When Life Decides To Strike A Deal

Dear Friend,

So here I am again at my keyboard. It is 12.26 am central time officially April 1^st 2003. 

I don’t even know what I want to write about. I do have an intense urge to sit down and meditate. Maybe there is something in the air. 

Today they are widely announcing the spread of the SARS severe acute respiratory syndrome. It’s all over in the news, on the TV, and at my son’s school there was a notice reminding parents of the symptoms and to keep their kids at home at the slightest onset of flu. It’s scary. No one knows what it is as yet and it is spreading fast. It reminds me so much of those early films where they have pictured the spread of deadly diseases like cholera, it spread like wild fire wiping out whole towns in it’s wake, before a vaccine was eventually discovered. They would board up whole houses leaving sick people inside and get as far away as possible with the hopes of outwitting this disease.

I have a feeling that I should get some masks for use in case if it comes to that.  Maybe I am being paranoid. They say how you perceive any situation is what your brain interprets of it. Different people have different perceptions hence different opinions of any given situation.

It’s a marvel really what with science having landed a man on the moon [If it's not a hoax!] and a robotic probe on Mars. Having conquered the depths of the sea and advanced medical science to the point of cloning of humans, yet a new strain of the flu virus still remains largely unidentified and uncontrolled. Yes travel technology is helping to spread it even faster all around the globe.

Goes to prove that nature can still outwit even the smartest technologies created by man.

 So what are the macho cowboys of the world trying to prove...

 First bombarding an already war torn, hungry and ill nation. Blowing it to smithereens, killing and maiming thousands of innocents in the process, yet still the prime target remains un-tethered. Yes it was a nation whose homeless kids were already picking foods off the garbage dumps in a neighboring country, and now even they might be dead. Is it something to be proud of?

 Next it is another hungry, sick and limping nation. I wonder if they will reach their target this time. Looks more like the ugly image of a bad bully at school who tortures kids younger to him. Who will be next? Big brother go and pick some one your own size, Or are you not man enough for it?

Is it really a war against terrorism? for even the terrorists were created by you big brother. With all your intelligence and scientific technology behind you, didn’t you know the outcome of your own actions? So in essence who is the root cause of this terrorism? As captain Jane Way of the star trek series Voyager says: "I am responsible".

Or if you were to consider the cybernetic loop principle... every event triggers off another chain of events, those ultimately come back to impact the original chain of events, and if planned accurately... you could get the desired results. So what are the desired results:

Is it to launch a third world war, kill off millions of people, get a foot hold in strategic locations around the world and emerge as well... the chief controller;

Or is it because you have high stakes in your defense industry and you need more weapons production so you have more money pour into this industry to fill up your personal coffers and at the same time hoodwink your own people with the terrorism boo boo and make them believe you are their hero. Yes, is it the greatest hoax the world is yet to uncover?

I definitely seem to be hallucinating, commenting on events I hardly know a thing about. Remember I am just an ordinary person living an ordinary life in a real ordinary world. I don’t know what to write about so I am writing the first thoughts that pop into my raving mind, using the first words that come to me.

I am really awed and inspired by the ancient civilizations of the world... be it the Stonehenge, the Egyptian pyramids teeming full of treasures beyond gold, the ancient cities of Moen-jo-daro and Harrappa, all the ancient cities, graveyards, tombstones and relics left behind by our predecessors. Little did they know that their precious treasures will be so badly mauled by time and desecrated by the human bug. Did they even know that their civilizations will vanish off the face of this earth without a trace of their whereabouts, leaving behind just a magical presence that will raise more questions, fire more imaginations, create more cults and perhaps more dissension.

I wonder what will be left of our time here if it were to come to that?

I told you I am paranoid. I can easily see war spreading over, destruction, hunger, ill health, disease... SARS? Oblivion, elimination, Total death.

 Another dead planet floating around in the debris of space waiting for the germs of life to sprout and spring into action again. A clean slate. A new start. I strongly believe nature has it’s own checks and balances ready to spring into action if the arrogant life form triggers the critical combination in this cybernetic loop of life.

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