Just a little rant I typed up one day last week when I was in a bad mood. It's not gaming related...But... Hmmm.. Well, hell with it, I'm posting it anyhow.

You know. Humans are so very, very pathetic. We are capable of such grand vision, such creative wonderment.....

It's always amazed me, when one looks at works such as the Pyramid, the CN Tower, or the great cathedrals of Europe what we can do when we work together. We can take 100,000 tons of steel and make it float. We can create houses, and indeed entire cities. We can send a man to the moon, and probes to other planets. We can create such works of beauty that they bring tears to the viewers eye and a song to their heart merely through it's existence. We can compose magnificent symphonies that cry out to the skies in their glory. We can have children, and see our future grow and mature before our eyes. We can love.

All of this and more we are capable of doing, and what do we seem to spend so much of our time and energy on? Destruction, war and greed. The gods must weep.

This is something that puzzles me greatly. Why would you want to destroy works of art? Cities? Kill people? I understand that sometimes people don't get along, and this may be naive of me... But so what? Everyone has a different opinion. It's what makes us interesting and unique. If we were all the same the world would be boring as hell. It'd be like being trapped at a young liberal convention.

People imprison, torture and kill other people because of their beliefs... There's a potential war brewing in the middle east right now.... The main difference between the opponents? Their religions translate the bible slightly differently. Are they willing to just sit down and discuss what's going on? Some of them are, others seem to consumed by their hatred and fear they are more willing to fight, kill and die than they are to just talk. It's these people that cause the harm.

I may not agree with what someone says, but I'll fight for their right to be able to say it. So many people seem to be willing to fight to ensure that some people have no rights whatsoever.

I completely fail to understand why you would hate someone because their beliefs are different. (Or for that matter if their skin just happens to be a different colour.) I don't care what other people think.. It's none of my business. I'm certainly not going to try to force my religion or views down someone else's throat. Not to mention, I really doubt that anyone's God would be too happy to have people forced into believing.... Because they obvious won't believe...They're just acting as though they do out of fear. Stupid Crusades.

Personally, I like to hear about other people's religious and personal beliefs... I find it interesting to see what other people believe in. The different religions of the world are fascinating in their different ways of looking at things, their different outlooks. And who am I to say which religion is actually right? I know what I believe it, but I have been wrong before.... Maybe we're all right?

How about racism? How can you hate someone just because their skin happens to be a different color? A guys I know hates all blacks, because at one time he was slashed in a knife fight by a "nigger" as he puts it. Now I'm sorry, but I know some very nice people who just happen to have darker skin than myself. (And, I have to admit... I know alot more white guys who are complete jerks than I know blacks I don't like) I asked this guy if he would hate all "whiteys" if a white guy had been the one he'd been in the fight with. Well... no. So what the hell kind of stupid justification is that for hating an entire race based on one person's actions?

I certainly don't think Hitler was too nice a guy, but I don't hate all Germans because of his actions. You can't hate all Russians because of Stalin. I can't remember who said it, but it was during an awards ceremony of some sort, where a black gentleman was receiving the award. The presenter said "You are a credit to your race.... The human race.." Bravo to him.

I think the main problem may come down to the fact that anything that is different tends to make people nervous. A pack of wolves will ostracize or kill a member who happens to be a different color. A group of school children will torture a kid who is handicapped, or different. Someone with an accent moves into your neighborhood, works hard and starts their own business is somehow an "outsider", and an object of some scorn.

Stenotypes suck, and everyone suffers because of them. I went through years of abuse and terrorizing at school because I was a "Computer Geek." I wasn't any less of a nice person, or less human, but I got bothered constantly. I honestly spent some time thinking about murdering one or two of the guys who seemingly had dedicated their lives to torturing me on an hourly basis. Luckily for them I never let it go that far. As human beings we should certainly be able rise above stupid pettiness, or just be a little more tolerant of others.

We should all just go out and play a few rounds of Paintball or Tribes..... Much better way to solve our problems than tanks and guns. It'd also help if people weren't so damned greedy and self-serving. *cough*politicians*cough*

Marauder out.