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8.12.2013

Gandhi: "you can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroyed this body, but you'll never in prison my mind." (link)

Gandhi: "you can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroyed this body, but you'll never in prison my mind." (link)

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Washington Post: Obama's misleading comment on whistleblower protections. (Link)

Washington Post: Obama's misleading comment on whistleblower protections. (Link)

Good piece --- and leaves me wondering if Obama is deliberately deceptive or unintentionally naive.

Albert Schweitzer: " when man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation, either animal or vegetable, nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man." (see pic)

Albert Schweitzer: " when man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation, either animal or vegetable, nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man." (see pic)

Rhonda Teasdale shared Graham Kean - Life Mastery's photo.

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You know who is allowing ecocide forever? Americans. The same nice folks that allowed 50,000,000 American Indians to be slaughtered. Link.

You know who is allowing ecocide forever?  Americans.  The same nice folks that allowed 50,000,000 American Indians to be slaughtered. 
 
David Whittall shared Dancing Moccasins's photo.
If you know your history, these people were nobody's hero's. They were drunks from Denver that attacked innocent people, when militias and hate come together.
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Japanese plant releasing 300 tons per day of radioactive water into the ocean. Link.

Japanese plant releasing 300 tons per day of radioactive water into the ocean.  Link.

Jonathan O'Shaughnessy and Xeno Campanoli shared A Sheep No More's photo.

Citizens fight back using eminent domain to protect their homes. Link

Looks like it could be a good idea.
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Is Obama Orwell's worst nightmare?

Is Obama Orwell's worst nightmare?

"And if we get our lapdog media and our fauxgressive patsies to keep you focused on personalities rather than issues, we will KEEP getting away with it."
And if we get our lapdog media and our fauxgressive patsies to keep you focused on personalities rather than issues, we will KEEP getting away with it.

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. Neale Walsch (pic)

Pr. Obama seen laughing about killing innocent kids with drones. Pic.

Time: A world without bees

Mass deaths in bee colonies may mean disaster for farmers--and your favorite foods. This week's issue of TIME looks at the plight of the honeybee. Find it on newsstands Friday.

Read a preview of the cover story: http://ti.me/16wJuZV

(Photograph by Hannah Whitaker for TIME)

Manning's Nobel Peace Price Nomination backed by 100,000 signers

Manning's Nobel Peace Price Nomination backed by 100,000 signers

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Homeless man returned lost engagement ring worth thousands (pic, Link)

Homeless man returned lost engagement ring worth thousands (pic, Link)   I've met almost as many folks on the street that I respect, as in my many decades in the 'real' world.

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Meet Billy Ray Harris, a homeless man who returned an engagement ring worth thousands after a woman accidentally dropped it into his change cup. The owner of the ring was Sarah Darling. Ms. Darling and her fiance set up a fundraising page to thank him. With the $180,000 raised from public donations, Mr. Harris has been able to buy a house and get a job
http://rawforbeauty.com/blog/

***** vid log: Loving has cancer, all alone. (I worked on this all day. It's worth it. I hope you watch, carefully.)

***** Loving has cancer, all alone. (I worked on this all day, AND MY WHOLE LIFE BEFORE. It's worth it.  I hope you watch, carefully.)   VIDEO, BELOW.

NOTICE. IMPORTANT:

1. This vid contains monumentally important information for me. For us all.

2. SO IMPORTANT that I Transcribed it.Took ALL DAY! Argh.  UPDATES in the transcription, sooooo

3. Read the SUBTITLES, and use the video ONLY to check my demeanor.  PAUSE, when needed.

4. I love you, forever, no matter what (no, there is nothing sinister or spooky in that, or cryptic, tho I'm sure it may seem otherwise.)    Remember that. NO MATTER WHAT.

5. Do I claim, feel, embrace "perfect" knowledge in any of this?  NO. Clarity, YES.

6.  THIS IS NOT ABOUT YOU, OR ME.  SOMETHING MUCH, MUCH, MUCH BIGGER.  WE ARE JUST PLAYING PARTS IN IT.

7. IF you watch it, watch TO THE END. Or don't watch. OK?

I am in a world of my own, well, the world that Jesus inhabited, and a few others.  I am, so I am in a different World than you. You've known this all along, more and more as time went on.  Jesus Died to get us all into that world.  Me too, however long I have.

