Why do we do the things that we do? What makes us decide to spend our days on specific tasks instead of others? There are millions of different reasons, I'm sure, but the results are often not what we would expect. It seems like a lot of the things we do, if not almost all of them, revolve around money. Some of us spend our lives trying to make vasts amounts of this thing, this idea, that we call money. Some of us only try to make enough to get by. There are people on every point of this spectrum, but this is not the only thing that guides us. The other main guiding force seems to be happiness. We spend a great majority of our time trying to find a balance between doing what makes us happy and doing what makes money. Some are fortunate enough to get both from the same pusuit. That is the american dream. Some people give up the things that make them happy in order to make more money, and some people give up the money in order to be happier. These are two very different kinds of wealth with two very different kinds of value.
I can spend a day working out all of the numbers, plans, and programs required to build tens of thousands of dollars worth of stone countertops and then later that day spend less than five minutes making a Breve, or a Cappuccino, worth dramatically less and find some very interesting results. One is worth more money, but the other makes me happier. One might last a lifetime while the other might last half an hour, but their values are not necessarily based on time or money. Value seems to be quite unrelated to time and money. Time and money are costs, but value is a more ethereal reward. We value the things that make us happy. We worry about the things that cost us time and money. I have a friend, he writes the blog titled The Whyte Dragon, who just wrote a post very closely related to this idea. In it he talked about why he does the things he does, makes the choices he makes, based on what makes him happy. These ideas are closely related to the ideas contained within Atlas Shrugged by the late, great, Ayn Rand. I highly recomend the book to anyone who hasn't read it.
Our culture, however, seems to revolve more around the money aspect than the happiness aspect. Advertisers have spent vast amounts of money trying to convince us that they are the same thing. Spend your money on this and it will make you happy. They want us to believe that the acquisition of money, and then the spending of it on things, is how we should base our level of happiness. But things don't make us happy. They never have. Think about the things that you buy, aside from the necessities, and try to find even one that, just through the ownership of the thing, makes you happy. We can find happiness in the use of things or in the creation of things, but it is difficult to attribut happiness in just the having of the thing. It is why we get tired of the things we buy. It is why we are always replacing these things with newer and better versions. It is why our economy works the way that it does.
We buy because we think that we should, because everyone else does, and becuase we have gotten into the habit of doing it. We do not save because, as a whole, having the money doesn't make us happy but we think that trading it for goods or services will. But it is not this end result that brings with it the real reward. How different would the world be if, instead of working at a thing in order to make enough money to buy happiness, we found a pursuit that helps in some way but also makes us happy in the process? What if that pursuit could provide us with enough money to live comfortably? I think this is the true meaning behind "I do what I want." Having as many things as the neighbors means very little in the end if you acquired them by doing a thing that you hate to do. In the end, every "thing" ends up in a garage sale or the city dump. There are few exceptions.
Humanity as a whole spends a lot of time complaining about how the leaders of the world are doing a horrible job and how, in the next election, we'll vote someone in who will actually do what we want them to. We are told and assume that the vote is the power. The true power is in the money. We give the money to the businesses to pay for the politicians campaign. We are getting what we paid for. Lobbyists get their money from businesses. Tax money comes from us and from businesses. We have th power. We create the money. We say one the with our votes and quite different things with our money. Money is a means. It cannot buy happiness, but it can help us to change our way of life. With every dollar we spend, we are voting for what we really believe in. The idea is to find out, and to know, what exactly we are paying for. Want to decrease our dependence on oil? Don't buy an SUV. Buy a car that gets the highest possible gas mileage, or ride the bus, or ride a bike. Want big business to stop exporting jobs? Buy locally grown/made products. Want to discourage the big businesses from using sweat shop labor in foreign countries in order to produce their goods? Don't buy things just because they are cheapest.
Phrases like "Quality, not Quantity" and "Made in the USA" used to mean a lot more. You can hear this said almost anywhere. It's not big business that screwed up. It was us. It's doing our shopping at places like Wal-Mart and Target. We all know that politicians and businesses respond best, and most quickly, to money. Take away profits and they'll listen. Take away funding and they'll do an about face. We are more powerful than any government, but we have to hit them where it hurts. We have to get a grip on the thing that is sensative and squeeze until their eyes and ears open. We have to do it as a whole, or at least a majority. We have to take away their toys.
