DIVIDE AND CONQUER YOU!

DIVIDE AND CONQUER

It is a time tested truth; that anyone or thing reduced to parts, is easier to deal with. Sometimes this tactic, and or strategy, to overwhelm ones nemesis-(meaning here, an alleged evil that appears to harbor a latent superior power), this divide and conquer power move is blatant enough to those being parted out as the evil ones. However, when it is used politically to fissure away ones identity, to disassemble it by negative inference, then rebuild it under the umbrella of positive ideals that are in the hands of a power structure, it is being applied to each individual self. Divide and conquer under this context takes on the appearance of personal values, what one identifies as good or essential to personal and societal order, thus to survival.

Liberalism has always been under attack. Liberalism, as it pertains to governments, resulted from overwhelming revolutionary forces that either attained a vast population majority to overthrow oligarchical/monarchical status quo’s enforcers (American Revolution), and or produced a symbiotic empathy among significant numbers of the ruling class elites that initiated a kind of moral imperative to change the status quo (civil rights movement).

In the latter case’s, it was likely the artist and intelligentsia that offered the reasoned dialectic to alter the nature of social and societal contracts. We came to see one another as less endowed by our stations in life, and more equal due to moral and ethical imperatives like the Christian Golden Rule, the Categorical Imperative, and other beliefs that assume a common value to each human life regardless of hereditary endowments.

A CONCEPT AND ITS DIFFERENCE IN REALITY AS IT PERTAINS TO EACH INDIVIDUAL

These revolutionary ideas were most often kept in the abstract in many ways. When the American Revolution was completed; all men were allegedly create equal with rights endowed by their Creator, however, indigenous men and black slave men (someones “property”) were not even on the radar of the “universal right”. Women were not mentioned no matter what nature of woman one was. The fulfillment of the liberal ideal was to take time–because human identities were already deeply divided by persistent conservative notions that negated the “advance” of liberalism by selective use by advantaged groups, and consensus ways of being (group mindsets). Most conservatism has in its thought matrices the conservation of power structures to one groups advance above all others. Conservatism “advances” to undercut liberalism and its attendant freedoms and responsibilities, for it is in fundamental reactionary opposition to them.

We have a new kind of dominant oligarchical form these days; the corporation. We have seen that the “individual” corporation acts as both a shield from real individuals responsibilities to those who make up the corporations power structure, and supplies dividends to those who buy into the corporation by shares=a pyramid owning gambling scheme. This new dominant pseudo-life form has reduced the rights of individuals even in alleged democracies. Corporations, the big influential and transnational ones, are dividing societies into a new dimension of feudal order. Democracy’s power of We the People is atrophying constantly, as hierarchical interest reorder societies and culture into a homogeneous world culture which maximized predatory capitalism’s market share.

THE WORLD DIVIDED

The “Super powers” were in conflict over which paradigm would rule. Both cold war superpowers claimed to be for freedom of one kind or another. The USA cast the conflicts brand name into a freedom vs totalitarian order. (The side using the concept naturally applies its own selective positives to it valiant motives.) The USSR viewed the conflict abstractly as one of individual freedom and equality by them, vs. a vast array of money making schemes that oppressed peoples inherent rights to be free and equal.

Both notions of freedom were highly self delusional in practice, not so unlike the, “all men are created equal” while many men were not even given the dignity of respect as a man. This; oops we forgot to include you all in our idea, applies to many notions that can derive from the concept of freedom as well as other abstraction, some in apparent opposition depending on what ones interest are. These all become weapons in the battles to control human perception and identity. Divide and conquer comes home to you and me. We must reach a consensus on what is the reality of the abstraction, or we will continue to find ourselves at odds over the very same words seeming opposite out of the others mouth.

AND HERE IT COMES

This battle to divide us in a war that seems unending. It shows up in one way or another in most all societies regardless of political, religious or even spiritual identities. We are trapped in this vice of apparently competing self interest that when under pressure, has us tribalisize our identities into us against them conservative notions of superiority and inferiority constructs. In America we see this happen over and over again come election time.

Because the conservative agenda seems to be waning at the moment, the wedge, or divide and conquer right wing attack machine will be geared up to plunder the nutrients from an American public, so anorexic as far as critical thinking abilities are concerned. These manipulators need try to assemble some likely plurality of the population that either identifies with a superiority complexes self ideals, or else convince many that the likely liberal other side is out to undermine all that is good, right and holy. This requires many cognitive and dissociative tricks to be played.

Tricks that are only valuable to those who are subject to being tricked. Subjects such as these need to assume a fear to make a logical “jump”. Stresses need be instilled into the population to help induce anxiety and so automatic interest in the conservative argument. The corporate media allows these tricks to take place and considers them fair overall. Tricks, or otherwise deceptions, are given the right of truth in argument. Realities have eaten away at the facade of conservative superiority both internationally and in domestic “moral” argument. It is hard to be the party of morals when despite all the suppression of incompetence, their own contempt of public good will and their corruption riddled conservative power structures has been nearly impossible to keep from the light of day without a totalitarian state. They will then, be in pursuit of creating a totalitarian mindset.

THE NEXT WAVE OF IGNORANCE

Each election season the same tricks and shell games are rolled out. By both parties, true, but a scale of magnitude order more by the right wing. The right wing actually has a kind of asymmetrical advantage over the more left. Liberalism requires understanding, often of complex and nuanced issues that will contain elements of both ambiguity and contradiction. Liberalism is a movement towards more freedom of the individual overall. It has not always accepted the responsibilities of that freedom for it is caught in the vice of partial dysfunction and the appearance of lack of moral and accountability virtues. This “evil” comes with the nature of liberalism existing amidst overlapping historical dysfunctions across the whole of society, and the permissiveness necessary to allow individuals to experiment and make mistakes in their own lives.

