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The Forgotten Ones
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The Forgotten Ones |
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WindWalker Senior Member
since 2001-10-12
Posts 1218 |
We react with horror and sadness as innocent people die of terrorist attack in the back yard of a “world power” but do not feel the much greater horror of systematic oppression of smaller nations at the hands of the bully – and I ask “why?” Economic policies starve entire countries and children die from lack of food and water; lands are raped of resources, impoverished while their leaders are well fed and healthy because they do the bully’s bidding; the people wander naked, sick, hungry... and we who live in the bully’s back yard do not feel, and cannot feel, and I ask “why?” In third and fourth world countries, most don’t live beyond thirty, because the fat of the land is taken to the land of the free and the home of the brave; and I ask about those who die in natural disasters: I don’t even bother asking where God’s love is, but where is our natural compassion and our sense of outrage in all of this? Is it all reserved for ourselves and our friends and our sacred beliefs about the rightness of our cause? Where is the collective compassion for these thousands who die daily around the world? Who die, we so well know, of preventable causes? Where is that five minutes of silence in memory of those who ensure we keep our abundance? From the dust of the earth their voices, not silent yet, cry to us to remember their sacrifice... but we want to silence their cries for justice; we want them to remain the forgotten ones – otherwise, how could we justify our indignation? We’ve always had someone to pay for our extravagance are we to give up our favored status in God’s eyes? |
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The Lady Member Rara Avis
since 2005-12-26
Posts 7634The Southwest |
and I ask why too WindWalker... well said |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa |
WindWalker - maybe it's all meant to make us mere mortals think good over the bad but there surely must be less cruel ways of making that be. And the world will ask "why" until the end of time! |
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jody5 Senior Member
since 2005-12-21
Posts 876California, U.S.A. |
This isn't heaven and we arn't allowed to say why, just ask why |
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ThisDiamond Member Rara Avis
since 2002-02-22
Posts 9353Michigan, USA |
This work conjured so much emotion, it took me four reads to comment. Your point was well made, and the sadness of it was deeply felt. TD |
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