Well...it's been a while. SO much going on...SO much thinking...SO much reflecting. I guess the end of the year brings such things. I have big plans for next year but unfortunately, I cannot even spring into action until then.
I took a 3-day hiatus from all electronic means of communication to pay my respects to those beautiful and important lives lost in the Newtown massacre. When I got back on, I could not BELIEVE what I was reading on FB and Twitter about "gun laws" and the headlines that read "KKK Counterprotests Westboro Church Picketing School Shooting Scene" with pictures of CHILDREN holding signs that read "Pray for more dead soldiers" "God Hates Fags" and all manner of CRAP like that. I couldn't help but think how hatred is now turning on its own...and I had to ALMOST chuckle a bit. However, it also makes me sad to think that our FREEDOM allows GARBAGE like this to push its agenda to the point of moral desecration because EVERYONE has a right to their opinion. If you want my opinion, I think they should outlaw the internet, video games, and cell phones..and pretty much all of those NICE little gadgets that make everyone SO inhuman. I could live without them...oh wait...I ALREADY HAVE. I guess that ANYTHING these days could be used for evil though...when its founds its way into the wrong hands...I mean, one person could open a can of veggies for dinner and look at the empty can and lid as recyclable or garbage, and another person could choose to use the lid as a weapon to slice someone's throat with. What the hell are people thinking these days...and what the hell makes them think this way. ANYTHING within your vision field could be used to do harm to someone, I suppose...which is why the "gun law" thing doesn't make any sense...people are beaten with blunt objects, bats, hammers, etc...the list goes on and on...many lives are lost each year in car accidents...it isn't so much the WEAPON...it is the MIND and HANDS it falls into.
Never before in my life have I seen such a population of unconscionable people exhibiting such unscrupulous behavior. It is almost scary to think that ANY ONE of us has the propensity to do these kind of things. We all have the power, we all have a bent toward anger, revenge, resentment, and entitlement. We all get depressed, feel hopeless at times...and neither punishment or the threat of punishment, the loss of freedom, or possibly your life to rectify taking the lives of others seems to deter this unbridled passion of some to harm others, disrespect others' rights, walk on their integrity, or rob them of their innocence...
If this isn't PROOF that there is a part of ourselves that is separate from and higher than the human nature, I don't know what is. Some think of killing, raping, lying, manipulating, and stealing the same way another looks at that hot fudge sundae they've been craving for days. One makes themselves that sundae to satiate that craving and one beats the shit out of his wife to satiate his...or takes that hit of crack...or sits hours on end shooting people on a video game...OR...desecrates the memory of a fallen soldier, uses GOD as a means to spread hatred, or the color of one's skin to justify physical harm, or walks into a grade school with a gun with every intention of using it to destroy.
There is EVIL spirit in this world...like it or not, believe it or not..it exists. It is scriptural, it is more evident now than ever and it is the higher part of one's psyche controlling what he/she thinks, says, and does. Just like there is good spirit in this world controlling what another things, does, and says. Greed, control, pride, and COWARDESS are the traits of evil...and even if the DISPLAY is that of GOOD, honest, integral, and thoughtful...it cannot be concealed forever...which is also scriptural. Lest we forget the "disguise" of the wicked---very cunning, very convincing, very enticing and each one has its MARK...and usually...it is NEVER anyone it's own size. It is always someone weaker, someone kinder, someone more trusting. Key words here are "IT" and "ONE."
And it will always leave behind an IMMENSE amount of confusion..where we are all shaking our heads, crying, mourning, lashing out at an object of blame--which is so far removed from the issue. It isn't guns, it isn't the wrong president, it isn't the haves and have-nots. It is a society willingly rendering itself to being puppeteered by the powers that be because they believe that these powers make their lives EASIER, more efficient, more exciting, more advanced, more of everything better. It is a society who has lost the willingness to stand and walk on their own two feet because it is easier for someTHING else to pull their strings, control their minds, their actions, their lives. It is a place where children are being taught gadgetry over the development of character. There is no real communication going on anymore unless there is a button to push and a light that goes on and off. And we all consume, we all buy, we put a cell phone, gaming system, internet usage into the hands of our children before they are taught how to PROPERLY communicate and interact with OTHER PEOPLE. We encourage a LOVE AFFAIR with the quick fix and inanimate.
I think we need to really pull our heads out of our asses here and stop BLAMING irrelevant shit for the state of mind WE are allowing and participating in creating...it won't stop until WE stop BUYING it.
If you look at ANY of the ancient ruins...that were constructed BC, the precision, the workmanship, the complexity of what it must have taken to design, construct, and finish such things made of stone...just THINK about it for a moment...there were no diamond saws, no mechanical hoists, no intricately designed ELECTRIC tools...THEIR MINDS were FAR MORE ADVANCED than ours...Technology may be advancing...but really, it is just taking the PLACE of our minds. The ancients were FAR more in tune with the elements of nature...the source...whatever you choose to call it and how these elements were intended to be utilized. We are so far removed from anything NATURAL... It takes years of education for someone to become an engineer...EVERYONE in ancient times was an engineer...and there was no formal education, no computers. The simpler life becomes FOR us...the more brain dead we become. The zombie Apocalypse isn't such a far-out idea, really. The more we have...the LESS we ARE.
So the next time anyone wants to go ranting and raving about "weapon control"...just remember, that weapons have been around since the dawn of time, but were used for a different purpose. Also remember this....the hands that have CREATED the MINDS we abhor are not going to do ANYTHING to really solve the problem--so stop barking at the government. It starts under your own roof...in your neighborhood, in your community...and you came into this world with a clean slate, a brilliant mind, an insatiable curiosity and urge to create. Is it worth dulling it for convenience? It may just be a matter of life or death...oh...wait...IT IS.
