lovers of peace
Submitted by Babel-17 on February 3 2002 15:51:12
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I'm not sure where to even begin this post... Thanks to Bach, first off, for linking me here from a post on BC... I've been in a state of deep despair for the last week or so... Actually the last few months, but I've been fighting it... It's gaining on me, though... I see the mass mind of Americans consumed by the base emotions of hatred, anger and revenge.. I see a man leading the country who I'm increasingly convinced is altogether dangerous.. Yet I don't know what to do... What does a person of conscience do when they see great wrong being done all around them that's passing for "patriotism" and "justice"? I'm sickened... I'm angered... I never imagined once in all my life that a time would come when I'd face the moral dilemna I'm currently facing.. Do I make a stand? Do I just ride out the storm and hope for a better tomorrow? Do I leave the U.S. and take up residence elsewhere as an "exile of conscience"? Am I a coward for not already being out there with the kids at Berkeley protesting this insanity? Am I, truly, insane to believe that magick can help this situation? I've seen magick work...I know it works.. But sometimes, concensus reality crashes in on me and I despair... I wonder if they may be right...if I'm deluded and crazy... We can't effect reality with our minds.. Only "primitives" believe that... Forgive me...I may not even have any business posting over here.. I'm not a Christian, as many of you know.. At least, not in the sense of believing that Jesus was the son of divinity... No more so than the rest of us, anyway.. I do think he had a remarkable social philosophy, however.. Love one another Wow! How radical can ya get? (; Where you all pray, I do magick.. It's not really as different as you may think... Prayer just takes a slightly different route...asking for the intervention of a divine being... Magick assumes the power is within us, so we take matters into our own hands... But in essence, it's not so very different.. We want the same things... Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law love is the law love under will is just a slightly different rendering of Love your neighbor as you love yourself and do unto others as you would have them do unto you There's no difference.. Yet, I despair... At the risk of having you all laugh at my 60's terminology...heh...I've never been surrounded by so many "bad vibes" in all my life... It's getting to me! All this anger and hate is like a palpable beast! I can feel it all around me... I don't even believe in an external "God", yet I find myself saying things like "God help us all..." everytime I watch CNN, read the newspaper, or, Heaven forbid!, read a post from any member of the hothead faction on BC... I despair... I despair for the future of humanity if this is the best we can do when faced with a crisis... I despair that your Jesus had no impact whatsoever on these people.. "These savages"... I started to write That's how they seem to me...like savages.. Beyond reason, beyond even appeal to human decency or appeal to the very values they claim to be defending... I can't even watch something so innocuous as The Andy Griffith Show without being reminded that the value system therein espoused has been flushed down the toilet by one president in a matter of 4 months Everything I was raised to believe, everything I was taught to hold dear and sacred has been trashed! Justice, tolerance, mercy, right over might... All those values gone overnight... I don't know what to do!!! The desire for revenge is the basest of all human emotions and it surrounds me... I don't know... I guess that's all I have to say... I just needed to say it... love to you all John |
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