Showing posts with label Insanity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Insanity. Show all posts
3.28.2015
3.26.2015
SPDF Day 24: Elizabeth Kolbert: "Humans Will Eventually Become Extinct"...
Elizabeth Kolbert: "Humans Will Eventually Become Extinct"
In the meantime, says the acclaimed New Yorker writer, we're causing the greatest mass extinction since dinosaur days.
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/01/interview-elizabeth-kolbert-new-yorker-sixth-extinction
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/01/interview-elizabeth-kolbert-new-yorker-sixth-extinction
***** vlog. SPDF Day 24: The Epitaph on EVERYTHING GOOD will be that the citizens of the world’s superpower found that there was nothing beyond themselves, not even their children, that they would die for
The epitaph on everything good will be that the citizens of the world's superpower found that there was nothing beyond themselves, not even their children, that they would die for. Nothing could be more self evident for the truth seeker, but the truth seeker would die for the truth, and we have virtually none today, which is another way of stating the same epitaph - Americans chose denial over Truth and the result was the destruction of all that was good, forever.
Young Gandhi was in the process of becoming a lawyer . But he encountered two books that caused his life to do a 180 when he was a young man studying in England. One of the books was Tolstoy's "The Kingdom of God is Within You." The other was .four essays actually, by John Ruskin . An idea that was central to those essays was the assessment that the the British population could be best understood as being comprised of five groups, Doctors ,lawyers, Ministers, soldiers, Merchants. What was considered most important in these essays was that four of the five groups could be expected to give their lives for their clients when circumstances called for it. But that one of the populations, merchants, could be depended on to never do so, and to only serve their own selfish interests. Thereby they were considered a cancer on society, by other words than these.
In 2015 American these essays would clearly have the state that no population any longer existed, with the possible exception of soldiers, who would die for anything but themselves .
This is why there is no hope to save Palestine, to stop ecocide, to save the last remaining remnants of democracy or any economic life worth living in America.
Both books mentioned can be found on Amazon, some libraries, or here (set the adblock on your browser FIRST to prevent the porn ads).
Young Gandhi was in the process of becoming a lawyer . But he encountered two books that caused his life to do a 180 when he was a young man studying in England. One of the books was Tolstoy's "The Kingdom of God is Within You." The other was .four essays actually, by John Ruskin . An idea that was central to those essays was the assessment that the the British population could be best understood as being comprised of five groups, Doctors ,lawyers, Ministers, soldiers, Merchants. What was considered most important in these essays was that four of the five groups could be expected to give their lives for their clients when circumstances called for it. But that one of the populations, merchants, could be depended on to never do so, and to only serve their own selfish interests. Thereby they were considered a cancer on society, by other words than these.
In 2015 American these essays would clearly have the state that no population any longer existed, with the possible exception of soldiers, who would die for anything but themselves .
This is why there is no hope to save Palestine, to stop ecocide, to save the last remaining remnants of democracy or any economic life worth living in America.
Both books mentioned can be found on Amazon, some libraries, or here (set the adblock on your browser FIRST to prevent the porn ads).
Why Hindu nationalists would rather honour Gandhi's assassin
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/why-hindu-nationalists-would-rather-honour-gandhis-assassin-10131292.html
3.22.2015
5 signs of that America is devolving into a plutocracy
http://www.salon.com/2015/03/22/5_signs_america_is_devolving_into_a_plutocracy_partner/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
3.16.2015
Israeli occupiers, go to the polls By Gideon Levy The masters (and mistresses) are off to vote Tuesday, in what Israel proudly (but falsely) calls a “celebration of democracy” in “the only democracy in the Middle East.”
http://www.haaretz.com/news/israel-election-2015/.premium-1.647198
3.09.2015
3.08.2015
2.26.2015
nd. nd. If you were not born yet, would you want to be born into the 2015 world, with its dystopian future? Not me. No way in Hell. 1. Get out of Amerikka... go to Scandinavia if you are young. 2. DON'T HAVE CHILDREN. 3. DO WHAT YOU CAN RESPONSIBLY TO ENCOURAGE OTHERS THE MERCY OF ABSTAINING FROM HAVING CHILDREN, AS WELL.
nd. nd. If you were not born yet, would you want to be born into the 2015 world, with its dystopian future? Not me. No way in Hell. 1. Get out of Amerikka... go to Scandinavia if you are young. 2. DON'T HAVE CHILDREN. 3. DO WHAT YOU CAN RESPONSIBLY TO ENCOURAGE OTHERS THE MERCY OF ABSTAINING FROM HAVING CHILDREN, AS WELL.
