i must decrease,so that we all can increase
Politics are so overwhelming. i know i could make a difference, i wouldnt sell myself short. the problem is that they are so dividing, those i truly care about are more important to me. i am not willing to draw battle lines because of a political stance. i found myself getting very irritated at simple things in life, just because of the message behind what i saw. i cant do it any longer. i will still be involved in the political process but i am not willing to hurt people over decisions in washington. then i began to think even further, why do i choose one political party. i really must choose individual cases for myself and not make one broad stroke of my political decisions.
i must reivaluate my decision on the ethics of war. Ghandi, Martin Luther King jr. and Jesus Christ would have asked us not to go into Iraq. but i wanted us to. their system worked, why do i insist on defending decisions based on washingtons decision and not on what i know the philosophers i try to immulate would have done.
Welfare, what an aggrivating issue. if the Church would do their job we wouldnt have to rely on the government to help the widows and orphans.
i must step back and see what is for the greater good of mankind and not the greater good of a political party. i am done with politics and have only begun with mankind.
i must reivaluate my decision on the ethics of war. Ghandi, Martin Luther King jr. and Jesus Christ would have asked us not to go into Iraq. but i wanted us to. their system worked, why do i insist on defending decisions based on washingtons decision and not on what i know the philosophers i try to immulate would have done.
Welfare, what an aggrivating issue. if the Church would do their job we wouldnt have to rely on the government to help the widows and orphans.
i must step back and see what is for the greater good of mankind and not the greater good of a political party. i am done with politics and have only begun with mankind.
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Why? Because of the ulterior motives? If so, that's a lost cause--none of us could ever do something for the greater good without other motiveds.
Perhaps this doesn't make sense...but from my standpoint...is it really a bad thing to remove a man who would kill people by dropping acid on their skulls until they died slowly and painfully--or perhaps you prefer the paper-shredder method? That is what is being found in the mass graves, mass graves that would continue to exist had we not intervened.
And...
hindsight is 20/20. We do not know if it was necessarily a better idea to do so or not. But America chose to intervene, and that is what has happened. We're not going to wake up one day with nothing having ever happened.
Learn from mistakes and move on.
I've always answered, "I have no political stance." when asked what mine is. Comically enough, I first would attribute the answer to not following enough of the political happenings to make any single choice as to who or what I agree with. Now, as I have come to be more conscious of these things, I realized that it simply never made sense to me, morally or practically, to settle on any single side. Every situation is different.
It's refreshing to see someone else with the same views. I enjoyed reading this. I'll see you on the road, Stephen.
-Kevin
The actions of innocent children, only naturally follow loving kindness. People, in general, know right from wrong in regards to love or hate and should always follow this despite the age. It's an attribute that stems from our souls, but most lose sight of it by the details of life that cloud us.
"A brilliant man will find a way not to fight a war."
--Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese Navy, (1884-1943) quoted just prior to the attack at Pearl Harbor in 1941 after being congratulated on a "brilliant effort".
At least, that was how I interpreted what he wrote.
i agree with your current relation with politics. Besides, why should our stance on political decisions fit in one little box. ..