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Humanity's Most Ancient New Year's Ritual
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 2005 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 2005 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 events of the final days of 2004 were immense in their scale and impact on the peoples of the world in their unimaginable horror, suffering and sorrow. When seen against the backdrop of this most unnatural natural disaster, I am even more disgusted and strangely insulted by the literal death throws of the moribund Wahhabi extremists and all the Islamists whose brand of Islamic religion's doomed attempt to kill and brutalize its way to relevance and power in Iraq especially but almost everywhere around the world in the form of terrorism, murder and intimidation.
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 tsunami's devastation and 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.
But it is equally obvious that there is no God or Goddess who is sitting around somewhere and suddenly wants 155,000 people to have their lives snuffed out and millions more made miserable by the December 26th Sumatran Earthquake and the resulting tsunami (great harbor wave) or to have innocent people blown to bits, maimed or have their lives ruined by war or terrorism in any form.
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.
It is true that all of this suffering has the potential to bring the world closer together in the understanding that we are all one. However, do we really need such inconceivable horror to make the world a better place when a couple of hours of serious consideration could reveal to anyone that if we all were kind to each other the world would be a better place?
I don't buy that "God/dess works in mysterious ways" business. I don't know about you, but natural disasters and 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?
So, do you want to know how our world and our race were created? If you do, please email me at info@TheEnchantedWorld.com and I'll start a multi-part series of blogs giving you the truth about where we come from and maybe, in true Aquarian fashion, that will help us with where we are now and where we're going!
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