You are abnormally afraid true blue....sux to be you !!!!

How can you enjoy life when you're looking behind your back for the bogie man every minute of the day?

I had a meltdown and posted some hateful things yesterday which I regret.
I suppose when you see people you love deeply distressed by this stuff , you lash out and the constant calling of people "snivelling cowards" for being concerned about "terrorism" really got to me.
I had a bit of a Buddhist meditation session and realise the way forward is to work with building bridges and that, whilst I hate and despise these fundamentalists, that this hatred will only increase the problem.
So, for the protection of my loved ones, I am going to make an effort to get to know moderate Muslims , understand them and try to work with them to solve this most difficult problem.
Hating them , I have come to realise, will be counter productive,
We have to show them a better way . I don't want my children having nightmares about this. I did not raise them to live in fear

You have my utmost respect, Aqua.

I am not a Muslim, but my son has a Muslim name. He has no real Islamic influence and is very much your typical Aussie kid. I am telling you this because you spoke of fear for your daughters - I'm afraid for my son. We recently moved house and I am living with a constant dull dread of that look of surprised distaste that is becoming more common as we meet our neighbours and names are exchanged. It used to be rare, but it's pretty much the norm lately. I have seriously considered changing his name because he is starting to suffer some mild anxiety. Imagine the fear of a little girl with the scarf?

These are crappy times, but when people like you stop and reconsider and look for the humanity behind the distorted pictures we're shown, only good will come of it.

aquascoot wrote on Sep 20^th, 2014 at 7:21am:



Good thinking.....meditation is good for the mind, body and soul.

Imagine what the threat would have been if our country had have kept its nose out of the Middle East.

You will find that as you befriend moderate Muslims that they are just like you, they want a peaceful life, to work, to raise their families in peace, pretty much what we all want.

Very well said AQUASCOOT.

It's all about the 'hatred'. I'm watching close friends of mine suddenly have their lives 'possessed' with this hatred. It's like they suddenly have an excuse to bring out all the blame for all the 'lack of' in their lives - as if killing Terrorists is going to make things better. It's like watching kids rush to a fight on the other side of the school, not to watch - but to join in (not knowing really why there is a fight in the first place?).

...for nearly a Century, through the great Wars, there has been a shift of Human existence via 'Colonisations' that believed that the World should have an 'All-White' Northern Hemisphere just like the Yin/Yang of Taoism (that simple mindedness for simple minds that just see things as 'Black or White'  ). So it was that the USSR/USA cold war was a default convergence to push the slanty-eye slope-head people out, as well as all the trouble in the Middle-East was to push the big-nose honky people out (expel the Jews out of Europe, etc).
But things didn't really turn out that way - did it. 
Now the is on the horizon with both the Middle-East and Asia about to settle the score. In a way, the West is about to get what's coming to it for what it has been doing.
You know it was the 'Wrong Way' to do such a thing. You only have to look at the state of the World's health to see the stupidity (Taoism) of it all.


(Dune)

True Blue... wrote on Sep 20^th, 2014 at 2:06am:


What a pathetic bigoted bonehead.

Kill muslims is your credo. Hate is your fuel.