Wednesday, 11 February 2009
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Impressions of today…
Morning: cream, violet, fresh, satisfaction
Noon: sticky, cumbersome, radiant, draining
Night: gibbous, rising, marmalade, glorious
…and around we go.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities – Voltaire
Thinking about the absurdities and atrocities going on in Congo right now, as the LRA continue to mete out their beastly retribution upon anyone in machete-range. I feel a certain pleasure when I hear of how many of their ragtag number have been killed in return. Can such a feeling be justified? But is there any inkling of humanity in those bloodstained hands? Behind those calloused eyes? I like to think that nobody exists beyond the reaches of grace, love, and reconciliation; but these people truly test my resolve. Drugged by “Uncle Joseph” and duped into a murderous stupor, most of these guys have probably given up any memory of such feelings. Or perhaps, instead of having lost their humanity, they are fully embodying it? Perhaps they best exemplify the consequences of Nietzsche’s “will to power”: mankind’s only solution upon the death of God. The implications for Humanism would be dire indeed.
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I often wonder what it will take to end all the killing in Africa and the rest of the world... it cannot be a "culture of violence" or a history of hatred or merely ethnic tensions rooted in colonialism.... there has to be an element of Evil that only God's grace and mercy and power can overcome. But what do we need to do to get God's power to the ultimate victory? And does that question imply that somehow we are stronger than God, assuming we can get Him to do anything? I struggle in my quest to pray for miraculous signs of peace throughout the world... January was my month to pray for DRC -- I took one day to fast and truly immerse myself in the news flowing from that part of the world... I saw hope and was excited that God was giving me a sense that things would begin to turn around... but a month later, after moving on to my second prayer topic, I wonder if that hope still exists for DRC... What will it take for peace to reign in our world? will "killing the bad guys" bring about the stabilizing peace that is needed, or fuel the idea that death is deserved by those we deem punishable.... i dont know... my mind still wanders