Wednesday, September 12, 2007

To Summarize

This is a blog that I have been thinking about creating for some time now. I have always had another blog called John's Head that had assorted thoughts and observations, but was geared towards a different audience then the one that I am creating today. Within this blog, I am trying to portray the more deeper afflictions on our human existence that cause for the world to rethink logic. In this blog I will try my best to steer away from non topical joking or otherwise stupidity that can sometimes be found within the depths of John's Head, and instead note on the changes in our world and my otherwise bleak look at how we logical humans can decimate ourselves with stupidity. With that, I will begin.



Yesterday, Osama bin Laden released a video that has followed in a line of videos since his recession into the unknown. Many news carriers have covered this video and the video from last Friday, but few have gone too far indepth into what I think is the true message of this video. In the beginning, Osama summarizes the torturous past of the Christian world, linking it to our own. The thing I find amusing is that he is completely right. The terror leader meticulously notes Christians' destructive holocausts (plural) of the Jews/Muslims/other Christians and now the Iraqis. Religion, in this context, is a horrid thing, ironic coming from the religious fanatic that is Osama. He notes that we voted in our democratic majority back in '06 expecting change but never receiving it and therefore our government is not to be trusted. Standard ramblings of a propagandist, using truth to back up your overall point, but what I find scary is it is not he who is firing the ammunition, it is us, he is just showing the bullet holes. I am not, in any way associated with nor do I like what Osama or his cohorts are doing, I hate that he can use religion as his cannon, and our own stupidity as his shell.



But as I've always said, religion gave us our rise, and will lead to our fall because religion begets extremism that is controlled by blatant rejection of facts. If it does not follow the path of religion, then it is not true and things that are not true are either eradicated or ignored. Religion begets hate despite its blatant bias against it. It discriminates, it kills, it burns, it murders, all because of a book and a bum. Now, terrorism has brought a new and scary time in human history, and is driven by the same thing that has driven every other war ever commenced in the dark depths of man's existence, differentiation.


Human's are just animals with opposable thumbs. some use their thumbs for the flicking of a quill, others use it for the gun we use to kill.

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