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THoughts on War

Peace will never truly be attained due to impermanence and coveting. People seek things to hold onto because we die. As we journey threw life we apply value to objects. The more the object lets you forget about death the more value the object. Therefore we seek things to deal with the fact that we are not immortal but die. Second, people covet the things other have because they are lost in ignorance. They are not able to self manifest their destiny, (regardless if it is a cook that makes a average cheese omelette or the Olympic athlete that wins the bronze medal), and need to be told what to do or they take from those that have manifested their desire in the real world. War occurs when those that "have" and those that "have not" fight over the goods that have become valuable because of impermanence. The first thing needed to ensure peace would be food, clothing, and shelter for all. Once again, problems will occur due to ignorance, those with a small house, will want a larger house. Those with a cheap car will want a luxury car and so on and so on. (here is where you develop a belief system to encourages people to share and not be greedy, by those that "have" to deter those that "have not.") Thus we engage in social contracts in order to prevent war. I had more detailed stuff to type but realized no one really cares.

#ILOVEGOD

Quietly contemplating the universe,
I gasp at the silence,
Is there anything out there?
Perhaps a supreme being
championing the rights of miserable men?...
We swear God exists!
Similar to fake news,
A wild rumor on social media
A shout out during a Facebook RANT!
#ILOVEGOD
no angels separating the chaff from the wheat
everyone caught in the mosh of impermanence
grasping at straws
building houses on mud flats
praying to God that it wont collapse
but Gravity our master
whips us daily
reminding us we are meant to struggle.
only us fools
see rhyme and reason in a field of chaos.
Look up in the clouds,
It's Jesus, no Mohammed, no Buddha
no its chemtrails choking the life out of our body
so you don't collect that retirement check.
Political parties trying to make 2 + 2 = 5
Up is really down when looking at the stars
there is no direction in the void of space,
religion and priests, or science and scientist
folk shining a light in the dark that grows darker and darker
I still remain calm
In the belly of the beast
and still I claim
through broken pride
smashed dreams
and lost love
God is not dead.
but it really pisses me off.

Delayed Freedom.

The first time I realized this concept (Delayed Freedom) was looking at the Reconstruction of the United States of America after the Civil War.  Millions of slaves where freed by the Emancipation Proclamation and the confederate state losing the war.  Does a slave know how to be free?  The answer to this question will be no, but not necessarily. 

Can you imagine a hoard of uneducated people, that have been brutalized for centuries, suddenly set free into your community to vote, work, and pay taxes?  This is the reality for the United States after the Civil War.  The United states was over come with FEAR!  The southern states where an armed camp fearing a slave revolt.  The free population of former slaves had to be controlled to maintain order.   

Tangent thoughts:  In order to engage in democracy, does a person need to be educated?  How many people are educated at the end of the Civil War?  The population of the United states of America is illiterate post Civil War era and there is a need to educate the majority of the people in the country.  However, when dealing with scarcity who is educated first and in what order? 

African Americans experienced delayed freedom with the introduction of Jim Crow Laws that restricted the Civil Rights of African Americans allowing segments of European American culture to grow and prosper without competition from African American communities.   {When the rulers of the European American community is upset with "white people" are African Americans introduced into these communities to take jobs in order to motivate European American/ white people to behave properly?  Black people from the south come to white communities in the north (and other predominately white communities like California) from a surplus supply of labor from dilapidated plantation system of the south to compete with labor pool already at capacity.  However, the rulers of the European American communities wanted to exploit the surplus supply of cheap labor found in former slave population of African Americans.  Today, the rulers of the economic system out source jobs to third world countries to demand loyalty from the masses.}