Working
for the common cause is never easy. To begin, you are constantly challenged
by those who have no comprehension and who remain hostile to anything
beyond their own confines.
The common
cause is what most people reach out for and towards when all else is
snatched from them. In such circumstances and beyond the bottle and
other similar perspective wrecking distractions, thoughtful contemplation
and meditation will lead to the awareness of the common cause. Meditation
is the art of relaxation.
Sanctification
and protection of the common cause is what enables people to go about
their daily lives without having to immerse themselves in fighting
for that common cause. How many of us give deliberate thought to the
solidity of the foundations of the homes in which we live until something
occurs to make us focus on those foundations?
The questions
then become numerous. Who designed those foundations, who worked upon
and put them in place? What, if any, is our own role in the presence
of those foundations?
By default, those
who work for radio, television and the newspaper industries are in the front
line of promoting and standing up for the common cause. How they acknowledge
and comply with their respective positions depends much more upon professional
training than on personal volition. The danger preceding failure is in wearing
an outward cloak of respectability whilst failing to meet the demands. Feeding
the populace pap might fatten personal bank accounts but that is in reality
all it will achieve.
Those who
watch the news reports currently emanating from western journalists
in the Middle East should listen carefully to and analyse the perspective
of those reports.
We might not
all be in a position to work for the common cause as actively as others might.
Yet pause a moment to ponder that but not for the common cause, none of us
would have the education nor the time nor the freedom to even ponder in such
fashion.
It might
also be valid to ponder the worth of the individual within the common
cause and whether any common cause could ever exist where the intrinsic
worth of any individual is devalued.
A
Quiet Corner We live in a dangerous
world—dangerous because men and women
alike shirk from the responsibility of being humble.
This sonnet epitomises the gift of humility.
God
Grant me the Serenity to accept
the things I cannot change
Courage to change the things I can and
Wisdom to know the difference,
Living one day at a time — enjoying one~
moment at a time
Accepting hardships as the pathway of Peace
Taking as He did this sinful world as it is —
and not as I would have it.
Trusting that He will make all things right —
if I surrender to His Will
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
And supremely happy in the next world
“It’s not hard to bring out the worst in large numbers
of citizens by constantly pressing their buttons; fear, hate, greed,
false pride and blind loyalty are the main emotions used to manipulate
people so much these last years. Reversing this process and empowering
people through courage, love, generosity, humility and critical thinking
is harder but it can and must be done.” -- Coleen Rowley for
RootsAction; FBI whistle blower
What is what and
who is who and who cares what if who is not, said the reflection
to the shadow.
Total Cost of War on Terror
Every hour taxpayers in the United States are paying $93,264,841 for Total Cost of War on Terror.
A Signatory — or not? Nations
that enlist as signatories to uphold and abide by the International
Court of Justice but then decline to support and follow judgements
and arrest warrants issued by the Court should be expelled as signatories
without exception.
A Word
of Advice to those who need to hear. If
you have not studied the world history of humanity
with an unbiased view then you will not know that past civilisations
that collapsed did so because they
were:
invaded
by an aggressive force
or
they
lacked empathy and compassion
Civilisation as we know it today now stands on the brink.
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"It suddenly occurred to me that the only true bottomless pit is the human stomach." - Theki Rashir
“Who
overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.”
John
Milton
Origins
of Poverty
When man came on earth he did not live in a society or hierarchy
nor was he endowed with poverty. Good health, longevity, natural
cheerfulness were his own even as he found himself amidst plenty.
Like other species he lived or perished as the external resources
permitted but he lived or perished as a group. Only when the
society organised itself into a hierarchy, it was possible
for one layer to exist while another persisted during times
of scarcity. Organised ways of living, knowledge of all descriptions,
systems created for comfort etc. interfered with the natural
living of MAN in hundreds of ways. With the passing of time
these stratifications of society come to stay and even create
a psychology by which even the victim takes his victimization
for granted. No question arises in his mind. ...
Had
not the society organised itself in such a way that segments
of it are protected and other segments were defenseless, MAN
would have remained as MAN and would not have been bifurcated
into poor and rich.
“Man
was always destroying things, and beautiful things.
At the time they wouldn’t seem beautiful.
It was only afterwards that men felt pity for the things their hands
had destroyed.”
Walter
Macken — The Scorching Wind
A
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