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G'Quon wrote, "There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities; it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain."
It is said that the future is always born in pain. The history of war is the history of pain. If we are wise, what is born of that pain matures into the promise of a better world, because we learn that we can no longer afford the mistakes of the past.
If I take a lamp and shine it toward the wall, a bright spot will appear on the wall. The lamp is our search for truth, for understanding. Too often, we assume that the light on the wall is God, but the light is not the goal of the search, it is the result of the search. The more intense the search, the brighter the light on the wall. The brighter the light on the wall, the greater the sense of revelation upon seeing it. Similarly, someone who does not search - who does not bring a lantern - sees nothing. What we perceive as God is the by-product of our search for God. It may simply be an appreciation of the light... pure and unblemished... not understanding that it comes from us. Sometimes we stand in front of the light and assume that we are the center of the universe - God looks astonishingly like we do - or we turn to look at our shadow and assume that all is darkness. If we allow ourselves to get in the way, we defeat the purpose, which is to use the light of our search to illuminate the wall in all its beauty and in all its flaws; and in so doing, better understand the world around us.
Originally posted by SkitzoFrenic
We are filth
We are scum
We are the infectious disease of this planet.
We destroy nature
We destroy each other
We are filled with hate
Greed
Gluttony
Pride
Lust
We are a perverse being.
We have no morals, we have no real feelings.
We are ruled by emotion, we are ruled by our greed and lust, but mostly our pride.
We murder, rape, pillage and torture.
We wage endless wars, causing endless misery.
We are the scourge of the earth, of the universe.
We, humans are far WORSE that those that walk on four legs.
We deserve nothing but death and destruction.
My only wish is that all humans die off this planet, so that once again it can return to it's former beauty.
[edit on 14-6-2009 by SkitzoFrenic]
Originally posted by SkitzoFrenic
My only wish is that all humans die off this planet, so that once again it can return to it's former beauty.