Saturday, June 19, 2004

   Rant on Humanity
"It's the human condition that keeps us apart
Everybody's got a story that will break your heart"

To start, I offer all my apologies and sympathies to the family, friends, and other mourners of the man who was beheaded in the Middle East.
It strikes very deep, to hear that people kill themselves and each other. I saw photographs of the beheaded body of a man, and read what everyone was saying and found out what people think of each other, and it really made me cry (for those of you who know me that fact will have a greater impact). It is those tears that inspired me to write this today. And thus I begin. Man will murder and rape his own kind, and for what purpose? Because they are not the same as each other? Because God hates one of them? Or for money or glory, perhaps? Or, as some say, because it is man's instinct to kill?
Though we are not all the same, I believe we should be able to master our humanity enough so that we can respect, if not agree, with the values and beliefs of our kin. All of us are humans, and we all have a right to live, to be heard, and to be respected. There is not one life lost that will not be grieved for. One human will cry for another, whether they knew each other personally, or not at all. I think that, cultural differences aside, we are all the same excepting those who have lost their humanity by eliminating all mercy and benevolence from their souls.
God is fickle. Depending on a person's heart, he is used for justification of any act. Is this all God means to us now? Is Allah only a tool used to kill? If God (or Allah in my, and many other's cases) created us all, he would love us all. Perhaps he is only watching us and letting us find out how to right ourselves, but I am sure he would not truly wish for us to slaughter each other in such a manner. I say this to all Christians, Muslims, and to those who follow Judaism (though I do believe that Judaism is currently acting the most sensibly of these three religions). And once again, the common human condition: If you are not the same as me, you are wrong. Which brings me to three other religions, Wiccan (paganism), Hinduism, and Buddhism. They have thus far not really played a part in the crisis, but they are often discriminated against for various reasons such as polytheism, reincarnation, nature worship, etc. But they too, and all other religions I have not mentioned yet (and I am sorry for not including them, but I can only remember so many things at a time), deserve to be able to believe what they wish. All that matter is that you are sure of something. You can be an atheist, and it matters not because it is what you believe. We should not be able to do terrible things to each other simply because we don't believe in the same thing. We all believe in something, and that is what makes us all the same.
What is going on today is needless killing. Lives lost when they did not have to be. This ripping apart of mankind will lead us to ruin if we cannot learn to LOVE. To conquer hate, fear, and doubt is what we should be trying to achieve. If everyone loved their enemy, then there would be no enemies. Not to be anti-Bush, not to be anti-Muslim, that is not what this world needs. What this world needs (And as I say world, I am speaking about the human population, not the actual Earth, which also needs to be taken better care of.) is to be anti-hate. We need to be opposed to war, imprisonment, and ignorance. We must learn about each other so that we can, I shall say once again, respect if not agree with one another.
So pray to your god if you have a God, collect your data if you believe in science, live you life the way you wish, but do not stop others from finding their truth, living their lives the way they wish. I believe this race will find its peace. I'm sorry if I have offended anyone, and I don't mind if you cannot bring yourself to believe or respect what I have to say. Praise all and farewell, I'm tired.

Sincerely, Fox (which became my name new last night through odd circumstances)

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