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3.21.2014

I OD'd on meds last night. :-( Overwhelmed at the world. Loving (Serving from the Soul in Solidarity), each hour, as best I can see, is all that makes sense to me - my would-be Religion; there is none other as High. I'm a life-long night-teeth-grinder beyond what dentists have ever seen, while I sleep. Within the last week the symptom they long feared for me has blossomed - '8-9' level pain of TMJ joint muscle spasm starting about 1 hour after I go to sleep - may have been triggered by work my dentist is doing, whatever. He prescribed 800mg Ibupropen that doesn't TOUCH the pain - but 1600 mg does! But I figured there would be something bad as a result of doubling the already large dose - and I was as weak as a kitten all day today, bedridden. Looks like hours of '9' level pain each night for me going forward. Not fun. I'm really overwhelmed by how near totally evil the world is - yes my overprivileged friends - 'near totally' - including our consumption levels at tens to hundreds of times what half our brothers and sisters can even imagine; my own included. I'm trying to see a way thru, even theoretically, for us as a species were we to be open to the Path - regarding ecocide, animal cruelty, human destitution, oppression by the disgustingly over-privileged; the cowardly, insane denial of the liberals as to the price they must pay to match their rhetoric; mass US incarceration; chronic psychic starvation of the US poor.... The list of our systemic evils is sooooooooo long. I think there may be no 'answer' to any of these things, other than individually,, pitifully, 'Loving the global neediest,' as much per hour, as one can, as inadequate and pitiful as it may be - with as many of us, as fast as possible, reaching world-class standards of this Loving, Giving, Self-Giving. If there is a 2nd aspect to the solution I think it is Supporting the Practitioners of that Religion of Loving (Serving the Global Neediest, from the Soul, in Solidarity).

I OD'd on meds last night.  :-(  Overwhelmed at the world.  Loving (Serving from the Soul in Solidarity), each hour, as best I can see, is all that makes sense to me - my would-be Religion; there is none other as High.  I'm a life-long night-teeth-grinder beyond what dentists have ever seen, while I sleep.  Within the last week the symptom they long feared for me has blossomed - '8-9' level pain of TMJ joint muscle spasm starting about 1 hour after I go to sleep - may have been triggered by work my dentist is doing, whatever.  He prescribed 800mg Ibupropen that doesn't TOUCH the pain - but 1600 mg does! But I figured there would be something bad as a result of doubling the already large dose - and I was as weak as a kitten all day today, bedridden.  Looks like hours of '9' level pain each night for me going forward.  Not fun.  I'm really overwhelmed by how near totally evil the world is - yes my overprivileged friends - 'near totally' - including our consumption levels at tens to hundreds of times what half our brothers and sisters can even imagine; my own included.  I'm trying to see a way thru, even theoretically, for us as a species were we to be open to the Path - regarding ecocide, animal cruelty, human destitution, oppression by the disgustingly over-privileged; the cowardly, insane denial of the liberals as to the price they must pay to match their rhetoric; mass US incarceration; chronic psychic starvation of the US poor.... The list of our systemic evils is sooooooooo long.  I think there may be no 'answer' to any of these things, other than individually,, pitifully, 'Loving the global neediest,' as much per hour, as one can, as inadequate and pitiful as it may be - with as many of us, as fast as possible, reaching world-class standards of this Loving, Giving, Self-Giving.  If there is a 2nd aspect to the solution I think it is Supporting the Practitioners of that Religion of Loving (Serving the Global Neediest, from the Soul, in Solidarity).

