9.05.2009
"Love (Courage) is WILLING TO FAIL; but UNWILLING TO NOT TRY to the bitter end." SL
SL here. URGENT: Obama's Wars - PULL OUT!!!! NOW!!!!!
REMEMBER VIETNAM!!! YOU CAN'T WIN!!! YOU'LL WASTE OUR BLOOD AND TREASURE (SCARCE POLITICAL CAPITAL) ON A FUTILE EFFORT!!!!! PULL OUT NOW, OF YOUR WAR (for a Public Option)!!!!
1. The American people are sooooooooo not with you!!! Yup, you KNOW what public support looks like. Remember your election campaign? Millions on the phone, walking the neighborhoods knocking on doors, rallies.... Have you seen anything like that since the election (I mean not counting the right wing loonies trying to get you killed)? NO WAY!!!! We on the left and center abandoned you LAST NOVEMBER buddy!!! Oh sure, we whine at you from the comfort of our arm chairs, but stand with you? GET YOU THE SUPPORT AND VOTES YOU NEED???? Sorry pal, we are one shot wonders, and getting you elected was it! You are on your own. Pick fights you can win by yourself. DON'T GET US INTO A QUAGMIRE WE WON'T FIGHT FOR AND WIN!!!
2. What tiny capital you have left - spend it on Climate Change - the greatest catastrophe ever faced by human kind....
3. FORGET YOUR WAR FOR Mid-East peace too.
4. FORGET YOUR WAR FOR taking on Wall Street Bankers too.
5. FORGET YOUR WAR FOR Education Reform. Hell, we won't even stand and protect you from the GOPod people trying to kill you for simply talking to their kids!
6. FORGET TRYING TO PROTECT US FROM THE GOPod PEOPLE - THEY GOT 1930'S GERMANY, AND WE'RE LETTING THEM GET U.S. Period. Get over it.
Enjoy the resources we gave you for stimulus / staving off the depression - cuz that's all you get.
The poll numbers you say???? The numbers that say we WANT HEALTHCARE REFORM / PUBLIC OPTION????? SUCKERRRRRR!!!! WE WANT MILLION DOLLAR HOMES, TOO!!!!! BUT WE ARE NOT GOING TO GET OFF OUR ASSES TO FIGHT FOR THEM!!!!! WAKE UP MAN, AND FACE REALITY!!!
WE QUIT 10 MONTHS AGO!!!
DON'T LEAD US INTO A WAR WE WILL NOT STAND UP FOR. DON'T. IT WILL BE YOUR VIETNAM.
Unless it involves killing foreigners. You can do whatever you want with Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, whatever. Live it up! Quagmire? Escalation? Whatever. We Americans are such stupid drones, we'll let you or any politician, EVERY politician bleed us to death as long as it has to do with killing folks in foreign lands with weapons of destruction. Plus, the MI Complex - THEY will get in the trenches with you to fight and win the resources for that one!
Enjoy!
9.04.2009
"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." But imitate King? Jesus? Gandhi? Nah. Let's "worship," let's "admire" them instead. Soooooo much easier. Soooooo much safer. So much DEADLIER.
Let's "worship," let's "admire" them instead. Soooooo much easier. Soooooo much safer.
So much DEADLIER.
GIGANTIC DAY!
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Fw: "Start, you totally transformed my life. How can I ever thank you?" Michael
To you few crazies that have not yet totally divorced me -
The 8 word response from Mark below, blows me away, and gives me
great hope. He is the Editor of the Blog buzzflash.com that I've found
totally indispensable this last year of political battle. I hesitated to
copy him on this email of this morning (below). Never occurred to me
he would read it. As God is my witness I suspected he was DONE
with my rantings. I provided maybe 8-10 blistering (with passion) submissions
to him yesterday. YES, my motives were ENTIRELY constructive,
but you know me when I get INTENSE!
