growing trends

I have a feeling that in the very near future there will be no middle road to take. Extremists are everywhere and ready to rumble. I am so tired of seeing so much hate, debate, fight, and negative spirit towards people with differing ideas. I feel like a turtle in the middle of a buffalo stampede. I can only hope my armor is strong enough to keep me safe.

Why must people always think they are right? Clearly a single answer cannot be right for all people. there are to many people with to many differing ideas for a single answer to work. It is why America was founded. I believe that because we have a society that says each individual is important we have forgotten about the masses. What is good for the masses? Guns or no guns? Religion or no religion? Taxes or no taxes? It would seems that we as a country have painted a picture so well, that the fine details are so fine that the painting is becoming distorted. Much like the term, "to many women in the kitchen makes for an inedible soup", we as a nation have fallen into trap set by self importance. Money and power have taken the place of freedom and debate and fighting have taken the place of peace and harmony. We need to get passed this idea that I is more important than we.

There are thugs out there armed to the teeth. They have the weapons not because they are legal or illegal, they obtained them illegally. If you don't think they are a danger, then you have never been in a natural disaster where chaos rules. I would like to think that I could have the resources to defend myself legally if I had to. If the new gun laws go into effect, the only people with this kind of fire power are the very people we have the right to defend ourselves against.

In the case of religion. I have heard people say the world would be better off without religion. I myself have often thought the same thing. It might be good for one person, but some people need religion. Some people have nothing else to believe in. I think a world without religion would be cold, hard, and a difficult place to live. Being spiritual is part of being human. Being of spirit is part of being alive. It seems that all things beautiful comes from a spiritual connection of one type or other. so why not have spirituality?

Here is what I think we could do without in society as a whole. Corruption, deceit, greed, indifference (apathy), fear, and lack of tolerance.

We need to respect life and understand it. All life. From the grass to the elephant, from the birds to the bugs. From the Chinese to the Cherokee and from the Norse to the Australian Aboriginals.

It is not religion we need to abolish, it is the idea that one religion that is better than the other. It is not guns we need to take away, it is the apathy of all things living. Yes I am the turtle in the stampede. I try to move without extremes. I will probably be the first life to end in this war of self importance and righteousness. I hope that my grave will be testament to the survivors left behind. perhaps my headstone should read "She stood for peace now lies here because of war...isn't it ironic?"