Tonight Denice and I watch the documentary, The Cove. My stomach is still turning from watching the horrific violence that is done every year to the dolphins in Taiji, Japan. They are herded from their home in the ocean into a tiny cove, where they are brutally slaughtered by the thousands. They are butchered live common livestock. In once scene a baby dolphin desperately tries to fling itself onto the rocks, to escape the fishermen’s spears. This is so wrong! These creature should not be treated like this. I’m sorry, but dolphins are beautiful creatures, and they don’t deserve this. The future will judge this generation for allowing such barbarism to go on.

The few “lucky” dolphins that are chosen to escape the bloodbath are the ones that are sold into virtual slavery. They are the ones that are forced to perform for us at Sea World, or places where people go to ‘swim with the dolphins.’ I had no idea this is how these dolphins were obtained. Denice and I had ‘swimming with the dolphins’ on our unwritten bucket lists, but after watching this I WILL NEVER TAKE PART in this sick industry. If I ever get to see a dolphin or be close to one it will be on their turf, where we are both free, or not at all!

Among the Greeks, Selene was the personification of the moon. The Romans worshiped Luna. The moon is most commonly associated with female deities. Also, werewolves tend to come forth during full moons, which adds to its coolness.

I often find myself gazing up at the moon. I love to do night hikes during the full moon. It just makes me feel good inside to fling my clothes aside, and run naked through a moon-lit field. But, that’s just me.

The way I see it, guns are sort of like money. In a perfect world we wouldn’t need them. If I lived in a world where violence was not a possibility, I would gladly melt all my weapons down into something useful – like a garden hoe. unfortunately, we don’t live in such a world.

In the world I live in, we have poverty. Sure, most of it is completely artificial, but it exists none the less. Whenever you have ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’ you will have crime. In this world  98% of the resources are hoarded and controlled by less than 4% of the population. And of the resources that are available to the masses, most of them are squandered and wasted needlessly. The resources of this planet are finite, yet we have an economic system that asserts that growth can be unlimited. As a result, people waste and waste in a frenzy of consumer gluttony, while millions starve around the world. The game we play here in the West is fun for a while, but when the oil stops flowing and the shelves run dry, these same people will turn into desperate animals. This doesn’t have to be.

In the world I live in wars are waged for profit. Hell, everything is done for profit. Countless people are murdered every year by the trained serial killers that we call ‘soldiers.’ And I’m not saying that soldiers are evil, by the way. Most of them don’t even understand that they are being systematically conditioned to be killing machines, sent forth to protect corporate interests. You want to know why conditions like P.T.S.D. exist? It’s because most human beings have a soul, and as much as the military machine tries to condition and beat it out of them – they still have a hard time massacring other people. Most wars, if not all of them, are unnecessary. They have unfathomable costs in human lives and irreplaceable natural resources. In fact, most people who die of violence, die of the violence caused by warfare, or the horrific conditions created by post-war famine and destruction of infrastructure. This doesn’t have to be.

In the world I live in, men are taught by their outdated religious traditions that they are superior to women. As a result, women are abused all over the world, and even regarded as property in some places. Little girls are trained to not esteem themselves as equals. Women are conditioned from birth that they are weaker and not as mentally competent as their male counter parts. They are programmed by our twisted culture to become mere sex objects, and as a result we all suffer. When you have a culture that diminishes the ability of over half of its population to be all that they can be, we all pay the price. It’s like injecting acid into one hemisphere of your brain. The other half might be fine, but I wouldn’t suggest trying to do any long division. Also, both women and men are taught that their bodies are evil. We are trained that our normal sexual desires are something to be suppressed, and our wicked bodies should be covered at all times. This culture has turned simple curiosity into violent sexual dysfunctions. As a result of this gender inequality and sexual shame we now have rapists in every community. Are prisons are filled with men who never learned how to control themselves. This doesn’t have to be.

((CLICK, CLICK)) So, it’s not that I love my guns… I don’t. It’s not that I want to use them on someone… I hope I never have to. It’s that I need my guns. As sick as it sounds… I need them. But, I long for the day when I won’t need them. I long for the day when humanity grows up, and realized that we are all in the same boat. If we intend to remain on this planet for much longer, we are going to have to get out shit together.