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Saturday, January 13, 2007
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dr's have names for it
i am in the comfort of my home
dying all over the earth
safe and sound
running running shouting for my children
a cup of coffee
cream and suger
with a cat in mah lap
i am fleeing through rubble
running down a road
with the children ah can find
to the humming of the refrigerator
and dropping of bombs
at the same time
typing on this keyboard
because ah can never sleep.
running
running
i have nowhere to go.
the world inside of my house
and the world outside of my house
merge.
mah soul is an inextricably merged world
of mahself all over the world
here and there
then and now
sleepless.
not needing sleep.
seeing it all also from
some peaceful and divine
place above.
things happen and all will pass
like all things before
and to come
but the call is what we do with what is right in front of us
when it is.
how we live this.
dr's have
names for it
no cures
and it's
no wonder.
the faculties that people use to
turn war down
tune hunger out
shut helplessness off
pretend death-by-twisted-human-ingenuity isn't there
are broken in me like GIFTS
i wouldn't give back if ah could.
the palm of mah hands are HOT.
feel that?
it's love
burning holes.
we are one family.
that is what we are taught to unlearn.
somebody is killing your mother
my father
our sister and brother.
(we are not WELL because we cap our reaction.)
dr's have
names for it
no cures
and it's
no wonder.
(ssv)
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007
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Love amplified & fearless
(Love amplified & fearless)
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels,
but have not love,
I am only a resounding gong
or a clanging cymbal.
If I have the gift of prophecy
and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge,
and if I have a faith that can move mountains,
but have not love,
I am nothing.
If I give all I possess to the poor
and surrender my body to the flames,
but have not love,
I gain nothing.
Love is patient,
love is kind.
It does not envy,
it does not boast,
it is not proud.
It is not rude,
it is not self-seeking,
it is not easily angered,
it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects,
always trusts,
always hopes,
always perseveres.
Love never fails.
But where there are prophecies, they will cease;
where there are tongues, they will be stilled;
where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
but when perfection comes,
the imperfect disappears.
When I was a child, I talked like a child,
I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.
When I became a man,
I put childish ways behind me.
Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror;
then we shall see face to face.
Now I know in part;
then I shall know fully,
even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain:
faith, hope and love.
But the greatest of these is love.
The above translation of 1st Corinthians 13 is from the New International Version of the Bible. This post is about amplifying love. (How much louder can it get?)
I was AFRAID of the Amplified Bible when I first read from one (many) years ago. I put it down and physically backed away from it. Ahm laughing. Those only used to the old King James version probably did the same when they read the version above. We get this idea that the book was beamed down from the sky in English instead of learning about it's history - a turbulent one of adding and removing books from it - conflicts of interpretration, etc. That's a whole 'nother post though.
(Note to the grumblers: My father left me ONE thing, and I value it. He told me to learn as much about things I disagree with as I can - so I can have an intelligent discussion about them. So regardless of your personal beliefs - learning is the road - even if it's not about what you agree with.)
The Amplified version is actually a brave well-done work to put BACK into the text the original facets of the Greek and Hebrew languages used in it's writing.
FEW languages (including Arabic) covert neatly and poetically directly into English. I began including the Amplified version of the Bible into my reading (and studying) when I saw that THIS verse from the New International Version:
Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said,
"Never will I leave you;
never will I forsake you
became in the Amplified Bible:
Let your character or moral disposition be free from love of money - including greed, avarice, lust, and craving for earthly possessions -
and be satisfied with your present circumstances
and with what you have;
for He - God Himself - has said,
I will not in any way fail you
nor give you up
nor leave you without support.
I will not, I will not, I will not
in any degree
leave you helpless
nor forsake
nor let you down
relax My hold on you!
Assuredly not!
Ohhhh! :)
I started studying then the Greek expository AND Hebrew lexicon - AND ALL the versions of the Bible because I saw how much I was missing with translated one-dimensional English & human abbreiviating.
 SO, all of that said to present this. The same love text as above, as written in the Amplified Bible. Don't be afraid. It's literal translation, not poetic writer's license as I had once feared:
IF I can speak in the tongues of men and even of angels,
but have not love -
that reasoning, intentional, spiritual devotion such as is inspired by God's love for and in us -
I am only a noisy gong
or a clanging cymbal.
