26 January 2010

listen UP!

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Do you suppose for a split second all 12,000 of those nurses who immediately volunteered were DEMOCRATS?

What do you suppose was the HITCH for the White House?

DO YOU STILL WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS FUCKING PINBALL GAME PARTY POLEMICIZING?

Or do you want your country back?

Do you want a sane and safe world?

WAKE UP!
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I'm not usually this heavily into repetition, but there is a crucial insight to be had here:

The world is a transitory abode,
not a permanent abode.
And the people in it
are of two sorts:
one who sells his soul
and ruins it,
and one who ransoms his soul
and frees it.

—Counsels of Ḥaḍrat 'Alī
[translated by Thomas Cleary]

One needs to take the lesson from the world, stop oneself and look at it from the heterodox mind, realize that all the people who have come within one's sphere over the course of a lifetime, while maybe even seeming to fall under the headings provided by the orthodoxy, don't really fit in that orthodoxy. Not really. They have vastly more nuanced and non-stereotypical qualities... even if those aren't being communicated directly out their mouths, you can tell if you stop to take stock of their humanity, their quirks, their interactions with and opinions of their family and friends, the causes or lack thereof that get whatever doses of their attention, how they are with animals... all sorts of things. The world is right here teaching you a trillion percent more than the orthodoxies of society ever even touch on. EVER. This massively popular mental error is made almost mandatory by how little time most of us feel we have to just cover the basics of existence, I know, but, well, we can't let that excuse us. No. Nope. We cannot, even if we do. Isn't it uncomfortable enough for you even yet that you could continue to ignore this?
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2 comments:

  1. Hartmann echos your call,

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyivT3S9zIY&feature=player_embedded

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  2. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!

    That makes me feel a tad better. It is radically better than listening to Friedman's HORSESHIT on this subject and others. And a great thing to see when I turn on my computer.

    Even as it's hard to listen to a lower taxes maniac... I think there is a way in which those people are right. We probably ARE paying too high taxes, considering that they are paying for the military adventures and the bailouts. The majority even of the tax protestors have said they would pay the taxes for Universal Health... so... I think it's another case of liberals backed into a corner where we're actually defending the fascists when we try to defend the social programs.....

    XOXOXOXOX

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