BUSH, CHENEY, MEDIA... INDICT YOU AND ME.

We are to blame, if anyone is.

You mean to tell me that if we had done our job, sacrificed our lives as Patriots DO, that Bush, Pentagon, Media, Congress... all our Devils wouldn't be on the street? They can't stand up to hundreds of millions living out their humanity any more than the British could in India or the communists could in Poland.

So, as long as they, the apostles of Empire rule, THE INDICTMENT IS OF YOU AND ME, NOT THEM.

THIS IS VERY EMPOWERING OF YOU AND ME, IF WE SEIZE THE OPPORTUNITY.

WE ARE RESPONSIBLE.

}}} WEAPONS OF MASS HUMANITY {{{

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A. WEAPONS CHARACTERISTICS:

• Paying the price with one's own life to bring about Humanity (Ransom, Redeem, Sacrifice, Incur the Cost...)


• 0% symbolic (is "symbolic" what you do when your child is in an emergency?
  


• ALWAYS AND 9,999% OUT OF ONE'S PERSONAL, HIGHEST, UNCONDITIONAL, UNIVERSAL HUMANITY


• 999% OUT OF SERVICE TO THOSE OF INHUMANITY (EXACTLY WHAT YOU WOULD WANT DONE TO YOU IN THAT CIRCUMSTANCE)
  


• 5000% out of a soul in solidarity with 400% of humanity (born and unborn)


• 5000% out of a soul solidarity with the worst imaginable enemies. (there is Family or Not-Family, Kindom or Empire, Humanity or Inhumanity, Hospitality or Hostility; THERE IS NO 3rd OPTION.)


• 199% SELF-sacrificial


• 199% OTHER-protective


• 199% Focused on invoking Humanity and eradicating InHumanity


• 199% what one would do to their absolute Dearest One in the same situation. Never less.


• Proportional to the Hostility / Inhumanity that must be overcome


• NEVER focused at STUFF / THINGS / INSTITUTIONS / PEOPLE; these are symptoms
  


• Always focused at the Heart / Conscience / Compassion / Humanity - MORAL CONVERSION


• NEVER, NEVER, NEVER aimed at behavior (manipulation, coercion, pressure....)


• As a shepherd, not a sheep (yes, shepherds can work together in millions). Humanity not Human led.


• 199% the most honest communication with family FOR SAKE OF THEIR Humanity


• Values the "individual" action vs the "collective." Millions can be together for an action as "individuals" working together (but today almost always "sheep" to ENJOY being together.


• Always in solidarity with the OTHER.
  


• NEVER about the SELF.


• Never about Superiority.


• Never about (material) Stuff.


• Never about Systems.


• Never about Institutions.


• Always and entirely to EMPYRE (the Spirit of) EMPIRE.
  

B. BUNKER BUSTER, MISSILE, BOMB GRADE WEAPONS (AS OF TODAY'S EMERGENCIES, ANYTHING LESS IS A WASTE OF TIME, UNTIL ENOUGH OF THESE ARE DONE BY ENOUGH PEOPLE):

1. 20-60 DAY HUNGER STRIKE THAT IS LIFE THREATENING (GOING TO DEATH'S DOOR)


2. #1 above PLUS transition after 20-60 days to
   


3. 7 / 24 On-site vigil with minimal support


4. Extended jail / prison that is the NATURAL CONSEQUENCE of ACTING OUT OF HUMANITY


5. SELF IMMOLATION (EXTREMELY, EXTREMELY, EXTREMELY RARE CIRCUMSTANCES)


6. SELF-BLEEDING (EXTREMELY RARE CIRCUMSTANCES SUCH AS COMPLETING A HUNGER STRIKE TO THE END WHEN FORCE-FEEDING IS THE ALTERNATIVE....)


7. Arduous, low support marches / walks / bike rides (eg: trans continental)


8. Etc.


9. Etc.

C. Tactical Weapons

1. This is, at best, what the "Peace" Movement timidly utilizes (with few, few, few exceptions)
   
   
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GOD IS "BEING." !!!NOT!!! "A" BEING.