And if I have prophetic powers - the gift of interpreting the divine will and purpose -
and understand all the secret truths and mysteries and possess all knowledge,
and if I have sufficient faith so that I can remove mountains,
but have not love -
God's love in me -
I am nothing -
a useless nobody.
Even if I dole out all that I have to the poor in providing food, and if I surrender my body to be burned or in order that I may glory,
but have not love -
God's love in me -
I gain nothing.
Love endures long and is patient and kind;
love never is envious
nor boils over with jealousy,
is not boastful or vainglorious,
does not display itself haughtily.
It is not conceited - arrogant and inflated with pride;
it is not rude - unmannerly -
and does not act unbecomingly.
Love - God's love in us -
does not insist on its own rights
or its own way,
for it is not self-seeking;
it is not touchy or fretful or resentful;
it takes no account of the evil done to it -
it pays no attention to a suffered wrong.
It does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness,
but rejoices when right and truth prevail.
Love bears up under anything and everything that comes,
is ever ready to believe the best of every person,
its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances,
and it endures everything
without weakening.
Love never fails -
never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end.
As for prophecy - the gift of interpreting the divine will and purpose, it will be fulfilled and pass away;
as for tongues, they will be destroyed and cease;
as for knowledge, it will pass away - it will lose its value and be superseded by truth.
For our knowledge is fragmentary -incomplete and imperfect,
and our prophecy - our teaching -
is fragmentary - incomplete and imperfect.
But when the complete and perfect total comes,
the incomplete and imperfect will vanish away
become antiquated, void, and superseded.
When I was a child, I talked like a child,
I thought like a child,
I reasoned like a child;
now that I have become a man,
I am done with childish ways
and have put them aside.
For now we are looking in a mirror that gives only a dim blurred reflection of reality
as in a riddle or enigma,
but then when perfection comes
we shall see in reality and face to face!
Now I know in part imperfectly,
but then I shall know and understand fully and clearly,
even in the same manner as I have been fully and clearly known and understood by God.
And so faith, hope, love abide -
faith--conviction and belief respecting man's relation to God and divine things;
hope--joyful and confident expectation of eternal salvation;
love--true affection for God and man, growing out of God's love for and in us,
these three;
but the greatest of these is love.
For those of you only accustomed to the traditional King James Version and who are very nervous about having just endured the words in other forms (much love to you) I am including the King James version so you can catch your breath and get your balance back.
Just a quick excerpt first to maybe inspire you to explore further -
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
...King James's instructions made it clear that he wanted the resulting translation to contain a minimum of controversial notes and apparatus, and that he wanted the episcopal structure of the Established Church, and traditional beliefs about an ordained clergy to be reflected in the new translation...
http://www.av1611.org/kjv/kjvhist.html
Okay - here it is - a gift from me to you for enduring the above and reading this far:
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
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Tuesday, January 02, 2007
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Can I have 1 minute & 47 seconds of your time?
This is not "propaganda" - this is FOOTAGE.
"All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order."
-Robert Kennedy, 1967
"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order."
David Rockefeller, Sept. 23, 1994
"It cannot happen without U.S. participation, as we are the most significant single component. Yes, there will be a New World Order, and it will force the United States to change it's perceptions."
-Henry Kissinger, World Affairs Council Press Conference, Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel, April 19, 1994
"The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries."
- David Rockefeller, founder of the Trilateral Commission, in an address to a meeting of The Trilateral Commission, in June, 1991
"The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining supercapitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control. Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent."
-Congressman Larry P. McDonald, 1976 (killed in the Korean Airlines 747 that was shot down by the Soviets).
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Friday, December 29, 2006
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Friday, October 27, 2006
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To those here who propose to abolish religion(s)
This is to the (curious) number of people who found my page and wanted an add but hate everything that is connected to believers
of any faith
or someone else's -
who mock and rant that religion must be abolished
(or every religion
outside of their own).
I shudder at the talk of taking anything central to anyone away -
or of getting rid of any kind of people.
People with BAD INTENTIONS
grasp onto "religion" -
the concept and business of misrepresenting God -
to kill others with because it has this historic AUTHORITY that presumably can't be questioned,
and WORKS on ENOUGH people
that it is very effective
for dominating others with,
or setting themselves above others with -
but their misuse
in order to commit evil
is not God.
