Hi Peggy, It
is always a good day when two friends can agree to disagree and still value the
others voice. We have kindred souls and kindred hearts but yet we will often see
things from different perspectives. That is the wonder of friendship and the
value of the written word. Let there be peace and let it begin with us. Have a
wonderful day and milkbones to shadow. Love. Pauly
Dear
Peggy:
I find it most difficult to even begin to write about this war or the state of
mankind n these days. Tonight I was reminded of Cain and Able allegorically and
how one brother slew another out of envy and greed setting the early template
for the fallen state in which we seemingly now still find ourselves. The wounds
are deeply set in the middle east brother against brother and crossing the seas
and invading the land of our brothers and blowing things up does not to me seem
to be the way to rectify anything. George Bush followed by our allies Britain
and Spain went up against the United Nations and made their own policy in this
ploy. Americans are not in favor by most of the world at this time if you do not
believe me travel to a few other countries yourselves.. and see what is really
going on that CNN and their illusionary drama TV doesn't dare show. In Mexico
City my Mentor Dr Rob was holding a medical convention this past week and every
where he went he had to be guarded and ushered in and out in disguise as the
people of Mexico were protesting very violently in the streets against
Americans. Hate Bush signs banners and photo images of Bush being hung and even
worse things that I will not mention.. was everywhere and these are our
neighbors whom we have opened industry trade with and given much to?
Can you imagine how the rest of the world feels? Our Canadian friends share with
me their concern they have about America now and how we have been destroying
their environment for years with our haphazard pollution controls and their
concern about our weapons of mass destruction. My Ecuadorian friends are
appalled at what America has done in this instance they are in constant
struggles with Columbia there and know war first hand pretty much on a daily
basis. If you really want to know what is going on in the world.. please people,
have the courage to step out in front of the TV and go out in the world
and make a difference each one touching one.....we all count each and every one.
Peggy, my little ten year old Sarah is so excited about learning to knit
and she will have at least a 400 foot long rainbow scarf for Pauly by
Christmas but let me tell you if there is an instant (like you Peggy) that she
can be of service to another that knitting drops in her chair and she is off to
hug or smile or help a friend. What is right with the world lets look at that
and bring that to some light.. so that some of this strive and can be diluted?
All of your prayers are appreciated in the next phase of things as I focus my
efforts on the developing a new homeopathic remedy and prevention protocol for
the fast spreading SARS virus that has broken out amidst all of the chaos.
Warmly,
Susan
Hi
Peggy
I guess the thing that gets me about this war is the fact that as far have as we
have supposedly evolved, we still consider war as an answer to achieve an
objective.
I don't think we still go out daily to hunt for food to survive, nor do we live
in caves.
Have we really changed that much? I guess that is the real question. We no
longer need to hunt for food because we developed ways for a few people to
slaughter huge numbers of animals to sustain us, we do not live in caves because
we learned to build bigger and more hospitable caves with windows, we no longer
kill a neigbour because he may look the wrong way at the ones we love, but it
still happens, it is still a part of where we came from. We do not use flint
tools and weapons becuase we learned to make bigger and better weapons. We never
lost our fight or fly response designed to keep us alive in times of mortal
danger, these days it is completely innapropriate in 99% of cases, and causes us
to act rashly and without proper consideration, it is built into our genes.
So, if we worked out which genes are no longer appropriate to our
"modern" life style and removed them, would that make us better
people? Are we now, or will we ever be qualified to determine our genetic
make-up to which parts are right and which parts are wrong? Is there a war gene
in our genetic make-up?
Why is it that no other species on this planet wages war on each other? What is
it about humanity that makes this and many other traits unique to us?
Could it be that we supposedly have larger brains and the ability to think
consiously about every decision we make? And if so, tell me how we justify
killing millions of people to prove a point?
Sadam is perhaps the most evil man since Adolf Hitlar, there is no diputing that
fact, but there has to be other ways to remove a single man from power without
resorting to war.
