Maybe it's time ...

[understandinglife]

Once upon a time
Long before creationists can imagine
A person killed another person and
Justified doing so because the person they killed
Had killed yet another person.

Tens of thousands of years later
The cycle of killing
Justified by a prior killing
Remains intact.

Maybe it’s time
To break the cycle.

Maybe it’s time for folk like Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice
To realize that in hanging Saddam
They justified someone hanging them.

Maybe it’s time
To break the cycle.

Maybe it’s time to realize that killing killers
Only means more killing.

Maybe it’s time
To break the cycle.

Maybe it’s time
To preserve the life of the next killer.

Maybe it’s time
To create the cycle
Of life.

Maybe it’s time
For humans to evolve
Into something other than killers.

Maybe it's time
To create the cycle
Of Life.

B Robert Franza MD
30 December 2006

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. To LIFE!

kicked and recommended

[understandinglife]

21. To You!

Thank you,
Bob


Peace.

[KAZ]

2. Imagine how many minds we could have changed...

... if we didn't act like what we claim to despise. K and R from me. Good stuff Under.

[understandinglife]

20. "... if we didn't act like what we claim to despise."

Oh, so very true!


Peace.

[enough already]

3. Maybe one more n/t

[WiseButAngrySara]

4. To Understanding LIFE! KNR. ....n/t

[understandinglife]

22. And, to You!

:toast:


Peace.

[livvy]

5. There was a good piece in OpEd News today along these same lines.

December 30, 2006

TO THE IRAQI EXPATRIATE CELEBRANTS IN DEARBORN, MICHIGAN

By Linda Milazzo

Tonight in Dearborn Michigan, Iraqi expatriates have taken to the streets to celebrate the hanging of Saddam Hussein. As a non-Iraqi who values the lives of the people living in Iraq today, I have a message for these celebrants:

If you truly believe, as you have stated to American media, that Saddam's hanging justifies the deaths of 650,000 innocent Iraqis under the regime of George W. Bush, you are neither lovers of Iraq nor lovers of Iraqis.

>snip

If you believe for one minute that Saddam's death justifies the demise of the infrastructure of Iraq. If you believe for one minute that Saddam's death justifies the sectarian violence in Iraq. If you believe for one minute that Saddam's death justifies the current hell of "your" people in Iraq... then trade places with them.

Give them your comfortable homes in Michigan and take their destroyed homes and lives in Iraq. Perhaps then you will stop your celebration and consider the hell they will live through tomorrow even after the death of Saddam.

Millions of Iraqis suffered under the regime of Saddam Hussein. If you or your loved ones were victims of his cruelty, I am sorry. I understand and accept your hatred for him. But to celebrate the current state of turmoil in Iraq for even one night is neither humane nor patriotic to me.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_linda_mi_061230_to_the_iraqi_celebra.htm

The old "eye for an eye" state of mind just doesn't work. It solves nothing. It only breeds more hate and more violence in a seemingly unending cycle. It is time for humans to evolve. It is time to break the cycle, and reform it into a productive, cooperative circle, one that benefits all living creatures and the living planet as well.



To a more peaceful New Year.

[understandinglife]

24. "The old "eye for an eye" state of mind just doesn't work. It solves nothing."

So Very True.

Thank you,
Bob


Peace.

[EFerrari]

6. Maybe.

:)

K&R

[understandinglife]

19. Definitely.

:hi:


Peace.

[DemReadingDU]

7. It's time

K&R

[understandinglife]

18. Peace!

:toast: to you, good friend.

[understandinglife]

8. We the People ... will ...

[GeneCosta]

9. Loved it

Once upon a time
Long before creationists can imagine

;)

[understandinglife]

10. Welcome to DU - "GeneCosta" ...

Great handle!


BE AMERICA. ---

[bigwillq]

12. Hi!

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[bonito]

11. It is a good night after all...

Alas,from a good knight, well said. Peace
Robert Armstrong Caregiver...

[understandinglife]

16. In_deed ....

:hi:


Peace.

[puebloknot]

13. Balm for the soul, Good Doctor.

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." ~Gandhi

To Life! L'Chaim!

[understandinglife]

17. Thank you, my friend ...

:toast: to you and yours!


Peace.

[bleever]

14. "I and I" instead of "an eye for an eye".

So very well said, friend.

The Treaty of Versailles ended WWI with draconian conditions imposed to punish the German people, and sowed the seeds for the national socialism that brought us the horrors of WWII.

When will they ever learn/
When will they ever learn?


:thumbsup:, and here's to a much better year.

[understandinglife]

15. "When will they ever learn ..."

Indeed, my friend, when will ...

All the best in the New Year :toast: to you and yours ...


Peace.

[bleever]

23. Maybe we need to take matters into our own hands.

We, the People.


All the best wishes to you and yours, UL. :toast:

[puebloknot]

25. Not maybe!

We must. I see you make clocks. So you know...time is of the essence.

May time in its flight take us into a new reality.

[EFerrari]

26. kick

[bleever]

27. ...and again.

[WiseButAngrySara]

28. ...and again. ....n/t

[EFerrari]

29. We look like the June Taylor dancers. lol

[understandinglife]

30. LOL!!

Happy New Year :toast:


Be The Bu$h Opposition - 24/7

[EFerrari]

31. Happy New Year!

:toast:

[EFerrari]

32. kick

[understandinglife]

33. .... it is time ....