On a board with supposed intellectuals I find it lacking. I wish to talk a spell. Some of the older folk may not enjoy what I will say because your minds have begun to degrade into a linear pattern.
Noone here raises any real questions or answers. A few simpletons trying to substantiate their foolish beliefs.
Vietnam veterans hmm.. well to illustrate an initial point Bob Dylan's young genius will work well:
quote:
"There must be some way out of here," said the joker to the thief,
"There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief.
Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth,
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth."
Obviously there will be alot of you (probably the vast majority) that can't comprehend the words.
Wine is the blood of the one that is sacrificed in society justified through whatever cause. But the preservation of human life is only second to transcendance so these superficial causes like currency (wealth of a "country") or "freedom" (not a cause that is usually fought for)are inherently meaningless. Neglecting the truth preserving statement "nothing is of meaning" freedom is meaningless because in a government (especially through capitalism) , in a country there is no freedom if you submit to its standards, its laws. Moral laws must be decided by
you, not the government. Laws must be obeyed to protect human life not because of a force telling you to. I am a libertarian:
freedom is man. The "digging of the earth" is the burial of the person and "none of them,
none of you know what anything is worth. I have coined you people "systemites" and there you will stay I suppose, unless you
exercise good will.
Why have I come back? I have decided you all are worth my time because I value human life (lucky you).
Someone should start a thread on identity because I guess human drama and individualism is inescapable.
Back to my truth preserving point:
Understand,
As long as each of us continue to submit ourselves to the society and its wars and its murder we are not free, and words cannot console the tragic casualties of war.
Do not any of you understand? As we sit in the lap of luxury we are born into only more will die.
What gives you the right to be rich, to be American?
What gives them the right to Die, to be an Iraqi?
It is neither moral to talk to a vet or to not talk to a vet it is moral to first transcend existence to be
above this existencethen it is do whatever one can to preserve human life.
These objectives go hand in hand. One can not be complete without the other.
One must transcend and one must do good for others.
And doing good for others matters it is not meaningless, for we are not me, you, American, Iraqi, Muslim, Christian WE ARE BUT ONE.
We are all connected, your plight is my plight, Christ said you hurt hi when you hurt another. This is true. Do good to everyone for when you harm another you harm yourself. We are all here, we all exist, we each share the same experience, WE ARE ONE.
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