***** I think our only real chance to help is to live such a profoundly moral life, every breath, that it empowers the good in others and convicts the evil in them.

***** I think our only real chance to help is to live such a profoundly moral life, every breath, that it empowers the good in others and convicts the evil in them.

***** I'll write again that the last several months I sense that I have made a huge leap in my understanding of the essentials. I detest dogma, this should be well known. I detest following words without understanding deeply the underlying meaning. For me, this is the norm in the Catholic Church which was my early background. I have found the notion of, seeing Jesus in everyone, revolting. It makes no sense to me, it has never been explained to me in any way that makes any sense. But if there is any sense to be made of such things, it came to me on my 35k journey among the less affluent, the less educated, the less advantaged .... What occurred to me first was that I was seeing in people for the first time in many many years, occasionally, a sense of awe, a sense of wonder at important things in life. This quickly brought me to the notion that as newborn infants, and in our first months of life, this awe, this wonder, this profound humility... Is central to our nature. I further then realized that we all have that experience. That, now, is what I understand to be the correct meaning of Holy Spirit, the divine within us. And I can now see that in virtually everyone that in earliest childhood, that holy spirit existed, and still potentially exists if it is brought back to memory, and most importantly, if it is brought to reign within us.

***** I'll write again that the last several months I sense that I have made a huge leap in my understanding of the essentials. I detest dogma, this should be well known. I detest following words without understanding deeply the underlying meaning. For me, this is the norm in the Catholic Church which was my early background. I have found the notion of, seeing Jesus in everyone, revolting. It makes no sense to me, it has never been explained to me in any way that makes any sense. But if there is any sense to be made of such things, it came to me on my 35k journey among the less affluent, the less educated, the less advantaged .... What occurred to me first was that I was seeing in people for the first time in many many years, occasionally, a sense of awe, a sense of wonder at important things in life. This quickly brought me to the notion that as newborn infants, and in our first months of life, this awe, this wonder, this profound humility... Is central to our nature. I further then realized that we all have that experience. That, now, is what I understand to be the correct meaning of Holy Spirit, the divine within us. And I can now see that in virtually everyone that in earliest childhood, that holy spirit existed, and still potentially exists if it is brought back to memory, and most importantly, if it is brought to reign within us.

"God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else_God is in this person's life." Francis

"God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else_God is in this person's life."

As I posted the other day: "If one has the answers to all the questions_that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble." Francis

As I posted the other day:  "If one has the answers to all the questions_that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble." Francis

Baby boomers ruined America: Why blaming millennials is misguided — and annoying

http://www.salon.com/2014/10/20/baby_boomers_ruined_america_why_blaming_millennials_is_misguided_and_annoying/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Shell pulls the plug on Arctic exploration

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0RS0EX20150928

Chicago rabbi questions need for Jewish state

http://m.nwaonline.com/news/2015/sep/26/chicago-rabbi-questions-need-for-jewish-1/

In letter, Clinton condemns Israel boycott movement

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/hillary-clinton-letter-support-israel-donor-haim-saban-bds-119770

Palestinian journalist Nidal Abu Aker, held in administrative detention in Israeli jails without charge or trial and on hunger strike for 39 days, is refusing to drink water in protest of his continued solitary confinement.....

http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/1045-hunger-striking-prisoner-refuses-water

I wonder if John Boehner is displaying a moment of greatness rarely seen in our culture. I wonder if we are seeing from him self-sacrifice for a greater good.

I wonder if John Boehner is displaying a moment of greatness rarely seen in our culture. I wonder if we are seeing from him self-sacrifice for a greater good.

***** I don't recall ever feeling more hopeless than I do at the moment about the future for humankind and creation. During the 35 days on the road....

I don't recall ever feeling more hopeless than I do at the moment about the future for humankind and creation.  During the 35 days on the road I was forced to escape the many many hours a day looking at what is happening in the world, Palestine in particular, but Syria, United States, well, pretty much everywhere. In the last 3 weeks I have been able to devote many hours a day, as I have, looking at things square in the face.

Early on felt moments of elation with words from Francis on his current tour, but in the last several days I have seen him gravitating toward meaningless dogmatic doublespeak and there by diluting his earlier, crystal clear message, of living universal family.

Several days ago there was a physical attack on the vehicle where I store it at night stealing $200 worth of electronics that are useless to anyone but me. A grim reminder of what hideous creatures we've devolved to in this loveless, godless, lost... culture. Yes, this victimizer was undoubtedly poor, probably homeless. More deadly by far are the ultra wealthy vulturous creatures on Capitol Hill.

Yesterday I was subject to a withering verbal attack by a psycho in the shelter.

At the moment I can't think of a more sane, moral applicable tale than that of Don Quixote. The only hope is for personal salvation in this life from living the material and spiritual hell that is earth today. To do so by fighting the unwinnable fight, dreaming the impossible dream, fighting when the odds are impossible.... Yes, truly, with no hope of winning.

