With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
I enjoy paying taxes. With them I buy civilization.
December 09, 2006 - 11:57 a.m.
Yesterday was disappointing. My plan was to see Joe Hurley with Rosie. I decided to go home first and go back to the City later. I would have liked to have gone to the Columbus Circle holiday market but as I didn't get much sleep the night before I thought it best if I go home and get some rest before going out. When I got home I saw I had a text message. It was from Rosie, She cancelled. Even though I had bought tickets for us to the show I decided to stay home. I like Joe but I was tired and the main reason I wanted to go was to see Rosie.
It would have been nice if I could have gotten something done last night but I didn't. Today I'll have to try and do better. I have to make up a test and work on A Batnose Festivus 3 and my Festivus Pole. I really can't wait any longer if I want people to get their CDS during the holiday season.
There is more that I wanted to write about my trip to Philly on Thursday but I can't remember what it is. I hate not having a brain. Let me see what I did write and maybe that will trigger my memory.
Ah that worked. One really interesting thing about the documentary on Iain Campbell Smith's adventures as an unarmed peace keeper was its depiction of the people of Bougainville. These were people that had been involved in a brutal civil war. Think of what is going on in Iraq but worse. People committed horrific war crimes. Yet when we see these people they look and act like our stereotyped image of people living in a tropical paradise. We see them singing, dancing and laughing. The leader of the revolutionary group can best be described as jovial. When we hear about the horrors committed in wars we think that we have nothing in common with the perpetrators. We can though. They are people to who spend most of their lives living as most people do. They have friends they have families. They laugh, they cry, they do all the little things that we all do. Somehow when things get bad enough some people lose control and sense of morality. Most of the others come to accept the horrors their neighbors commit. In some ways that's the scariest part, the banality of evil. These evil deeds aren't committed by monsters but by men, not that different than ourselves. As Iain's mission showed this is also the hope. These same people can transform back into peaceful people singing, dancing, laughing and crying.
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