Comprehending Causal Connections

EVERYTIME YOU DRINK a glass of water or cup of coffee, you are drinking dinosaur urine, many times over. The amount of water on Earth remains fairly constant, and thus is used over...and over...again. Every day a few tons of fresh ice come crashing in with comets hitting the outer atmosphere, but that is negligible. Every atom in your body was created in the center of a star billions of years ago, and has circulated through generations of beings, with many more to come. We really are all connected to each other, and to everything else. No need to invent religions: nature is the doctrine. Nor need we fear death. We have experienced it billions of times already, with many more to come. Since there are ample lifetimes for everyone, and plenty of resources of us all, it makes you begin to wonder a bit about our behavior, doesn't it? By "behavior", is meant mainly violence, and all that contributes to it. The Prime Minister of England says that the English are way too tolerant of extremism. She should point out that 'tis better to be too tolerant of self expression, including extremist viewpoints, than too intolerant of it. Another thing the British might possibly be too tolerant of, and this does not come from the Prime Minister, is empire building and maintaining, especially the war of conquest and perpetual occupation part of it. It may be that we in the western world are in general far too tolerant of western imperialism, especially England's and America's. England and America are in fact both very class conscious traditional conservative conformist cultures which have historically run the risk of being too intolerant of alternative culture, not too tolerant of it. 'Twould be a sad day indeed if Britain or America ever started preventing people of certain religions to enter the country, or enslaved people of a certain color, of imprisoned people for advocating social change. We must remember how all humans are connected, and ask ourselves whether we are really surprised that our attacks, invasions, conquests, and occupation of other countries sometimes angers people sufficiently to motivate them to fight back? For various reasons, technological, economic, military, over the past hundred and fifty years it has been the west which has abused the middle east. Everything is connected, from the air we breathe, to the actions we take. But at least we have the comfort of being reincarnated. What a wonderful interconnected world!