Why?  Because I don't love those in the other world?  Because I Love those stuck in the other world more than I love my own avatar. That's why.

But it will often, usually, near always seem otherwise.  That I disparage, look down on, dismiss, disrespect, reject.... Oh well.

--------TRANSCRIPT---------



As is almost always the case, the extensive reading that I do does not change me, in the sense that it does not send me in a new direction, though in a sense I'm yearning to be sent in a different direction, because that would suggest I've been on the wrong track and that there's a right track to be found, and that could bring the hope of me becoming more impactful, because so far I'm not impactful at all. 

But no, when I read the greatest minds in history that I can find, those that have shown the most promise of causing the revolution away from ecocide, away from insanity, away from affloholism, away from walking death, when I read those great minds I find only affirmation; and this is true of the tremendously long book that I've been studying for the last couple of weeks, because that's how long it is taking get through.  (Argh).
I find it, I find it exhausting.  I find it exhausting in significant part because it's so exhaustive. 

Dominic Crossan  is considered by many to be the preeminent Biblical scholar to date on the subject of the historical Jesus. I read one of his books a dozen years ago the title being The Historical Jesus, something like that, and the one I'm reading now is called the Birth of Christianity. It is his attempt to understand what happened in the first 20 or 30 years after jesus' death. 

His methodology pretty well starts with historical anthropology. Not with Jesus, but with historical anthropology.  What  was going on in the day? What were the political  issues, what were the forces acting on people, what was their Life like? If you want to understand what Gandhi thought, what he thought was the greatest revolutionary in the history of humankind, the man Jesus, you better read this book.

 Now as always I am inspired by such a book, not to take it as dogma, or doctrine, but to see the direction that  the author is looking; and I often find my eyes gazing further than even the author did. So I take some license here but I don't apologize for my farsightedness, for my vision has been the basis of any success I've had in life; and by objective measures I've had quite a bit of success. 

Jesus was a primordial scream, against the status quo of the day. He pitted his entire being to be a different way, to be a gateway to a different way To be a different way for everyone? Immediately? Never was his thought it would be for everyone. It seems that early on it was his thought that it (the Father's Kingdom) would come in a flash, in an instant, He believed that john the Baptist was announcing that. But when john was killed, instead of (John) ushering in an age, Jesus saw that the only way that the kingdom was going to come was in the way that people LIVED; in the way that they were, in the TYPE of Being that they were, in the worldview that they had and lived; and the essence of that view was Family, Universal Family, my term.
The abomination, the abortion, that is the token,  fig leaf, that today's church uses, the the eucharist, the bread and wine, that was, in Jesus' acts, in his central teaching; that was the family meal!!!!!! (The full meal for everyone!) Yes, that was the Family meal, the non-biological family meal.  (That was, WAS, the Revolution – THAT ALL WERE FAMILY, NOT COMMERCIAL (ROMAN) ENTITIES TO BE COMMERCIALIZED.  FAMILY).

I'm not yet clear, I have some pages left on the book, I'm not yet clear whether the historical record says that that was a daily meal, a weekly meal, but it, for the destitute (WAS THEIR MAJOR MEAL, WHICH, WITHOUT A FAMILY, THEY’D NOT GET), and Jesus was among them, destitute, not poor, destitute, that's the history; Jesus was not some “middle class” carpenter; he was lower than the tenant farmers, socially and economically; carpenters were those that couldn't get jobs as tenant farmers, let alone farmers.
And this was an ever evolving phenomenon, (THE CENTRAL PHENOMENON),  that people were being forced off their generational Land by the ROMAN form of capitalism, commercialization! 

Jesus' life and teachings were centrally a revolutionary stand, a revolutionary cry, against the inhumanity of that; no we are family, we are all family(!!!); and what family owns, all in the family are entitled to, IF they work, if they do their part. He had 12 that he barely considered part of his Family. He was family TO everyone, but he considered only 12 to be on the same, approaching the same planet, the same world that he was in. His family. 

“Who are my brothers and who my mother? Those who revere and obey the will of my father, conscience, Heart, Soul. My family are those for whom the world, is that. 

I'm dying of cancer and unless they can cure me.  There's a chance that the tumors have actually grown (during the chemo a) they sometimes do on chemo, in which case what I have will be inoperable. I'll know in a couple three weeks. There's a chance the tumors will have stayed the same size and shrunk, in which case they'll still be operable. 

