I think that many of us can agree that peace has been so difficult to achieve in the Middle East because the people there are uniquely obstinate in not being able to recognize governments they don't agree with ideologically. If those Middle Eastern people (let's call them Middle Easties) would just travel, trade, and negotiate with each other like normal people instead of trying to kill each other, there wouldn't be a problem.
I mean, it's been over fifty years, and they still can't treat each other civilly. Where else on earth does stuff like that still happen?
I'm pretty sure what you're talking about applies to my neighbor who is constantly breaking up with his boyfriend(s?).
ReplyDeletePower, control, and ignorance.
ReplyDeleteAre you saying we need to take care of the beam in our own eye? Or that we need to actually live up to our own ideals before we go haraunging others about them?
ReplyDeleteMan, Castro's beard is wicked-awesome. Ah, beard envy is hard to deal with when you are a BYU student.
ReplyDeleteLoZ: I think what I was saying (at least, on a deeper level than I would care to admit intelligence to,) was that the question of, "Why can't we all just get along?" is something universal. I'm not sure what you mean by the "beam in our own eye"?
ReplyDeleteKate,
ReplyDeleteWhen you say "universal," are you suggesting that different universes are also having trouble getting along? Because that would explain a lot. I'm just sayin'.
Kate-- my questions were for the Castro look-alike who writes this blog.
ReplyDelete"beam in our own eye" was an allusion to Matthew 7: 3-5 and a reference to US sanctions against Cuba.
I was trying to make painfully obvious the conclusion that James made simply ironic.