• Amazement that some people believe that their group of the human race is intrinsically better than another group
• Amazement that some of the teachers, pastors and politicians believed the lies they told
• Amazement that some of the teachers, pastors and politicians didn't believe the lies they told
• Amazement that some people make a living designing elaborate lies to promote someone else's products and services
• Amazement that some people make a living designing elaborate machinery to destroy buildings, cities and selves
• Amazement that the profession of soldier is held in such high esteem
• Amazement that governments have the power to conscript ordinary citizens
• Amazement that some of the food on our plate consists of pieces of dead animals, sometimes produced at the cost of enormous suffering to those selves
• Amazement that that nasty smoke which people produce by burning dried leaves is not doing them any good, quite the contrary
• Amazement that a mother's actions towards her infant, before or after birth, can be based on anything but unconditional love and the ultimate best interests of the child
• Amazement that not enduring love and commitment but opportunism and peer group pressure are often the basis of the beginning and ending of relationships
• Amazement that the creation of new life is often seen as an annoying side-effect of the sexual function rather than its sacred and glorious purpose
• Amazement that what should be joyful and life-enhancing can be the source of so much conflict and misery
• Amazement that fear, guilt and hatred, often subtly concealed, can continue as a force motivating so much human action
• Amazement that people colour their lives with art and music that is temporary, shallow and without substance, rather than that which has permanent beauty and significance
• Amazement that we ourselves in later years have come to believe the lies, express the lies we don't believe, succumb to fear, guilt, hatred, peer group pressures and the rest, and forget the message of unconditional love
• Amazement that, despite all this, life remains "the best game in town"

13 October 2001

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