Brought to you by Mindful Designs, Emerging Visions visionary art ezine Issue #9:
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Earnest ego strategizes for alliance and defense
Memory feedback systems figure out the rules
Immediate emotional response to valences to warnings fill in with colour with culture with pain and pleasure
Then there are the administrators, aides, mentors and engineers busily keeping the clock ticking, the thoughts weaving, the experiences tucked into appropriate files.
Creation flows from the center, out into tributaries, out into the world, from which material resources return.
Memory feedback systems figure out the rules
Immediate emotional response to valences to warnings fill in with colour with culture with pain and pleasure
Then there are the administrators, aides, mentors and engineers busily keeping the clock ticking, the thoughts weaving, the experiences tucked into appropriate files.
Creation flows from the center, out into tributaries, out into the world, from which material resources return.
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You can, I believe, "break up" without breaking. You can honestly communicate the tensions, misconceptions, new directions, while remaining caring, compassionate comrades. You can understand that what this present relationship is teaching is a way to move forward into other dimensions of relating. However, this presupposes an honest, caring, compassionate relationship that is moving in a new direction. I don't know your particulars. I know I have been crushed by being told (in many more and crueler ways than words) that someone I believed loved me actually thought me quite expendable. I ended up doubting myself quite cruelly and that was heartbreak. Are you running away from intimacy? If you act cruelly rather than compassionately, that might be a clue. On the other hand, I had to run away from one I loved because his own demons made him dangerously abusive. Life itself is complicated. Add life to life in relationship, and it can become overwhelming. Best of luck and wisdom to you!
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It seems to me that unless you are eagerly partaking of a career path requiring grad school, it makes a great deal more sense to get out into the work world and learn just what it is you may need to learn for the career path that you learn you want to follow by checking out the school of hard knocks.
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someone finally had the perfect pithy comeback to my favorite homily to debunk "What does not kill you makes you stronger": "What does not kill you makes you strAnger." It's true. That which almost kills but leaves a life to deal with the fall-out, in my experience, generally leaves one weaker, and perhaps even forever debilitated.
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"Do what you love" -- yes, absolutely, doing what you love is its own (and possibly the greatest) reward. Money is from another reality than passion.
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"A door doesn't close without a window opening"? Maybe, in a house of many windows. Many of us, however, are window deprived. The door closes, and we are locked in.
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"Forgive and forget"? Forgiveness is a blessing, not for the one forgiven, but for the forgiver. Forgiveness means: I don't need to carry around this grudge any more. I can free up that space for better obsessions. But why forget the lessons no doubt ( already or to be) learned from the experience?
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"You never get more than you can handle"? Define handle? If you mean that all of these horrible, life-draining, insanity-evoking, despair-generating gifts are meant to improve and expand one's spiritual blessing, you go handle it.
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"Some days are better than others"? True!
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"All things happen for the best"? See above answers to not killing making stronger and being given more than you can handle. Or, maybe you are talking about someone else's best? Some things happen and everyone is worse off.
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It's not common wisdom, but just catch phrases that are usually spouted without any real analysis.
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"Do what you love" -- yes, absolutely, doing what you love is its own (and possibly the greatest) reward. Money is from another reality than passion.
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"A door doesn't close without a window opening"? Maybe, in a house of many windows. Many of us, however, are window deprived. The door closes, and we are locked in.
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"Forgive and forget"? Forgiveness is a blessing, not for the one forgiven, but for the forgiver. Forgiveness means: I don't need to carry around this grudge any more. I can free up that space for better obsessions. But why forget the lessons no doubt ( already or to be) learned from the experience?
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"You never get more than you can handle"? Define handle? If you mean that all of these horrible, life-draining, insanity-evoking, despair-generating gifts are meant to improve and expand one's spiritual blessing, you go handle it.
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"Some days are better than others"? True!
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"All things happen for the best"? See above answers to not killing making stronger and being given more than you can handle. Or, maybe you are talking about someone else's best? Some things happen and everyone is worse off.
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It's not common wisdom, but just catch phrases that are usually spouted without any real analysis.
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"chill out. it all goes in cycles. get too hyped on a particular point along the way, and you'll burn out way to fast to enjoy the process.
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Shame is what the natural social system uses to castigate the unruly. A good dose of shame would not kill, or leave the kinds of psychic and physical damage of serious incarceration. Yet it would let everyone know: this behavior will not be tolerated. After a good shaming, yeah, appropriate rehabilitation might be administered.
