To Kill an American
jason
To Kill an American
You probably missed it in the rush of news last week, but there was
actually a report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper
an offer of a reward to anyone who killed an American, any American.
So an Australian dentist wrote an editorial the following day to let
everyone know what an American is ...... so they would know when they
found one. (Good one, mate!!!!)
"An American is English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish,
Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may also be Canadian, Mexican,
African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian,
or Arab, or Pakistani or Afghan.
An American may also be a Comanche, Cherokee, Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho,
Apache, Seminole or one of the many other tribes known as native
Americans.
An American is Christian, or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or
Muslim.
In fact, there are more Muslims in America than in Afghanistan. The
only difference is that in America they are free to worship as each of
them chooses.
An American is also free to believe in no religion. For that he will
answer only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming
to speak for the government and for God.
An American lives in the most prosperous land in the history of the
world.
The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of
Independence, which recognizes the God given right of each person to
the pursuit of happiness.
An American is generous. Americans have helped out just about every
other nation in the world in their time of need, never asking a thing
in return.
When Afghanistan was over-run by the Soviet army 20 years ago,
Americans came with arms and supplies to enable the people to win back
their country!
As of the morning of September 11, Americans had given more than any
other nation to the poor in Afghanistan. Americans welcome the best of
everything...the best products, the best books, the best music, the
best food, the best services. But they also welcome the least.
The national symbol of America, The Statue of Liberty, welcomes your
tired and your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the
homeless, tempest tossed. These in fact are the people who built
America.
Some of them were working in the Twin Towers the morning of September
11, 2001 earning a better life for their families. It's been told that
the World Trade Center victims were from at least 30 different
countries, cultures, and first languages, including those that aided
and abetted the terrorists.
So you can try to kill an American if you must. Hitler did. So did
General Tojo, and Stalin, and Mao Tse-Tung, and other blood-thirsty
tyrants in the world. But, in doing so you would just be killing
yourself. Because Americans are not a particular people from a
particular place. They are the embodiment of the human spirit of
freedom. Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an American.
Please keep this going!
Pass this around the World ?
then pass it around again.
It says it all, for all of us
Jeanette
In view of Earth being one planet in a solar system, the solar system being
part of a galaxy, and the galaxy being part of the Universe, it is rather
arrogant and egotistical to think Americans or anyone is a supreme being on
a special planet, and we aren't being directly affected by beings and
circumstance beyond the understanding of most inhabitants on Mother Earth.
Your message simply describes the situation on our chosen home globe.
However, in light of the vastness of time, space, interdimensional travel,
personal mind expansion and experience, there is much more to the Life
equation, than seas which separate continents, political boundaries made
to inflict power over others, and religious and spiritual belief systems
meant to cast shadows of superiority over the "lost and ill gotten."
People tend to hold limited belief systems, because of fear of thinking
beyond the design of their lives, which they cling to in order to feel safe
and secure.
Someday Earth will be presented, or be forced to recognize, that limited
spheres of living meant to offer security and warmth, using egotistical
definitions of who is of more value than who, will quickly dissipate into
what vulnerability in the face of truth must then do.
And even *that* is paltry in light of the personal experience on seeing the
Face of God.
Jeanette
http://thewillingmind.blogspot.com/
http://acollaborationofwisdom.blogspot.com/
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J
freedom. Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an
American."
Unfortunately, the tendency to trade freedom for security is also a
historical human proclivity. Read the Patriot Act.
One could argue that the spirit of freedom this dentist talks about is
most exemplified in those Americans returning to rural areas,
re-learning self-sufficiency, and in various ways rejecting the coming
American police state.
The spirit of human freedom is hardly exemplified by an over paid
American dentist who spots jingoist nonsense when large numbers of
"Americans," can't even afford basic, regular dental care, because
their jobs are being outsourced and sent overseas by a calculated
government and corporate policy of globalization, which NO American
voted on.
When the American middle class is all but eliminated and the "have
nots" outnumber the "haves," it doesn't take much brains to predict how
the "have's" will protect what they have. And the spirit of freedom
will have very little to do with it.