2.16.2015
Millions of Evangelical Christians Want to Start World War III … to Speed Up the Second Coming
http://www.globalresearch.ca/millions-of-evangelical-christians-want-to-start-world-war-iii-to-speed-up-the-second-coming/29362?print=1
2.11.2015
2.02.2015
***** FB friend: "James, Good to see someone so devoted." My reply: "I appreciate the kind and encouraging words. I tried self-centeredness for, oh, 45 years or so. It sucks. So since then I've tried other-centeredness, and it is a Joy. That's it. Those are the choices. The only hope for the world's future is, and has ever been, that one by one, we start a mass flip from self-centeredness (me and mine) to other-centeredness (lived solidarity with the global neediest). That's really the only choice each of us has to make of any consequence whatsoever. All of the rest is a consequence of that. In that we choose to be cancer, or healthy tissue."
I appreciate the kind and encouraging words. I tried self-centeredness
for, oh, 45 years or so. It sucks. So since then I've tried
other-centeredness, and it is a Joy. That's it. Those are the
choices. The only hope for the world's future is, and has ever been,
that one by one, we start a mass flip from self-centeredness (me and
mine) to other-centeredness (lived solidarity with the global
neediest). That's really the only choice each of us has to make of any
consequence whatsoever. All of the rest is a consequence of that. In
that we choose to be cancer, or healthy tissue.
2.01.2015
***** Hey, seriously - you know how business sell trips to kill oh, elephants, lions, giraffes... in Africa? Well, GREAT BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY!!!! SELL TRIPS TO PALESTINE SO US CHRISTIANS CAN SHOOT PALESTINIAN CHILDREN. SERIOUSLY. ASK YOUR CHRISTIAN ZIONIST PALS ABOUT THIS IDEA!!!! (Huge market! There are 50-100 million of these US Christian Zionist Psychopaths! WE CAN MAKE A KILLING!)
***** Hey, seriously - you know how business sell trips to kill oh, elephants, lions, giraffes... in Africa? Well, GREAT BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY!!!! SELL TRIPS TO PALESTINE SO US CHRISTIANS CAN SHOOT PALESTINIAN CHILDREN. SERIOUSLY. ASK YOUR CHRISTIAN ZIONIST PALS ABOUT THIS IDEA!!!! (Huge market! There are 50-100 million of these US Christian Zionist Psychopaths! WE CAN MAKE A KILLING!)
1.30.2015
***** On Religion.... When Religion moves from 'as if' it were True, to 'IT IS THE TRUTH' it moves from Life Giving to Death Giving... Religion is NEVER the Truth, Reality. And... It is virtually impossible for a human to exist without a 'religion' - world view, understanding of how things work, belief system. "Fundamentalism" is the genocidal problem. (click for detail)
(the following is far from neatly written and thought out but it is an explosive advance, for me, this afternoon, in terms of my understanding of these issues)
When Religion moves from 'as if' it were True, to 'IT IS THE TRUTH' it moves from Life Giving to Death Giving
Religion is often on my mind because it is central to the single greatest evil on earth today - the slow torture genocide of my Muslim / Christian family in Palestine by Fundamentalist US christians and Israeli jews. This is forcing me into study of Islam, Judaism, fundamentalism (christian and jewish)... that otherwise I would not undertake:
Fundamentalism
is clinical delusion, insanity, mental illness. It is divorce from
reality, truth... that we can never know Reality, Truth.
Fundamentalism of the left, the liberals, academic elites... is destroying all life on earth materially and destroying much human goodness by ignoring the moral limits and boundaries the human needs for Health and Survival.
Fundamentalism on the right, the conservatives... is destroying life regionally - christian Fundamentalists exterminating a million in Iraq, torturing millions in Palestine, literally trying to bring about Armageddon. muslim fundamentalists are killing thousands in Nigeria, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria.... jewish fundamentalists are driving much of the US christian Fundamentalist insanity and mid-east Islamic Fundamentalist insanity. Fundamentalists on the right are thereby moving us to global annihilation by nuclear war.
