My Thoughts
These are a few things to
think about as you go on day to day. The things I think we need to think about
to help make life a little better.
War and Terrorism
For all of you out there who don't believe killing other human beings is right,
whatever the circumstances. These are my thoughts.
I don't believe any war is right, anyone has the right to defend themselves, but
they don't have the right to kill innocents.
Arabs who believe Christians and Jews are infidels are wrong. Jews who believe
Palestinians don't have any rights are wrong. Christians in Yugoslavia (as was) who
ethnically cleansed are wrong. I am sure there are many other examples but I have just
picked some obvious ones.
The proliferation of any weapons be they chemical, nuclear or anti personnel
such as land mines should be stopped.
Questions
If Saddam had spent the money he had on feeding
"his people" rather than building presidential palaces and buying missiles and
chemicals, would his people have been unhappy with him?
Why do some people feel they have to kill someone just
because they don't believe the same things they do?
I don't know whether my Christian god exists and whether
he/she is the same being that a Hindu or Moslem worships. All I know is that I don't hate a Moslem
because he has a different set of beliefs so why should he think I'm a threat? And why
should I think he is a threat?
And ...
I am sure that 99% of the people in the world just want to
get on with a peaceful life with a roof over their head, going to work, spending time with
their loved ones, being healthy and not worrying when the next bomb is going to go off.
Isn't it time that the 1% of the world listened to the silent majority and put their guns
and bombs away.
This applies to the
murderers who killed people in London on 7/7 and those murderers who to continue
to kill innocent civilians in Iraq with suicide bombs every day. Why are you
doing this? What are you hoping to achieve? We should be trying to help
other people not killing them.
Especially now...
There were in excess of 250,000 people dead and
millions homeless from the earthquake in the Indian Ocean, there are now in
excess of 100,000 dead in Burma from a cyclone.
Shouldn't we all be working together to make things better?
POVERTY and Oppression
We should be taking this
further... what about the starving in Africa and South America and all parts of
the world. People are dying due to lack of medication and money. Some people
have got rich in these countries (and others that support them) while the
ordinary people are being used and abused, whether deliberately or just through
sheer greed or even negligence. This has to stop.
If certain governments spent the money they
have spent on removing Saddam on helping to eradicate poverty in Africa, less people would now be dying of starvation? How many people might not have Aids now if money
had been spent on Education and not fighting pointless civil wars?
MAKE POVERTY HISTORY
Write an email today to a
member of your government and ask them as a human being to start helping now.
Support Make Poverty
History and help make the World a better place.
Environment
And one more thing...
We
are destroying the world we live in, through pollution and waste. Start
recycling, every little helps whether it's paper, bottles or plastic. Start
using resources more wisely. Don't waste water and try to do things that promote
re-use of resources. We don't all have to be perfect but do what we can.
In
the UK we can probably all easily recycle 80% of what we put in the bin, but so
many people don't and when they want to build a waste tip on our doorsteps they
complain. If you recycled there would not be the need. So RECYCLE now.
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