No, I'm not here to argue with you. If you want to expire under delusion, like I was doing, go ahead. But if you would like to harness the only power that can save us, the only power that can save us, read on.

In Jesus day the Hebrew word Jehovah, God, translated: "THE ALMIGHTY POWER WE ALL FEEL AND NONE OF US WILL EVER BE ABLE TO NAME."

Gandhi: "God is Truth, Love and Life."

Teresa of Calcutta: "God is Love, God is Love, God is Love."

Brush this off at your peril.
This is our last chance to
get it right, for ourselves,
for our children,
for humanity.

“Someday
after mastering
winds, waves,
tides and gravity,
we shall harness
the energies of love.
And then,
for the second time
in the history of the world,
man will discover fire.”
This is a quote of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin .

Do I care if God is more than the "being" of Love, Life and Truth? Not really. Well sort of; I hope God is NOT "more" than that because I detest the idea that there is a cognizant being that that could stop all the carnage of the eons... and has not.

But still, even if I am partly incorrect and God can read this, the issue for any God is God's children, right?

We better start
looking after God's children -
the "least of these"
as we've been ordered.

Or, there will be Hell to pay.

}}}} ALL HOPE LIES IN GOD INCOGNIZANT {{{{

The root of the word Jehovah is "be," "to be," "being."

Love "is;" it has "being" and infinite power.

Truth "is;" it has "being" and infinite power.

Life "is;" it has "being" and infinite power.

Start, how do you know that God is incognizant (not cognizant, self-aware, sentient, thinking, deciding...) "being" of Life, Love and Truth? I DO NOT KNOW. NONE OF US DO, EITHER WAY, AND WE NEVER WILL KNOW IN THIS LIFE.

I do know that in the space of time it took you to read this about 13 children (God's children) have been "starved" by our Empire of easily provided resources.

I DO know that God IS these three - LOVE, LIFE, TRUTH - because too many folks like King, Jesus, Gandhi say so.

We better stop focusing on what we do not know, and get on with what we DO know we should do:

"BE" the total
SLAVES / SERVANTS / "CARRIERS"
of Love, Life and Truth.

PEACE MOVEMENT: BLACK HOLE OF DENIAL.

To my extreme horror, simply by the fact of my "being" I embarrassed the woman I was married to for 25+ years for a whole host of reasons obvious to anyone that covets Empire. Among the reasons was the range of things of which I am profoundly ignorant - sports, what is in vogue, trendy language, cocktail banter....

Psychology is not one of the areas of which I am ignorant. Trained seven years ago at the Master's level, psychology has been a lifelong obsession and study of mine, reading the great works and thinkers well beyond most PHD's I'll guess.

Denial properly understood is very simple. Denial is 1/2 of how we manage our limited capacity for attention - direction of our nervous system. We can by whatever name work to "pay" our attention in one direction while working passively, aggressively, consciously or automatically to DENY attention in other directions. Examples of what I mean, what we all do, that I might be clearer with you:

1. On my 24/7 Capitol Hill Hunger Strike, I employ a variety of techniques much of the night to deny attention to the slamming in-driveway-retractable-vehicle-barriers 25 yards from where I attempt to rest on the steps of Cannon House Office Building, in order to preserve my nerves, avoid wasted attention and get some rest.
2. You desperately wanted to go on a "date" but realized your High School Exam the next day would suffer. You go on the date.
3. Your child's planet is going to Hell literally on every dimension, but you retain your "normal" life rather than rise as patriot / hero / great activist (high and low)... have done throughout history.

What is going on is what we all do to some degree - MISUSE DENIAL TO OUR DESTRUCTION (SMALL OR GREAT). Duh, Start.

Dear reader, please take mercy on me and explain to me what I cannot now see differently. We in the peace movement are in catatonic denial of:

1. WE ARE OUT OF TIME.
2. OUR HEROISM AND SELF SACRIFICE MUST EXCEED THAT OF OUR GREATEST PREDECESSORS IN HISTORY.
3. OUR COMMITMENT, SELF SACRIFICE, ETC, WELL, ER UM, CURRENTLY IT DOES NOT EXIST. (QUESTION: WHO BESIDES AMY, ANN, DIANE, CINDY ARE RISKING EVERYTHING? ANSWER: STOCK TRADERS, SILICON VALLEY ENTREPRENEURS, BLACKWATER, BECHTEL, PENTAGON, BUSH....) OOOPS, I FORGOT THE PEACE ACTIVIST COMMUNITY! OH. NO I DIDN'T.

