In re: Arrogance.

I don’t think it’s arrogant to love other people.

I don’t think it’s arrogant to take one’s spiritual cues from the majority of spiritual seekers of the last three thousand years.

I do think that what happens in Africa affects us both politically and economically, aside from the fact that everything affects everyone to some extent.

Anyhow, thanks for your comments.

What MAKES it effect us is that we respond to it like some kind of tribe throwing our children as sacrifices to those that have developed social arrestive retardation.

And as for the g*d comment. Like Edith told Archie: Then let g*d take care of it.

Last time I checked, I wasn’t g*d and neither are you. How are you so sure what g*d wants or doesn’t want? Frankly, I’m not that arrogant to presume that I can act for g*d.

So, no, my comment is not a joke. It’s a point of view that I hope to spread to save a few thousand American kids’ arms, legs, faces, and lives.

I fail to see how this could be construed as an affront to g*d by anyone. If g*d doesn’t want them to kill each other, then they won’t. The FACT that they DO kill each other sorta makes one think that if there is a g*d involved, he/she’s getting exactly what he/she wants.

But, again, I’m not arrogant enough to presume that I KNOW that.

I do know that American kids are losing their limbs and lives at the average age of 19!!!

Political instability in Africa affects you as an American. So if only for selfish reasons, you should oppose genocide wherever it occurs.

WHEN does the rest of the world STOP sacrificing its best and brightest and youngest and strongest for…ahem….”civilizations” which still exist in the dark ages!!!!

Goddess above! We are thisclose to landing people on Mars. To determining whether there is an ocean beneath the crust of a Jovian moon and there is one third of this world who still live in dirt huts and squat to eliminate. And we’re supposed to drop everything; go billions of dollars into debt; divert time and effort that could be put forth toward ridding the world of its dependence on fossil fuels, developing CURES for cancer, AIDS, the freakin’ common cold!

But noooooooo….We are continually drawn into the 19th or 18th century antics of Arabs and Negroes. For pity’s sake people! Either STOP killing each other or those of us who are sick and tired of hearing about the latest freakin’ famine, or genocide, or whatever, are gonna start cheering for the use of the neutron bomb on you.

I was born in 1957 and my earliest memories are of those freakin’ commercials on television begging to save “little tyrell” or “little Anna Maria” or whatever. That’s almost 50 years, folks!

When does it end? When do we STOP allowing ourselves to be dragged into these senseless and worthless schoolyard brawls being performed by supposedly grown up adult humans?!?!?

If they WANT to continue to kill each other, then LET THEM!!!!

Either build a nice big fence with armed guards until they learn to grow up and stop acting like violent rain-men or we put a stop to it ourselves.

Neutron bombs destroy only living things leaving structures and the terrain intact, I understand.

My bottom-line opinion? NONE of these so-called “civilizations” NOR those that populate them are worth the lives of my two dogs, let alone the life of ONE SINGLE BEAUTIFUL AMERICAN KID.