Love/hate…

So many people talk and write about love, as if it was the answer, or the question, to the problems of the world.

Last nigh, after seeing the train station in Ukraine bombed, and the bodies and blood everywhere, they ended bit with a basket on the ground, the lid half open, and a bunny inside.  The person who loved the bunny and was trying to get the bunny to safety, was dead.  Hopefully someone took the rabbit to a shelter.

They then went to a town that was completely destroyed, where they interviewed several people.  One woman had just buried  her son.  She showed where part of him was still in the basement.  He, and others, had been blown apart by the bomb that hit their home.  The woman said the other person’s head was, “over there,” and her body was in another place.  Everyone they spoke to told horror stories of their children being murdered, neighbors dragged out of the house and shot through the head, of the torture, beatings and death.  They showed dogs in homes where their owners were dead on the floor.

One woman said, god tells us to love our neighbors, but I can’t. I HATE them, I HATE them, she said loudly.   And if I could, I would kill everyone of them. I would do it myself.  I would kill them.

Sometimes hate is stronger than love, and in a world where we allow never ending violence to exist, it’s easy for hate to take over.  And the violence isn’t only in war.  The violence is all around us.  Kids killed in the street, women raped, beaten and murdered, gays and trans beaten to death.  We are surrounded by it, even if we have learned to stupidly accept the violence as, “the way it is.”

Love can’t bring back the dead and it can’t stop the brutality and violence that’s taking place in Ukraine.

The world seems to be going dark.  The killing of the planet, and the animals, the constant war and violence.  No love there.  None at all.

Those who believe love can bring about change need to step up their game.  No excuses, that everyone has to join them, because that will never happen.  Show us what you’ve got, as they say.  Bring on the love.

I have only heard of one instance where a bad person was changed into a good one, by kindness.  Otherwise, like the nun who was feeding a homeless man, who got up and stabbed her to death, I’m thinking love, on a large scale, is dying, along with things, like truth and trust.

We are watching a holocaust/genocide take place on tv, then going on with our lives, while the men who can do something about what’s happening, have meetings and talk, as if they are saying something.  I understand that we don’t want WW III but, bullies should never win.

I hope the bunny is okay.

 

 

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