There is such a thing
as true religion.
Bad intentions will use whatever works.
Bad intentions will use whatever works.
Bad intentions will use whatever works.
Bad intentions will use whatever works.
Bad intentions will use whatever works.
Bad intentions will use whatever works.
If I take a treasured staff, passed down through generations, carved with the art of each added
and beat a man to death
it is I,
not the stick
that kills.
If a wind blows and soldiers use the wind to carry deadly poison in the human target direction
is it the wind
or the soldiers
who kill?
I am not fond of american flags
and can't bear to even see the three colors next to each other.
I don't wince though,
don't glare.
I don't rip, burn, or curse flags.
IF THERE ARE TOO MANY OF THEM AROUND ME I become hyper-alert.
Though I don't stand up when a flag enters a room,
don't put my hand over my heart
or pledge to it
or sing it any songs
I could never insult those who do.
Not even in my private thoughts.
Why would I?
I care about communicating with PEOPLE, and there are people who are all wrapped up in flags.
That's their thing.
Sacred to them.
That's where they are,
and I want to meet them there
and see if we can't talk.
How can we talk if I rip it?
We NEED to talk. ...
talk about how can we stop the endless killing...
that's what I want to know .
Can we live on the same block without worrying about our children?
Does their car need a jump
or did they find
my cat?
We need to learn how to
CO-EXIST.
People on my list who joke and sling God insults are not working for peace...
maybe fighting for peace
but not with the AIM of peace,
fighting for anything / in the name of something/
that has the APPEARANCE of being right
and good.
Peace as an excuse.
A misuse of peace...
like the misuse of God.
Fighting against "tyranny"
feeling righteously superior
AND SO feel the authority
to insist on the demise
of what is sacred to others
just like those who you feel need to be convinced to think like you
or what?
<DIV>be obliterated? ...
Just like the misuse of religions
and misrepresention
of the"religious" you want wiped from the earth.
Hating for a higher purpose?
It's a lesson just laying on the ground waiting to be picked up and put with the other rocks of learning in your pocket.
You who say religion must be abolished...
have you thought that out?
Will you kill all of us?
What peace is that?
Do you suppose you will convince us to
not believe?
I have met God
(let me count the ways)
like I have met my own
mother
so there is nothing to take me away from that essence.
God is my breath.
How will you cleanse the earth?
What peace or order are you aiming for?
We meet each other where we are.
We don't have to be alike.
We have to stop hurting each other
with words, hate, weapons, inaction, apathy, and denial of all that is necessary for life.
We need to put our best ideas towards how we will all be here together,
NOT towards who to get rid of.
You are entitled to your thoughts of course
and I respect that
but wanted to let you know
my concern.
You are also very welcome to stay on my list.
You have some reason for being here
and it's not for me to interfere with that
because it could be
divine.
God isn't the political right or a "religion" or denomination.
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Wednesday, October 25, 2006
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redemption thoughts in my halfsleep
Y'all know by now when I just wake up i just rant.
It's how I wake.
I'm not going to spellcheck.
It's just what ahm thinking as I roll from my (comfortable) bed.
We have been deliberately and successfully
conditioned to care about ourSELVES
our look, our sense of pleasure,
feeling good,
seeking entertainment
and sensual pleasure - from the fabrics of our clothes
to
whatever.
We have been taught and led.
We learned and followed.
We care about ourselves
more than
hearing those in the world that need us.
We've been taught that is PERFECTLY OKAY!
We've been taught to love ourselves first or we can't love anyone else.
That is a misuse (bastardization) of the the word.
LOVE doesn't stand in the mirror telling itself affirmations
I love myself
I love myself
while people burn and starve
hide in fear
clutch their children
implode in real terror
not imagined like our own.
Love gets off it's ass and runs
throws what is has to wherever it's needed
if that's what it takes.
Love runs.
Love isn't a glutton - it shares.
Love doesn't hoard or collect
unless it's to send somewhere else.
Love knows no rest.
Love will drive you crazy
and I pray for the day that
love will collect itself in the streets and demand that this country stop
blowing people up
stop lying
stop KILLING people
as the staple for the economy.
Love cares even in it's dreams and
transposes awareness of
the need of others over every family smile.
LOVE would not fall for this patriotic bs about the sweet boys from here going over to another country to
kill.