When that happens we'll see if the living in an up-scale, gated
community is a better strategy for freedom then living off the land in
the mountains of Montana.
jason
islamofacists.... come to think of it you should be glad too.... glad
for you and everyone else's clit.........even mine! oh....wait a
minute.......
****
It is reported that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said
to a midwife: "Reduce the size of the clitoris but do not exceed the
limit, for that is better for her health and is preferred by husbands".
The hadith indicates that circumcision is better for a woman's health
and it enhances her conjugal relation with her husband. It's
noteworthy that the Prophet's saying "do not exceed the limit" means do
not totally remove the clitoris. *****
well, isn't that kind of them!
jason
of speech
ever comes from the islamofacist middle east...
take this forum right here...
where did it originate?
where did it's idea come from?
from Pakistan?
from Baghdad?
from Mecca?
from Medina?
from Tehran?
nope...
from the good old USA.....
i'd say that's the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom, if there
ever was one!
J
of speech
Read history. Freedom to speak can be taken away in a heart beat.
mr bill
if people stopped being sick
therefore
doctors and nurses thrive on illness
and promote it
:)
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mr bill
there is and never has been such a thing
a bullet between the eyes shuts anyone up
now, read the constitution
it only says: "congress shall make no law..."
you make a very common error here john
you mistake free speech
for the right to be heard
there is no right to be heard
:)
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Jeanette
The medical profession has nothing to do with people being sick.
Your view is limited. No experience is solely based upon one side, one
philosophy, or one vision. All experience is joined, and people are brought
together in train stations, sidewalks, restaurants, and yes, even ERs, for
purpose and good reason. The key is seeing beyond the illusional experience,
and being willing to know the truth of the nature of the Reality for which
the 3D experience is nothing but a shadow of what is actually occurring
between beings who come together for one reason, yet the reason they are
together isn't what they think at all.
And your response to my message had nothing to do with my message,
but simply a format for you to have a bill public temper tantrum about
something you do not understand at all.
:-)
Jeanette
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Jeanette
You would blame Mother Teresa for poverty, because absent poverty, Mother
Teresa just wouldn't have had a chance to be a Saint after all.
Little do you understand, or care to understand, as to the design of what
occurs concerning relationship, and why.
:-)
Jeanette
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Linda
Haggard Merle Lyrics - Big City Lyrics
I'm tired of this dirty old city.
Entirely too much work and never enough play.
And I'm tired of these dirty old sidewalks.
Think I'll walk off my steady job today.
Turn me loose, set me free, somewhere in the middle of Montana.
And gimme all I got comin' to me,
And keep your retirement and your so called social security.
Big City turn me loose and set me free.
Been working everyday since I was twenty.
Haven't got a thing to show for anything I've done.
There's folks who never work and they've got plenty.
Think it's time some guys like me had some fun.
Soooo...
Turn me loose, set me free, somewhere in the middle of Montana.
And gimme all I got comin' to me,
And keep your retirement and your so called social security.
Big City turn me loose and set me free
>
J
Really? I'd say Americans are so dumbed down from generations of force
feed drug culture and "social engineering," that most Americans will
accept any BS feed to them if packaged with the right emotional appeal.
Look at the news. Ask yourself how serious can the government be about
"terrorists," if 12 million illegal immigrants have entered this
country and the US government is unwilling to take steps to control
illegal immigation or secure borders? Doesn't it stand to reason that
if terrorist or terrorist acts like 911 were actually a concern rather
than a political ploy --that logical steps would be taken to control
who enters this country?
What about the recent country-wide, Islamic riots in France? What sense
does it make to push large-scale Islamic immigration into Europe (and
the US) when for all purposes the Western powers are waging a military
and cultural war to eliminate Islam? What exactly do you think would be
the purpose if the "government" of Israel would seek to immigrate
millions of German neo-nazis skinheads to Israel and then by threat of
hate-crime laws and propoganda expect Jews and Nazis to co-exist? Gee,
does destruction of Israel as a country come to mind?
What purpose does it serve to hate a billion Islamics when the forces
that are destroying America are largely internal and not external?
