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Fumbling Toward Democracy
LAY OFF the Roids people!
Chris Benoit, who many may remember as a pro-wrestler reserved himself a special place in hell this week after murdering his wife and son and hanging himself...what an ass-hole! PEOPLE learn from this and also think back to Phil Hartman's murder...If you're going to off yourself THAT'S FINE go ahead and do it, but don't be a prick and take anyone else with you...coward. Same to you VA Tech wacko. Now my rant is done. Rest in peace to Ms. Benoit and her 7 yr old son.
Merry's Personal Credo
This is MY 'truth':
Please know that whether you are religious, not religious but spiritual, an agnostic, or an atheist, I respect your world view and see it as an equally valid perspective, for it is YOURS.
-Religion is akin to dogmatic bureaucracy; an attempt to 'better' know 'god' through socialization, which can lead to arrogance and typically does. For instance, there are so many different religions, yet each one believes that they have 'got it right.'
-Isn't it more important to have 'faith' that we are a part of everything that is in the universe and will return to it (the universal energy source) when we die, since energy transfers and is not destroyed?
-Math and science only work because we say that they do, they are rooted in knowledge only 'provable' by the human perspective. In another dimensional reality, the rules that we have established as truth would not be likely to apply.
-Believe that you are a part of an infinitely large and infinitely small system (micro/macrocosm), so is the earth, the universe, etc., and your perspective of it is only based on your experience via human senses.
-When we personify 'god' we debase "him/her/it/the source/the creator/great spirit, etc.," since something so awesome is so far more complex than the limits of human understanding. We are lying (misguided or perhaps naive) if we say that we can truly classify or label it: 'god the source, the creator, etc.,' with our simplistic and flawed human perspective on consciousness. We have only done this to bring ourselves comfort.
-Mourning is for the survivors and is rooted in selfish emotion; although necessary, it is about satisfying the child inside us all.
-Death is a transcendence. There is likely to be consciousness (or a soul), that survives the death of this physical shell. If not, then you won't know it anyway, since you wouldn't exist. So live your life to the fullest and effect goodness and love, you CAN take that with you.
-Your death can be a celebration for yourself or a celebration for others...that all depends on what you did with your life. How will you be remembered? How will you feel when you truly have to face yourself? Think about it.
-If 'god' is truly a part of us and everything, then spirituality is really a path to know thy-self and to know 'god' through one's own journey.
-Materialism does not serve us, it blinds us.
-Spiritual materialism also exists: through the ego. Beware of this as well.
-We construct our own reality and we must therefore strive to deconstruct dogma.
-Everything that we do and feel is based on choice, our emotions are our response to the world around us, a response to stimulus. We can control this. We can control feelings. We have to be aware of them to do so and stop giving away control. NO ONE can MAKE you feel anything: you give away your power and simultaneously your personal responsibility by thinking so.
-Live love: Love thy neighbor,and love thy SELF.
-There may in fact be a collective consciousness. It is likely that we are all truly connected, and that what separates us is actually a facade or a veil: Racism, classism, sexism, hate, bigotry, and differences between us that we ascribe some form of 'value' to, would all disappear if this veil were lifted. It does not serve us, and if we took the time and effort needed to relate to all other humans on some level of common ground, the veil would disappear, and we would see that we are all the same.
-If human kind faced an ELE-catastrophe or an invasion by beings far superior to us, our social stratifiers would cease to be important, what would be important is unified survival. So why do we cling to these ascribed roles?
-We are all one.
IT IS TIME TO WAKE UP!
Will we effect real social change? OR are we merely fumbling toward democracy?
"The Voice"
Won't you take me back to school
I need to learn the golden rule
Won't you lay it on the line
I need to hear it just one more time
Oh won't you tell me again
Can you feel it
Won't you tell me again
Tonight
Each and every heart it seems
Is bounded by a world of dreams
Each and every rising sun
Is greeted by a lonely one
Oh won't you tell me again
Can you feel it
Oh won't you tell me again
Tonight
'Cos out on the ocean of life my love
There's so many storms we must rise above
Can you hear the spirit calling
As it's carried across the waves
You're already falling
It's calling you back to face the music
And the song that is coming through
You're already falling
The one that it's calling you
Make a promise take a vow
And trust your feelings it's easy now
Understand the voice within
And feel the changes already beginning
Oh won't you tell me again
Can you feel it
Won't you tell me again
Tonight
And how many words have I got to say
And how many times will it be this way
With your arms around the future
And your back up against the past
You're already falling it's calling you
On to face the music
And the song that is coming through
You're already falling
The one it's calling is you
Each and every heart it seems
Is bounded by a world of dreams
Each and every rising sun
Is greeted by a lonely one
Won't you tell me again
Can you feel it
Oh won't you tell me again
Tonight
-The Moody Blues
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2 comments:
Sad thing, really.
Don't know if it's so much the steroids as "working" in an uber-macho vocation, dealing with interpersonal problems by fake-beating the crap out of somebody. Maybe he comes home, his wife tells him she cheated on him, he goes ape-sh!t and kills everyone.
Eh, I still love the WWE.
-S.E. www.sapphire-ize.blogspot.com
Yes it is sad..I'm not totally suggesting that steroids were to blame, but as I've read it seems that his wife's death was probably in a rage and his son's AT LEAST was premeditated. There was so much time that went by in between them, as suggested in some of the articles out there. Also there is concern that he was doping or having his 7 yr old doped as the child's body contained injection sites, the home was full of steroids and the son was diagnosed with a form of Dwarfism. The whole thing is sad, but as I said before...take yourself out, not your child!
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