I am so not sure of the world in which I live and times I wonder why this madness has become so out of hand. It seems to me, as simple as looking, listening and speaking the truth no matter how difficult the facts may seem. Words are important, actions somehow lead us to the road of fair, equal and free.
A question was asked, "If a tree were to fall on an island where there were no human beings would there be any sound?" They then went on to answer the query with, "No. Sound is the sensation excited in the ear when the air or other medium is set in motion." (George Berkeley)
If an elderly person living alone, without enough money for food stamps, lack of any meaningful support system, fearful of dying but more scared to ask for help, without any home delivered meals, with the only contact being the utility company to collect overdue bills and she died of starvation and cried out loud as his/her stomach ached and arched from no lack of nutrition would her plight be heard, acknowledged? Or would her life just be meaningless enough that when she died of starvation, proper medical care, a soft touch that all we would hear is the click of the computer as she is listed as a statistic? If no one was around to witness the sound of sadness, loneliness, futility did those sounds ever really exist?
“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but those without doing anything about it.” (Albert Einstein)
When the Pope and his legion of Bishops delay and deny most to any accusations of inappropriate interaction, sexual abuse, immoral activity between Priests or Church Staff, with women and boys does that mean that these actions done by the evil are of no Catholic consequence, have little to do with Jesus’s preachings? When the man designated to speak for a population of Catholics remains allusive and abrupt about dealing with an issue he accuses the Press to have in-sighted and originated is he speaking the language of his Lord? And when the millions of devout Catholics in America look the other way, whisper silently, refuse to address the issue, accuse the victim or just ignore the entire question of Pedophilia are they not as guilty as the sick men who prey on the innocent. If these Catholics cling to the deeds and scripture of their Lord and Savior while watching mere mortals fail to understand that message and remain silent are they not as guilty?
“Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.” (Bertrand Russell)
When those who protest that same sex marriage is a sign from the Devil, only to return to their sexless, love marriages, pretending that the Institute of Marriage has done them well. When men who just dislike any kind of power for women in fear that the freedom for women will emasculate their own inability to be a man, whatever that definition entitles. When self entitled men and women don’t want the same work conditions, health care, standard of living, they have because it assumed they deserve all of that while others don’t. Just how unhappy, how angry, are those people. How much hatred do those who like to divide and conquer, exclude rather than include, bully then announce they are the victim do those sad, unhappy people hold, and why?
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