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Rejoicing over a man's death
MindGate
United States Veteran
Evil, stupidity, anger, selfishness, greed, etc, just seems to be flourishing all over the globe.
People are rejoicing over a mans death.
There doesn't seem to be any prominent progression in the fields of (certain) abortion, homosexual marriage, or drug legalization in the USA or Canada.
Conservatives won Canada. Shits gonna happen there.
The United States doesn't seem much better. The gap between Church and State seems to be closing as well. Candidate Mitt Romney doesn't believe there is a separation at all.
Fighting is going on in the world over a thing thats supposed to bring peace and happiness: religion.
My fellow peers are ignorant people. Comments such as, "Yes! Another towelhead dead in response to bin Laden)! Time for Obama!" and "Bullets don't cost much. Lets kill all the prisoners. It'll save us money," can be heard from nearly every mouth.
There are people being murdered, tortured, and raped all over the globe.
The idea of Death and Destruction are being thrown at us at every turn, in regards to doomsday.
I... just sit here and meditate.
Just nothing good seems to be happening.
None of this stuff directly seems to affect me at all.
Yet, it still hurts. I feel others pain, in a sense.
Though, its more of an anger inside, of the injustice.
I'm just a kid. I can't do shit.
And by writing this, I seem like an emo..
Lose lose situation.
People are rejoicing over a mans death.
There doesn't seem to be any prominent progression in the fields of (certain) abortion, homosexual marriage, or drug legalization in the USA or Canada.
Conservatives won Canada. Shits gonna happen there.
The United States doesn't seem much better. The gap between Church and State seems to be closing as well. Candidate Mitt Romney doesn't believe there is a separation at all.
Fighting is going on in the world over a thing thats supposed to bring peace and happiness: religion.
My fellow peers are ignorant people. Comments such as, "Yes! Another towelhead dead in response to bin Laden)! Time for Obama!" and "Bullets don't cost much. Lets kill all the prisoners. It'll save us money," can be heard from nearly every mouth.
There are people being murdered, tortured, and raped all over the globe.
The idea of Death and Destruction are being thrown at us at every turn, in regards to doomsday.
I... just sit here and meditate.
Just nothing good seems to be happening.
None of this stuff directly seems to affect me at all.
Yet, it still hurts. I feel others pain, in a sense.
Though, its more of an anger inside, of the injustice.
I'm just a kid. I can't do shit.
And by writing this, I seem like an emo..
Lose lose situation.
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raise consciousness and work on yourself, then share your presence with the world.
all we can do, other than the normal conventional stuff like voting and such.
Who would we be without our worries?
It's a good question ... but, as I say, not always an easy one.
And, when I was a kid, I wasn't living through the Great Depression or World War II.
Each generation has its own issues, crises, fears, but I'm not sure things get worse. It's just a new set of problems. And we thought like you did. We were idealistic. And then we became somewhat like our parents.
And just to show you how things don't really change...on the same date (different years), my parents celebrated the death of Adolph Hitler.
There are still lots of things in life to enjoy. You can still find areas where you can make a difference.
Oh, and by the way, some of us are not celebrating that our army killed a man, but we are celebrating that an evil man is no longer walking the earth killing people and ruining lives. There is a difference.
...and did I mention, you're smart? That helps. Running-for-office-wise, I mean.
Even though I was just like the OP years ago?:)
That is why the planet/world is in the state it is.
USA is not unique.
Thai & Cambodian soldiers are killing each other
over a small patch of land around an ancient temple.
Note that they are not fighting for the temple, it
belongs to Cambodia. Just the access road to the temple.
I agree with taiyaki. We can all work on ourselves first, this is the basis of practice. Then after that what you do and say will be good.
Keep up your practice.
Best wishes,
Abu
Mindgate, you seem to really be getting caught in the world of appearances. For instance, you seem to have compassion for Osama, who killed people out of fear and anger. That's great, I think compassion is a noble response.
However, you don't seem to have compassion for your neighbors, who are generally good people, whose fears and anger manifest in ways such as "towelhead dead" or "bullets are cheap". Instead, you seem to have fear and anger for them.
If you really wish to cut the cycle, consider looking at the thoughts that arise in your mind such as "ignorant people" as an expression of your own delusion, your judging, your own ignorance. People aren't ignorant, there is no static quality to people... they're changing all the time. By stilling your criticism, you'll be in a great place to say something helpful at the right time.
Our old way of dealing with it is disappearing. Nations can't just invade and conquer and take what other nations have anymore to solve their problems, because there's not enough to go around no matter where you look. There are no great untapped wilderness areas that can do more than sitck a bandaid on the problem.
So people are afraid, and that brings out the worse in them. People who are on top right now are desperately clinging to their privilage, while people already without are just desperate.
But the people undergoing the plagues during the European dark ages could never imagine the wonders of today and how many people in the world demanded and got change, in the end. Messy, bloody, sometimes hard fought, but lessons were learned. The seeds of something better are still there, being planted today. It only remains to be seen how many tears and how much blood it takes before the next great civilization stands on our shoulders.
That's what I tell myself, when I get too depressed about what's happening today.