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The world is bigger than we typically think of in our daily life. It is not just the brand of make up you use, or the car that you just purchased.
With the recent terrorist attacks, many of us play the blame game. Some blame it on religion, some blame it on country, some blame it on the government etc.
So here’s what I think. Irrational people, who twisted the religion teachings / or their own belief, in order to psycho somebody / themselves to destroy others, in the name of their twisted religion / belief. However, what are the motives of the masterminds? What made them do what they are doing?
Perhaps for revenge, jealousy, greed, survival or some hidden conspiracy of world order.
People make actions as they desire results. When they abandon all conscience and concern to achieve their results, they become in-human or monstrous.
I often wonder if some of the terrorists group can be reasoned or negotiated with? Or are they totally irrationalized and can no longer be made peaceful?
I understand that many of them dislike foreign countries for stepping into their country and they form groups to oppose their intervention. Apparently, no one likes to have others meddling with their own affairs. But why would others want to intervene and “KPO” with other countries’ affair?
I cannot judge / tell for sure who start all the terrorist issue. But one thing I can guess is that, someone / country / group has made an attack / suppress on another. So the other has to retaliate, and the international community has to step in to stop the conflict and punish the aggressor.
A simplistic solution would be an act of FORGIVENESS that avoids conflict and retaliation. Yet, this solution is rarely considered or effective. For e.g. Mumbai after the terrorist attacks, would the India government and its people step out to announce their forgiveness to the aggressor? Will they ask the terrorist group to step forward to acknowledge their mistake and deeds so as to receive forgiveness? Will the terror group even apologize? Answer is NO for both sides.
So naturally, India and its people will condemn the attack, and seek redress, perhaps through retaliation or punishment. That in turn will bring in vicious cycles like US versus Terrorist groups over 911 attacks.
Perhaps forgiveness for such malicious and atrocious attacks is entirely out of the question. However, would forgiveness as most religion has suggested, be the actual answer? Or would forgiveness bring forth more audacity for terrorist to attack?
Group A suppress Group B, Group B decides to retaliate with terrorist attacks, Group A seeks redress and punishment, Group A attacks with counter terrorist measure, Group B puts up more fight and effort. The cycle will carry on with more casualties than the scenario where admittance of mistakes and forgiveness is given.
Sadly, even though I believe forgiveness is the best solution to many world affairs, it is one of the hardest to accept and implement action in human nature. You might still be able to forgive someone who slaps you in the face, but you will find it so much impossible to forgive someone who has stepped over the line and stabs you in the stomach. Perhaps it is much easier to just retaliate than to eat the humiliation and pain suffered, especially when death / fatality is involved.
No wonder there is little forgiveness in the world stage. Human have their pride, dignity and some other consideration that kills forgiveness. Like Nan Jin’s incident, if full apology and forgiveness is given, the issue would have been history.
There will always be some group of people who take pride in their own justification and beliefs that blinds them from admitting mistake or forgiving others.
As such is the flaw in human that breeds conflict and stalemate on many of the world issues we face. Hence, I believe that there will be no true world peace until full admittance of mistake and forgiveness is practiced by everyone. In human nature, there is simply no such thing, world peace is just a spectrum that we seek.
To make things worst, the world has many other problems.
To name a few:
- Global warming
- Rising Sea level
- Increasing amount of Natural Disasters (drought, famine, cyclone, tsunami, earthquake, Volcanic eruption)
- Diminishing and scarcity of natural resources (Power, food, water etc.)
- Diseases and plague (e.g. SARs, AIDs, or Mutated form of fatal virus etc.)
- Economy crisis, wealth gap
- War (internal and external) between countries and groups
- Nuclear weapon / Weapon of Mass Destruction threat and danger
- Extinction of life species that affects the food chain
- Pollution and damage to environment, species and life.
- Digital intrusion to private life (hacking and online crimes)
These issues are big and major ones that requires big amount of efforts and countries to resolve. I believe given the current capacity and thinking of human kind, there will only be a slow and tough resolution for each of the issues.
