What time left?

What time have we left? Can we add a value to this time remaining? The value being a non monetary description of quality of life and well being. Should we be able to assume theoretically that no uncertainties or surprises we will meet in this time, entire predicability is planned / foreseen. With these factors in line a scenario will arise when we see as clearly as we look along the train tracks at nothing, that complete emptiness of any illness or a bad situation, leaves us stranded but happily stranded maybe completely remote from everyone else, lost in another world of beauty and fun, the elusive Utopia, a mythical Atlantis, mentally lost drifting through a Nirvana, Paradise forgotten. Can we then transmit this world of amazement we have glimpsed to another body a mind outside our own, where brain is built similar but does not follow our rules and paths, and must decide for itself. If transmission without loss in originator can be made to involve another on the journey, then they themselves, seemingly lost to certain chaotic and random futures aligned  and divided into possible illnesses and bad situations, can flatten the mountains of complexity and troubles and start to build the tracks of their own nothingness / emptiness and look into a future direction of happiness where the value of the moment is understanding of the value of the time they have left.

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Hypocrisy, War & Protest

It is not my business or care to create controversy. I try to keep away from political discussions, which quite unfortunately due to everyone’s belief that their opinion is the most important, seems only to stir up non-rational and unnecessary anger and hate in even the most usually calm and relaxed personalities, quite often out of nowhere at the drop of a hat. I am not bothered about this side of peoples personalities, which is boring, predictable and is not clever. So I must now go against my own rules and possibly cause controversy, tempting you to react as above, and bring anger and hate towards my name and this blog. You may ask why I would bother to do this, it doesn’t seem logical. The only explanation I have is that perhaps it is important sometimes that we should break our own rules, as the hypocritical is surely part of human nature. So here goes an article I wrote a while ago.

The Hypocrisy of todays world was no better illustrated than this Saturday 3rd Jan 2009. Israel has been bombing the Gaza Strip for over a week, trying to destroy the government and stop them firing rockets, over the border onto civilian settlements. So Hamas the government may be linked to terrorism and funded IRAN and SYRIA two countries both seen as axis of evil by the USA and Western governments. However as grown ups you should understand that by abusing your power over people less stronger than you, for this example kids, you are most probably creating a whole another problem in itself. Kids grow up, sometimes people never forget, like witnessing your parents and sisters and brother being blown up by laser targeted bombs or dying in the back of a school bus targeted by a suicide bomber. Wars should not be fought amongst the kids and family’s of this world, but among the men on battle grounds using respectable and honorable tactics where everyone is on a level playing field, such as sports like darts or touring car racing, where disputes would be decided by chance as in some football matches e.g. penalties, or by skill like a Maradona or Pelé goal, or in by a manoeuvre such as Nelsons at the battle of Trafalgar. The Hypocrisy is Israel bombing civilians, because Hamas is bombing their civilians, and Hamas to complain about it because they took on a better equipped and more superior country with a better army and better weapons. The other hypocrisy is that this war has just erupted and got all the worldly attention it may or not deserve, where as in the Congo, DRC, Zimbabwe, Chechnya, Darfur, Nigeria all these wars are forgotten, they are dropped, like they never existed. This is just my impression of what I notice, perhaps this is not the case, and I am wrong, but I feel it is the most disturbing aspect of our culture at the moment, this is worthy of a real protest. If we rate news stories on the number of dead then Israel or Hamas war wouldn’t get a shoe in.

What annoys me is the protest that happened all over the world in particular London, thousands of people turned out to support the over use of force by the Israelis on the Palestinians. Where are all the other protests for all the other genocides, Africa, China, Tibet, Indonesia, Iraq. I’m not against protests, I think they are very important, but please have some respect for the other stories you have kicked off the front pages. We are just all so selfish and believe our story or crisis is more important that another.

It is important to understand that I abhor all forms of violence and we should never condone any acts, no matter what the circumstances. It is unsophisticated, barbaric and intolerable that the Human race has risen from such basic animalistic levels to the achievements and levels of today, in such a short time period, but yet most people are still so pathetically feeble in mind and most notably just wrong in their beliefs that violence or  the use of force will solve a situation or put things right. I don’t care for the counter arguments, they are all crap, I just wait patiently it seems with those of a few, but which I do hope is those of many for the awakening of most peoples minds to the clarity that the genocide of our own people is not right and never will be, no matter which government or organization, no matter in the name of any religion, no matter in the name of any ideal or any belief or misguided understanding.

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Parc Monceau

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