Talk is cheap. Money isn't.
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
How did we get here?
Sometimes I feel like I see the world very differently from most other people. I think that I've always been a fish out of water is some way. My whole life I've run into people on a daily basis talking about, looking for, or acquiring things that really don't make very much sense to me. I think there are a great many people that feel the same way I do but more often I think the we are greatly outnumbered. Did you know that somewhere between 25 and 35 million people watch American Idol every week? Apparently there are that many people that find this kind of thing entertaining. It sounds to me like 35 million hours wasted.
But this is our culture. Entertainment. If it's not entertaining then, inevitably, it fails. We demand that our news be entertaining which is why we almost never hear the happy stories, but the disturbing or sad stories. It is why our news media spends so much time fabricating, creating, and forcing the news. We demand that our dining experiences be entertaining and so most Americans eat most of their meals in flashy restaurants that all serve the same flashy, and tasteless, food. We spend a huge amount of ours lives working at jobs where we are creating something entertaining for someone else so that we can go out and buy entertaining things from someone else who will then use the money to go buy something entertaining and then we'll all meet at the lake once a month and talk about the new truck that is pulling the new boat. People all over the world are starving, or can't find clean water to drink, or have nowhere warm to sleep.
But don't worry, we have Shrek and Spiderman to take our minds off of it. They only cost a few hundred million dollars to make. They'll only bring in somewhere around a billion dollars before it's all said and done. Oh but before we go see that movie this weekend we should write a letter to our congressman and try to force all these illegals out. We don't want them draining money out of the system. Send them back to Mexico! Why worry about who's going to put the roof on the house, harvest the food from the fields so it can go to our Supermarket, butcher our meat, work in our factories, restaurants, hotels, and pretty much any other industry you can think of? Who's going to do these jobs when they can't get into the country? They will. What we'll do is export all of this work so that we can pay them a fraction of the price and still get our entertaining goods extra cheap. Thanks Wal-Mart!
But they're a burden to the system! But they're stealing American jobs! But we'll have to let them become eligible for all of the things that we get! It's not fair! I don't want to share! Why not. We already have a great many people living on our welfare system. I'm not really convinced that they are a burden to the system. Most of them are just looking for a job that pays well. Don't you think that if these employers could get Americans to do the work then they probably would? I do. It seems a lot simpler than hiring illegals and trying to keep anyone from trying to find out. Why don't they. I can only assume that Americans won't work for what these employers are willing to pay. Why won't they? Because they can only pay so much becuase they have to keep the product cheap becuase if they don't then they won't be able to sell it because wal-mart or target or any of the other discount stores will just buy it from someone else, someone in a foreign country, who can legally pay their employees two dollars a day or something in that ballpark. But hey, at least we saved 15 cents on the clock/radio that matches the shower curtain.
That's exciting because we can use that fifteen cents to fill up the SUV in the parking lot and go to the restaurant before we hit up the movies. It's a good thing we didn't let those foreigners in to earn some of this money that we just can't afford to pay them. We might have had to give up the five dollar bag of popcorn! The real issue is not that we can't afford to let these people into the system but that the system is so flawed that we're afraid to let anyone in if we don't have to. We don't want to fix the system. It's complicated, cumbersome, and expensive. It would take the government years of fighting to make any progress. Their constituents might lose money in the deal. Someone might not be happy. They might not get re-elected. So no, we're not going to try to fix welfare, medicare, health insurance, education, social security, the tax code, or any of those other things. We just won't let anyone else in to play. It's our ball, and we're going take it and go home.
We will, however, spend lots of time and money fighting over whether global warming is or is not happenning. If we decide that it is happenning then we will change our tactics and fight about whether or not we caused it or if it's a naturally occurring thing. Then we'll fight about whether we should start to do something about it or if we should wait until everyone else agrees to do it too and then jump on board but only do the bare minimum. We're running out of fresh water, clean air, climate stability, and the ability to depend on things being the same next year as they are this year. Have no fear though. We're fighting about it. It could be just a clever trick being pulled by the democrats and, well, millions of other people all over the world. Mother nature might be playing a trick on us. We'll just wait it out. We'll do something if we absolutely have to. Meanwhile, we'll complain about the price of gas going up, how our SUV is so expensive to fill up, how our airline tickets are so rediculously expensive, and how it's a scam that we have to pay so much money for this excess that we call the American Dream. We'll try to ignore the fact that since we're going to pay the higher rates anyway the damage we are doing is only going to get worse. We'll jump on board and try to fix the problem when we have no other choice though.
