To Still the mind!

There are days, and then there are days. In my case it is not days...but years. There is much already written but not here with me so that I feel as if I've had a limb severed.

The Query has never changed: why? Unlike the past when books, magazines, newspapers, television kept one up to date, the Internet has added a dimension that I simply love! I can read, hear and see in two hours what it would have taken days before. I can view as many sides of an issue as I want all are well written pieces by numerous people with integrity and intelligence or not.

So my blog had only one published entry, because I hit the wrong button. The post however is about my newest nephew who is now doing perfectly normal. Thank someone's God. Although my brother says I am an atheist, I still say that I am an agnostic. I usually keep two windows open and can check the spelling or meaning of anything instantly! Wonderful, that.

My son dropped in, literally. He lives in Denver and found that there was a flight he could take in two hours that would put him in California with a return flight that would allow us to spend almost forty-eight hours together. Ah technology. It was absolutely the best Mother's Day gift he could have given me. In addition, although my daughter and her kids had flown out earlier to be with our oldest granddaughter at her 21st birthday, my youngest son dropped by to spend time with the brother and us. Greatest weekend in a long time.

Anyway, (my newest kitten is trying to type also) I have a need to write, maybe not well, but certainly long and enough that maybe I can get the mind to still. There isn't really much to write on the current events affecting this country and the world. But, that is not my main interest. My main interest is the why of the thing.

The thing is: how did we get from the beginning to this?

Sometime in the absolute distant past...say billions of years ago. Something one celled developed and became life. Then something of that beginning cell crawled out of the depth of those oceans eons ago, again billions. Some of those crawled back into the that sea. Were they the lucky ones? The others stayed and as life is, continued on towards the last second, of the last minute, of the last hour of the year of beginnings. We had arrived. Hairy, probably glaring, scared but curious with something called a brain. It had grown to such a size that the grey matter literally folded in on itself to allow itself to fit the boney structure covering it. We had lost tails, gills and we now stood up and our eyes were positioned in front on our faces. We were scared. There were things truly out in the night, and day as well, that looked to us as food. We looked at other things as food. We, had the same imperative as any other animal, then and now: to survive. Survival meant food, procreation and safety. Actually, not that much different from today, 6 million years later.

We left our birthplace, probably the continent of what today is Africa. We wandered all over the earth. We learned to cross glaciers, bodies of water and moved from continent to continent, evolving, evolving, evolving, until we crested a hill, so far as we know at this moment, somewhere in Europe as Cro-Magnons and looked at Neanderthals, a branch of our family, right in the face. We still don't know 100% what happened, but the Neanderthals disappeared...as other branches surely did and Cro-Magnon, us, became supreme. So far as we know, today.

Cro-Magnon, we still don't know "where" they officially came from. But we know that they are modern man and have taken over the Earth. And until about forty thousand years ago, their only offense was to gain intelligence, creativity and fortitude. Their curiousity never faltered. They had it simple, survive, procreate, safety. No different than today, except, that for the first time in the history of this planet and race of man, we are in serious danger of wiping ourselves off the map and every living thing as well!! What changed in those last few thousands of years. Well, that will be what this series of posts will be about: my opinion and the The Query...why!!

Barbarity "on demand"

God! I am a coward! I simply cannot watch the video provided by the murderous cowards of the Mulim Islamofascists!!!

Again and again and again in the course of my life I have asked the "Why?" question. And, over the course of my life I tried to find out the answer to so many of my "whys" and so their number decreased. Decreased until this cancer was brought to the light sufficiently that we had our MSM begin to do some coverage.

Today, however, the MSM is silent on the execution of a Atwar Bahjat? Why? I think because to report it in any way or to show pictures or give out the video would do two things: begin the destruction of the fallacy of the apologists' and the information her execution demonstrates. These "people", "animals", "beasts"...what to name them..are capable of the most atrocious type of hate imaginable. They don't just kill, efficiently, quickly. They enjoy the torture and the agonizing screams of their victims. They bathe in the prolongation of blood sport.

If there is a God, and I don't happen to belive there is, then these Islamofascists need to be done away with. No, no torture, but certainly a quick death. They show their ignorance of humanity for they have not yet joined it. Just like the young Jewish man in Europe, they roll in the brutality, gore and blood of what they do and love it? Grotesque! Abominable!

