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Religion? No, it's us.

6/17/2016

I shoot myself in the foot with just about every posting I make, and I’m sure no one reads this, but I wanted to make this posting regardless. I wanted to make the argument that religion is not the source of any war, or any death or anything else. It’s us. We are the cause. I see these posts all the time that religion is the source of all war etc…and sorry, it’s just not true. You can look at lots of recent (20th century) atheist regimes who have murdered millions of people, Cambodia, Russia, China, the Nazi’s of Germany. Cambodia is a good example 4/5th of the population murdered under an atheist communist regime. Nazi Germany is another good example, a regime which murdered millions for explicitly racist reasons.

In the end it’s us. I think we just have to own it. We are the murderers. How many wars could have been avoided if we hadn’t lied to ourselves and pretended elsewise? ‘Oh, it’s all religions fault?’ No, it’s us. The human race, we are the procreators of genocide. Any excuse will do, race, religion, sexuality, whatever. It’s only when we realise that humans can kill, and stand against it that the true value of humanity is realised.

Stand up for what is right. People are right. Stand up for other people. It’s the right thing to do. Stop blaming religion, or whatever. We are what is wrong, and we are what can fix things. Stand up for other people. Other people are worth our support. Stand up for them.

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Winnie the Pooh

6/11/2016

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I saw this little fellow between the northern Ontario towns of Wawa and Sault Ste Marie (the Sault). It’s hard to tell from the shot, but he only came up to my knee. I think he was an orphan as there was no sign of a mother bear – though I remained safely in the car while taking this picture as I didn’t want to end up as mother bear bait. Those are flies around his head, it’s the season for black fly here, but they didn’t seem to be bothering him.

Where I saw this little bear isn’t too far from White River, Ontario, and that reminded me of another little bear that was taken from this area about a 100 years ago during world war 1. That bear was also an orphan and was adopted by a lieutenant Harry Colebourn when his train stopped at White River as he was being transported to the battlefields of Europe. The little bear was dubbed Winnie, after Winnipeg where Harry and his unit were from, and he became a mascot for Harry’s unit. Winnie went to London with them, and was eventually given to the London zoo where he lived very happily until 1934.

At the London zoo one of Winnie’s fans was a Christopher Robin, the son of A.A. Milne, who wrote the Hundred Acre Wood, the story of Winnie the Pooh. So for me, a 100 years later, it was very fitting to see this little reminder of the origin of that much loved story. I wish him well in his fight for survival, and I spent much of the rest of the day during my long car ride to Montreal thinking of Winnie the Pooh bear.

Here's another website where I found some information about Winnie http://www.just-pooh.com/history.html

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