Matter/Anti-Matter
September 20, 2001
7:45 a.m.
So the Taliban has met and debated the issue and come up with perhaps the only answer they could. They said: Let's move the problem. Well, they could have come up with other answers, of course. They could have said "Yes, we'll stand with you against terrorism." Or they could have said "You are too big for your britches, go away and please don't attack us because all our neighbors are closing off their borders and we've got no place to run." But instead they said. "Perhaps Osama should move to another neighborhood where he will not be such a bother." I assume they then called in a real estate agent and have begun shopping for a new neighborhood. So you wonder, where are they shopping, eh? What country do the Taliban think they are going to be able to convince to accept a man with a potential attack attached to his karma? Iraq? I doubt that even Saadam Hussein is really looking forward to the idea of having such a visitor this fall. I think he probably feels like he has enough targets painted on his soil as is. (The US is, after all, completely at fault for the WTC attack since we have these targets painted all over the Middle East). No, this firm stance by the Taliban is probably not going to work for the purely logistical reason that not many people are going to consider taking Osama bin Laden in. Perhaps he could move to Antarctica? Would we attack Antarctica? Probably. A friend of mine recently asked me to write something about the men and women who will be asked to go to war over this, and I'm going to do that sometime. I just need to take a few minutes to get my thoughts together before I do that. But today I'm thinking about governments and religions, and governments that are run as religions and religions that are run like governments. Stephen Leigh wrote a bit in his journal wherein he said that faith does not open minds, it closes them. I don't think that's right. It's not completely wrong. But it's not right. Faith can be misplaced. Faith can be twisted. Religion can be misused. But so can logic. Regardless, though, of whether it be religious doctrine that drives our logic, or anything else, conflict comes when one person puts his or her own faith or logic onto another and says "This is how you should live." Wars come when one person puts his or her own faith or logic onto another and says "This is how you will live." It's very complex. Yes. The real problem inside us comes down to this, I think. We all like to think we are reasonable people, and we all like to think that reasonable people can get along. We like to think that there is room for everyone's opinion. Sometimes, though, this is wrong. Or maybe it's better to say that sometimes two thoughts cannot co-exist and both be right. It's a matter/anti-matter thing. And sometimes a person or an organization has to make a decision. Anyone got a house for sale? I hear an Afghanistan real estate agent is looking around for a client. Oh? What's that you say? Afghanistan has no real estate agents? Sorry. My mistake.  Daily Persistence is © Ron Collins |
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