Ending a Cycle

This is gonna sound silly, but i was reading a comic, X-men to be exact and it set me thinking...
Somehow comics these days set me thinking a lot.
The art work aside, what is the message behind the comics?
For the X-men, well, its to stop discrimination and hate.....

As i was reading through it, it dawned on me, that for peace to come about, for acceptance to come about, blood has to be first spilled....
Jesus, the Matyred Saints, Ghandi, Pope John Paul II, Martin Luther King, etc.....
For something closer to home? The racial riots many years ago, Bandah Aceh's independence?

Like i ask, does blood first have to be spilled, so that peace can come about? no matter how temporary?

What if, all the world is looking for, all the world is waiting for is for the cycle to end?
For peace to come without weapons and arms, more importantly, without Bloodshed.....

Peace upheld by force of arms never lasts.... but peace being kept willingly by both parties? that lasts a long long time....

What is it that keeps us fighting? Can our human nature be truly so warlike? Must the Strongest always be on top? Survival of the fittest? Nature's instinct?

Yet, so many people have come before us and shown us how working together makes us so much stronger. Why is it that, we can't all work together?
What is truly blocking this peace process? The process of coming together and working things out. Not with violence, but by compromise?

Violence only begets Violence, Anger only begets more Anger. Hate, only more Hate.......

Can we as people tear ourselves from this cycle? Can we as a nation break this cycle and show the world an example of peace? Of truly harmonious living?
Can we as individuals, put aside our prejudices and judgements and see each other truly as another individual? Another person, Human Beings? Who bleeds red just like everyone else?
Made out of flesh and bone?

I ask you honestly, what has hate and prejudice ever done for anyone?
Nothing for me... Yet Love has brought me so much more.....

This is a call for peace!
This is a call for Friendship!
This is a call To LOVE!

Amazing how comics can bring about such thoughts eh?
pick one up, read it, superman, batman, JLA, X-men, what ever....
the message is the same, the call is the same....
Stop the hating and start the loving.....

Why - Nicole Nordeman

We rode into town the other day

Just me and my daddy

He said I'd finally reached that age

And I could ride next to him on a horse

That of course was not quite as wide

We heard a crowd of people shouting

And so we stopped to find out why

And there was that man that my dad said he loved

But today there was fear in his eyes

So I said daddy why are they screaming

Why are the faces of some of them beaming?

Why is he dressed in that bright purple robe?

I'll bet that crown hurts him more then he shows

Daddy please can't you do something?

He looks as though he's gonna cry

You said he was stronger then all of those guys

Daddy please tell me why?

Why does everyone want him to die?

Later that day the sky grew cloudy

And daddy said I should go inside

Somehow he knew things would get stormy

Boy was he right

But I could not keep from wondering

If there was something he had to hide

So after he left I had to find out

I was not afraid of getting lost

So I followed the crowds

To a hill where I knew men had been killed

And I heard a voice come from the cross

And it said father why are they screaming?

Why are the faces of some of them beaming?

Why are they casting their lots for my clothes?

This crown of thorns hurts me more then it shows

Father please can't you do something?

I know that you must hear my cry's

I thought I could handle a cross of this size

Father remind me why?

Why does everyone want me to die?

When will I understand why?

My precious son I hear them screaming

I'm watching the face of the enemy beaming

But soon I will clothe you in robes of my own

Jesus this hurts me much more then you know

But this dark hourI must do nothing

Though I've heard your unbearable cries

The power in your blood

Destroys all of the lies

Soon you'll see past their unmerciful lies

Look there below See the child

Trembling by her father's side

Now I can tell you why

She is why you must die

I was listening to this song, and i just couldn't help but start tearing and almost cried...

Such a different side to the passion of Christ...

The last part of the song especially...

Christ died for us, christ died for the innocent, to save them and to keep them innocent.

Christ died for us to see things in the light of truth, to keep us seeing things in the light of truth.

Such a high price to pay, isn't it?

Look at the world today, Truly look at the world today, look through the eyes of a child,

What's become of it? Wars are starting, treaties and alliances failing....

Forgive me if i say that the UN isn't as powerful as it used to be....

Ever since its power was undermined by a single nation, the UN has lost a lot of influence....

Though still i applaude the efforts to bring peace once again into the world.

I guess what i'm saying is that, its time that we do something, and not wait for the world powers to do something....

Bring peace to the people around us, you'll be surprised how much effect that has...

Stop the conflicts amongst friends, amongst races, amongst religions.

