Tygarjas Twyrls Blog

So, hopefully enough has been said about the problem: 1, 2. Being no historian, I guess I kind of have to draw on what little history I know, as well as what little I’ve experienced, including all those experiences and knowledges that seem sincerely gleaned from the divine, to posit some, any, idea about what might actually be helpful in such a situation in which neither party particularly wants real peace.

So I guess that’s the place to begin. That is, the place to begin is someone wanting real peace. Even better, if there is a God over there, and my experience tells me that there is God everywhere, if a pair of people are good friends, one Israeli, one Palestinian, and they decide amongst themselves that they are tired of having a wall placed between their two peoples. Perhaps by some miracle the Israeli’s let the Palestinian into one of their schools, and these two people have been educated together. But if not, a sincere bond of friendship seems like it should be enough.

Or perhaps just one person on either side of the wall. Given that it is turning people onto non-violence that tends to bring about real change, if only someone on the Palestinian side of the wall would inspire those around him or her to put aside explosives and start leading protests of sitting, singing, and teaching love of those walling them in, the walls may come crashing down. OR if a well educated young Israeli man or woman who is nearing adulthood had a natural aversion to carrying Assault rifles on their back, perhaps they will question the wisdom of the law of their land necessitating that violence be taught and thoroughly ingrained into every adult who is a natural-born citizen of a country that might make a claim to ever wanting to have any peace at all. Perhaps questioning the law mandating societal violence will inspire someone to lead others to view Palestinians as human beings rather than inherently an enemy first, person second, and thus they will begin organizing in peaceful protest. Those protests will then expand to include Palestinian brothers and sisters. And if they truly want peace, they will have it, one land undivided by the common blood running through each-others veins.

I cannot accept, and will not accept a God that divides its creations against each other as though we were created only to be a sick form of entertainment for something that laughs behind our backs as we do nothing but suffer death. Therefore, I accept no God to be Jewish and I accept no God to be Muslim. I accept no God to be Palestinian and I accept no God to be Israeli. If anyone defines God as anything but a consciousness that wants most for human being to shake the hand of fellow human being, no matter where they happen to be born, or what book they were severely brain-damaged by straight out of the womb, I have no interest in believing that such an entity had any say whatsoever in any happening of my life. It will not be worshiped by me. And when brothers and sisters, Palestinian and Israeli, stand side by side to declare loudly, and without guns, knives, and bombs, that they will share the common Earth upon which they reside as human beings, and not as puppets of governments and false teachers of Gods of dust and ash, peacefully, and gratefully, then I will say thus is the will of the only living God; Thank God that the insanity people once mistook as deity has finally come to pass. Amen.

Read Full Post »

And the rest, folks, is just articulation . . .

For those who believe that murder, and oppression, and domination, and power, and fear, and arrogance, and unrest are holy, then indeed Israel, or Palestine, is the Holy Land. Too negative? Okay, let’s take a quick look . . .

Now, there may be other people in the world reading this, but I’m an American, and I’m guessing other Americans are reading this, so, I’m going to use American landmarks to illustrate this: Have you ever been sight seeing? Have you ever gone on a long road trip, you finally get to the Grand Canyon, stroll out to the rail and gaze over the side at the splendor of nature, then look over to the side and see a bunch of military personal with huge automatic weapons strapped to their back while they’re enjoying their afternoon sightseeing? Yes, you say? Well, then, shortly thereafter did you drive a day, arrive at the Great Salt Lake, begin enjoying the fact that you can’t stand up in it once you’ve gone several feet in, and then see a bus load of military with AK-47s strapped to their backs standing on the bank enjoying their day outside of training? Yes, you say? And then, after another two or three days of driving, you arrive at the Space Needle in Seattle, and you’re standing in line for the elevator up, behind a long line of military with huge friggin’ guns on their backs, who also happen to be sightseeing? Did the psalm go “Yeah, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I shall fear no evil for they rod and thy staff and my AK-47 comfort me?” I don’t think so.

Don’t get me wrong, the terrorists regularly setting off bombs to try to kill the people with the big guns are seriously lacking any fidelity to any real God too. My point is merely that when the law of your land is that once you become an adult military service is mandatory, your land aint Holy. And if that is the God you’re worshiping, one that says “it is my will that thou shalt arm thyself to the teeth and kill over land if necessary because I’m too unimaginative to love my creation enough to lead them in peaceful loving ways; which is to say I merely created you to amuse me with your violence and tension over whether there’s going to be violence,” then please stop bothering the rest of the world with your mental illness.

