12.26.2011
Hunger Strike Terminated - 'Correction - '...Realize you will barely make any difference at all.'' SL
Ever since I read it about 13 years ago, this anonymous, ancient Buddhist quote has meant a great deal to me:
"Live as though the entire world depends on what you do, and realize that what you do will probably make no difference at all." But it is in error. More correctly:
""Live as though the entire world depends on what you do, and realize that what you do will HARDLY make any difference at all."
Maybe I can't communicate the difference in any way that has meaning for another, but here's my attempt. Not that the first iteration gave me the idea that I one might massively change the world - almost everything in our culture gave me that, early in my years. But this quote pretty uniquely captured that notion. ALL EVIDENCE suggests that this is false. All evidence suggests that, as no one ever has, NO ONE EVER HAS MASSIVELY IMPACTED HUMANITY, no one ever has. Start, what about Jesus - he has billions of followers? No, he doesn't. Billions have him on their lips, but not one in a million of those have him on their Heart, poor things. Jesus tried to give us back God (Good), and were he standing among us today he would say that he totally and entirely, and completely failed in doing so. Gandhi, King, Camara, Romero....
Slightly aside the point, but only slightly - I've long revered Teresa of Calcutta, but with a significant reservation - I recall her saying to the effect that - 'Everybody knows that no one should spend time on politics.' Huh, I thought? But this morning I'm thinking she said, what I'm maybe figuring out now. What cell in the body, which yeast, which levin devotes it's moments of life to exhorting, leading, attempting to influence all the others? None. EXCEPT THROUGH ITS OWN, HUMBLE, PLODDING EXAMPLE. This may be true of how Teresa lived, and Romero, and Camara, and Bonhoeffer, and, well, Jesus. Has it been true of SL? I'm not sure, but I'm more than ever suspecting, 'no;' that I've lacked that level of Humility, Reality.
"Live as though the entire world depends on what you do, and realize that what you do will probably make no difference at all." But it is in error. More correctly:
""Live as though the entire world depends on what you do, and realize that what you do will HARDLY make any difference at all."
Maybe I can't communicate the difference in any way that has meaning for another, but here's my attempt. Not that the first iteration gave me the idea that I one might massively change the world - almost everything in our culture gave me that, early in my years. But this quote pretty uniquely captured that notion. ALL EVIDENCE suggests that this is false. All evidence suggests that, as no one ever has, NO ONE EVER HAS MASSIVELY IMPACTED HUMANITY, no one ever has. Start, what about Jesus - he has billions of followers? No, he doesn't. Billions have him on their lips, but not one in a million of those have him on their Heart, poor things. Jesus tried to give us back God (Good), and were he standing among us today he would say that he totally and entirely, and completely failed in doing so. Gandhi, King, Camara, Romero....
Slightly aside the point, but only slightly - I've long revered Teresa of Calcutta, but with a significant reservation - I recall her saying to the effect that - 'Everybody knows that no one should spend time on politics.' Huh, I thought? But this morning I'm thinking she said, what I'm maybe figuring out now. What cell in the body, which yeast, which levin devotes it's moments of life to exhorting, leading, attempting to influence all the others? None. EXCEPT THROUGH ITS OWN, HUMBLE, PLODDING EXAMPLE. This may be true of how Teresa lived, and Romero, and Camara, and Bonhoeffer, and, well, Jesus. Has it been true of SL? I'm not sure, but I'm more than ever suspecting, 'no;' that I've lacked that level of Humility, Reality.
A Christ-mass miracle? South Korea ex-first lady Lee Hee-ho meets Kim Jong-un BBC News
South Korea ex-first lady Lee Hee-ho meets Kim Jong-un
BBC News - 47 minutes ago
South Korea's former First Lady Lee Hee-ho has met the North's designated new leader Kim Jong-un during a trip to Pyongyang, Seoul officials say.