So his response - "you are sort of an oracle to me" - well, it is
a miracle of Hope. If I am what I think I am, and he is who I KNOW
he is - knows Obama, deeply connected in Progressive circles,
widely read, wise, committed, constructive, enlightened... -
then this connection and mutual respect at this most
pivotal of all times in History right now is, well - Heaven Sent?
His post today was HUGE: http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/9350
This was my response / comment back: http://blog.buzzflash.com/comment/edit/57381
Start
From: mark karlin <markkarlin@gmail.com>
To: Start Loving <start_loving@yahoo.com>
Sent: Friday, September 4, 2009 8:11:07 AM
Subject: Re: "Start, you totally transformed my life. How can I ever thank you?" Michael
you are sort of an oracle to me
Did I? His recent, almost as brief as the quote above email, out of the blue, said so.
When we first met, here in front of the White House, I was on hunger
strike, and round the clock "occupation" of the bit of grass I was
seated on - for Darfur. He was a college student, traveling through DC.
We spoke for hours, about life and what it means to Live. He gave me
a cap inscribed with a deeply meaningful phrase - that tragically I've
forgotten. I gave him a book I treasured - and I don't remember which
one.
He told me of Ubuntu - an African word and I think he defined it for
me as - "I am who I am because you are who you are."
This was maybe 3 years ago. If I recall correctly, he came back
through DC about a year later, with a female friend in tow.
Not long ago I got an email, pretty much this brief -
"Start, you totally transformed my life. How can I ever thank you?" Michael
My professional life's work, for which I was paid shamefully much,
required that I be a powerful agent of change. There is much
concrete evidence that I was. My point? I have a frame of reference
to judge that yes, if I didn't change Michael, and he says that I did,
I KNOW that I've changed one, or two, or more these last four or five
years in DC. Is that enough? It is the best I can do so far. So, it is
"enough" for me, so far, it seems. God knows why.
MY REAL POINT - in this most toxic of all cultures ever, the best we
can do if we totally, totally, totally devote every waking second to
bringing positive change within ourselves and others - the best we
may achieve is helping one or two. And we've got to be OK with
that. Further, we've got to ACCEPT, we've got to EMBRACE that
most of our brothers and sisters are so clinically dead - brain and
heart - that we've got to let them go, for now - conserving our energy and
PREPARING FOR the rare, chance encounter with the rare individual
with enough Heart and Mind left in tact that we can do some open
heart surgery and help them Thrive - and Serve! This is OUR reality
today. This was JESUS reality 2000 years ago! "No one comes
to me except that the Father brings him." 'I can't control who and when!'
Start, "let them go?!?!!??!" We've got to get / spark / inspire / Raise...
help before we can help the masses who are so desperately damaged
by their upbringing in this dreadful, hateful, sick culture.
Now, you will blow me off here (still reading?) but one of the 10 most
important books to read is "Crossing the Chasm." Trust me. But
Start, you idiot, this is regarding success in the high tech industry.
TRUST ME. If you wish to bring radical change, YOU MUST READ THIS
BOOK, and understand, and apply. It will protect you, inform you,
enlighten you, focus you, leverage you.
FIRES START SMALL, AND GROW AT THEIR OWN PACE, OR
THEY GO OUT! For now, until you read it, THAT is the point.
AND at the Start, they require dry wood available of the right size and dryness.
In the meantime, when such "wood" (Michael?) is not available, we
need to prepare to burn bright and sure, if and when when it appears
in front of us.
I know little about them, but frequently life brings to my mind the
monks who would go and live in caves or the desert. I think some of
them didn't go there to retreat or hide. I think they went there so
that the could be seen and found by the oh so few with in tact Hearts
and Minds - and light FIRE(S) when the rare, dry wood came to them.
That is how my life feels to me.
--
Mark Karlin
Editor and Publisher
BuzzFlash.com
BuzzFlash@BuzzFlash.com
312-826-7760
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"Start, you totally transformed my life. How can I ever thank you?" Michael
When we first met, here in front of the White House, I was on hunger
strike, and round the clock "occupation" of the bit of grass I was
seated on - for Darfur. He was a college student, traveling through DC.