Here's a hint. Its to give you a ready-made enemy, and a ready-made
explanation so you won't ask logical questions.
Here's a recent essay from a blogger on Islama-Fascists.
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Drugs, Hollywood and Islama-Fascists
We are reminded by W.E.B. Griffin in his new book "The Hostage"
that drug money sourced primarily from the insatiable American pop-drug
culture continues to find its way to bad ends. Well established leaking
of cartel money to southern American communist insurgencies is now
observed to have morphed - to include Islama-Fascist organization
whose objectives are similar but reach out to finance underground cell
activity in the U.S.
So there we have it in a nut-shell. Consuming drugs by snorting coke,
smoking cartel weed or shooting cartel smack most likely supports the
enemy that wants to kill us and end our way of life. Nothing new ----
the link between drugs and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan is
so old and so worn that we forget it exists. But the links to the
southern hemisphere of this continent are worrisome to the extreme.
There is the common border. We share time-zones. The U.S is a catch
basin for the South American overflow. Venezuelan heads of state freely
flaunt their links to Iran and Islama-Fascism in general under the
motto of the " The enemy of my enemy ...". The enemy is at our
gates and we provide them with money to breach our defenses and kill
us. If it sounds to be sheer madness consider the sheer congruence with
the distortion in our current national mores that would allow it
---nay, foster it.
We live in a land that wages a war with no call to sacrifice to defeat
the known enemy. The war we wage is unlike any other we have fought.
There is no call to sacrifice anything be it money in the form of taxes
to pay for it, rubber or scrap metal collections, war-bond sales, gas
stamps, or ration coupons. And no cessation of our consumption of
massive amounts of drugs which defines the Pop-American drug culture
and that underpins substantial layers of our national economy. We are a
nation of highly visible contradictions that would convince any enemy
that we can be overcome. Defeated in the medium-term. Killed-off, one
by one.
So here is a call to those who lead the culture. We know them as
Hollywood film stars, directors, producers, film distributors and
hangers-on. We know them as the leaders of the Hip-Hop culture, the
Rappers, the night club owners, the blingeratis. We know them as NBA
3-point shooters and MLB home-run hitters. We see their faces and we
want to be them and have their lifestyle, consume their drugs and share
the booty.
The call is for them to join the war effort. To fund and drive a
massive campaign to stop using drugs. To step forward and tell the
country that to do drugs is to fund the enemy who is killing us and
wants to close out our way of life. A massive effort that may well
change a culture which supports them and their mystique, but goes far
to focus the minds of millions on the war and our mortal enemy who is
at the gates and has the means, motive and opportunity to snuff us all.
Here's to you "Puffy" Baldwin, Mr. Samuel Cool Jackson, to every
rapper that dreams of bling, to Lindsey Lohan, to Tim Robbins, to James
Gandolfini, to Shaqille the "Shaq", LeBron James, to Barry Bonds
and Alex Rodriquez --- the call is to you to lay it on the line. Your
power is immense and to ignore it is to tolerate it. If you do, then
this war will at least begin to look like the other ones we have waged,
sacrificed for as a nation and won. Sacrificed for and won --- how
remote that sounds.
Poldark Maximus
mr bill
obvious relationship. as well as being obvious, it is simple; the medical
industry depends on the sick and injured for its livelihood. that is not a
statement of blame anymore than it would be to say that i depend on hungry
people for my livelihood.
in your post you told jason "People tend to hold limited belief systems,
because of fear of thinking beyond the design of their lives, which they
cling to in order to feel safe and secure.", and yet you are blind to
yourself doing that very thing.
doctors and nurses are the front line of an industry that is made up of an
immense array of relationships. the medical industry is a tapestry woven
with the threads of the petro-chemical, insurance, legal, pharmaceutical,
and political industries, just to name a few. just as in any other industry,
they are all dependent on their consumers to maintain their livelihood. that
is not in any way saying they are to blame for illness, but it is to say
that they depend on it.
