Silence Is Often The Best Thing To

When Politics And Religion Are Intermingled, A People Is Suffused With A Sense Of Invulnerability, And Gathering Speed In Their Forward Charge, They Fail To See The Cliff Ahead Of Them

Ideas Are A Dime A Dozen. It's Execution That Counts.

What Do You Despise? By This Are You Truly Known.

Atrocity Is Recognized As Such By Victim And Predator Alike, By All Who Learn About It At Whatever Remove. Atrocity Has No Excuses, No Mitigating Argument. Atrocity Never Balances Or Rectifies The Past. Atrocity Merely Arms The Future For More Atrocity. It Is Self-perpetuating Upon Itself - A Barbarous Form Of Incest. Whoever Commits Atrocity Also Commits Those Future Atrocities Thus Bred.

The Gravest Error A Thinking Person Can Make Is To Believe That One Particular Version Of History Is Absolute Fact. History Is Recorded By A Series Of Observers, None Of Whom Is Impartial. The Facts Are Distorted By Sheer Passage Of Time And Thousands Of Years Of Humanity's Dark Ages, Deliberate Misrepresentations By Religious Sects, And The Inevitable Corruption That Comes From An Accumulation Of Careless Mistakes. The Wise Person, Then, Views History As A Set Of Lessons To Be Learned, Choices And Ramifications To Be Considered And Discussed, And Mistakes That Should Never Again Be Made.