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  3. I'm coming in at 9:00 just to say that the extreme cruelty of the Russian troops is baffling. I live 2,000 kilometers from Kiev. I am a 15 minute walk frpm the border with France. It is unfathonable to imagine that people from a border country, with a lot of them having relatives in the invaded country, could perpetrate such heinous acts on what is essentially their neighbors. What sort of person could change into a cold blooded killer overnight like that the minute they are wearing a uniform? The story of the boy and his dad I will carry to my grave. The Russians shot the boy's dad who had come to them point blank the minute he looked away with his hands up. Then a soldier shot the boy, shot him again, and shot him again through the head--or so he thought--and then wandered off. The boy had managed to miss getting hit in the body or head because of a hood; he got up when the soldier went behind a tank and ran for cover. Can any of us imagine what that boy has to live with the rest of his life? Also; how could he ever view his neighbors with anything but hate from now on? This is what is the great tragedy; these were neighboring nations who many times spoke the same language. Can any of us ever come to grips with what an authoritarian regime does to people's minds let alone what it is capable of doing to innocent civilians? The human species has never evolved is all I can think of. Deep hatred can turn to mass murder with the pull of a trigger and the firing of a tank gun. Cities can be destroyed in a fortnight by the rockets from an attack helicopter, the buzz of a super-sonic cruise missile and pounded to rubble by artillery batteries firing endlessly into city centers. We're sickened seeing these images covered by courageous journalists who will never erase many of the images they have seen of people lying in the streets, hands tied behind their backs and a bullet hole in the back of their heads. War bends the minds of men and women; dictators give them a green flag and medals. NATO and its allies rub their hands together and shake their heads and send a new shipment of arms. This war shows us we need to break some rules to save our souls.
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  12. Richard Dawkins has done the world a favor and for people like myself who have struggled all my life to find out what I actually believe in, all I know is that from listening to Mr Dawkins and many of his illustrious colleagues, it has pushed me to find the tracks of my beliefs that were long ago vanished from the sands of my time in my mind. What I have always felt—or at least as long as I can remember—is that one reason I have never been able to put my life in another’s hands, or lead my life from another’s plan, or believe in someone other than myself is my extreme distrust in putting my fate in anyone or even in a spiritual master or master of the universe’s hands. It’s the most frightening thing I can think of and I have to say it’s because I’ve undoubtedly met so many people who turned out to be untrue, that it has made me into the person I am and—here’s my point on religion. I believe that the spiritual guides like Jesus, Mohammad and Buddha among others are there to help guide someone—and more power to you if you find that believing in Jesus for example, gives your life purpose. But I believe that religion’s spiritual guides were never meant to be holding one’s hand all the way through one’s entire existence. We all outgrow our teachers; otherwise, we’d never make anything of ourselves. And: when you have breathed your last breath and crossed over to the other side of life into death and the afterlife—whatever that turns out to be, you want to have made it on your own. I think we have to believe in ourselves to be whole and the goal of life is to stand on one’s two feet and face whatever comes at you. To go through your whole life reading dubious texts written by a thousand ghost-writers and having that be your roadmap to heaven is like letting a blind person take you by the hand to cross a busy intersection. It’s backwards. It’s an opinion, but I want to thank Mr Dawkins for provoking in my thoughts that have helped and are still helping me define what my purpose is in the world we live in. I firmly believe I’m right in relying only on myself and what I’ve constructed in my mind to define my life and what I’m here on Earth to do. But most of all, I wouldn’t want to make a judgement on somebody else’s belief system. Everyone should have the right to live their life and believe in the things they want to believe in; Richard Dawkins has helped humanity by undoing the knots and logjams that have accumulated throughout the centuries that have made our mindset rigid and locked in belief systems that have long since lived their day.
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  40. Dear Prime Minister Johnson, I am not a British citizen, I live in a country next to Italy where there have been over 5 thousand deaths, but I would like to commend you on a very uplifting message that speaks to the human family. My country is on lock down. My suggestion to you is to have a virtual suggestion box that people could send ideas or things they have in mind that could make this 21 day shutdown leave your government with some plans when you reboot society. For myself, I think it would be good for people to take care of themselves, double the ration of fruit, read a lot, write their thoughts out if they are stressed. What I think you as head of the British Government must already know is that your country and every country is more vulnerable to attack from a hostile source than at any time in history. What I think this Coronovirus is in reality is a harbinger of what’s going to be coming at us in the next wave. What is important now is to head it off at the pass. What makes people more worried and therefore have their immune systems weakened than anything else? To be out of cash, broke, unable to buy things. What should be done is to guarantee all salaries, wages, pay packets, and I think you are ahead of me on that one. Lastly, it’s time to ask this question from an Anthony Robbins’ book. “What is good about this problem?” What can we do in this 3 week tunnel to come out on the other side in better shape? Would forgiving private debt be something that could be envisioned? Would using this 3 week time to solve the terrible eye-sore that stretches across the globe of homeless people be a good idea? Why don’t we ask the world’s greatest minds these kinds of questions and at least go back to civilized life with the eye-sores absent for once and for all. Lastly, lastly, would it be a good idea to have a drawing, painting, sculpture contest of sorts to ask every body who wants a crack at putting down something in paint or pencil or clay?
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