LEAVE IT TO PEEVER
Who
believes what?
-Bumper
sticker of the week: Soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love
stronger than violence.
-Quote of
the week: “Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people who come down to
some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent
among them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary.” Oscar Wilde
-Tell me
all your thoughts on God:
* What exactly is
God? Who exactly is God? A thought in our minds? Someone sitting out there,
directing everything from some heavenly place? A status quo concept to keep us
content with our lot here on Earth, hoping that someday God will give us our
just reward in death? I don’t know, but I for one have no intention of waiting
until said time. And why would a loving God let bad things happen to us? They
put a tag on it as God having given us “free will.” I would prefer a God that
didn’t do that. If God is all powerful, and everywhere, I’d like her to take a
little bit better care of us.
* “Hee, ah, oh
monodia. See hee cuchi, par en tor Iah.” That’s writing in tongues, which makes
about as much sense as speaking in tongues. If God gives you worthy words to
speak, they had better be legible and understandable. I like the football
players who bow down and pray after making a touchdown. What kind of show is
that? What are they praying for? That they just beat the other guy? Is the
other guy less worthy in God’s eye? Maybe he’s giving thanks that the 300lb guy
chasing him didn’t grab his neck and snap it like a twig. If the guy caught
him, than I could see a prayer. And why would God only bless America? Why not
God blessing everyone, or God blessing the world? God must be pretty patient to
put up with all this crap.
* The ten
commandments. There’s a thoughtful grouping of human errs. “Thou shall not
commit adultery.” That screws about 50% of the population. “Thou shall not
steal.” Steal what? I should never have “borrowed” that penny candy from the
service station when I was 10 years old. How about honoring your father and
mother? Even if they beat and molested you? Very forgiving. I doubt Moses would
have put up with that. “Thou shall not kill.” Anything? Why is it ok in time of
war? Exceptions are the name of this game. A just war. An eye for an eye. All
rationalizations. “Thou shall not covet thy neighbors wife, nor his man
servant... “ This sounds like the first homophobic declaration. The ox and the
ass are a whole other story. Everyone has broken one or another of these
commandments. Hell is sure going to be crowded.
-Ship of
fools:
* Why would we
continue to believe that war would ever result in peace and harmony? War only
produces hatred, misery and resentfulness.
* Justice is not much
more than a money making scheme for the state and counties. Money speaks, the
poor do time. Justice is a fine purchase, not unlike a good bottle of wine, or
a luxury car.
* The Earth is not
warming, it’s all just a liberal plot. For what exact purpose, I’m not entirely
sure. But, even if this is true, I still support the contention, if for no
other reason than to aggravate all the right-wing knuckleheads.
-There are
no easy answers. There are no easy problems. Everything seems connected to
everything else. The web of life has been woven tightly and reverberates with
every move. To focus on a single problem with hopes of solving it is a distant
memory. The complexity of our world requires problem solvers to look beyond
singular solutions and envision multiple answers to complex problems, any one
of which may need to be brought forward
only after it has been discussed how it will affect our
great-great-great grandchildren. Most of our problem solving takes into account
only us. We are not visionaries. We tend to be reactionaries. Ethanol is a good
example of our short-sightedness. So, far that matter, is our insistence that
war can bring about a peaceful world, or that guns can make us safer, or that
drugs will go away if we put everyone in jail. All are elementary
miscalculations made by short-sighted thinkers.