...what a whacked-out lot. How could anybody see a chance for even the most tepid commonality in those regions. We’re talkin’ a shthole. A well-crafted shthole by design. The kids [the two nutlamps] of South Park got it pretty much right-on-the-money. In the whole big picture it’s become...liken to...some kind of trade-off space. Like in the game Risk, ...border fodder, ...expansion zone, ...roll the dice, win the melee and takes your three armies and a card...until time (or somebody accumulates a set) and/or a shortage of beers requires that somebody goes !blamm! ...or gets off the pot...in the Holiest of Holies.
What sucks is that there are...earnest families...just trying to eek out a place in the sun & toilings and raise relatively capable/principled progeny...drudging from check-point to check-point, etc. in a place that is wrought in despair & oppression...of blind-resolute dogma & real good reasons to be terminally pizzed. How ONE rather small group of people can actually stand on a soap-box and claim, without shame, that WE are right! and ALL others on this blue ball ARE wrong...die, die! DIE!...is just so incredulous. Madness.
& yet from such madness...some of the kindest and most endearing small families of... people who would give you the shirt off their back and serve you their ONLY last piece of meat or whatnot in their meager digs if you were a guest...and gladly take no portion for themselves; ...because it’s the proper thing to do. [ ...& yet, these same folks who diminish their women on some levels while deitizing them on another...& still have a strong sense of a caste system that all but guarantees perpetuated sorrows to certain lineages. So, hey, ...I’m eternally perplexed....]
When one takes some time to read &/or experience a bit of most religious doctrine across the board...there is a solidarity of sorts that can be found therein. &...YET, bigotry certainly prevails as the unyielding motivation for gathering together in groups of
aggravated cats with guns and stories. Isn't it?
Who was it who said something to the likes of: Organized religion divides people, ...but a munificent idea brings people together. Whoever it was is probably living in comparative (geographically/economically defeated) disappointment in China somewhere, ...reminiscing about the good ol’ Tibetan Himalayas days back in the monastery, ...chillin’ with the homies...& tap-tapping groovy symbological mandalas of concentric circles, triangles and squares in the sand & meditating, ...but then....
