Threatening to kill me, pretty much every day, for fifteen years now, is telling the truth. But the moment I stop, I have killed myself, all joy. It is the way, the only way. Jesus, king, Gandhi.

Threatening to kill me, pretty much every day, for fifteen years now, is telling the truth. But the moment I stop, I have killed myself, all joy. It is the way, the only way. Jesus, king, Gandhi.

We miss the essential truths unless something causes us to look really really really hard. Ever see the picture of the young woman and the old woman? This is why I will probably stop making the truths I am shown so easily available on Facebook. By making.......

We miss the essential truths unless something causes us to look really really really hard. Ever see the picture of the young woman and the old woman? This is why I will probably stop making the truths I am shown so easily available on Facebook. By making.......them so easily available I think I am making it impossible to see them. There was a really wonderful, tremendously awkward, scene in the Robin Williams movie, Patch Adams, where the old man said, look at my fingers, what do you see!?!? This is what Willy Wonka knew, isn't it? Can I love enough, to become this way?

It has succeeded every time. Speaking the truth cost me everything material, and gives me infinitely more toward building the kingdom of Brotherhood on Earth. Divine.

Grants Pass Oregon

Left Right and Center hate the Truth. They love what confirms their biases.

Left Right and Center hate the Truth.
They love what confirms their biases.

On being vegan vs. Consuming animal products, part of an ongoing dialogue with a friend: This article just came up on my listening list........

On being vegan vs. Consuming animal products, part of an ongoing dialogue with a friend: This article just came up on my listening list and I went through it pretty thoroughly. Seems like something that you would have, might have, recommended so I share with you my comments. They are not my comments to you. They are my thoughts about the article. I share those thoughts with you.. http://primaleye.uk/ethical-meat-eaters-response-to-cowspiracy/. I've always appreciated, but just in the last year deeply appreciated how absolutely correct I think that Albert Schweitzer was in his assertion that the ultimate human value is, reverence for life. Various people I see on Facebook occasionally refer to the soul of a creature. I don't remember who has made these references, and they have done it in passing it appears to me. But it was useful to me that they did because it captures much how I feel. I relate to what seems to me to be the soul in a dog, a horse, the bat, the dolphin, a jellyfish, worm, and Ant.... I really revere such Souls, Spirits, life... yes, Revere. Hence, I like to see those Souls persist as opposed to being extinguished. I like them to be joyful as opposed to suffering. As I've said, if a mosquito is biting me, if a bed bug is going to bite me I may well kill it. I'm comfortable with boundaries. Not that I should be, but I am. If it turns out that for me to be highly functional I need to eat some level of animal products causing the pain and or death of those animals, I will do it so that I can serve what I think is a larger good. I think that my attitude is similar not only to Scweitzer, but Einstein, Gandhi, and many, most, people that I Revere throughout history. People that I respect prefer that other Souls don't need to suffer. My point in all this is that in my attempt to make every second count I am very conscious of whether a potential Source or an actual source that I am considering has a bias or is simply trying to get at absolute truth. This is especially important in an area that is complex because I look for sources that effectively can save me a whole lot of homework but to do that they need to be very intentionally objective and unbiased. I suspect that there is much useful information in the article above. I also suspect that there is much bias, an author who prefers eating creatures, for the flavor I suspect, secondarily maybe for some health value, and is pretty interested in defending his position. That is his right but it makes him less helpful to me than otherwise. So basically I am unpersuaded by the article. It is my understanding that for an animal to create protein from plants requires a relatively huge amount of resource, land, water, intake of plant material, and that if a human being intelligently consumes plant material they can create their own protein at a relatively small fraction of those resources. On that basis I find the article overall extremely unconvincing. Yes, I absolutely have a biase. I have a bias against making other creatures suffer or die. Except to the degree necessary for basic survival. So I leave the article pretty much where I started, I sense that little or no animal protein is necessary to the healthy human functioning except in rare instances. I am not sure that that is correct. I remain interested to learn otherwise should I be wrong.

I have spent virtually my entire life profoundly alone. Although in the proximity of others....

I have spent virtually my entire life profoundly alone. Although in the proximity of others, where I live psychologically is profoundly different from almost everyone else in our culture. For the first third, or even half, of my decades I figured there was something very inadequate about me that caused this. For the next 3rd, two, of my decades I accepted that it had to do with some undeserved goodness in me but the pain of the solitude drove me to try and do the impossible, to merge where I was with where other people are. It is not possible neither in physics or in psychology. By now my solitude is as familiar to me as a beautiful sunrise, the pure smile of a young child, the honesty of a squirrel. There are still moments, like now, when I so wish that I did not live so psychologically alone. But then I kind of laugh. I don't know that Lewis and Clark were at all admirable people, but they certainly set out into essentially unknown territory in search of some truth, and surely they had no illusion that solitude would not be a price of their journey. Through no choice or credit on my part I am built to seek and to live the truth that other people seek to deny with their entire strength because of the cost and pain associated with such truth. By definition such a person is seeking solitude, traveling toward perpetual, unending, never to end... solitude, in the way that Lewis and Clark were, for a time, though in neither case was solitude the goal. Lol. Dorothy Day wrote a book entitled, the long loneliness. I don't think I have read it, & I wonder if this is what she had in mind.