We've been had. Indocrinated since kindergarten at least.
That is the whole point of u.s. governmetn public school.
Make you soldier-friendly.
Stoke the us vs. them.
("Circle the one that does not belong.")
Teaching us to claim land
thislandisyourlandthislandismyland
ipledgeALLEGIENCEtotheFLAG.
And here we are.
The product.
Us.
The big day has come to take over the world
and we the sheep
trust the system
to stop the system
Just making noise.
That's all most of us are doing.
Making noise
for selfish reasons -
to feel
better about
OURSELVES.
We feel better if we hate what is happening.
How much do we hate it?
Enough to risk losing what we have?
That much?
That's love.
RISK what we "have" to
help those
who cannot help themselves?
From space, looking down at us,
it is a bleak picture.
Another election and people's hopes get peaked.
Distractions.
If we wake now we are waking so late in the GAME
that it may be just in time to see
what happens when a whole nation is put in a trance.
WE HAVE BEEN FED SPORTS.
WE HAVE BEEN DISHED THE MUSIC INDUSTRY.
OUR COMMUNITIES HAVE BEEN SERVED THE DRUGS.
OUR MEDIA PLAYS US TO SEEK ETERNAL ORGASMS.
JUST FEEL GOOD.
FASHION DEFINES YOU (AND THERE ARE RULES TO FASHION).
IF YOU DID NOT BUY YOUR BEAUTY OR COOLNESS
YOU ARE UGLY AND UNTOUCHABLE - AN UNDESIRABLE.
THE GOAL IS TO BE
DESIRABLE. NOTICE ME. CHOOSE ME. AFFIRM I'M BETTER.
TRICKED INTO GETTING TANGLED INTO THE CREDIT WEB.
TOLD THAT YOUR DREAM WAS A HOUSE SO YOU'D BE PIMPED BY YOUR DEBT FOR THE REST OF YOUR F-ING LIFE.
TRAPPED INTO KEEPING YOUR OWN SELF
AFLOAT
WHILE THOSE WHO HAVE
ANNIHILATE, RAIN WHITE PHOSPEROUS, PLAY CLUSTER BOMB, AND DESIGNATE WHAT COUNTRIES WILL NO LONGER RECIEVE FOOD AND MEDICINE.
AMERICA IS TOO BUSY BUYING A HOUSE
TO RUN INTO THE STREETS
FILL THE STREETS
AND WITH ALL THE LOVE IT HAS CRY OUT
"OVER MY DEAD BODY."
THAT WOULD BE LOVE.
ALONE IT IS SUICIDE,
BUT TOGETHER WE COULD HAVE BEEN SO BEAUTIFUL
SO LOVE.
WE HAVE BEEN LED LIKE BRAINLESS GERMS TO THINK OUR PERSONAL, RACIAL, AND RELIGIOUS STRUGGLES WILL MATTER WHILE THIS COUNTRY BUILDS
AND BUILDS
AND BUILDS
AN ARSENAL OF WEAPONS TO KILL AND WAYS TO CONTAIN PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD.
OUR COUNTRY IS LAUNCHING LASER/MICROWAVE WEAPONS.
THINK FOR A MINUTE WHAT THAT IS.
What are we doing?
Not doing?
Is it done?
Without revival...
ahm just shakin' my head.
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Saturday, September 30, 2006
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if it makes me a "terrorist" now to say it, so be it. RISE.
After my bulletin yesterday that Bush has just rushed through and won the authority - in the vaguest imaginable terms - to label ANYONE a terrorist then
have them tortured however he sees fit,
one of my friends wrote me an email that was titled,
"May god help us all."
I just looked at that.
It's almost too late - not quite I hope - but just about
too late.
(LET THE PEOPLE SCREAM!)
To those who think we are just "complaining" about the president, that is NOT the case.
The trouble-makers of our own day are the truth-tellers.
Truth tellers are called that
(and never forget bad folks lie).
(Listen.)
The administration in power must be partying this weekend
because they have just won the right to do anything they want to anyone.
No exaggeration.
Really.
Did you read it? Are you watching? Are you seeking truth beyond the federally-licensed news channels?
Don't wave it away.
Pick up the hum and follow it.
See where it's coming from
and why.
Please don't delay.