look around your emergency room and notice all of the plastics, polymers,
rubber, latex, and so on, and you are looking at the fingers of the
petro-chemical industry. the medications administered and prescribed are the
obvious products of the pharmaceutical industry. lawyers sue and defend
doctors and hospitals, forcing them to spend tremendous sums of money on
insurance to protect themselves. those same insurers convince consumers that
they must have adequate insurance to protect themselves as well. politicians
depend on their ability to regulate the medical industry, as well as
depending on the elderly and the poor to access the programs they create, to
maintain their political power.
now, this is not to say that there are not good people in all of the
industries attempting to do good work, or that there are not scoundrels at
every level lining their own pockets and padding their own power. my point
on this matter is and has always been to point out the RELATIONSHIPS that
exist within the system. that you are hearing blame and criticism should be
a pointer for you to look at in your own introspection, because there is not
any blame being placed from this end.
just as i told nancy, you are inferring what you FEEL is being implied, and
apparently are unwilling to acknowledge your own prejudice and bias as the
cause, but would rather take the easy way out and shoot the messenger.
:)
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Sheryl Valentine
Teresa just wouldn't have had a chance to be a Saint after all.
sv: LoL -- good point Jeanette! I liked your posts on healthcare too -- yeah
and if cars didn't break down we wouldn't need mechanics so mechanics have
an investment in your car breaking down.....jeez louise -- we could go a
long way with this! lol! ;) sheryl
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jason
J wrote:
> "i'm glad we americans don't hold the limited beliefs of the
> islamofacists. . . . ."
>
> Really? I'd say Americans are so dumbed down from generations of force
> feed drug culture and "social engineering," that most Americans will
> accept any BS feed to them if packaged with the right emotional appeal.
jlf- well, you'll get no argument from me on that one.
>
> Look at the news. Ask yourself how serious can the government be about
> "terrorists," if 12 million illegal immigrants have entered this
> country and the US government is unwilling to take steps to control
> illegal immigation or secure borders? Doesn't it stand to reason that
> if terrorist or terrorist acts like 911 were actually a concern rather
> than a political ploy --that logical steps would be taken to control
> who enters this country?
jlf- you bring up a good point. one i've explored from radio shows and
internet sites (like Coast to Coast AM). but the conspiracy theories
tend to go overboard.
the facts are that islamofacist terrorists attacked america on 9/11...
was our gov't "out to lunch"? major parts of it were... still are...
was our gov't compromised? some parts probably were...still are...
greed speaks louder than patriotism for alot of folks.
>
> What about the recent country-wide, Islamic riots in France? What sense
> does it make to push large-scale Islamic immigration into Europe (and
> the US) when for all purposes the Western powers are waging a military
> and cultural war to eliminate Islam? What exactly do you think would be
> the purpose if the "government" of Israel would seek to immigrate
> millions of German neo-nazis skinheads to Israel and then by threat of
> hate-crime laws and propoganda expect Jews and Nazis to co-exist? Gee,
> does destruction of Israel as a country come to mind?
>
> What purpose does it serve to hate a billion Islamics when the forces
> that are destroying America are largely internal and not external?
> Here's a hint. Its to give you a ready-made enemy, and a ready-made
> explanation so you won't ask logical questions.
jlf- i get the feeling you are heading in the one-world gov't,
globalist, new world order, illumanati, skull and bones,
Rockefeller-Hosthchild conspiracy direction.
i don't buy it. but it is fun to think about.
<snip>
> The call is for them to join the war effort. To fund and drive a
> massive campaign to stop using drugs.
<snip>
jlf- never gonna happen. the altering of moods through substances is
older than the hills and is not a unique American problem. try not to
formulate an entire world outlook on the assumption that it is.
jason
mr bill wrote:
> doctors and nurses would be out of a job
> if people stopped being sick
> therefore
> doctors and nurses thrive on illness
> and promote it
> :)
what?!?
ever heard of preventative medicine?
jlf
jason
Jeanette wrote:
> bill,
>
> The medical profession has nothing to do with people being sick.
