The fanatic with no doubt
If it is written it must be true. It justifies everything.
All you have to do is select the correct texts.
With a little effort you can justify anything.
It is written down. It must be true.
It gives sanction to your every whim, every hidden urge.
It frees the psychotic to act.
How they flood to become involved, to get a slice of the action.
Public executions were ever most popular. The more agony the better.
There is a part of us that delights in the pain of others. If it wasn’t so we would not have invented bear-baiting, cock-fighting, badger-baiting, hare-coursing and snuff movies.
We are a cruel species.
We have a lot of civilizing to go through.
We find it so easy to justify our baser instincts. We wrap them up in religion, sport and entertainment.
What we love are screams and blood.
We have a lot to do to become more humane.
But if it is written it must be true!
I want a better world for my children. One that is less savage, less hating, more empathic and with much more love, peace and kindness.
Less fanatics would be a good start. Doubt is good.
The fanatic with no doubt
Line them up
Shoot them in the head.
Lie them down
Shoot them in the back.
Kneel them down
Saw through their throats.
Put them in a cage
Burn them.
If they are young
Rape them.
If they are old
Bury them alive.
There is no doubt.
It is written.
Opher 24.11.2015
It is all so frightening.
Yes it is. But we have to keep it in proportion. The real risks are not great. They just like to create fear.
They need sorting out!
Well that is going to happen perhaps this week.
Looks like it. And Jeremy is still there!
Ew. Yes, doubt is good. Love is good. No more fear.
Right on Mary! Plenty love, lots of questioning and no hate!
Lets see what happens next week. That Farage (can’t spell it) is a loud mouthed arsehole, sorry should not say that. Where has his voice been over bombing Syria, nowhere yet he can talk down Jeremy and the results next week.
Everyone seems to be working their hardest to undermine him. The media are terrible. I hope he comes through. I agree with you abot Farage.
Thanks he is all talk. If the election results are good for Jeremy next week, he has a chance, fingers crossed.
Yeah – let’s hope. If he can survive a while I think the fuss will die down.
I just hate the way the cameras follow him, the rotten features in the press. The man cannot even go out for a coffee. Opher re my post and how you got it right, Rod. The beautiful Tree Bark book David got me from the Auction arrived you would love it. It is so long and the covers are made of Tree Bark, I have never seen anything like it, it will be treasured. What was so sad is what he wrote about in the journal, it was what I knew but just confirmed – he was used so much and was such a sad man. You know why now San Francisco, mad cow that I am, a lost Romantic.
That Tree Bark book sounds wonderful. It sounds terrible what happened to him.
Roll on San Francisco!
R%omance is a worthy thing!
You have no idea, what I read last night over and over had me in floods of tears, fool I am. I will get Jonathan to take a picture and send it to you, I can’t do anything like that – that is mens’ work.
Rubbish. There’s no such thing. Equality.
You really don’t think so, perhaps I have allowed myself to be put in the position of women do housework while men do the rest. Mind you when David died I had to do things he always did I had no choice then. All this internet stuff I am complete lost I can only do a little.
I’m the same with the technology. You need an expert.
Though with housework we share it. I do bathrooms, toilets, log-fire, washing up, hovering, washing floors, mowing, tidying. Liz supervises.
Oh and she does shopping, cooking and ironing. Oh – and internet shopping. And birthday and Christmas presents.
You are both partners, something my husband would never be. Jonathan cleans the bathroom every day for me, great help and he does the stairs. Sister is supposed to do the hall, when she feels like it I do the shopping on the internet too, I always get told by David “Not too much”, I am deaf more or less in the left ear at times my right does not work either!
I have the same problem at times!
Quite a stark poem Opher. Something has needed to be done years ago but we never seem to pour enough money and skill into creating peace and stability in the regions that need it.
As ever – short term thinking. I think once again we are going in without a clear plan of action. When we leave who will be left in charge? I cannot see a viable government. That is when the warlords and religious fanatics take over. Somalia, Libya, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan. Now Syria. No end in sight – just more death and destruction. i think it’s Mad Max out there.