I am not a Christmas fan. To me, Christmas is a hijacked holiday taken by the christians, mutated by Hallmark, and made embarrassing by snotty little kids begging for things they want, thinking it is something they need. The desire to buy someone something to make sure they love you in order to celebrate the birth of someone that wanted us to get along, and later killed for asking us to get along, seems really silly to me.
The amazing part are the songs: with Peace on Earth, Good Will Toward Men. Blah blah blah. Does anyone remember we are having our people kill and die in another land because a Texas asshole has a chip on his shoulder and a small dick in his pants? I do!
In this time, we need to remember what is means to really struggle and to really mean peace. Americans don’t know this or understand this any more. We are too worried about if Lindsey Lohan is a lesbian and is making it with an ugly DJ in L.A. America, you need to watch what it means to struggle for what you believe in. Half a world away there are people fighting for the right to govern in such a way that is not radical and not idiotic. They don’t want to be like us, they just want it better then what it is. They aren’t letting cell phone technology and new high tops placate them in the struggle to be happy. Not comforted by stupid commercialism and retarded socialites – just happy.
I hope you all watch what it means to struggle and fight for what you believe in, even in the face of defiance.
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Well said and stated and good questions pondered. I’ve never understood with our big fat brains why peace has never been the primary objective of our species as a whole, but have serious doubts that it ever will be. As individuals we seem to be able to grasp the beauty of peace, but as masses we gravitate towards violence.
Thanks for the reminder that we, as Americans, remain very sheltered from and blissfully ignorant of the horrors that haunt so many people face on this globe. Willing blindness and apathy are dangerous beasts.
Peace on Earth???
Aren’t humans amazing Animals? They kill wildlife – birds, deer, all kinds of cats, coyotes, beavers, groundhogs, mice and foxes by the million in order to protect their domestic animals and their feed.
Then they kill domestic animals by the billion and eat them. This in turn kills people by the million, because eating all those animals leads to degenerative – and fatal – - health conditions like heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, and cancer.
So then humans spend billions of dollars torturing and killing millions of more animals to look for cures for these diseases.
Elsewhere, millions of other human beings are being killed by hunger and malnutrition because food they could eat is being used to fatten domestic animals.
Meanwhile, few people recognize the absurdity of humans, who kill so easily and violently, and once a year send out cards praying for “Peace on Earth.”
~Revised Preface to Old MacDonald’s Factory Farm by C. David Coates~
Check out this informative and inspiring video on why people choose vegan: http://veganvideo.org/
Also see Gary Yourofsky: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bagt5L9wXGo
Thank you both for replying!
JC, I totally agree. I am amazed at the damage we choose to do to animals. It disgusts me to no end and saddens me everyday. Why in goddesses name would we ever kill millions of animals to make sure viagra is safe, or to double check smoking really causes cancer. And when the f*** did fur come back into style? What the hell is the deal with that?
Humanity, quit now, particularly since you are not ahead. We are de-evolving, people.