SUCCESS IS 1% INSPIRATION,
99% PERSPIRATION.
FOR THE "PEACE" ACTIVISTS
SO FAR IT IS "NO SWEAT!"

[THIS POST IS NOT FINISHED,
BUT IT IS 2:14AM 10/12 AND
COURT IS AT 9AM. NIGHT.]

GETTING FROGS TO JUMP AS BOIL APPROACHES.

Seems that when you place a frog in a large pot, slloowwwlllyyy bring it to boil, the frog stays put, does nothing and dies.

Yup, just like us. Place us on a planet bring it slowly enough to a boil (morally, spiritually, economically, militarily, ecologically) we stay put, do nothing, die.

I'm a frog.

You are a frog.

Your partner is a frog.

Your community is frogs....

What are you going to do.

What if you notice,

and jump toward
HUMANITY?
You might save yourself.
You might awaken,
you might
save the whole pond.

DO YOU CARE TO TRY?

ULTIMATE WEAPON: ULTIMATE SACRIFICE.

All war is ultimately psychological - whoever sufficiently changes minds toward their ends, wins.

We warriors for everyone's humanity need weapons / tactics of a variety of strengths and purposes.

We need an ultimate weapon for dire circumstances:

Jesus was Gandhi's model:

Mark Chapter 8 34:
He summoned the crowd
with his disciples
and said ⁸ to them,
"Whoever wishes to come after me
must deny himself,
take up his cross,
and follow me.

35 For whoever wishes
to save his life
will lose it,
but whoever loses his life
for my sake
and that of the gospel ⁹
will save it.

This is not mumbo jumbo. This is not metaphysics. Not religion. Not superstition.

This is the truth of our individual and collective humanity / psychology / biology.

Well intended, calculated,
ultimate self-sacrifice
is the ultimate
psychological weapon.
It disables InHumanity, and

inflames Humanity.

Wars waged with this weapon will cost lives and blood - of the Human Warrior herself. But one tiny fraction of the lives required in fundamentally futile wars of destruction/sacrifice-of-others.

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SATAN OR GOD IS YOUR FATHER.

SATAN OR GOD IS YOUR FATHER.

No, this is not true, and neither is 1+1=2 true in the sense that neither is written in nature anyplace. But both are indespensibly useful, human-made devices for navigating Life.

IT IS "AS IF" SATAN OR GOD IS YOUR FATHER. And, consciously or not we choose.

I mean, who would dispute that Jesus lived "as if" his Father who he loved and obeyed completely were God, the loving Mother of all creation?

Who would dispute that Start lived most of his life as though his Mother were Satan? Yes, even though I was a nice guy, no one would say I was a brother to all of humanity during most of my selfish life.

This is not mumbo jumbo. This is not metaphysics. Not religion. Not superstition.

This is the truth of our individual and collective humanity / psychology / biology.

DEFINITION: HUMANITY

HUMANITY is the OPPOSITE of INHUMANITY.

Simple.

"[Be] unto others all that you would have them [be] unto you."
Jesus

"Love as I have Loved."
Jesus

"... Live just like Jesus lived."
John

"... lay down your life for the [enemy]"
Jesus

"If you stand with the poor you will share their fate."
Romero

INHUMANITY: LET US COUNT THE WAYS

Hmmmmmm. (God srike me dead if this Post is .000001% cynical)

1. If you are NOT Daine Wilson, Amy Goodman, Col. Ann Wright, Aung San Suu Kyi or several hundred others like them on the planet;
2. If you are NOT in the lower classes of a 3rd or 2nd world country;
3. And if you are over the age of four
4. Etc...

