Thursday, January 27, 2011

We have everything in our hands.

Human beings, like all animals, fear change. We fear instant change even more.

One must wonder WHY, seeing as how change is what makes the world go round, it cannot be stopped, it can only, in some cases, be contained, however briefly.

We change the world with every breath we take, with every thing that we do. It is unavoidable.

Now is where I begin to make a lot of sense, and where because of that, I irritate a lot of people.

"Organized religion", by it's very nature, is resistant to change, all major religions have at their heads people that at best are called "conservatives", or at times "fundamentalists". At their worst, they are known as "fanatics", and there is nothing more dangerous in this world than a religious fanatic, because they are filled with a "righteous fervor" that they feel excuses anything they do, as long as it is "in the name of God".

They fight to keep things as they are, all the while not realizing that everything they do causes the very change they fear.

For 1500 years, the world was held in the sway of Christianity, and the heads of the Christian church feared other "pagan" religions, simply because they didn't understand them, but this did not stop them from absorbing many things from those "pagan" religions. They did this to make Christianity seem like a good idea to the "heathens".

They CHANGED things, things that they feared, so that they wouldn't need to fear them anymore. Or so they thought. They never stopped fearing them. They still haven't. Now Christianity is on the decline, and for a large number of reasons, not the least being that most of the world finds this religion to be, well, wonderful in it's ideals, but totally idiotic in it's dogma and execution.

Now is the age of Islam, and the Christian Church is naturally afraid. Things are changing, things that they cannot control, so they fear them, rather than LEARN about these things and coexist with them.

Muslims however, do not fear Christians, they fear the Christian Church. And why not? This Church has for centuries tried to suppress them, it has hunted them and killed them.

No wonder they are angry. No wonder they aren't inclined to be friendly. The fact is though, Muslims are far more accepting of Christians than Christians are of Muslims. It's a fact. Ask one if you don't believe me.

All of it though comes down to change, the fear of it, the furthering of it.

Religions, races, cultures, nations, ideas, languages, they all fall before the relentless onslaught of change, just as they are all brought into being by change. It is anyone and everyone's right and responsibility to change the world, we have to if we are to survive, and all change begets more change.

Sadly, the idea of "positive change" is different from person to person, from nation to nation, from religion to religion. Some, such as the Nazis, thought, and think, that destroying everything they distrust was and is "positive change". Some, such as the Communists, feel that everything should be controlled and dictated by the State. Some feel that religion itself should be the central facet of all existence.

And they are all WRONG.

Positive change is when all the people BENEFIT from it, not just a select few who feel they are better than everyone else.

Unfortunately, human beings have throughout their history shown an unbelievably stupid trait, and that trait is to allow themselves to be led around by the nose by the "man of the hour", rather than actually thinking for themselves.

War, sickness, death, famine, and untold horrors are the result of such a state of mind, if it spreads far enough.

Many people want to change the world, and in fact we all do, but some of us have dark designs in mind when we think of it. Those designs can and will destroy all of us if left to fester.

Learn to accept change, rather than fear it. Learn to embrace change, rather than shun it. Learn about things that you don't understand, so that you WILL understand them.

I want to change the world, and I am doing it, in as positive way as I can manage. I seek to both teach and learn, I seek to give people something to think ABOUT, rather than just tell them WHAT to think.

I want to CHANGE the way you think, the way the WORLD thinks. I keep my mind open, and I hope to pass that on to those I meet in life, because it's the only way we will survive, closed minds lead only down the road to destruction.

I want to change the world, to rid it of ignorance, bigotry, and hate. My voice is all I have to do this, and I will raise that voice until it is no more.

Break. The. System.

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