The Greatest Threat to Campus Free Speech is Coming From Dianne Feinstein and her Military-Contractor Husband

https://theintercept.com/2015/09/25/dianne-feinstein-husband-threaten-univ-calif-demanding-ban-excessive-israel-criticism/

Nuclear Holocaust is the last of my concerns. At this point, truly, I would almost welcome a nuclear planet-wide annihilation. It is the torturous death by a million cuts that horrifies me.

Nuclear Holocaust is the last of my concerns. At this point, truly, I would almost welcome a nuclear planet-wide annihilation. It is the torturous death by a million cuts that horrifies me.

***** must read: September 11, 2001, had the unintended consequence of serving the breathtaking expansionist plans of the neoconservatives who dominated the Bush administration. Only a plausible enemy was lacking to make their execution possible. From the storehouse of the Western historical imagination, age-old images of a hostile Islam were retrieved. Islamic terrorists conjured up in a believable form for a frightened America the “threat to civilization” that every empire requires to justify its own violent acts of domination.

http://www.salon.com/2015/09/26/we_are_at_war_with_an_imaginary_islam_lies_propaganda_and_the_real_story_of_america_and_the_muslim_world/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

President Jimmy Carter: 'I Was The Only White Child In The Neighborhood'

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5605a23ee4b0768126fd8840

U.S. Doublespeak on Palestine

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/09/25/u-s-doublespeak-on-palestine/

Jeremy Corbyn moves to a more humble office because his grand leader's one is too big

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jeremy-corbyn-moves-more-humble-6519149

The Piercing Cry of Child Poverty in Economically Rich but Spiritually Poor America

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/8198586

**** Those who do not live, moment by moment, in humility... have no knowledge of or feeling for or relationship with Creator, notwithstanding whatever we might think. Creator is the stuff of overwhelming awe where humility is the only possible response.

**** Those who do not live, moment by moment, in humility... have no knowledge of or feeling for or relationship with Creator, notwithstanding whatever we might think. Creator is the stuff of overwhelming awe where humility is the only possible response.

12 Lakota Virtues, Essential to balance and happiness. (VIDEO)

http://www.whitewolfpack.com/2014/11/12-lakota-virtues-essential-to-balance.html?m=1

Striking Warehouse Staff Call On Amazon For Better Pay And Conditions

http://www.buzzfeed.com/coralewis/striking-warehouse-staff-call-on-amazon-for-better-pay-and-c#.ld1nXRM4J

Must watch: I think that was the message that Francis was trying to share, a politics that’s rooted in seeing in a new way, in which we see each other as brothers and sisters, and children of one God, and not as opposed to each other.

http://m.democracynow.org/stories/15536

Warning to any who associate with me on Facebook or anywhere else: For any professional person in the United States, any person of standing or means, or anyone associated with such people, criticizing Israel, or, being friends with those who do, is grounds for your personal and political destruction, and if that isn't sufficient, the destruction of those with whom you associate.

Warning to any who associate with me on Facebook or anywhere else: For any professional person in the United States, any person of standing or means, or anyone associated with such people, criticizing Israel, or, being friends with those who do, is grounds for your personal and political destruction, and if that isn't sufficient, the destruction of those with whom you associate.

Israel’s assaults on Palestinian education amount to genocide

https://electronicintifada.net/content/israels-assaults-palestinian-education-amount-genocide/14867

Obama Administration Set To Take Away Money From Cities That Criminalize Homelessness

http://www.occupydemocrats.com/obama-administration-set-to-take-away-money-from-cities-that-criminalize-homelessness/

***** Sometimes when you are in a dark place you think you've been buried but you have actually been planted. Seen on Facebook

Sometimes when you are in a dark place you think you've been buried but you have actually been planted. Seen on Facebook

I take no satisfaction and one man (Obama, Francis....) trying to do the job that we citizens refuse to stand up and do. He can't. We won't. Time's up.

I take no satisfaction and one man (Obama, Francis....) trying to do the job that we citizens refuse to stand up and do. He can't. We won't. Time's up.

nd. To the liberal masses that incessantly place all hope for environmental future on the President, Congress, the media, the GOP...: If my parents generation had not risen by the millions to put their life limb and treasure on the line against the Nazis history would not be pointing at FDR, it would be pointing at them. So it will be for us.

To the liberal masses that incessantly place all hope for environmental future on the President, Congress, the media, the GOP...:   If my parents generation had not risen by the millions to put their life limb and treasure on the line against the Nazis history would not be pointing at FDR, it would be pointing at them. So it will be for us.

Martin O’Malley unloads: Hillary is “a specialist at vaguely saying things”

http://www.salon.com/2015/09/24/martin_omalley_unloads_hillary_is_a_specialist_at_vaguely_saying_things/?google_editors_picks=true

2014 Journalist Chris Hedges disinvited from U. Penn over Israel-ISIS comparison

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/1.634168