I sometimes look at people around me, and wonder at their thoughts; If They think about Me...

[wolven7]

Rasputina - [All Tomorrow's Parties]--- I wrote this in Mortal Questions, when i probably should have been paying attention to Marx, Rousseau, and Schoppenhauer.

{War. An intrinsic part of my being, and something I understand as necessary. I don't like it. But i've come to the conclusion that Humans have lost respect for it, and understanding of it, as a whole. We press the buttons and we kill People, without ever seeing their faces. How does this, Ever, help us to understand why we go to war? We speak of freedoms and rights and pains and Injustices. And then we never understand why we fight, who we are killing, what we are taking away from people, friends, families, fathers brothers sisters sons uncles cousins daughters mothers aunts. Grandparents. Because we pressed a button, pulled a trigger, flew a plane into a building. And we have never understood.

We used to approach war thinking that we would kill or be killed. Fighting was inevitable, victory was not. No matter what kind of morale boosting speeches we gave. But we still didn't understand the Enemy. We knew that they wanted us dead, or gone, or Theirs, but why? What's the motivation? Or does it simply come down to "Because god said so"? Show me where, and get it to say the same to Me, and then i'll believe it. We don't know our enemy. They don't know us. So it's easy for us to objectify each other. We don't think of them as fellow humans, but as Soldiers. At least when we had to stick a sword/spear/flaming, jagged hunk of metal into a person, we knew, at last, what we had done.

We began to loose respect for war, with the invention of the gun. We made technological advances, yes and guns came along with many benefits, and no, the entire course of human history would not be the same, without them, but we've lost what it means to have a war. A slow decline of the respect for human life. Or the understanding of it.

*Klaxon Alarms Blaring*
"What'd you DO?!"
"I just pressed the button!"
"Oh... Well that's all right, then."
*Fade out as the atmosphere catches fire*}

Said it before and i'll say it again: The Baron was right. You don't even have to see them? What's the fun in that?

Off to take a metaphysics test. See you kats and koshkas later.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Very good point....and i think it's becoming ever more critical to understand any "war" and anything that we label an "enemy" no matter what situation we speak of....the "other" cannot just be the "not-us" anymore...humanity must recognize that ultimately all is One...and even if fighting for something or against someone can theoretically serve a purpose, it loses its purpose if we do it mindlessly, without understanding the act and the opposition...we must recognize any "enemy" as somehow a part of us, connected to us...as well as the necessity of understanding why the "other" sees us as an "other." All very complicated...but part of a expanding of awareness...peace may be the most important lesson of this age...
-sister anonymou

for you

[(Anonymous)]

umm, i wrote this and then i was typing it up and thought of you and i thought i wanted to share it with you before tomorrow and i know you've never had me post any of my poetry before but i promise i wont do it too often. this one doesnt have a title yet. i'm sorry.

I am a journey, i am a path
I've told a story but the words are all glass
this is my house and its filled with light
its words are with me in the day and the night

if life is a journey, we follow a path
i built this house and made it of glass
if you took the short-cut then you'll see my light
flash through the dark woods as i wander the night

if this is the journey and that is the path
then this is my house and its made of glass
i throw this stone with all of my might
and we become naught but ships in the night

the world is a journey, the world is a path
we trip on the stones and step on the glass
we follow the leader, in hope of what's right
but in the end we are all alone in the night

i am a journey, the journey's my life
my life is a path and that path is the world
my shining glass house i broke with a stone
my house was my words, you followed their light
you've seen journey's end, you know what its like
in the end we are all just boys and just girls
but words through those broken cracks shone
and we can be more than ships in the night


okay, i think i'll go now. bye bye.

--JMDC

[angsty.livejournal.com]

hun- whats to need to know? the more you put faces to the enemy- the harder it is to do what is nessisary. we are over populated anyway. lets kill all the people who don't think like we do. :)

One problem here...

[karishi.livejournal.com]

The problem I have with adopting this ideology is that we actually CAN carry it out. We have the means, we have the Technology.

Oh, and I'm not talking about the Might of the U.S. of N.O.T. T.H.E.M.
When I say "us," I'm talking about the golden soldier and the world-eater, the laughing darkness and the mechangel and the faerie queene.

I figure I can be patient. The aztec (or was it mayan) calendar was counting down, and ends in less than ten years. If I'm gonna royally screw the world, I think that's the time for it. Make some people feel vindicated about their beliefs before they die.

Re: One problem here...

[angsty.livejournal.com]

this makes no sense to me :)

That works out...

[karishi.livejournal.com]

I think it makes sense to Damien...

Re: That works out...

[wolven.livejournal.com]

^_^`

Re: One problem here...

[(Anonymous)]

Reply to the Top: So true. This is where all the respect for life has gone. It's not violent videogames, music, movies, or whatever, it's that people don't think about what it entails to kill. Things become depersonalized. And, to paraphrase Nny, it's a sad world whose advances are limited to it's technology.

And to Karishi: W00t. Ready whenever you guys are.
-Mech

Re: One problem here...

[wolven.livejournal.com]

I agree Completely, sir. *smiles and stretches*