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All you need is love

If only we all shared the thoughts on life of AIMN reader Richard O’Brien, what a much better world this will be.

Beyond expressing my deepest sadness, it is not my place to speak for the people of Paris, or Beirut, or the countless other places where people have died for someone else’s cause of late. Many others will use these sad events to promote many different agendas, for many different causes. For the most part they are different sides to the same dice, where no matter what number you roll, someone ends up paying for it.

As I see it the world is divided. That divide runs through all beliefs, religious and not. It is a divide that runs through all countries, cities, towns, even families. The rich and the poor, the Left and the Right. It is a divide between those who choose to hate, and those who choose to love.

Right now we are all sharing a planet with 7.3 billion other people, dependent on one of trillions of suns in one of billions of galaxies. We’re still here because the people who choose to love outnumber the people who choose to hate by many to one.

You may not change the world in any noticeable way if you choose to love, and the people who choose to hate won’t go away. But we’re only on this planet for a relatively short time, and I guarantee you, if you choose to love you’ll enjoy that time more, and hurt less people doing it.

 

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  1. Keitha Granville

    thank you, always been my mantra – all you need is love.
    Keep spreading the message.
    Keep spreading the love.

  2. Kaye Lee

    We need another Mahatma Gandhi

    “An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”

    “Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.”

    “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”

    “I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.”

    “Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.”

    Mahatma Gandhi

    ^^^^What he said

  3. Roswell

    What a sad world it is when those who preach love and peace get taken from us early.

  4. stephentardrew

    Thanks for that Kaye. Wonderful.

  5. corvus boreus

    Richard O’Brien,
    Sound message.
    Look, listen, learn and love.

  6. Peter D

    Absolutely love this post. Thank you Kaye.

  7. Sen Nearly Ile

    Gandhi worked against the pommes through pommie law but such tactics had no effect on the frogs or the septics.
    Until the men of judaism, of christianity and of islam challenge their belief of testosterone in heaven, rape and murder will be forgiven by man’s god.
    How many left from the coalition of the willing?
    Afghanistan, Albania, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Hungary, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, the Philippines, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom and Uzbekistan?

  8. Unhappy

    Sometimes love is not enough! These people in Paris didn’t deserve to die. Noone deserves to die by the hands of this evil race of people. For all good people to live in peace we sometimes have to eradicate the ones where love will never come. People who carry out this mass killing and then glorify in it don’t deserve the right to walk among us. I love Ghandi and have read a lot of his work but the times we live in now are a little different to when he was alive. History shows us that anyone with good in his/her heart are more often than not taken from us all too soon. To these ISIS people, it is not religion, it is down and out cruelty. If we allow this to continue and to let these Muslims into our countries then we are all at risk and this is not fair on our country’s peoples. These people kill for the sake of killing. They don’t care about themselves dying because they are brainwashed into believing that the more they kill then all these heavenly gifts await them in heaven. My God is a loving God. and a quote from a song by Kriss Krissoftersson (I swear that God is crying too) makes you think long and hard about everything.
    I truly believe if it wasn’t for George W Bush, Tony Blair and John Howard going to war with Iraq after September 11, the world would not be in this state today. Bush took his lies to the world, and the world believed him. Now the world is paying a very heavy price for the USA’s interference. It seems everywhere the USA goes, hell follows. It’s hard to believe that all this started over oil. Now the USA sit back and condemn all that has happened in Paris and everywhere else where terror has struck. Still they accept no responsibility! They are the biggest criminals of all!

  9. Mark Filby

    GLOBAL PROBLEM REQUIRES A GLOBAL SOLUTION:

    Let me be blunt: as long as this planet has “privileged” elites,
    royalty, bankers, criminal politicians, insurance conmen,
    fraudulent courts and every bent spiv who games society,
    (us), for their “Profits”, fueled by a MONEY/BANKING SCAM
    that has entrapped the entire population of the planet, WE ARE DEAD.

    WE need a Global Non-Profit Bank that SERVES everyone on this planet, bar none.

    WE need a BANK that raises the bottom upwards and limits personal GREED.

    WE need ACCOUNTABILITY. OUR CURRENT BREED OF MONEY MASTERS HAVE NONE.