When Religion moves from 'as if' it were True, to 'IT IS THE TRUTH' it moves from Life Giving to Death Giving
Religion is often on my mind because it is central to the single greatest evil on earth today - the slow torture genocide of my Muslim / Christian family in Palestine by Fundamentalist US christians and Israeli jews. This is forcing me into study of Islam, Judaism, fundamentalism (christian and jewish)... that otherwise I would not undertake:
Human Religion is NEVER the Truth, Reality because we Humans are in imperfect species.
And... It
is virtually impossible for a human to exist without a 'Religion' -
world view, understanding of how things work, belief system.
And it is Impossible to Thrive Spiritually and Physically without a comprehensive, healthy, Holistic, Truth-Approximating Religion that enables one to keep all aspects of their needs as humans optimally met, and those of the people they influence, most importantly young-ones. (Adamant 'Blindness' to this is maybe the most fatal flaw of the Left.)
And it is Impossible to Thrive Spiritually and Physically without a comprehensive, healthy, Holistic, Truth-Approximating Religion that enables one to keep all aspects of their needs as humans optimally met, and those of the people they influence, most importantly young-ones. (Adamant 'Blindness' to this is maybe the most fatal flaw of the Left.)
One
of the greatest scientific minds, EO Wilson, is in the news recent days
for his stance in an upcoming book that the world is dying from
religion. I often have this thought. But seeing this from him makes me
recall that no one does not have a 'religion,' a 'belief system,' a way
of 'seeing and understanding' the world.
What
may well destroy the world, and what DOES destroy any individual
'spiritually' (the only existence that matters) is not Religion, which is Indispensable and Unavoidable, but Fundamentalism, that
is, when one moves from understanding that their way of seeing the world
is NOT REALITY, NOT TRUE... that the world, the Creator, is REAL, TRUE,
and that our religion at best can only approximate that Truth,
Reality... to the error of 'believing' their Religion to be True, Realty, and therefore 1. The Only True religion (all others being inferior) and 2. Dead, Fixed, no longer moving closer to the Truth, Reality... and probably 'Killing' anyone and anything that IS moving toward them. Making this mistake is the False Idol that Jesus spoke of, and
the 'Tribal' religions that cause so many genocidal wars. Making this
mistake is when 'religion' becomes 'dry as dust,' or, 'a social club with a thin veneer of reality,' whether this fatal mistake is made by a
christian, jew, scientist or atheist, liberal or conservative.
The
US left, Liberals, are mostly Fundamentalists. They believe they know
the Truth - education, science, equality, rationality... whatever.
The
US right conservatives are mostly Fundamentalists - 'christian' (they
couldn't be more anti-Christlike), terrified of change, 'religiously'
selfish in principal... whatever.
The one in a million Great Humans are so exactly because they never make the Deadly Error of becoming Fundamentalist in their Belief.
The one in a million Great Humans are so exactly because they never make the Deadly Error of becoming Fundamentalist in their Belief.
All
Fundamentalist make themselves less than human, sub-human, truly
'Dead,' Dead to moving closer to Reality, Truth... they surrender their
'Image' as children of the Creator by taking on their Fundamentalists
beliefs as Truth, Reality, rather than Facing, Embracing that their
Religion is at best a means of best living even though we can never know
Truth, Reality being the imperfect beings that we are... and that their Religion can, and needs to, constantly improve, move more toward the Truth, Reality.
Fundamentalism of the left, the liberals, academic elites... is destroying all life on earth materially and destroying much human goodness by ignoring the moral limits and boundaries the human needs for Health and Survival.
Fundamentalism on the right, the conservatives... is destroying life regionally - christian Fundamentalists exterminating a million in Iraq, torturing millions in Palestine, literally trying to bring about Armageddon. muslim fundamentalists are killing thousands in Nigeria, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria.... jewish fundamentalists are driving much of the US christian Fundamentalist insanity and mid-east Islamic Fundamentalist insanity. Fundamentalists on the right are thereby moving us to global annihilation by nuclear war.
1.22.2015
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