The Right Path and the Beaten Track
By Shiva
@Shiva49 (28385)
Singapore
July 16, 2021 9:23am CST
We have an inkling, inner prompt, what the right path is but we tend to follow the beaten track.
That applies to our individual choice and also the world order. Not easy to make a change – it requires sagacity, wisdom, and leadership out of the ordinary at international level.
Mostly it is a frog in the well approach safeguarding our terrain than meeting others more than halfway for an across the board effort for all inclusive peace and prosperity. Now more the weapons of destruction we have, the safer we feel. Is it what love and compassion stand for?
Big powers wade in, upset the existing order, set the cat among the pigeons, and then back off. In fact, the whole world is a theater of big power rivalry with smaller countries at their mercy – either you are with us or against us resonates. Not forgetting weapons being supplied to all and sundry and ending up in “wrong hands” not that there is any “right hand” for them!
The above approach has been ongoing all through history and we manage to pull ourselves from the brink, thankfully. The war cry never ends and one trigger could mean the end of civilization - back to The Stone Age!
The beaten path is heading to our destruction, all species, and nature as we know it. The common people are lost. They have good intentions but our world order requires change and only a clarion call from the 99% can end their siege by the power hungry, greedy, egotist, and will help pull us from this inexorable ride to the brink.
The pandemic has highlighted how vulnerable we are and what then if we set off our stored "fireworks" with to hell with it! It is not going to be a swift end for sure.
The sad reality is we know what to do but who will bell the cat? Why it is so difficult to make an all out effort for peace that 99% wants? Time for action!
Appreciate your thoughts.
Image – The Right Path from free media site Pixabay
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12 responses
@choijungeun (2710)
• Hangzhou, China
16 Jul 21
To be honest,i once thought America is the saviour of this world,he'll bring the freedom and hope to the whole human being.
But after i know the America is seriously infiltrated by the Red Nazi,i get shocked.If America also falls under the seduction and threat of the red nazi,which one could we rely on?
Now i think the only one we can rely on is the God,If God still has the hope to us,The Red nazi and Russia will fail in the end.The freedom and peace will win.If God lose the faith to us,all we can do is waiting for the doomsday.
Surely,when the doomsday comes,the first one will get sentenced is the rulers of the Red Nazi and those tyrants who enslave their people
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@Shiva49 (28385)
• Singapore
16 Jul 21
The fact of the mater is there are no principles in matters of international relationships. It is more of internal politics that decide. Then the arms lobby whose influence is paramount.
That means peace has to be fought unitedly by the common people of all countries. When they are manipulated, it is a no win.
Sadly, it is the will of a minority that prevails in most countries and human lives have no value for them except when it is theirs!
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@RebeccasFarm (91297)
• United States
16 Jul 21
I am whole heartedly with you on that Shiva
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@RebeccasFarm (91297)
• United States
16 Jul 21
@Shiva49 I believe in the end most will have to unite no choice even
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@Shiva49 (28385)
• Singapore
16 Jul 21
@RebeccasFarm Yeah, hopefully before things really get out of hand - not after a humongous war.
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@S4mmyboy (3266)
• Mumbai, India
16 Jul 21
What I have noticed is we all need peace, every one here doesn't want war, but who are we, we try our best to avoid fights, wars by protesting. But what we really need is wisdom. Wisdom to rule. We have to pray to God to give wisdom to the people who rule our countries. They are the ones who lead us as a country.
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@Shiva49 (28385)
• Singapore
20 Jul 21
Unless there is a leader out of the ordinary, however long it takes but preferably sooner during our lifetime!
There is no need for wars as we have other pressing issues to tackle for our bare survival like swatting away a virus that sees no borders!
Of course, some look for higher intervention but when we create the mess, is it fair to ask whoever else it is to clear the mess?
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@Shiva49 (28385)
• Singapore
18 Jul 21
Well said. History repeats unless we really take the right path of Love and Peace and do not merely pay lip service to them.
The common folks are still bound by slavery as they want peace but cannot get out the clutches of the evil - to call a spade, a spade!
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@innertalks (23740)
• Australia
17 Jul 21
The fact that sport creates violence, power struggles, and fighting too, shows me that even the common folk, have been corrupted by the indwelling spirit of corrupted love too.
