9/28/04 Politics / Humor. The World Trade Center design below was proposed by Americans who still want the culprits in the attacks of 9-11 brought to justice. Was it really Osama Bin Laden? If so, why are there so many sites like this: "88 Websites With Evidence Of U.S. Government Complicity In 9-11? Are people nuts? Are they twisting the facts? Or are they correct about some hidden truth? Read and be skeptical of everything. Decide for yourself which conclusion the facts support.
9/24/04 Politics I've learned that some of my friends are infected with a brain disease called FEAR. This disease causes self-destructive behavior, unnecessary aggression, illogical thinking and blindness.
Below are some symptoms I'd like to address today:
1. It is better to fight them over there than here.
This is like saying, I must hit myself in the head with a bag of pennies or else I'll have to hit myself with a bag of quarters.
Uh, no. I can't believe I even have to say this, but ... my friends, you have other options! You can, for example, stop hitting yourself altogether. Duh!!
Regarding Iraq, we don't need to kill people there or here. The false premise, the propaganda you've absorbed, is that there is a danger from Iraq to the US. There isn't. There hasn't been for over 10 years. We destroyed Iraq's army in the first gulf war. The stories about nuclear weapons programs and weapons of mass destruction were false. Got that? They were lies.
2. You have to break some eggs to make an omelet
You can also make omelets with unfertilized eggs.
There is no need to maim and murder innocent people to survive. No, there isn't. This fear based argument is another symptom of diseased thinking. People are not eggs, they are people. This statement dehumanizes and makes light of murder. Listen to yourself! This statement about "making an omelet" is a callous and cold-blooded way to distance yourself from the reality of killing. Shame on you.
Is your beautiful son or daughter just an "egg" to be broken, mixed, cooked and folded around some ham and cheese?
3. They train their children to carry guns before they can walk, they teach them to hate at an early age!
You are afraid of children now too? You want to kill other people's children because you fear them? How sick and sad for you.
This bigotedand prejudiced point of view comes from propaganda used to support the long standing war in the middle east. This propaganda is a pack of lies designed to fuel fear and hate. It is incorrect and here's why: For ANY country with guns and millions of people you can find kids who are taught to hate, and you can find stupid parents who give their young kids guns. It happens here in the US too. Come on my American friends, be smarter than this!
Prejudice is judging an entire group based on limited experience with a few individuals. Prejudice is the blind man feeling the tail of an elephant who says all elephants are long and thin.
Children all around the world have similar interests: they want to be warm and safe, they want to eat, to sleep, to be free from disease, they want to play, to socialize and to learn.
4. The entire culture there is based on lies. They lie to sell things. This is the way they are.
Lying is a human condition that goes back to ancient times. It is not specific to one culture. Read the Egyptian Book of the Dead, for example. Thousands of years ago people were confronting the basic human tendency to lie and cheat. Deception also exists in non human primates. Animals will steal and cheat to survive, especially when resources become scarce.
The point is, people in EVERY country and culture lie just as much. Any salesman in the US embellishesthe truth to make sales. You highlightthe good points and downplay the weaknesses, right?
Don't show your ignorance by judging millions of people based on one or two examples you've heard, because unless you are citing a sound statistically valid scientific study, you will be wrong. People are people everywhere. Don't be so afraid of them! There is good and bad in everyone.