The liberal “realities” make them a ready made scape goat for conservatism’s self perpetuating dysfunctional state of exclusion. If we can get a population to become relatively uneducated in the liberal arts and sciences, we can have people much more susceptible to the cults of exclusion. We can have people who do not wish others to be around them. We can have people who will let ignorance be their guide, instead of understanding. We can have the population become their own ducks in the power structures shooting gallery. We can do these things and have those people, enough of them, to win an election or get close enough to allow the compromised electoral process to change the actual outcomes of election. Once again, these realities will appear absurd to the uninformed or those already suffering under the influence of a stealth reasoning’s bias masquerading as a fact based truth.

Dominator conservative interest around the world are bound to be in some ways at war with one another, since they are all trying to dominate human market share. We have economic systems seeking their freedom to spread to all quarters, and religious and the sociocultural ideologies that feel themselves intrinsically superior and destined to dominate the world because of; fill in the blank——-. Those who hold these view’s feel entitled to rule the world. Feeling entitled to own the world conversely has conservative interest feeling they have every right to destroy it.

It is conservatism that is pro destruction, pro most wars of acquisition, pro violence and terror applied to societal order etc. They are essentially anti-spiritual, in that might makes right to their adherents, and not unbridled understanding to discern likely fact and truth of the matters at hand. Rules and regulations rule the day. It is odd how the attempt by governments (representing the peoples greater interest presumably) are attacked by conservative interest when government attempts to hold all individuals responsible for the effects of their actions. We will see these so called principled conservatives do the opposite of their alleged moral tenets when it is to their advantage to do so. (ex; activist Supreme Court (conservatives) doing in states rights Supreme Court to throw election one way–to conservatives.)

Pollution, human exploitation, these kinds of generic taking of something wholesome from the commons and leaving it in disarray, is considered a right of privilege by those who benefit by the opportunistic advantage over others. They will codify these perverted rights into restrictions of human freedom. The big bad government interfering in our lives. This is exactly why opportunist need to make others believe they are themselves recipients of the predatory advantage, inducing cognitive dissonance into the equations of reason.

BACK TO THE PAST AGAIN!

And here we are; the USA is debating whether to remember the corruption and gross incompetence of the predatory interest and their primary party, or join in a movement towards collective and common responsibilities to freedom and accountability for the effects of ones actions. The tricks are coming under the shells; gays are taking our morals away; liberals are killing the unborn; government is telling your business what it can or cannot due; they are out to take your guns away; our freedom to slant elections is an attack on freedom of speech; the tax and spend liberals are going to impoverish you, etc, etc. These arguments are only valid if ignorance can trump common sense. Common sense must be overturned, emotionalized into ad-hominem bias towards conservatives alleged confident rationalizations.

We have seen government grow more than ever under conservatism. Each tax cut for the rich goes somewhere other than to you. Your tax cut means that stealthy tax called profit is going to eat up your new found excess. Only now you do not even receive the benefit of the taxes effect on the targeted problem. Taking reasoned debate out of consideration of tax reform, leaves that ever growing burden on the population, on the population, while the wealthy have options to do most anything they desire to avoid taxes and responsibilities for their actions, up to and including balling out of the national ship as soon as they notice the water coming in through the portholes. Conservatism, as it has become, relies on a fool being born every second, so to speak. Unfortunately, it does now include legions of sycophants.

We are receiving the regular test on how disassociated we are from our own inherent interest and how that relates to the interest of the commons. One reason why even the notion of the commons has been under siege for some time–as if all things are not connected!

It is decision time once again. Who am I really? And where do I stand? On the shores of understanding, or in the leaking “life raft” of separation and alienation from the whole, steady only in my unacknowledged illusions?

THE BRAIN ERASER

We await the onslaught of diversion. Huddled in our own lives, umbilical cords of electronic information are directed at us. For information as a nutrient, yes, but by and for whom really?

Well, we cannot know, huddled in our lives, dependent both on the umbilical cords and what they happen to feed us. We do not know, when we do knot know it is a primary question to know the answer. It is a perfect trap for the creation of a lab conditions for the experiment on humanity. Just as on some TVs, the movie’s date of first release has been removed, we do not know what of our own history is being vacated. We do things to benefit of someone who is in charge, not necessarily via democratic institution, but via economic privilege to access the cords.

Our agar plate selves are inoculated with what appear as to be our way of life. Children are the most fertile medium for inoculation. The media is both directed at them, and at keeping adults in an immature state, to seem as a kind of child. From my vantage point, this objective has been accomplished quite well. It will not be long, for it already is noticeable, that the WEB will atrophy from its greatest diversity, to, as search engines have it, mostly available for the most popular kid in school, not necessarily the most truthful, relevant or incisive.

As the larval public now, we are fed what is required to metamorphose generic human desire, and impulse to full potential fruition, into the kind of creature that will best suit the asymmetric privilege to live above others, held by the few.

It is fortunate for those who do manipulate (dominate) societies and cultures, that words can come to mean their opposites, while retaining the symbol of their initial configuration. When concepts can be switched to their opposite but still retain their influential image of their origin, language becomes the lab rat. We who speak it, lab technicians who follow the owners manual of the machinery. We are then cogs in the proverbial wheel. This is true when we are not free to know, not free to question fundamental societal construct to the core, when we are not free, period. Freedom becomes a primary illusion, one of great use to a machines owner.

The result can be to in effect; erase the brain, yet keep the desired ego mechanics in place.

The great awakening, is tucked back in to sleep. Only you know where your alarm clock is, but can it be reached to get out of bed?

Not all Sundays are sunny.

BLACK T SHIRTS–GOOD

What I like about black T shirts is how gray hair shows up on them.

True, most guys do not have hair like mine anymore. Am I a living anachronism?