WE CAN COUNT THE WAYS OF HUMANITY ROUGHLY WITH THE FOLLOWING FORMULA:

+ All of the waking minutes of you and everyone you know

- The few minutes per day that are spent on 199% selfless acts by these folks
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= Aproxomation: INHUMANITY: LET US COUNT THE WAYS

}}}}} "WAGE LOVE" NOT "RESISTANCE" {{{{{

The human nervous system CANNOT BE FULLY MOBILIZED by the concept of "Resistance." We are not "resistors," we are by nature "creators!"

• BREATHE not RESIST SUFFOCATION
  
• FEED MY CHILDREN not RESIST HUNGER
• CLOTHE MY CHILDREN not RESIST NAKEDNESS
• EXERCISE FOR STRENGTH not RESIST WEAKNESS
• STUDY FOR STRENGTH not RESIST IGNORANCE
• PAINT not RESIST BOREDOM
  
• Etc.
• Etc.
• Etc.

"We will wage Humanity" is vastly more engaging than "we will engage in resistance against the enemy."


Yes, that there will be SOME resistance as PART of WAGING HUMANITY is no problem. But resistance defines entirely in terms of the opposition.

In the absence of opposition, Resistance has no function. WHAT THEN?!??!?!

}}}}}}}} "MY HUMANITY." PERFECT. {{{{{{{{{{{

THE PERFECT SINGULARITY: "MY HUMANITY."

English language is so prone to error, misinterpretation, multiple interpretations. "My Humanity" is less prone to problem than alternatives such as Love, Family, Compassion....

The Language we need to mobilize saving the world needs also to move us directly and strongly into control by the "Heart," that part of our nervous system as distinct from "Head" and "Flesh." "My Humanity," and "Humanity" as distinct from "InHumanity" strongly mobilize the Heart and disempower control by Head and Flesh; moreso than any other language I've found.

The meanings of "My Humanity:"

1. That Humanity that is from my DNA and potentially available to me as an active human being.
2. That Humanity that is "mine" in the way my hair is mine and my lungs are "mine;" that is all 6 billion born, and 10's of billions unborn!

SPOTTING A "COUNTERFEIT CHRISTIAN"

• NO. Lay down life for fellow man.
• NO. Do unto others ALL she would have them do unto her.
• NO. Live just like Jesus lived.
• NO. Poor.
• NO. Lays down life for her enemy.
• NO. Has only one coat.
• NO. Treats everyone as "immediate family."
• NO. Brimming over with love.
• NO. Thoroughly "good Samaritan."
  

DROWNING IN COUNTERFEIT CHRISTIANITY

Few of us have ever met more than one or two "genuine" "Christians."

Yet we are drowning in an ocean of self-proclaimed "Christians."

SPOTTING A "COUNTERFEIT CHRISTIAN"

EMPIRE'S AWASH WITH HEROES. HUMANITY? BARREN.

How many people do you know, or know of, even at a distance from books, movies, etc?

Of those, how many would be recognized by Jesus as respected Disciples?

DR. KING: "THE GREATEST TEMPTATION..."

"Nothing is so tempting

as Evil in the Garb of Virtue."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

• I'm George Bush and I care about your family.
• I'm the Supreme Court and I care about your vote being counted.
• I'm Dick Cheney and I care about your security.
• The Mexican American war was because we were attacked.
• The Philippines war was to liberate the natives.
• Vietnam war was to bring them freedom.
• Iraq war is to give freedom.
• Capitalism is for the benefit of all.
• Pot smokers are arrested every 38 seconds because they are a menace to society.
• We are determined to leave no child behind.
• Etc.
• Etc.
• Etc.
• Etc.
  

}}} THERE IS NO ENEMY BESIDES SPIRIT OF EMPIRE {{{

Yes, this bears repeating.

EVERY ERG OF ENERGY WASTED ON FIGHTING "THE" EMPIRE (Stuff, Systems, Institutions) is energy FED TO THE BEAST - EMPIRE - EMPIRE SERVED / EMPIRE STRENGTHENED!

The Spirit of Empire MUST be STARVED of our Hostility and Attention.

All of our attention must go into Waging Our Humanity!

