A Mosque For Isreal by Comic Book Shaman
By way of Political settlement there is no chance of achieveing peace in the middle east, or in any of the war torn, hatred fueled conflicts in the world. This is because politicians, political institutions and diplomats work only to preserve themselves in power. For this reason they are worse than useless in bringing about resolution to conflicts, for they start them, fuel them with arms and rhetoric; and do everything to see that they continue. They cry out and wring their hands; saying these conflicts go too deep to be resolved, and that methodical slaughter is all that may be done for those poor, poor peoples in distant lands.
I wrote this work not to solve all the problems of the world; but to show that they do have a solution. And that the solution is not too expensive or beyond our ability to grasp. This short video expresses the key in a few thousand words, to all of the human obstacles to peace, these are not so complex or difficult to understand. Although I do not say they are simple or easy for people to accept or adopt; it is at least possible for us to try, for political justice is forever denied us.
Love,
Comic Book Shaman
I wrote this work not to solve all the problems of the world; but to show that they do have a solution. And that the solution is not too expensive or beyond our ability to grasp. This short video expresses the key in a few thousand words, to all of the human obstacles to peace, these are not so complex or difficult to understand. Although I do not say they are simple or easy for people to accept or adopt; it is at least possible for us to try, for political justice is forever denied us.
Love,
Comic Book Shaman
A Mosque
For Israel
By Comic Book Shaman
An equation made of 48 variables in verse,
demonstrating the simple complexity of reconciliation of past sufferings from
the common caused and returned injustice of men.
Amen.
2014
Published under creative commons license
Copyright 2014 Comic Book Shaman (Donald Rex)
All rights reserved
intellectual property; take only as necessary.
Dedicated to Menachem Begin and Jimmy
Carter
Two men who had the courage to act as
needed;
few others have such courage or vision.
Jimmy Carter
Forward
This work is composed in 8 line verses I term ‘Octanes,” 48 in
number and each addressing an aspect that I have identified as crucial to
examine and consider; if an equitable accord it to be reached and a lasting
peace between complex adversaries may be achieved. Do not dismiss as
oversimplification any of these verses. They are not proposed as solutions
individually; instead they mark propositional aspects that cannot be ignored in
reconciliation. I hope that each Octane
verse has power to inspire new consideration of familiar aspects, there is not
one line or verse here that is not already well known to both sides. I hope
this collection of propositions can spark new perspectives in all sides of any
difficult conflict. For peace is personal to each person, each family, to each
category of human person in their everyday life.
‘War is over if you want it.’ The iron of resolve to overcome
injustice must be held in the hearts of woman and men.
Every person who is diagnosed as bipolar is evaluated and
determined as such by displaying various symptoms. One main symptom that
condemns a person diagnosed as bipolar is the label ‘grandiose’ noted out of
hand because she insists that she knows the causes of some problem in society,
or claims to have plans for a working space ship that they intend to build.
The diagnostician-person just notes down “‘grandiose’ claims” and
goes on confident that this person has no capacity to do or think anything
substantive about the subjects they claim to know. The way of American culture
is that education must be purchased, and without a bought credential no opinion
is credible. But rather than an observed set of symptoms, bipolar disorder is a
physical change within the mind, perhaps even in the brain, that is indicative
of one’s ability to process and analyze input data of diverse character, and
integrate it in rational manner. The problem is, in expressing this thought to
others; this is largely due to a deficit in language skills, that are common,
and not simple for any of us to overcome.
Donald Rex
San Antonio, Texas
June 10, 2014
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conflict
Why is there endless
pointless
violence and hatred in
Biblical
lands between Muslim and
Jew?
poverty and repression
stew
a bitter bile of hatred
and
misunderstanding that
has no
means of finding
something
more positive to do.
I don't know why hatred
bites
so deeply and hangs on
so
tenaciously except that
it is
worst when we know we
are
right. When both sides
know
equally strongly that
they are
right you have what we
call
A Mexican-Standoff.
03 can there be resolution?
Adversaries, between
them they
have turned paradise into a hell
of repression and terror
and
the question is what may
be
done to turn hatred to
happy?
who bites the bullet?
Who
blinks? Who's the sap?
A Moslem blows herself
up
among some Jews and a
tank runs over
somebody's
house in a cycle of
violence
played out on the
nightly
News. For the chain to
break
both sides must be fed
up
and ready to change.
There could instead be a
gem
by the sea, a commercial,
multi-cultural
crossroads,
seat of learning,
education,
literature and the Arts,
with
fertile fields and
booming
industry and a job for
who
wants one Moslem or Jew.
It can happen overnight
like
a cool breeze from the
sea
kissing people and
opening
their minds, releasing
their
hatred, increasing
compassion
with a real desire for a
better
world for their children
and
some dignity in it for
all.
