Turtle Talk
Memorial Day Reflections . . .
Memorial Day observances continue to take on added dimension each year with our nation’s perpetual engagement in various forms of military activities throughout the word. Add to this the multi-facet associated stress, the steadily increasing number of extremes in nature throughout the glob of unprecedented dimension including within our own country.
To this equation add the bombardment of primary criminal-oriented programming, get-rich-quick competitions and the glorification of “stupidity” sitcoms that dominate major TV networks. Lace this with the progressive loose morals and commentary of today’s top media programming and the total lack of control of social media and, in the absence of the deep spiritual family root that once anchored this youthful nation, it equals a society racing full speed ahead toward self-destruction.
The spread of terrorism likewise redefines war. How does a nation strike back when the enemy is not another nation but a formless group that blends into the population? Certainly not by attacking and waging war on the suspected localities within which such malignancies may fester–our own being among them.
Imbedded in my mind remain the signs carried by protesters in Israel while visiting there a few years ago that read in English, “Don’t make new terrorists trying to stop terrorism!”
As terrorism redefines war, so too, with today’s highly sophisticated technology and weaponry, does war redefine survival of the planet–not determined by who’s right but who’s left–surviving under and in what conditions? A fundamental spiritual redirection is required. Not another religious redirection-–God forbid! But redirection and unification of existing powerful spiritual impetus!
Throughout the nation and the world there exists a new wave toward rallying interfaith gatherings to maximize spiritual strength, weakened only by division, interpretation and increasing duplicity and multiplicity. Observe how mankind for thousands of years has been ruled by a small minority through the simple “divide and conquer” theory. The same philosophy given by Willie Lynch to the new slaveholders of Virginia in the infancy of this new nation. “Discover their differences, magnify them, then pit them against one another… It’s so simple even a child can do it. You can then control them for hundreds of years, if not thousands!”
Consider also the effectiveness of this simple theory throughout time, especially today when nothing can divide a fast maturing mankind more effectively than different religious interpretation–of same scripture, within same Books and religions!
Spirituality is love–of One God, regardless of the path or man-given Name. Also Love is stronger than hate! But it has been well proven that hate is far easier to unify with man.
What more appropriate time than in the wake of Memorial Day to recall the words of John F. Kennedy, “The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy…”
May we then strive with new zeal to unite pure hearts that the darkness of hatred and war will be entirely abolished, that the light of love and unity shall shine and this world become recognized as man’s native country and the different races counted as one human race!