If we think of some issues using simple mind, for e.g. Nuclear weapon and calling for all countries to disarm them, so that it is no issue at all. NOT POSSIBLE! Many political factors, security factors, economy factors and human factors are in the way of a seemingly simple solution.
Part of the Global warming issue and scarcity of resources are due to rapid development of human civilization. However, no countries will want or will be able to stop its path on development. China and India alleged of emitting great amount of pollution from its developing industries. Asking them to stop? Almost IMPOSSIBLE, as no other country would volunteer to slow down considerably or stop their development. Like earth, it is always spinning without stop. Perhaps back at Stone Age, where there are less people and little to no pollution, that’s where the world is at its most peaceful years.
Having advance to the age we lived in right now, there is simply no return ticket. We can only strive to develop & use technology to solve the modern day issue. Hopefully it does not create more problem instead.
The more we think and look at world issue, the more worries we will get. However, the world has world leaders that deals with such issues and direct the world economy and development.
Our future lies in their plans. Somehow, I suspect that some world events could be some hidden conspiracy plan executed by world leaders. We will never know if someone is controlling the terrorist attacks or someone is planning for world domination or particular global industrial monopoly or collecting spoils from a well planned fail economy or poisonous products to slowly thin human population.
Perhaps due to scarcity of resources, plague disease and economy, world leaders might resort to hidden agenda of thinning in human population for survivability. Of course this is just an unorthodox rumor that I find funny, but some ideas have already been put in movies that depict crazy evil guys destroying human population as a heretic solution to save earth.
All these issues are seldom discussed until they affect us. So only when big disaster strikes upon us, will we notice the danger and potential that lurks around us all the time. They are like a volcano, storing energy to erupt one day.
Even so, I don’t mean to encourage anyone to start brooding on these issues. We have to concentrate on our lives at the moment. Our job is to contribute to the society with the work that we do, while those powerful ones, who will be the world leaders. They will be working to change the world. For good or for worse, only time will tell.
Meanwhile, the world needs more love, not hatred or revenge. It is always important to look at people around you who have impacted your life.
Thanksgiving is your chance to show some love.
The world is bigger than we typically think of in our daily life. It is not just the brand of make up you use, or the car that you just purchased.
With the recent terrorist attacks, many of us play the blame game. Some blame it on religion, some blame it on country, some blame it on the government etc.
So here’s what I think. Irrational people, who twisted the religion teachings / or their own belief, in order to psycho somebody / themselves to destroy others, in the name of their twisted religion / belief. However, what are the motives of the masterminds? What made them do what they are doing?
Perhaps for revenge, jealousy, greed, survival or some hidden conspiracy of world order.
People make actions as they desire results. When they abandon all conscience and concern to achieve their results, they become in-human or monstrous.
I often wonder if some of the terrorists group can be reasoned or negotiated with? Or are they totally irrationalized and can no longer be made peaceful?
I understand that many of them dislike foreign countries for stepping into their country and they form groups to oppose their intervention. Apparently, no one likes to have others meddling with their own affairs. But why would others want to intervene and “KPO” with other countries’ affair?
I cannot judge / tell for sure who start all the terrorist issue. But one thing I can guess is that, someone / country / group has made an attack / suppress on another. So the other has to retaliate, and the international community has to step in to stop the conflict and punish the aggressor.
A simplistic solution would be an act of FORGIVENESS that avoids conflict and retaliation. Yet, this solution is rarely considered or effective. For e.g. Mumbai after the terrorist attacks, would the India government and its people step out to announce their forgiveness to the aggressor? Will they ask the terrorist group to step forward to acknowledge their mistake and deeds so as to receive forgiveness? Will the terror group even apologize? Answer is NO for both sides.
So naturally, India and its people will condemn the attack, and seek redress, perhaps through retaliation or punishment. That in turn will bring in vicious cycles like US versus Terrorist groups over 911 attacks.
Perhaps forgiveness for such malicious and atrocious attacks is entirely out of the question. However, would forgiveness as most religion has suggested, be the actual answer? Or would forgiveness bring forth more audacity for terrorist to attack?
