I am so filled with loathing right now that it makes me feel ill.

[Skidmore]

It feels like the world is crashing down around us and we have ugly neocons and warmongers on both sides of the aisle fanning the flames as they seek to scorch the earth, quite often in the name of deities and high principles. No one is talking; everyone is shouting--and no one is listening. People are dying needlessly, some in war, some from hunger, some from disease. And those who support this insanity will rabidly defend every missile--large and small--or excuse any atrocity--large or small. All the killing in the world will not fix past insults or bring back the dead. Nor will it create a path to peace. It will sow seeds of fear and revenge and hatred, which will grow on the fertile soil of discontent that has been turned. This conflagration is a crime against mankind and the earth. The contempt and loathing I feel right now for all who would sustain such suffering and pain frightens me. What right do any of them have to sow destruction?

[EFerrari]

1. I hear you, Skidmore. n/t

[KarenS]

2. Yes. I'm there too.

:cry:

[Solly Mack]

3. I know that feeling

and I ask myself the exact same question "What right do any of them have to sow destruction?"...lasting, long term destruction. To perpetuate a cycle of hate and violence that will just continue because every abuse leaves a fresh wound and a long, bitter memory.

[MindPilot]

4. I hear ya. I find myself wishing more and more

that it would all just come to a head and explode. Get all the killing and destruction done and over with and then we who are left can set about picking up the pieces and reassembling what's left.

[TripeOmatic]

That makes me think that, what with our short collective memories,

maybe we really do occasionally need a world war just to 'bring home', to all of the neo-idiots who are bereft of any sense of history, what that sort of world looks and feels like. I vote we just schedule a global conflict every 40 or so years as a part of our educational system because nothing brings history to life like living through it.

[TripeOmatic]

17. What? No number? I've been alphabetized!

A-'nom'-ymized - LOL It's a test.
And, lo-and-behold, a number to boot!

[Skidmore]

21. You've been reduced to a cypher.

[TripeOmatic]

25. LOL - Next it'll be a cy-Börg - n/t

[EFerrari]

5. And, want to add, imnsho, that's a very sane reaction to an insane

situation. Let's see how we do.

:hug:

[Dora]

6. Heal yourself.

Nobody else will do it for you.

Turn off your TV. Get out of the newspapers and get out of the magazines. Get offline.

If you feel ill, you've had too much.

Do something, anything, different.

[blue cat]

7. I hear you

I feel anger towards people once I find out that they are republicans. Just can't help it. I blame them for putting these monsters in office with their anti-science agenda.

[katinmn]

8. I'm angry and frustrated, too .

I just got a fundraising letter from a senator. No mention of the hundreds dying every day in Iraq with no end in sight. No mention of Lebanon. Just money, money, money to keep their cushy jobs.

They can't stop campaigning for one day to address the crisis of people dying with our government's encouragement.

Besides Kucinich, who is standing up for peace?

[bdamomma]

34. I gave a donation to American-Arab Discrimation Committee

today. How much more shit needs to happen before we get it together, sorry for being so blunt, but, this regime has got to go, NOW.

[bdamomma]

41. Correction to my post donation given to the

American-Arab ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LEAGUE COMMITTEE, typo correction.

[Glorfindel]

9. It's hard not to give in to negative feelings...I take comfort from

a line from "Desiderata" - (yes, my age is showing!) "Whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should."

[karlrschneider]

13. I like the Lampoon's version better

Go placidly amid the noise and waste,
And remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof.
Avoid quiet and passive persons unless you are in need of sleep.
Rotate your tires.

Speak glowingly of those greater than yourself,
And heed well their advice, even though they be turkeys.
Know what to kiss and when.
Consider that two wrongs never make a right,
But that three lefts do.

Wherever possible put people on "HOLD".
Be comforted that in the face of all aridity and disillusionment,
And despite the changing fortunes of time,
There is always a big future in computer maintenance.
Remember the Pueblo.

Strive at all times to bend, fold, spindle and mutilate.
Know yourself. If you need help, call the FBI.
Exercise caution in your daily affairs,
Especially with those persons closest to you;
That lemon on your left for instance.

Be assured that a walk through the ocean of most souls,
Would scarcely get your feet wet.
Fall not in love therefore; it will stick to your face.

Carefully surrender the things of youth: birds, clean air, tuna, Taiwan,
And let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
For a good time, call 606-4311.

Take heart amid the deepening gloom that your dog
Is finally getting enough cheese;
And reflect that whatever fortunes may be your lot,
It could only be worse in Sioux City.

You are a fluke of the Universe.
You have no right to be here, and whether you can hear it or not,
The Universe is laughing behind your back.

Therefore make peace with your God whatever you conceive him to be,
Hairy Thunderer or Cosmic Muffin.

