Written by If you feel the desire to impose violence upon another human being because of a differing belief, you should reflect on that.
And really question who you are as a fellow human being.
Be it in politics, religion, sports affiliation, patriotic nationalism, globalism, racism, or any other -ism that makes you want to leash out violently and hurt or kill another.
I’ve twice seen a melee of KC Chiefs fans and Denver Broncos fans fighting outside of Arrowhead Stadium after an NFL game before.
It’s fucking stupid.
It’s all hate.
There is no difference in your hate vs. their hate.
IT’S ALL HATE.
And it’s a bad emotion to hold in your heart.
Only you feel the hate in your own heart.
You can’t hold hot charcoal ashes in your hand and expect the other person to get burned.
If you want to do bodily harm to any another because of a difference in beliefs or dogma, then you are a part of the problem.
The only acceptable time I’d get violent and kill someone is if they broke into my house trying to do me or my family bodily harm.
When you start killing people that don’t believe what you believe, then that’s how you get scenarios like we’ve seen in the past.
We want to learn from the errors of the past, so as not to recreate them.
The past is littered with mass genocides…
Look at how many people these governments and regimes killed over the past 120 years.
128,168,000 VICTIMS: THE DEKA-MEGAMURDERERS
61,911,000 Murdered: The Soviet Communist Gulag State
35,236,000 Murdered: The Communist Chinese Ant Hill
20,946,000 Murdered: The Nazi Socialist Genocide State
10,214,000 Murdered: The Depraved Nationalist Regime
5,964,000 Murdered: Japan’s Savage Military
2,035,000 Murdered: The Khmer Rouge Hell State
1,883,000 Murdered: Turkey’s Genocidal Purges
1,670,000 Murdered: The Vietnamese War State
1,585,000 Murdered: Poland’s Ethnic Cleansing
1,503,000 Murdered: The Pakistani Cutthroat State
1,072,000 Murdered: Tito’s Slaughterhouse
[numbers from Univ of Hawaii. https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE1.HTM]
And who knows how many American exceptionalism has killed over the ages.
Love is the answer.
You can’t control where you were born.
You can’t control that your mom and dad hooked up and got pregnant..
You can’t control the color skin you have.
You can’t control other people or their circumstances either.
And you certainly can’t control how another person thinks.
Worry about shit that YOU can control. Don’t try to control anyone else.
Love and under-fucking-standing.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood. Stephen Covey said that in his 7 Principles book.
You are who you are because God, the universe, Allah, or whoever/whatever gave you life and instructed your DNA to build you as a human being.
Luckily you weren’t born a banana slug or one of those elephant shit eating dung beetles in Africa.
Your mom and dad fell in love and had kids.
OK. Maybe they weren’t in love. Maybe your mom was a booty call, your dad did his thing and out raced the fastest little sperm in the whole bunch.
Boom. You became a human being.
Somehow you beat millions of other sperms out of your dad’s nutsack.
Congratulations. You’re a miracle of life.
Luckily your mom didn’t abort you.
So, not only were you the fastest, but you also dodged abortion. That’s a destiny checkpoint that you’ve passed.
Guess what. We aren’t special. There are 7 billion or so of us in existence. Hardly rare.
And the star that Earth rotates around… there are about 300 billion of them like ours in our Milky Way galaxy. And there are about 100 billion galaxies.
Our planet is a tiny little inconsequential kernel of corn in a turd floating along in the universe.
And somehow an asteroid hasn’t triggered an extinction level event.
Love everyone. Love youself. Respect everyone else.
We don’t have to be angry all of the time, blaming others for how bad we feel.
Or angry about what someone else thinks.
Guess what.
Most people are stupid. You can’t control that.
We are all the collective citizens of Earth, third rock from the Sun.
Love and respect one another.
And quit being an asshole. I love you guys.