***** Dr. Martin Luther King Jr: Our Nation was Born in Genocide

http://nativenewsonline.net/opinion/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-nation-born-genocide/

I owe it to my neediest brothers and sisters to face reality not some wishful fantasy. Indulging in wishful fantasy is for me to betray them. That, I will not do.

I owe it to my neediest brothers and sisters to face reality not some wishful fantasy. Indulging in wishful fantasy is for me to betray them. That, I will not do.

Pic. To be able to sit here and speak the truth has cost me everything. It has cost me nothing of value. It has given me everything of value.

The more informed you are the less arrogant and aggressive you are. Nelson Mandela

The more informed you are the less arrogant and aggressive you are. Nelson Mandela

I am NOT interested in my opinion of things. I am not interested in your opinion on things. I'm interested in the best scholarly information on issues that an honest, devoted soul can possibly find and stand on. Please keep this in mind with any comments you might make on posts that I share.

I am NOT interested in my opinion of things. I am not interested in your opinion on things. I'm interested in the best scholarly information on issues that an honest, devoted soul can possibly find and stand on. Please keep this in mind with any comments you might make on posts that I share.

I wish I had [more] people in my life that deeply and intensely Loved me exactly because of how sane I have become. Of course, it has been the opposite......

I wish I had [more] people in my life that deeply and intensely Loved me exactly because of how sane I have become. Of course, it has been the opposite. And I am 100 percent okay with that. It has been my active, deliberate, incessant choice to pursue sanity with all of my might, sensing clearly what it would cost me, as it has. I remake the same choice, greedily, with every breath.

***** As time goes by I lose the strength, energy, will and desire... to hold on to, to stand for, to put up with, anything but the Truth. No, not my truth, not your truth, but The Truth which when we are willing to pay the huge price for it, all of us have been equipped to search for outside and inside our selves and approximately know.

***** As time goes by I lose the strength, energy, will and desire... to hold on to, to stand for, to put up with, anything but the Truth. No, not my truth, not your truth, but The Truth which when we are willing to pay the huge price for it, all of us have been equipped to search for outside and inside our selves and approximately know.

Suddenly, more and more, I realized that almost all of us treat the truth before us as nothing more than a personal Rorschach test, to be lazily interpreted according to our whim.

Suddenly, more and more, I realized that almost all of us treat the truth before us as nothing more than a personal Rorschach test, to be lazily interpreted according to our whim.

***** GOD BLESS PORTMAN. The Black Swan star’s directoral debut – based on Amos Oz’s A Tale of Love and Darkness – explores the ‘mythology’ surrounding the birth of the Jewish state. Is she ready for the inevitable backlash?

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/may/24/natalie-portman-interview-tale-of-love-and-darkness

***** "Who wants to put on the posterboards, go out to the street corner, and rant?... There is not a politician on earth wants to tell his or her constituents, "We've probably already blown our chance to avoid substantial suffering, but if we work really hard and devote our lives to the cause, we can somewhat reduce the even worse suffering that awaits our grandchildren."

http://www.vox.com/2015/5/15/8612113/truth-climate-change

Albert Einstein: The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific research, life would have seemed to me empty. The ordinary objects of human endeavour—property, outward success, luxury—have always seemed to me contemptible.

The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific research, life would have seemed to me empty. The ordinary objects of human endeavour—property, outward success, luxury—have always seemed to me contemptible.

Jimmy Carter: Religion is the Cause of Horrific Abuse of Girls and Women All Over the World

http://aattp.org/jimmy-carter-religion-is-the-cause-of-horrific-abuse-of-girls-and-women-all-over-the-world/

Dear Vivian Wineman, I’m writing as a British Jew wanting to bring a dissenting Jewish perspective to the Board’s fifty page denouncement of peaceful protest in support of human rights.

http://mondoweiss.net/2015/04/there-better-boycott

***** SPDF Day 37: Chris Matthews: the neocons continue to fight to destroy the Middle East and remake it as pro Israel

http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2015/04/chris-matthews-quit-running-these-goddamn-right-wing-ads-on-msnbc/