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Being Enlightened · March 2008

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. ~Plato

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. ~Oscar Ameringer

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize. ~Saul Bellow

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
~ P. J. ORourke

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. ~ Plato

I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government. ~Frances "Sissy" Farenthold

Now's the time "Sissy". Now's the time.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power... the world will know peace. ~ Jimi Hendrix

tybird · March 2008

I'll give you five bucks for the whole lot.

Smellyman2 · March 2008

"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." Steven Weinberg

Being Enlightened · March 2008

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death. ~ George Carlin

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they? ~ George Carlin

Nor can I forget the Hicks! (Kabong-along).

People in the United Kingdom and outside the United States share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself. ~ Bill Hicks

If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them. ~ Bill Hicks

I have this feeling man, 'cause you know, it's just a handful of people who run everything, you know … that's true, it's provable. It's not … I'm not a fucking conspiracy nut, it's provable. A handful, a very small elite, run and own these corporations, which include the mainstream media. I have this feeling that whoever is elected president, like Clinton was, no matter what you promise on the campaign trail – blah, blah, blah – when you win, you go into this smoke-filled room with the twelve industrialist capitalist scum-fucks who got you in there. And you're in this smoky room, and this little film screen comes down … and a big guy with a cigar goes, "Roll the film." And it's a shot of the Kennedy assassination from an angle you've never seen before … that looks suspiciously like it's from the grassy knoll. And then the screen goes up and the lights come up, and they go to the new president, "Any questions?" "Er, just what my agenda is." "First we bomb Baghdad." "You got it …" ~ Bill Hicks

catefrances · March 2008

Robert Kennedy in 1968 made these comments on what GNP measures.

For too long we seem to have surrendered personal excellence and community value in the mere accumulation of material things. Our gross national product now is over 800 billion dollars a year, but that gross national product, if we judge the United States of America by that, that gross national product counts air pollution, and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for people who break them. It counts the destruction of the redwoods and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic squall. It counts Napalm, and it counts nuclear warheads, and armored cars for the police to fight the riots in our city. It counts Whitman's rifles and Speck's Knifes and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children. Yet, the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play; it does not include the beauty of our poetry of the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate for the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country it measures everything in short except that which makes life worth while. And it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans.

melodious · March 2008

Morihei Ueshiba

THE ART of PEACE begins with you. Work on yourself and your appointed task in the ART of PEACE. Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. Your are here for no other purpose than to realize your inner divinity and manifest your inner enlightenment. Foster peace in your own life and apply the ART to all that you encounter....

*c/f....and ya wonder why ????

catefrances · March 2008

melodious wrote:

Morihei Ueshiba

THE ART of PEACE begins with you. Work on yourself and your appointed task in the ART of PEACE. Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. Your are here for no other purpose than to realize your inner divinity and manifest your inner enlightenment. Foster peace in your own life and apply the ART to all that you encounter....

*c/f....and ya wonder why ????

the peace i seek is my own inner peace. i can not hope to wish peace for our mother earth if first i do not attain it for myself.

melodious · March 2008

and, in that brief time when peace is disturbed, it is not for us to blame external forces; it is moreso how we respond: our demeanor and expression is the true representation of our peace...

take a breath; and pull back into center beam....!!!!

(i do this atleast a thousands times a day)

good day to ya...

catefrances · March 2008

melodious wrote:

and, in that brief time when peace is disturbed, it is not for us to blame external forces; it is moreso how we respond: our demeanor and expression is the true representation of our peace...

take a breath; and pull back into center beam....!!!!

(i do this atleast a thousands times a day)

good day to ya...

hmm. when my peace is disturbed it is more often than not, from internal forces. i respond neither goodly, nor badly but how i do. i do not judge it. but just ride it. and know that regardless, i am responding correctly.

melodious · March 2008

catefrances wrote:

hmm. when my peace is disturbed it is more often than not, from internal forces. i respond neither goodly, nor badly but how i do. i do not judge it. but just ride it. and know that regardless, i am responding correctly.

now you are delving into what i call the blade of grass theory....we are but ONE in an entire field...

