What would have to change for there to be no war?
Posted on Jul 13th, 2008
by 
Michel
Michel
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for July 13, 2008:
It's funny that you ask this question. Just today, I was cleaning dog pee off walls. My girlfriend "won" back her once brand new home after 25K lawsuit and 3 years of negligence. Here we are moving back to a place we were glad to leave and even commuting 600 miles from a different State.
So after 5 days of cleaning up after 5 dogs that marked and remarked their territory in this once lovely new home, I was cleaning and scrubbing and finally painting when I realized that dogs mark their territory in the same way humans perpetuate the same shit (force pun intended).
"The likelihood that man will live without war is as probable as dogs not marking and remarking," I thought, and scrubbed.
What I mean is, that expensive-mortgage home didn't belong to the dogs, so they didn't take any responsibility for it. We didn't create earth and if we destroy it our Creator will simply relocate us- right?
Maybe the next place will have more better stuff!
So after 5 days of cleaning up after 5 dogs that marked and remarked their territory in this once lovely new home, I was cleaning and scrubbing and finally painting when I realized that dogs mark their territory in the same way humans perpetuate the same shit (force pun intended).
"The likelihood that man will live without war is as probable as dogs not marking and remarking," I thought, and scrubbed.
What I mean is, that expensive-mortgage home didn't belong to the dogs, so they didn't take any responsibility for it. We didn't create earth and if we destroy it our Creator will simply relocate us- right?
Maybe the next place will have more better stuff!
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July 2008 
That is amazing insight, right on and yes I hope the new digs are more peaceful too. But I love Mother Earth, I hope she survives– better for her if we leave. We are lousy tenants and I don't think we will get our damage deposit back, do you? Good luck with the new house, dog pee is brutal……
Today I was reading Starhawk's essay on responding to terrorism. Here's the paragraph that came to my mind as I was reading your thoughts about the dogs, and how they will always mindlessly mark their territories because that is their nature, and are humans doomed to this?
“A Pagan response to violence might say there's enough death, enough drama inherent in nature, in the course of life and the changes of the seasons and the cougar's pursuit of the deer. Let's not add to it. As human beings, we're put on this earth to develop those things the cougar does not have: compassion, gratitude, conscious appreciation and wonder at the beauty and mystery of life. Let's stop killing each other, and get on with it.”
This raised my spirits, and I offer it as a thought.
I like this thought and the one above, “Evil is a construct Pagans try to avoid.” I vary a bit from their explanation and say that evil rises from a “lack of” instead of a prescence of something.
Humans are not born with an evil base but are born lacking. This yearning leads to the development of a mature identity (sometimes over MANY lifetimes of avoiding or learning the hard way.)
One is not born paying back karma with apples-for-apples but the burden is in “returning” without having secured the previous list of experiences. If you avoid your test in this lifetime, your hole is still waiting to become whole, and add to your souls collection. You see, a soul doesn't identify with evil- a new one simply starts its revolutions “inept.”
That's the meaning of metaphysical life, to couple spirit with physical parameters and modify the furiously flying forward movement of each developing soul. Human Life provides illusionary stops that change the circuits of the soul's matrix.