Wednesday, November 09, 2005
Blame it on the peppermint mocha
I once saw something on the history channel or something that talked about how, through out history, coffee houses were a place of free thinking and public debate due to the caffiene that stimulates your brain. With this information, I will blame this post on the peppermint mocha.
My company has sent me to New Jersey for training for a few days and so I am stuck here alone, after class, sippin' coffee, thinking about the world. Hmmm.
I was thinking about the war in Iraq, and terrorists, and all that crap. How most Americans conveniently sit on their assumed correct side in regards to the war on terror.
Let me preface, I think terrorists are completely wrong to want to hurt innocent people just to scare others. In all my searching and conversing with The Almighty, never has he communicated to me that he is about hurting others. In fact, he is about the opposite, loving others as Christ loved you.
But here are some things that come to mind that are very unpopular to vocalize. For example, terrorists are people too. They have families and loved ones. I don't think that they are just pure evil, but misguided, angry people who want to fight for one reason or another. Ok, maybe some of them are pure evil, but I really don't think I am qualified to judge that since I am not perfect either.
I don't think America is innocent when looking at its relationship with the Middle East. America has and probably will always be out for it's own interests. Maybe some of the middle eastern people feel oppressed by us, and maybe rightfully so. I really don't know.
When we started cutting off Japan from oil before WWII, they eventually declared war on us. (I know that isn't the only reason they declared war, but it is a factor.) But unlike the Middle East, Japan actually had the capability to make war on the US. If some nation in the Middle East declared war after the Twin Towers attack and claimed responsibility, I have no doubt in my mind that the offending nation would be a dust cloud today.
I am just pondering the things that are unpatriotic to think about. In a way, it is not unlike politics. Is there a right side? Two or more groups of people grab onto different points of view that are valid and healthy in their own right. But then, in a quest for correctness and power, they focus on the faults of their opponents, ignoring the valid points of their opponents as well as their own faults.
I think about this and hurt inside. I want to fight back, but I know fighting is wrong. I think we did the world a service removing Sadaam, but the brunt of the cost was paid by the Iraqi people.
I can understand why someone who doesn't believe in God could not believe in absolute truth. Without God, is there such a thing?
The war in Iraq?
We removed Sadaam, that was good.
Lots of innocent people died, that was bad.
We are building hospitals and schools and helping establish government, this is good.
We blew up hospitals and schools to destroy their governemnt, was this bad?
No one wants outsiders to come into their neighborhood and boss them around, that is bad.
It goes on. It seems for every positive, you can find a negative. When you look at everything, right and wrong go out the window and the war in Iraq becomes just an event that happened (is happening).
But this is the way the world has been as long as history has been recorded.
Man vs man, brutalizing each other emotionally and physically, trying to kick each other in the mommy-daddy button.
No more coffee for me thanks, I've had enough.
My company has sent me to New Jersey for training for a few days and so I am stuck here alone, after class, sippin' coffee, thinking about the world. Hmmm.
I was thinking about the war in Iraq, and terrorists, and all that crap. How most Americans conveniently sit on their assumed correct side in regards to the war on terror.
Let me preface, I think terrorists are completely wrong to want to hurt innocent people just to scare others. In all my searching and conversing with The Almighty, never has he communicated to me that he is about hurting others. In fact, he is about the opposite, loving others as Christ loved you.
But here are some things that come to mind that are very unpopular to vocalize. For example, terrorists are people too. They have families and loved ones. I don't think that they are just pure evil, but misguided, angry people who want to fight for one reason or another. Ok, maybe some of them are pure evil, but I really don't think I am qualified to judge that since I am not perfect either.
I don't think America is innocent when looking at its relationship with the Middle East. America has and probably will always be out for it's own interests. Maybe some of the middle eastern people feel oppressed by us, and maybe rightfully so. I really don't know.
When we started cutting off Japan from oil before WWII, they eventually declared war on us. (I know that isn't the only reason they declared war, but it is a factor.) But unlike the Middle East, Japan actually had the capability to make war on the US. If some nation in the Middle East declared war after the Twin Towers attack and claimed responsibility, I have no doubt in my mind that the offending nation would be a dust cloud today.
I am just pondering the things that are unpatriotic to think about. In a way, it is not unlike politics. Is there a right side? Two or more groups of people grab onto different points of view that are valid and healthy in their own right. But then, in a quest for correctness and power, they focus on the faults of their opponents, ignoring the valid points of their opponents as well as their own faults.
I think about this and hurt inside. I want to fight back, but I know fighting is wrong. I think we did the world a service removing Sadaam, but the brunt of the cost was paid by the Iraqi people.
I can understand why someone who doesn't believe in God could not believe in absolute truth. Without God, is there such a thing?
The war in Iraq?
We removed Sadaam, that was good.
Lots of innocent people died, that was bad.
We are building hospitals and schools and helping establish government, this is good.
We blew up hospitals and schools to destroy their governemnt, was this bad?
No one wants outsiders to come into their neighborhood and boss them around, that is bad.
It goes on. It seems for every positive, you can find a negative. When you look at everything, right and wrong go out the window and the war in Iraq becomes just an event that happened (is happening).
But this is the way the world has been as long as history has been recorded.
Man vs man, brutalizing each other emotionally and physically, trying to kick each other in the mommy-daddy button.
No more coffee for me thanks, I've had enough.
