John F. Kennedy - Nelson Mandela ∆ FAME ∞ GREATness ∆

 ∆ SIMPLICITY ∆

     Did a man get great because of himself,  despite himself? 

       Did a man get famous by himself?  

Did one become great at any time at all during one's life? 

By the handling of certain key events in his time? 

By the deflection or affection of events which in a manner of speaking,  moved Man's direction onto a different path? 

Or did a man, no different from any other men, get great because of his dying by another mad?  man's bullet via a successfully executed assassination? 

Or did a man due to his misfortune of being the victim of another's malevolence, malfeasance, malcontent receive greatness & acclaim because of his forbearance, persevering determination & complete absence of our natural human instinct of retaliatory vengefulness? 

Nelson Mandela by not actuating, engaging or launching into violent tooth & nail vengeful punitive retributory pay-back to his tormentors - in-actively conveyed GREATNess on himself!

 (George W. Bush's WAR on TERROR that evoked the ridicule, admonishment, even contempt that shadowed an otherwise potentially honorable presidency)

And even though GREATness is a  cherished, proud legacy to one's family, no one wishes for nor need this, not especially if accompanied by suffering,  loss, anguish, premature bereavement!

Is GREATness, FAME necessary at all as motivation in one's life?

How was one man who acted in a certain way accorded GREATness, whilst another for acts similar, vilified with infamy?

Though tons of literature, publications & opinions, have been generated  discouraging us from living our life with the sole aim to achieve GREATness; in fact exhorting everyone to lay back, smell all the roses, stop & laze through life; there is an equally just as massively huge amount of publications, spoken & unspoken, out there pushing us towards the opposite - achieve GREATness be FAMOUS !

«««President John F. Kennedy »»» 50 + years since,

& the just departed, unbending, indigenous son of an exotic, mysterious, sadly aggrieved, much bullied AFRICAN Continent 

««« Nelson Mandela »»»

both though acclaimed FAMOUS & GREAT, 

would as surely as there are XXXX,000,000,000,000 humans out there,  draw as many as XXXX,000,000,001 differing opinions concerning their FAME & GREATness.  

As creatures of a flawed system, we are encouraged to wake at the crack of dawn to get the worm!  

The worm -  knowing what's good for him, should wake after the crack of dawn?

As failed creatures we are exhorted to chase down every buck again inculcated with another preferred trait.

[What about chasing down the doe?  how else thenwould the deer species flourish if only bucks are chased down - fucked ]:)

Never passing a day with no sounds of pecuniary noises rattling the cash register - one more need in our everyday life!

The message is strident 

'earn' your keep.

More so in nations seemingly deprived, seemingly having less in whatever they should be having more of! 

Shit..who or what tells anyone what is the required, sanctioned, standard of attainment one is expected to follow? What if one, a fool, is so privileged as to be have all one's known, unknown, exotic & otherwise, needs fully supplied. One not even needing to breathe under one's own steam?

Would then that one be considered a less likely candidate for greatNESS? 

Since he won't have to wake at the crack of dawn to get the wake-later-than-crack-of-dawn worm? 

Nor  need he chase down the buck - would he then be disregarded as an industrious person? Unlikely to achieve greatNESS?

In the (?)holy  books it is mentioned 'one who does not work will not eat'.

What about one who does not crave to eat? Does that make one free also to not choose work since one don't crave  to eat?

«» Does a human have to justify his existence by bringing in the bacon? 

«» Does our existence and happiness or joy in plain "just living" have to be tied to other's expectations of achievements? 

«» Does our achievements have to be measured & assessed by our fellow peers' understanding of objectives which could be doubtfully unquantifiable because of differences in value systems?  

«» How about our own judgment, our own assessment of our own level of achievements, our own inclinations, our own wanting to go, or arrive at any peak, of our own choosing?

«» Does anyone have to justify his desired goals to his own conscience, to the expectations of his family, his nation, his people? 

«» What ideals of a hard working productive pull-his-weight-useful individual should one model oneself after?

«» In this life were we made by the One for this? 

