New Years 2005

gmekeepr said...
Happy New Year!Welcome 2005! You open your arms and bid the world step into your embrace. And what will we give you and what will we attempt to extact?I do not understand the enormity of the issues currently on the table in the banquet hall of our "topsy turvy" universe. The continued existence of mankind seems somehow connected to the continued perpetuation of war. Ethnic and religious people hurl their swords of savagery at each other in the name of some great god they believe supports them and is against the other. And what they can't see is their fundamental similarity. From primitive hand held weapons to ones of sificient power and sophistication to annililate the present human race if we start hurling them at each other...which seems quite plausible. We find ourselves here, having sent our children one more time to sacrifice themselves on the battlefild of mans distorted dreams of power and glory.But what if we see ourselves as the "music makers, the dreamers of dreams" as Arthur O'Shaughnessy said.What if? Then couldn't we choose , as some do, to dance a the rhythm of harmony, not the discordanct sounds of hate.We can believe in the dream of dismanteling the walls of intorlerance with their bricks and mortor of bigotry, and lies.The rage of our earth runs deep with ancient mans blood, and we spill more today, and we wonder why God shakes the earth and spills His tears across her shores. And I believe that if we do not wake from the slumber of our belief in might as an answer, we will find the world has turned and done a "Topsy turvy" dance as worlds will often do...history bares witness in all her tales. And he who sits at the head of the table in the seat of power shall no longer occupy that place...for no nation rules forever, no ruler lives that long. All things spin in the circle of life, all things connected, no random acts at all...the last shall be first and the first shall then be last...only lessons in the great schoolyard of life, and on that playground we all know the winners always find themselves losers and the losers always somehow end up at the winners table with some beat of the circle dance. So life really is a gamble, without winners or losers as we twirl. We are all ultimately too connected to not be brought down by anothers suffering, and lifted up by anothers celebration..our humanity makes it so.
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