8.27.2013
Bill Maher: "Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that, 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in a government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable."
Bill Maher: "Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that, 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in a government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable."
8.26.2013
The Matrix is not a thing, it is a psychology, clinical total addiction to stuff.
The Matrix is not a thing, it is a psychology, clinical total addiction to stuff.
SYRIA: WHY I LEAN TOWARD A STRIK -
SYRIA: I'VE FOUND NO SOURCE IN THE WORLD I TRUST ON THIS. NONE. YOU KNOW THEIR POSITIONS BEFORE ANY DATA COMES IN. RIGHT WING, LEFT WING - PROPAGANDA.
SOOOOO, IF IT MIGHT, JUST MIGHT, PRECIPITATE A MID-EAST DEBACLE, THAT STOPS THE FLOW OF OIL, CRASHES THE WORLD ECONOMY, THEREBY SLOWING THE PACE OF ECOCIDE, BUYING TIME, THAT'S WHAT I WANT.
IN THE FACE OF THE NEXT 200 BILLION KIDS BEING ON PLANET HELL, THE CREATION OF OUR COLLECTIVE COMMISSION, AND COWARDICE, WE 7.5 BILLION OF TODAY, WE DON'T MATTER.
THE NEEDS OF THE NEXT 200 BILLION, AND ALL OF CREATION, OUTWEIGH WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU, ME, MY FAMILY IN THE MIDDLE EAST, ANY OF WE 7.5 BILLION, IF, IF, IF... IT MIGHT STOP ECOCIDE BY FOSSIL FUEL.
SOOOOO, IF IT MIGHT, JUST MIGHT, PRECIPITATE A MID-EAST DEBACLE, THAT STOPS THE FLOW OF OIL, CRASHES THE WORLD ECONOMY, THEREBY SLOWING THE PACE OF ECOCIDE, BUYING TIME, THAT'S WHAT I WANT.
IN THE FACE OF THE NEXT 200 BILLION KIDS BEING ON PLANET HELL, THE CREATION OF OUR COLLECTIVE COMMISSION, AND COWARDICE, WE 7.5 BILLION OF TODAY, WE DON'T MATTER.
THE NEEDS OF THE NEXT 200 BILLION, AND ALL OF CREATION, OUTWEIGH WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU, ME, MY FAMILY IN THE MIDDLE EAST, ANY OF WE 7.5 BILLION, IF, IF, IF... IT MIGHT STOP ECOCIDE BY FOSSIL FUEL.
***** PIC: WHEN THEY REACH THE TOP, THEY DISCOVER THAT THEY ARE NOT DIFFERENT PARTIES. THEY ARE CAPTIVES, HOSTAGES, DIFFERENT COLORED FEATHERS, IN THE SAME BIRD OF PREY - THE FINANCIAL ELITES. PR. OBAMA IS NO DIFFERENT. LOOK AT THE TERROR NOW, BEHIND HIS EYES. HE CAN'T HELP US. WE ARE ON OUR OWN. BE SAND IN THE GEARS. ALWAYS, SAND IN THE GEARS.
WHEN THEY REACH THE TOP, THEY DISCOVER THAT THEY ARE NOT DIFFERENT PARTIES. THEY ARE CAPTIVES, HOSTAGES, DIFFERENT COLORED FEATHERS, IN THE SAME BIRD OF PREY - THE FINANCIAL ELITES.
PR. OBAMA IS NO DIFFERENT. LOOK AT THE TERROR NOW, BEHIND HIS EYES. HE CAN'T HELP US.
WE ARE ON OUR OWN. BE SAND IN THE GEARS. ALWAYS, SAND IN THE GEARS.
***** IN 'LIFE,' TO 'LIFE,' EVERYTHING THAT IS NOT LOVING, IS HATE, VIOLENCE. EVERY BREATH THIS IS TRUE. EVERYTHING THAT IS NOT LOVING, EVEN THE TINIEST ACT, OR OMISSION, IS VIOLENCE, HATE. Manup. Womanup. Be the change you need to see in the world.
***** IN 'LIFE,' TO 'LIFE,' EVERYTHING THAT IS NOT LOVING, IS HATE, VIOLENCE. EVERY BREATH THIS IS TRUE. EVERYTHING THAT IS NOT LOVING, EVEN THE TINIEST ACT, OR OMISSION, IS VIOLENCE, HATE. Manup. Womanup. Be the change you need to see in the world.
nd Trying to make the world a better place for all - the ultimate Joy in life, available to you with each breath.
nd Trying to make the world a better place for all - the ultimate Joy in life, available to you with each breath.