«» Who was authorized to implant, implement this idea linking work & achievements & greatness & industriousness & conecting all that BS, glamorizing all that sweat, blood & wasted exhilarations of extended inertia to a Fulfilling Purposeful Life? 

«» Who said at all about Life having to have any Purpose or need to be fulfilling?

† Does it not sit well if we only eat when we feel hungry?

† And work cos we find joy in the effort? 

† Does it not sit well if we work only to be happy in the end products of what we are working at, and not as a means to a end - food? 

† Does it not sit well if we ecstasies & thrill at every gorgeous awesome cloud formation, at the glorious awesome sunsets and awesome glorious sunrises & do no other form of labor otherwise than to sing glorious JOY to Him at every awesome glorious rendifications He executes in the atmospheric tapestry daily? 

† Would that hurt anyone? Or would we break any law, if we only live to daily revel in the awesome splendors He regularly performs with His brushes in the stratospheres, ever more glorious in awesomeness?

† Does it not sit well if we brain-hibernatingly follow the lazily meandering line of pathologically industrious ants as they lug load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load of never ever enough supplies into their warehouses? And as we in motionless stillness get worked up & excited, without distabilizing our peaceful stupor, from our admiring of these insects' incessant hoarding ways, would THAT detract from our human destiny, or reduce our stature or reduce our dignity as a human in anyway? 

† If we did away with needing to work, would we then not be 'earning' our keep, to 'justify' our being given life, or be 'entitled' to our daily bread? And to achieve man's perception of 'GREATness' & 'FAME'?

† Or would all these exhortations about being gainfully engaged while alive bring one higher, nearer to anywhere? To a more glamorous, more awesome place?

† Would by not making use of our physical or mental abilities to 'work' be considered living a useless wasteful life? 

And does that (wasted) time given to every individual without pre-stated purpose or intent; benevolently by the GIVER,  have to be gainfully employed & put to productive purpose ? 

Is the glorified, noble, admired efforts of ours toward the (mindless) ant-like unceasing acquisition of - load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after   load of never ever enough materialistic resources, for striving & gaining, achieving of 'success', grabbing of fame, realizing fortunes, then qualify us to be counted as one of the GREATS? 

  

Is THAT our  "responsibility, our purpose" in being here? 

Is there a purpose or responsibility?

Would we have gained any inch advancing toward what?

∆ No no no this is not a tirade agains basic human industry!

∆ No no no not a rant against basic human enterprise!

∆ No no no this is not an opposing of the set social pattern of sustainable human living!

∆ No no no this isn't an opposing of any national patriotic objectives!

∆ No no no this isn't against capitalism.

∆ No no no no this isn't a terrorists's idea to bring the country to a halt by promoting zero growth!

∆ No no no this isn't about a revival of Flower Children's power!

∆ No no no this isn't about free sex, or free food or free condoms or free needles or free weed, or free anything, at any time - as nothing is, was or ever is FREE!

Everyone with intelligence recognizes the necessity and reliance of life itself on consumption;  being body bound no one can transcend that physical material need for food, sustenance, water, air, sex, fornication, sports, surfing, WWW, beer, fast cars, golf, iPhone 6,  AND other more basic, more essential human needs like a Ferrari or maybe an island in the tropics filled with sea sun surf sex ? :)

BUT need one go overboard over that?

Please someone, please inform that old couple, aged beyond human productive AND reproductive years, traumatized by life long exhortations from national economic-index-raising-propaganda; 

work-abused to the bone by psycho implanted misconcepts about the usefulness, the glorious role of human industriousness, the heroics of being a super 'bacon bring-homer', media reconditioned & completely psycho-tuned to the ant-like mindless over-drive.

Please tell that couple opposite the block, it is alright now, it is OK to not open the shutters of their small can't-even-make-the-monthly-rent, convenience store, so fucking early at the crack of dawn  

That it is OK to stop chasing the Key performance indices, or to try  raise  the nations self reliance on sustainable individual citizens' collective effort for the promoting of national integrity and mindless chase after non essentials!

