Apologies for the killings done for me
As a citizen of the United States I apologize for the killings around the world that go on in the name of my freedom. I do not believe in using obsolete tools to preserve my freedom. There is no duality in the world, good versus evil. Anyone has an infinite capacity to learn.The need to kill is a bandwidth problem, when the capacity to understand has reached its limit.
Killing Osama Bin Landen and Saddam Hussein was the old school for how to handle adversaries. The United States should stand for the highest ideals of mankind and that means letting go of killing, revenge and retaliation.
As the world turns, when will we be courageous enough to give up the old tricks?
The internet is mightier than the sword..
I remember reading ‘Brave New World’ by Aldous Huxley 40 years ago. It spoke of two worlds, with a fence in between. The outer world was left to its devices since they could not deal with it. The time for impenetrable fences is clearly over, humanity does not need to be divided anymore.
Most people have been ‘programmed’ for goodness by their parents and religion. Jesus preaches non-violence, Mohammed was a mediator for conflicts in his town from a young age, Hindus revere gods who represent higher values, etc . But religion has also been used to control minds and make people do what the higher ups/clergy/kings etc wanted them to do, ie. offer their lives in war for instance. Religion contains great heuristics for a good life, but we can now say that we can distill the great morals from all religions and leave out the mystical parts. So if your god tells you to kill you are clearly mistaken. No religion preaches violence. I remember GW Bush said Jesus told him it was OK to go to war with Iraq. Did he even read the bible? I sent a message to the Bush administration offering to be a mediator with Saddam Hussein. I asked them to stop war efforts in the name of Jesus and Allah. Never heard back. Did I forget to mention the important god?
There is no ‘Us versus Them’ anymore.
I was brought up Protestant and it did instill work ethic etc. But it also implied that women rank below men, which is clearly wrong. Men and women and non-determined are all equals as far as I am concerned. The guy who wrote the Genesis book thought he had a nice trick up his sleeve to make women do what he wanted, surely. I guess the early polygamy of the Mormon book falls in the same category. Separation of church and state is a good one, if the preachers just pull the rules out of their ass. Words are a powerful thing to put into some else’s mind. So question the motives.
Life is all about having a good moral compass, make sure you have a good one.
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