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It is the love of money that is the root of evil -- the evil often manifesting as the kind of mean-spirited unnecessary cruelty that is heaped on folks who are already suffering financial injury. I know it might be impossible, but in crises I believe the most effective course is to relax into the situation, do what you can without panic or guilt or shame but with a clear objective of getting from here to there. As for your son, he probably won't "get it" now, but the importance of his birthday is to celebrate the familial bonds of love and joy in his existence. Presents can come later. And, you, remember you are loved.
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I have no planets in Aries or Scorpio, yet have always been described as "intense!!!" There is that pesky Pluto in the 8th in Leo opp. Mars. Mostly I hide out a lot to avoid others' negative reactions. Otherwise, I find intensity often a lot of fun and useful for art work. But then, there are the long dark teatimes of the soul ...
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My current obsession is a
novel which may or may not get written. I am learning all about the
characters and their situations in my mind, working it out bit by bit. It
keeps me quite fascinated. Strangely enough, when I woke today, I found
myself spinning out a quite different tale as if the continuation of a
dream, totally fictional. It was almost like reading a story in the
background of my activities, or like watching a teleplay. I have progressed
into a fish at last. My progressed Ascendant has ascended (or sunk?) into
Pisces, while my progressed Moon has just entered Scorpio. The balance has
tilted from air to water. I am exploring my new environment.
novel which may or may not get written. I am learning all about the
characters and their situations in my mind, working it out bit by bit. It
keeps me quite fascinated. Strangely enough, when I woke today, I found
myself spinning out a quite different tale as if the continuation of a
dream, totally fictional. It was almost like reading a story in the
background of my activities, or like watching a teleplay. I have progressed
into a fish at last. My progressed Ascendant has ascended (or sunk?) into
Pisces, while my progressed Moon has just entered Scorpio. The balance has
tilted from air to water. I am exploring my new environment.
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The thing about limitations and restrictions is that they are necessary frames in which to create anything of lasting value. You can see the grand cross as hemming in, boxing up in obstacles. You can see it as a studio in which with Saturn's slowly building energy to create masterpieces and come to turns with necessary lessons in brilliantly creative ways. Best of Saturn to you!
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It seems that the best way to lose weight is not dieting/exercise/obsessing/guilting/ as so many do, but (as in most addictions) to truly find other passionate interests. When engaged by true passions, the mere addictions become so much less interesting. Also, in regard to your kids -- not just that you would be more interesting, but that you would be teaching a valuable lesson by your example. It's not too late if you still talk with them.
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Let's see ... I have always lived mostly in my imagination with a wide-eyed curiosity about ideas and ontologies. When I was about 4 my dad took me to the planetarium and I started seriously looking at the sky. I would make wishes on stars and the Moon and dance myself dizzy and watch the sky spin. I always loved to read, and read a lot of mythology of various cultures as a child. Then I started gobbling down science fiction. In there, playing through library shelves, I found books about occult lore. I was drawn to other folks with these interests and to playing out scenarios in my mind about it all. and so on and so on and so into eternal on-ness
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Oh, but there is no "risk" in going with the flow of inspiration/intuition -- either it moves in the direction anticipated, or in another
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"Liberals" hate the "America" that hates them. America was founded on "Liberal" values of freedom, equality and the basic rights of Man. Yet, so-called "Conservatives" (who have no idea of what conserving actually means) viciously denigrate the folks who want to keep it real. The really sad part is that these so-called "Conservatives," of the masses, of the grassroots, don't hate the "Liberals" but think they do, think there is some kind of ideological warfare, due to manipulation by power-seekers who understand something about dividing to conquer.
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the eclipse is coming
in the eye of the hurricane
meditate on peace
in the eye of the hurricane
meditate on peace
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Neptune's been transiting my 2nd House (opp. 8th) for some time now. It has opened me up to understanding my hang-ups around money/self-worth that got mixed up in my psyche during my earlier years. Over time of serious self-reflection (apparently while Saturn was transiting Leo through my 8th House) the illusions fell off, and I learned a great deal more about my true values.
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It is a lovely thought that when we die we will go to a beautiful place where all the dead ones we loved in life will greet us. This has nothing to do with believing or not believing in "God" -- or any deity. Personally, I believe we each get the afterlife we believe in -- because it's all a matter of immediate post-mortem brain firings in our individual program. Thus, it is better to believe in a heaven than a hell.
