Seasons

And now for something completely different—

"Tom and Jerry" as a nefarious Jewish plot:

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2006/02/tom_and_jerry_a_nefarious_jewi.php

wow. it is amazing how idiotic some people can get in attempting to secure their ideas of superiority over other people. that article was truly the work of a bona fide fool.

excuse me, not the article, rather the concept that the article was conveying.

With this, and all the deaths over those "Allah" comics, it really makes you wonder what this world is coming to.

The world needs its idiots, I'm firmly convinced of that. Though I do sometimes have trouble understanding why it needs quite so many of them - especially the hateful, warmongering kind.
But the world isn't "coming to" anything more than it ever has (I mean, it is always coming to something - it's just usually more of the same.) People have always irrationally hated each other, and set out to persecute their neighbours as often as they extend the hand of friendship to a stranger.
Maybe it will all become clear at the day of judgement. Or not.
In the meantime there is only one question to ask ourselves: do we want to be hateful, warmongering idiots ourselves?
And if not, the solution is surely pretty clear - refuse to hate anyone, even the idiots.

The problem is, that brings up the issue that led Einstien, a strict pacifist, to help develop the A-Bomb. His rationale was "Organized power can only be opposed by organized power". Don't get me wrong, I'm a hippy at heart, but it's a conundrum. Idiots in large groups, especially the violent ones, can't just be ignored, or left alone, most often. But, as Dr. Martin Luthor King pointed out, violence only begets violence. So how to proceed?

Choosing no to hate is not the same as chosing not to act. The trick is not to become the thing you are fighting.

Anagram of
Choosing no to hate is not the same as chosing not to act. The trick is not to become the thing you are fighting. =
Transmogrification cabinetmaking conscientious necessitate hotshot ghetto go-go tooth then thy he ho

Hee hee. That's a good one. Kind of makes sense if you think about it. It's sort of like talking to Not I.

Lady Orchid, the queen of the anagram,
Hoorah! Quite fancy-handed telegram.
Ha ha! To a deft rhyme, grandiloquence
had hid a hot, fragmentary eloquence.

So how to proceed?

Well, the world will do what the world will do, and I no longer feel it's my responsibility to try to change it - if you fight, you just become another fighter, and there are quite enough of them in the world already without me adding to their ranks. Ultimately the only responsibility we individually have is in choosing how we act individually - all more complex social interactions follow from this.

The trouble is that the politicians and other self-appointed "leaders" who complain that "something must be done" and that we must "fight for what's right", seem to be the ones least able to achieve an outcome that's in any way an improvement. I have to conclude that this is because opinions serve no other purpose than to allow people to go round bothering each other with them. I think I'll just stick to anagrams.

My issue with topics like this is that those politicians go around and shout what must be done, but never do anything themselves. If you want change, change it yourself. Play the game of life and get yourself into a position to make that change. at least, thats what i plan on doing. Im not a complainer, im a doer. Earth needs its doers along with those idiots and every other kind of person. But we will never have enough anagrams!