I have cut my own hair for 40 years, half of which it was not long. My long hair is because I identify with all those hair bands from the 80’s. Not really. It is to be in a kind of unity with some of my ancestors who were on this continent for many thousands of years.

The hair represents a kind of individuality that is not defined by conformist trends, except those I actually chose to be a part of me.

And so my fellow humanoids, black T shirts, good.

Otherwise, I’m out to get an MRI today.

CALLING ALL SUCKERS

Oh. I started with a catchy phrase to get attention, I admit it.

I would think by now there would be some algorithm for it. It being the wedge issue parade that, one way or another, needs to be in place by election time to seduce the susceptible public.

The list is familiar; gay marriage, that somehow means the government is against heterosexuals and their vows; flag burning, which is a non existent scourge that liberals support as a freedom of speech or expression (although I am beginning to believe we have grown exhausted with that one); tax cutting, which magically really means for the extremely wealthy, while the rest of us must pick up the basic public problem slack instead of those who use the country the most; various issues put up by the right to snicker at how clueless-unethical-immoral-irresponsible-dependency oriented-non self realizing-etc., those elitist liberals are. Of course gun control; as if the right to bear arms has not always had implied conditions(you have the right to nuclear weapons?). No wonder the “conservative” party is the roosting post of all those chicken hawks who make a killing financially off of endless war. Just a convenient coincidence I’m sure.

Come election time, we will be led to believe the liberals have been controlling things since Carter. It will be as if all the corruption, contempt of the facts, and plain extraordinary incompetence endemic to the present day conservatives never happened, that it was all due to liberals and their big spending, wasteful ways.

Unfortunately, the media will eagerly present all the coming deceptions, as fair to the balance.

THE ALWAYS DISINGENUOUS RIGHT

ALWAYS, BECAUSE IT SEEMS THEY CANNOT HELP IT.

Two interviews in the last two days on Comedy Central displayed the mental disturbance that seems to be endemic to the right wing ideologues. Douglas Feith was interviewed by John Stewart. Host Stewart of the Daily Show, pressed Feith on the rationalizations that led up to the Iraq invasion, and met that wall of no admittance, typical of the architects of the War. I imagine they are doing what Rumsfeld and others did which is to insist they were always right and only the public, or the bad media, anybody, somebody else is responsible for all that seems to have gone wrong.

Meanwhile, last night Steven Colbert interviewed the legendary right wing instigator (I am using instigator like the right wing likes to distort perception by leading with an emotional ad-hominem tag-frame), Grover Norquist. While Colbert plays a right wing instigator of his own, it is in parody. Norquist has a book out that seems designed for the dim wits that are to be implied to be out there in the title. To paraphrase the books title, it goes something like; Keep the government out of all our lives, except where we need it to kill or contain bad people attacking us anti-government Americans.

Colbert did not give him a completely free ride. He asked him if he wants paved roads, since he, Colbert, drives around a dirt road in his back yard and it drives the neighbors crazy. The point of course being that government has a myriad of other services that as of yet are not being taken up by the private sector. Interestingly, and tellingly, Norquist would not even go to answering about us having roads to drive on. Perhaps he is invested in a flying car venture capitalist project?

These people need to keep rolling out the manure spreader for reasons that are up to speculation; Are they fertilizing the fields for the next right wing administration they hope to replace the last pile of crap? Are they covering their own tails with the dysfunctional right wing psyche demonstrated in all its inbreeding, which is tantamount to declaring insanity as a future defense? Or is it just the, plant the propaganda and make a buck off of those who are in a blank about history and civic/cultural responsibilities to the whole scheme?

The John Stewart interviewee refused to see even what the public knows from the time frame in question regarding the war; the, ’sweep up all connections to 9-11 and Saddam valid or not.’, nor the Downing Street memo. Seeming to forget most viewers were alive at the time, and not totally brainwashed by the propaganda war on America of the period. Just as with Ambassador Joseph Wilson and his wife, anyone with critical truth was shunted and undermined for the pro-make war machinery. Hello! We were not all asleep at the civic wheel. Hello! Feith still proclaims they just did not fully convey what they knew. Which was what? All the now proved untruths were true? The mind boggles!

It remains a painful period in American history; that the media was so complicit in blinding the public to the full truth, and instead, accommodating a policy based on distortion and innuendo masquerading as realities. It is apparent that some “existentialist” are still making up their own realities, but insisting we accept them or suffer some fate to come, as if we are not already suffering from their own misgivings.

We still have a president, in case we forget with all the electioneering around, who claims the war was justified because people were telling him it was. That those people were found manipulative, unreliable, highly questionable, is apparently of no interest. Just that they were telling him things. It is good to know we are safely tucked under such a warm blanket of knowledge.

When I view these right wing nincompoops who are drowning this nation in the bathtub of fear and paranoia, it is hard not to see their mental disturbance, it is something in their eyes. There near blindness of world view is stunning in its myopic focus. It remains to be seen whether the darkness will again descend over America come election time. The ever weather vaned media, spinning us once again into the black holes vortex.

{To view Keith’s comment on the President last night, click below}

Olbermann: Mr. President, the war isn’t about you

SURRENDER THE SUN

THE TERRORIST WHO WILL WIN.

It started with a simple maneuver. It showed up on the ground one night, then during the day that never came.

Our worries of global warming; all the arguments pro and con, especially the con job of the con. Now what difference did any of it make? All we knew was; the sun was taken off-line.

It seemed we were easy pickings for plunder.

They had watched us to see how we were; what our motivations are; how we treated one another. Their conclusion seemed to be; Do with them what you will to come out ahead.

SILENT ATTACK UNDERWAY

Temperatures around the world began to fall. Scientist gave grave warnings of how much time we had left. We seemed to have no choice but to accept their demands. We all shook our heads. Didn’t see this one coming, literally. For a brief while, we acted as if it were only a long night.