3.18.2014

AS TO HOW HARSH, HOW BRUTAL I AM, OFTEN, TO LIBERALS (reply to a rebuke from my treasured sister RC): Which is more promising, speaking to a stone or a person? Which is more promising, speaking to a Republican or a Democrat? With the ending of the civil war, a temporary victory, did the Slave Owners have a change of mind, or did they concede to pressure? I understand my liberal friends being upset with me, but I perceive you are dead wrong. I am HORRIFIED by all the postings concerning Republicans - rebuking, excoriating, lambasting, attacking..... Why? BECAUSE THEY ARE OBVIOUSLY WASTED BREATH. BECAUSE THEY ARE DONE TO SUBSTITUTE FOR POTENTIALLY CONSTRUCTIVE ACTIONS, WHICH I CONSIDER SO TYPICAL OF LIBERALS, DEMS, AND SO COWARDLY. LIP-SERVICE, INSTEAD OF LIFE SERVICE. I don't lambast republicans because there is zero chance they will change. I lambast liberals because they are capable of so much more. As to how harsh I am - I am no more harsh than the words liberals have for the republicans. On what basis do I understand the double standard you would have me observe? It is somehow correct and appropriate for liberals to be harsh to republicans but not for someone, liberal or not, to be harsh to them? Liberals are talkers, and blamers, with infinite excuses why this is fine. They hold everyone to impossible standards, except for themselves, ever. If the shoe doesn't fit, don't wear it. The exception is proof of the rule. (((HUGS))) No reply needed. ps: Why lambast, and not be 'encouraging,' gentle? Which sweet 16 coach would you suggest be 'encouraging', 'gentle,' in the last seconds of overtime? Maybe in the first few days of training, but NOT IN THE LAST SECONDS OF OVERTIME, RIGHT??!!?!?!?

AS TO HOW HARSH, HOW BRUTAL I AM, OFTEN, TO LIBERALS (reply to a rebuke from my treasured sister RC):  Which is more promising, speaking to a stone or a person? Which is more promising, speaking to a Republican or a Democrat?  With the ending of the civil war, a temporary victory, did the Slave Owners have a change of mind, or did they concede to pressure?  I understand my liberal friends being upset with me, but I perceive you are dead wrong.  I am HORRIFIED by all the postings concerning Republicans - rebuking, excoriating, lambasting, attacking.....  Why?  BECAUSE THEY ARE OBVIOUSLY WASTED BREATH.  BECAUSE THEY ARE DONE TO SUBSTITUTE FOR POTENTIALLY CONSTRUCTIVE ACTIONS, WHICH I CONSIDER SO TYPICAL OF LIBERALS, DEMS, AND SO COWARDLY.  LIP-SERVICE, INSTEAD OF LIFE SERVICE.  I don't lambast republicans because there is zero chance they will change.  I lambast liberals because they are capable of so much more.  As to how harsh I am - I am no more harsh than the words liberals have for the republicans. On what basis do I understand the double standard you would have me observe?  It is somehow correct and appropriate for liberals to be harsh to republicans but not for someone, liberal or not, to be harsh to them?  Liberals are talkers, and blamers, with infinite excuses why this is fine.  They hold everyone to impossible standards, except for themselves, ever.  If the shoe doesn't fit, don't wear it.  The exception is proof of the rule.  (((HUGS)))  No reply needed.  ps: Why lambast, and not be 'encouraging,' 'gentle?' Which sweet 16 coach would you suggest be 'encouraging', 'gentle,' in the last seconds of overtime?  Maybe in the first few days of training, but NOT IN THE LAST SECONDS OF OVERTIME, RIGHT??!!?!?!?

Climate change is putting world at risk of irreversible changes, scientists warn. The Guardian

Climate change is putting world at risk of irreversible changes, scientists warn

The Guardian

3.07.2014

Unemployment rate up for men and college grads. Boston Globe

Carl Sagan, extinction is the rule, survival is the exception.


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nd. I have ZERO substances in my life - used to do 2 or 3 glasses of wine, like my folks, before me. One day it hit me - What do I do so poorly at the task of Living, that I need substances to enhance the way I feel? Now, if I used any substances it would bring me DOWN from my natural high.

I have ZERO substances in my life - used to do 2 or 3 glasses of wine, like my folks, before me. One day it hit me - What do I do so poorly at the task of Living, that I need substances to enhance the way I feel? Now, if I used any substances it would bring me DOWN from my natural high.

INSANITY: PARTICIPATING IN AN ECONOMY DESIGNED TO ELIMINATE THE NEED FOR YOUR LABOR, FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION; AN ECONOMY DESIGNED TO MAKE THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE IRRELEVANT. How much longer do you think this can go on? How much longer do you plan to participate in your own enslavement, impoverishment?

INSANITY:

PARTICIPATING IN AN ECONOMY DESIGNED TO ELIMINATE THE NEED FOR YOUR LABOR, FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION; AN ECONOMY
DESIGNED TO MAKE THE VAST
MAJORITY OF PEOPLE
IRRELEVANT.

How much longer do you think this can go on?