YES! There ARE enemies of the flesh, the body besides the Spirit of Empire - disease, famine, drought.... But these are not enemies in the sense that they are "hostile" to us.

AND, these non-hostile-enemies ARE BEST FOUGHT BY "WAGING HUMANITY."

CRAZY: "ONE FLEW OVER THE CUKOO'S NEST?"

Daily Kos: State of the Nation

... man wrapped in a blanket on the steps of the Cannon house office building. .... BTW, he calls himself Start Loving (formerly known as Jay McGinley) and ...

________________________

The wonderful man that wrote these three articles on the Hunger Strike writes among other things that I may be a bit crazy.

A review of my blogs for the last few years will reveal that the notion of me being crazy was often in my mind - not because I thought that I might have been. No. But it was in my mind because I was aware that I was taking a 180 degree turn away from the norms of society and that therefore:

1. THEORETICALLY craziness was a possible explanation;
2. I MUST LOOK CRAZY TO EVERYONE WATCHING! I thought.

That is behind me. Craziness is now obvious to me! But not Start's craziness, but the clinical craziness of the western world.

I will not go further here, in part because this entire blog is about the craziness in the world.

Literally, our only hope is mass therapy.

"IT WOULD BE SUICIDE TO..."

It would be suicide to:

1. Jump on a live grenade to save your buddies
2. Reenlist, reenlist... to stay and protect your buddies in Iraq
3. Attempt to assassinate Hitler as Bonhoeffer did
4. Speak out against Poverty, Racism and Militarism as Dr. King did
5. Stand up for Muslims in India as Gandhi did
6. Self-immolate as Buddhist monks did in Vietnam, bringing Dr. King in on their side by doing so
7. Stand up to racists in the south as northern college students did, and died
8. Stand up to banning rules in South Africa as Steve Biko did
9. Stand up to Roman / Jewish authorities as Jesus did
10. ....

Hmmmm. Seems like to be of any use to humanity, well, er, um... IT WOULD BE SUICIDE.

HELL: SEPARATION FROM OUR HUMANITY

Well, think about it. No, I never used to look at it that way either.

But now it is so simple, so obvious. Sin, Error is to be separated from oneself - from one's Divine, High, Transcendent, Joyful, aLive, True self.

There is no other Hell.

There can be no greater Hell.

}}}}} HUMANITY NOT HOSTILITY {{{{{{

• HUMANITY not HOSTILITY
• SOLIDARITY not EMPIRE
• KINDNESS not COLDNESS
• CONNECTION not DISCONNECTION
• EMPATHY not EMPTINESS
• SOUL not STUFF
• SERVICE not SYSTEMS & INSTITUTIONS
• SOLIDARITY not SUPERIORITY
• CONSCIENCE not CONSTITUTIONS
• HEART not HEAD
• HOSPITALITY not HOSTILITY
  

YOU ARE MURDERING YOUR CHILDREN

By living a "normal life" in the face of impending moral, social, spiritual, material, ecological cataclysm you are incinerating your child's Spirit of Humanity. They cannot maintain that Spirit, they must suppress and destroy that naturally, DNA given Spirit in the face of such cowardice, inaction, denial and InHumanity on the part of their parents.

Dead men walking - that is what you are raising.

"WHAT IS A PATRIOT," THE REPORTER ASKED.

A reporter out of a small Georgia based outfit interviewed me on the Steps of the Cannon Office Building about patriotism.

My comments:

• Willing and ready to stand with their life and the welfare of their family for the common good
• Protective of the highest good as represented by the Constitution over loyalties to a particular ruler or group
• Disciplined

In the US, although they are brainwashed, our men and women in uniform tend to be our only true patriots.

With a paltry handful of exceptions those in the Peace movement do not meet the criterion above, and hence are not among the patriots. Yet?

YOUR SPOUSE DENIES TITANIC IS SINKING. YOU ARE PREGNANT WITH LIFE.

YOUR SPOUSE DENIES TITANIC IS SINKING. YOU ARE PREGNANT WITH LIFE.

What do you do?