Seemed they had dragged an asteroid to the other side of the sun and used it for a construction project. There, where they erected the monstrous sun screen never to be seen. Apparently, self replicating robots have no problem making whatever one wants to whatever scale in practically any time you desire. This sun block had to be larger than the earth for heaven sake! Yet it was so thin we could not see them towing it past the sun. It seems it is designed to let even the solar wind keep it in place. Where there is a will, there is a way.

Anyway, that is all besides the point now. Now they have us over the proverbial barrel. We become a deep freeze or do what we are told. No negotiations, no deals. The whole world was riveted on the TV and Internet for a good day. Or should I say, a bad night, for then people’s survival instincts kicked in big time.

In this sudden endless night, with the panic ravaged stores stripped of everything; the clothing gone, along with any fuel most anywhere, news had covered the panic. We were told some companies and the key government officials would be holed up for some time in certain places undisclosed. Seemed they were sending whomever a message of defiance, but with what we all wondered. Some say they could hold out underground with what they have for a hundred years. We will not have that blessing, or curse.

A WORLD WATCHING ITSELF

In our arguments over this, we felt pity if it came to that. Whomever this is will not care. They will take what it is they want, and probably deal with whomever is still alive here with ease.

The shock was those first days, all the signs that showed up around the world. It seemed that the have-not’s thought this was a good time to make a point. NOW YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS LIKE!; was engraved on placards all over the planet. Along with; HOW DOES IT FEEL? and; OH MY! WHAT WILL THE RICH EAT?. That one went right to the core. All over the world there were these last protest on the human condition, as if all we could hold accountable was ourselves, and how we had partitioned “having”. One last statement of how so many had felt and endured for so long. Now, in some strange ways, the books were being balanced.

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH YOUR OIL PROFIT NOW?; was shown on the TV screens as the camera panned over crowds near bonfires, dressed in their heavy coats and layers. People seemed unreal, wobbling back and forth. Everyone was large in a way. Strange looking with faces covered in wraps and ski mask, flames flickering over the huddled mass of human penguins.

It was surreal, how TV watching seemed to become talking while watching the bonfires. A few portable TVs and computers were at the fires for a while. World wide, there was this gathering in the street. There seemed to also be some kind of rotation going on from fire to fire, until it became too cold to just go walking whenever you liked. Excursions would be planed for bringing food and ice to thaw at the fires. Metal pens were made near the fires where people could sleep yet still get some warmth. Others were always cooking and thawing things round the clock, since days were now somewhat undistinguished from one another, except the ever increasing cold.

The TV screen began to waver as; DID YOU REMEMBER TO CHECK THE STOCK MARKET TODAY?, became the last protest sign. For a brief while the TVs everywhere said this; TO CONSERVE RESOURCES; YOUR BROADCASTING COMPANY IS SUSPENDING OPERATIONS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. For reasons unknown, the power was out the next day. We imagined that would be the last of that. Many trees began to vanish by chainsaws used to cut them up for firewood.

Overnight we had all become the have-not’s. We had no idea what the worlds governments were doing. Were we all going to die for our pride? Would we not surrender, but instead just let the world fall all at once to extinction, every human achievement to vanish?

A CALM AFTER THE SILENT STORM

After the panics settled down, people were reserved and meditative. They sought out love and friendship. Whatever anyone had was shared. The cold ones were given more protection from those who said they were well warm enough. Food was brought down to the bonfires. We ate just enough to allay the feelings of hunger. We seemed to all think we have to try to make it as long as we could and not just give up.

It was odd to notice certain ones, who we knew were the local rich or famous, join in like all the rest of us. We all seemed to wonder how we had gotten life so wrong. How we did not see it was always love; love we wanted, needed and yearned to give to anything or one we could? To give and not to get, a simple reversal of formula. We had all been so blind. Facing a great chasm of nothingness, we still had each other.

The moon was now always just a black disc that blotted out the stars. Now there were two such disk. It did not take long to tell which was which as the days went by. We were an abandoned spaceship suspended in a galaxy now. We never knew how many stars surrounded us. The Milky Way was now our primary light source beyond the fires. Even our eyes had begun to adapt to seeing under its light enough to make it around. I will always remember that strange gift; how something that had apparently vanished in the city lights had seemingly turned itself back on to hover over us.

PEACE SETTLES INTO THE WAIT

It had been some days ago when this all started. We knew many of the most vulnerable had already perished. Generators had gone down, since any of their energy source’s were raided by others in the Great Panic, as we now call it. Oddly, just days later, some of that fuel was returned to the generators, but for many it was just too late. Things changed amazingly fast, yet we had all come to be on the same wavelength of love for one another. We were becoming proud to “go out” on such a note of achievement. We would launch quick expeditions at times when we heard someone had made it through to somewhere near, but could not get to the fire. We all wanted to be together and did whatever we could to make that happen. Then it happened.

As the larger disk rose up, light was piercing through as if heaven had found us by searchlight. We said to each other not to look at the sun, it might be harmful like at an eclipse. It was amazing how you could notice the warmth from this dissolving blackness instantly. We did not worry over what it all meant. We had already found the light. It was Love all along. We had Love. We knew it was up to us to keep that flame burning free.

End of story.

{I conceived and wrote this story today.  Any similarity to other stories out there is purely coincidental. Benafia.}
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CARS WITHOUT GAS RUN ON WIND SAILS!-fiction

Then I woke up.

We had created rail systems for personal wind travel.

Computers kept track of the track (you know what I mean) from the rail, which is barely noticeable embedded into streets. The rail also delivered solar energy to the sail car when wind was not enough. You also had the option of exercise to generate your own power source. Along with advanced battery packs you could plug into the sail car, charged up any way you managed to. (Yeah. Right.)

