Another Article on Pride, Beliefs, and Shoe Bombers.
Posted: Monday, January 25, 2010
by Kenny St.pierre
Recent articles have been posted by namely, Mogama and Gregory Lewis , relative to suicide bombings and who may or may not be to blame, and because I commented on Greg's piece a bit late, I thought I would relay my opinion here for a hopefully wider audience:
I have no interest in hurting or killing others for personal gain or to prove the intensity of my beliefs, yet I will find myself proudly voting for men to take office, who, once they get in, do everything against what I stand for. Therefore I am as guilty of being duped by them as Farouk was by his counterparts. It's easy to point fingers when pride tells us that "I'm better than he/she because "I" would/could never let anyone coerce me to such madness."
The truth is we are ALL a part of the madness, and the insanity comes from our beliefs!! We believe in the superiority of race, religion, political systems, fame, fortune, looks, intellectual studies, Gods, T.V. etc., and our pride tells us that whatever race we are, or whatever religion, riches, or political ideals we believe in and possess, make us the deserving righteous masters to rule others.
I was once at an art gallery (Rhode Island School of Design) viewing an artist work in which the woman painted a frightened mother ape embracing her young, while in the background men equipt with tanks, guns, bombs, and war planes were destroying everything in their sight. In other words, the ape had more sense to protect that which is sacred - LIFE - than we foolish humans do. We'll kill for money, land, oil, and worst of all BELIEFS! Anytime we put beliefs and ideals before life we are indeed the sickest of all animals, whether it be one man trying to bomb hundreds of innocents on a plane, or for the rest of us who go to the ballot box and vote for an as*hole like Bush. We are all murderers when we believe in such ideals or leaders. The only difference is in how we go about it.
As long as humans possess PRIDE and BELIEFS, we will always be guilty of the desensitization of ourselves and others, and again, that sort of ignorance adds up to all of us being guilty of murder, whether it be physical, spiritual, or psychological.
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Top-level comments on this article: (4 total)Very well stated, Kenny. This reminds me of the quote from George Bernard Shaw, "Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it."Thank you for sending me that quote Bruce. That was definitely what I was getting at.
Very well said KennyYou know I never buy newspapers and never have for the very reasons you state here, I do not wish to be 'brain washed'. I see media brain washing all around me. I know enough of what is going on though via bits of news I come across on TV and the Internet to not be ignorant but the result is my views do differ often from the 'educated by the media' majority.Thanks for the comment Leah.Yes, to be wise means to know the unhappy truth, and for those who choose to look the other way, "Ignorance is bliss.""Living is easy with eyes closed.Misunderstanding all you see." John Lennon
Some of us have chosen the "road less traveled."
Kenny
So true Kenny.The environment reflects the people who inhabit it. Life is like the body and the environment is like the shadow. When the body bends, the shadow bends also.I like that analogy! Thank you for your comment.Good work Kenny. Most of the world's sorrow down the ages is from good old-fashioned Greek hubris, and I wish our leaders would read the Iliad. Bush would say, where's Iliad? (he thinks it's a city).
Mr. Sammon. Any comment from you I regard highly. Thank you so much! You are the balls.
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