We spoke for hours, about life and what it means to Live. He gave me
a cap inscribed with a deeply meaningful phrase - that tragically I've
forgotten. I gave him a book I treasured - and I don't remember which
one.
He told me of Ubuntu - an African word and I think he defined it for
me as - "I am who I am because you are who you are."
This was maybe 3 years ago. If I recall correctly, he came back
through DC about a year later, with a female friend in tow.
Not long ago I got an email, pretty much this brief -
"Start, you totally transformed my life. How can I ever thank you?" Michael
My professional life's work, for which I was paid shamefully much,
required that I be a powerful agent of change. There is much
concrete evidence that I was. My point? I have a frame of reference
to judge that yes, if I didn't change Michael, and he says that I did,
I KNOW that I've changed one, or two, or more these last four or five
years in DC. Is that enough? It is the best I can do so far. So, it is
"enough" for me, so far, it seems. God knows why.
MY REAL POINT - in this most toxic of all cultures ever, the best we
can do if we totally, totally, totally devote every waking second to
bringing positive change within ourselves and others - the best we
may achieve is helping one or two. And we've got to be OK with
that. Further, we've got to ACCEPT, we've got to EMBRACE that
most of our brothers and sisters are so clinically dead - brain and
heart - that we've got to let them go, for now - conserving our energy and
PREPARING FOR the rare, chance encounter with the rare individual
with enough Heart and Mind left in tact that we can do some open
heart surgery and help them Thrive - and Serve! This is OUR reality
today. This was JESUS reality 2000 years ago! "No one comes
to me except that the Father brings him." 'I can't control who and when!'
Start, "let them go?!?!!??!" We've got to get / spark / inspire / Raise...
help before we can help the masses who are so desperately damaged
by their upbringing in this dreadful, hateful, sick culture.
Now, you will blow me off here (still reading?) but one of the 10 most
important books to read is "Crossing the Chasm." Trust me. But
Start, you idiot, this is regarding success in the high tech industry.
TRUST ME. If you wish to bring radical change, YOU MUST READ THIS
BOOK, and understand, and apply. It will protect you, inform you,
enlighten you, focus you, leverage you.
FIRES START SMALL, AND GROW AT THEIR OWN PACE, OR
THEY GO OUT! For now, until you read it, THAT is the point.
AND at the Start, they require dry wood available of the right size and dryness.
In the meantime, when such "wood" (Michael?) is not available, we
need to prepare to burn bright and sure, if and when when it appears
in front of us.
I know little about them, but frequently life brings to my mind the
monks who would go and live in caves or the desert. I think some of
them didn't go there to retreat or hide. I think they went there so
that they could be seen and found by the oh so few with in tact Hearts
and Minds - and light FIRE(S) when the rare, dry wood came to them.
That is how my life feels to me.
9.02.2009
Inspiration, Hope, FOOD for the Soul - Ted Kennedy
Ted Kennedy's Memorial / Life Celebration Service complete in SEGMENTS. DON'T MISS. http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E9A9E736D11A5156
Ted Kennedy's Mass complete in SEGMENTS. DON'T MISS. http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=EF6328883B7416BD
Start Loving Ted Kennedy's Burial Service complete in SEGMENTS. DON'T MISS. http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F612920AA12D4955
DON'T MISS THIS - Fw: Installing Love (thnx Nancy) . DON'T MISS THIS. SHARE.
Technical Support: Yes, ... how can I help you?
Customer: Well, after much consideration, I've decided to install Love. Can you guide me through the process?
Tech Support: Yes. I can help you. Are you ready to proceed?
Customer: Well, I'm not very technical, but I think I'm ready. What do I do first?
Tech Support: The first step is to open your Heart. Have you located your Heart?
Customer: Yes. But what if there are other programs running now? Is it okay to install Love while they are running?
Tech Support: Check to see what programs are running.
Customer: Let's see, hmmmm, nothing is running in my Heart - almost no Heart activity. Oh yes, I see, there are a few things running - I have Selfishness, Self-absorption, Past Hurt and Resentment running right now.
