Conservative whites defend what is culturally white and try to kill off everything else. Think of Christian fundamentalism, it is simply a vehicle for conservative white supremacy, nothing more, nothing less, nothing else. Thank Fox News, thank the Duggars.
6.06.2015
5.30.2015
***** Marriage, comments to a young friend. "Above everything else in the world I am....( click for details)...
***** Marriage, comments to a young friend. "Above everything else in the world am I committed to partnership with this individual as my best possible way of serving the world? Is this what my prospective partner is about as well? " I think that this is pretty close to the species universal question to discern whether the prospective marriage is on the strong foundation or not. It is the intersection of all I've studied and learned from the greats throughout history and my own experiences and observations. Yes, there are few people I know who would agree. Lol. Oh well.
The word 'lust' applies to much more than sex. For nearly all westernized women their drive to marry is 99.99% lust for security, comfort, safety, house, social access, to be loved and cared for, and children for her own gratification. For nearly all westernized men they marry for lust for sex, and to be loved, that is, desired, lusted for, appreciated, served, helped. This is what our sickest of all cultures teaches us. How would we be different?
My point is not that this is bad. I am NOT disparaging. But lust is not the basis for a long term partnership. Lust is not the basis for sustained, lifelong, joy. That would be loving, something of which we no longer understand or appreciate by the time we are in our teams in this sick world. Lusting is about me, for me and my group. Loving is about the well being of others, particularly the neediest on earth.
We are literally created by our DNA for the sole purpose of advancing the well being of the species, which means the well being of the environment, to be good and to be a force for good in the world.
I would wish for the prospective spouse to ask the question, 'Does this person have the level of integrity, unity with and devotion to humanity, to doing and being good for the world, that I see and admire in the few people throughout history?'
Finally, I think that this question could be profoundly helpful: ' in essence I am hiring an intimate partner to be as close to me as my skin, or my soul, for the next possibly 60 years. Should I hire this person? Should this person hire me? 60 years from now are we likely to be thrilled with the decision we make today. If not, for this person who I care about, and for me who I care about I should not walk down this aisle, even if it means that I never walk down the aisle. If I am worth marrying by anyone, then I love myself and life enough to serve humanity by myself if that is the best thing to do. And I know that devotion to humanity is my reason for being here, and the only path of infinite joy for any of us. That's how we were created.
5.22.2015
***** nd. Like turning over for more sleep after the alarm... HOW MUCH WE ADORE OUR DENIAL OF OUR FELLOW CREATURES NEEDS, SUFFERING.... I FEEL LIKE I NEVER UNDERSTOOD, UNTIL NOW.
5.17.2015
***** nd SPDF: Our Devotion to personal (and 'family') survival and pleasure... has finally doomed humankind, and all of creation. We've insanely embraced the way of 'cancer' over the way of Life. Our parents, the Creating generation, birthed the suicidal Consuming generation.
5.05.2015
***** Paul Krugman: Tens of millions of lives poisoned by grotesque inequalities
4.26.2015
4.23.2015
***** SPDF Day 52: must must must must read. Critics are right to condemn the criminal justice system for its embedded inequities and injustices, but they are hesitant to condemn the actual jurors giving killer cops get-out-of-jail-free cards. These jurors are representational of America: ignorant and cold.
4.22.2015
nd. SPDF Day 51: Musing: Those who leave when their counties are in distress, or for 'better opportunities' - Europe for Early America, Europe for South Africa, Palestine for America, Cuba for America - are these the most Godless, Self-Centered, Affloholic, Sociopathic?
4.04.2015
SPDF vlog Day 33: My dearest loved ones, you were right. We never belonged together.
We are not emotionally together now, we're emotionally separated now, and we were never spiritually joined. True spiritual joining is so rare in this sick culture of ours, practically never happens, one in a million.
As I think of those of you who have been in proximity to my life no discredit to me, no discredit to you, we were never spiritually together except for maybe a moment here or a moment there in just one maybe three of the cases I can think of (with the exception of my Dad with whom I was intimately, and only, Spiritually United)..
It's not your fault. It's not my fault.
I worship, I revere, I adore the truth no matter how painful it might be in the same way any drowning person reveres firm land coming under their feet. That firm land makes Life possible, without it, only drowning is possible. We are taught to tolerate and even find pleasure in drowning. I never learned that lesson. When I'm not standing on, when I don't understand, when I'm not grasped by the truth, I experience myself as drowning and in entire misery.
This Stop Palestines Death Fast campaign I am on has produced a final separation with maybe all of you. One in particular, the person who I have loved above all, has finally manifest her separation from me totally, frigidly, sharply, finally, absolutely, Truly. I view this with a sense of relief, gratitude, Joy... all of these separations, simply because the manifest the underlying truth that I think we all must have realized was there. All of you to whom I am referring, to some degree we wanted to be spiritually together, to some degree we wanted to be in relationship, and to some degree you and certainly I realized that spiritual unity was not the Truth for us.