Group A suppress Group B, Group B decides to retaliate with terrorist attacks, Group A seeks redress and punishment, Group A attacks with counter terrorist measure, Group B puts up more fight and effort. The cycle will carry on with more casualties than the scenario where admittance of mistakes and forgiveness is given.
Sadly, even though I believe forgiveness is the best solution to many world affairs, it is one of the hardest to accept and implement action in human nature. You might still be able to forgive someone who slaps you in the face, but you will find it so much impossible to forgive someone who has stepped over the line and stabs you in the stomach. Perhaps it is much easier to just retaliate than to eat the humiliation and pain suffered, especially when death / fatality is involved.
No wonder there is little forgiveness in the world stage. Human have their pride, dignity and some other consideration that kills forgiveness. Like Nan Jin’s incident, if full apology and forgiveness is given, the issue would have been history.
There will always be some group of people who take pride in their own justification and beliefs that blinds them from admitting mistake or forgiving others.
As such is the flaw in human that breeds conflict and stalemate on many of the world issues we face. Hence, I believe that there will be no true world peace until full admittance of mistake and forgiveness is practiced by everyone. In human nature, there is simply no such thing, world peace is just a spectrum that we seek.
To make things worst, the world has many other problems.
To name a few:
- Global warming
- Rising Sea level
- Increasing amount of Natural Disasters (drought, famine, cyclone, tsunami, earthquake, Volcanic eruption)
- Diminishing and scarcity of natural resources (Power, food, water etc.)
- Diseases and plague (e.g. SARs, AIDs, or Mutated form of fatal virus etc.)
- Economy crisis, wealth gap
- War (internal and external) between countries and groups
- Nuclear weapon / Weapon of Mass Destruction threat and danger
- Extinction of life species that affects the food chain
- Pollution and damage to environment, species and life.
- Digital intrusion to private life (hacking and online crimes)
These issues are big and major ones that requires big amount of efforts and countries to resolve. I believe given the current capacity and thinking of human kind, there will only be a slow and tough resolution for each of the issues.
If we think of some issues using simple mind, for e.g. Nuclear weapon and calling for all countries to disarm them, so that it is no issue at all. NOT POSSIBLE! Many political factors, security factors, economy factors and human factors are in the way of a seemingly simple solution.
Part of the Global warming issue and scarcity of resources are due to rapid development of human civilization. However, no countries will want or will be able to stop its path on development. China and India alleged of emitting great amount of pollution from its developing industries. Asking them to stop? Almost IMPOSSIBLE, as no other country would volunteer to slow down considerably or stop their development. Like earth, it is always spinning without stop. Perhaps back at Stone Age, where there are less people and little to no pollution, that’s where the world is at its most peaceful years.
Having advance to the age we lived in right now, there is simply no return ticket. We can only strive to develop & use technology to solve the modern day issue. Hopefully it does not create more problem instead.
The more we think and look at world issue, the more worries we will get. However, the world has world leaders that deals with such issues and direct the world economy and development.
Our future lies in their plans. Somehow, I suspect that some world events could be some hidden conspiracy plan executed by world leaders. We will never know if someone is controlling the terrorist attacks or someone is planning for world domination or particular global industrial monopoly or collecting spoils from a well planned fail economy or poisonous products to slowly thin human population.
Perhaps due to scarcity of resources, plague disease and economy, world leaders might resort to hidden agenda of thinning in human population for survivability. Of course this is just an unorthodox rumor that I find funny, but some ideas have already been put in movies that depict crazy evil guys destroying human population as a heretic solution to save earth.
All these issues are seldom discussed until they affect us. So only when big disaster strikes upon us, will we notice the danger and potential that lurks around us all the time. They are like a volcano, storing energy to erupt one day.
Even so, I don’t mean to encourage anyone to start brooding on these issues. We have to concentrate on our lives at the moment. Our job is to contribute to the society with the work that we do, while those powerful ones, who will be the world leaders. They will be working to change the world. For good or for worse, only time will tell.
Meanwhile, the world needs more love, not hatred or revenge. It is always important to look at people around you who have impacted your life.
Thanksgiving is your chance to show some love.
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