Joshua 24 hours

It appears that Joshua is going to be O.K. We will know more this afternoon, but at least he doing so much better.

Joshua

A new life came into the world today, Joshua, but he may leave it in just a few days. He worked with his Mom for seven days to get here and now he may have a possible infection. The doctors need a couple of days before they know exactly what Joshua's outcome will be.

With so much hurt in the world, his parents in particular, don't need this additional pain. His father, my youngest brother, is one of the kindest and most honest humans on the face of the planet. If it is possible to say that someone is born without "sin", then my brother is that person. I wish them both all the white light in the universe.

And if their God takes Joshua as in their belief system, then I can only say that Joshua's soul needed to be here only briefly. Their God must have great need of a freshly born soul.

April 8 Test

THIS IS A TEST, ONLY TEST. I HOPE THIS

WORKS BECAUSE IT WILL BE EASIER FOR

ME.

Yea...it worked!!

09/06

No, it didn't...must have pushed wrong button.

How do I write better than Dr. Sanity; Hugh Hewitt; MarK Steyn; Christopher Hitchens; George Will; Thomas Sowell or even Charles Krauthammer? I can't.

So the Query is how to write so that everyday people will understand what the issues of today are really all about?

To write simply or as Bill O'Reilly says "pithy". It is an unfortunate facet of my personality that I find being pithy the most difficult. Why? There are so many more underlying issues that contribute to any one point of view that unless one tries to dig deeper into the writer's intent, we get lost.

We may agree, disagree or remain neutral. Our depth of agreement or disagreement is often based on the filters we see and hear through and these filters come from not only who and what we are, but how we came to be who and what we are. From prebirth, in our genetic makeup are predispositions. Disease is one, mental ability and health another. But what dictates our ability to be "blind" when circumstances with which we disagree make us hate? We face the nature vs. nurture condundrum.

Who did we come from? Not just our parents, but our grandparents and back through time. All of these, I believe, have something to do with who and what we become. Dr. Sanity says "we are born narcissists". That is true. We care only that we are fed, kept dry, warm and and allowed to do whatever we want. True? Not so! We must first and last be loved and know that we are. As many of the babies during the Viet Nam War proved, just feeding, being kept dry and warm was not enough. There was no love in the equaltion. Too many, too few. So many babies parished.

Are grown ups any different? Perhaps only in the ability to sustain life without love. A sort of "little death" with air to breath and minimal attention to other physical needs. Something more than a "little death", it seems to me, inhabits those who hate. They are capable of attaining or maintaining whatever in their world is necessary to keep them alive, including the one most malevent emotion: hate. They can prosper, life long, enjoy the comforts they have or have not earned. But hate keeps them alive in a way that gives them meaning, they think.

Take George Clooney as an example. Good looking with a little boy smirk. But what is he really? What make George, George? Where and why did the hate come from? Why do we only now hear his point of view? He has been on this planet over forty years, so why now, why him? His contemporaries have given him a power to speak his hate and not be reviled. But where was George before his success on the small screen? He is not a great actor, director, writer. So what made him so virulent in his passionate hate?

George Clooney has the good fortune to "make it" in his world in this time. Whether earned or not is immaterial. He is a childish man. A womanizing man. A disrespectul man. And, he does not have the necessary ability to see himself as "those out of his mainstream". Why?

Factoid

I wonder what people would answer if I asked: what has killed more Americans, war or the automobile? The answer is truly astonishing and says a great deal about us as Americans: since 1775, about 1 million people have perished from wars; and an astounding 2.5 million in automobile accidents.*

One of the most astounding aspects of this question and answer if that it took wars 210 years and it took the automobile only 92 years!

Now ask yourself how many people have been killed in the previous century because of despots throughout the world and the answer would be close to 200 million people. The aforementioned figure is an approximate one because it is impossible to know exactly how many people were actually done away with just in the Soviet Union under the Bolsheviks and then Stalin; in China under Mao not to mention numerous countries all around America.

But, more importantly, these figures don't apply to living people. So, how many people do you think live in gross conditions all around the world? I would guess close to 5 billion! For these human beings, nothing has changed in hundreds, possibly thousands of years.

Another question: why does the left in the world believe that the only way to help is to allow a totalitarian government to rule? Why does the left ignore the plight of people in the rest of the world when despots rule?


*Initial question attributed to Marilyn Vos Savant in Parade Magazine published March 4, 2006.