How much longer do you plan to
participate in your own enslavement, impoverishment?

Family to visit intentional communities

3.06.2014

LIBERALS, WHAT’S THE DAMN GOOD REASON MANY RIGHY’S HATE YOU? * They can’t win in your world, in your economy. They can’t. They don’t have the education, the background, the social, emotional, intellectual capital. Weren’t born to it, like you. * They see, they sense, that soon your world won’t have enough jobs, places, EVEN FOR YOU. Yours is the world of educated technocrats, and between automation, and concentration of wealth, daily, fewer of you are needed. * Raising the minimum wage does not change this. MUSICAL CHAIRS.

LIBERALS, WHAT’S THE DAMN GOOD REASON MANY RIGHY’S HATE YOU?

*  They can’t win in your world, in your economy.  They can’t. They don’t have the education, the background, the social, emotional, intellectual
capital. Weren’t born to it, like you.

*   They see, they sense, that soon your world won’t have enough jobs, places, EVEN FOR YOU.  Yours is the world of educated technocrats, and between
automation, and concentration of wealth, daily, fewer of you are needed.

*  Raising the minimum wage does not change this.  MUSICAL CHAIRS.

nd. The homeless shelter in which I live will be closing. Sometime in the next 12 months. City wants the real estate for high rent, and they want we homeless gone. We're becoming illegal in the DC, just as we are fast becoming across the US. I'd say there's a 50% chance I'll move back on the streets and go to prison for the rest of my days, making a stand, against a society that values stuff over a meaningful place in the society for all citizens. Interesting. I find no meaningful place for myself. I find I am not wanted anywhere. There are millions like me, and the % is growing daily.

The homeless shelter in which I live will be closing.  Sometime in the next 12 months.  City wants the real estate for high rent, and they want we homeless gone. We're becoming illegal in the DC, just as we are fast becoming across the US.  I'd say there's a 50% chance I'll move back on the streets and go to prison for the rest of my days, making a stand, against a society that values stuff over a meaningful place in the society for all citizens.  Interesting.  I find no meaningful place for myself. I find I am not wanted anywhere.  There are millions like me, and the % is growing daily. 

Bible barons: How the GOP uses religion to keep voters captive to corporate ideology. salon.com

3.04.2014

Students donate to help family devastated by fire. usatoday.com. "It's remarkable ... 93 percent of my children live at or below the poverty level, but they stepped up to help strangers in need," she said. "It was simply amazing."

"It's remarkable ... 93 percent of my children live at or below the poverty level, but they stepped up to help strangers in need," she said. "It was simply amazing."

YA THINK? Moving out of poverty linked to kids' mental health. Reuters

Moving out of poverty linked to kids' mental health

Reuter

Warren Buffett on climate change. The Weather Channel

Students, jobs, win in new budget as air passengers lose. Business Week

Harry Reid continuous showdown with Republicans regarding Koch brothers. Politico

***** NO ONE UNDERSTANDS PR. OBAMA THAT DOESN'T KNOW HE HOLDS THIS INSIGHT FROM LINCOLN DEEP IN HIS 'ORGANIZER' HEART. "Our government rests on public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion can change the government." - Abraham Lincoln

***** NO ONE UNDERSTANDS PR. OBAMA THAT DOESN'T KNOW HE HOLDS THIS INSIGHT FROM LINCOLN DEEP IN HIS 'ORGANIZER' HEART.  "Our government rests on public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion can change the government." - Abraham Lincoln

***** RadioShack Is Doomed (and So Is Retail). theatlantic.com. THE CENTRAL TASK OF HUMANITY IS TO CREATE ENOUGH SUSTAINABLE JOBS FOR EVERY ADULT ON EARTH. We're racing in the opposite direction. SUICIDE.

THE CENTRAL TASK OF HUMANITY IS TO CREATE ENOUGH SUSTAINABLE JOBS FOR EVERY ADULT ON EARTH. We're racing in the opposite direction. SUICIDE.

RadioShack Is Doomed (and So Is Retail)
theatlantic.com
There are 4,000 RadioShack locations nationwide—approximately one for

vid. STUNNING. BREATHTAKING. TRUE. TRUST.

STUNNING. BREATHTAKING. TRUE. TRUST.

Ellen DeGeneres on being vegan. youtube.com

Ben Franklin: "Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are."

A wise quote from Benjamin Franklin.