Love everyone around you...

No one made us judge and jury of another person.

I'm guilty of acting as judge and jury as well, and i try to stop it as often as possible....

Think about it, meeting another person, to a child means another possible friend and playmate.

If only things were so simple when we are older.

I'm just asking and pleading to those around me, to those who read this blog,

Stop the war and strife, stop the petty squables and fights.

Lets put it all behind us and become friends once again....

Look at the truth of our arguments, look at the truth of our situations.

Bask in the light of the truth in everyday of our lives.

The price was paid 1973 years ago on a hill near calvary, by a single man who had enough love in him to save the whole world and to show the world the truth of love. Remember, this price was paid for in blood. Paid for us to have for the rest of our lives.

Please, don't let this person's dream die....

Don't let Jesus' dream die...

Selfish or Selfless?

How often do we sit down and take a look around? Out of our own world and look into the world of others? To see instead of what we can get out of that person, but look at what can i give the person to make life more wonderful?

What i'm asking is, does this life make us more selfish? Does this society we live in force us to be selfish? Does it force us to become more self-centered, that if we try to become selfless, we will inherently fall flat on our faces?

Just stop for a moment, take an hour or 2 off, sit down somewhere and watch people... watch the interactions, try to listen to the conversations around you... You'll realize, apart from all the idle chit chat, there is underlying all that a very selfish attitude.

Of course, the world teaches that we have to look after ourselves first. That we always have to look out for ourselves first. Fundamentally it makes sense.... But are we carrying it to extremes?

I am neither absolving myself, nor am i saying i'm completely selfless. I am guilty of being selfish and self-centred. Of course i am... i was brought up in this world, in this society. I am human after all...

Can we show selflessness without it being percieved as a sign of weakness?

How is it, that by being kind, gentle, patient and willing to listen, percieved as weakness to the world? Its as though a sign is hung from around your neck saying "Walk all over me!"

Being selfless, being kind, being gentle, these aren't signs of weakness. How many times have we been hanging by our fingernails emotionally, only to have a friend who is selfless, kind and gentle, bring us back up and put us firmly on our feet again?

Perhaps its time we take a look at ourselves and review all our weaknesses again....
Relook at what is percieved as weakness and re-classify everything....

Strange isn't it? the greatest people in the world have flourished in what the world percieves as weakness... Ghandi, Pope John Paul II, Mother Theresa.... just to name a few....

Exactly what do we need to do to make our society better?
For us to achieve the society that we all desire?
A close to Utopian society?

Perhaps its time that we relook at the fundamentals of what our society is built on.
Its time we take a look around ourselves....

People govern the society that is around them.
Society does not and never will govern the people within it.
After all, look at it... people make up society. Without people, there can be no society.

The power to change society is in our hands!
Do we want to change society with selfish hands?
Or do we want a better society by changing it with selfless hands?

I know my answer... what's yours gonna be?

First post and its not a happy one

Decided that its time to move away from my old blog.
I'm not troubled anymore, my mind is pretty settled, so no point using the same blog anymore. my old posts are still there, for those that have the address, pretty much recounts my past. This one blog, is for the present, its for me, and what i think about.

Welcome to the Random Ramblings of an Overactive Mind.

Sometimes i wonder why i even bother, its pretty frustrating don't ya think, when you try to get in contact with people or speak to people, but there's totally no response? You sms them, MSN them, but totally no reply... Just the total frustration of it all is just getting to me... Its happening not from just 1 person, but a few ppl recently. People i want to get into contact with cause i haven't seen them in a while, or new friends i want to get to know better.

I know when i'm being ignored and in these cases, that's probably the case. So i guess i shall not bother anymore? Probably, that's what i should do. Can i do it? i don't know. So to those out there who don't have a habit of reply anything from me, well, if i suddenly stop messaging you, means i've probably given up.

I told you this first post wasn't going to be a happy one.

What's the point of living with conformity? To conform to the way society wants you to be? To conform to the way your friends or parents want you to be? Society is made out of individuals. How did society become a place where individuality isn't tolerated?

I say, Screw society. Just be yourself. Be happy when you want to be, be sad when you want to be, be a jackass when you want to be. Most importantly though, Be a Rebel when you want to be.

BE WHO YOU WANT TO BE!

I want to understand the mind. I want to understand people. I want to understand society. Why? Because i want to CHANGE it!

If you feel the same way, leave a message, maybe we can talk about changing society... Write a paper and submit to the PAP or what ever...

I'm done. Bye