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private ryan was on abc tonight. it was on because veterans day in the states is on monday. so it was on to honor the veterans.
now, i didn't watch much of private ryan, because its violent and i have a hard time watching violent movies. but i did manage to catch a battle scene at the end of the movie.
well. my mind kept going back to this whole war thing. you know, this war with iraq thing.
i'm watching these images on my tv screen. i'm horrified by these images on my tv screen. i'm horrified by these images on my tv screen, which, i think, is smaller than my 17" computer monitor. so you can imagine that these horifying images aren't exactly life size, and i can't begin to even imagine what these images would begin to be like if they were life size.
now, i'm thinking.. why would anyone want to subject anyone else to this? why would anyone who has experienced this, or who's father or grandfather, or or or.. want to subject anyone to this?
and then my brain goes to ghandi. and i'm wondering where his lessons are in all this. where his lessons are in the brains of the un security council, where his lessons play into the mind of sadaam hussein, george w. bush, george bush, sr, and all those who came after ghandi who have waged war.
see.. but then my brain goes beyond ghandi. it goes far beyond ghandi. all these "great" world leaders profess to believe in a higher power. i know that the one that we here in the states elected does. now, my question is, where does that higher power play into it?
see, i wasn't raised with any sort of higher power. okay, thats a lie. my grandmother, my mom's mom, took my brother and i to her fundamentalist church. at one point, for one summer, i believed. but then during my teens it came to my attention that it was churches like my grandmother's who were saying that i was evil and that my socio-political beliefs were going to send me to hell (i come from the same state as both patty boy and jerry boy).
so, back to my point. all these so called world leaders, if you asked them, would profess to having some sort of higher power, yes? and aren't higher powers about bringing peace and saving lives? isn't that what bushy-boy and johnny-boy are trying to do by doing every possible thing to get rid of roe v wade and oregon's death with dignity? saving lives? but then they want to run into war.
and really, i don't understand it. if religion is about life and peace and evolution to a greater sense of peace then how come we are so war mongering? how come all these people who claim they believe in a higher power want to go out and kill people? where is the sense in that? are humans not evolved enough to be able to rise above our animalistic instincts to kill each other?
and how come i, who really doesn't have any particular higher power, doesn't belive we should go to war? how come i and so many others like me believe that peace is the answer, not war? and how come we are made fun of? and how come we are not listened to by those in power? and how come all of those of us who believe that peace is the answer and not war are considered alternative? and how come we aren't taken seriously? and why is anger taken more seriously than diplomacy? when in everyday one on one situations we tend to reject angry outbursts? why can't we apply the one on one interactions to the larger scale one one country interactions? even if the leader of the other country is a bit nuts (and i ain't sayin' which leader is nuts and which leader is sane).
Posted by brooke at November 09, 2002 11.40.39 PM
