Why HATE

24th of February 2008

Why Hate

Why must hate proliferate throughout this world? Why must the thing driving you be a fire that burns inside of you like the molten lava running deep inside the cavernous hallows of a volcano. Waiting to erupt and blow high into the sky as it eviscerates everything in its wake.

The under-current of hate emulates that river of lava moving slowly and deadly deep within the bowels of the mountain waiting for the right moment to erupted bursting forth and blowing ash saturated with molten rock hurling through the serene blue sky; hate erupts flowing as it destroys the lives of so many.

I keep coming back to this subject because it doesn’t seem to leave the headlines long enough to become a bi-line. Reading the six to eight news papers daily that I do only exacerbates the subject matter. From the centuries of fighting between Jerusalem and Palestine where a day doesn’t escape our focus without hearing of military incursions into Palestine or the un-occupied West Bank. Both sides pointing fingers at the other saying they started it – but who cares who began when both sides are deeply entrenched in the loathing hate for the other. Rockets shot from the same Palestinian territories shattering countless innocent Israeli lives only to cry foul the very next night when soldiers encroach into Palestine to revenge its dead citizens…it doesn’t matter who started it when the streets on both sides flow red with Hate!

To read in local papers how hecklers are aloud to ridicule a woman presidential candidate solely because she’s not masculine like them. Who is to say her balls are not bigger than theirs? For her to get to the acquire the position capable of running for such the highest job in the United States of America, I would say the balls she pulls out of her purse are larger and more solid then anything those hate filled men could ever muster.

I was in the dressing room of my new gym Wednesday morning when suddenly the music stopped playing over the speakers only to be replaced with the cry of a monkey, baboon or some primate and the music starts again. The next row of lockers over from me where some guys that were contemplating why they allowed women to take advantage of them. According to these hate filled men; these women would trick them into falling in love with them. Then these conniving women divorced them as they stripped them of their hard earned money and possessions. This distasteful conversation was interrupted by the primate’s call echoing throughout the locker room. Needless to say, you could hear a pin drop as the primitive call turned in to an eruption of laughter.

Those same uber masculine men pontificating their shared sorrows not recognizing that they are the only reasons women leave them. I am sure that after putting up with their narrow-minded crap for years justified every cent they received as well as the houses, the cars and anything else they could obtain from their once beloved husbands. These men started talking about “how they thought someone let loose…you know….one of those kinds of guys in here”. The conversation descended with every syllable spoken.

The hate spewing forth from the five men conversing as they dressed was disgusting and hurt just hearing such loathsome comments. To know these men were not alone in their thoughts; however, they were the only ones with big enough balls to verbalize their small minded thoughts.

I left the gym angry because of what they said, but thirty minutes later I was even more upset at my silence and thereby acceptance of the hate flowing deep within the bowels of these men.

So why with my faith in humanity and struggle to obliterate such oppressive ideology was I not able to confront those who decidedly feel satisfaction in proliferating hate? That brought me back to the headlines where a Palestinian man was photographed holding his dead son as he and his wife clung to the life they jointly brought into this world. Their flesh and blood died due to a revenge mortar shell shot from Israel back at the locations where Palestinian missiles were hurled at Israel. When do each and every Palestinian and Israeli citizen’s stand up to the small number of fanatical people who have risen to power controlling the bombs and military? The people of both nations suffer while a few who can’t get enough hate flowing through their veins perpetuate death because with each breath flows the stench from within them. It has already consumed their lives, but they aren’t happy until every street, every river and even the Dead Sea flows red with innocent blood.

I can’t seem to grasp why so many would rather drowned themselves in the filth and scum of hate. The burden of carrying such weighted baggage should tire a person, but the hate flowing within them like the lava deep within the volcano seems to energize them, propelling them forward. It is not just the endless conflict between Israel and Palestine, but also between the Serbs and Bosnians, North and South Korea and competing War Lords throughout Africa. None of whom care about the innocent lives as long as the outcome of their hate is a so called victory.

In almost all cases each side claims God, Allah or some deity supports their hate and the killing of innocent people. We have long since surpassed who started what and have moved directly to oppression and hate. So how can we put an end to it? How do we stop something that has been entrenched for thousands of years.

I only know how each person can do his part in the elimination of hate. Next time I will stop those speaking so despairingly of any innocent group of persons. I will stop the hate from spewing out of their lips as thought the conversation was cherished rather than disdainful. I will explain how the words flowing from their lips no longer belong in society today because hate has no place among us.

The Palestinian citizens who want to stop the killing of their innocent sons, daughters, husbands, wives and family members must start by informing the proper authorities when fanatical extremist setup a rocket launcher lobbing bombs at innocent Israeli citizens. The Israeli people must equally stop the military incursions into territories blindly seeking those same militants that killed and ravaged the peace that never had a chance to thrive when the blood flows freely on both sides of the boarders.

It takes great faith within you to stand against the bullies of this world. Those filled with hate are the school yard bullies. They use tactics design to scare people into silence while maintaining control through force. Fear to live ones true life is the precipitous to hate. If you wish to break free and live in peace, you must stand against the fear. Once you face that fear and stand firm to those who once were oppressed will you eliminate hate and oppression.

I promise to face my fear by challenging the locker room bullies. Each of us must do our part and while you might feel that one person cannot change thousands of years of hate; one person can start a revolution that ends hate, oppression and tyranny.

Are you strong enough to accept the challenge or will fear eventually take your life?

Your Humble Servant – Todd M. Dobson