Israel (now broader Mid East discussion)

There’s lots to get angry about in this world, friend. Personally, I don’t think you’re livin if you aren’t angry about at least one injustice in this world. Now, I don’t know if you find that unhelpful or not, but some of the biggest changes we’ve made societally have come into being because people were angry.

So in that way - sure, being a mad person isn’t healthy. Being angry about things can be a driver for good, I think…as long as it’s reigned in and utilized in a productive manner.



That’s one way to look at it. I think that the end goal even if you think it is impossible (and sure, realistically it seems as such) is peace and the reduction of bloodshed and needless suffering to the most of our abilities in this conflict.

We should hold those who have committed evil accountable. We should strive to reduce that needless hardship upon those who cannot help themselves as much as we have power to.



I see it as having persisted many years.



Maybe so. Again, we still must play with the cards we’ve been dealt. It’s surely easy to get hopeless. I just hope that doesn’t cause people to “look the other way” or forget about hardships. It’s human nature, sure, and no citizen with no real power to change policy here is responsible - but to the extent we can speak out, I think we can shift the cultural zeitgeist one way or the other.

Even if it takes time. Even if it makes no apparent difference at first.
Climate change, and air pollution, they are connected. Over that I become a mite angry, it comes and goes.

I'm currently concerned as to what happened to almost all of the underground dwellers except for the frogs at my place. I think that very heavy late snowstorm may have drown them in their burrows. It's the gophers, lizards, and snakes who seem to be gone.

The frogs are still alive but they're trying to move into my house. I can't go to the bathroom without a frog in the room.