It was my childhood fantasy come true, but true in a dream. I guess that counts for not much as far as any reality is concerned. In my own life, it might be back to the early twentieth century. Riding a regular old bike and travelling much less as I increasingly become more of a senior citizen. I remembered as a little kid with my wagon, thinking I could sail up from Illinois and maybe make it to California

The nightmare of ever increasing gas prices but not wages or income will be left up to that nice blend of predatory capitalism and complicit elected officials whose real source of support we are so often kept in the dark ages about.

I’m sure they will fix things as usual, especially if we first kill off the government. That is the crucial final nail into the commons still not driven into the We the Peoples heart deep enough to make us into a totalitarian slave state. But the hammers keep a-pounding.

Money makes right? Our new morality.

Keep dreams alive!

Oh, yeah. And wake up too. That is the important part. Otherwise one might be dead.

(I put fiction in my title since a search engine had me at a serious car site.  I do not care what car anyone drives.  To bad the government did not bend over for big auto and oil interest united to keep gas use so high.  Now that is a tax on all of us drivers we will not call a tax!  Yet come election we will be suckered once again into the alleged anti tax party.  Enjoy the expensive exhaust.)

Authentic adobe block wall–photo

Authentic adobe block wall below. It is a real home, rain eats away at it.

the wolf did not come yet, but would have to blow really, really hard still.

CAN SATAN BE MISTAKEN AS GOD?–a test of belief

THIS IS YOUR OFFICIAL TEST ON TRUE BELIEFS

(or what you believe to be true)

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If you do not proceed with the test; grade yourself a 0, for lack of inquisitiveness.

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You will be judged harshly for any and all mistakes, including, and not excluding, near mistakes.

You have already received your initial preliminary questions! (subconsciously)

(And remember; humor does not exclude a question.)

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FIRST BASIC QUESTION (arrange into ascending order of value)

1. WHO ARE YOU?

–a. I am me.

–b. I am a cross between my parents.

–c. I am whatever sex I am.

–d. I am whatever race or culture I was born into.

–e. I am an expression of my experiences.

–f. I am because I think I am.

–g. I am not whomever you are.

–h. I do not care who you think I am.

–i. I am not taking this stupud test.

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BASIC QUESTION #2 (which answers must be false)

2. IS THERE A GOD?

a–Yes, because I was always told so.

b–Yes, because I cannot question basic assumptions.

c–Yes, because I am afraid to say no.

d–Yes, because very good people say there is.

e–Yes, because I am presumed evil to say there is not One.

f–Yes, because God talks to me.

g–Yes, because I am sure God listens to me.

h–Yes, because Somebody had to start everything.

i–Yes, so I have some insurance just in case.

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BASIC QUESTION # 3

3. WHAT ARE GODS CHARACTER TRAITS? (true or false)

a.–God is a male so He can grow a beard in space.

b.–God will burn you forever for getting His or Her name wrong.

c.–God is so jealous of us, God will have no other gods before It.

d.–God holds you up to Gods Own perfect standards of infallibility.

e.–God thus will punish you forever for having a mistake of assumption.

f.–God does not wish you to think for yourself based on empirical evidence.

g.–God is so insecure, God needs you to praise It to high heavens or you lose.

h.–God wants you to not think and just do what a book or person tells you to do.

i.–God is a concept held in by human understanding abilities, thus dependent on us.

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BASIC QUESTION #4

IF GODS WAYS ARE MYSTERIOUS, WHAT ELSE MIGHT BE TRUE? (yes or no)

a.–God waited for science (printing and satellites) to really spread Gods Word fast.

b.–Gods real children are actually the Porpoises, since they may be smarter than us.

c.–God played a tricky test on blind followers, “true believers” are then self deceived.

d.–God favored one culture somewhere, so only that concept of God is the true one.

e.–God wants Gods children to kill each other in Gods Own Name.

f.–God loves me because it feels really good for me to think so.

g.–God did not know we would kill one another in Gods name.

h.–God only speaks through special people, who probably are not me.

i.–God is everything, so conflict is a dysfunction needing connection as resolution.

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Basic Question #5

WHAT MIGHT FOLLOW FROM YOUR ABOVE ANSWERS? (keep your responses)

a.–God will possibly punish me forever for my answers, I always live under terror.

b.–God will be glad to hear I am thinking for myself and not like a robot.

c.–God will terrorize me or everyone for any error in judgement we make.

d.–God is omnipresent and omniscient, so will grant us even our struggles.

e.–God is Love and will love what we achieve in life in Loves full Name.

f.–God needs us to become one of the guiding influences of Creation.

g.–God wants us to love at all cost, to remain in the presence of God.

h.–God is sharing Its Life by giving us a chance to be free to love.

i.–God cares not what you believe, but who you become.

NOW. HOW DIFFICULT WAS THIS TEST?

This is adapted from another blog of mine. In case you notice it twice.

WHEN LIFE RETURNS FROM THE DEAD

I took part in a domestic violence group meeting yesterday, where we try to help someone put into the court system over family violence issues.

Well, we all ended up crying on that day over the lost parts of our lives. In this case siblings who died young, yet had a special impact on our lives. Generalizing; most of us have not adequately mourned our losses, nor fully honored what we have been given. There are always lessons given by Life.

For the violence applicant, he had his brother die on the same week he lost his job and had his car repossessed. This had him react by falling into a three week depression. He stayed in bed sleeping most all the time. His kids and wife would come up to him wondering both what was going on and when he would be over it with the family finances in ruin. He also has past serious drug use and mental issues connected to that.

The person in charge of that meeting mentioned how her life had been in tatters and how she had learned to never think things cannot get worse than they seem to be. Since her experience is; it will get worse just when one feels put upon all one can be.