With all its hopes, dreams, promises, and urban renewal,
The world continues to deteriorate.
Give up.

:D

[TripeOmatic]

16. BRILLIANT !!

A good dose of sarcasm never hurts and this is one of the best I've read. Not that I'm against action, I'm just not fond of failing to ever relieve the tension with a good "FÖÖK-IT!"

[Glorfindel]

39. Oh, thanks! That's the best chuckle I've had in ages...

It's right up there with "Mad" magazine's satire of "Xanadu" -

"In Levittown did Myron Felt
A stately cape-cod house decreee,
Where Alf, the sacred Neumann, dwelt..."

[tnlefty]

15. "You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars you

have a right to be here..." I haven't thought about that in a long time. I guess my age is showing somewhat, also.

Thanks. :hi:

[Glorfindel]

40. It's my pleasure...we can't let the bad guys bring us down!

n/t

[movonne]

10. I feel just like you...I'm glad to have someone put into word..I try

to calm myself down, I want to live long enough to hopefully see a change..

[Jeanette in FL]

11. I feel like we are on some sort of Karmic Rollercoaster...

going over and over and over the same old ground and none of us can get off. I feel the same way that you do.

When I saw that video this morning of the Lebanese woman with her two children in the hospital, kids who were burned by the bombs and she whose husband died in the bombing, just broke my heart and soul. But for the grace of God, it could be any of us.

This cannot keep going on like this.

People tell me, "Well stop watching the news". Stop watching the news, are you fucking crazy. This is what is being done in our name. This is why the world hates us. This is why we will never be safe.

[ixion]

12. you said it, Skidmore

the loathing I feel towards those who seem to relish hurting others burns with the white hot intensity of a thousand suns. :grr:

[earth mom]

14. I'm angry too-at the religious fanaticism that has brought us to the edge.

These lunatics are destroying the planet and we can't stop them! :banghead:

[TripeOmatic]

18. Oh, yes we can (stop them) - one educational success at a time.

We just can't allow ourselves to avoid 'calling them' on every little piece of BS they utter or engage in. This goes for every personal interaction one might be confronted with. We've allowed ourselves to be cowed by idiots.

[earth mom]

20. True, but when the press doesn't cover us fighting back...

or twists the truth as they do 99% of the time, fighting seems pointless at times. I think I'm also feeling beat down right now by the heat plus all the years of this crap which feels like it's all about to explode...

:nuke:

BTW-Welcome to DU! Glad that you are optimistic! :hi:

[TripeOmatic]

28. OMG - optimistic? - LOL - I was hoping for realistic - sigh.

I guess I like to think that I channel my anger into whatever options seem to hold out some promise of success. I mean, I wouldn't regard fighting as pointless - even if you lose a battle or two. I'd just take a lesson and continue to pursue the war. In the end it's the war that counts. Don't let the heat get you down. Let it get the dolts down and bide your time. This crap started with the 60's and 70's feel-good promotion of 'self-esteem' in disregard of actually teaching something in our schools. Don't get me wrong, I engaged in my share of prankishness (more than most). I also had teachers who insisted on having the students apprehend the tools they would need to be functional. Then came 'self-esteem' promotion and skills were relegated to the level of 'optional'. This boat will not turn on a dime. It's going to take some involvement. That's not pointless.

[Initech]

19. What's sad is - the world will end and Americans wont notice.

They'll be too busy sitting on their fat asses watching American Idol or whatever the latest abomination on television is to care. Or they'll be busy playing with whatever stupid shit they bought at the mall that day.

That's what angers me.

[Stevepol]

42. What are the American people supposed to do?

They voted Bush out of office twice. The only power the American people have ever had is the vote and they don't have that anymore due to the voting machines.

[KitSileya]

46. oh, I don't know,

what about a general strike?

[debbierlus]

22. I just feel numb.

And, betrayed by the few people I thought had a conscience.

It is as bad as I feared.

In fact, it is worse.

[BluePatriot]

23. K&R

for an eloquent yet sad expression of what's on our minds.

[jonnyblitz]

24. I loathe the warmongers and their supporters.

I know whose side I am on.

[Generic Other]

26. I made this flash video because I felt the same way

I needed some hope.

Flashing Peace
http://media.putfile.com/Peace-26

[Magical]

29. Thanks GO

Enjoyed your production.
thank you...

Magical

[Sapere aude]

27. I wish there were more marches and that they were televised.

More and more I'm seeing peace ribbons on cars. It is getting easier to talk about peace now that so many people are tired of the war.

BUT! when I see the taking of sides here on DU rather then working together for peace it makes me so mad.

Yes a country can defend itself but if the country could learn to live with it's neighbor there would not be a need to defend itself.