People are looking at
scripture
divining imperatives of
Allah/God's will for her
chosen
people to oppress or
terrorize
as the leaders command
in her
Name, neither side
willing to
compromise and follow
the
tenets of their
respective faiths.
It is a country of Pain.
The pain is raw and
comes daily
in waves to every soul
on all
sides. To overcome this
pain is
as difficult as quitting
heroin
or losing a lover, it is
a journey
we must begin by loving
and
forgiving ourselves
first.
Compassion begins at
home, if
we can recognize our own
responsibility for our
selves
and our actions we can
also
see others face the same
task.
With practice we can
easily
feel compassion for
children,
friends and loved ones.
The beauty of compassion
is
that it is so easy.
Compassion
brings understanding,
heals
mental wounds and
suffering,
it sees what is and also
what
could happen if every
person
had her dignity and a
chance
to live and work and be
free.
You may think compassion
is
for the weak, but no, it
makes
one strong, and ones
problems
diminish and fortunes
improve
by the practice. When we
see
our lives and the
affairs of the
World with eyes of
compassion
we can see every wrong
righted.
First you ‘got’s’ to
separate
yer Church and State if
everybody's ‘gonna’
cooperate!
the ticket out of
oppression and
terror is to lose the P
word
and the I word and be
one nation
indivisible with a
strictly
Secular form of
government.
It seems impossible that
there
could be peace, and it's
true
governments will never
negotiate or enforce it
in a
thousand years. Only
universal
awakening to compassion
will
enable people to heal
and move
forward to universal
prosperity.
Compassion kicks
Hatred's ass.
hate is a vile loser
emotion
that blinds and cripples
us,
coloring our thoughts
and causing
unproductive actions
that are
invariably negative to
our best
interests. Overcoming
pain and
hatred is the same daily
task.
In this case I am so
bold to state
that the Jews are the
less
aggrieved people for a
change and
must make the first move
for peace.
Instead of walling off
the Moslems
they must set them free
and
embrace them as family
as though
they were from Russia or
Poland.
It is a complex deal
requiring
trust but it can work
like this:
Hostilities cease,
national
non-secular government
is instituted,
refugees are repatriated
and with
International
contributions, settled
trained and educated to
become
healthy, proud,
productive citizens.
Peace is negotiated with
hostile
neighbors, massive
expenditures
made on infra-structure
so that
people can work and live
and have
water and power and
transportation
and with that they will prosper,
each to her own
potential and all
creating a national
prosperity.
Jews are fewer and
Moslems are
many so it is a
challenge to
create a state that
protects
minority rights, and
this may
only be done if both
sides can
come out from under past
perceptions, and build
an
equitable present for
everyone.
This doesn't mean all
will be
wealthy, no that can
only buid
in time. It only means
that
people are safe
regardless of
religion and free to
work,
travel and associate as
they
please to prosper if
they may
or struggle on in
poverty.
The only certainty is
that
everyone will be
immediately
personally better off.
Presently
way too much effort
nationally
is spent hating and
scheming
against the other side,
all this
mental and emotional
energy
may be turned to
productivity.
You know, you don't have
to
love everyone so much as
not
hate and fear them.
Respect
them not repress them.
Contrast
them not terrorize them.
Instead
educate each other so
that
slowly we learn faiths
can be
strong and still
co-exist.
Hatred and mistrust are
the
greatest barrier to
peace but
close second is money. A
thousand
fists clench fiefdoms in
the
present economies in
both
camps. These hands must
open
enough to kick start the
pulse
of a vibrant national
economy.
But how to begin, this
is the
question. My suggestion
is for
the Jews to build a
Mosque in
Jerusalem of modern and
magnificent construction
and
of course of Moslem
design, as
a token of
reconciliation and
the seat of a tourist
economy.
Once the terror ends the
little
things will work
themselves
out and the people can
find
their place in a free
country
and an open market
economy.
It can only work out if
any
Moslem from anywhere is
welcome to come to the
Holy Land.
The only hope for this
world
we live in is free
movement
of people, goods and
information
across the planet in a
safe, fast
and reliable manner and
to
maintain our cultural
advantages
in doing so. This cannot
be
legislated but only
comes individually.
Majority rule is only a
rough way
to sort things out.
Minorities must
be respected and not
bulldozed by
the majority, just as
tyrants and
cartels must give way to
more
representative
government but
what is really important
is the
character and
aspirations of people.
A transformation of
economies
must be affected through
the
compassionate changes in
people.
It is in the character
of devout
persons to sacrifice for
the common
good and Moslem and Jew
must
share the burden that
will be heavy
to start, but in time
will vanish.
These few simple lines
take account
of the infinite
complexity of the
difficulties involved in
making
the change. All of them
hinge on
individual human
compassion. We
have to make personal
decisions collectively,
step by step with
concern and
understanding for the
other side.