There is zero complaint, or rebuke, in what I'm sharing here. There was no complaint, or rebuke, when Jesus indicated - My only family are ones that are on the same planet I'm on, (in the same World).  He was stating a fact, not a rebuke. Not a dissing, not condemnation; a fact! How can your Family be people that live in a different world? 

I'm dying of cancer and no one except for Bruce has been in my life for weeks. It's really stunning! (LOL!) I'm trying to remember if I sent an e-mail saying that, to those that were in my life - I think you're all dog dirt! I hate you, I never want to hear from you again! LOL!  But I don't remember sending an e-mail like that! :-) Those were in my life in one way or another, what they're realizing consciously or unconsciously is what I'm saying. I'm in a different world, I'm on a different planet; I'm on a different wave length; because I've worked really hard to get here; it's heaven. 

And offends them, (bores them),  it worries them, it threatens them, (insults them), it makes them fearful, it  makes them feel offended, (alienated from me, disinterested...). This is understandable!
This is how people reacted to Jesus (mostly many of those closest to him). And I'm walking the path that He walked. It couldn't be any other way. 

Well, let's see, it is almost 9am and I'm not asleep; and the last to 11 days I'd get up at six when they serve a decent breakfast (in the homeless Infirmary) where I am (dinner is tragically inedible), and think, 'oh boy, I'm ready for the day, and within half and hour I'm asleep for another 4 hours having slept all night.  :-( So it's possible that after 11 days I'm coming out from underneath these deadly chemicals that they feed me, that just... take away all my strength; I guess they put all my  strength into trying to survive the chemicals. Too early to tell but it might be I'll have two more normal days and then on August 15 I get more chemicals.

 One kind soul, not Family, but a nice fellow, the other day I think, got the idea that he was worried about me being ‘down,’ that I was in a bad place, or a dangerous place. Anyone that has looked in my posts knows that I'm in a desperately unhappy place, for the world, my grief, my sorrow, my despair, my pain. 

In Hunger Games, when Rue was killed, everyone could watch her being killed, everyone on that planet, in that time, could watch her being killed. One set of people watched that as morbid entertainment. A small set of people watched that in utter horror,  her family, her town, her district. Some would say, the people  in the city in Hunger Games would say, they(the observers in the city),  were the lucky ones, they didn't feel so bad. 

I don't, I don't view it that way. I would want to feel like the people in her district did. I would want that pain. I would want that outrage. They (in the district) were the ones that were alive, the people in the city were dead. 

We Americans are the people of that city. I work, to be alive in that way, which is the only way to be alive. I work to be alive. There's nothing morbid in that; there's nothing masochistic in that. I prefer absence of pain for me, but more than that I prefer being aLive. 

So this kind fellow that reached out (seeing posts that worried him I was 'down'), 'where are you,’ (he's from the DC area?) I told him very honestly, 'you misunderstand. I'm not in a bad place; I'm in an extremely good place, I'm learning, it's extremely painful, but I'm learning. I'm putting myself here, (in this place, (  :-( , with the help of the cancer), because I need to learn; I'm not yet what the world needs from me. 

So the people, of the few that have been wonderful in my life, they have been absent at such an odd time, LOL, when I'm going thru chemo!  (LOL).  

This is not some veiled outcry, that I need you, that you should feel bad. No. Truth, is God. God is Truth. God is how things are.  God is the foundation on which we can stand!!! Truth. 

This is wonderful to see the clarity (for us to see that we are NOT Family); that I am on a planet, (in a world...), of one (or, a miniscule few).  Jesus was only a planet of 12, and I'm certainly no Jesus, LOL, as someone told me recently (to be nasty); but his (Jesus') path is the one that I walk. I'm on a planet, (in a World,) of one. 

Of course there are a few exceptions! I think often of Lucas 4:q8, (that Alexandria VA) group that feeds (we homeless) on weekends. They seem so close to Universal Family. Universal Family is my Family.
Others that have been close to me, do I now feel distant from you?   Oh my goodness no! but it's such a wonderful opportunity (for us all) to see the clarity (with those who have been close totally dropping me at this time.  LOL); of what different worlds we're in.