Tell them no need to do any of that anymore!

NO need to strive, especially not, to even try acquire GREATness or be FAMEous!

Just live out what He so lovingly gave each of us. A precious LIFE for a short sojourn through an awesome, impossibly beautiful, wondrous place we call our home - planet earth!                                                                  

 ›››››You mean there are NO BETTER things to do besides work ‹‹‹‹‹

›››››››› NOTHING BETTER than to waste precious days of our brief being-ness in the trivial useless pursuit of  success & the attempts at greatness ‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹

All around us this awesomely designed, unimaginably beautiful, perfectly balanced place we call HOME is beckoning to us to

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Allah Tuhan God Yahweh Jehovah - who owns who :)

The One True God [whom I own]...

It is not of concern by what name you call God  -

   it is whether God hears your call.

It is not of concern if you believe in God -

   it is whether God believe in you!

It is not of concern what you think God is about  -

   it is what God think you are about.

It is not of concern how numerous are the followers of your Faith -

    it is how many of ANY faith, God accept as His.

It WAS NOT about you, nor your faith, nor your high priests.

It IS NOT about you, nor your faith, nor your high priests.

It WILL FOREVER NOT be about you, nor your faith, nor your high priests.

It WAS, it IS, it FOREVER SHALL BE about GOD.

God is not yours to own -

God owns you, to FUG around with if He so wishes!

God did not make you alone, you were an after thought - AFTER He made everything else! The worms, the mosquitoes, the insects, the fornicating fruit-flies, the wart-hogs, the huge marine leviathans, the slimy blobs crawling in the sewage sludge - then when these creatures amused HIM not sufficiently enough, HE thought of you….an after-thought!

The Sh*T has outgrown itself and thought it was the Lord!

And you said YOUR name was??

HAHAHA

Corner Stone reject..

   

The progress of any groupings of people has been dependent on individuals who had a slight edged over the rest. These were called 'leaders' - not because of any special Oxford Degrees or Kennel Pedigrees, (marks of the Beasts) but they had that extra 'ace' up their sleeves - which commoners mostly lack. 

    'Leaders' being not one genome more or less than anyone else, are as blur as anyone else, & some really have no idea where they were  leading -

   "In the kingdom of the blind the half blind is KING..."

History analysts will confirm; tho..

some were born 'great' with all the relevant credentials of lineage, education, grooming, perhaps even an additional "®" twisted double spliced Genome, some obviously 'unqualified' ones  were coincidentally (?Divinely) placed  at the 'CORRECT' spot when a vacuum needed to be filled, & for purposes no one will ever know, entrusted with the destiny of a race or nation. 

As believers of a Creator, whom some address as GOD, ALLAH, the Papas & the Mamas, Peter Paul & Mary, BAPA, Dad, STEVE, GATES, Ayahtollah; Guru, Sir, Sayang, HUNEE, Mr. President, eMeM, Ah KONG, et infinitum, et absurdum; all of us created beings, GIs (God's Issues), were gifted with basic "intelligence" aka common sense -  the ability to differentiate what is 'food' & 'shit'; to be able to know 'shame'  'dishonor'; & have the innate human decency to not try perfume overt despicably obvious misdeeds with pseudonyms to justify self glorification or dynasty building (note NASTY) when helming, ?leading fellow travelers on the road to our Destiny.

Despite the very necessary innate ability to think ''CORRECT-CORRECT-CORRECT-ly" :) CLICK here for Correct X 3 

to a greater extent is the need for 'honesty', the benign self inspired benevolence, the in-born 'idealism' to perform not for (usually unwarranted personal) gains - private hidden Swiss bank accounts, peer esteem, statues in Public squares for pigeons to shit on, named roads, public libraries, eye sore stones slabs erected in awkward locations; nor other unquantifiable, glorious purposes; but the advancing of the entrusted aspirations of the peoples one leads; be that as uncomplicatedly simple, yet spiritually appropriate, as to reach the next shelter to pay homage to God, or as super effort-ful (probably unnecessary) to fly to the outermost edge of the unknown Universe, or as mundane as to just feed their family till God brings everyone HOME.  

