what ancient cultures
like Sumeria, one of the most ancient cultures, used to do every New
Year? Their New Year's celebration was centered around the annual
retelling of the creation of our world and our race! It's very Aquarian
to rise that high above the concerns of the day when it is seen against
the backdrop of the creation of our world and our race, don't you think?
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