First, I must ask…is there such a thing as a “them”? Does a Hindu bleed green? An Israeli breathes oxygen?
The differences start after humanity ends. So why do they matter? Why do we have a “them” in our lives? Live and let live. Is a Chinese man less of a man than one in Japan?
Is a North Korean better than one from the South? If a communist is happy with his life should a capitalist kill him because he is “better” than the “other”?
We have killed for so many reasons that it no longer makes sense. We have yet to stop fighting long enough to know why anymore. We just keep doing it. Do we know that we are doing it anymore? Has it become something else? Something euphemized? Something with a sense of duty that has removed the sting of death? Are we killing humans or terrorists? Are we attacking civilians or defending our freedom? Have we become so delusional that we aren’t losing our soul, but saving our lives? Is there a difference?
How did it get this tragic? We became something that leaves our very being shallow and incomplete. We moved so far from acceptance that we are now making “them” live in our “reality”. That is it isn’t it? It’s become our reality, our perception, our world? Damn those that can’t accept (embrace) it! They don’t want what we have to offer, and then they must need it. We will nationalize the area, introduce our laws, and impose them on all that are in our presence. How big is your presence? Is it a global strategy? Has our happiness become a zero-sum game? I was always under the impression that life is nothing to play with. Why has so many become players in a game that does not exist?
I ask all of these questions because I don’t have all the answers. I would be very cautious of anyone that says they do. But I would imagine that we can bring all of our questions to the table, and discuss them. Eventually, my hope is to defeat “them” by allowing them to the table.
Isn’t that a good start to stop an “us” vs. “them” and get back to “we”?
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Why Do We Fight? Part Two
Let’s look at some of the excuses for violence:
Religion
Political
Land
Money
Yes, I said excuses. I for one have dealt with the conflict of religion being an evil substance in man’s existence. But let’s be honest, a bible has never killed a man, the Quran has never opened up a can of whoop ass on an infidel, the Tanakh has yet to smite someone for not being kosher. It’s just not a truth that has merit. It’s a flat out lie. One that has been a great platform for many, but a lie none the less.
Politics, a process by which groups of people make collective decisions, isn’t exactly something that can get you in the middle of the night.
Land, since I have yet to see a hurricane announce its empire or tornados say they have a king, let’s move on.
Money, who decides what, is valuable? Surely haven’t seen gold do its own infomercial.
Diamonds didn’t sponsor Karl Jenkins to compose it a theme song.
So we can now just keep it simple. Although there are many excuses, we justify our actions; nothing can be used honestly to commit such acts. We could, with enough diligence use the tides to justify our actions.
It’s us! We are the evil substance!
Now before anyone grabs a bomb and goes out to kill everyone in sight…we can stop this. It’s inside of us! It’s the fear, the anger, the hate…and it’s inside of us! Don’t we have the power to control ourselves? Can’t we overcome a “love” that is creating hate?
Self-awareness is the key. Thinking about how that guy down the street frightens you?
First, find out from the inside why. Don’t just allow the fear to defeat you! That is what it is doing…defeating you. You are sacrificing your soul for a false sense of comfort.
Need another? Find out why you want another country bombed! Is that fear real? Do you see anger from them? Have you asked why? Have you accepted the first answer that made you feel good? Are you a complete human when your beliefs, actions, and reactions are purely based on fear?
Next...Part 3 Us vs. Them
Religion
Political
Land
Money
Yes, I said excuses. I for one have dealt with the conflict of religion being an evil substance in man’s existence. But let’s be honest, a bible has never killed a man, the Quran has never opened up a can of whoop ass on an infidel, the Tanakh has yet to smite someone for not being kosher. It’s just not a truth that has merit. It’s a flat out lie. One that has been a great platform for many, but a lie none the less.
Politics, a process by which groups of people make collective decisions, isn’t exactly something that can get you in the middle of the night.
Land, since I have yet to see a hurricane announce its empire or tornados say they have a king, let’s move on.
Money, who decides what, is valuable? Surely haven’t seen gold do its own infomercial.
Diamonds didn’t sponsor Karl Jenkins to compose it a theme song.