(I believe if October 5th's Day of Mass Resistance doesn't fill the streets,
if we can't wake up our friends and families,
convince or DRAG them out that day - it is probably
over.
What has just happened in our halls of law - if it does not rile the nation to the point of outcry - little else can - in time.)
There is a killer storm crossing the earth leaving HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF HUMAN BEINGS DEAD IN IT'S WAKE - MILLIONS OF DISPLACED, MAIMED, AND ABANDONED PEOPLE DOOMED.
They aren't showing you that on the news. Just two u.s. soldiers were killed today. Five yesterday.
A brave soldier from peoria illinois, and another from lathrop missouri.
(Slap yo self out of the imposed daze.)
It is not new, it is just bigger and more deadly, moving faster, and more inescapable than any of the horrid killer storms that have preceded it.
When the Jews were taken from their homes and put on trains, think how AWFUL that was for them - how devastating. They didn't live in shacks, they had families and jobs. Until their government labeled them,
they were
"citizens."
I'm sure it was little consolation that they had a camp to go to -
but what choice did they have? They packed a litte tiny bit in a bag, quoting holy scriptures to themselves and each other,
trusting God,
and left everything
and every one
that they knew
behind.
Men lied when they assured their wives.
Mothers lied when they assured their children.
Children trusted that as long as they had mom and dad,
somehow
it was going to be alright.
THEY THOUGHT LOSING THEIR STUFF AND HAVING TO GET ON THE TRAIN AND HAVING TO GO TO A
CAMP
WAS THE WORST THAT COULD HAPPEN.
But we know
it wasn't the worst. The worst was yet to come.
People had tried to tell them about the death camps. Rumors. "Trouble-makers" tried to get the word out.
Who could believe such
outrageousnes?
How hard to get on a train with the people you love if you understand
where it may be going.
When the train GETS to where it's going, it's too late.
I am one of those trouble-makers,
saying this is not just awful,
it's the end if we don't rebel before the last pieces are put in place.
I believe that if October 5th isn't a day of MASS resistance,
that we will have no time to get across to people
how much is demanded of us
to immediately derail what's in progress.
There will be no more time.
It's planned that way -
to play us until it's
way too late.
(How many is it too late for already because of our reluctance and delay?)
If you have no idea, or little idea, of what I'm talking about (those who have focused on just being "happy" or "entertained" and who have willfully overstepped knowing) please run and learn.
NOT on the tv news.
It's not telling you the truth.
Pull into those who are taking the chance to cry it out.
LEAN IN and hear what they are saying.
Stop mentally blurring the words.
They are not crazed,
not unpatriotic,
and not terrorists.
They are telling you where the train is going...
where it's returned from,
who sent it,
and how it was arranged to be
financed.
(I have never heard a more frightening story.)
To those who know, please get the importance of October 5th out.
The whole world is waiting to see what the PEOPLE of the U.S. will do -
they have been waiting
and waiting
and waiting, TRUSTING
that we are are against the acts being perpetrated.
They have been trusting that we are not like what they are seeing in their anguished, bloody streets.
WE (including you)
have hesitated too long
making us somehow,
in some sick way
responsible for every massacre and extermination of people -
of all time -
by not acting on the hugest one of all happening in our own time.
WE (including me)
are no different than any other people
of any other time -
hoping it will get better.
But the monsters are bigger and more lethal.
Passive murder en masse?
Feels and looks that way to me.
Oct 5.
What matters?
Tell me that.
What matters?
- When all is said...
after all of our words?
The time is not later.
It really is
now.
How many have been killed while I typed?
While you read this?
DON'T BE DAZZLED
BY MUSIC
AND SPORTS
AND COMEDIES
AND VIDEOS
AND DRUGS
AND SEX
TO THE POINT
THAT YOU ARE
SO SELFISH
THAT NOTHING MATTERS -
UNTIL IT'S AT YOUR OWN FRONT DOOR.
DON'T DO THAT.
THIS ADMINISTRATION IS COUNTING ON IT THAT YOU WILL.
JUMP UP.
FUNKADELICS SAID "FREE YO MIND AND YOUR ASS WILL FOLLOW."
MARLEY SAID BREAK THE CHAINS OF MENTAL SLAVERY.
STEVEN BIKO SAYS "THE MOST POTENT WEAPON IN THE HANDS OF THE OPPRSESOR IS THE MIND OF THE OPPRESSED."