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Personally, I don't think it is unity or duality or trinity, but infinity
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I was thinking about depression earlier as I was (barely) waking up -- so the thots are kind of unprocessed, jumbled. It seemed that many people get entangled in feeling guilty and/or ashamed when they perceive that they are not meeting some (self) expected standard or goal. Sometimes, when good coping mechanisms are not brought into play, that tangle takes over, consuming vast amounts of energy. Thus it become even more difficult to act effectively. In the exhaustion and confusion some tend to give up, and fall (temporarily or permanently) into a state of depression. Of course, the more useful approach, if we were to calmly deconstruct the situation, would be to look dispassionately at what was impeding our meeting standards and goals and respond accordingly. However, in the general market of child-rearing strategies, often what is conveyed is that punishment, not rational review, is what is needed to correct imperfect behavior.
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This fight with oneself is (even if we don't let on) on purpose, and usually purposeful. We take in the disappointments, the cruelties, the betrayals, all the little nuisances of navigating through an interactive life. We can't punish them, as you say, so we bring it in against ourselves. We create our own inner battlefield and set out on a long and painful war. If, at some point, we should discover that all this pain, this battling, is actually counterproductive, destroys more than it gainfully employs, as with any war, we can declare a truce. We can even realize that we have the wonderful potential of becoming our very best buddy with whom we can laugh and play, share deep confidences, create an inner world to be proud of.
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You've let your friend know they have a friend that is there for them. Continue to let them know, not by pressing, but by involving them in friendly activities. Freely offer assistance when it seems useful. Open up with your own emotional content, share your own misgivings over situations in your own life. Hug whenever appropriate. Be encouraging about activities/interests that you can see help your friend to feel more alive/in control of circumstances/calmer/more self-affirming. Let them know they are important to you, even when they don't seem to have much to offer.
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I used to hate my chart. Then I realized that it was because I didn't really know it. The more I get to really know my chart, the more we become friends.
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The thing seems to be that you are looking at "science" and "faith" as actual things, when in fact they are both only thought-games in a sense. Then, again, you seem to assume that the physical manifestation is the experience. Yes, our brains function electro-chemically in concert with perceived "thoughts" and "feelings." That does not mean the electro-chemistry causes the perceived phenomena. They are rather, physical manifestations of what might be called "spiritual" phenomena -- or, more precisely, these phenomena "exist" or can be perceived in multiple dimensions of perception. Thus, yes, there is a physical process, and yes, one might conflate that physical process with co-existent perceptual processes, but that does not make either the "cause" of the other. It all goes together, along with a lot more that we may or may not consciously perceive.
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Obviously, the brain your body supports can conclude what it concludes. I say this is not a conclusion, but just one more strand of a grand and beautiful tapestry of could bes and poetic imaginings. However, for me, I have arguments with your original proposition. It is not that the brain is useless without the rest of the body, or that the body exists to feed the brain. The whole package, in fact, can be considered a "cell" in the multicellular organism that is life, or life on Earth. That is but one in myriad possible considerations. Thanks for the opportunity to consider some of them.
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The thing is, we all are unique. Any medical treatment that works for one will not necessarily work for all, and look at all the possible "side effects" some get and others not. We all have idiosyncracies, whether provided by nature or nurture. ADD/ADHD or any other set of initials you want to be known by is only a description of a set of behaviors noted by those who note such things. It is not you. It may describe some ways that you think/behave/are habituated which you or others may perceive as different from "the norm" -- whatever that is. It doesn't mean you are less than or better than others. If this noted syndrome happens to correlate with dopamine levels as discovered by examination, that does not mean that it is necessarily caused by the dopamine system in your body, but that these are bio-chemical traces associated with such a syndrome. If you personally feel/think/believe that you are being hampered in reaching personal goals due to having symptoms of such a syndrome, perhaps it would be to the good to 1) rethink goals 2) rethink paths to goals 3) find or practice some kind of behavioral therapy or self-help technique 4) figure out what your particular traits are good traits for accomplishing 5) all, some, none of the above
Re: good parenting: A good parent is joyfully involved with the children they have, letting that child know how loved and important they are not matter what brain scans or teachers might say.
Re: good parenting: A good parent is joyfully involved with the children they have, letting that child know how loved and important they are not matter what brain scans or teachers might say.
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Good Lord, keep the government and the faithful out of my bedroom!!! Homosexuality, any sexuality is a god-given physical/socio/emotional merging of mutual needs. It is awesomely beautiful when physical beings can reach spiritual heights together. It is good social cement when we can enjoy others and share pleasure.
The Bible and other holy texts are so horribly used as excuses for hatred. This is not about the book, the religion, or the honestly faithful. It is about evil power-seekers who divide and conquer leaving devastation in their wake.
