RE: Little Sara. Just why; humans? you're criminals.
October 25, 2017 at 10:56 am
(This post was last modified: October 25, 2017 at 11:44 am by WinterHold.)
(October 25, 2017 at 8:00 am)Brian37 Wrote: Humans love to draw lines and treat each other as a separate species, but the truth is, no matter where we are from, what political labels, religious labels or economic ideology we hold, we have never been a separate species.
I think the world needs more museums like that of the Holocaust Museum in D.C. NO, not to play favorites to any label, but a global museum to all human cruelty as a lesson as to what not to do to our fellow humans.
We need to teach things like the horrible institution of slavery, the genocide of Native Americans. But also the Colonial brutality of Britain on India. The tribal religious brutality between Christians and Muslims in Africa. The brutality of Jews on Palestine. The brutality of monsters like Po Pot.
None of thee above is singling out one religion.
I went to a Japanese History Museum in Yokohama, and it depicted their conflicts from the middle ages up through this century. It showed the brutality of war in it's conflicts with other Asian countries but especially China. China, I am quite sure they'd paint a different picture in their Museums.
I know my fellow humans are extremely capable of great compassion, but unfortunately we dont widely enough see the long term global picture.
We need more peace, not more war. We need more diplomacy not more nukes.
The balded part is words of gold; Brian.
I agree. We as humans need to see what others went through, and what we can go through also. The labels people take remind me of an inner ego and a passion for glory that is just destructive.
The pride humans take in mere flags and colors is just disgusting; self-righteousness because of a religious choice or a tribal allegiance is sicker, sometimes I feel people get drunk on false pride.
I would totally support a place that collects the memories of all our fallen in massacres and genocides. Maybe a place like that would remind us of the numbers killed and burned for stupid reasons.
Japan had a very terrifying history if you ask me; the wars between the Samurai clans are just brutal, joining a great culture like that with all the blood shedding just makes rethink human capability of maintaining a peaceful life. No; believe me people will always fight. No matter what. Even for fun
(October 25, 2017 at 10:31 am)Khemikal Wrote: There's a trend, with you, in blaming anything but religion for whatever ails the world, even when what;s ailing any given people seems fairly limited to a region under the influence of a particular religion. Of blaming men for what men cannot practically affect, while excusing the almighty object of your infatuation for what it could if it were anything other than a fantasy.
Similarly, the notion of our current food systems being capable of feeding everyone is a fantasy. Yes, we produce more food than would be required, but the distribution of that resource, like the distribution of all resources, is uneven. That, Atlass, is not a situation that man created, nor is it a situation we've yet found a way to remedy. We are at least, for our part...trying.
It's how we found ourselves here, in this world, not a symptom of some evil rot in humanity.
My own "Religious Views" in my profile is a direct attack on religion! It's saying "I'm a Muslim; but not a Sunni nor Shiite..or in other words; Islam has nothing to do with Sunni and Shiite sects". I see that as a very severe attack on the 2 sects composing the majority of Muslims; which put me on the crosshair for so many religious people.
Of course; let's not forget my criticizing views of Christianity and Judaism. Actually; both contain the same bloodthirsty concepts in Shiite and Sunni sects of Islam.
Also; atheists don't escape the hammer of judgement; because the non-belief in punishment in the afterlife does indeed produce mentalities like Stalin.
So I'm almost against everybody; except people who do good. And on top of them; the Quran as the last source containing what God actually said. It's just a belief though. Still: believers didn't create the atomic bomb; irreligious secular governments did. And an attempt from a Shiite regime in the middle east. and a Sunni government near India.
The "almighty object" ignored here; is not the flip-flops of Bin Laden; but the tactical bombers and nuclear bombs of the "modern world".
Obese people are not trying to share food. I myself am a sinner, for leaving my french-fries to be thrown in the garbage yesterday without completing it along with the soda bottle. See the amounts of meat and rice thrown in the garbage in Saudi Arabia.
Humans are not even close from trying. Some of us try; but so many don't
(October 25, 2017 at 10:42 am)Khemikal Wrote: Cartoon caricatures of evil and comments on the fallen nature of man aren't ever going to provide the grounds for an accurate answer to the question of "why". Nor will they ever solve the problem, or even remotely suggest how to solve the problem.
If life is a test; then the problem might not be offered for a solution in the first place
It will never be solved. But life will always flow in ups and downs that ensure making a unique test with similar questions for every human, from Adam and Eve, to Judgement Day.