The gun never solves anything. It just sets up the lines for the next shoot out. Just think that if we were to trade with North Vietnam rather than fight them we could have saved 10 years of war. Yet today we trade with them. They are the same people and we are the same people.

Some just think of the shoot out as the one and only thing to do.

[tnlefty]

30. I refer to it as a seething outrage. Yeah, I'm angry, but not all of the

time, but it just doesn't take nearly as much to bring it to the surface as it did in the past.

I had truly hoped for a different state of mankind prior to having my children. Yet, they will be dealing with the seeds of destruction that have been sown. I've commented for a few years about making t-shirts for the entire family with a huge target on the back and 'thanks bush'. Not that he is totally responsible for all of this, but his arrogance, absense of any type of diplomacy, invading Iraq based on lies, etc., sure as hell hasn't helped anything. Social safety nets here are in tatters and for what? Tax cuts that weren't needed and for money to KILL.

My new mantra has been the standard, Kill them all, let God sort it out, because until humans decide to act like humans in the cause for a greater humanity, it sure does stick in in the faces of those who've made the choice to ignore it.

War is not good for any living thing.

[crim son]

31. I am filled with hate. Hate!

Hate isn't something I've lived with before. I've built my personal relationships and my social outlook around the idea that we must all try to understand one another's perspective, and to the best of our abilities, cooperate. Distrust, dislike, loathing... these are counterproductive emotions. But I have them all now, for the goddamned fucking Pretzel and his ilk. The feeling is most certainly not limited to American politicians and voters any more. If I believed in end times, I would surely be expecting it any day now. Every putrid, arrogant, ignorant, self-righteous prick is in his/her glory.

I'm so angry that I've become sick and depressed. Today I came to the realization that I've been striving to find a way to return to the peace of my past, but it isn't possible. Everything is, indeed, different since 9/11.

This isn't very coherent. I don't care.

[katinmn]

35. I know that feeling of missing my old life

When I had some carefree days if not weeks. When I didn't feel shame and guilt about what's being done in our names. When I didn't feel the urge to scream at the top of my lungs and grab the Bushbots by the lapels and yell: "Wake up!"

Now I spend all my free time at rallies and marches, making phone calls, going to meetings, writing anti-Bush articles, letters, signing petitions.

I want to feel carefree but I can't. Not when I read 55% of the people killed in Lebanon are under age 15. Not when I know 100+ people in Iraq are dying each day because of US.

It sucks to be an American. I can only imagine what the Iraqis and the Palestinians and the Lebanese are going through.

[crim son]

36. Well, that's just one more thing to feel guilty and shitty about.

As bad as it is to be in our situation, we live in paradise when compared to the Lebanese, the Iraqis, the Afghanis etc. etc.

[katinmn]

38. Damn. Forgot the Afghanis. There are so many we're

messing with.

[RagAss]

32. Fear not.... "The Karmic Wheel Takes no Prisoners"..

[bdamomma]

33. I find this disturbing too.

but what if the shoe was on the other foot like ours instead, I hate what is going on, this regime, this neo con death cult, unleashing all this death, on everyone, how much longer are we going to let them take us down too????

[Skidmore]

48. The shoe has been our foot and we did Iraq...

it isn't something to be proud of either.

[blonndee]

37. What right, indeed?

The defenders of these atrocities are nearly as bad. They cheer and applaud death from thousands of miles away without apology.

[tex-wyo-dem]

43. I absolutely feel the same way...

I feel that some extraordinarily bad things are going to be happening in the near future, not that things aren't already bad enough. The fact that the ME and much of Asia could slip into WW III, and the distinct feeling that global warming is accelerating at a much, much faster rate than anyone expected. There won't be a living person or thing on the planet that won't be affected in the coming days/months/years.

[Vinca]

44. I agree with everything you said. Even though war has been

a fact of life in the Middle East for eons, King George and his band of incompetent neocons has created a "war" atmosphere. Big guns, no talk. We'll be lucky if we get out of the reign of Bush alive.

[leftofthedial]

45. can you say Dark Ages?

If you did not ascend to nobility during the 90's, it's too late.

[shadowknows69]

47. I never wanted to be capable of the hatred I've learned

Hatred for those whose stupidity and greed would bring the potentially glorious race of humanity to ruin.

[kpete]

49. I here you too

You are so RIGHT - "all the killing in the world will not fix past insults or bring back the dead"

Will we ever learn?

[kiki]

50. "Might makes right" is, unfortunately, all the justification they need...

"Because we can" is their mantra - and what really pisses me off is that they think they're so fucking clever for thinking of it, like it's never been done before.

Hope that thought comforts them when the sane people of the world have them up against a wall.

[stepnw1f]

51. I Am With You, Skidmore

The insanity of a minority of people in our World, seems to get worse everyday, while innocent bi-standards get caught in the cross fire like pawns on a chessboard.