Tech Support: No problem, Love will gradually erase Past Hurt from your current operating system. It may remain in your permanent memory but it will no longer disrupt other programs. By continuously executing Love you will eventually replace Low Self-Esteem with a module of its own called High Self-Esteem. However, you have to lower the priority on Selfishness, Self-absorption and Resentment and keep Love at the Highest Priority. Otherwise those programs prevent Love from being properly installed and run - they crowd it out of memory. Can you do this ?
Customer: I don't know how. Can you tell me?
Tech Support: With Joy. Go to your start menu and invoke Forgiveness. Do this as many times as necessary until Resentment has been completely erased. As to Selfishness and Self-absorption, when you raised the priority on Love, you set in motion the driving of these out of Memory. It takes time, but if you keep the Priority for Love set on Highest, Selfishness and Self-absorption will gradually cease to run; you won't notice it, but they will be gone, pretty much.
Tech Support: But oh, I forgot the most important thing. Right click on Love and select "preferences." Now select the box marked "Universal Love", although on some systems it is called "Love of the Least of These." And make sure that Love of Pleasure, Romantic Love and Love / Lust are UN-CHECKED. These are NOT Love and were actually placed under Love by a malicious employee. Nothing has created more problems or failure than his horrible act. But his coding has been near impossible to undo. But if you've now carefully chosen Universal Love, and unchecked these others, you'll be OK.
Customer: Okay, done! Love has started installing itself. Is that normal?
Tech Support: Yes, but remember that you have only the base program. You need to spend time every day connecting to other Hearts in order to get the upgrades. Prioritize connecting to the neediest hearts that you can quickly access, and afford. Spend absolutely all you can afford on these, stretch, but avoid going broke. It is a mystery I cannot explain, but over time you will be able to afford more, and more, and more connections - an exponential growth - until you are connected to every heart, born and unborn.
Customer: Oops! I have an error message already. It says, "Virus Attack - Those Around Me Fearful of My Change." What should I do?
Tech Support: Don't worry. This always happens. Loving the Least of These provokes an immediate, and unrelenting attack from practically all other Hearts in your network, because they haven't gone through this process with me yet. You'll be fine because Love of the Least of these is the Ultimate Anti-Virus Program. But be vigilant, and persistent - If you let Love of the Least of these be de-activated it will Hurt your Heart enormously.
Customer: So, what should I do to keep Love of the Least of These from being de-activated?
Tech Support: Pull down one or more of the following: Prayer, Meditation, Study, and Contemplation. With the proper options set they all do pretty much the same thing. Now, right click on each of them, and select "Preferences." Now, uncheck - Personal Desires, Lust, Diversions, Unimportant Tasks and Time-passers; and Most IMPORTANT put a Check in the box - "Ponder the SUFFERING OF Least of These - Deeply." Now, before clicking "OK," set the Frequency to "Run Daily or more frequently as required." Now click, "Apply," and "OK."
Customer: Okay, done.
Tech Support: Now, copy them to the "My Heart" directory. The system will begin overwriting any conflicting files and begin patching faulty programming. Also, you need to delete Verbose Self-Criticism from all directories and empty your Recycle Bin to make sure it is completely gone and never comes back.
Customer: Got it. Hey! My heart is filling up with new files. Smile is playing on my monitor and Love, Joy, Peace and Life are copying themselves all over My Heart.
Tech Support: Yes, your system is really fast, it seems. For others it takes awhile, but eventually everything gets it at the proper time.
Customer: But wait! A new file is running called Agony! Is this normal?
Tech Support: It is all normal, perfectly normal - how it is always supposed to be. Joy, Peace and Life are automatically pulled into memory when you run Love. Agony too, but Agony runs in the background, so don't worry. It is the Agony of the Least of These your Universal Family. Love can't run without their Agony in the background, but you'll see, it is OK. It is there in all properly running Hearts - always. In fact, if you look in your Heart and their Agony is not there, repeat the step above regarding the routines of Prayer, Study, etc.