They are attached to results, and to what they want, as the result, and peace has been thrown out of life's, and love's, window.
Unless, a world figure comes along, like Martin Luther King, again, I see not much hope for the future of mankind here.
Instead of being led on by sport, we need to be led on by what is right, and by love.
We leave the right path, to live on a path of our own making, and then we mess things up.
It is the same with truth.
The truth should be never left alone to try to go it alone, as when you leave truth to make your own version of it, all meaning disappears because meaning can only be found within truth.
We lose our connection to truth as much as we do not love our current experience, and so accept the truth coming to us within it.
When we mince words with truth, the words, that we are left with, lose meaning, because garbled truth is not seen from the light source of love, but from the coloured vision of fear instead.
We fear leaving the beaten track, to stay on the right path.
@innertalks (23740)
• Australia
17 Jul 21
@Shiva49 I have noticed myself, that with sport, it is not the minority, but the majority of spectators, who are trouble makers.
The sports mentality includes aggressiveness in it's make up.
My wife, and myself, sat next to an old respectable-looking, well-dressed, lady once at the tennis, the Aussie Open.
We did not like her loudness, and cursing.
We got up in the middle of a point to move away from her, and she let off such a torrent of expletives that we thought we were in a pub with drunken men.
She said to us, don't we know enough not to move during a point.
I told her you are the point, why we are moving.
She glared back daggers, and swore some more.
@innertalks (23740)
• Australia
18 Jul 21
@Shiva49 Ha, ha, yes it is the same with me with that tennis incident.
I do not remember who the players were now either, but I do remember that they were a couple of lady tennis players, I think.
@Shiva49 (28385)
• Singapore
17 Jul 21
However, even in sports, only a minority creates havoc and they are called hooligans, real losers!
And they take care to destroy public property - not their own!
When their team loses, maybe, they lose too through bets gone awry!
They let off steam before they sober and accept the reality that winning and losing are part of the game! There is a saying in a language I know - losing at the market and taking that out on the family!
We need to accept others have an equal right to win and we should not lose twice - the game and our heads, our marbles too! I had my favorites too like in Tennis it was Rosewall, Edberg, Wilander, Sampras, Rafter, Nadal and when they lose I convince myself the better player won.
Nelson Mandela said, "Peace is not just the absence of conflict; peace is the creation of an environment where all can flourish, regardless of race, color, creed, religion, gender, class, caste, or any other social markers of difference." The reality however is politics creates a hostile environment due to the selfishness of the leaders dividing the common folks by appealing to their base instincts.
We tend to think others are luckier but the fact is all are in the same boat - it is how we approach our challenges that decides.
We stick with the beaten path though it is covered with potholes and think the right path could be too boring. Maybe, we need rewiring, retooling, overhauling, rebooting!
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@dgobucks226 (37621)
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24 Jul 21
Countries and the rulers of them have always tried to seek out weaker territories to occupy. Even Jesus could not stop man's inner need to dominate other people. In the end he could not convince them with his message of peace. And he suffered for our sins and flaws. If he could not bring peace do you really expect 99% of the human population to rise up and demand it? There is no magic peace train that will change the world. Sadly, there will always be those who must oppress and intimidate. Just like the bully on the school playground.
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@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
16 Jul 21
Who will bell the cat? The answer is within your grasp and your faith with the Great Providence will surely lead you the way to get out of the mess and quagmire of sad reality of man's nimcompoopsity.
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@Shiva49 (28385)
• Singapore
17 Jul 21
Most have faith to a varying degree but then our agenda is set by a few up to no good.
Everyone wants peace but no one does much for it, it looks like, to rhyme with "Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it".
Most are cynical - it is not going to happen, just grow up - is the refrain!
In the meantime, wars are at the behest of those who are not affected by it - the innocent kill each other for whose benefit? And they are made to fight for lands when they have none anyway!
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@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
17 Jul 21
@Shiva49 Faith us no need for a varying degree. As what the Bible said, just to have faith like a mustard seed is enough to believe in God.
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@FaruMesh (3517)
• India
19 Jul 21
Human beings need to institute laws to meet the exigencies of a rapidly globalizing world to establish and secure peace and harmony among nations, education based on tolerance, an end to exploitation and restoration of peace, harmony in the world.
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