HITLER SAYS "THE GREAT MASSES OF THE PEOPLE WILL MORE EASILY FALL VICTIMS TO A BIG LIE THAN TO A SMALL ONE." -
AND -
"HOW FORTUNATE FOR LEADERS THAT MEN DO NOT THINK."
Think.
THAT is the revolution.
We owe it to our kids,
if not to ourselves
and all of the defenseless people on our planet.
Our planet.
Ruthless conquerers drew the lines all over it over much time but we are all here
together.
SEEK SOURCES OF TRUE NEWS. HOOK UP WITH PEOPLE IN YOUR COMMUNITIES. IF THERE IS NOTHING TO JOIN IN ON, START SOMETHING.
TRY TO BE SAFE BUT THERE COMES A TIME WHEN SAFETY CANNOT BE ASSURED.
WE ARE IN THOSE TIMES.
SAFETY CANNOT BE ASSURED.
DO SOMETHING.
NO.
DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN.
THIS HAS TO STOP.
- small still voice
"I freed Germany from the stupid and degrading fallacies of conscience, morality... we will train young people before whom the whole world will tremble. I want young people capable of violence, imperious, rentlessiously and cruel."
Adolf Hitler
"We came to the question: what to do with the women and children? I decided to find a clear solution here as well. I did not consider myself justified to exterminate the men - that is, to kill them or have them killed - and allow the avengers of our sons and grandsons in the form of their childreen to grow up. The difficult decision had to be taken to make this people disappear from the earth."
Heinrich Himmler
I love you.
Be strong.
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Tuesday, August 01, 2006
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Writing on pictures of Palestine
Category: News and Politics
I'm not done.
Every night I will be here.
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006
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some real someone somewhere
I look out the window of the bus and instead of the otherside of the highway
I see North Korean soldiers shooting people
they have pulled from a car.
I don't know why it wasn't american gi's
or isreali's,
it's just what I saw.
(Where doesn't matter.
People are just under
cruel rule
all around us.)
I imagine what it's like.
Do you tell yourself they deserved it so life will seem controllable and buying into the "think" is easier,
or does your heart beat hard
and you just hope
you can get where your going without it happening to
you.
Then instead of a bus passenger I was a folded grandmother
a matriarch in a small hole of a house
realizing a young person in my family was getting political,
rising and resisting - find truth and bravery.
I had seen the times and knew what was coming.
Under my breath I softly said
trouble will visit this house,
forseeing our future.
The PEOPLE.
The PEOPLE in these countries. Not their governments.
What has happened?
Why is it that we see the media-directed
trading of government lies and missles,
banned images of the victims of war,
while forgetting (to expand our hearts and remember) about
human rights
and
human dignity.
Individual fear,
and suffering.
WHO CAN CARE about human rights now
in these times of
UNLEASHED killing?
Hearing about it and telling about it is just part of our normal days now.
We can't minimize this question:
what has the value of life been reduced to?
HOW BRAZEN IS IT TO TAKE UP THE NEWS CHANNELS WITH HOW TO GET AMERICAN CITIZENS OUT OF LEBANON?
WHAT ABOUT THE PEOPLE. ALL THE PEOPLE.
LIKE WHEN CENTRAL AMERICA QUIETLY HAD WHOLE TOWNS WASHED AWAY - OFF THE MAP - LAST YEAR BY HURRICANES, THEN IT WAS HOW MANY TOURISTS ARE THERE?
HOW MANY TOURISTS IN THE TSUNAMI?
HOW MUCH OLD MONEY IS ON VACATION.
WHAT ABOUT PEOPLE.
LIVING BREATHING PEOPLE.
WAS THIS GOVERNMENTS AIMED-DENIAL OF SUPPLIES AND HELP TO THE VICTIMS OF KATRINA TO TEACH US
IT'S NO USE
THAT THE TIME OF CONCERN FOR ONE, TWO, THOUSANDS, TENS OF THOUSANDS
IS OVER?
WHILE I'M CRYING OVER WARS AND FAMINES
WOMEN ARE STILL GETTING THEIR INNER AND OUTTER LABIA AND CLITORISES BUTCHERED OUT - AT PUBERTY, SEWN UP WHEN THEIR MAN TRAVELS, AND RE-CUT OPEN WITH A HUNTING KNIFE WHEN HE COMES HOME.