Tech Support: So Love is installed and running. One more thing before we hang up. Love is Freeware. Be sure to give it and its various modules to everyone you meet. They will in turn share it with others and return some cool modules back to you.
Customer: Thank you. You've been awesome! I'm sorry, but I forgot to ask your name!
Tech Support: Oh, no problem. I'm always here for everyone, and I get pretty much taken for granted. Doesn't bother me. Some call me Good. Some Conscience. Some Humanity. Others Supra Consciousness. Some know me as God. One lady, one of my most expert clients, she calls me The Great Black Rock in the Sky. LOL. Makes no difference to me. I just like to help. By the way, I Love you, Universally. Be well; do Good Works; and, keep in touch.
Pass it on.
9.01.2009
"If you are not as close to God as you used to be, ask youself who moved." Unknown author (via Beverly)
Want to get out of Afghanistan? Attack OBAMA!!!! Duh!
Because the alternative is just unacceptable - taking personal responsibility,
STANDING WITH our INSIDE SECRET - INCOMMUNICADO AGENT - OBAMA. Nah.
Scapegoating, whipping, blaming, arm-chair-quarterbacking -
just too damn easy.
OK. I give up.
Nah.
8.31.2009
Healthcare Fight? Nay. Civil War has broken out, or is it to be a CIVIL ROUT?
MUST READ: Republican demagoguery at its finest at BuzzFlash.com . But it is even worse than PM Carpenter, the author, says. THE RETHUGLICANS DO IT ON PURPOSE. Frank Rich exposes this in "THE WRECKING CREW." Each penny's worth of Social Justice is a penny out of the coffers of the CORP(ses) and Elite. 1920/30's Germans, nice folks like us, they DID NOT STAND AND STOP their eqivalent mob in time. Will we? NOW is the time to do so. September's fight is about a whole lot more than just Health Care. This is The Fight for The American Soul. All who are living and all yet to be born depend on our courage and commitment and vision and ACTION - today.
The Civil War of 2009 has broken out, or is it to be a CIVIL ROUT?
8.30.2009
Ted's Death Now: One, Last, Undeserved Wake-Up Call for US
Ted Friday (?) night. I'm uploading the entire evening in segments.
DON'T MISS IT. As a patriot, as a human, as a seeker - don't miss it.
Caroline ended her talk with her point - 'What Ted did, we all
could do, but because HE did it, we didn't have to. But now
Ted's gone. Now, it is up to us."
And so it is.
This article made me think of Caroline's words:
Health-Care Reform, One Stop at a Time
Obama Supporters Organize Bus Tour, Campaign-Style Events Across U.S.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/30/AR2009083002654.html?hpid=moreheadlinesNOW, IT IS UP TO US. NOW.
Ted is HOWLING over the agony he just put Hatch, McCain and Bush through!
all the Ted events and putting it back up on YouTube.com/StartLoving1 so it is always there,
and so as many folks see it as possible. Ted was never much on my
radar, and never all that favorable in my ignorance. Just one of my many blindnesses.
He was quite an example for us, I now see. Extraordinary. I know - duh.
In the process, I've gotten a chance to see the visuals real close.
My point? I think Ted is looking down and ROARING with laughter to
see how totally miserable he made Bush, Hatch, and McCain in
particular. They totally looked so totally out of place, so totally uncomfortable
with themselves. To be such horrible, small, mean folks against the
backdrop of so much love, and such a Big man as Ted.
I hope you've seen some of it, or do. It is a howl.
Truly, I think it may have occurred to them, "Hey, we're going to
die pretty soon. Do I really want to keep being such a disgusting,
mean, selfish, abusive, exploiting... creep? I mean, with or
without a God, Ted is going out pretty good. I'm going to look like
shit by comparison." Seriously, at least a tiny bit of this MUST
have occurred to them.
Jesus, or one of those guys talked about 'heaping hot coals" on an
adversary's head. WAY TO GO TED!
May we all follow Ted's lead. There is no other way to fix this place.