Several days ago I vlogged, wrote that for the first time I am recalling that I had extremely sharp eyes for spotting people that belonged on extreme performance teams that I needed to establish, and to spot those who did not belong on those teams. And that as expert I was at that I admitted that I have been that much of a failure at spotting other relationships that should be or not the in my life, that could or, in the vast or total majority, could not work.
That same insight of just several days ago applies to what I am sharing here. All of you who have been in some proximity to me, I can see now, using the eyes that I now know to select, I concede now that we had a mutual desire and affection, but that it never could have been; I see that totally, so clearly, now. We are not destined to be on the same teams, on the same missions, devoted to the same goals. I am a profoundly different species of human, sort of. You are the profoundly different species from me. You are the near total majority. I the near entire outsider, foreigner, alien. You are of society. I am devoted to heal it.
No discredit to me. No discredit to you. No credit to me. No credit to you.
I find this comforting, comforting with respect to my future, comforting with respect to feeling less clueless, less of a failure but that's not a problem with me. But less of a failure in that I see that what I wanted so much, spiritual unity, was not a failure of my efforts, but a failure of my initial and ongoing perception, vision of what was possible, which is now being radically corrected. And surely I don't see it as a failure on your part anymore than on mine. Round pegs don't fit square holes, and versa visa.
My loving of you all is unconditional. It is neither increased nor diminished by these insights of recent days. My Loving of you is infinite.
What separates us exactly is the capacity for a life of unconditional loving.
Whatever life I have left will be devoted to being unconditional loving for the possibility of thereby, and only in the way, spreading unconditional loving by example to you and others.
Yes. Of course. The odds are that I will continue to totally, profoundly, absolutely, pitifully fail. But I'll not fail to try, with my every breath.
4.02.2015
SPDF vlog Day 31: Paragons of mental health, who are they? Martin Luther Kin Jr., Malala, Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, Malcom X, Oscar Romero.....
The greatest of all of the formal psychologists Alford Adler said that health, the healthy choice, tends to lie in the direction of courage. For him the hallmark of health was a social interest.
The greatest psychologist of all in that the truth of his insights have had a greater impact on humanity than the insights of anyone else, I'm referring to Jesus, his core notion was universal family, one Father making us all brothers, and his life and words commanded us to go and live our lives accordingly. Lay down your life for your brother. The good shepherd lays down his life for the flock. As you do unto the least of these you do unto me. Whoever would hold onto his life shall lose it, whoever would lose his life shall gain it. Love as I have loved, and of course he ran into the arms of death. King ran into the arms of death, as did Malala as did Gandhi, as did Malcom X.
Only the most twisted would perceive that they had a death wish, that they wanted to die, that they wanted to be Martyrs, whatever that means. And today it means some sort of twisted slender. They wanted to ransom and redeem their suffering brothers and sisters.
For all intents and purposes there is only one way for the human being to get what they want and that is to pay the price for it. The ultimate price that anyone can pay, and therefore the ultimate power that any individual has to affect what they want to affect. Is their life, paying their life is the ultimate price they can pay for the ultimate value that they want.
As Dr. King said so often and so many different ways, the person who does not know what they would die for is not equipped to live.
Whoever thinks that their own life is their ultimate value is already dead. All of the individuals I mentioned lived, live, accordingly by whatever belief they might have. They live accordingly because this is the law of our DNA, it is what is written in our DNA because it was ultimately addaptive for having our species produce generation after generation of human beings.
This healthy nature is rarely seen in our sick culture, our western culture which is more and more the world's culture which has embraced a lower side of human nature, the capacity for morbid and suicidal self centeredness. But this is not what we see in aboriginal cultures, human beings in an environment like that which we were designed for. This is not seen in other species, this morbid and suicidal self-centeredness. It is not seen in any species except for cells that become cancerous which no longer devote themselves to the well being of the group but only to their own selfish interests.
4.01.2015
SPDF Day 30 vlog: On Sanity, and Insanity
I consider the desire to control the lives of others is insane, pathological, and that sanity is the willingness to pay joyfully with one's life if necessary that others can be free of the control of any one beside themselves.
I consider it insane to choose a life of pleasure over a life of service, and that sanity is exactly choosing the life of service over a life of pleasure.
I deem that our American culture is profoundly insane.
It seems to me that the only sane cultures that I see today are the indigenous Palestinians, although I can't yet reconcile how they keep having children in such a hellish environment, seems cruel and selfish; some of the indigenous of America and Canada that are putting their lives in the way of the destruction of their/ our world.
Among so called activists I see only the International Solidarity Movement as probably very sane; along with, possibly, Sea Shepherds. The rest I see as wallowing in a self-gratifying lifestyle choice of doing what is safe and convenient, or even more so, but by not being willing and eager to pay the ultimate price for our fellow humans, as I said at the top, insane.
3.26.2015
UN Scientists: -Degree Global Warming Target 'Utterly Inadequate'... AS I'VE BEEN SCREAMING, AND DYING FOR, FOR YEARS.
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/03/26/2-degree-global-warming-target-utterly-inadequate-leading-un-scientist-says
SPDF Day 24: Elizabeth Kolbert: "Humans Will Eventually Become Extinct"...
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/01/interview-elizabeth-kolbert-new-yorker-sixth-extinction