Solar eclipses amaze us because they are so rare and unusual.

I love solar eclipses because when they occur, just about everything comes to a halt. Most of us take time out of our artificially busy days to stop and watch them. The birds stop chirping as they assume it to be night-time. The cows head back to the barn to nosh or sleep……

So perhaps solar eclipses are really about taking time off to realign ourselves with nature or whatever?

Makes you wonder if there is force out there, orchestrating the whole thing, attempting to regulate the unruly or to bring us all together if only for a moment.

The point is that if you like and enjoy the unity that comes about as a result of eclipses, what do you say we take up this practice and enjoy it more than once in a black moon. Fat chance, you say? Yeah, that’s what I pretty much figured.

Throughout the history of civilisation, there have been many a demonstration and uprising against the governments in power.

The latest of one such uprising is the one currently taking place in Thailand. This recent uprising is just as typical as the rest of them. The military is ordered to flood the streets, using mild force that is increasingly intensified in the following days as the demonstrators show more unruliness and as the government loses patience and worries about the outcome.

So here is what perplexes me. The citizens have had enough of these governments, and their mismanagement of their country and their resources. Not to mention the corruption.

Are the military personnel in a position that is better-off than the rest of the citizens? If they are, they certainly don’t look like it, judging by the footage we see on the different news networks.

So why are they protecting these governments? If nothing else, don’t the realize that at the end of their shifts and the day, they will have to go home to where their fellow countrymen reside? What protection do they have when facing their neighbours with no weapons?

Are these folks’ oaths to the ruling government worth that much? To confound the issue, these military personnel all seem to be from religious families and in some cases orthodox, yet they appear to be perfectly willing to harm/kill fellow countrymen with very little hesitation.