At least we have Shrek. Where would we be without our wonderful cartoons. The CGI makes them look so real now! By the way, if you didn't catch the big news of the day, Paula Abdul broke her nose this weekend when she fell down while trying to avoid stepping on her Chihuahua. But don't worry! She will still appear on the season finale of American Idol. Yep, our news media really does have it's thumb right on the pulse of what Americans want to know. Or maybe it's on our throats. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
But this is our culture. Entertainment. If it's not entertaining then, inevitably, it fails. We demand that our news be entertaining which is why we almost never hear the happy stories, but the disturbing or sad stories. It is why our news media spends so much time fabricating, creating, and forcing the news. We demand that our dining experiences be entertaining and so most Americans eat most of their meals in flashy restaurants that all serve the same flashy, and tasteless, food. We spend a huge amount of ours lives working at jobs where we are creating something entertaining for someone else so that we can go out and buy entertaining things from someone else who will then use the money to go buy something entertaining and then we'll all meet at the lake once a month and talk about the new truck that is pulling the new boat. People all over the world are starving, or can't find clean water to drink, or have nowhere warm to sleep.
But don't worry, we have Shrek and Spiderman to take our minds off of it. They only cost a few hundred million dollars to make. They'll only bring in somewhere around a billion dollars before it's all said and done. Oh but before we go see that movie this weekend we should write a letter to our congressman and try to force all these illegals out. We don't want them draining money out of the system. Send them back to Mexico! Why worry about who's going to put the roof on the house, harvest the food from the fields so it can go to our Supermarket, butcher our meat, work in our factories, restaurants, hotels, and pretty much any other industry you can think of? Who's going to do these jobs when they can't get into the country? They will. What we'll do is export all of this work so that we can pay them a fraction of the price and still get our entertaining goods extra cheap. Thanks Wal-Mart!
But they're a burden to the system! But they're stealing American jobs! But we'll have to let them become eligible for all of the things that we get! It's not fair! I don't want to share! Why not. We already have a great many people living on our welfare system. I'm not really convinced that they are a burden to the system. Most of them are just looking for a job that pays well. Don't you think that if these employers could get Americans to do the work then they probably would? I do. It seems a lot simpler than hiring illegals and trying to keep anyone from trying to find out. Why don't they. I can only assume that Americans won't work for what these employers are willing to pay. Why won't they? Because they can only pay so much becuase they have to keep the product cheap becuase if they don't then they won't be able to sell it because wal-mart or target or any of the other discount stores will just buy it from someone else, someone in a foreign country, who can legally pay their employees two dollars a day or something in that ballpark. But hey, at least we saved 15 cents on the clock/radio that matches the shower curtain.
That's exciting because we can use that fifteen cents to fill up the SUV in the parking lot and go to the restaurant before we hit up the movies. It's a good thing we didn't let those foreigners in to earn some of this money that we just can't afford to pay them. We might have had to give up the five dollar bag of popcorn! The real issue is not that we can't afford to let these people into the system but that the system is so flawed that we're afraid to let anyone in if we don't have to. We don't want to fix the system. It's complicated, cumbersome, and expensive. It would take the government years of fighting to make any progress. Their constituents might lose money in the deal. Someone might not be happy. They might not get re-elected. So no, we're not going to try to fix welfare, medicare, health insurance, education, social security, the tax code, or any of those other things. We just won't let anyone else in to play. It's our ball, and we're going take it and go home.
We will, however, spend lots of time and money fighting over whether global warming is or is not happenning. If we decide that it is happenning then we will change our tactics and fight about whether or not we caused it or if it's a naturally occurring thing. Then we'll fight about whether we should start to do something about it or if we should wait until everyone else agrees to do it too and then jump on board but only do the bare minimum. We're running out of fresh water, clean air, climate stability, and the ability to depend on things being the same next year as they are this year. Have no fear though. We're fighting about it. It could be just a clever trick being pulled by the democrats and, well, millions of other people all over the world. Mother nature might be playing a trick on us. We'll just wait it out. We'll do something if we absolutely have to. Meanwhile, we'll complain about the price of gas going up, how our SUV is so expensive to fill up, how our airline tickets are so rediculously expensive, and how it's a scam that we have to pay so much money for this excess that we call the American Dream. We'll try to ignore the fact that since we're going to pay the higher rates anyway the damage we are doing is only going to get worse. We'll jump on board and try to fix the problem when we have no other choice though.