So we can now just keep it simple. Although there are many excuses, we justify our actions; nothing can be used honestly to commit such acts. We could, with enough diligence use the tides to justify our actions.
It’s us! We are the evil substance!
Now before anyone grabs a bomb and goes out to kill everyone in sight…we can stop this. It’s inside of us! It’s the fear, the anger, the hate…and it’s inside of us! Don’t we have the power to control ourselves? Can’t we overcome a “love” that is creating hate?
Self-awareness is the key. Thinking about how that guy down the street frightens you?
First, find out from the inside why. Don’t just allow the fear to defeat you! That is what it is doing…defeating you. You are sacrificing your soul for a false sense of comfort.
Need another? Find out why you want another country bombed! Is that fear real? Do you see anger from them? Have you asked why? Have you accepted the first answer that made you feel good? Are you a complete human when your beliefs, actions, and reactions are purely based on fear?
Next...Part 3 Us vs. Them
Why Do We Fight? Part One
There are 6,909 languages, about 194 nations, and more than 5,000 ethnic groups in the world. Yet, we as humans have had less than ONE MONTH of peace in our recorded history. There is just one thing that I can’t understand. Why?
Invasions, conflicts, and empires with the need to “spread their love of country” have become nothing more than an inferiority complex gone awry. How can one spread love with the use of violence, oppression, and mass killings? Never has any man converted to another man’s way of thinking by making him subjugate. But many perilously venture into a tradeoff that offers little or no value to either side.
While many live with a love of what they have pride for, does it make sense for one man’s pride to become a doctrination for others? Where do pride end and a pathological sense of exceptionalism take over? Is there a better than? Is there a superior? In a species that is capable of both love and hate can we have a superior subset? Is it possible with the variables of exception and anomalies, to possess such a subset? Has any group ever garnered power or an empire and that empire been absolute?
Can man homogenize a group of people and still retain his humanity? If not, what does that say about those that witness it and do nothing? Is ethnic cleansing a process that exists without leaving us all with blood on our hands?
In the last 100 years there have been over 200 million deaths from wars, slavery, occupations, and just simple murders. I know there isn’t anything simple about murder, but I'm just speaking on individuals and their lust for blood. They range from petty theft to killing for an insurance policy. Whether it is psychotic, sociopathic, patriotic, or just simple greed; we are prolific in our needless extermination of one another.
As we have become more advanced in our technology, we have become more surgical in our killing. With the military industrial complex, the “war for profit” relationship between defense contractors and governments, killing is a business. That business is good. The question is for whom? Does man benefit from killing or dying?
Is it for the little kid in Vietnam that wants to grow up to be a doctor but was killed in 67 by troops? What about Iraqi woman that wanted to make fabric, but had her life extinguished by an IED? Or the kid from Iowa that wanted to teach, but lost his life in Afghanistan while serving in the reserves?
Are we just pawns fighting for an imaginary cause? Is there a better way? Do we have the ability to seek the path of benevolence? Can one group prove its greatness by destroying the greatness of another? Or are we doomed to continue the exceptionalist pathology? How much blood does it take to prove dominance?
Invasions, conflicts, and empires with the need to “spread their love of country” have become nothing more than an inferiority complex gone awry. How can one spread love with the use of violence, oppression, and mass killings? Never has any man converted to another man’s way of thinking by making him subjugate. But many perilously venture into a tradeoff that offers little or no value to either side.
While many live with a love of what they have pride for, does it make sense for one man’s pride to become a doctrination for others? Where do pride end and a pathological sense of exceptionalism take over? Is there a better than? Is there a superior? In a species that is capable of both love and hate can we have a superior subset? Is it possible with the variables of exception and anomalies, to possess such a subset? Has any group ever garnered power or an empire and that empire been absolute?
Can man homogenize a group of people and still retain his humanity? If not, what does that say about those that witness it and do nothing? Is ethnic cleansing a process that exists without leaving us all with blood on our hands?
In the last 100 years there have been over 200 million deaths from wars, slavery, occupations, and just simple murders. I know there isn’t anything simple about murder, but I'm just speaking on individuals and their lust for blood. They range from petty theft to killing for an insurance policy. Whether it is psychotic, sociopathic, patriotic, or just simple greed; we are prolific in our needless extermination of one another.
