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Lift Me Up
Sunday, January 27, 2008
It seems so miraculous that the world is still here... Not the revolving and rotating bit (well, maybe that too), but that it still works, the formula, for most part.
I open up my RSS news feed... Violence, politics, lying and cheating. Oh, and sports... Right.. Who cares? Apart from sports, most of what I can see is some sort of crisis.
The darker side of Today's Headlines (BBC):
- Dozens die in Kenyan riots
- Guyana shooting rampage kills 11
- Seven killed in Beirut Violence
- Trader 'staked 50bn euros'
- Pakistan 'seizes back key tunnel'
- UK tycoon 'arrested in Zimbabwe'
When does it stop? This does not include what happened yesterday at the Egyptian border... It does not include the heartless murder of Benazir Bhutto (no opinions please... I really don't care)... It does not include the ongoing trial of a man who killed four prostitutes in London...
When did we become so tolerant of it all? When did we learn to start expecting less stories of wonder and more of gore from almost everywhere. Okay, so the media is sensational, but they can only be so sensational... When did we start looking upon terrorism as an everyday activity? Why are our souls so hardened that we do not flinch nor do we utter sympathy at what we see around us... EVERYDAY... Even the cinema seems quite suggestive... "I am Legend" (Kindly ignore the fact that Hollywood seems to have a thing for terrible grammar), "Cloverfield"... Hip hop... what're they 'singing' about? "Shooting this, hitting that... 'bitches, hoes'... big screen TVs and 'bling'..."
Maybe it's just me but I have a feeling of an impending doom... like the calm before a storm... The air is just crackling with the excitement of disaster... Everything is so energised... Everything is going so fast, gathering velocity and all we do is stand helpless... The curtains seems ready to fall...
People is where it all begins... There is a change upon us.... Not a good one... Everything around is so disintegrated and disorganised... so full of something... something that has to be love, but is far from it... This divide is not just between people with differences... It is between everybody... Religion is not going to save you... It hasn't saved anything in a very long time, and is proving to divide rather than teaching humanity and kindness...
I must sound like a preacher but that is most certainly not what I am doing. Our hearts are closed, and slowly our minds are following suit... I hate to think of the future of "Us"... Human beings... So smart, so intelligent... Yet so utterly stupid... We are humans but we are lacking so much of what makes us that... We are lacking humanity... We need a return to innocence... We need salvation... but we're looking in the wrong place...
I'm sorry... there is just so much about this running through me that I've lost some of what I originally wrote this to say... But you're smart... Let your thoughts go... Open your eyes... Open your hearts out to the world... while it's safe to do so...
'What will you find behind the door that is One Door Away From Heaven?' - From The Book
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The book was excellent... I won't say anything more, because saying anything more is giving it away, and I should let you get through it alone... Pick one up... but please don't read a review before you read the book... "One Door Away From Heaven" - Dean Koontz... As for the writer... I'm pretty much hooked onto everything he writes... I've read five of his books in a month and a half...
@ Noelia - The book is completely different.. So I can't say if it's better or worse than Life Expectancy... but if you like that, then I'm very sure you'll like this... It's thought provoking and exciting... Lots of twists and dozens of ideas... One thing's for certain thought... he has an amazing sense of humor...
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i have stopped watching
the news because i am sick
of always hearing about horrible
things. maybe it isn't wise of
me to not be informed, i guess.
but i feel like these are things
i don't want to know about.
i am sick of people just saying
"this is the world we live in."
or "shit happens." i get that
shit happens but why must it
always be happening?
i have friends that claim on
their myspace and such that
they are "bitches that can
play the best games around."
what is good about that?
nothing.
it's not good.
and it's the simple start.
it's start with that careless
attitude. the acceptance that
evil prevails, and if nice guys
finish last then fuck being nice.
i hate that.
i had someone actually lecture
me on being too nice and good-natured, saying that i should
go out and get what i want no
matter who i had to take down
in my path. wtf? i can't believe
that some people srsly think
that an attitude like that is healthy. i think it leads to the
acceptance of other things like
terrorism and genocide and other
atrocities.
oh okay, my rant is done.
sometimes i just can't stop myself.
lol.
try not to have a baby it gets a lot scarier, my son will be raised as a global citizen
the media is a circus. sometimes you just have to look the other way i guess...
sure, evil happpens. it always happens, always has, always will. even in biblical times there was evil happening and now that the population is so numerous the probaility that evil will happen more often is logical. im not saying let evil happen but the fact that we should stress our lives about it is stupid. people are people, with that said we know we are merely fallible beings guaranteed of mistakes and disorders and diseases and stupidity. im not saying that it's ok to kill people but understanding of ourselves, basicaly of all human beings, is what we all need to do before we start claiming self-righteousness.
The world is a sick horrible place.... But I'm happy to be alive in it! xx
The world we live in never ceases to amaze me, Bharat read my latest blog and you will some slight similarities on our perception of the world...
w/out the bad there is no good :D
and i'll make sure to read that book ^^
Just a freindly visit from your local Webenforcement agent. We'll be round to pick up our money next Friday - no excuses! :-)
It's easier to look at the bad.
the better you see the bad, the more likely you are to do something about it...