(We later talked a bit about mothering and nurturing with Mothers Day being the next day and two mothers at the meeting. I talked of not remembering my mother when I was 13; who she was, what she was like. But I did remember when I was 8 or so how mad she had become when we 4 kids did nothing for her on Mothers Day. How painful it was to feel you have somehow hurt your own mother so deeply without knowing it.)

I told my story of living in my truck, parents dead since I was a kid, fathers suicide, dead sisters masochism, I living with toothaches and missing teeth during puberty, no one ever seeming to care at all about me so much of my life, etc.

Then 25 years ago there was a day of epiphany when living in my truck in a town with nearly 50% unemployment, abandoned homes and businesses. I was broke, no job or home, soon to be no gas. One night I looked outward with all this resentment and feeling of abandonment. I looked up into the night sky and surrendered.

I declared all my ambitions for love and belonging were over. I was clean to whatever Life would have me do. I was now Its servant. Need to say; my life changed dramatically from that point on.

No longer a unwavering victim of circumstances, the world seemed new to me. Next thing I knew I was working for a “New Age” kind of church which nearly matched my philosophy/cosmology. Became a farm manager and speaker for the group at times. Had women competing over me!

I am a much more restored person now. I am not perfect in the sense of having no problems. But since that surrendering moment, I have had much more of a life than I thought I ever would.

The most important thing I know is to come to know what Unconditional Universal Love is. How It is beyond our abilities to fully grasp and yet how it is up to my actions to live nearer to It each day.

A life of loss and longing can be transformed into one of service to a value that is Greater, yet a part of us all. No matter how bad things get for me, I know, I need just stand up to see over the mountain top.

{This post resulted from yesterdays meeting and a response I made on a WordPress blog today which is linked to on my blogroll}

TORNADO WEEKEND

The experts feel a tornado outbreak is possible this weekend. May 10-11+2008.

It seems we are having tornadoes nearly every day, and not just out in the middle of nowhere.

On Saturday the sever weather starts from Western OK, all of Arkansas and nearby states. Each day the eastward progression brings it to the East Coast-Florida and Georgia on Sunday. As impulses roll of the Rockies into the plains, other sever weather may be going on at times in this period and is expected to follow into next week. Then those go east for more cross country trips. May is usually the # 1 tornado month.

The Weather Channel has been showing a parking lot camera view of a very narrow tornado lifting cars and trucks in an approx. only 50 foot area. Showing how dangerous even the most narrow tornadoes can be. At the end of tornado life cycles when they tend to diminish and “rope out”, that narrowing vortex can intensify the local damage, raising the wind speed in a smaller circumference. Cars are one of the worst places to be in a tornado.

We have had a strong jet stream quite far south for this time of year. The coming storms can be intense and long lasting.

There have been tornadoes every day this week

Tornado with dust and debris cloud forming at surface. During “Sound Chase”, a joint project of NSSL and Mississippi State University.

Image ID: nssl0054, NOAA’s National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL)

THE OWNERSHIP OF CREATION CULTURE

THE RIGHTS OF BEING

It is alleged that there are some 100,000,000 or more American stock holders. More than half of the households in America are said to hold stocks. This statistic may be somewhat misleading since some of even those Americans are cash strapped, or actually have relatively minor stock and equity holdings. This “ownership ideology” is one sociocultural dynamic which Republicans, allegedly, feel works in their favor toward the future. We seek status quo permanence when it is in our favor, but dress the endemic opportunism up with respectable sounding euphemisms.

A Stake in America, or whatever clever survival notion that can be inserted into the psychology of those who have or wish to hold stock, and feel perfectly ethical, moral and down right honest about it, will need to be inserted into perception repeatedly. This idea of providing good to themselves, their future, perhaps friends and family, assuages any need for guilt or notions of negative consequence. No need looking back to check systems dynamics and responsibility consequences. Good, good, things are framed and hung on the walls of society to keep cognitive dissonance away.

Who could question the benefits of “free enterprise” and not be branded socialist or un-American? A few church and religious positions, maybe, since they can be compartmentalized into that mystical bubble of belief beyond question. Some tribes and such might have fair barter exchanges, where value is transparent to each party. This cannot honestly be said of most predatory capitalist ventures.

As we have come to witness in the modern world, corporations fight for Darwinian dominance, with democracy and responsibility to the commons as victims of collateral damage. Thus many environmentally questionable companies avoid and condemn pollution issues, require scapegoats and others to seem to cause the problems in society, to attract attention off the real collective ball. Being that much of the media is in “cahoots” with these very companies. We the public are kept in a “Catch 22″.

The Need for Conformity in Subjugation Devises

It might be right that instilling consensus conformity and eliminating basic systems questions serve an ever increasing appeal to the notion that investing money is just plane wise. Making one a bit of an owner, and so, seemingly legitimately one receives a return on ones investment, this appears to most as a sound logical method to build future security. It also means we have a insecurity driven mindset which is easy to manipulate by fear and a kind of cognitively built in aversion to looking into societies rear view mirror. It is no accident with global warming breathing down our collective necks, that suddenly we have to take carbon emissions, and ozone holes as actualities and not monsters created by the “doom and gloom” (as they were called), naysayers. Now everybody is to suddenly do something for this problem that kinda, well, popped out of the blue. Convenient.

If you are able and willing to put money, (you apparently do not need to survive with in the moment), into a scheme that will exaggerate it over time, it will go on making money for you as if by a magical formula. A perfect set up for the rich to get richer, or the haves to have more. HOWEVER, that return is coming from someone somewhere, this is not magic! Money is not actually alive and self-replicating, it requires someone else to make a real value (inflation-deflation excluded) that you then magically get into your pocket by actually keeping it out of someone else’s. We need to install into the sociocultural matrix, tricks to manipulate the dependent or unsuspecting. Essentially, domination ideologies seek a Divine-like sanction for the propositions to be accepted as inevitable. The more Creation was objectified for subjective reasons, the more an individual or grouping could do with it what they will, or at least can seemingly get away with by hook or by crook-force.

