The Threatened "Could we have lunch?"
The Decider "No"
The Threatened "May I send you some Pistachio nuts?"
The Decider "No"
The Threatened "Would you like to kill me, my family, lots of children, women, men and our younger generation and take all our resources under your supervision?"
The Decider "Now your talkin, get on the floor!"
I don't know where religion came up with the idea that vengeance, retaliation and revenge was a great characteristic for a Deity and one that was so well advised to follow. In practical fact, few really practice the religion of their guru. They find ways around it so they can manipulate the results and take the short cuts they wish for personal gain, power and prestige, and yet retain a form of the religion that they must appease to get selected or elected in the first place. Smoke and mirrors, masks and make-up...it's what most "World Leaders" and human beings who profess to know and need to propel them to places of authority and power use against aveage humans.
No one seems to notice that when Moses is said to have come down the mountain with the Big Ten, one of which said, "Thou shalt not kill," and before reading them to the troops, got pissed off at the people for wondering where he had been, and had "every man slay his neighbor and in that day about 3000 perished," and then went back to explaining the wonderful new Law of God he had been given by the Deity Himself! I guess getting even trumps getting enlightened every time.
The fact is that it does not work and no one is ever satisfied that enough is enough. Who gives up their last son and says they no longer wish to take another man's son to pay him back? Who then says "I will if you will," and they will! Who loses a tooth and does not wish to retaliate by punching out all the teeth of the attacker? Who gets their eye poked and doesn't wish to totally blind the poker? Well we did have the example of a Pope who forgave the man who shot him in a very dramatic scene in the man's cell. But remember, the Pope is a Professional forgiver! It's not like he can demand to go in and shoot the man twice for him shooting him once! No one, and certainly no one in this administration, has the insight or foresight to try a new way that excludes the idea of being the bully and getting even. Of course a more pure motive and heart would go a long way too.
What a different world it might be today if men had no agendas and that when 9-11 came calling we had an enlightened leader who was not connected like a mass of worms in a can to other plans and masters. The buck might stop with someone, somewhere, but vengeance, retaliation and revenge seems to be what humans demand and we get over and over what we see today... blood, anquish, hatred, car bombs, depleted uranium by the ton, birth defects, cancers and terrorism we never would have had if there was a genuine leader in place in all these countries, ours included. As long as "God told me attack Sadaam and I did," is the mentality, (how scary is this?) and my YHVH can woop your Allah, is the stupidity that rules in the minds of world leadership, we're in for hell on earth...again and again and again, worldcrap without end. I'm not so sure they hate our freedoms as much as our government hates our freedoms!
I know I'd feel a lot better if our current President conferred with the Dali Lama more frequently instead of the Boys of Revelation and those of Evangelical Zionist Christianity gone nuts. Does the President confer with anyone that doesn't already agree with him? I don't think sooooo.
I know...I'm too idealisitc and don't understand a thing about how people end up where they do in places of power and what's really going on. Ok, well maybe I am not letting on to as much as I do know. But it's past time... way past time, to replace a Deity and His chosen religio-political minions who believe vengeance, retaliation and revenge are the fruits of their Holy Spirit that will bring their idea of the Kingdom of God upon us, for us all to regret. Alas, this President knows that humans and fish can coexist but has yet to prove he understands the need for humans to do so as well.
Any Presidential candidates out there got any better ideas than what's not working, or are you all really just the other side of the same coin?
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