The Independent Thinker

Seeing the destruction and the killings brought upon by this Israeli-Hezbollah conflict, I wonder how our government can still be so rigid in his refusal in calling for a cessation of hostilities. With kids, women, elderly people dying on both sides, seing all the misery on both sides, I wonder again how can our government tolerate such a situation. And we take pride in being "civilized", "generous", "magnanimous", "christian", "smart". I'm getting to believe that all we say we are is all B...s! Because, if I were wrong, we all would be screaming to tell our so-called elected leaders: enough is enough, let's do something to stop this! After all, we don't want more hatred directed at us. The bad thing is we try a lot of times to be important instead of being useful! Carl Gilbert

The current U.S. policy in the Middle East is really getting outdated.  And I would even say it stinks. That is why we are getting more isolated in this world. Call me a liberal if you want but I don't care because our kids, grandkids, or great-grandkids need to find a safe place to live. Israel is our close ally, it is true.  But that country has its own interests and the U.S. has primarily its own.  Therefore our fate can not be bound to the fate of Israel.  It is time we tell   Israel we cannot babysit her forever. We do not talk to Iran, and Syria,  - big players in the Middle East - because we perceive them as our enemies.  Maybe they are.  I thought it was always better to keep our enemies close (...so we could better strangle them when the need arises). As the situation of the world gets more complicated, we the voters need to take a second look, a third look at our leaders before we elect them bec...

Recently, CNN reported on one of those churches where the congregation laughs  its heart out while they are worshiping God. The argument behind all this laughter is God does not ask us to be miserable while we are serving Him. And the preacher on that CNN show aslo argued that being sad or depressed at church while we are praying is not what God asked from us. Another minister said in one of his preachings: Hippopotamus, peacock, Dachshund, giraffe, hummingbird, dolphin, fireflies, and humans like us: Herman, Thelma, Josephine, and Thomas: If you look around at all the creatures of the world, and we humans in all our vibrant variety, don’t you have to conclude that God has a great sense of humor? And he went on to quote some passages in the Bible where laughter is referred to.      In other words, those ministers were telling us that God likes laughter too. Generally speaking, I wish we all were laughing at a lot things! Maybe we would see less bad thin...