The Voice of Hind Rajab

 

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We Are Not Great Not Intended To Last Forever

We are human. Made of flesh and blood. We have imagination. We can imagine anything and everything. But we are not guaranteed to be here forever. We have education, history, language, words and computers.

Because it's too painful to think about the future of our planet and species, because we have imaginations we can spend our lives thinking. Priding ourselves on our intelligence, history, knowledge and inventions, we can lose the day imagining what might happen. Will we destroy ourselves? Will we shut down the fears of what we might come to?

But we tell ourselves we have outgrown happy thoughts. Human arrogance and vanity is very entertaining until it isn't. 

Thank you Jim and Sheila

 Thank you for the buns. It really cheered me up. And I am full now. Hope you have a lovely day too.. I am grateful for the people who embrace their humanity with kindness.

looking around and within I see danger

Yes this is what I have been looking for. Humans who can see the danger in a future where power is prioritized.

If you believe that power is the only thing worth fighting for you forget the inspiration that came with wisdom, clarity, fairness and life affirming.

https://jeremylent.substack.com/p/how-artificial-scarcity-built-the?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=pwb38&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email 

Chris Hedges "Iran-and-gaza-are-only-the-beginning"

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We were never saints, never in control of our nature, never obedient to GOD. We dressed up barbarity and called it religion. We tried to be saintly without blemish or sin but the ego kept getting the better of us, kept wincing at our sins, bad habits, the seeds of our nightmares. We looked to proof of superiority. We created psychology, science, art and ethics, because in our nightmares we knew we were not saints.

Life or Comfort?

1930's

I read today of a Nazi Prisoner who was imprisoned at a camp. Was it because she was an unmarried woman? Was it because she was Jewish?

I know now that Nazi camps imprisoned Jews, Catholics and those who were not white men. But I haven't read enough to know what the initiating reason was other than to create the myth of men being in control. Which ultimately meant creating a society of fantasy - we are all white. Obedient and strong.

This is playing out in the Trumpian America. 

If we are all good obedient strong citizens we shall make America great.

The idea of Christianity struggles with this in America. But it means, in my opinion, we can assume we are all the same if we look the same and therefore everyone will think the same as I think.

The truth is a monotheistic dream.

I prefer MLK's dream. And the fact a highly educated religious man was murdered because of the colour of his black skin,  is very disturbing to people who seek to live in peace.

Peace won't be available to us if we seek to feel superior and murder those who are smart, articulate and loving.

As a child who thought herself "not good enough" then in her fantasies said to herself, I will save the world.

Our imagination could at least inform us of our errors.

Thank You Danielle - there is hope yet

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