 And if I'm in the Correct World, if I'm in the world of joy; the world that saves the individual and could have saved the planet, and I am, in that world, then the clarity that I stand alone, (apart), there, presents the possibility of others recognizing that world, and making a choice. 

"I came not to bring peace, Jesus said, " but to divide with a sword. A surgeon divides with a sword, hopefully will divide  me with a sword! (LOL), to separate what is cancerous from that which is healthy. I try to be a sword to myself, with great success, cutting out  the cancerous self-centeredness that I hate, leaving the healthy tissue of unity, of  Universal Family, that I  crave, that you crave, but you've forgotten (if the shoe does not fit, NEVER WEAR IT.)  
 







Orthodox Jews are gladly choosing jail over serving in the Israeli army

John Pope shared I Acknowledge Apartheid Exists's photo.
Political Organization · 42,076 likes
You see that?

President Obama's Climate Action Plan: Not Even Close. ecowatch.com



Obama's 'climate' speech translated - This is good!

One Of The Best Summaries Of Our Political System You’ll Ever See. And It’s Only A Minute Long.







***** No really. Preview of coming attractions: Elysium.

Cowardice today has it's consequences, forever.

To my indigenous brothers and sisters, what made Indigenous Americans Great was not their customs, clothes, meals, pottery.... It was their Heart - Courage, Reverence for Life... it was their ACTIONS on behalf of Creation - Respect, Caring, Protection.... So far, all I'm seeing is the unimportant stuff. I say this by way of a plea. I've told you from the beginning - if you guys don't get it right, who will? I've probably offended you. I'm sorry for that. But it is too important to not speak the Truth. Sakihiwew

To my indigenous brothers and sisters, what made Indigenous Americans Great was not their customs, clothes, meals, pottery.... It was their Heart - Courage, Reverence for Life... it was their ACTIONS on behalf of Creation - Respect, Caring, Protection.... So far, all I'm seeing is the unimportant stuff. I say this by way of a plea. I've told you from the beginning - if you guys don't get it right, who will? I've probably offended you. I'm sorry for that. But it is too important to not speak the Truth. Sakihiwew

NYT: the permanent militarization of America

NYT: the permanent militarization of America
 

pic Sadly, a government of the people, by the people, for the people, has perished from the earth.

Bryce Kuchik shared Chris Gustin's photo.

8.11.2013

1998: President Bill Clinton publicly declared "the Glass–Steagall law is no longer appropriate." 9 years later the economy collapsed.

President Bill Clinton publicly declared "the Glass–Steagall law is no longer appropriate."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_Legislation


3,200 meter runner carries competitor 30 meters to finish line after she colapses.

***** My friends, my Family, will share this poster. Now...







***** No really. Preview of coming attractions: Elysium.

Cowardice today has it's consequences, forever.

***** No really. Preview of coming attractions: Elysium. Cowardice has it's consequences.

***** No really. Preview of coming attractions: Elysium. Cowardice has it's consequences.

***** Titanic had 2200 people on board. How many fought to slow the boat?

***** Titanic had 2200 people on board.  How many fought to slow the boat?

Wild Honeybees will not survive. TIME

Bryan Walsh

***** Albert Einstein: "The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."

***** nd "Unless you hate [the idea of] your own father and mother, and wife and children, and brethren and sisters, yea, and your own life also, you cannot be My disciple." Though it cost me my last remaining friend: nuclear family - there may be nothing more un-Christian, more anti-Christ. Jesus lived and died to form us into a universal family. So many ways he taught us this. One Father, making us ALL ONE FAMILY.

***** nd "Unless you hate [the idea of] your own father and mother, and wife and children, and brethren and sisters, yea, and your own life also, you cannot be My disciple." Though it cost me my last remaining friend: nuclear family - there may be nothing more un-Christian, more anti-Christ.  Jesus lived and died to form us into a universal family.  So many ways he taught us this. One Father, making us ALL ONE FAMILY.

pic We're remaking Earth for our kids. Her new name? (click)




nd This generation is literally looting and plundering the next 1000 generations. Cooperation is complicity.

nd This generation is literally looting and plundering the next 1000 generations. Cooperation is complicity.

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3 days before talks, Israel OKs more settler homes Arab News

Arab News

New Israel settlement homes anger Palestinians

BBC News - ‎4 minutes ago‎
Settler tenders show Israel not serious: Palestinians
Israel approves nearly 1200 new settlement homes