reply to post by DezertSkies
Or, this could simply be the birth pains of us becoming something better. It's all well and good to cry doom and condemnation but you really got to
remember one important fact, regardless of how you feel about it, you are human too. And no problem was ever fixed by crying about it.
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And some G'Kar Quotes for you:
G'Quon wrote, "There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is
not against powers and principalities; it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams.
Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one
knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain."
It is said that the future is always born in pain. The history of war is the history of pain. If we are wise, what is born of that pain matures
into the promise of a better world, because we learn that we can no longer afford the mistakes of the past.
If I take a lamp and shine it toward the wall, a bright spot will appear on the wall. The lamp is our search for truth, for understanding. Too
often, we assume that the light on the wall is God, but the light is not the goal of the search, it is the result of the search. The more intense the
search, the brighter the light on the wall. The brighter the light on the wall, the greater the sense of revelation upon seeing it. Similarly, someone
who does not search - who does not bring a lantern - sees nothing. What we perceive as God is the by-product of our search for God. It may simply be
an appreciation of the light... pure and unblemished... not understanding that it comes from us. Sometimes we stand in front of the light and assume
that we are the center of the universe - God looks astonishingly like we do - or we turn to look at our shadow and assume that all is darkness. If we
allow ourselves to get in the way, we defeat the purpose, which is to use the light of our search to illuminate the wall in all its beauty and in all
its flaws; and in so doing, better understand the world around us.
[edit on 28-6-2009 by Watcher-In-The-Shadows]
Annihilation is too easy a cop out. We do have redeeming qualities and not all of
us are deserving of death. 