8.25.2013
FB DIALOG: Regarding Rape - Ladies, want to blame, or what to stop it? You have a role to play. You want your denial? Or you want it to stop?
5 Ways We Can Teach Men Not to Rape
www.ebony.com- Cathy: This is bullshit! Rape is not about how women dress or act. Rape is about MEN WHO RAPE!
Start Loving Cathy, by virtue of this fine article you are patently incorrect. Central to the article is that men, starting with boys, ARE TAUGHT. Women don't have a role in that? Positive and or Negative. That is patently absurd. Do women want rape to stop? Seems not. They want it to stop on absurd terms. I'll not be a coward and repeat what is in bold, multiple times at the top of my post on this.- Cathy: Your interpretation of this article is incorrect, Start, as is your understanding of rape, which you claim in not about power. Rape is about ABSOLUTE POWER in the form of ASSAULT. It is not SEX. And while I am horrified with what young girls are wearing or not wearing, that is not an invitation to be drugged, attacked violently and/or be subjected to disease and possible death. The article does not suggest that what women are wearing is a factor... that is only in your comments. Women in burqas get raped. Of course women have to teach boys to respect women as should their FATHERS. That's a much bigger picture and longer discussion. Here's any easy thing for women and men to say to their sons: DO NOT RAPE ANYONE! You "liked" this post so I will post it again: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151584715776275&set=a.180479986274.135777.177486166274&type=1&theater
(M) 100% accurate.
Posted on the Being Liberal fan page.
Being Liberal Wall Pictures
By: Being Liberal - Cathy: And, why do you keep inviting people to hate you? Is that what disagreeing looks like to you?
- Start Loving My interpretation of this article is that it is substantially about education. I agree. None of us can escape educating others - the only variables are subject matter, direction and degree. With no waking breath of our lives can we escape it. I am unconditional in my opposition to rape. I want it to stop. You are conditional in your opposition - you are opposed to it happening, but any role that female behavior has in it is off the table for discussion, consideration. Ok. Not so for me. And if you tell me you would not advise your son to keep his money in his pocket, rather than in his hand, flashing it around, as he walks to school, on the basis that NO ONE SHOULD ROB MY SON, well, then you are consistent in what you are arguing to me here, somewhat. Women that dress like sex objects, talk like sex objects, act like sex objects, are among the 'teachers' of men as how to view them. This is indisputable. The article correctly attests to the fact that what men are taught influences what they will do. This cannot be disputed based on any fact based dimension. It cannot. As to whether it is an act of power, or as I say, to get high, well, if you want to argue, or view, that a crack addict murdering to get a fix is an act of power, well, then you are at least consistent in your argument / attack on me (not my views, so much, but the fact that I've dared to express them.) As to "inviting" folks to hate me? I do not invite it. I acknowledge it, as an emphasis on how important it is to women's safety, in this case, enough so that I'm willing do draw hate (which so far I have on this, from two I considered good friends), a price I'm willing to pay on such an important issue, and now have. And I have zero regrets. My opposition to Rape is unconditional, unlike pretty much everyone else, from what I can see.
- Cathy: I have said that I hate it when girls and women dress like "sluts" and I agree that it doesn't teach boys respect. I do agree that we should teach them that there are potential consequences to their behavior, as with boys flashing money around, however, there is a difference between attracting attention and inviting violence. This seems to be where we disagree although we do not disagree that there is no excuse for rape. Finally, when you say, "You (the public 'you') wanna hate me over this? I'm totally fine with that." That sounds like an invitation to me, but I do not accept the invitation and never will. —Your sister, whether you like it or not!
