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The world’s inhabitants seem to have a torrid love affair with destruction and an unbridled passion for embracing an atmosphere filled with anomalies. We create wars in provinces of peace, and call ourselves a peaceful people. We produce weapons of mass destruction to annihilate other members of humanity. We indiscriminately separate families under the guise of protecting our “borders,” while spouting off about our love of family and our quest to impart family values throughout the universe. Our iridescence illuminates the nights as we hunt and gun down innocent animals and call their slaughter a sport; simultaneously bellowing to all corners of the earth, professing our love of animals as we shamelessly, wallow in the blood of their slaughter.
We profess very loudly and with regularity to every living thing in the universe that we are followers of a supreme “Spirit” and that we worship and adhere to that “Spirit’s” requirements because of the “Spirits” undeniable love for us; yet we break every rule set forth by that “Spirit” that we allegedly believe in.
Our constant cries of civility ring out like mortar fire in a war zone, while we refuse to extend that same courtesy to others. Fervently and urgently we repeat these cries as they permeate the star-filled skies, then listen for them as they careen off mountain tops with the force of asteroids, continuing their journey as they cascade across the crimson waters of the Red Sea, and make their way to the crystal-clear waters of love, understanding and fair exchange.
As the sun rains and the rains shines, we pacify ourselves by simply denying our love affair with the anomalies we embrace. We put forth excuses based on unfounded and manipulated information. We close our eyes and pretend not to see what we clearly observed with an unobstructed view. In our concerted efforts to be seen as “team-players”, we readily and sometimes reluctantly, accept our willingness not to be participants of this exchange.
Neatly tucked away in the process, we strangely romanticize and proudly boast of opposites attracting one another when it involves affairs of the heart. The trick to this one is that cupid is a sneaky little guy and he just might zing his arrow in your direction with his arrow tip dipped in the blood of those of whom we chose not to engage with fair exchange.
Melvin “Casey” Lars
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