War, War, War
…and one more incident in the ongoing, never-ending, pointless War
Another day another war – except war has never stopped; it is The War. The War was being raged when I was born during the so-called ‘World War 2’ and war has happened every day since. What an awful welcome into this world and I have no reason to believe that this ever-present, continuing war will end before I die. I call it ‘The War’ because it keeps happening all the time, day after day after day.
The news about the passenger plane shot down over the Ukraine must have affected everyone who read about it. If it didn’t then they are mentally and spiritually dead; inhuman. The fact that a passenger plane full of normal men women and children was blasted out of the sky killing everyone aboard raises many questions, some of which are below:
- Why was a passenger plane flying over a well known war zone?
- Where did the group that shot the plane down get their weapons from? The plane was flying quite high so the weapons used must have been sophisticated?
- Why was the news media so certain that X, Y or Z had shot the plane down straight away?
What have we learned by this avoidable tragedy – if anything? Very little it seems. The plane is down, the passengers, children and crew all dead. Nothing will bring them back. If anything, we all owe those dead people, and their grieving families and friends, a moral and ethical debt to ensure that this never happens again.
Making wild guesses as to the cause is not going to help. That will provoke more war.
Accusing this side or that side will not solve anything. That will only provoke more war.
Threatening revenge will not help – that will only provoke more war.
Threatening sanctions will not help – that will only provoke more war.
There is a pattern. Therefore, some group wants there to be more division in the world, more unquestioning belief, more anger and more control over what people do and think. This group obviously wants to provoke more war.
We, all of us, myself included allowed this particular tragedy to happen because:
- Very few of us try to stop The War. Some of us work in armaments factories producing the missiles and bombs of war. Why don’t they stop doing this?
- Other groups of people turn their backs to The War thinking or saying, ‘What can I do about it? I have money to earn, a family to support, a life to lead…’
- Some groups of people encourage The War; see my post about the war-mongering propaganda on Fox News exposed by Russel Brand.
- Many people simply get angry about this tragic event and their anger adds fuel to The War; instead of working through their anger and seeing what really produces it, then working with others to end The War.
- Most people believe what those with the ‘power’ and the ‘authority’ – the politicians, the mass media, the military, among others – tell them what is ‘the truth’ when the truth is there to see if they only look. Ignorance of the truth prolongs The War.
- Most people accept The War as a fact of life and at the same time pray to their God to preserve them or make them rich. This prolongs The War.
- Our children are constantly shown war films, war videos showing shooting and violence. They are being desensitized to violence and The War. Is this sane? This prolongs The War.
Of course I could go on but I hope that a seed has been sown. We owe it to all those killed in this pointless, senseless, inhuman act of The War.
Class: war, politics, corruption, etc..
Tags: ignorance, madness, stupidity, greed, again, etc., etc., etc..
Date: 2014-07-27.
Posted by Keith Gascoigne at www.yoruk.co.uk
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