>
> Your view is limited. No experience is solely based upon one side, one
> philosophy, or one vision. All experience is joined, and people are brought
> together in train stations, sidewalks, restaurants, and yes, even ERs, for
> purpose and good reason. The key is seeing beyond the illusional experience,
> and being willing to know the truth of the nature of the Reality for which
> the 3D experience is nothing but a shadow of what is actually occurring
> between beings who come together for one reason, yet the reason they are
> together isn't what they think at all.
>
> And your response to my message had nothing to do with my message,
> but simply a format for you to have a bill public temper tantrum about
> something you do not understand at all.
>
> :-)
>
> Jeanette
not to mention
that a large focus of the american medical establishment
is now pushing a little thing known as preventative healthcare.
jason
mr bill wrote:
<snip>
> just as i told nancy, you are inferring what you FEEL is being implied,
well, not totally, mr. b
you tend to be just as jaded as the next son-of-bitch!
:)
jason
Sheryl Valentine wrote:
> Jeanette to Bill: You would blame Mother Teresa for poverty, because absent
> poverty, Mother
> Teresa just wouldn't have had a chance to be a Saint after all.
>
> sv: LoL -- good point Jeanette! I liked your posts on healthcare too -- yeah
> and if cars didn't break down we wouldn't need mechanics so mechanics have
> an investment in your car breaking down.....jeez louise -- we could go a
> long way with this! lol! ;) sheryl
>
mr. bill is extremely jaded.
and this what makes him so lovable! :)
and on this issue he brings up some valid points.
but the delicate relationship between the sick and the healthcare
industry
can't necessarily be summed up, in toto, exactly with bill's post....
but he does raise some good points.
Jeanette
"apparently are unwilling to acknowledge your own prejudice and bias as the
cause, but would rather take the easy way out and shoot the messenger."
Nah.
You simply think you know why I work in the ER.
You don't.
My reason for working in the ER has nothing to do with allopathic medicine,
the relationship of providers for services, and supplies, and any of the
others matters concerning the 3D world which you hold so dear because that
is all you will ever know or understand.
"yet you are blind to yourself doing that very thing."
You are completely blind as to why I do what I do. You've defined the word
"nurse," and simply cannot see beyond it. Like my career has anything to do
with wellness, or illness, or anything inbetween. Someday you will
understand that linear thinking, based upon contemporary definitions of
"things", has nothing to do with anything.
You are so entrenched in the illusion you cannot see beyond your own silly,
and very ordinary, pretenses. The sticks and stones you have determined
comprise your world have nothing to do with my own.
Jeanette
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J
globalist, new world order, illumanati, skull and bones,
Rockefeller-Hosthchild conspiracy direction.
i don't buy it. but it is fun to think about."
You don't have to buy anything. You are young enough to stick around
and see things happen. Then you can see if your world view adequately
explains what happens to you. Let's say I never thought I'd live long
enough to see news footage of unburied, bloated human corpses lying
unattended on my city's streets. Let's also say its not what I buy or
don't buy but rather what meaning I extract so I don't prematurally
become one of those unattended corpses.
"never gonna happen. the altering of moods through substances is
older than the hills and is not a unique American problem. try not to
formulate an entire world outlook on the assumption that it is."
Really? I think you miss the man's point in his essay. Moreover, the
alterating of moods through substances was historically in the west,
the activity of adults using alcohol. A wide scale drug culture
supported in various ways by media and financial interest is a very
recent phenomenon.
jason
J wrote:
> Look at the news. Ask yourself how serious can the government be about
> "terrorists," if 12 million illegal immigrants have entered this
> country and the US government is unwilling to take steps to control
> illegal immigation or secure borders? Doesn't it stand to reason that
> if terrorist or terrorist acts like 911 were actually a concern rather
> than a political ploy --that logical steps would be taken to control
> who enters this country?
i just had a thought.....i hope it don't come true. however,
this whole border/migration issue is starting to boil over...
i wonder if another domestic terrorist attack
would divert attention away from the issue...
not that i'm hoping that happens! mind you...
but if it did happen, it would tend to lead me in the conspiracists
direction.
not pleasant thoughts, however.....
bid...@gmail.com
Little do you understand, or care to understand, as to the design of
what
occurs concerning relationship, and why.
bidhati:
The design of what occurs during a relationship is as varied as
people's thoughts about relationships.