How to choose the perfect location for your offgrid homestead or community.

George Orwell: "It is not so much staying alive, it's staying HUMAN that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other."

(M) Unfortunately most people will never get the memo.

3.02.2014

***** READ. Converging climate, energy, and economic crises signal the potential to transition to a prosperous post-carbon era. Guardian

The crisis of civilisation is an unprecedented opportunity | Nafeez Ahmed
theguardian.com
Nafeez Ahmed: Converging climate, energy, and economic crises signal the potential to transition to a prosperous post-carbon era

***** MUST READ. From South America to South Asia, a new age of unrest is in full swing as industrial civilisation transitions to post-carbon reality

Global riot epidemic due to demise of cheap fossil fuels | Nafeez Ahmed
theguardian.com
Nafeez Ahmed: From South America to South Asia, a new age of unrest is in full swing as industrial civilisation transitions to post-carbon reality

2.28.2014

FaceBook posts 02.27.14 (99% of my postings are FB only now. Friend me, or miss out.)

Beautiful piggy! — with Fantasia Johnson and 2 others.






Sharks are awesome. Humans... not so much.

We need to stop the #sharkfin industry!

From Give a Shit about Nature


On average, humans kill over 11,000 sharks every single HOUR.

Image via: World Wildlife Fund

Brand new episode of the IFLS show available now: http://bit.ly/1puRSEt


  1. This photo speaks for itself. Image by Mica Erdman. — with Mila Sunlove.
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  2. www.petidme.com
    Here at PetIDMe we love all animals and couldn't resist sharing this adorable baby dolphin.
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  3. (M) That's not justice...
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  4. Image from Union Thugs

    Which state will be next?
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  5. Draft-dodging Dick Cheney had the audacity to criticize Pres. Obama for using taxpayer money to feed hungry seniors and children.
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  6. How to Build Plastic Bottle Greenhouse --> http://bit.ly/1fgsU8I
    I love is Eco-friendly idea Check it out!

    More #DIY projects --> www.HowToInstructions.org
    — with Lolita Nuyda Racho Cantos and 22 others.
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  7. IMPORTANT INSIGHT: "Amidst all this hate, Republicans remains unerringly infatuated with the enormous multi-national corporations of uncompromising greed that seek out red states with zero money for their poverty level residents, but billions to throw at low-wage, part-time hiring, mass polluters who know a sucker state when they see one."
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  8. "More Inequality Means Less Upward Mobility" by Occupy Posters

    HOMEPAGE: http://owsposters.tumblr.com/

    DATA SOURCE:
    Corak, Miles. 2013. "Income Inequality, Equality of Opportunity, and Intergenerational Mobility." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 27(3): 79-102, available at http://bit.ly/1etyaVl
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  10. Wow....God have mercy
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  11. I'm soooooo proud, awed, moved. But we have got to find a different way for our young rather than feeding them into the corporate war for profits meat grinder.
    THIS NEEDS TO KEEP GOING.
    Leading the fight is U S Marine Gunnery Sgt. Michael Burghardt, known as 'Iron Mike' or just 'Gunny'. He is on his third tour in Iraq. He had become a legend in the bomb disposal world after winning the Bronze Sta...See More
    — with Logan Johnson and 31 others.
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  12. This guy needs to go far, far, far away from the US.
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  13. Only 7000 attended in the entire country!?!?!?!? We are soooooooo lost.
    Tonight's "Inequality for All" watch parties were a huge success. Over 7,000 people attended in 49 states. Many thanks to "Democracy for America" for organizing them.

    Remember: Don't complain. Instead, organize, mobilize, and energize others. Don't wait for the changes we need. Fight for them. And never give up.
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  15. Sharks are awesome. Humans... not so much.

    We need to stop the #sharkfin industry!

    From Give a Shit about Nature
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  16. On average, humans kill over 11,000 sharks every single HOUR.

    Image via: World Wildlife Fund

    Brand new episode of the IFLS show available now: http://bit.ly/1puRSEt
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  17. wait. act. wait. act. #YouAreNeeded






Dear Arizona State Legislators,


Wow
Butthurt Republican headline.




We agree.






#Walmart seems to get all the bad press but #Target is just as bad about paying low wages. - MK #RaiseTheWage


No one "earns" $100 million. — with Hunter O'Hara.


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