12.24.2011
D135 D0 'My guess is I've just taken my last drink, my last bite.' SL
12/24/11: My guess is that I've taken my last drink, and list bite of food until I see an army of Insanely Humane, Unviolent Warrirors living like nothing else matters besides making Plan B 3.0, 'done deal' US policy by 11/06/12, because, well, nothing else matters besides making Plan B 3.0, 'done deal' US policy by 11/06/12. Pray for your kids, grand kids, great grand kids... because unless YOU stand and become a PRAYER that they'll have other than a Hell on Earth future, well, that is EXACTLY what they'll have, and unlike today, within a year, there will be little or nothing you can do to change their fate. xx sl
D135 D-1 'I SEE NO PRAYER FOR CREATION. OH, WAIT.' SL
http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2011/12/d135-d-1-i-see-no-prayer-for-creation.html
http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2011/12/d135-d-1-i-see-no-prayer-for-creation.html
However, I can't figure what I'm supposed to do yet:
D135 D-0 H 'SOMETHING'S VERY WRONG WITH MY BODY.'' SL
http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2011/12/d135-d-0-h-somethings-very-wrong-with.html
http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2011/12/d135-d-0-h-somethings-very-wrong-with.html
D135 D-1 'I SEE NO PRAYER FOR CREATION. OH, WAIT.' SL
http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2011/12/d135-d-1-i-see-no-prayer-for-creation.html
http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2011/12/d135-d-1-i-see-no-prayer-for-creation.html
However, I can't figure what I'm supposed to do yet:
D135 D-0 H 'SOMETHING'S VERY WRONG WITH MY BODY.'' SL
http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2011/12/d135-d-0-h-somethings-very-wrong-with.html
http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2011/12/d135-d-0-h-somethings-very-wrong-with.html
12.23.2011
PLAN B 3.0 WITHOUT THE BS - COMPLETE SLIDE SHOW STUDY GUIDE
Plan b no b
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Plan b no bs g. iii resource rape - water. western affloholic rape and p… 
Plan b no bs h. iii resource rape natural systems under terminal stress.… 
Plan b no bs i. iii. restore, live within earth resources. c8 v1 
Plan b no bs j. iv carbon oil - 20th century’s fatal seductress. c2 v1 
Plan b no bs k. iv carbon coal, oil drowning, frying, killing us. c3 v1 
Plan b no bs l. iv, iii obsolete carbon coal, and the squandering of res… 
Plan b no bs m. iv replace carbon sprint toward wind and sun, eliminatin… 
Plan b no bs n. iv, iii minimize carbon, resources, in cities where 50% … 
Plan b no bs o. repeat, saving creation - bottom line summary, budget of… 
CLIMATE APARTHEID. MERRY CHRIST-MASS: Climate meet: Why Durban was a disaster Rediff
Rediff -
Durban will create climate apartheid, under which rich polluters evade responsibility, but underprivileged people suffer the worst effects of climate change for which they are least responsible, writes Praful Bidwai. India's corporate media isn't known ...
China Sentences Activist to 9 Years' Jail TIME
TIME -
By AP / GILLIAN WONG Friday, Dec. 23, 2011 (BEIJING) - A Chinese court on Friday sentenced a veteran democracy activist to nine years' imprisonment for inciting subversion, in what appears to be the most severe punishment handed down in a crackdown on ...
Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi Registers Party, Visits Parliament Voice of America
Voice of America -
December 23, 2011 Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi Registers Party, Visits Parliament VOA News Burma's democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi formally registered her National League for Democracy as a political party Friday, clearing the way for her to run for a ...
9th Circuit panel rejects suit filed by 'birthers' against Obama Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times -
President Obama greets supporters at a fundraising event in April 2011. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times) By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times A group of Southern Californians who insist that President Obama was born in Africa and should be ...
President Obama's Christmas Present to America Mother Jones
Mother Jones -
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama pretend to sing with an a cappella group in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House during a holiday reception.
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