- Start Loving I am profoundly pleased with the return of our dialog to one of mutual respect (it seems to me), and therefore, with the prospect of mutually pursuing constructive Truth (that which Gandhi said was the one thing worth dying for, instantly, if need be, as the basis for ALL HOPE. I agree with Gandhi, as did my ultimate heroes, sheroes, of unviolent action - Alice Paul and her sisters for whom pressing the Truth had zero price that was too high for them to pay. You've seen Iron Jawed Angels, read, A Women's Crusade, read IRON JAWED ANGELS, etc? Makes even Gandhi and his soldiers look like cub scouts. Breathtaking humanity.) If you ever find, observe, know of anything less from me, than RESPECT, ever, under any circumstances, you will know me to be a fraud. There is never, under any circumstances, an 'excuse' for rape, sons being robbed, people being killed for a heroine fix.... Period. But NOT the end of conversation, as we seem now to maybe be able to consider. I don't want my son raised on a block with bars, liquor stores, drug dealers, pimps, prostitutes, gangsters, investment bankers, the uber rich..., all for the same reason - it is all educative in a deadly, Soul destroying way, and it is immediate, proximate, temptation, invitation (express, implied or intended or not), and risk. If in the context of any of these intolerable things, "there is a difference between attracting attention and inviting violence," I can't see it. I don't want my son flashing those bills, regardless of which it invokes, attention or invitation to violence, in an observer, because they both increase the inexcusable likelihood of him being mugged. Your brother, unconditionally, forever, no matter what, Loving (what I go by)1 like (Cathy)Start Loving: (heart)
Start Loving Also, as to Sheroes, if you've not read Diane Wilson's An Unreasonable Woman, you've deprived yourself of knowing one of our only living Sheroes of the caliber of Alice Paul and her sisters. Here's a taste, but read the book - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL603B14CBBE007E7E
"Teach your children to be brave. This century of ours has been marked most conspicuously by cowardice of the people everywhere. It was by our cowardice that we were betrayed into the hands of corrupt men who promised to make life"safe' for us and devoid of hazard, and robbed the adventurousness by which the spirits of men are strengthened. It was by our poltroonery that we lost our liberties. It was by our fears that we almost died. A brave people never become slaves." ~ Taylor Caldwell
***** Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., warned: “A time comes when silence is betrayal … We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak"…. There is such a thing as being too late…. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with lost opportunity…. Over the bleached bones of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words: ‘Too late.’” ~ by Ray McGovern
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., warned: “A time comes when silence is
betrayal … We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to
our limited vision, but we must speak"….
There is such a thing as being too late…. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with lost opportunity…. Over the bleached bones of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words: ‘Too late.’”
~ by Ray McGovern
There is such a thing as being too late…. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with lost opportunity…. Over the bleached bones of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words: ‘Too late.’”
~ by Ray McGovern
***** Classmate replies to yesterday's Dialog with others
***** MUST READ: FB DIALOG YESTERDAY WITH MY 2 MHS HIGH SCHOOL CLASSMATES. YOU NEED TO SEE THIS.
Reply, Today -Classmate C:
"There was a time, Loving, when many of us lived out of the matrix. When joy meant more than pleasure. You know that as well as I do. Many of us need to get back to that because somewhere, somehow it got lost in responsibilities of a more "personal"nature, and, it isn't easy to walk away from all that when "all that" has been the focus for so many years, and pleasure...or an "adventurous weekend" is an escape. I am sure some of our classmates think you an absolute nut. But there are others who think you profound because you have made us think! And, I include myself in the latter group because you have really made me think today. Isn't that what this is all about? And, my friend, isn't that how it starts? Slowly, perhaps, but it starts."
Loving:
Your kind words bring a welling of emotion in me. Yes, if it is going to start, it starts as you say. I'll also say, you've grasped my message, my understanding, faster than anyone ever does. (((HUGS)))
***** Important FB dialog with a 'Reverend' friend of mine. He lives in Ohio
I sent him an important link from yesterday:
***** MUST READ: FB DIALOG YESTERDAY WITH MY 2 MHS HIGH SCHOOL CLASSMATES. YOU NEED TO SEE THIS.
His reply:
Rev Chris:
So many of us
justify our amazingly blessed lives while doing nothing for those who
suffer, don't we? This is something I speak to my kids often about.
Seems like no matter how much I talk, it just doesn't compute since they
have no concept. I'm not sure I had any concept until I sent a week in
Haiti. I came home, stood in my yard and wept openly on several
occasions since the shed where I store my lawn mower is a nicer
structure than the houses we were there to build. I mean, just think of
that. The place where I store my rake, shovel and various power tools is
nicer, bigger and better built than the homes that we were building for
people to live and raise their children in. That's hard to accept.
None of us here likes to think about what our money could really do around the world. We justify by saying things like "I've earned it" or "I can't help what's going on there anyway". But I tell you, I have come to believe that we are so richly blessed not just for our own sake but for the sake of others. I believe we have been entrusted with multitudes of blessings so that we can re-administer those blessings to others. It's the least we can do for the least of these.
Keep being a voice in the wilderness. We all need it.
Loving:
Chris, you must know I'm going to say this. These blessings? Chris, we, we are the rich that are not making it thru the eye of the needle. We, we, we... with our tool sheds, we are sitting in HELL, and even Abraham can't send someone to put a drop of water on our tongues. We are damned by our hoarding, DAMNED AS THE WORST VIOLATORS IN THE BIBLE. Don't you see that? We, YOU, are the rich young man. Who do you think Jesus was talking about? How is that not you???? No, I am NOT asking you to answer me - that's personal to you. This is 100% clear to me. 100%. None of the excess, which is 98% of what YOU possess, and 99.9999% of what I possessed most of my decades, IS YOURS, WAS MINE. IT WAS GIVEN TO US TO PASS ON, IMMEDIATELY, COMPLETELY. And by not doing so I DAMNED my 2 biological offspring to the same Hell. As you train up the child they shall grow.