So what's the deal? Is
peace on
Earth and good will to
others
offensive to Allah/God?
Is
happy, prosperous life
in the
Holy land mutually
exclusive?
Must what happened in
the past
continue to doom us
forever to
festering pain and grim
hatred?
The best vengeance is to
live well
and see your children
better off
than you were. The way
to have
dignity and respect from
our
neighbors is to give it to
them,
and not just grudging
manners.
What seems impossible
can be
with compassion and
desire.
As difficult as it may
be to
open the most shut-tight,
long
made up minds, are there
not
even more difficult
accomplishments
made by people around
the world
every day? Doesn't
modern medicine
save lives? Industry does
create wealth?
Civilization yet create
culture?
We work, we save, we pay
taxes and
what happens? The men in
charge
buy guns and tanks and
bombs. That's
it right there, the core
of the
problem plain and
simple. Budgetary
priorities must come
into line, and
the world
military-Industrial-complex
must come in for close
scrutiny.
What benefit is there
for you to hate
and revile America?
Americans don't
want to enslave you or
rob you. What
we want is simple, peace
and prosperity
for all persons. You may
sneer and
doubt my assertion but
it is true
because peace and
stability is good
for business, and that's
what we do.
Poverty has causes
deeper than
government repression.
Terror
tactics have hurt Moslem
far more
than Jew in terms of
dignified
survival, who can work
at a job?
Who can travel? Are
children
getting the education
they deserve?
Who thinks of anything
but hatred?
Who can get ahead under
a hostile secular
Government? It is ill
conceived and
must be addressed as the
root
cause of the conflict
because it
is fundamentally unfair
in human
terms. Ideologically
based government
is detrimental to its
people and it's
neighbors by its
rhetoric and Actions.
Peace will require a
heroic feat of
Statecraft, a
Constitutional document
the likes of which has
never been seen.
It must empower all the
people equally
but yet safely protect
the rights of
minority Jews and
Christians. The cause
is Doomed if there are
scriptural objections
to co-operative secular
government.
Both sides might like to
go back to another
era when things were
more to their liking;
but it's the future that
lies before them.
the place for religion
is in a person's
heart, home and
community, as they so
choose to practice.
Ideal government
treats all citizens
alike and is
instituted for their
benefit ultimately
Language of Government
is a knotty
problem for sure. Hebrew
is clearly
unfair as is Arabic for
that matter,
both are subtle
political tongues that
put non-native speakers
at a serious
disadvantage. The
alternative is a
third language, which
isn't great, or dual
languages with
simultaneous translation.
Pride and resentment are
obstacles
to communication between
Moslem
and Jew, especially at a
personal
level. Each looks at the
other in
dehumanizing terms, and
steels her
heart against them. This
must
Break down one smile at
a time,
One deed of compassion.
Yours!
When there is peace, it
will be
Because no one has the
upper
hand. Domestic
constituencies
will be serviced equally
without
regard for religion and
every
religion will be
respected by
every person because
they are
free to worship as they
choose.
Perhaps the most
difficult of
all is the matter of
equal rights
for women. Reading male
Domination into
scripture is
intentional but not inevitable,
the plain fact is women are
intelligent, capable,
faithful when
respected, loved, and used
compassionately
For a society to prosper
it must
fully utilize its
resources and
its human ones most of
all.
Think carefully about
the old
ways that you cling to,
that
they may not drag you
down.
Old ways had good
reasons in
old times, but times
have changed.
Holding on to cultural
traditions
and differences is most
desirable,
to the extent that they
are
voluntary and not
repressive in
nature. When clerics and
husbands
enjoy power and
privileges both
personally and
professionally
it is hard for them to
let go.
It is human nature to
cling to
our advantages even when
they
unfairly disadvantage others.
We are born equally and
we die
more or less so, in the
end. In
between we must each have
A chance to prosper
without
being stepped upon by
someone else.
All faiths have those
who would
govern by the scriptures
if they could
I suggest that
theocratic rule of
Any stripe holds nothing
encouraging
for honest working folk
and free
thinkers. Government in
a deity’s
name has written a
bloody trail
across continents,
cultures and ages.
A true prosperity is one
where
everyone is valued as an
individual.
Each producing as she is
able is
the key to a vibrant
economy and
the path out of poverty
and
marginalization for all
oppressed
peoples. Government
affects this
Best by governing least,
my friend.
Islam views usury as an
abomination,
as indeed it can be if
one is simple
and signs something she
doesn't
understand. But wisely
employed
interest on loans and
deposits creates
wealth and opportunity
throughout
the economy, the
benefits of which
spread out in all
directions.
I write this as an
American
who has lived free with
no
contact or regard for
the
United States
government,
especially revolted by
it's
conduct of foreign
affairs
at times, we too can use
more
compassion and understanding.
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