@ShannonVenerab2@RobV59 Thatโs the whole point, we donโt want you to see us coming. We hunt for fun, weโll lie in wait for hours, weโre quiet, weโre patient, we practice, train and perfect. So no, you wonโt see us coming but youโll sure know when weโre there.
When I look at whatโs happening in Lebanon, Israel, Iran and across the Middle East, what hits me hardest is not just the violence itself. Itโs what people are being taught to excuse in the name of faith, history, identity, and allegiance.
Faith, when fused with distorted history and stripped of humanity, empathy, and compassion, can become a shield and weapon for almost anything. It can make people defend the very actions that create the suffering they claim to oppose.
And it feels deeply programmed into everyone regardless of faith or background: the need to pick a side, inherit an allegiance and defend a belief system no matter the cost, even when it runs against their own people and leads to nothing but destruction, violence, and death.
I understand why people feel so defeated.
Generations have lived through so much pain and trauma that many have lost the ability to believe these systems can be reformed, changed, or abolished at all. And in many ways, that hopelessness is part of the design.
These systems were flawed from the beginning, built to divide ordinary people and keep them fighting inside structures that were never meant to serve them.
The fact that more people are beginning to see it now matters.
Once the programming becomes visible โ once itโs consciously recognized and observed with clarity instead of blame โ it starts to lose its power.
When people can see the pattern, they can begin to break the spell.
Not all at once. Not perfectly. But through every decision to choose humanity over allegiance, compassion over inherited hatred, and truth over the machinery of division.
That is where change begins.
And once enough people can see the system for what it is, it will change.
@McJuggerNuggets The loss of the child was of your own doing, the child would have sustained life upon birth, you and your spouse decided that life wasnโt worth living and chose to end it. You get no sympathy here.