Unless defectively cooked while in the divine baking Oven most responsible  leaders despite being constrained by Human-ness, has generally,  fumblingly managed not to lead their respective peoples to the brink of extinction.

  

In any peoples' predicament of needing inspired effective leadership,  many certified failed, to-be-rejected miscreants, somehow would managed to escape the dragnet & the loop-holes of quality control filtering, & invariably be  'spot on' when the leadership "vacuum" needed to be filled  AND on their very parochial, tunnel visioned shoulders would invariably be Mis-placed the IR-responsibilities of leadership!

 Does anyone expect a worm,  given ascension to the throne,  ever wake to his own unworthiness & wormy nature & would not as per its wormy nature attempt to worm its way to ensure entrenchment of its WormNasty! (DieNasty)

Ask your friendly neighborhood history analyst ... for an educated confirmation.

 Most, man (even worms), given overwhelming power will unfailingly live up to, proving, reaffirming the cynic's unshakeable confidence in Man's fallen nature.

Few and far between are the super novas. 

Throughout the continuing saga of our presence here the preconceived misconcepts of leadership qualities i.e. super nova IQ brilliance, sterling credentials from IVY league Institutions, descent from a certain lineage - the line of Arumiayathum S. David, blue skinned yellow eyed GM super Race, from the Chosen Race (who chose?), has again & again been repeatedly debunked by our Maker.

        "The corner stone on which the building's foundation was based was the stone reject"

Thus if one were to see, assess & select leaders with eyes human, evaluate with wizardry yet M.A.N. gadgets, & technologically advance highly acclaimed instruments powered by ego-centric, materialistic, self profiting, monetary based values; invariably the 'leaders' chosen would lead ones' peoples to the sewage dump of Man's (romantically understood) HELL. A place where human spirit can not, has not, will not, & is never able to soar, take flight, to attain the heights to which it was made and meant to be. 

Why? 

As Conan the Bird brained yet faith filled 'Prayer Warrior' (woooa just love THAT word) said  :

GOK - God Only Knows

There is no time ..

Nothing like 

the passing 

of a friend, 

to shake us. 

More if he was 

our age. 

We know we'll die, 

one day.

That it could be sudden, 

  unannounced, like a thief 
in the night -  

not likely. 

We are sure, 

very confident we have time, 

even if we are almost there in years. 

Maybe that was fatal delusion.

That makes for regrets! 

We Need worry? No; 

Medical problems? 

Yes,  not life threatening. 

Medications, regular follow-ups 

will keep the Reaper at bay. 

Besides, feeling great, things going well.

 What can go wrong?

HE cannot be so unkind. 

Do we need to hurry? 

No. 

Make special time to make up? 

No need. We'd rather Wait.

 Hey the guy's is not such a 

nice fella anyway. 

Why bother? 

Do we want to say "I Love you"? 

No no Wait.. 

Resolve the grudges, the hurts, the aches; 
Wait..

for the right time.  

for the right day. 

for the right moment.

WAIT!

We have received jokes, 

of old age - its comical infirmities? 

Flags that should wake us, 
to our temporary-ness

we dismiss them, as jest. 

We deny our mortality
running out of time ….  not yet.   

Such happy fwds
 were fwd to an old classmate, 

And his response:   

"Good one!!!   

Why are we not meeting more often 

when we know our time 

is coming to end soon?   

call when you are in town

!!!   
:-)   

Did not call, 

did not meet.

Thought there is time yet, 

to see him, 

another day. 

Yesterday, he died.

The Saints have enemies as do the devils friends....

    It of course is the better choice to be true to ourselves -  remaining true to oneself, however is FAR from just holding on to what one's understanding of TRUE is. 

Truth is & always has been subjective - a snake is true to himself just by practicing snaki-ness, & a lamb would be holding to his true-ness by practicing meek-ness. 

Similarly a meek snake, or a snaky lamb would both not be true to themselves, though that might be a better scenario.