At least we have Shrek. Where would we be without our wonderful cartoons. The CGI makes them look so real now! By the way, if you didn't catch the big news of the day, Paula Abdul broke her nose this weekend when she fell down while trying to avoid stepping on her Chihuahua. But don't worry! She will still appear on the season finale of American Idol. Yep, our news media really does have it's thumb right on the pulse of what Americans want to know. Or maybe it's on our throats. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Life is interesting. Looking back at what has happened and what may happen in the future is an exciting thing but it can be pretty nerve racking too. I've spent a lot of time thinking about this lately and I've learned quite a bit about myself. Almost three years ago I learned that I was not meant to be single as long as I had planned to be and that I was actively letting the woman of my dreams slip through my fingers. I was lucky enough to figure that out before it was too late and now I've been married for over eight months to Mandi, whom I love desperately. I'm an incredibly fortunate person. Mandi has recently found a career path that she's excited about and that she's going to get a Master's degree in over the next few years. I'm thrilled that she's found this thing that she feels passionately about. It's a very exciting time for us. It has, however, helped me to realize a number of things about what I am doing.
All of my life I have studied and played at things that I found interesting and exciting. I took art classes throughout school before I got into college. I always loved art. I grew up doing things in the outdoors with Boy Scouts and found that not only is it something I am passionate about, it is a thing through which I met some of my best friends. In college I studied things like Anthropology, Archaeology, Economic Theory, Literature, Music Heritage, and Jazz History. All of these things I found extremely interesting and all of them were unrelated to my degree plan which I very seldom found interesting. I knew before I graduated that I didn't want a job in Accounting, which is what I got my degree in. Since I left school I've found that most of my time goes towards things that I'm good at, that I'm qualified for, and that I don't have a lot of interest for. When school ended so did the extra courses, the extra areas of study that kept me excited and interested.
I do a lot of reading, I always have, but my time for reading has seriously diminished since I got out of school. I try to continue to learn and to look for new things that spark my interest. These interests of mine are numerous and a lot of them are related to things that I studied while still in school. Instead of looking into these areas for possible careers I stuck to things that I thought would be safe, things that would ensure me a job upon graduation at a good pay rate. This is my comfort zone. I have never strayed from it. I spend all of my time thinking about the things that could go wrong and in what ways I can avoid the vast majority of these situations and this keeps me in my comfort zone. I have learned that most of the things I have done to supply myself with this level of comfort are not very compatible with my personality. I have scared myself into doing things that I do not enjoy doing.
To a certain extent we all do things that we would rather not do in order to supply ourselves and our family with a certain level of comfort and safety. I understand this very well. There is nothing wrong with this. What I think is that right now I am on a track that will eventually lead to me having to do a thing that I do not enjoy simply becuase I no longer have the time or the resources to change that path. Right now I still have the time and resources. What I do not have yet is an idea of what this new direction should be. I have never spent enough time on anything else to know what else I would like to be doing. I have found some good jumping off points to help me figure this out though.
The main thing that I have found is that the part of my personality that desires comfort has for a very long time been winning out over the part that desires inspiration, creativity, and adventure. I've spent all of this time trying to fill that hole with little bits and pieces when I need much more than that. I've been treading water. Now I'm looking for a place to swim to, because I'm getting tired.
All of my life I have studied and played at things that I found interesting and exciting. I took art classes throughout school before I got into college. I always loved art. I grew up doing things in the outdoors with Boy Scouts and found that not only is it something I am passionate about, it is a thing through which I met some of my best friends. In college I studied things like Anthropology, Archaeology, Economic Theory, Literature, Music Heritage, and Jazz History. All of these things I found extremely interesting and all of them were unrelated to my degree plan which I very seldom found interesting. I knew before I graduated that I didn't want a job in Accounting, which is what I got my degree in. Since I left school I've found that most of my time goes towards things that I'm good at, that I'm qualified for, and that I don't have a lot of interest for. When school ended so did the extra courses, the extra areas of study that kept me excited and interested.