Really?

Yes. If at minimum wage, lets say I buy something for a dollar, in the Ownership of Creation Culture, I only get possibly 50 cents in actual value, minus services and expenses in getting that 50 cent thing to you, the rest is kept by someone(s) else, simply because the pyramid paradigm set up allows one to profit unequally off of others. This phenomenon will always produce disturbance into human relationship, whether seeming to be defined as “human nature” and so inevitable, or relegated to quality of character notions which again are cast as being inevitable. Domination’s to succeed at their inherent dysfunctions, have to seem inevitable, or else a paradigm shift or bifurcation point is possible.

The obstacle to fairness, equality and so the right of humans not to place a higher value on another for any reason, is to separate out human differences as value of conscious time differences. Parents can treat children as unequal to them for obvious reason of experience and the unknown dangers of naiveté and innocence. Children may not like this inequality. Why? It obstructs their own free will. Human consciousness has an intrinsic sense of equality of the commons. Frustrate that, and disturbance in perpetuated into relationships. Many employees work for people they do not respect as human beings, but must seem to accept to survive by keeping their employment. I have worked for those I respected, and those who used their position for slave like unequal relationship; as if they were King or Queen over me.

The challenge to a parent or those in positions of obvious greater knowing or awareness is that they are not inherently superior to children or others. Those who do not do this, likely receive resentment, perhaps perverted respect for a dominator position over them. Some children retaliate for this in effect disrespect for their consciousness. Why? They feel love and respect are conditional to their behavior and subservient class, size or position imposition on their own consciousness.

FAILURE OF DISTINCTIONS

That we humans are not physically or ability wise identical is an obvious fact. This is also an obvious place for domination paradigms; discrimination, preferences, exploitation, oppression and other negative perpetuating dynamics to become institutionalized by appearances. Those appearances are representing the “looks” of reality, but a reality placed under the paradigm mindsets of human invention and rationalization.

Unknown to us, size differences are conserved for a reason, a reason of human survival. It might be that as food sources dry up on earth, for example, the smaller humans might become the surviving norm. Disease’s, which are often used as prejudice in the health insurance industry, and seem to curse their holders, can, like sicle cell disease, be the survival mechanism for human kind under special circumstances (ex.-malaria).

My point is that we assume apparent differences, especially like intelligence, works to ones advantage in today’s world at the moment. We might be right in the short term in mental based paradigms, but still are likely wrong overall. If intelligence was the sole filter for humankind’s advancement, it could easily have developed into a universal genetic component. Super high intelligence has not.

Humans are highly intelligent overall,-true, but extreme mental prowess or power often is marked by great emotional or “heart” dysfunctions, or lacks. Something is upset in the mind oriented individual. Our human differences are in some ways apples and oranges. They all belong in the garden but cannot honestly be valued as superior and inferior, unless one established a bias in perception and brands it into consensus reality, like red is better than orange.

THE UNIVERSE SEEKS BALANCE AND HARMONY

Humankind, following various mental schemes, has gotten out of balance in many ways. Much of this disturbance seems to be based on opportunistic mind perversions in interpreting reality and human consciousness. Some imperfections in quantified human conceptions of human nature are bound to exist, since ignorance exist.

When the Americas were being invaded by allegedly more “civilized” tribes from Europe, the historical data shows some individual Europeans were stunned by some tribes apparent human superiority, relative to then European models. Some wrote of the dignity of the individual and equality of relationship present in some of these apparently (to European prejudice) more primitive people, as being profound. The paradigm of understanding is relative to those who write and or dominate historical conditions. That does not make them right, or might right.

Evidence indicates that scattered around the world original peoples and beliefs were at times much more in harmony with Being. I believe we all have ansestors who once were more integrated with natural being. This bred more respect and mutual regard for the relationships in the culture. The Ownership Of Creation Culture being nurtured by money and power interest these days, is inherently unbalance and will possibly become our species undoing. It is mental, and advantage or opportunism based, and so, perpetuating disturbance and disharmony into our environments and relationships; both individual and world.

The mind selected out as a dominator instrument has left us with both nuclear annihilation or devastation in the cards, along with exploitation paradigms that have humans place the environments into unequal relationships, those instituted into economic acceptance and judicial law. In essence, we are deciding to potentially self destruct while the delusional belief that we are abiding by “the law” or doing things that do not directly incur (see) the negative consequences they produce, allows some of us to live inside delusions of grandeur. These are dependent upon the aforementioned deceptions being “under the radar”. They then are not acknowledge as true, allowing the individual to sit atop a kind of Tower of Babble regarding their fellow human beings.

THE EMERGENCY OF BELIEF AND FAITH

The political season is upon us in America (and in some sense the world). We (every human being) tend to be faced by those who wish to dominate the world, relationships and others to their own advantage; against those who seek out some balance or accountability’s in relationship. The Ownership Of Creation Culture as a paradigm, has polluted both our political parties and has significant pollution plumes into some spiritual beliefs.

In the Democratic party at the moment, a balance and restoration paradigm seems to be attempting to retake the value of the commons as a universal right of being. Predatory interest infused across many levels of perception and society will try to keep the broad definition of the commons crippled, so it can continue to be exploited without much immediate consequence to those who do. That is a delusional concept in the long run. Going against God or the Universe is not an acceptable long term strategy or investment.

Most of the worlds citizens, including us here in the USA, are under a dominator paradigm that seeks to continue its stranglehold to the very end of its survival chances, which are inherently finite. If the pollution of the earth, and of human to life relationships continues to accumulate, a point of toxic no return will come.

