This year 2009 has begun with the WAR and the massive bombardments on GAZA by the Isaeli forces.  So far the sixteenth day, there have been about 900 deads and more than 3000 injured.  Many  are children. The situations there now are dying.   The hospitals there are reported "inundated".  They work under the power generators. The voice from the American media has blamed Hamas, the current official government in Gaza and expressed understanding to and support the Israel citing as what I heard "right to defense itself from the rocket attacks."  Many of the Israeli attacks hurt and kill civilians especially children (they are not the rocket firers).  No press is allowed to enter the war zone (a closed military zone declared by the Israeli army) despite its own court's ruling against the action.  The U.S. is the ONLY country that has seriously and brazenly object any measures and resolutions of/toward CEASE-FIRE that might stop (or literally harm) Israel in the international stage (again as I heard citing the cease-fire won't be permanent).  This is obvious when we compare with what the U.S. did when the U.S. wanted to pass the UN resolution in the Iraq.  Until now the time I'm writing, Israel has ignored the UN cease-fire resolution.  The education in the U.S. doesn't seem to make people  and its leaders understand that killing and war can't make peace.  It's the atom of the permanent and perpetual war.  It's not too difficult to understand but it happens repeatedly.  Could it be a selfish hidden agenda???  Time will tell.....

Back on here again!!!  It's good to have a short remark on thinking here!!!  I really intend to make a short one here so i could complete it in a single entry.   I wrote "Thinking ConditionS" on the title.  Actually I do not know the right word to describe it and I wonder if there is one... There have been a lot of points that I see about thinking when I heard the debates in issues and saw the world today.  We know now that in order to make/achieve understanding (also thinking too), we need to go through the existing knowledge.  This leads to the points that there are conditions underlying it. These conditions shape the thinking, limit, and empower where and how it goes or looks like.  Where are they from?  They are the knowledge you know and from you. To make it simple here, I will not explain the process of how it looks like here.  I'm not sure if that's possible.  The "presence" of your knowledge plays a big role here.  I'm not sure I use the right word here.  "Presence" here also means existing, available, a moment or thematically relevance, ect.. beyond words...  It's a container that works like a scene (that you already know) that allow the thinking to proceed.   {Wow, I realize that i have started something that isn't short...}  The knowledge of psychology that explains something like certain group, age, type of people are more (easier) influenced than others are all partial a guess in its conditions.   That means it does not explain the whole thing but just simply connect one thing with another.       The "presence" here can be good and bad depending on how much/deep it exists.  It on the one side, blinds/shields us from things and form a scene that allow us to proceed to be who we are today.  Let me go back to the group and the influence thing I have just mentioned.  It is the thinking that form the "being" including the very basic like gender roles.  We can see this forming process very obvious in the social groups of young people where certain characters are formed.  This is not what i intended to talk about here now.  I just use it for illustration so I could avoid a long explanation about the ConditionS.  I'm not sure I could.  It may be beyond the language border.  I guess I need to continue this later...