A few thoughts about 9-11..
FiveB247x
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Today is the 5 year marking of the events of 9-11.
I think it's an appropriate time to reflect not just as many people care to remember those who were lost, but the issues and ongoings that pertain to its occurrence. We don't live in a black and white world with good vs evil or simply right vs wrong. I think it's a good time to look at not merely that event occurred, but to truly understand why it happened in order to figure out to stop it from happening again. The world is always in flux and there will never be an absolute way to keep it all in check, not to mention - expect the rest of the world to simply follow what we deem correct or not. There's massive cultural and philosophical differences which separate to how we act in the world and think we should be received. It is always best to set a good example if you want others to follow in kind. Unfortunately our country does not do this because of our own political and economic interests. The rest of the world sees this, yet our leaders care to ignore it as if it should just be accepted. Good policies and relations would be replicated by others if we did our part, not merely tell others how to do things while we do not follow suite. As a result, bad policy results and raises the levels of the security of everyone involved. Escalation is not the answer, minimalization is necessary to create a clear and distinguished world full of peace and harmony - if that is what we truly seek. You can't bomb the world into submission and expect it to take kindly to it, even if some of our rudimentary notions seem to be correct. It's all about the big picture and if you forsake the small things, the big things won't turn out right - that's how life works. We need to make our nation more peaceful, less hateful and change how we act if we care to see the type of world our leaders tell us about because we certainly will never gain it by continuing the never ending cycle of violence and aggression. Violence begets violence; and Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace does not work.
We should all take this moment on 9-11 to think how to make the world we live in better through peaceful measures; because that is the only way we won't see history repeating itself.
I think it's an appropriate time to reflect not just as many people care to remember those who were lost, but the issues and ongoings that pertain to its occurrence. We don't live in a black and white world with good vs evil or simply right vs wrong. I think it's a good time to look at not merely that event occurred, but to truly understand why it happened in order to figure out to stop it from happening again. The world is always in flux and there will never be an absolute way to keep it all in check, not to mention - expect the rest of the world to simply follow what we deem correct or not. There's massive cultural and philosophical differences which separate to how we act in the world and think we should be received. It is always best to set a good example if you want others to follow in kind. Unfortunately our country does not do this because of our own political and economic interests. The rest of the world sees this, yet our leaders care to ignore it as if it should just be accepted. Good policies and relations would be replicated by others if we did our part, not merely tell others how to do things while we do not follow suite. As a result, bad policy results and raises the levels of the security of everyone involved. Escalation is not the answer, minimalization is necessary to create a clear and distinguished world full of peace and harmony - if that is what we truly seek. You can't bomb the world into submission and expect it to take kindly to it, even if some of our rudimentary notions seem to be correct. It's all about the big picture and if you forsake the small things, the big things won't turn out right - that's how life works. We need to make our nation more peaceful, less hateful and change how we act if we care to see the type of world our leaders tell us about because we certainly will never gain it by continuing the never ending cycle of violence and aggression. Violence begets violence; and Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace does not work.
We should all take this moment on 9-11 to think how to make the world we live in better through peaceful measures; because that is the only way we won't see history repeating itself.
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Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
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Tolerance is a wonderful quality. But one-way tolerance is wicked.
Today teaches us, as do many days, that violent force is an absolute evil. And the evil of consuming the will of another man with the force of your body as opposed to the good of recognizing the will of another man with the power of your mind is what makes September 11th a day to be remembered, and the actions this nation has taken following those events to be denounced.
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
Exactly. And the underlying moralities and philosophies need to be rejected as evil, because that is what they are. The hope for this world is found in rejecting evil as evil and embracing good as good.
I truly wish 9/11 had not spawned two wicked wars. I wish we as a nation would have had the ability to look in the mirror and to see what we were about to embrace as a "necessary evil". I wish we would have laughed in the face of those who orchestrated those events and told them that the United States pays heed only to those who have something to offer. I wish we would have focused on celebrating the lives that were lost, rather than demanding a vengance from an organization unable to pay it...an organization able only to use that very vengance against us. While September 11th further exposed the wickedness that has infected radical Islam, it also exposed the wickedness of a nation that no longer has a hold on its founding principles.
The world is much more black and white than many want to accept. There is good. There is evil. The meaning of life is found in pursuing the good. The meaning of justice is found in identifying the evil and paying no dues to it. The path of peace is found in the rejection of the sacrificial altar......