CHILDREN ALL AROUND THE WORLD ARE BEING TRADED SOLD ENSLAVED
RAPED AND MURDERED WHILE THE FILM IS RECORDING
SO THAT RICH WHITE MEN IN AMERICA
CAN WATCH THEM DIE.
AND IT BETTER NOT BE A FAKE
FOR THE
MONEY HE PAID.
AND WE USE CHILDREN TO SAY IT'S OUTRAGEOUS
BUT EVERYBODY
IS SOMEBODY'S
BABY.
MEANWHILE
IN THE MIDST OF THIS WOMEN ARE STILL GETTING THEIR NAILS DONE AND
MEN CARE WHAT BRAND OF ATHLETIC SHOES.
I WEAR ONE PAIR OF SHOES AND MAH NATURAL HAIR
THAT I FIX IN THE BATHROOM WITH A COMB
AND DON'T UNDERSTAND.
I'M NOT ATTACKING ANYONE, JUST BEING HONEST -
IT'S WHAT I SEE. I DON'T JUDGE FOLKS FOR BEING LIKE EVERYONE ELSE, I JUST THINK OF HOW MUCH MONEY THAT IS AND WHAT IT COULD DO.
BUT IT'S NOT MINE. I CAN ONLY THINK ON IT.
IT'S NOT YOU,
ITS US.
ME.
I WANT TO SEE EVERYBODY HATES CHRIS AT 8PM
ON THURSDAYS.
WHAT IS THAT?
KEEP US LAUGHING?
PEOPLE STILL NEED MEDICINE,
A SCHOOL,
SOMEONE TO TALK TO (DON'T FORGET THOSE TRULY ALONE),
AND A CHANCE.
THERE ARE HUNGRY PEOPLE IN MAH PLATE.
HOMELESS PEOPLE IN MAH BED.
I CLOSE MY EYES
AND THEY ARE REACHING.
IT DOESN'T "DEPRESS" ME - IT MAKES ME THINK THERE IS SO MUCH MORE WE NEED TO DO - AND THAT IN BITS IF WE ALL DO SOMETHING IT WILL MATTER
SO MUCH.
NONE OF US CAN DO IT ALL,
BUT ANY PIECE MEANS SOMETHING
TO
SOMEONE - SOME REAL SOMEONE
SOMEWHERE.
WHY DO YOU THINK MICROSOFT ONLY MAKES VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES.
SWEET BILL GATES.
HUMANITARIAN GATES,
KING OF THE X-BOX
SAVING THE WORLD
WHILE MY CHILDREN ARE LONGING FOR WHAT THEY CAN'T HAVE
BECAUSE MY DAUGHTER WON ONE OF HIS BOXES
BUT
I WON'T LET THE GAMES IN
MAH HOUSE.
NOT MAH HOUSE!
OH NO.
NOT FOR MAH CHILDREN.
WHERE DO WE GO NOW?
HUMAN-WISE.
THERE ARE MORE
THAN WAR VICTIMS.
WHAT NOW?
I THOUGHT MAYBE WE COULD GO DOOR TO DOOR WITH THE CODES OF EVERY HUMANITARIAN ORG AND
PLEAD WITH PEOPLE TO GIVE AT LEAST ONE DOLLAR -
TO ANYTHING.
ALL SUFFERING IS SUFFERING.
WE HAVE FORGOTTEN
THE SUFFERING OF
POVERTY WITHOUT A DOOR OUT.
REMEMBER POVERTY?
(WHAT *ARE*
THE HUMAN RIGHTS?
I DON'T REMEMBER.)
IT'S SHADOWED OUT WITH BOMBS
AND BLOOD
AND EVERYONE ELSE
EVERYONE ELSE
IS BEING FORGOTTEN.
COULD WE GO DOOR TO DOOR,
PERSON TO PERSON,
AND GET EVERYONE TO GIVE
SOMETHING TO SOMEONE
SOMEWHERE?
WOULD IT WORK OR AM I BEING IDEALISTIC?
I THINK IT WOULD WORK.
WHAT SHOULD IT BE CALLED?
AHM SERIOUS.
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006
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changed the date of this blog to keep it at the bottom
whisperings.
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