Tygarjas Twyrls Blog

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.