Thoughts About Changing Worlds
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The warriors pledge .. |
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A dysfunctional theocracy hovers over this multicultural melting pot. Like a pestilence, xenophobic theocracies have become the scourge of the Family of Man. These diseased organisms governing so much of our world need to be made healthy again. We must work as hard to convert our own theocracy into a multicultural democracy as we hope others do. Strive to be candid and express your own empirical truth, what you have lived and felt and feared and seen. Common sense does not always prevail although sometimes truth and the moment combine in some barely noticeable paradigm. Like a satori, lighter than air, lasting only a breath and then forever... Too often, though, negotiations dwindle down to an unrealistic compromise. Thus we sacrifice or miss opportunities for growth. We work for growth. We are not yet fully a democracy. We are still striving to become a democracy for all. By bringing insight, candor, enlightenment, and compassion randomly to those we engage, we enhance the universe. |
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A Multicultural Melting Pot |
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The people of this Earth and its many worlds are a simmering stew of many distinct enhancing flavors. Flavors being the traditions, knowledge, cultures, histories, folklore, arts, crafts, prophets, legends, parables, fashion, science and medicine we contribute to the multicultural melting pot. How rich, full bodied and satisfying can be the ingredients of this bouillabaisse of earthlings. Unique-alike in all these things, the human emotions too, that we all experience and emanate, curious-frightened, passionate-shy, brazen-subtle, creative-destructive, and compassionate, joyful, kind, mean, bitter, somber, remorseful, hopeful and elated. Do all hearts have the same center? No matter what the instruments might measure, do all hearts beat at the same speed? Can you see into the heart of the fanatic and possessed? Can you see into your own heart or that of your neighbors, colleagues and family? Can you see into your perceived enemy's heart? I feel this affinity with the spirits of cavemen in the European Alps, with the portraits of men and women in the Etruscan frescos, the characters of Shakespeare, the ancient Anasazi, scoundrels and prophets, Charlie Manson, Adolph Hitler, Jesus and Judas, in the stories of Mongol raiders, Hasidic Jews and African slaves, men and women, children and old folks throughout history. I feel this déjà vu, timeless knowing we are of a common marrow, desperation and joy. I feel in my heart the desperate wanton hopeless cry of the Palestinian suicide bomber and the painful yearning homicidal anger stabbing relentlessly through the heart of an Arial Sharon. In the deeper chambers of my heart I love and empathize, embrace the lamentations, the lost dreams of all of them. I pray. I meditate. I hope that from this quiet solar plexus will emanate just one tiny ray of understanding, of some universal truth into the noosphere. There it will blend, nurture and fertilize the enlightened subconscious, my own and all those receptors near and far into the expanding and contracting universe. |
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From Napster to Kaaza to moveon.org |
| Online communities, peer to peer networks, activist websites, blogs,
newsgroups, the alternative press. The search for truth beyond propaganda,
hidden agendas, political spin, verisimilitude, the real human interest
journalism that reaches out with compassion for all sides without judging,
pontificating, proscribing. To illuminate the dark heart, the shadowy
fears in minds adrift, lost, stumbling through space, their vision
impaired being callously disenfranchised by power brokers petrified of
change, of loss, of illumination. Glen Rogers, summer 2003 |
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Dear Brandy (emails related to Enfranchise Yourself) |
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adoptablog Ever since blog became popular in China, there have been a number of occasions where some blogs were shut down by telecommunications company or internet service providers due to their political speech. |
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Lest we forget..
"Judge not, that ye be
not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and
with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why
beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest
not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy
brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam
is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of
thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out
of thy brother's eye. Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither
cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their
feet, and turn again and rend you." Matthew 7:1-6 |
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