You may know, there are 7-8 billion of us on earth. And, that is beyond Earth's carrying capacity. Right? This past week is when, this year, was the day in 2013 when this year we had taken more resources than Earth will produce this year. Get it? They restart the clock, and the calculations, next Jan 1.... So, we need to decrease the population, right? In Africa! In India...! Wrong. We need to decrease the population in America. Huh? Earth can sustain 10 BILLION PEOPLE living at the level of people in Africa, India.... Know how many American style consumers it can sustain? 2 billion. The Indians, Africans, South Americans, Haitians... are Lazarus. We Americans? We build storage sheds 'for our surplus grain.' And Lazarus can't cross the chasm to put a drop of water on our parched tongues.
The "amazingly blessed lives" you speak of, are the EXACT MEASURES OF OUR DAMNATION, AND THE DAMNATION WE ARE VISITING ON OUR OFFSPRING. EXACT MEASURE. EXACT. THEY ARE THE EXACT MEASURE HOW MUCH WE'VE STOLEN, AND STEAL, EVERY DAY, FROM OUR NEEDIEST SISTERS AND BROTHERS, AND NOW, FROM THE NEXT 200 BILLION CHILDREN, THE NEXT 1000 GENERATIONS.
IT ISN'T OURS. IT IS THEIRS. WE ARE THIEVES, RAPISTS, PLUNDERERS. FOR REAL.
Rev Chris:
I couldn't agree more. WELL said.
Loving:
(heart)
It makes me cry. It makes me weep.
None of us here likes to think about what our money could really do around the world. We justify by saying things like "I've earned it" or "I can't help what's going on there anyway". But I tell you, I have come to believe that we are so richly blessed not just for our own sake but for the sake of others. I believe we have been entrusted with multitudes of blessings so that we can re-administer those blessings to others. It's the least we can do for the least of these.
Keep being a voice in the wilderness. We all need it.
Loving:
Chris, you must know I'm going to say this. These blessings? Chris, we, we are the rich that are not making it thru the eye of the needle. We, we, we... with our tool sheds, we are sitting in HELL, and even Abraham can't send someone to put a drop of water on our tongues. We are damned by our hoarding, DAMNED AS THE WORST VIOLATORS IN THE BIBLE. Don't you see that? We, YOU, are the rich young man. Who do you think Jesus was talking about? How is that not you???? No, I am NOT asking you to answer me - that's personal to you. This is 100% clear to me. 100%. None of the excess, which is 98% of what YOU possess, and 99.9999% of what I possessed most of my decades, IS YOURS, WAS MINE. IT WAS GIVEN TO US TO PASS ON, IMMEDIATELY, COMPLETELY. And by not doing so I DAMNED my 2 biological offspring to the same Hell. As you train up the child they shall grow.
You may know, there are 7-8 billion of us on earth. And, that is beyond Earth's carrying capacity. Right? This past week is when, this year, was the day in 2013 when this year we had taken more resources than Earth will produce this year. Get it? They restart the clock, and the calculations, next Jan 1.... So, we need to decrease the population, right? In Africa! In India...! Wrong. We need to decrease the population in America. Huh? Earth can sustain 10 BILLION PEOPLE living at the level of people in Africa, India.... Know how many American style consumers it can sustain? 2 billion. The Indians, Africans, South Americans, Haitians... are Lazarus. We Americans? We build storage sheds 'for our surplus grain.' And Lazarus can't cross the chasm to put a drop of water on our parched tongues.
The "amazingly blessed lives" you speak of, are the EXACT MEASURES OF OUR DAMNATION, AND THE DAMNATION WE ARE VISITING ON OUR OFFSPRING. EXACT MEASURE. EXACT. THEY ARE THE EXACT MEASURE HOW MUCH WE'VE STOLEN, AND STEAL, EVERY DAY, FROM OUR NEEDIEST SISTERS AND BROTHERS, AND NOW, FROM THE NEXT 200 BILLION CHILDREN, THE NEXT 1000 GENERATIONS.
IT ISN'T OURS. IT IS THEIRS. WE ARE THIEVES, RAPISTS, PLUNDERERS. FOR REAL.
Rev Chris:
I couldn't agree more. WELL said.
Loving:
(heart)
It makes me cry. It makes me weep.
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