Okay, so I'm not high. But if I was, at least I'd have an excuse for posting this kind of crap.
Fuckin' people baffle me. We're all so wrapped up in ourselves, our immediate surroundings. Take this whole mideast thing. It basically all boils down to religion (for the major players involved), and I find that pretty pitiful.
I mean, modern man looks down through history at Greek and Roman mythology, Viking lore, and Native American traditions and writes them off as merely fairy tales. Something used to explain simple things like weather patterns by a race of unsophisticated barbarian who didn't have the brains to figure out how to rig up a super doppler in the village square. And yet the same haughty people don't put their religions up on a pedestal. You're telling me that you believe the being that created the universe out of nothing snapped his fingers and made a woman pregnant with his child, who suffered death and rose again so that we can all do the same when we die? Really, people - let's be honest; that sounds just as fantasic as any lore or mythology I've ever studied; and that's only the tip of the iceberg. I won't even get into the whole Moses thing; I mean, the Old Testament reads like a frickin acid trip. And just as the ancients did, so many people today take their religion and apply it to concrete events. Like war.
Listen, I'm not anti religion or anything - I think it serves an important purpose in developing a socities moral and ethical laws - in conjunction with the idea of tolerance. But religion has no place in determining events or making decisions in the tangible world. Religion isn't used to predict the weather becuase weather isn't some abstract, metaphysical phenomenon; just like foreign policy. People should have kept their religion's jurisdiction over the metaphysical - using it to develop your moral fiber and build a relationship with their God. But no, we couldn't do that. We had to use it to explain and support irrational decisions in a rational landscape. And here we are, turning once more 'round the wheel of progress, reaping the benefits of religion run rampant: fascism, totalitarianism, and war.
I'm not so sure it boils down to religion. On the part of the child-like arabs, they're 500 years behind western civilization. Quite literally.
That breeds jealousy and contempt and hatred. They may be siting on oil, but we taught them how to pump it out of the ground. They hadn't a clue.
Now religion is an excuse...
On the part of the Israeli's, well, they don't wish to be persecuted any longer, and they certainly don't wish to pushed into the sea by a primitive people who can't abide a decent civilization.
Broad strokes perhaps, but I can't help but notice a lack of arabs condeming terrorism.
And frankly, I hope the Israeli's continue to kill these Iranian supported fuckers by the bushel basket.
I've felt that way about the Muslim nation being immature, especially in the ways of the world. Take for example those cartoons that inflamed them all, petty lame lampoons and they were burning down buildings and issuing death threats. And then stirring their own people up even more by creating phony cartoons of the prophet Mohammed. How many times have their been sacreligious drawings of the Crucifix ? Do they flip out and burn buildings? Not anymore, but there was a time you would have lost your head at the gallows!
Reminds me of the folk in Newfoundland that had no road into their town , when the first cars came into their town they were just slackjawed. And that was only about 10 years ago. Naive and immaturity is kind of neat except in the fundamental Muslim world where it's amplified by violence and intolerance to any way of life but their own.
I'd challenge the idea that a person needs to believe in magic in order to be moral or to make every kiss the horn of the unicorn in order to build a society that respects individual rights...
But I think everyone knows I'm anti-religion.
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