Whatever the wars of the world are about at thier very root cause are the same wars people fight internally, every day, within themselves. We need to relax and reflect, stop trying to avoid imaginary danger so that we can contemplate real danger, and stop that, way before it happens - all by the full knowing of our own minds and hearts and the realization our singular mind and heart is on the world stage, acting as the machrocosm of all the world's people. The gashes dug in by missles in Lebabanon are the same gashes you inflict when you punish yourself unrimttingly for some past wrong. These two are part of each other. Both need to heal and I think will. Just depends on who gets to it first - what moves first, the mind or the body?
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Re: microcasm person, machrochasm world
Wed, August 2, 2006 - 4:46 PMwow. i'm much less optimistic about human nature, i have to say. i feel our civilization is on a downward spire in so many ways, individually and collectively. have you seen "an inconvenient truth"?
of course we do have it in our power to saye ourselves. but will we? is there a will to do that? it seems that the instant gratification of the money bars overrules the salvation of the planet and ourselves. -
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Wed, August 2, 2006 - 5:15 PMI'm a lot less optimistic now that I see I spelled microcosm and macrososm wrong and didn't even catch it....hee hee
I'm optimistic about humanity, actually, very. We make mistakes and change is slow, but we are self-checking and always have been (slowly LOL) - I do believe momentum is building towards a better day. There's so much communication low, so much information out there, and so many people waking up, thinking, and acting each day - the tide will inevitably turn. Maybe not before some major damage, admittedly, maybe not in our lfietimes even. But it will.
Humans are a beautiful species.
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Re: microcasm person, machrochasm world
Wed, August 2, 2006 - 8:57 PMit is the money...
saving the human race is too expensive...
the big joke being of course that money is all in our mind...
still... here is something good:
www.cbc.ca/story/news/n...r_020821.html
at 700 million bucks a piece... how many of these could we have built instead of attacking Iraq?
370 according to these guys: www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp
not only will these towers create energy... but they will transform infertile soil into farmable land with the moisture that will condense on the inside of the tower.
that is the kind of stuff that humans should be proud of... or... as a race... *could* be proud of...
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Thu, August 3, 2006 - 12:22 AMholy shnit.
This makes me glad. -
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Re: microcasm person, machrochasm world
Thu, August 3, 2006 - 8:28 AMThe true illusion, in my opinion, is that we can do nothing to stop it, or are powerless to simply say as a people that we will not do a certain thing, or follow a certain path. Decisions are made daily that negatively impact our world. The illusion is that we can do nothing differently because of a certain precedent or social convention says we have no alternative. Our economy is probably the biggest example of that kind of social mythos on a juggernaught-like scale. All that change takes to be initiated is the will to do it, and the courage to face the fear of the unknown. I think working to this in my own life gives me more will to encourage change in the real world.
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Re: microcasm person, machrochasm world
Thu, August 3, 2006 - 9:14 AMthe sad thing is that it takes consensus to make these positive changes occur. of course "we" as a race can solve all of our problems... but "we" as a race aren't too hip on agreeing with each other... -
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Fri, August 4, 2006 - 6:03 PMdownward SPIRAL, i meant to say (in my post above). and "save" not "saye." i'm sounding a bit illiterate here, i'm afraid.
this discussion makes me so sad and hopeless... we are not hip to agreeing with each other, that's so true. and the idiots seem to rule the country while the smart, far-seeing types stay on the periphery. -
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Sat, August 5, 2006 - 1:33 AMyes... and I've only heard smart people talk about how they don't want to have children...
childfreebychoice.tribe.net
...but it's the smart people who *should* be reproducing!
elitist subjectivity aside... I am hoping that childfree by choice becomes a social movement in our world. geometric population growth is forcing the balance of nature... and it's people who will suffer.
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Re: microcasm person, machrochasm world
Fri, August 4, 2006 - 6:07 PMinteresting about australia... i was shocked in the movie when al gore said that only two countries didn't sign the kyoto treaty - the U.S. and Australia. i always thought of Australia as light years ahead of the U.S. in the progressive dept.
but I still don't see why they didn't sign the treaty. wouldn't their plan amount to the same thing? i guess they just wanted to do it their way, am i right? -
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Sat, August 5, 2006 - 1:28 AMI don't know australia's intention in not signing the treaty... but what they are doing seems honorable enough to me!
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