I think Jesus would throw up his hands at the whole mess, like he threw out the money-changers from the Temple. He would say something like: "I tried to tell you people that the secret of heaven was loving each other. How did you ever get the message so wrong?"
The Bible and other holy texts are so horribly used as excuses for hatred. This is not about the book, the religion, or the honestly faithful. It is about evil power-seekers who divide and conquer leaving devastation in their wake.
I think Jesus would throw up his hands at the whole mess, like he threw out the money-changers from the Temple. He would say something like: "I tried to tell you people that the secret of heaven was loving each other. How did you ever get the message so wrong?"
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ideas indeed percolate
bright bubbling tantalizing brew
excited molecules dancing and blending
eureka! eureka!
so deliciously energized!
bright bubbling tantalizing brew
excited molecules dancing and blending
eureka! eureka!
so deliciously energized!
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I have been considering a two-tiered economic system. One tier would be the public tier, which would be responsible for creating and maintaining all the infrastructure desired by the society to insure a reasonably comfortable lifestyle for all residents. The work in this tier would be supported by money created by the treasury and distributed in wages and payment for tools and materials for all those working on these public projects. The other tier would be the private tier, ruled completely by the market, unhampered capitalism, for all the projects, products, services, and follies imaginable by entrepreneurial wit.
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One person's rant is another's reason
Some of the very best inspirational writing/speaking I have found came in the form of a no-holds-barred rant
and if it just sounds like weird craziness, smile at the wonderfulness of such a wacky world and go on about your business ...
Some of the very best inspirational writing/speaking I have found came in the form of a no-holds-barred rant
and if it just sounds like weird craziness, smile at the wonderfulness of such a wacky world and go on about your business ...
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But don't ya know they attacked us on 9/11 because they hate our freedom
because they hate our Jesus
because they are couthless primitives intent on holy war
because we are so above them, jealousies ensue
they want our Barbie Dolls and Lo-Rider jeans
they want our oil and water and nuclear arms
they want our land from sea to shining sea
for the armies of Islam
when all we've ever wanted was peace
because they hate our Jesus
because they are couthless primitives intent on holy war
because we are so above them, jealousies ensue
they want our Barbie Dolls and Lo-Rider jeans
they want our oil and water and nuclear arms
they want our land from sea to shining sea
for the armies of Islam
when all we've ever wanted was peace
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Often disasters are only truly disasterous because of poor planning on our part. The world/universe is working out its own cycles, growing in places, dying in places, shifting and shaking as it will. Paying more focussed attention, being generally mindful, would include a reasonable level of awareness of these shifts and adjustments, both in the natural world and in our more personal worlds. Thus, what might have been labelled "disaster" might instead be more of an "oh, yes, this is something to keep and eye on and devise a plan of preparation."
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?????! Invade with what army? Invade with what resources? We've been squandering our planting seed on Iraq to a harvest of horrid destruction. It's always a mistake when you don't learn from it.
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When you think about it, war is like a form of cannabalism in which the meat is left to rot.
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Many countries have proportional representation or instant run-off voting; puts the parties in their place.
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personal pet peeve about Holocaust "denial" -- Yes, millions of jews were rounded up and killed. Millions of non-jews were also rounded up and killed. I think it would do jews a better service to embrace this, that it wasn't just about killing the jews, but about annihilating any trace of non-Aryan Germany.
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Now that I've had a bit of time to feel the changes, Saturn in Virgo seems to be aiding in my critical faculties. I don't know if it's the Cap. Sun, but the placement of Saturn always seems to be particularly relevant to my perception of the general ambiance of a time phase. This past Saturn in Leo seemed to be a time when I was really tuning in to my personal creativity to work out some deep issues (transiting my 8th H). Lately, I have been noticing more concrete and critical attitudes toward my work, more emphasis on its usefulness in service to other goals.
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Meanwhile, since I've turned into a fish (Asc. progressed to Pisces), I seem to be a lot more relaxed about going with the flow. Consequently my life generally seems a lot friendlier and easier, though there have been no real changes in background conditions. (See, it's go WITH the flow, not pit yourself against it. You can lead a horse to water, but she'll just stand there complaining about her thirst until she's ready to give in and drink ...)
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Meanwhile, since I've turned into a fish (Asc. progressed to Pisces), I seem to be a lot more relaxed about going with the flow. Consequently my life generally seems a lot friendlier and easier, though there have been no real changes in background conditions. (See, it's go WITH the flow, not pit yourself against it. You can lead a horse to water, but she'll just stand there complaining about her thirst until she's ready to give in and drink ...)
