SOME OF THIS MIGHT BE TOO GRAPHIC FOR SOME PEOPLE


Some of what shows up here is just crazy, even to me and I write it. I intend to share my Journal and things I've done while in, in and out patient programs.

Chronologically I'm 58 (fall of 2013). Experientially I'm older. Emotionally I'm somewhere between 3 and 12 most of the time. I live with stress pretty much all of the time. I often say, "I have a Street address in Stress Land."

As for the name "A Sound Track of Mind". A friend made a road tape called "Experimental or Just Plan Mental" so I made "A Sound Track of Mind". However I think it applies here because of the soundtrack in my mind and, having my mind on a sound (firm) track to run, walk, or crawl on.

The names I use may or may not be real. However my name isn't legally Robin Douglas. There may be some who read this who know who I am because I've been using the name for many years.

In a way my journal is written for my therapist, Jeanne. However, it is also one of the only ways I've found of constructively expressing my feeling with myself. It starts off very sudden because I started writing again to help with therapy. So your missing about 3 years of background. On Tuesday I bring in whatever I've written for the previous week.

Back in '85 through '90 I had written over 350 pages. I called it TEST as in "This is a test it is only a test". I call the new one Test. From 1991 to October 2013, I've written less than fifty pages in many fits and starts but, never being to be able to keep it up. Jeanne likes it because it gives her something to work with if I'm just chattering.

Sunday, November 29, 2015

Week 110   -   2015-11-29 Sun.

Why does the world always need to be in a state of war?
I know this is an over simplified essay.

War:
A state of armed conflict between different groups of people.

Group:
A number of people or things that are located or classed or considered as being together.

Wars are more often than not incited by one person.  However, they can not be fought by two people.

Arming others to fight wars you don't want to fight does not work.  You can not end war by feeding and or starting wars.

I believe the first cause of war is any form greed.  I don't believe coveting what others have is wrong.  As it can be the motivation to earn it for oneself.  Taking it without permission is wrong.  However, the worst form of greed, in my opinion, is having more than you can use and not sharing.  Why and how is it that the top 10% of the richest people in the world own close to 90% of all privately held riches.

I see religion as the second greatest cause of war.  Judaism, Christianity, and Islam share many of the same prophets and angels.  As well as many of the same beliefs.  Yet these three religions have been the cause of more wars in the past 1,500 than all of the other religions combined, ever.   A large number, if not most, of these wars between themselves.


Back in the late '60s at the age of 14 I wrote a paper not for school but much as I am now writing this one.  Then it was in protest of the Vietnam war.  Which I started protesting at the age of 12.  As I said then I now feel compelled to repeat now.  Why must we feed the war machine.

I'm not saying that ISIS should not be dealt with.  What they are doing is wrong.  However, the more we feed their ego's they more they will feel the need to tell the world who they are.  Unfortunately the way that they are doing this is by killing people who do not think the same way they do.  Killing the people who are different from them in any way.  Killing other Muslims.

ISIS is not really Islamic as they break the rules set by the Quran on a daily basis.  They are more a fascist state than anything else.  I read an article the other day (Confessions of an ISIS Spy) that plainly shows this to be true.  (Yes ? if this is a truthful story and I have no reason to doubt it is.) This man joined ISIS to make his life as a Syrian better than it otherwise was under ISIS rule.  His life is now forfeit and ISIS no longer considers him a Muslim, because he has seen the truth of how ISIS is truly run.

I would rather the world's governments would just quietly go over there and deal with ISIS.  Yes I know this means going to war but, why must we create all the hatred for the rest of the middle east.  All the hatred for the rest of the world.  Stop feeding these people's egos.  STOP condemning all of Islam for the actions of the few.


More and more I feel as if I'm different from most of the rest of the world.  I hate war.  I hate violence, of any kind.  Though if pushed far enough I know that even I will commit physical violence.  Because some part of me will pop and lash out against an antagonist.  However, I don't agree that punching a bully in the nose is the best way to deal with them.  I have often said there are two ways of dealing with the worlds problems.  1) The easy way.  Give some One a big gun and they can blow away all of the assholes.  Definitely not my first choice but very quick.  2) Teaching every One to live and let live.  If some group of people feel it is alright to have second class citizens and those who are the second class agree with this, so be it.  There are people who like to be hurt.  However, if someone in these groups of people want to leave their group let them.  I know this is over simplified but, do we really need to make it as complicated as it is now.  Do people, I mean all people, have to go to extremes.

Physical violence is not the only way to handles problems.  If there are people who must fight let them do so one on one.  Think of it kind of like Thunderdome "Two men enter one man leaves." with no champions.  However, unlike Thunderdome lets have courts so the little guy doesn't always get stepped on.

There is no country that is not guilty of crimes against humanity to some degree.  Whether it be out and out war.  Or just not taking care of their own people.

Lets not forget that the Pilgrims were refugees.  Let us also not forget that Corporal Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan a Muslim in the U.S. Army died Aug. 6Th 2007 fighting in Iraq.


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