Irresponsibility coupled with too much freedom is a dangerous
combination. And IMO, one of our country's problem starts with not
protecting children's mind's from vertical information. What I mean by
veritcal information is information coming from everywhere. The T.V.,
the internet, books, magazines, etc. that can have a powerful negative
affect on a young mind.
In the last 100 years, we as humans have been bombarded with
information. Scientists have proven that a child's thinking patterns
are formed in the early years, and exposure to environment plays a
major role in how the neuronets in the brain are set up. If we are to
expect a better world or country then it is time, that as adults, we
wake up and take a more active and protective role in protecting
children's minds.
Horizonal learning was the way people learned before we had access
to instant communication. We just came out of a time where people
worked their land and the family unit was important People learned from
their community, their parents, their pastors, their elders,
interaction with etc. Please, don't misunderstand me, I am not saying
that it would be better to turn back to total horizonal learning.
There was much barbarism and ignorance, and abuse in those days, too.
We have much more information now. The question is, will people ever
use knowledge that we have gained through technology to better the
human race? And IMO, that means, protecting the children from
information that could affect them in a very negative way as adults,
and this starts with adults being responsible. Many of the younger
adults have already been affected in a negative way and they are not
doing a very good job with their own life, therefore they are the
examples that many of the future generations will emulate.
Many Americans are the Me, Me, Me, generation and they are
raising a Me, Me, Me generation. The larger poplulation of baby-boomers
has created 'anything goes' generation that has very unrealistic views
about life. For instance, allowing them to idolize movie stars,
rappers, basketball players, material things, beauty, skinny anorexic
models, without explaining that money and fame and appearances do not
necessarily pave a road to happiness is a road to disaster.. Many of
the upper and middle class pump information into their children's
brains that make them feel good and special, but it is information that
leaves them poorly equiped to really understand or integrate themselves
into life and good productive interactions with others. Pumping them
full of positive ideas like you can be anything you want may be helpful
to some degree, but on the downside if they have not been exposed or
interacred in real life situations, and taught good ethics morals and
values, when they finish college, they are ill equipped to deal with a
variety of relationships in the workplace. Many have been mislead and
think the world will be handed to them on a silver platter. Many of the
lucky ones that enter the work force with a good education and either
start with a good income or increase their earning power jump into the
urban or suburban lifestyle of spending all of their money as fast as
they get it, or mortgaging themselves out the kazoo to live a lifestyle
beyond their means. Their first starter home is usually $200,000 or
more. Ridiuculous!
I worked as a design consultant in an urban area that bordered an
affluent area. I was amazed, when for instance, a younger woman who
made $150,000 had to juggle to finance a $4,000 sofa. I was puzzled
that she rented an expensive loft and lived pay check to pay check. I
saw this very often. I had a young male customer in his late twenties
who made about $200, 000 or more a year and spent every penny on new
furniture for his new home(that was financed). He kept making more and
more money and he would spend every penny on furniture and new cars. He
financed everything, then paid it off and financed more. I don't know
how many cars he owned when I last saw him. He was set on impressing
people, but quite frankly, I and many others got bored and tired of his
obsessions with things. Everything was all about him, what he had, or
what he was going to get. He was neurotic, but you would be surprised
how many other young people with 'new' money are going overboard. I
also had a lot of younger people with 'old' money(meaning that they
came from money) and many of them watched every penny. They did not
finance and if they couldn't pay for it, they would not buy it. They
would not pay any interest. It was a matter of upbringing. So many of
today's youth think things and money will bring or buy them happiness
therefore they become obsessed with things. Get rich quick and spend
everything you earn like there is no tomorrow is a yearned for, and
marketed addiction.
American's have been able to drown in their own delusional
thinking because of guarded peace, a false sense of prosperity, and
being allowed to live in an illusional dream world that promotes the
idea that they are the center of the universe. Of course, there are
many kind and caring people too, or sensible people but I am afraid
that many of the youth of today or being led down a path of delusion
and unreal expectation that will eventually lead to unhappiness, if not
unhappiness for themselves, then for others because they really do not
know how to make others happy.