I do a lot of reading, I always have, but my time for reading has seriously diminished since I got out of school. I try to continue to learn and to look for new things that spark my interest. These interests of mine are numerous and a lot of them are related to things that I studied while still in school. Instead of looking into these areas for possible careers I stuck to things that I thought would be safe, things that would ensure me a job upon graduation at a good pay rate. This is my comfort zone. I have never strayed from it. I spend all of my time thinking about the things that could go wrong and in what ways I can avoid the vast majority of these situations and this keeps me in my comfort zone. I have learned that most of the things I have done to supply myself with this level of comfort are not very compatible with my personality. I have scared myself into doing things that I do not enjoy doing.
To a certain extent we all do things that we would rather not do in order to supply ourselves and our family with a certain level of comfort and safety. I understand this very well. There is nothing wrong with this. What I think is that right now I am on a track that will eventually lead to me having to do a thing that I do not enjoy simply becuase I no longer have the time or the resources to change that path. Right now I still have the time and resources. What I do not have yet is an idea of what this new direction should be. I have never spent enough time on anything else to know what else I would like to be doing. I have found some good jumping off points to help me figure this out though.
The main thing that I have found is that the part of my personality that desires comfort has for a very long time been winning out over the part that desires inspiration, creativity, and adventure. I've spent all of this time trying to fill that hole with little bits and pieces when I need much more than that. I've been treading water. Now I'm looking for a place to swim to, because I'm getting tired.
Thursday, May 3, 2007
I just saw a headline on the news which is good because I was looking for something to write about. Here's what it said.
Muslim Fundamentalism: Main Obstacle to World Peace?
My first thought was...what? This sounds a lot like "Trees: Planning a Conspiracy to Kill Us All?" or any other combination of one small contingent of beings being responsible for the actions of lots and lots of others. My next thought is that maybe, just maybe, they popped that up just for a talking point. Maybe they put that question up just to raise a little contention or a little debate. Maybe. But I don't think that this is the case. I think that there are actually people that believe this sort of thing. I think that there are lots of people that think all of the evil in the world stems from one tiny group ruining it for the rest of us. If they had said just "Fundamentalism" then maybe we'd have something to talk about. I don't think that fundamentalism causes all of the wars and killing throughout the world, but in certain circumstances is does encourage people to stop thinking and to close their mind to other possibilities. I also don't think that Muslims are the root of all evil. I don't think you can assign that kind of blame to any one person or group of people.
Fundamentalism cannot be all bad. It is the belief in a certain set of fundamentals and a following of those fundamental beliefs in order to achieve certain goals. Do all Muslims believe fundamentally in war? Do they all believe in killing everyone with different beliefs? Does any group of people believe exactly the same things? No. People have similar beliefs. People have beliefs based of the same things, but a person's beliefs are also effected by his or her perceptions. Two people can read the same book, or be told the same thing, and come away with with two very different perceptions of the same thing. If two people are told "We are the chosen people of God" one may come away with a feeling of comfort or purity while the other may come away thinking that they should kill everyone else. This is why there is contention in the world. This is why no large group of people ever agrees completely on one thing.
It would be just as accurate to say "Christianity: Main Obstacle to World Peace?" There were centuries where armies conquered and killed in the name of God. At this point in history the Christian Fundamentalists went out and killed large groups of people ostensibly becuase they held different beliefs. Hitler believed that his group of people were better than all the others. He believed that all the others should be killed. However, not everyone that he considered part of that group believed that as well. Belief is a powerful thing. Believing a lie does not make it true, even if millions of other people believe it too. Acting on that belief, or killing for it, does not make it right. Is it right for us to tell Muslims they are wrong? Are the Hindus wrong? Are the Buddhists? What about all of the other religions in the world? Are they all wrong? They don't believe what you do. They don't. Does that make you wrong? It might. Then again, it might not.
The point is this. Never, not ever, will everyone believe the same thing. We will never all agree on what religion is right or wrong, which government is right or wrong, which god is real or false, which savior is true or a lie, or really anything else for that matter. You can't prove that you are right. You can't prove that they are wrong. That's the problem with faith. It takes faith. That doesn't mean you should stop having faith. That doesn't mean you should stop trying to fix the problems with your government. It also doesn't mean that there is not someone who is right. There may be, but even if there is, there is no way to know for sure. Buddha could have been real. Mohammed also could have been real. Jesus might have been real too. They may all have said or meant very different things from what we think. Maybe everything they said was true. Maybe they were all driving at the same point.