Dominators, having so much control over the commons, continue to attempt to keep ignorance as a powerful card to “existentialize” both debate and the ability to see new paradigms for humankind. Currently the agents of these dominator interest in the media have spokespeople hired to spread fear and loathing towards many at home in the US, and in the world. Ignorance, ad hominem reasoning, false premise, out of context fact made into deceptive accounts, these are their hallmark.

When cast into a fearful mindset, some 70% of a given population tends to side with what is perceived as agencies of protection (status quo), whether true or not in reality. Once again, a great hazy disturbance to hide all the perversions of perception in, and responsibilities for the commons out. The primitive survival mechanism to go with the known rather than add more uncertainty over the unknown, is used to predatory advantage.

CAN IGNORANCE DOMINATE THE FATE OF REALITY?

Human cultures have come and gone. Many species have come and gone. The guarantee for survival is abiding by the Laws of Being, even as they change their manifestations. We have each a decision to make, whether we put all of our stock into a manipulative paradigm, one already proving to threaten us with extinction along with much of life on earth.

On the other hand we have a different investment to make; one in understanding. It will require risk on all our parts. We need to embrace a Spirit that is Whole. We need to discover and explore the landscapes of unconditional Love. We need to open hearts and minds to our own experience and perceptions and exchange them equally with others who we have not known.

Transparency of Being is the final goal of this investment opportunity. The ability to uncover once hidden problematic sources and address them with the Whole of the Commons in heart and mind, illuminates that which fear once held beyond the light. A restoration and amplification of the human Spirit in alignment with the Laws of Being is always at hand. When fear is faced down and understanding said yes to, a new world of potential dawns in awareness. We cannot nor will not overthrow God or the Universe of Being. We do need, however, to be on Its side. That is our only long term investment that pays of in perpetuity.

May 7th might have sever weather including tornadoes

I will not be around to keep anyone (who checks me out for them) up on weather developments, I will be doing things like reading poetry.

The upper low rolling out of AZ soon will tap Gulf moisture, making today’s start of sever weather with some tornadoes in the Plains perhaps get even more nasty going east. That is what some experts say.

SO CHECK YOUR LOCAL WEATHER AND OR THE WEATHER CHANNEL. Your radar, in case you do not know, is easily accessible on weather sites, often just your zip code if you are in a more remote area.

Heads up on Wednesday.

Multiple cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-ground lightning strokes caught using time-lapse photography during a night-time thunderstorm.

Image ID: nssl0012, NOAA’s National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) Collection Credit: NOAA Photo Library, NOAA Central Library; OAR/ERL/National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL)

HAZARDOUS BLOGGING ZONE!

TIME TO PUT ON YOUR BLOGGING HARD HATS, CAUSE WHEN THE INTERNET VOLCANO BLOWS, THE FIRE AND BRIMSTONE LAND ON YOU! You did not know that either; I know!

I often rush to post on-line, various reasons; just read an outrageous post, sever weather is breaking out somewhere, I just got to put my days photo’s on, and when will you have time later? So onward I skitter in a rush.

Well what could be wrong with that? Well let me tell you.

Maybe there is a tornado watch. Maybe It includes Detroit. Maybe there is a super-cell heading towards Detroit with signs of rotation. Well then; Tornado might hit Detroit! OK. I’m exaggerating a bit to make my point here, but sometimes you hale to do hat to get attenuation.

WHAT IS MY POINT THEN ABOUT ALL THE VOLCANEOS AND BLOGGING?

Well I’m getting to it.

The next day you have the Candadian Seret Service at your door. Unbelievable. I didn’t know they had spy’s. Neither did you. I know!

Check your blog they say.

Well gussy what? I know! Mispelling errors now last a lifetime!

Toronto going to hit Detroit. What? With bombs? Slap everybody? The mind reels.

Next thing you know one of those busy booty search engines put you into a Toronto story tag:

Oh, by the way, Benafia has an interesting post on Toronto hitting Detroit, go to lower center of house if you hear the roar.

I know!

I didn’t know everyone takes thingy so seriously! Couldn’t they assume it was joust some spellchecker error I accidentally agreed to? What does Toronto have against Detroit anyway? Hooky? I know!

{ I know! is to be read with the TV’s Craig Ferguson effect. Now go back and red it that way. I Know!}

not to self; re bread before posting!

ELECTION REJECTION

OR WHICH WAY TO OZ?

Today we will see again if one of the two Bush lite candidates “survive” to later on, pretty much keep things spiraling downward the way they are. Doesn’t really matter where they have been or who they are, were, or promise to be.

The pundits will probably go on to wonder which one will be the chosen one in the one party still running, despite the suspicion that one already crossed the line long ago. For there is believed to be a wizard behind the super delegate veil. It is the pubic who continues the race by the will of appearances. Believing in the convoluted reasoning, pandering to identity, and all the fear and loathing that can be generated to keep those minds a changing like wind vanes, will keep the imperfect storm a-spinning.

The ambiguity is not in the candidates, but in a public who still shows all evidence of Rovian double-think; where the best case of persuasion into the negative, blows those middle of the roader’s to one side or another, no matter how true or false the negative assumption. “We were avoiding a twister! At least it seemed like one at the time. Didn’t they say a storm was coming right at me?“

Once we come to see a winner as one who will do anything to succeed at even delusion, we are right back to where we are. Unable to tell delusion from viable vision. We have crossed that yellow line, without knowing which way the traffic of the world actually is going. Our political Doppler radar is off-line.

And that is the risky self defeating place many interest wish us to stay. For later, when the damage begins to show, it is too late to have the excuse that the road signs were so misleading.

Votes for sale! Come and get it! Save a few nickles on me! Extra bonus, free gas for voting for me! Voters for sale here! In a heartbeat those nickles will be swooped up by the oil vultures. Tax breaks become profit vacuums that then are swooped up by the few who actually control where your money goes and to whom. It is supply and demand; your supply of income increases so the demand for more profit does the same. Duh!