As we have become more advanced in our technology, we have become more surgical in our killing. With the military industrial complex, the “war for profit” relationship between defense contractors and governments, killing is a business. That business is good. The question is for whom? Does man benefit from killing or dying?
Is it for the little kid in Vietnam that wants to grow up to be a doctor but was killed in 67 by troops? What about Iraqi woman that wanted to make fabric, but had her life extinguished by an IED? Or the kid from Iowa that wanted to teach, but lost his life in Afghanistan while serving in the reserves?
Are we just pawns fighting for an imaginary cause? Is there a better way? Do we have the ability to seek the path of benevolence? Can one group prove its greatness by destroying the greatness of another? Or are we doomed to continue the exceptionalist pathology? How much blood does it take to prove dominance?
Friday, October 8, 2010
He said She Said Still Trumps What IT Really Says
The federal government pays its employees substantially more than they would earn in the private sector. The current federal pay system:
Pays hourly wages 22 percent above that of comparable private sector workers;
Provides more generous health care and pension plans;
Provides total compensation on the order of 30 percent to 40 percent above similarly skilled private sector workers; and
Offers near-total job security and insulates federal employees from recessions.
Congress should not overtax all Americans to overpay the privileged workers in the federal civil service. Aligning federal compensation with market rates would save taxpayers approximately $47 billion a year. Congress should immediately act to bring equity to federal pay.
I know that you have heard now for about two weeks the new attack on America...You government employees make too much damn money! How dare you make more than I do when my taxes pay you! I'm struggling to make the payments on my house while you are sitting on your ass collecting a check and going on vacations that I could never go on!
Now I would imagine that most public sector workers are pissed about this new political agenda. So again the "Me society" is getting played for suckers. I was going to say dumb asses...but I leave that for Fox viewers. So let’s remove the he said she said political rhetoric and get to the crux of the issue.
First, we must conclude what is the purpose of this new analysis...DIVIDE AND CONQUER! How it is possible to make a poor schmuck that is at the DMV a "welfare queen"? How did we become such haters that we could fall for the idiotic presumption that a policeman, fireman, or a military serviceman makes too much?
Not going to point out that the statistics include over 7,000 attorneys, over 600 politicians, and at least 1,800 executives in the judicial system. I wonder how much they make. Aren't their wages included in the equation? Will they be taking pay cuts as well? Hell no! So let’s move from the political garbage shall we?
Whatever you do...don't go to this website:
http://epi.3cdn.net/3fee726b6d6d4644eb_5rm6bbpuk.pdf
It might make you angry...unless you are rich. You might find out that the rich has finished you off financially. You are irrelevant, the marginalized, and last but not least...peasant.
Now they must go after the lazy, undeserving, and mooching bastards that make too much of YOUR tax money. The DMV guy, the cop, the fireman, the guy that paves the roads and anyone that is in their way of getting...MORE.
That's what it’s all about...MORE, MORE, MORE!
They want more from you so that you can have more...less.
I hope that you don’t look at the poor guy that barely makes enough to matter with disdain. Don't allow the (lets destroy the rest of the unions) political misdirection of the true power to turn you against your fellow man.
He can say this, she can say that, but it (the facts) is telling you the truth...
He is having it just as hard as you. In the upcoming weeks or even months, it might be even harder. Layoffs ahead...Unions are soon to be the new extinct being.
Instead of hating on your fellow man and being the tool of the powers that be...demand what he has. Dont accept less than.
Pays hourly wages 22 percent above that of comparable private sector workers;
Provides more generous health care and pension plans;
Provides total compensation on the order of 30 percent to 40 percent above similarly skilled private sector workers; and
Offers near-total job security and insulates federal employees from recessions.
Congress should not overtax all Americans to overpay the privileged workers in the federal civil service. Aligning federal compensation with market rates would save taxpayers approximately $47 billion a year. Congress should immediately act to bring equity to federal pay.
I know that you have heard now for about two weeks the new attack on America...You government employees make too much damn money! How dare you make more than I do when my taxes pay you! I'm struggling to make the payments on my house while you are sitting on your ass collecting a check and going on vacations that I could never go on!