Your brother,
Start
Diane Wilson, Req'd Reading, Fairfield U. in Ct. THERE IS HOPE!
http://media-newswire.com/release_1097730.html
A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand: No more Guantanimans, Constituitians, Healthcarians...
AMERICANS, UNITE OR PERISH.
REMINDER: We are under mortal threat from the CORP(ses) under the guise of Rethuglicans.
UNITE WITH, COME COURAGEOUSLY ALONGSICE PRESIDENT OBAMA, or WE PERISH.
Pres. Obama is the Captain of our Ship. We MAKE HIM SUCCEED in his FULL AGENDA, or we are all going down, for the last time.
8.29.2009
"A veritable force of nature," Pres. Obama said of Ted Kennedy. May we all be so. NOW would be a good time.
Best way to dishonor Ted: Leave Pres. Obama to battle alone for us, as we have.
Continue to abandon, doubt, second guess, watch, whip.... as Ted, NEVER DID.
Universal Health Care is NOT Ted's legacy to us, and he knew it.
Barack Obama as our President is Ted's legacy to us,
and he knew it.
With Barack, IF WE COME ALONGSIDE Barack,
With Barack Ted gave us
THE ENTIRE DREAM,
ALL OF IT,
NOW.
Otherwise, nightmare.
NOW and forever.
Now, or NEVER.
Your bro,
Start
ps: Ted looked, then Ted LEPT. Follow Ted.
pps: Best way to dishonor Ted: Leave Pres. Obama to battle alone for us, as we have.
8.28.2009
Ted K. too destroyed by Dems/Progressives - Huffington Post
Ted K. too destroyed by Dems/Progressives: "Polling suggested Kennedy would beat Carter for the nomination until that day Chappaquiddick's skeletons were levied from the closet (by Dem naysayers, no less)." Now, LET'S FINISH OFF... OBAMA!!! (and then assume our rightful place in Hell.)
Obama's job approval rating falls to new low The president slips to 50% in the Gallup Poll, reaching that point more quickly than most of his predecessors did.
Obama's job approval rating falls to new low
The president slips to 50% in the Gallup Poll, reaching that point more quickly than most of his predecessors did.
It is almost too late to stand up with this great man. GOD DAMN US. Our children will despise us, rightly so.
8.27.2009
GOD - G.ood O.ver D.isintigration
In the time of Jesus the word Jehovah meant - the Almighty Power that everyone feels and NO ONE WILL EVER BE ABLE TO NAME.
You celebrate your "Birthday." You've never celebrated your "conception" day. Abortion is HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!; it is NOT MURDER.
"All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." – Edmund Burke
8.26.2009
We are soooo psychologically dependent on the CORPses, and the Elite. Is this rational? Or, is it an addiction, a clinical "dependency?" Hmmmm.
It's clinical dependency. We are willing addicts and MSM / Elite / CORPses the pushers.
If it is "right" for YOUR loved one (food, shelter, health care, education...) than it is "A Human Right", by God (by Good); as we are ALL Her Loved Ones.
8.25.2009
From Chester Campaign Days
Incarnating your Universal Love - THE way, the only way to serve Humanity. All else is cancer.
Clinically Speaking: Sanity = Living Out Our Universal Love; Insanity = living out everything else.
8.24.2009
"The Golden Rule (Gandhi): If it is not your fair share, don't take it (paraphrase)." SL
"The Golden Rule is to steadfastly refuse to have what millions cannot have."
This saying of Gandhi was a lightening bolt of Truth for me when first I heard it. But like so many
such "bolts" for me, their meaning can take years, even decades to unfold fully for me.
When we are young kids, aren't we told to take just our fair share?
And when does this stop being the Truth?
When does it stop feeling Divine
to Share Equally from the Heart?
When should we have
forgotten this?
Never.
Never.
Never.
Never.
Never.
Never.
Never.
Never.
Never.
Never.
Never.
Never.
Never.
Never.
Never.
Never.
Never.
Never.
Never.
Never.
Never.
Never.
Never.
Never.