This week, I have thought, listened, researched, agonised over the articles on the Middle East. I started about ten times, but something always stops me.
So instead of continuing, I went downtown to find room 105 by the loading dock, in a shabby office complex. I entered the huge empty room, which smelt like a zoo. I sat in the overstuffed chair, noticing the sagging bookcase to the left with about thirty or forty books on history, prehistory, anthropology and bibles in different languages. I then settled and stared ahead.
Maybe it was what Ami had said about
"If you go into a room where there are a hundred people banging their heads against the wall, and they are all complaining of terrible headaches, you are either in a madhouse or the Middle East. If you ask the people in the madhouse, they might tell you that God is making them bang their heads against the wall, or that their enemies have put a curse on them, and this is why they have headaches. "
Then this week, I read what the so called leader of Israel, Sharon said -which has to be the quote of the week
"Peace with Palestinians is solution to Israeli economic recession:"
You can always tell when it's election time can't you?
Then again maybe what the Pope had to say to Italians during the week is hard to beat.
"Have more children!"
Maybe he has also read that- Muslims will out number Christians by the year 2025, Muslims will be 30% of the population and Christians will be 25% that's a big loss of a power base.
The times when you expect the leaders to give us something wise- they never disappoint us, they come out with just what we expect from them!
Political bullshit. I don't know about you but I am sick of Bush, Blair, Howard, Bin Laden, Sharon, the Pope and others, telling us how to live. Do they really know how we should live, more to the point is this living?
Maybe it's time we just found out for ourselves, how to live.
I can learn more from Froggy and watching grass grow, then I have learnt from them.
Why is it, Froggy lives his life without others telling him what to do? Somehow he seems to just know what to do? He doesn't listen to the radio, TV, or read the news, or even consult with other frogs, he, like frogs around the world, just know how to live. I have never seen him reading a self help book.
I don't see him going out to kill, other then when he needs to eat? I don't see him bringing food back to store in case it doesn't rain? He managers to just live- but why?
But I forgot, of cause- we are part of the superior race! We know more then Froggy. That's why we need people like Bush. We are the chosen ones. How do I know that, well that's what I was taught? Who taught them? "Others I suppose" and so on and so on, back to when? The beginning of human's, I suppose. It's my songline, my culture.
When was it decided we are the superior beings on this planet, with the right to decide who lives and who dies?
Are we all here to screw up the planet, because we are all going to heaven or some other place the god's have waiting for us! ---------- I don't think so.
Why is it that indigenous people in Australia with the longest songline (storyline)could live for 40.000 thousands years- then when we, the civilised ones, come along, it has taken just 200 years to all but eliminate them from the planet - while we show them how they should live?
Why is it the planet could live millions of years, in 4.6 million years of earths existence, it survived very well, then 3 million years ago the first one celled creatures formed, the planet still survived very well. 40,000-60,000 ago indigenous Australian's evolved and the planet survived very well.
It is said that the age of the human race is roughly 1,000 to 10,000 generations: ... 1000 to 10,000 generations old, which is roughly the age of the human population, ... what's that, 6,000-10,000 years.
In that very short time we have managed to bring the planet to the brink of destruction, because we know how we should live? What did we do- that was so different to those before us?
Why are we thought of as human's and indigenous Australian's who lived for thousands of years before then - were not human's?
From a very small child, born into a catholic family, I could never come to terms with the fact that we, me would be going to heaven, (as long as I confessed my sins and did my penance) while indigenous people (heathen's) my dog, cat, pig and chooks in the pens waiting for their heads to be chopped off, as well as animals in zoos, were not going to heaven.
I decided then at an early age, if they weren't going, then neither was I.
I learnt very early about Native Indian races,( we didn't learn about indigenous Australian's at my school back then, they were an inferior race, heathen's)
But I liked and related to the Native Indian way of life, better then other things I was being taught at school.
Why did indigenous races from around the world, all seem think the same about the planet and life? Like froggy-they just knew?
They seem to know like other living creatures and plant life - how to live - as part of the planet, not to be like us, owners of the planet? They fitting into nature, while we learn how to destroy it.
I couldn't understand why animals and plants were not our equals- that gods? decided we were the chosen ones- the ones who kill for killing sake. The one's who always have to have more then we need.
A question I often asked myself was.
Why do animals seem to know how to live, when we have to go to school to learn how to live, not as well as animals just seem to know?
Why do we need rows and rows of different coloured toilet paper on shelves in shopping centres? when around the world others are lucky if they get enough food, to even have to go to the toilet. I forgot we are civilised- they are not?
Why do people who seem to have so much, seem more and more unhappy?
Why do people suicide and pop pills when animals don't?
You can see the reason I was not too good at maths, and English, I was always too busy thinking Why?
They say you don't find a book- a book finds you.
From Ami bringing up Hagar and my searching for answers, mentally revisiting Frank Wesley, my guru. I became more interested in Ishmael, Hagar's illegitimate son from Abraham. Having looked at the bible and the qur'an, as well as a number of other religions all telling us, the way we should live.
I wondered why Froggy just knows how to live?
While doing a search for Ishmael, I came up with an add which said
Teacher seeks pupil
Must have an earnest desire to save the world. apply in person.
Well I did, so Friday, I race out and bought the book "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn, read it and keep thinking WOW!
Then when I finished it I raced out Monday and bought "My Ishmael" and found a 12 year old girl called, Julie Gerchak.
Guess what, her favourite word is Wow!
So the past week instead of listening to the same old rhetoric and ending up in the madhouse, I thought I would take a whole new approach and sit and learn from a very wise Gorilla, called Ishmael who lived in room 105.
Do you know what I think of when I think about the world today- we human's are the Compounding Interest of our own story of our meaning of life.
Have a nice day, I will, I'm heading back downtown to room 105. I have lots in common with Ishmael.
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Global Strategic Alliance for the New Humanity, One Mind One Voice.
A Famility of Humanity
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"Send someone you know my
Huggy hug, beats sending a bomb any day."
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