Frankly, you might think I am a little gestabo when I tell you
what I think that we as a nation ought to do to protect the minds of
children. First of all, if it is illegall for a mother to shoot her
husband in front of a child, then why are children(in their formative
years) allowed by their parents, to witness murder, sex and rape on
T.V.? If the drive is to help children abstain from sexual practices
that could lead to communicable deadly diseases, preganancies that
produce children that can not be taken care of properly, then why do
parents allow them to watch programs or experience life that gives them
impression that it is O.K. or that the criminal in a movie is the good
guy?
I think we ought to have sensorship for children and all adults need to
be responsible for protecting the children's minds until they reach a
certain age where their brain is more developed and is not so easily
influenced by wrongdoings being glorified, or where early patterns, or
immunity to violence, murder, sex, are not so easily accepted as the
norm. It is not O.K for a pedophile to molest or rape a child. The act
creates terror that scars the child for life. What about the terror
that Hollywood is creating under the guise of realism and fantasy? Why
are children allowed by some parents to be subjected to this sort of
trash that their minds may not be ready to handle. In a sense, it is
mind rape and it does create terror and all sorts of other emotions.
If it is something that is against the law, children should not see it
glorified. Of course Hollywood and advertisers make their money on
preparing young minds to think about, accept all sorts of garbage in
early prepatation for making them consumers for their wares. Society
would change if we were to protect the children and teach them right
from wrong. Even if a parent is trying to teach their children the
basics of right and wrong, they are easily exposed by other children or
the liberal parents of other children. I think we should put a stop to
the horizonal way that children are being exposed to violence, sex, and
greed. If people want to have children then just as they are expected
to give them proper nourishment(food) so they can grow up strong, then
they should be expected to give them proper nourishment for their
minds. Just as a parent knows that when they give their child want they
want to eat, the child will not make the right choices so they have to
teach them or make them eat properly, parents and other adults should
take responsibility for teaching their children what they are to put in
their minds and what they are not to put in their minds and the harm it
can bring. I believe the adults of our country should form committees
and take responsibility for the influences that are injected into
children's mind. When the children become adults and are equipped with
a brain that might work a bit better, then they can make decisions as
to what they want to feed their brain, but in the meantime, we, as
adults have to be responsible. These children are the future of the
world.
You know, Jeanette, a lot of times confused adults turn to religion to
try to get a sense of balance and find some light in the darkness of
life. Basically, many times they are just trying to unravel and
eliminate the torment of their own mind. Our mind's have been
influenced and thinking patterns were formed at a very early age. I
wonder why we as a humanity don't start there. It would certainly
eliminate a lot of future grief.
Carrie
down) there's a need for someone "in the illusion" to fix it. In the
course it says they seem to be doing things to fix it, but it's mainly
the belief (or letting go of guilt- unforgiveness in the patient) that
does any healing.
I once read "if it wasn't for the poor, sick and needy, Mother
Theresa coudn't have become a living Saint".
Just something to ponder (maybe briefly) if everyone stopped
believing in medicine and healing (and being auto mechanics and fixing
cars) would sickness go away and accidents stop and cars stop breaking?
Like change the effect (in the illusion) and the cause (perceived)
would change?
The only thing I think of, came to mind as any kind of example is
dial phones (LOL) Like now there's no need for them and except maybe
some places or decorative ones, they aren't around. Or crank phones
maybe. Same with crank and/or obscene callers, now there's call trace
and *69 and caller ID with anonymous call rejection. I wonder what
obscene callers now do? (aww... they write on the internet (LOL)
Doug Thompson
nationality, (or race or creed or sexual preference or age or length of
hair) irrespective of what that nationality is, and regardless of what
"crimes" others of that nationality might be accused of, seems totally
insane to anyone who isn't!
Jeanette
Great to here from you again.
Overall, I don't think you can find answers looking in the same soup where
the questions are.