However when one is TRUE to the UNIVERSAL, ETERNAL (DIVINE?) TRUTH, then it becomes very, very difficult, almost impossible to deny or to defend values which are not reflective or representative of that TRUTH. Then snaki-ness is snaki-ness and meekness is meekness. 

Right IS Right and Wrong is inexcusable. AND any body else's version of truths, half truths or plain goddam lies; are a load of euphemistic Bull! In the same sense Justice - She has no other considerations other than just plain unadulterated, undefiled, unequivocal, positively uncompromising TRUTH!

Many children of great men, when making comments giving their take on their earthly parents, by defending or justifying their parents' conduct or misconduct, are in so doing rightly being filial offsprings. 

This does not at all set right misdeeds committed nor defile what's been done right by their parents. 

Thus in assessing a political leader's performance or effectiveness, the general benefits, gains, or demerits, the nation & its people have derived while being led (or misled) under the watch of the guy is what should be of paramount consideration. History should be drafted by unemotional historians based on cold factual historical events as should eulogies be weepingly filled with tearful syrupy love and devotional laments. 

Fairy tales and fictions should never be confused with the fact sheets on a leaders accomplishments or disastrous grandiose adventurism. 

Thus the accounts so often given on how loving a leader was as a parent or how sweet his smile when he looked on his fav grandson or how pathetic he cried when his favorite kitten died; Snakes, rapists,  Attila & his huns, as well as those in Alcatraz do the same, some even better(worse)!

Thus such testimonies could blind listeners to the tragedies, sufferings and extreme hardships the guy has visited & imposed on the country he led while alive & in power. Even if a leader was really great comments should be forthcoming from unbiased impartial parties.

How do you think the son  (if any)  of Hitler would gauge  his dad's 'performance'?

And  that might illustrate the point.

If Jesus were only a Man ...

     

*  The holy books and writings of the Ancients were not written particularly  for any Religion.

* If Jesus Christ were a Man, a mortal like us, would, should our faith in God be any less?

* The Crucifixion on the Cross  - was an enactment of the most painful,  frightening, event in any man's life; it purportedly was to emphasize the extent to which god will go, to establish his bond with man

* Does Resurrection makes the Dying on the Cross a non event for one?

If one could undo a harrowing life-taking event after a 3 day break, no matter how much  pain and torture & suffering  that even entails, it definitely would diminish the intensity of the SACRIFICE. The 'ease' of the reversal - from 'death' to "life" leaves a taste of triviality! If it were irreversible, an event complete in FINALITY perhaps it's significance and awesomeness might be better perceived!? 

IOU <click>

* Do we need to repay a debt to the  Maker when the debt outstanding to the Maker was only legal tender by the currency of his son's blood, who essentially is also himself - the father. Now need the fuss & melodrama  be  even initiated? Just a writing off of the outstanding would not be as dramatic or as earth shaking. 

    The entire biblical story of the virgin birth the crucifixion the dying and the resurrection  appear very likely a Man-contrived attempt to ingratiate the REST of Man, to an agenda yet not known nor completely finished nor plainly involves at all the divine. 

Through the centuries the plot evolves, twists, thickens & becomes more convoluted.

  

Over the centuries  tho multiple  redrafts, reconfigurations & shifts were inputted, the general direction still evidently appears to be the manipulation of Man for very human gain, much other Godliness were demonstrated along the way; by people with true godly values.  acts of godliness by such people loving believers has dignified, sanctified & glorified the initial (still) non-holy intent to corner God for use in Religion! These 'LOVE" from real good people with god spirit in them, imbue a feeling of authenticity  in the religion that indeed the institution is god-based, god-sanctioned, god-set!

One has to be aware if good things are done in the name of god - only GOOD, the organization is as it proclaims. Otherwise a spiritual audit in a sense is warranted.

Being limited by our intellectual, physical & other human deficiencies & inadequacies ; the likelihood of our ever coming to the answer or within grasp of the Entity which is not in our 'system or dimension', Who is not even near a similar level of our 'being-ness' is thus, almost zero, practically impossible. 