It shall be done unto you as you believe is the law. Too Jesusy? Let’s go all “The Secret” on this universal law instead then: You get what you think. And it works on the individual level, and it works on the group level. And if the law of the land is that before you can graduate college you need to know how to put a bullet in someone’s brain, the law of the land is about cultivating violence, not peace. That being said, if the philosophy of your oppressed people is “we’ll keep bombing them until they leave,” again, you’re people want violence, not peace.

So, the problem? Seems like a lot of worshiping of false Gods over there. Namely, Ares, the God of war. And we all know that the Greeks did away with their Pantheon a long time ago, and with good reason: who likes worshiping war? The answer: those people!

You see the Jewish God was apparently big on slaughtering every man, woman, child, goat, dog, chicken, and ant that looked like it subscribed to a different God. And we all know how Allah feels about Jihad. So, by worshiping these false, archaic, obsolete, petty misconceptions about God, in other words by worshiping books instead of reality, which is a far worse idolatry than worshiping a statue, people are worshiping death and depravity and flatly denying the existence of a real, living God.

I mean, I contend that there’s just one God, not two. It doesn’t live on a mountain, It doesn’t live as a rock; It is the mountain and the rock, one and the same simultaneously, as well as you and me right now. It hasn’t just created us all equally as Its children, It is us. I contend that this one real God Loves us all unconditionally, and would be really happy if we stopped killing each other off in Its name. Because I think It Loves us and wants us to live and respect the fact of every existence, rather than trying to stop different existences. I think It wants us to try to help each other to make life better for each other, which ultimately will make for better living for ourselves, because I think It created us to enjoy life rather than finding ever new creative ways of destroying what It decided to create. And not only that, I believe it is sincerely rude to doubt that which created us, and extremely arrogant to think we know what It wants, especially when what we think It wants is to destroy what It created to begin with.

So, in closing, I contend that if the residents of the Profane Land can stop making Godless destruction their policy of culture for five minutes, maybe it can be a beacon for the world and thus be entitled to the Term “Holy” in a real sense, and not merely a sick joke of naming themselves the dead opposite of what they are in order to feel better about the fact that they spit in the face of God every day merely by waking up to strap a gun on their backs or a bomb to their chest yet again.

“He moves in darkness as it seems to me~
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father’s saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, “Good fences make good neighbors.”

-Robert Frost from “Mending Wall”

Salaam!

Read Full Post »

Happy New Year everybody!!!

So, I said I’d pick up where I left off, and here we go . . .

A few weeks ago I was blessed enough to see Roger Waters “The Wall” on tour. I highly recommend to anyone and everyone. Go hungry for a week if it affords you the opportunity to buy a ticket! And, it got me to thinkin’ . . .

So, apparently Roger wrote it to be reflective of his life and his experience. How much he reflected on the Berlin Wall while he was originally writing it I’m not sure, but I couldn’t help but think of the Berlin Wall as the perfect symbol of much of what was being presented to me as I was watching the show. Something in my mind asked if there was any kind of modern equivalent to the Berlin Wall, as opposed to a metaphor that could be gleaned from war in general, at which point the obvious occurred to me . . . There is exactly such a wall erected in this world now, in real-time: the wall in Israel.

The wall in Israel separates the land the Palestinians reside in from the rest of Israel. It makes it even more difficult for Palestinians to get work, and it keeps them penned into an area that aint exactly luxury living.

To be fair, the suicide bombings have gone way down. So, to the credit of the state of Israel, not so many people being blown up by terrorists since the wall, or fence as the Israelis call it, has been erected.

So, why post this stuff on this site? Isn’t it obvious? This site is about God. And, in the truest sense this particular posting is referring to recent manifestations of the adversarial aspect of the divine, or as the Hebrew goes, ha-Satan. The real point is that there are still people who might be inclined to refer to this small otherwise insignificant, desolate strip of sand as THE Holy Land, which is truly laughable when one reflects even for a moment that neither of the disparate sides currently occupying this arid bed of death seems to regard their brothers and sisters, let alone themselves, as entities created in the image of the divine for apparently half a second.

Now, before I go on, there are good people living over there. Some of them might even genuinely want peace. Unfortunately it seems none of them have a God to worship, or they might actually start working toward it. Don’t worry, in the next posting I’ll qualify that statement. In fact I’ll even endeavor to say something more indicative than a sophomoric, undereducated, lack of understanding about a problem that shouldn’t be so complex if anybody in the “Holy Land” believed in a living God whatsoever, or for that matter their own humanity.

Peace.

Read Full Post »