Would You Bomb A Sister?

Part of a human family portrait



A very large chunk of human problems come from failure to understand a simple obvious truth:

People are all fundamentally the same and are all fundamentally in the same situation.

You are at worst 50th cousin to every other human being on Earth. Your DNA is 99.9% identical to that of every other human being on Earth. We are the same.

And we are in the same situation. We have this fallible decayable flesh, we are born into a situation we don't understand, we suffer, we feel alone, we get aches and pains and flu and other diseases, sometimes we get fun enjoyable things, then eventually our bodies are handed over to death and corruption and worms, either through painful death or painless death, but death all the same.

So when we inflict suffering on another, essentially the same thing happens as what happens when someone inflicts suffering on you: human suffering nonetheless. We wouldn't, I hope, drop a bomb on our family members, but we do on other people. Maybe we have temporally important reasons to do it, but we are still killing our kindred. We are still filling the cup of human suffering ever higher.

Now we may not all agree on what to do about our situation, but still we must acknowledge that we are all in it, together. And yet hardly anyone thinks about it. They think about their family and their friends and their nation and the trivia of the world, and don't think about the fact that must be evident to everyone who can reason. That we are all basically the same, and all in the same boat.

To me the answer is implicit in the problem: We should have unity but do not. And where can unity be found? Of whom is it said that He is "One"? One, The One. God.

It is said that God is Love, which is the same as saying that God is unity and God is the One. Where can our unity be found? The One. Where can love be found? The One.

God is Love. Love is the One. The One is Union.