I sometimes wonder if Sunday mornings are God's way of apologising for the previous week, I have to admit I haven't been a big believer in a greater power above since school but I can see both sides of the coin, people feel the need to believe strongly in an after life and find it hard to accept that when we die we die, they think that surely for those at the top of the food chain there has to be more? It's an argument that we will never get the real answer to, so until then we are stuck with religion, though as recent events in Kenya have shown the whole of mankind would certainly be better off without any form of it.
I watch the fighting and bombing on TV at the moment with much dismay, I guess I am a pacifist, I prefer not to use violence to get my point across so it seems incredible to me that anyone would stoop to harm or even kill another human being for the sake of an imaginary friend or great redeemer. Just how difficult would it be for all the armies to lay down their weapons and walk away? The answer is not difficult at all for the people doing the fighting as they would be overjoyed to stop and go home to their loved ones. So the question is why don't they do it?
If you need an answer to that you need only to look at men who play the civilised card but really underneath have a hidden agenda. No-one who sends bombers over a city or sends humans with explosives into a packed shopping centre can ever be called civilised, they have stepped on to a path that is very difficult if not impossible to ever get off as the element and realities of war are soon forgotten and it becomes a matter of pride, be it a Nation or a band of terrorists as pride we all know is a much more lethal weapon than any suicide bomber or fighter aircraft.
History has shown us that the gun leads to the table, so why don't we cut out the middle man and go straight to the latter to sort out our differences? Alas it will never happen while we have a multi-million pound arms industry, that is akin to the likes of drugs cartels, they feed on misery and if there is not enough fighting going on then money will be paid to ensure some is soon started, it's the way of the world. If you have noticed an underlying theme through this piece then you won't be wrong, money is the root of all evil and it has ensured that wars have a never ending place in our society, be it between two drugs gangs or two super powers you can rest assured money and financial gain will be embroiled in the mix, greed knows no limits.
So where does that leave someone like me who see's the obvious? Well actually as much as I hate to say it my thoughts are worthless because I don't have millions of pounds and my voice is far too small to be heard, I am the silent majority, one who sits back and sighs at the idiosyncrasy of grown men killing women and children because of a religion or money, but it's something that has been a part of our society since we first picked up a club or a rock and lived in caves, its in our genes so it will never disappear from our society, but like John Lennon's vision in the song "Imagine" we peaceful bunch can dream about it, the reality however seems as far away as ever.
I watch the fighting and bombing on TV at the moment with much dismay, I guess I am a pacifist, I prefer not to use violence to get my point across so it seems incredible to me that anyone would stoop to harm or even kill another human being for the sake of an imaginary friend or great redeemer. Just how difficult would it be for all the armies to lay down their weapons and walk away? The answer is not difficult at all for the people doing the fighting as they would be overjoyed to stop and go home to their loved ones. So the question is why don't they do it?
If you need an answer to that you need only to look at men who play the civilised card but really underneath have a hidden agenda. No-one who sends bombers over a city or sends humans with explosives into a packed shopping centre can ever be called civilised, they have stepped on to a path that is very difficult if not impossible to ever get off as the element and realities of war are soon forgotten and it becomes a matter of pride, be it a Nation or a band of terrorists as pride we all know is a much more lethal weapon than any suicide bomber or fighter aircraft.
History has shown us that the gun leads to the table, so why don't we cut out the middle man and go straight to the latter to sort out our differences? Alas it will never happen while we have a multi-million pound arms industry, that is akin to the likes of drugs cartels, they feed on misery and if there is not enough fighting going on then money will be paid to ensure some is soon started, it's the way of the world. If you have noticed an underlying theme through this piece then you won't be wrong, money is the root of all evil and it has ensured that wars have a never ending place in our society, be it between two drugs gangs or two super powers you can rest assured money and financial gain will be embroiled in the mix, greed knows no limits.
So where does that leave someone like me who see's the obvious? Well actually as much as I hate to say it my thoughts are worthless because I don't have millions of pounds and my voice is far too small to be heard, I am the silent majority, one who sits back and sighs at the idiosyncrasy of grown men killing women and children because of a religion or money, but it's something that has been a part of our society since we first picked up a club or a rock and lived in caves, its in our genes so it will never disappear from our society, but like John Lennon's vision in the song "Imagine" we peaceful bunch can dream about it, the reality however seems as far away as ever.
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