Yes. I am one who has pulled the victim card...and then I see and look at events, energies, etc, and realize that the only one who may have a feather ruffled is my self..because I may not know someone or thing sufficiently..usually this becomes a judgement or a premise, which more often than not is like a game of chance.....but when I use patience, tolerance, and and nuturing when allowing the dominoes of circumstance to fall, i usually can ride the waves too...

pulling the Self to center is a great skill to have when our lives may encounter multitudes of stress-factors..

that's what makes c/f a master surfer...

and i am grateful for waves...so call me a beginner.......

always a pleasure, c/f....always...

i have to go prepare to have some bread with my mom..

melodious · March 2008

This is a site that was introduced to me this a.m..I have not had a chance to view, but it was referred to me by gogratitude.org, so it has to be Rich....enjoy..

http://www.childrenofthesun.tv/

i had to use the double post for some good....

angelica · March 2008

melodious wrote:

This is a site that was introduced to me this a.m..I have not had a chance to view, but it was referred to me by gogratitude.org, so it has to be Rich....enjoy..

http://www.childrenofthesun.tv/

i had to use the double post for some good....

Thank you for sharing your Light and Peace, melodious. It's a wonderful pleasure, and one that I very much appreciate!

And thanks for the link. I am also a gogratitude person.

sachinc · March 2008

'Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!'~ Rage Against the Machine

'If you don't question what you are taught you have no right to live' ~ ME

'I'll keep taking punches, until their will grows tired...' Indifference

'Non-violence is win-win; war is lose-lose and a great big win for Hades' ~ ME

Rhinocerous Surprise · March 2008

"Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing?" Jack Handey

So true.:)

melodious · March 2008

angelica wrote:

Thank you for sharing your Light and Peace, melodious. It's a wonderful pleasure, and one that I very much appreciate!

And thanks for the link. I am also a gogratitude person.

it is my humble pleasure to join in with all this merriment.

Thanks for the encouragement and friendship, as well...go go go go gratitude.

melodious · March 2008

2.
ONE DOES NOT need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing and that is the place to train...

good friday to all...xox

Collin · March 2008

"The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility."

- Václav Havel

melodious · March 2008

Collin wrote:

"The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility."

- Václav Havel

within freedom lies responsibility....

i love your quote, Collin...
thank you...

striving for that meekness...;)

catefrances · March 2008

melodious wrote:

now you are delving into what i call the blade of grass theory....we are but ONE in an entire field...

Yes. I am one who has pulled the victim card...and then I see and look at events, energies, etc, and realize that the only one who may have a feather ruffled is my self..because I may not know someone or thing sufficiently..usually this becomes a judgement or a premise, which more often than not is like a game of chance.....but when I use patience, tolerance, and and nuturing when allowing the dominoes of circumstance to fall, i usually can ride the waves too...

pulling the Self to center is a great skill to have when our lives may encounter multitudes of stress-factors..

that's what makes c/f a master surfer...

and i am grateful for waves...so call me a beginner.......

always a pleasure, c/f....always...

i have to go prepare to have some bread with my mom..

i am cyclothymic, so when my peace is disturbed i do not know where that disturbance comes from; only that it is from somewhere within. i do not look outside myself, for i know that endeavour to be futile.
and yes i do choose to ride the waves. but i do not always like where they take me. and i do not always adjust. but i always seek to embrace what i know to be me. and if those around me cant deal witht that, then fuck them. i am not here for them, i am here for me.

Flannel Shirt · March 2008

melodious wrote:

This is a site that was introduced to me this a.m..I have not had a chance to view, but it was referred to me by gogratitude.org, so it has to be Rich....enjoy..

http://www.childrenofthesun.tv/

i had to use the double post for some good....

how long before someone sees the "one nation" thing in there mission and says its a front for a conspiracy of the skulls or masons to create a world govt.

"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. "
-Kahlil Gibran

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