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Tribute
Green eyes perceiving
a green world.
River of hair flowing
past cities and dreams.
Skin hardened by life,
toughened in street fights.
A force of natural beauty.
Yet so shamefully touched
by lovers without love.
Walking loney dangerous avenues.
Trying on styles to discover
what suits her but
they never do.
Were she to stop by my window
and see into my mind
I would soothe her aches
and bruises.
Yet she would soon weary
of my silent chatter.
I'll wave with smiling tears
as you hurry past.
Your timeless impression
stamped upon my heart.
(c) September 2007 Laurie Corzett/libramoon
Green eyes perceiving
a green world.
River of hair flowing
past cities and dreams.
Skin hardened by life,
toughened in street fights.
A force of natural beauty.
Yet so shamefully touched
by lovers without love.
Walking loney dangerous avenues.
Trying on styles to discover
what suits her but
they never do.
Were she to stop by my window
and see into my mind
I would soothe her aches
and bruises.
Yet she would soon weary
of my silent chatter.
I'll wave with smiling tears
as you hurry past.
Your timeless impression
stamped upon my heart.
(c) September 2007 Laurie Corzett/libramoon
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It is hardly radical, in fact it is conservative in the true sense,
to defend and work for the freedoms this country was founded on. It
is really scary to be constantly told in the media such nonsense as
disagreeing with our Commander in Chief is tantamount to treason or
asking for fair treatment for our troops is some kind of radical
liberal agenda. Then, on a PBS non-commercial for the upcoming Ken
Burns series on WWII, Mr. Burns expressed that one reason he thought
this series important is that he hears of people believing that we
fought as allies with the Germans in that war against the Russians.
Apparently far too many children are being left behind in ignorance
of history.
to defend and work for the freedoms this country was founded on. It
is really scary to be constantly told in the media such nonsense as
disagreeing with our Commander in Chief is tantamount to treason or
asking for fair treatment for our troops is some kind of radical
liberal agenda. Then, on a PBS non-commercial for the upcoming Ken
Burns series on WWII, Mr. Burns expressed that one reason he thought
this series important is that he hears of people believing that we
fought as allies with the Germans in that war against the Russians.
Apparently far too many children are being left behind in ignorance
of history.
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Answer me this, in detail: Exactly what would be the outcome necessary to be able to claim this "war" "won"? This Iraq thing has never been a "war" in the legal/classic sense. It was an invasion of foreign territory belonging to people who had not attacked us, nor (in this instance) our allies. The rationale for going in has morphed exceedingly. I have never seen/heard an actual plan that specifically states how we can leave victoriously. We destroyed that country and murdered horrendously large numbers of civilians. Saddam in long dead, now. No weapons of mass destruction. They had an election. Are we required to continue the destruction until no Iraqi is left standing? The only way I can see this promoting democracy in the Middle East is by it finally being used as impetus to revolution for the purpose of kicking us far away.
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success must be measured on its own terms - or - we endure the policy of the president we have; not the president we wish we had.
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If I were President, my first day in office I would tell my staff to start making arrangements for a world-wide satellite hook-up video conference with all the world leaders to discuss mutually assured cooperation.
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In the way of living systems working out homeostatic balance, I believe (and hope) that this declining tendency will be seen and overturned by bright, active, creative Americans who can see beyond immediate ambitions and discover the vast potential of doing well by doing good. The energy/environmental woes we are discovering, I see as wonderful opportunity to turn around a sagging economy and make America great in ways more relevant to the 21st Century.
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I wish we would all take our duty as stewards of this planet, our home, seriously, in loving community. That would take care of all the rest, I think.
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plant trees, gardens, roadside flowers, spread air-cleaning greenery wherever you go
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We are called "heathens" or "pagans" in contrast to "christians" or other brands of Jehovaism. There are a vast variety of worshippers of a vast variety of gods and precepts. A joyous and wonder-filled Mabon to you, as this season approaches.
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Days are falling
Nights are calling
Walking the labyrinth of time
mystique of adventure
beyond the rule of censor
rushing toward the sublime
Casting shadow
to overjoy the crowd
laughing aloud
(yeah, folks, laughing's allowed)
When work is play
each blooming day
each night the stars shine
is your gift to design
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(c) September 2007 Laurie Corzett/libramoon
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You are always such a fan. I am deeply grateful.
Laurie
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