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Where Is Your Bailout Money?
Jan 9th
It begs the question, what’s really going on here?…
They’re giving away millions of tax payers dollars… enough to where they could give every person in the US a million dollars each, and why isn’t that money going to the people?
Well my brother has argued that if everyone were suddenly millionaires, no one would work, and inflation would be insane… and that may be true, but let’s think for a moment about what we would all do if money wasn’t king… if we all didn’t need money.
My counter argument to this is why not pay out the million dollars to each US citizen as monthly payments, in such an amount as to keep everybody working (which is really all this is about, keeping us enslaved to money)…
Or why don’t we pay off everyone’s personal debt with the bailout money? The system would come crashing down that’s why… All the little worker bees (that’s you and me) would suddenly be free… Oh no! what’s going to happen to the honey production? How will our hives get built? What about the Queen? Who’s going to protect, and provide, and feed her?
We are not a Hive species… we can be if we want, but I think we are all happiest when we are who we were created by God to be… and that is the Children of God.. literally, sons and daughters of the Creator and independently Sovereign Beings. Sovereign, do you remember what that word means? Are you beginning to remember what it feels like?
It’s been a long time since we were domesticated into what we are today… Let’s face the sad truth that most of us couldn’t even feed ourselves if we wanted to. We think food comes from a store, or a plastic bag. We think of Nature as being dirty, and a harsh environment… something to be scrubbed off of us as soon as we get back out of it.
Let’s consider where we are right now in Human existence, which is at a cross roads… will we continue down our path which has us heading for worse environmental conditions… to the point where we could end up with an environment like the moon, or Mars, and we would all be living in giant malls (which some marketer would probably call a space station or some such thing)… or will we clean up our environment and work with it to create a Garden of Eden on the earth? We possess the technology (i.e. knowledge + tools) to do both, and we’re at a beautiful place to choose which path we all want to head down.
We have to help wake people up so that they can choose for themselves instead of having the advertisements choose for them. A pattern interrupt, if you will. Talk with people, friends, family… don’t be scared to discuss the path that Humanity is on. And together, we can create for ourselves The Golden Path, without the need for a Tyrant like Leto to do it for us 
Soft Is Better Than Hard
Dec 18th
Perhaps you’re familiar with the Taoist saying that “soft is stronger than hard”…
To recognize the truth of the saying we need only look to nature. Water will outlast rock, the blade of grass will bend in the strong wind whereas the stiff tree will fall down.
What is it that stuntmen and bikers say to do when crashing? Go limp and completely relax. In other words, be soft.
It is the things with the most rigid, un-giving structures that break easiest, such as glass.
Where are you hard in your life?
Have you ever noticed that laid back person who it seems that everything in life just comes to him? Do you find yourself being a little too rigid sometimes, even for your own liking?
Instead of trying to be the rock in your life, try to be the water. Flow. It’s a valuable skill to possess and one which will help you in all areas of your life.
Think about it…
Think About It Part 2
Dec 4th
Yes, obviously, I’ve been thinking a lot about thinking…
Today’s thought comes from the bible and a book written in 1902.
As a man thinks in his heart, so is he… (Proverbs 23:7a)
The book is called As A Man Thinketh by James Allen. I believe you can actually find free copies of it floating around the internets (gotta love Bushisms).
It’s true though, you are the sum of your thoughts. Just like Nature, good seeds produce life, bad seeds produce death. So if we are spending our precious little thinking time that we do get these days, on things like the news, which let’s face it, is never good news, or movies, which usually deal with the darker side of humanity, or TV which bombards us with advertising, effectively turning us into consumers, then is it any wonder why so few of us are happy?
In contrast to the popular Secret…
In 1902, James Allen came to the conclusion that “We do not attract what we want, but what we are.” “Achievement happens because you as a person embody the external achievement; you don’t ‘get’ success, but become it. There is no gap between mind and matter.”
What are you thinking about?
Emerson has commented that, “A person is what he thinks about all day long.” What do you spend your time thinking about?
Sadly, I think most of us will find that according to Emerson’s definition, we are just consumers. We spend most of our time thinking about how to buy something we want, or how to get the money to buy what we want, as if Happiness had a price tag or physical embodiment.
Some more great quotes from Allen that I’ll let you do your own thinking on:
“Circumstances do not make a person, they reveal him.”
and
“Most of us are anxious to improve our circumstances, but are unwilling to improve ourselves–and we therefore remain bound.”
Some other interesting notes… The word thinketh from Proverbs above, comes from the Hebrew root word meaning to split or open, and the word heart comes from the Hebrew root word for the word to breathe, in this case, denoting a breathing creature.
So another way of looking at it would be to say, ‘As a man splits open in his breathing, so is he’.
Think about it…
Think About It
Dec 3rd
Do you ever find yourself trying to stay busy in an effort to keep your mind occupied? I’ve done this often in the past, especially with a painful situation like a break-up, but recently I’ve begun to question if we’re not just hurting ourselves more when we do this.
It’s bad enough that every moment from when we wake until we sleep, there are a billion different things in our technocratic world that are vying for our attentions, all in an effort to keep our minds from actually having a moment to think. And so what do we do? We use the precious few minutes a day that we have to ourselves, when it’s quiet and nothing is screaming for our attention, and we feel like something’s wrong. We’re so used to being bombarded and told what to think that we immediately try to switch our brains back off. TV, internet, radio, music, movies… not bad things necessarily, but when they keep you from your true potential and from discovering your true self (which must be done before you can reach your true potential) then these distractions are just harming you.
Why are we so scared to be alone with our thoughts?
I’m genuinely curious on this one too. Granted, we’ve all been brought up to be dependent little slaves, never thinking for ourselves or depending on ourselves. We’d all much rather have the answer be given to us, than to actually think for a damn second and work it out for ourselves. And if you take a look at the state of the world, and even more locally, the state of your life — that’s why we’re in the mess that we are today. We’ve given away our God-given gifts, and to whom?
Who is the man behind the curtain holding the strings?
We have all felt like this at some point in our lives — Like there’s something fishy going on, and you can almost put your finger on it, but then it’s gone, and you get sucked back in to the distraction that life has become.
Do you remember that incredible feeling you got, the first time you saw The Matrix ? Why do you think you identified so much with that movie? Why is it that so many of us only feel alive when we’re dreaming, and real life seems like some bad dream that we can’t wake up from?
Maybe a better question to ask ourselves is not ‘What’s so wrong with this world?’, but ‘What’s so right with it?’ Why does life feel so fake and cheap? Even our interactions and relationships with other people seem so fickle. Human beings are like sheep, and we have been, for thousands of years. Christ Jesus was aware of this, and warned about it in his teachings, but then the Truth got buried in a pile of religion.
Take a second and think about the people you interact with on a daily basis. Do your interactions feel pre-programmed? Like all the people you talk to are just bio-robots?
Not answers, but questions.
I think we are all after the same thing as humans… happiness. Or a better way of phrasing that might be eternal enjoyment of our lives. And to get there, we are going to have to answer our questions for ourselves, because we’ve been searching now for thousands of years, and we still have no idea what the answer is. Sure everybody else, has an answer for us, but we don’t have one for ourselves.
So, the next time you start to freak out, because it’s too quiet, or it gets too painful to think about the past, don’t unplug your mind, begin to think your way to a better life, one where painful relationships don’t exist, where only Love lives. How do we create this brave new world?
Think About It!