You might be symbolically guided by signposts from divine intervention
within the illusional sphere of learning, but overall, if you attempt to
forumlate answers from something which is meaninglesss in the first place,
you end up just contributing to more of the same problem---denial.
I'm not a social activist. I consider myself more of a an individual who
feels that good, healthy, relationships, based upon honest sharing, personal
introspection, and living based upon a foundation of knowing God better, is
key to the world's salvation.
Even one small voice, or joined with another, in healing together, then can
generalize their understanding and love to the world, based somewhat on what
they say, but moreso on what they Do. And to learn to function in this
world, yet not of it, is key to being an instrument for God. And humility
for God is key here, not a stance in the world that I am your "healer." The
former, in decision, completely eliminates the need for the latter.
Jeanette
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Carrie
are formed in the early years, and exposure to environment plays a
major role in how the neuronets in the brain are set up.
First 18 months of life is when a child is "attached" to others or not
(as in sociopath, ASPD, etc) This starts and sometimes is mainly set at
birth. Caesarians (done routinely or for less than emergency reasons)
or drugged labor/childbirth (with the baby being take away from the
mother at birth and only brought in a set times for feeding), so much
medical intervention in what should be natural, with the baby being
held and breastfed from the start, even foster care and adoption
(though sometimes this can't be helped) all contribute to what the
child learns about "what the world is all about". If they are left to
cry themselves to sleep in a dark room they learn "nobody cares,
there's nobody to help me" and get that dog-eat-dog look out for #1
attitude.
After this, all you discribe about the world and what should be done
and changed in it, is seen by the child, then teen, then adult from
that first basic belief about "the world" formed in the first 18
months.
Millions of children watch t.v. and see movies and see the news (did
you mention the news? How violent and negative this is, only feeding us
the bad stuff that goes on, or might go on, in case someone had missed
this?) and it doesn't effect them in a negative way. Because their
minds aren't set on it that way. Kids don't bring guns to school and
shoot people because of what they see on t.v., movies and news. Or even
because there's a gun available to take. If they did, every kid would
be doing it, not just a few.
Kids bring guns to school or want to hurt back those they feel have
hurt them because of what they learned in the first 18 months of life
and from birth, reinforced by what they learn in school. Who is
smartest, best, most popular, who is treated fairly and who isn't. Over
and over.
Do kids who don't, maybe never, went to school (as in homeschooled or
encouraged to learn on their own) feel like stealing a gun and going to
school to shoot other kids and teachers?
All you discribe that is wrong with the world and should be
censored, controlled, children not allowed to see, etc. is doing it in
the wrong way. It's trying to get rid of the symptom instead of the
cause. TV shows, m ovies and news wouldn't be made the way it is, if
nobody ws interested in watching it and paying for this. And, those who
feel loved, cared for and part of the whole, aren't really all that
interested in it, or effected by it.
As to people making huge amounts of money and feeling poor and being
in debt, etc. I see this, too. I know someone (online) a young person,
with computer degrees, who complained about the cost of living and how
he only made $35 an hour where he now lives, and who can surive on
this? (no family or children).
It's all relative, from our own personal perception.
You can spend a lifetime pointing out what's wrong, how it
should/shouldn't be, and even trying to make it the way you think, but
all you can really ever do is change your own mind about it.
Sort of like live your own life and be the best way YOU believe you
can be, and allow others to do the same.
Carrie
Seems like what's being pushed is anti depressants and anti anxiety
pills.
I bet everyone knows at least one person on something like this,
lexapro seems to be popular right now (used to be prozac and paxil).
One way of dealing with the increasing craziness and stress of the
world. But, one might wonder who is making a lot of money off the
manufacturing and selling (which need routine visits to doctor, which
must be paid for, too) from this.
And, once a person gets on pills and needs them to feel good, how do
they ever get off them (if they ever want to) and deal with why they
weren't feeling good in the first place?
Doesn't seem very productive. LIke a bandaide you can never take off
and have to keep buying and replacing.
Not a judgment on those who take a pill and feel better so (of
course) want to keep taking them. But, looking at the situation in a
more overall way.