Now I would imagine that most public sector workers are pissed about this new political agenda. So again the "Me society" is getting played for suckers. I was going to say dumb asses...but I leave that for Fox viewers. So let’s remove the he said she said political rhetoric and get to the crux of the issue.
First, we must conclude what is the purpose of this new analysis...DIVIDE AND CONQUER! How it is possible to make a poor schmuck that is at the DMV a "welfare queen"? How did we become such haters that we could fall for the idiotic presumption that a policeman, fireman, or a military serviceman makes too much?
Not going to point out that the statistics include over 7,000 attorneys, over 600 politicians, and at least 1,800 executives in the judicial system. I wonder how much they make. Aren't their wages included in the equation? Will they be taking pay cuts as well? Hell no! So let’s move from the political garbage shall we?
Whatever you do...don't go to this website:
http://epi.3cdn.net/3fee726b6d6d4644eb_5rm6bbpuk.pdf
It might make you angry...unless you are rich. You might find out that the rich has finished you off financially. You are irrelevant, the marginalized, and last but not least...peasant.
Now they must go after the lazy, undeserving, and mooching bastards that make too much of YOUR tax money. The DMV guy, the cop, the fireman, the guy that paves the roads and anyone that is in their way of getting...MORE.
That's what it’s all about...MORE, MORE, MORE!
They want more from you so that you can have more...less.
I hope that you don’t look at the poor guy that barely makes enough to matter with disdain. Don't allow the (lets destroy the rest of the unions) political misdirection of the true power to turn you against your fellow man.
He can say this, she can say that, but it (the facts) is telling you the truth...
He is having it just as hard as you. In the upcoming weeks or even months, it might be even harder. Layoffs ahead...Unions are soon to be the new extinct being.
Instead of hating on your fellow man and being the tool of the powers that be...demand what he has. Dont accept less than.
Monday, October 4, 2010
Just Gimme 60!
I know that this will bring about some friction…I will not go to the march.
I don’t agree with it, it’s an effort, time, and money wasting act. I understand that many on the left are “exhausted” or frustrated with the developments of the last two years. I just don’t understand how everything got so far off the path.
I know what you are thinking “we need to do something”, "something" must make sense. Think about it…the Tea Party had a rally. Should we truly mirror them?
I have a lot of respect for what Ed Schultz is doing, but is he doing everything that he can? He was asked to run for office, he declined. He was asked to lead a rally…he signed up for that. So you can’t sell your book if you are running for office? A true patriot would run for office, Ed. He wouldn’t say no to the call from the people.
Political goals start with organizing then act. We have already organized in 2008. We need to just put the troops back out there.
Can’t get everyone inspired?
Here, I will throw you a bone…GIMME 60!
Put the Democrats from the Senate…the ones that support you…in a commercial. Have all of them say GIMME 60! Then have the Boehner clip where he says “HELL NO YOU CANT” Then have Obama with all the candidates behind him say “YES YOU CAN”
Let the commercial end with Obama explaining that he needs 60…YOU NEED 60!
There you have it! See if Karl Rove could beat that!
So the left is angry, so let’s march on Washington. Why? Need inspiration? You have the House, the White House, and you are about 6 Senate seats away from having it your way.
What have you done to get the 6? Have you worked on the goal? This isn’t about our feelings. This is about controlling the process of government. That will not come from a march. You might feel (feelings don’t get you 60) better, but are we losing the point at hand?
Whether people wish to admit it or not, whatever the reasons that you are frustrated, there is one answer for it. You don’t have a true majority. The Senate majority is a falsehood. You don’t have sixty members on your side. There are at least two hundred bills, passed by the house, that are just backlogged in the Senate.
Many people have lost jobs, cars, homes, and some gave up their lives because the environment of our society is horrible. But, this has been oncoming from what you saw before you believed “Yes you can”. I think that you have forgotten that can hasn't happened...yet. The battle for your happiness doesn’t end until you die. Every day, many seek to oppress you so that they may have profit. Do you see Bank of America doing a march?
Why are we trying to spend money, when a vote will do? I like your fire; I just wonder are you burning the wrong side of the candle.
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