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 Earth Engine3 comments
category picture9 May 2005 @ 20:50
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 The "Fallacy" of War1 comment
category picture8 May 2005 @ 21:58
As I hang around the shack today
I hear tales from the media on the spector
of the end of World War II and the 60th year commemoration
of the event.
It makes me wonder if perhaps a kind of insanity takes
hold or took hold in those days.
The media endless overanalysis makes me somewhat disgusted
as they seem to want to squeeze out whatever of whatever.
I look then not at the whys and wherefore but to the reality
and lessons. The fallacy of war that I speak then is the assumption that by the killing of others that something some goal or objective can be
achieved. True we must defend ourselves no problem there but this whole idea that killing actually solves problems is absurd. The problems just takes on another form or dimension then or one then has to deal with the damage and fallout and victums and relatives of that solution.
Hilters "final solution" perhaps is a eptitomy of that kind of erroneous thinking and false profit. Ethnic cleansing and the like point to the error and insanity of thinking killing others actually solves problems or anything.
If anything killing others only esasterbates the situation. It produces no growth no insight no truth no victory even. Indeed it in actuality robs one of the opportunity to really reach some mutual understanding and common ground with others, be they foe or freind. It denys us this even if we are the one left standing denys the ability and opportunity to grow in maturity and wisdom turth and truly understand if though perhaps not fully agree with anothers point of view. Victory in war and such then is a misnomer of sorts. War and such is then perhaps a symptom then of some flaw of person charactor or thinking or ideology
and a means to nothing but the status quo or worse. If we are truly to grow as a worthy inhabitants of this planet we will have to see beyond these so called final solutions into perhaps really sitting down and trying to find more constructive and positive ways of mutual coexistence. Ways like dialogue and deliberation. Ways that do not dimish our virtue and honor and truth and love but enhance it. Yes democracy is a bad system but the best one we have at the moment. Yet even still to impose a good thing, is that a good thing? or does the simple act of imposing bespeak and diminish
the whole principle and means of it.

At any rate as Don Juan said the only clear
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 Tsunami Quake Fallout?5 comments
category picture8 May 2005 @ 12:22
I know I started another thread called "Strange Week"
and I suppose this may be supplemental to it, but it occurs
or suggests, what it?... well perhaps the "global sensorium"
suggests to me that what I may be expericing is the "pyshic fallout" from the great shift that occurred 5 months earlier.
Yes there was the intial shock and outpouring of grief and
dollars but it was said that months later the earth was still
"ringing". Now I suppose it is a matter of disposition and perhaps "belief" to suggest that we are subject to the great forces of nature at work around us but I myself feel we are and the "effects" of this quake may be the apparent...
hmmmmmm ???? well call it a "disturbance in the force" if you will that I am picking up on.
The only reason I suppose that I make note of it perhaps is the unusual "quality" of the behaviors it seems to be eliciting. These or some of these are behaviours and such that I don't seem to have words for. These unusual qualities of behaviour are perhaps no cause for concern but I wonder if there may be an "opportunity" here to make some real "progress" in ??? well I'm not sure.
Perhaps for us to admit say that a change of some sort has occurred or is occurring on a "global scale" and that rather than perhaps try to control it persae we can acknowledge it and perhaps try to understand the inherant message therein.
How ironic it is for instance to read the news today to see
Herr Bush saying that the Russian occupation of it neighbours
is and was the "greatest wrong" and yet here he stands an occupying force in Iraq. The apparent "unconscious hypocrisy" is just to blatant to ignore. Oh well.

Or maybe its just me.  More >

 Conscience Canada3 comments
category picture7 May 2005 @ 21:54
Origins of Conscience Canada

In 1982, with the entrenchment of the Charter of Rights, 60 peace tax supporters set up the first private Canadian peace fund. They diverted about 10% of their taxes to the fund. They took the position that any contribution to a war effort was a violation of their constitutional right to freedom of conscience and religion.

The tax protest was first started by Quakers in 1978, but it became non-denominational with the formation of Conscience Canada in 1983.

A recent case which ended up at the Supreme Court of Canada involved a Vancouver physician, Dr. Jerilynn Prior, a Quaker. Dr. Prior had refused to pay a portion of her American income tax during the Vietnam War. In 1983, Dr. Prior, by that time a resident of Canada, began to subtract the military portion from her Canadian taxes. She was told by the office of the Revenue Minister that Revenue Canada has no authority to make arrangements to substitute community service for payment of taxes. The courts, beginning at the local level and ending at the Supreme Court of Canada, have denied Dr. Prior's right to withhold or redirect taxes.

Dr. Prior is now appealing to the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva, Switzerland. Her council, Thomas R. Berger, states in the application to the Commission that "by requiring Dr. Prior to pay taxes for military purposes, Canada is violating Article 18." Article 18 of the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights grants freedom" to manifest...religion or belief in worship, observance, practice and teaching." The international legal process will be a lengthy one.  More >

 Cool Download0 comments
category picture7 May 2005 @ 01:17
heres a fairly cool down load
Its sort of a 2d audiovisual scape
Mind you its a rather big file about 150 meg
and I've only tried it on a mac but
you got to remember the navigation keys
Its got some high tech visuals and spacey music.

Heres the link Site Link = [link]



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