1. Stay with the spouse. Result is three deaths.
2. Leave to escape and live. Spouse stays. Already dead.
3. Leave to escape and live. Spouse wakes to your absence. Joins you. THREE LIVE.

WORST SCENARIO IS COMPLETE SELF-SACRIFICE NOW EXCEPT...

In the face of near certain Armageddon for 30% of us joining the 70% already in material hell:

• WORST SCENARIO IS COMPLETE SELF-SACRIFICE NOW EXCEPT...
• ...EXCEPT FOR ALL THE OTHER SCENARIOS!!!!

At the time I conceived of this post (I'm fleshing it out on 10/15) I had a flash of insight that my life was being called for immediately on this campaign right down to the details of how to allow things to terminate within about 4o days.

This was extremely exciting in the same way it would be exciting for any father to see how to rescue his previously doomed children, though it would cost his life.

We face the ultimate horror - eradication of all humanity. This requires the ultimate weapon - ultimate sacrifice.

Duh.

BECAUSE OF FAMILY AND JOB YOU: CANNOT or MUST?

BECAUSE OF FAMILY AND JOB YOU: CANNOT or MUST?

As impossible as this choice is, it has always been the choice in times of crisis.

It all comes down to denial and Truth, self-service and other service, service of life and service of death.

1. Do you value the true outlook for your "family" through future generations, body and SOUL?
2. Do you value more highly their short term comfort and avoidance of impending crisis?

2 EMPIRE DESTROYERS: 1. YOUR INNOCENT BLOOD; 2. SEEING ITSELF

1. Your innocent blood. Imagine your dear brother, uncharacteristically in a drunken stupor, about to beat his family. You interpose your body and as he is about to beat you, he wakes up at the horror of the idea.
2. The evil is caused to see itself. Same example with your brother. This time, you do not interpose yourself, you bring a mirror into the room so he can "see" himself about to strike.

THE GREAT SAVIORS ARE TWISTED TO BECOME GREAT DESTROYERS BY EMPIRE.

• "Freedom" is the weapon we use to destroy Iraq
• "Security" is the weapon we use to destroy what is "Right" for US citizens
• "Rule of Law" is the weapon we use to oppress and exploit the poor in the US and worldwide
• "Democracy" is the weapon we use to murder by starvation Cubans and 1 million Iraqi's in the last 15 years, mostly children
• "Christianity" and "Judaism" are the weapons we use to exterminate Palestinians
• "Christianity" is the weapon we use against gays
• Etc.
• Etc.
• Etc....

"TAKE CARE START." ALL PEOPLE BORN AND UNBORN ARE CELLS WITHIN ME.

I've changed. I keep on changing.

I no longer feel confused on the issue of "Start, take care." As recently as 9 months or so ago when there was the occasional, heart felt "Start, take care of yourself," I felt confusion and unease as to how to react and respond.

My view is now so constant, steady, natural and normal (I've reclaimed my / our natural ways of feeling) that the question has no pull on me. I take no offense but the error of the concern is so blatant to me now.

"You are a cell in my body," I comfortably and kindly point out. "So is everyone born and unborn. I AM taking care of myself."

There is nothing more than that. Yes, there are addional considerations and benefits to what I do - experiencing the joy of sharing the emergency of others, being a prayer of sparking a global salvation, etc.

But taking care of the "cells" in my body is enough for me, and therefore it is enough for me to say.

I'll add to such an kind but confused individual well-wisher that like every good soldier I am not suicidal, and not reckless. Rather, I am extremely careful to get maximum impact out of my only weapon - my body.

WE NEED 95% OF THE MILITARY PERSON'S CHARACTER. GANDHI KNEW THIS.

Elsewhere on this site numerous posts cite Gandhi's preference for military men because of the preeminent worth he placed on courage. Also discussed on other posts is the book by John Ruskin, "Unto this Last" that had profound impact on the young Gandhi - highlighting that the mass segment of society could be depended upon for its cowardice and self-serving behavior - the merchant class; US, us.

Where besides the military and among illegal migrant workers can we find high percentages of people exercising civic duty, self sacrifice, humility, service, courage...?