:: gotjosh :: 0012 :: pay-half

[.:.joshua gottdenker]

Greetings friends from far and wide!

Do you REALLY care about peace on earth? REALLY, REALLY, Reaaaallllllly???

I hope that you welcome this message and that you are feeling adventurous today!

I am writing to share with you an opportunity to make a statement. If many of us join in, it could be a very loud and very profound statement.

I have already joined the PAY-HALF.org initiative, and i hope that you will also join us.

You may ask HUH? what is pay half and what does this have to do with peace???

Good Questions.

Pay-Half is a bit bigger than a petition, and a bit louder than a protest march.
Joining Pay-Half is a declaration of an individual's intention to pay HALF of the taxes that the United States Federal Government would like them to pay.

Thats right... HALF.

Its easy, safe, LEGAL, and legit...

wanna check it out: pay-half.org (and hurry there is less than 100 hours before April 15th! Please Pass it along :-D)

Quotes:
There is a grassroots awakening taking place, and literally millions of people all over the world are genuinely striving to create lives of joy, peace, abundance, health and comfort for themselves and their loved ones. The vast majority of the six and one-half billion people evolving on Earth want the same thing. They want to know that their families are safe and that they can provide food, shelter, security, health care, education and comfort for their loved ones. - by Patricia Diane Cota-Robles

If governments and their leaders, bound by hierarchy and patriarchy, wedded to military might for legitimacy, fail to grasp the implications of an emerging world consciousness for cooperation, for peace and for sustainability, they may become irrelevant.  - U.S. Representative Dennis Kucinich 2002

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_resistance#Quotations

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Additional Good Stuff
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i recently spoke with the man who is responsible (in part) for these two sites:
http://www.thankyouharrytaylor.org/
http://thankyoustephencolbert.org/wordpress/

some other things that have come accross my radar:
http://kiva.org/
http://www.gaiauniversity.org/english/
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/02/the-pirate-bay.html

http://earthtrends.wri.org/updates/node/279
curious potential connection to the natural wrath (named katrina) recently experienced in New Orleans,Louisiana (exactly where the missisipi dumps into the gulf)
http://tinyurl.com/29h7dr

consciousness distributed throughout the body?
http://www.bio.net/bionet/mm/cellbiol/1998-July/009138.html

beautiful video:
http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=l1cdfii7tx

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Personal Tidbits
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Well, I am here. In the maelstrom of life on earth... overwhelmed, underwhelmed, stupefied with wonder, wondering about all the stupidity.... aren't we an amazing trip! Human Beans, wondering what it is to be humane...

I stay in Denmark at the moment... Soon my beloved Ranatha and I will move together out into the Nordic nature somewhere... some way... In hopes to create a balanced sustainable environment where we can invite our extended family (that includes you!) to visit and live, and where we can invite a new soul into this amazing world to share the illusions ;-)

I would like to say thank you for all your thoughts and prayers for me, my family (my Mom is feeling better - YEA!!!) and the freedom of all sentient beings...
with love,
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.:.joshua
"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what they have already achieved, but at what they aspire to do." ~Kahlil Gibran
http://gotblogua.gotjosh.net