Perhaps Man has to move onto the next plane of 'being-ness' before that can be established.

Man's thoughts  dwelling on the Maker, has evolved into religions - Man's attempts to find a reason, cause or justification is  nobly perhaps to forge closer union, form a relationship with a Power which obviously appear benevolent to us, given He bothered to 'make' all these wonders!

In our quest for Him, there never will be an end point where the TRUTH will be arrived at.

We, simply, now, as humans, can never know HIM!

The next on our "to do" priority list, would be, during this our life experience, bring to reality values we believe are also of GOD

In so doing perhaps we might 'see' the LIGHT of HIM

Expect little guide, least from human-organized institutions of God.

The journey is long & arduously lonely.

God speed fellow journeymen.

FREE WILL -

    

  The prayer of a useless frustrated believer in the Creator, Maker, Designer of the entire Universe.

Anytime a created being prays it has to defer to Your Will. What that WILL is was NEVER revealed neither apparent nor even suggestive. Your LOVE, only presumed manifested through the supreme so claimed 'sacrifice' of the DIVINE 'life' of your Son who resurrected in 3 days. That itself made the dying a highly non event. If a  dying of a 'life'  is so easily reversed what's the huge effort on the dying? 

      A sacrifice is an act which bears great costs to the one making the offering. If an act which in three days reverses from a 'done' to its original 'undone' - what is that sacrifice called?

It's like eating, throwing up and eating again. Rather futile, effortless dramatizing of a meaningless act - pseudonymed as a 'Sacrifice'?.

We were supposedly given FREE WILL!  Free will for what? To do what to decide what?

That the LORD has the final over-all say in ALL THINGS we were able to freely not choose? 

Much sense it makes?

If there is Free Will, as very romantically evangelized, as being given all to His created beings, how then is there no way Man can chose to go in any direction UNLESS that too is His Will? 

So who is given any will at all - Free or otherwise?

Frustrated Believer's prayer

O Lord You are the final Judge, deciding all; only by Your Will how and what can your created beings request for; be it Good or  Bad … 

Your Will  (what is that has only been implied and yet undeciphered)  -&  Your agape Love; (as far as any eyes can 'see' was never plain! 'seen' only through the blind 'eyes' of unquestioning Faith) decide all Your Creatures' destiny.

       Thus let these then be as You Will!

What is there to pray for, give glory or honor or thanks to when You God, an Entity does not need praises, honor nor such creature adulations!

Not from arrogance nor from anger nor unbelief; but from heart-felt, life-long sense of Hopelessness, of frustrations & Spiritual Impotence, O LORD your creature asks that You do You Will,  do your WORSE, or what suits You! 

What supposedly would give you Glory, Honor or  Makes it for You!

   It does no good that Your Creature grovel, whine or implore beg, being made with dignity in Your own Image that isn't an acceptable option. 

As created ones are here ONLY to - SUBMIT, SURRENDER, DEFER, HUMBLY  ACCEDE & ACCEPT   YOUR WILL!

Go AHEAD LORD DO YOUR WILL, YOUR WORSE! 

Come what may, as there is NO apparent FREE WILL, this created one humbly will receive whatever You dish out  - whatever YOUR WILL is!

One 'dies' from this life once, one does not get resurrected in 3 days, one has no apprehension of what one will face !

Your WILL be as YOU would!

              

        ETERNAL DARKNESS & TORMENTS

that is an institutional 'instrument'  for  coercion, irrelevant in this equation.

Great are the frustrations and sorrow that the divine bond was never bound through better illuminated interactions. Creator and Created never 'know' each other.

Favored are those created ones who could see, hear, feel and sense YOU! 
This particular UNFORTUNATE one has little such gifts!

 Amen

These misunderstandings or misperceptions were arrived at & derived at  from sanctioned RELIGIONS theological inputs. 

One wonders if THAT reflects  ?

To Pay a DEBT

9/11 - Have we changed.?