My bet is that, fundamentally, people and their need to be right is the main obstacle to world peace. Maybe if we think to ourselves that we will never have exactly the right answer, that we will work our whole lives towards that goal, and that we will keep our minds open to possibilities that we have not yet come across then we will have a much better chance of achieving world peace. It's a nice thought. It also sounds better than "I'm right and you're wrong and lots of other people think so too so I'm just gonna go ahead and kill you since you're obviously a lost cause and you're going to burn in Hell." What an unpleasant way to view the world.
The book is coming soon. It's called "Peace? What's that?"
Muslim Fundamentalism: Main Obstacle to World Peace?
My first thought was...what? This sounds a lot like "Trees: Planning a Conspiracy to Kill Us All?" or any other combination of one small contingent of beings being responsible for the actions of lots and lots of others. My next thought is that maybe, just maybe, they popped that up just for a talking point. Maybe they put that question up just to raise a little contention or a little debate. Maybe. But I don't think that this is the case. I think that there are actually people that believe this sort of thing. I think that there are lots of people that think all of the evil in the world stems from one tiny group ruining it for the rest of us. If they had said just "Fundamentalism" then maybe we'd have something to talk about. I don't think that fundamentalism causes all of the wars and killing throughout the world, but in certain circumstances is does encourage people to stop thinking and to close their mind to other possibilities. I also don't think that Muslims are the root of all evil. I don't think you can assign that kind of blame to any one person or group of people.
Fundamentalism cannot be all bad. It is the belief in a certain set of fundamentals and a following of those fundamental beliefs in order to achieve certain goals. Do all Muslims believe fundamentally in war? Do they all believe in killing everyone with different beliefs? Does any group of people believe exactly the same things? No. People have similar beliefs. People have beliefs based of the same things, but a person's beliefs are also effected by his or her perceptions. Two people can read the same book, or be told the same thing, and come away with with two very different perceptions of the same thing. If two people are told "We are the chosen people of God" one may come away with a feeling of comfort or purity while the other may come away thinking that they should kill everyone else. This is why there is contention in the world. This is why no large group of people ever agrees completely on one thing.
It would be just as accurate to say "Christianity: Main Obstacle to World Peace?" There were centuries where armies conquered and killed in the name of God. At this point in history the Christian Fundamentalists went out and killed large groups of people ostensibly becuase they held different beliefs. Hitler believed that his group of people were better than all the others. He believed that all the others should be killed. However, not everyone that he considered part of that group believed that as well. Belief is a powerful thing. Believing a lie does not make it true, even if millions of other people believe it too. Acting on that belief, or killing for it, does not make it right. Is it right for us to tell Muslims they are wrong? Are the Hindus wrong? Are the Buddhists? What about all of the other religions in the world? Are they all wrong? They don't believe what you do. They don't. Does that make you wrong? It might. Then again, it might not.
The point is this. Never, not ever, will everyone believe the same thing. We will never all agree on what religion is right or wrong, which government is right or wrong, which god is real or false, which savior is true or a lie, or really anything else for that matter. You can't prove that you are right. You can't prove that they are wrong. That's the problem with faith. It takes faith. That doesn't mean you should stop having faith. That doesn't mean you should stop trying to fix the problems with your government. It also doesn't mean that there is not someone who is right. There may be, but even if there is, there is no way to know for sure. Buddha could have been real. Mohammed also could have been real. Jesus might have been real too. They may all have said or meant very different things from what we think. Maybe everything they said was true. Maybe they were all driving at the same point.
My bet is that, fundamentally, people and their need to be right is the main obstacle to world peace. Maybe if we think to ourselves that we will never have exactly the right answer, that we will work our whole lives towards that goal, and that we will keep our minds open to possibilities that we have not yet come across then we will have a much better chance of achieving world peace. It's a nice thought. It also sounds better than "I'm right and you're wrong and lots of other people think so too so I'm just gonna go ahead and kill you since you're obviously a lost cause and you're going to burn in Hell." What an unpleasant way to view the world.
The book is coming soon. It's called "Peace? What's that?"
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