Between the USA and UK, we have perhaps the most accurate and upto date
intellegence agencies in the world, they can tell us how many people are in a
building via a satellite, yet they cannot send snipers to take down one man? So
what if it takes 5 years for the perfect oppertunity, it has been 10 years since
we last had a gripe with Sadam, and until 9/11 his evilness was not a major
issue.
If not snipers, then how about educating the people of Iraq to stand against
Sadam with our backing financially and any other means except war? One man
cannot stand against an entire country if those people know there is light at
the end of the tunnel. How about instead of waging a war, we use all our
technology to locate saddam and send one well aimed bomb when he is least
expecting it, does that not achieve the same outcome? Would Sadams regeime
survive without the evil man himself? Apparently not.
I am pleased for the Iraqui people, that they are finally free from their
oppression, but to me the end does not justify the means, two wrongs do not make
a right, however they word it or whatever TV images they show.
Iraq now has an even greater problem than Sadam, complete and total breakdown of
law, in the short term until some kind of control is established, many more
innocent people will perish and the rapes that occured under Sadams reign will
reach a new level of horror.
The middle east will never be at peace as long as it remains locked in the past,
the answer is not to enforce our principles, but to educate them to see there is
another way to live and give them the choice to decide either way. Terrorism
arose becuase of the west repressing the east and imposing our standards of
right and wrong on to them without proper negotiations, and punishing them when
they did not obey. We may have evolved far in the last few thousand years, but
when we do not get our way we still revert to getting it by using force. If
there truly is no other way, then we will eventually destroy ourselves.
I only pray that this campaign does not turn to other countries when they are
all satisfied that Iraq is well and truly defeated.
On a lighter note, I hope you enjoy the funny answers to an age old question
from many of our worlds past and present icons.
Love and light
Spencer
Why
did the chicken cross the road?
GEORGE
W. BUSH
We
don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to
know
if the chicken is on our side of the road or not. The chicken is
either
with us or it is against us. There is no middle ground here.
COLIN
POWELL
Now
at the left of the screen, you clearly see the satellite image of
the
chicken
crossing the road.
HANS
BLIX
We
have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been
allowed
access to the other side of the road.
MOHAMMED
ALDOURI (Iraq ambassador)
The
chicken did not cross the road. This is a complete fabrication. We
don't
even have a chicken.
SADDAM
HUSSEIN
This
was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we were quite justified in
dropping
50 tons of nerve gas on it.
DR.
SEUSS
Did
the chicken cross the road?
Did
he cross it with a toad?
Yes,
The chicken crossed the road,
But
why it crossed, I've not been told.
ERNEST
HEMINGWAY
To
die. In the rain. Alone.
MARTIN
LUTHER KING, JR.
I
envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads
without
having their motives called into question.
GRANDPA
In
my day, we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road.
Someone
told
us that the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough
for
us.
BARBARA
WALTERS
Isn't
that interesting? In a few moments we will be listening to the
chicken
tell, for the first time, the heart-warming story of how it
experienced
a serious case of molting and went on to accomplish its
life-long
dream of crossing the road.
JOHN
LENNON
Imagine
all the chickens crossing roads in peace.
RONALD
REAGAN
What
chicken?
CAPTAIN
KIRK
To
boldly go where no chicken has gone before.
FOX
MULDER
You
saw it cross the road with your own eyes! How many more chickens
have
to cross before you believe it?
SIGMUND
FREUD
The
fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken crossed the
road
reveals your underlying sexual insecurity.
BILL
GATES
I
have just released eChicken 2003, which will not only cross roads,
but
will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your
checkbook
- and Internet Explorer is an inextricable part of eChicken.
ALBERT
EINSTEIN
Did
the chicken really cross the road or did the road move beneath the
chicken?
BILL
CLINTON
I
did not cross the road with THAT chicken. What do you mean by
chicken?
Could you define chicken, please?
COLONEL
SANDERS
I
missed one?