    WE need to ARREST the leaders and place THEM in prison for CRIMES AGAINST YOU.

    WE need a BANK that charges NO INTEREST, DOES NOT fund WARS.

    WE need a BANK that DONATES EVERY CENT OF PROFIT BACK TO SOCIETY.

    WE need a SOCIETY that can GROW past this FEUDAL RULING BANKING CABAL.

    WE need OUR lives to be OURS, just as GOD gave us ALL for FREE.

    WE need to sack the sATANS destroying OUR HOME.

    I NEED YOU ALL TO CHANGE YOUR MINDS BY CHOICE.
    WE CANNOT VIOLATE LAW. THE FINAL CHOICE IS LOVE OR MONEY?
    LIFE OR DEATH? GOD OR MAMMON.
    LOVE ALF. NB: I HATE NICOLAITANS!

    YES IT CAN BE DONE: EVERY DECISION IS A YES OR NO. STAY SLAVES FOREVER OR DIE.

    Sadly love did not feed 22,000 children who starved to death today and every day.
    Love does not stop bombs. Decisions do. Sanctioned murder is murder. War is insanity in action.

    SO WHO FINANCES EVERY WAR FOLKS? THE POOR? NOPE! THE MIDDLE CLASS? MAYBE
    THE RICH WHO MAKE BOMBS MAYBE? WHO OWNS A DEATH COMPANY AND WHAT BREED
    OF UTTER MURDEROUS SCUMBAG OWNS SHARES OR MAKES A FORTUNE FROM BLOOD
    MONEY FOR A LIVING? NOTHING PERSONAL HERE FOOLS, JUST MAKING A KILLING!

    BANKERS AND RED CARPET ROYALTY AND THE FILTHY PERVS IN THE SHADOWS! LAWMAKERS!
    MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE IN SUITS! WHAT BREED OF SOULLESS FILTH DOMINATES IT’S OWN
    SPECIES WITH ECONOMIC PRIVILEGE? If you are struggling here I suggest an upper cut! Wake Up!

    THE POOR ARE TO BLAME FOR EVERYTHING. NO DISCRIMINATION ALLOWED HERE, UNLESS IT’S
    ECONOMIC. “OUR KIDS GO TO PRIVATE SCHOOLS BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT ONES ARE
    EDUCATION CAMPS FOR COMPLIANT, WELL TRAINED SLAVES WHO LOVE TAX, SERVITUDE AND
    UNTENABLE LIVES AS THE FAT CATS GET FATTER! YEAH, VOTE FOR A POLITICIAN AGAIN, YOU
    ALL KNOW IT’S A TOTAL SHAM, YET EVERY MONDAY, LIKE FRIGHTENED SHEEPLE, IT’S BACK TO
    WORK SLAVE! RICH FOLKS NEED MONEY AND LET’S FACE IT, MOST FOLKS ARE MORONS AND GIVE IT
    TO THEM AND NEVER ASK FOR VASELINE! MONDAYITIS IS YOUR SOUL KNOWING IT’S A SLAVE.

    WELL DONE BANKERS. YOU NOW OWN EVERYTHING AND THE CULLING CAN BEGIN. RELEASE THEM
    CHEM-TRAILS, DRINK YOUR NON PRESCRIBED OVERDOSE OF FLUORIDE! LOWER THOSE IQ’S!
    DRINK MORE PISS AND LAUGH AT EVERYTHING. REPLACE PEOPLE WITH ROBOTS AND THE PROFITS
    INCREASE AND THE STUPID SLAVES CAN STARVE. AFTER ALL, NONE OF THIS IS HAPPENING? I AM MAD.

    SORRY ALF YOU DREAMER, (INSERT INSULT), WE PREFER TO DIE SLOWLY IN OUR IGNORANCE, NOW GO AWAY AND SHUT UP.

    OH SHIT! I JUST UPSET YOUR MOTHERS! OMG, GIVE ME MY MEDICATION! NOPE: MEDITATION SILLY.

    NOW YOUR THINKING! HIT THAT KEYBOARD AND DENY REALITY AS YOU CALL ME FOOL!

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