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bea · @trick__track

27th Oct 2012 from Twitlonger

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I like this statement and find it sincere and truly inspiring. I also like Anonymous reply.

Although, it may not seem strictly related, I thought I will share my personal view...

We share a space together here on Earth as living beings and we distinguish ourselves among other beings as Human Beings. We praise ourselves for our consciousness so as for the free will. In the light of the history, for a long-time human life has been rather a (bloody) struggle, but we do have a wide spectrum of cultural, intellectual and technological achievements that make us greatly proud of being human. Throughout the time we have established imposing sets of values that we love to highlight as dimensions of our sophisticated reality: truth, freedom, peace, love, democracy...

We like to consider ourselves as intelligent and creative creatures, and, anywhere we go, we preach loudly what a great value ‘Live’ is for us… Do we mean it though?... Because if we do, then how come we do not try to understand each other rather than argue? How come we divide, while we should unite and communicate with each other in a respectful and peaceful way? How come do we choose to use such shameful, low and barbaric tactics like threatening others with a war?… How come so rarely we admit a mistake, that we were wrong?... Why is it so difficult to give each other a hand and so easy to slap each other faces with an insult?...

Sadly, disturbingly, this is what is happening - on so many levels... Our little wars are eating away our dignity and grow rapidly into huge wars... Do we notice?... Do we remember what dignity means?... Or, amused by anger, we allow it to rip dignity apart?...

We should be better than that, shouldn't we?... An extraordinary history is behind us - a true abyss of wisdom…

The world we live in is madly broken and lost in a dreadful span of conflicts that contaminated our atmosphere with an unbearable agony, violence, terror, inhuman atrocities, hunger, despair, death more death, and more death... I struggle to find the words to express how I feel when I try to grasp the truth about it… And there may be actually no words that describe it all in the way it should be... It is truly insane and truly terrifying…

Our shallow brained or psychopathic leaders are spending so massive amounts of money on militarization, nuclear and other wrongdoings, while so many innocent children are starving to death... They also spend massive amounts on extraordinary surveillance and many other spreading fear tactics that aim to destroy us and the world we live in... Those who know it understand well that it is a very wrong and very dangerous path...

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense [sic] than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.” – Martin Luther King, Jr, “A Time To Break Silence,” April 4, 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

After the experience of the WWII, we should be able to respect own dignity… We should understand that no matter how sophisticated rhetoric one may use, war is a killing machine.‘Engaging’ in war means killing. The word ‘damage’ does not describe the deadly striking loss of innocent lives and can be actually insulting when we remember a mass murder… And there is no dignity in war; war is an insult for dignity, war rips dignity apart and brings death, inhuman death and insane pain.

Some would say that these threats are just the words and that in reality no leader won’t be so shallow minded to use those horrifying weapons… Well… Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki could be mind opening… The difference is though that ‘Little Boy’ and ‘Fat Man’ were like toys, if we consider the weapons that are available now…

A little while after US slaughtered Japan from the sky, Ernest Hemingway wisely reflected: "We have waged war in the most ferocious and ruthless way that has ever been waged. We waged it against fierce and ruthless enemies that it was necessary to destroy. Now we have destroyed one of our enemies and forced the capitulation of the other. For the moment, we are the strongest power in the world. It is very important that we do not become the most hated…. We need to study and understand certain basic problems…. and remember that no weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution, but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn aggressive at the earliest moment is the great counter crime…. We never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified is not a crime. Ask the infantry and the dead."

Truth represents essential ingredient of human dignity. And it is important also on an individual, personal level – being honest with oneself is the first step to connecting with the truth and there is no other way to grasp any meaning of the world, than by embracing the true in own life for a start. Appreciation of the truth opens paths to other life qualities and experiences. Without the intensive desire to look for the truth, our culture and history would remind an insane circus of illusions. Truth is crucial to grasp any sense in life. Truth connects us together or differs us from each other on many different levels, however even despite possibly different opinions, truth still is the key that opens a door to dialogue platform, where other values can be created.

Truth is our chance for peace and humanitarian love. Truth enables understanding and shapes the meaning of freedom and it sets us free from the captivity of destructive power of lies. In a way it works like an engine for humanity: the closer the truth we are, the sooner we move forward. I believe that seeking, understanding, sharing and protecting the truth is simply a duty of a sincere human being. And it is a human duty to protect and embrace peace in the world, and never preach the terror of war…

Lets be human and lets behave like human beings. Lets choose peace and truth. Lets learn from each other, from the past and from our mistakes. Lets share inspiration, knowledge and experience to brake the secrecy wall down so that the truth can shine. There is a long way up the enormous hill of secrecy and cover up that we have to climb in and there are many scary monsters that we have to face if we aim to restore the meaning of justice and feel the joy of being free... Lets be bigger and lets unite. Together we can end the war and this should be our only focus.

"If we don't end war, war will end us."
- H. G. Wells

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