Today, in one year's solitary search for peace of mind and of heart, I have arrived at a study of the ages old fable of Cain and Abel -- in which I shall reference, Cain and Abel, scriptures and legends selected and edited by D. L. Ashliman. I had first learned of the story, when I was a child attending a Freewill Baptist Church, in what was then a small town in central California. I had learned the story with the dim knowledge of a child, and I certainly could feel that there was a weight of moral significance to the story's themes. As an adult, I now understand that is a story of the very concept of fratricide -- a moral story, moreover a story conveyed in numerous works in world literature, not only or exclusively conveyed of the Christian Bible.
Traditional texts may retell of the fable, far better than may I. I may only endeavor to summarize the story, simply: That Abel was strong of faith, but he was envied by his brother, Cain. Abel was then assassinated out of Cain's mortal jealousy. Surely, Abel's strength of faith would transcend the event of the mortal terminus, while Cain would wander the earth after his brutal misdeed.
Surely, there are examples, too many, in the world, today -- too many examples to illustrate any one meaning of the singular story of the brothers Cain and Abel. Simply, it is the oldest fable that I know of, telling of an act of fratricide in a familial community. There is not a thing soever decadent in the Biblical account of that old literal story. I understand it as it being a moral story of brutality, of jealousy, of a brother envying then murdering his brother -- and though Cain was the one survivor, no justification for the immoral deed of his own brother's murder. It is furthermore a story of of faith, of morals, and of the soul's integrity unto a sovereign divinity, by any names God, forever beyond humankind's means to ever known in full and complete.
It is to remember the spirit of Abel's strong faith, the context of which I begin this short narrative summary, now, of my own best understanding. I shall endeavor to reference this narrative with objective evidence of the facts of which I draw this narrative, now.
Ukraine is in a civil war, a fratricidal war lead of fascist aggressors attacking, murdering Ukraine's own people. Azov, Aydar, and any other Ukraine Army battalions have recruited extremist from Right Sector and other fascist elements. The climate of Ukraine is clearly descendent into chaos, the calloused aggressors clearly having no respect for life., property, or human sanctity except to continue their brutal strikes.
Russia is not an aggressor in the conflict. Russia is accepting refugees fleeing the brutality. What administrations may seek to end the conflict, that end cannot be served by estranging Russia, condoning Ukraine's failing leadership, and lending further leave to the fascists infiltrating the Ukraine army under that same leadership.
I have no reputation to part ways with, in my candor -- my views not beholden to social agendas, except for peace and safety for the people of Ukraine.
If there is a gain to be sought in this new endeavor of a literal journalism, I wish to help to develop knowledge, by de facto legally and in a moral ethic, accurately, furthermore materially credible means. In endeavoring to this simple goal, I shall make reference to existing web standards -- including the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the Web Ontology Language (OWL), technical recommendations of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in this, my simple endeavor of an open journalism about the human crisis having developed in Ukraine.
While the world has lobbied so many nerf-dart accusations of Russia, and the the economists would strive to return the world to a Cold War economy, Ukraine is struggling under the attacks of a fascit element targeting Ukraine's own people. The egregious cost of the administration's own gross negligence in condoning the attacks -- and even in offering to train up battalions of a Ukraine Army clearly infiltrated of sociopathic extremists -- it may every be too much for one man's conscience to bear. So far as facts may be ascertained of the ongoing tragedy, I may endeavor to limit my references only to OWL graph nodes, when that is the most that I may bear of the epistemic strain of a realistic view of such inhuman brutality.
Let the reader assume whatsoever of my own person's character. I am neither Cain nor Abel, I am an only son, and I believe that war is but a precursor to peace.
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