StOp, You’Re KiLLing Me!

 

Certain things hang on forever, stop child murder.

 

She was so innocent and yet you took her away. I may not have known her personally but you had no right to take her life either. What has our world turned into? Tragedies, crimes, murder, violence and brutal killing are all I read in the papers nowadays. What happened to piece, harmony and togetherness? What good is it to be an independent country, living in a free world if there isn’t real freedom? What could she have possibly done wrong to deserve such brutality? You are killing our future generation, the reason we are working hard and making all the necessary sacrifices for. Could it be riches, or is it worth you are after? How happy will you be if you gain your riches with a guilty conscience and sleepless nights?  I cry out to my nation, let’s not be the (Mr or Miss better off untold). It’s that ability to express a feeling like the one that arrives quickly after the loss of a loved one that shows we are embracing our humanity “Silence will linger around, till you decide to say something”.

 “All attack is called Self Defense.” Humanity has been trying to figure out how to bring an end to war since living beings evolved into self-consciousness on this planet. From those very first moments, we have found reasons to oppose each other. From those very first moments, we have found reasons to fight each other. From those very first moments, we have found reasons to kill each other. It has never stopped, from those very first moments to this very moment. I would venture to say that there has not been one day — not one single day — since the beginning of recorded history when one human being has not killed another. And I don’t mean by accident. I mean deliberately, with purposeful intent.

• Not one

• Single

• Day

…in thousand and thousands of years.

And as I write this, the talk is of another possible child kidnapping case which is uncertain if the child will be discovered unharmed or not (just praying he’s safe where ever he is). All that matters today is what it would take to end the killing, to end the aggression and counter-aggression that is threatening to embroil a whole region — and even, conceivably, the entire world at some level, if not directly — in a war that could prove unspeakably tragic for the entire human race. I have always thought that any human problem can be solved by talking about it and acting on it. I still believe that. But we have to talk about the right things. There are some who say that human beings cannot — simply cannot, for reasons of biology, genetics, you name it — stop themselves from needing to be right…to say nothing of killing each other over their differences.  And the problem becomes, what do you do when the other party won’t listen? What’s left when all the talking has achieved nothing? When one or both parties are intractable? When no one will give an inch? Or when one gives an inch and the other takes advantage of it?

How do you solve it when talking simply does not, will not, has not, and cannot?

The answer is that we all need to talk more — but in an entirely different way. We need, as an entire group called humanity, to talk about not what is going on, but why.

And that is something that no one wants to talk about. Or, at least, very few people do. Because it is going to put the spotlight on — and maybe even asking people to change — beliefs. And that is something that many people would rather die than do. And so, they are achieving exactly that outcome. Conversations with God famously said, “No one does anything inappropriate, given their model of the world.” This is the same as saying that everybody believes that they are acting correctly — given the way they see themselves and see life at any given moment. What humanity needs to do, then, is talking about its model of the world. When our model of the world, our whole idea about Life and what it is and what it’s for and how it works and why it exists and who and what God is (if there even is a “God” at all) — when the whole construction produces nothing but anger, crisis, violence, killing, and war…and has done so for thousands of years…isn’t it time to question some prior assumptions? We need to talk about Who We Are and what we believe and how we imagine life to be and where we as a species wish to go, and when we are willing to do what it takes to get there. And we need to request, invite, plead, beg, implore, entreat, petition, ask, call on, and beseech our world’s leaders in government, politics, economics, religion, the military, education, and every area of human endeavor to place these subjects at the top of their agenda. We need to call these the Five Required Topics at any meeting that any of them have about anything whatsoever anywhere in the world at any time. Let’s call upon our leaders now, right now. Our world’s leaders need someone to lead them. We thought they were going to lead us, but they can’t, or won’t. So we need to lead them.

You know who to write to. Write to them. You know whom to contact. Contact them. Then post The Agenda to save Humanity from itself on every website, in every newspaper or magazine Letters-to-the-Editor column, on every feedback forum of every television show, every week of your life. Do it. Once a week, every week.

Are you willing to do it?

To the Grieving Family: May knowing you’re in the hearts and thoughts of others help you and yours through this time of sorrow. Although no words can really help to ease the loss you bear, just know that you are very close in every thought and prayer. Extending my deepest sympathy to you, for your loss and hoping, too, that comfort and peace may come to you. Words, however kind, can’t mend your heartache: but those who care and share your loss wish you comfort and peace of mind. May you find strength in the love of family and in the warm embrace of friends. There’s a very special garden where the trees of memory grow Nurtured by the kindness and concern that good friends show.  The roots are cherished memories of good times in the past. The branches tender promises that souls endure and last.  It’s a place of peace and beauty Where bright new hopes can start It’s memory’s lovely garden that soothes the hurting heart.