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A whole lot of killing going on.
Or maybe it’s the same. But it just seems like the new killings are more evil.
I guess killing won’t stop until we address what causes killing: people aren’t going away.
G-Pop was thinking about this yesterday. He was trying to form an insight just in case his sons or grandkids asked him about the stuff.
He tries to stay away from too many opinions. An opinion is an insight that draws a conclusion. And the trouble with a drawn conclusion is that it never shows the whole picture.
Fortunately, the problem is simple. Since people aren’t going to go away, we should stop doing things to make them think that we want them to.
Here’s a simple rule:
I only matter if you matter. If you don’t, I don’t.
We have this idea that we can seek out evil, stand against it, defeat it and that’s the end. But slavery and segregation didn’t disappear with the passing of laws. Hatred of the Jews didn’t crawl back into the walls with the death of Hitler and the Gestapo.
People are not going to go away. No matter how much we wish it or hope it, they will remain, claiming their right to be.
We need to take a good hard look at our record as a nation over the past seventy years.
- We fought North Korea. We lost (for after all, there is still a North Korea.)
- We fought to preserve Vietnam. And now there is one Vietnam–but not the one we envisioned.
- Do I need to discuss Iraq and Afghanistan?
It is not un-American to ask the question, “Is what we’re doing really effective?”
Somewhere along the line we have to realize that the world is not going to go away and we have to find a procedure by which we can prosper and be successful, and let that be our best revenge.
You can’t kill off all the bad guys without losing too many good guys. And when we lose enough good guys, the country goes through a lull until we can birth more people with dreams.
I only matter if you matter. If you don’t, then I don’t.
It’s a simple principle.
Can we learn it? If we can’t, we’ll be chasing every noise that goes bump in the night.
Jesus told us not to resist evil. We think that’s idealistic.
G-Pop wonders if idealism actually is the notion that we can kill all the cockroaches.
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