1. On September 11th we were shockingly thrust into  rude & complete awareness of our religious differences, painfully, glaringly been made conscious of so many un-acceptables in our regard for another's faith beliefs. We were woken to the fact that not everyone are 'brothers' anymore! The romance was put to rest. 

2. Our tolerance level has decreased; the ease in rejecting, ridiculing & effortlessly forming negative perceptions against other religions' beliefs has become second nature, a narrowing of the once liberal acceptance of other faiths' practices and preferences gets more constricted. It becomes reasonable to pass adverse judgment based on anothers' religious or ethnic affiliations with little or no second thoughts. A kind of justified retribution for the crime of a few miscreants. A kind of DUTY or RIGHTs of the 'wronged party'

3. "Those not with us…" i.e not of same faith or ethnicity is now easier rejected and un-hesitantly discriminated against, like it were the Right & Proper thing to do. 

*How about the consideration that we all were Human beings? *How about the thought that NOT EVERYONE who does not       share the same belief system is EVIL or Malevolent? 

*How about the same ethnic group or religious groups to which     one belong also has many equally evil miscreants? 

*How does one account for this fact of this imperfection of folks   from one's chosen race with similar evil bent plus a history of       genocide??

4. Stereo-typing of individuals and groups has become an acquired art. You wear a head scarf or has facial hair of a certain fashion or dresses in THAT way- you are "NOT WITH US" - hence you 'are against us'. 

A hardening arrogance that we do not need you, those of an unacceptable  color or race or beliefs to foul up our lives, is very apparently widespread.

5. Unofficially an ongoing war is smoldering under the skin & in hearts of victims & 'perceived victims' of 9/11's carnage. Every affected, or 'indirectly victimized' person if legally so allowed, would not wait to wreak vengeance & extort their ounce of retribution. 

It definitely is irredeemably intolerable to lose a loved one for no other reason than to be at the wrong place in the path of a maniacal clandestine operation! 

Yet let's stop to consider how many millions are victims of the  many world wars with dead family members, equally as missed & as irredeemably lost? 

Is their pain being continually rehashed &  exploited for the making of political Hay? 

*How come no body is eager to commemorate Nagasaki or Hiroshima? 

6. No one is 'happy' nor at all 'willing' to forget or forgive or to even overlook the gruesome incident as another of Man's constant struggle for supremacy; That is a natural Human failing; rather life is centered around re-living, recreating the horror, not allowing folks to forget, likely for the propagation of whatever sinister motives. 

Many are unaware & get sucked by the hype, spin & manipulations of one's sense of injustice to gain capital for a bigger, evil-er, powerful, unseen force seeking advancement of it's agenda. 

Suspicions, fears, guised as prepared-ness to avert a repeat, has fanned a paranoia; sanctioning official intrusions into civil life & frivolous disregard for personal privacy. A justification of the ends that seemingly is worth the loss of our Freedoms. 

What else is sacred if that we hold dear is lost forever? 

        Retributions never add value to any system anytime.

7. The world did not get any way better by way of interpersonal, inter-racial, inter-ethnic relations. It went south, became sour & bad while slowly gets more poisoned by subtly spread insinuations, innuendoes that is laced into the subconsciousness of the general public via indirect indoctrinatory comments, via partial media, by slanted publications, observations highlighting the negatives of the ways and 'evil' of "those not for us"

8. The world has not moved in any direction towards reconciliation nor any direction at all to Unity for the good of Human-kind. 

Sadly from trends observed from Hour Zero it has never been inclined so!

Narrow parochial interest plus extreme patriotism, nationalism, territorialism and all other SELF-isms,  are being promoted shamelessy - The new RELIGION.

Needless to mention many are the right-set  heroic souls everywhere who bemoan the death of Trust, of Camaraderie, of an Utopia of a Single Race of Beings, of Openness,  & of other noble values and ideals which went up with the smoke of September 11th's Twin Towers. 

These are like lost voices crying in the wilderness!

Invariably drowned out by the deaf indifference of Global Supremacy at all costs.