Monthly Archives: December 2017

Love ~ Hate

31 Sunday Dec 2017

Posted by in Depression, Ego, Emotional Intelligence, Hate, Human, Love, Meditation, Mental Health, Middle Way, Spirituality

≈ Leave a comment

Imagine you’ve spent most of your life trying to lose as many negative states of mind as you could. To reduce the size of your ego, and live by spiritual principles. And throughout that time you’ve tried to turn the other cheek, no matter what had been done to you, or why.

And then imagine that after decades of practice, you suddenly feel less accomplished, and deeper in your suffering than you ever had been before starting your journey.

And then one day wake up a sudden realization, and a fully formed plan to ruin someone else’s life. You had no conscious realization that any hate you still possessed ran that deep. Nor do you have any memory of wanting to plan, or perform such an act. But suddenly, there it was, complete and ready to go.

Would you follow through?

Would you tell another person?

Would you seek help for yourself?

Or could you accept it as a plateau in your growth?

Friends, don’t let friends spread bullshit

10 Sunday Dec 2017

Posted by in Conspiracies, Dingleberries, First Amendment, Indivisible, Middle Way, Patriotism, Politics, Revolution, Trump-Hole

≈ Leave a comment

See, now this is the kind of red meat that you feed to the folks in your personal echo chamber. It balances on a grain of truth, and is designed to invoke incredulity, and rage by invoking some of what you already know (Trump plays more golf than any President in memory, and Congress is cutting funding to lots of important areas right now). But then it pretends the two are related. But let’s face it, it’s not as if Congress can somehow limit things like the President’s golfing. All the while feeding the ignorance that metastasizes within everyone’s partisan echo chamber, known as their social media circle.

In other words, no matter how bad you think a particular president is, or how much you hate them and what they stand for, this kind of shit does nobody any good. It’s not grounded in any non-alternative-facts, and only serves to divide us further. And just because someone did the same thing to your favorite president last time, that doesn’t mean it’s remotely smart, or that it’s not bullshit. The sooner we get to a place where we actually understand how our democratic republic works, the sooner we can get rid of all the clowns and dictators, and get back to electing some plain old crooked politicians again.

Friends, don’t let friends spread bullshit.

You say you want a…

02 Saturday Dec 2017

Posted by in Change, Conspiracies, Dingleberries, First Amendment, Human, Middle Way, Patriotism, Politics, Revolution, Terrorism, Trump-Hole

≈ Leave a comment

They passed their tax plan. It’s poorly written, augmented at the last minute with chicken scratch and notes.

No one in the administration ran any numbers on it, but they swear it’s wonderful for the little guy. Everyone who actually has run numbers on it says it’s horrible. Every economist who has reviewed it, is against it.

It was written to benefit large corporations, and wealthy people by raising taxes on people who can’t afford food and shelter at the same time… because there’s a lot more of us to tax. Don’t take my word for it, Lindsey Graham said so himself. And he added that they had to do it, or else none of their fat cat donors will donate to them anymore. So for those keeping score, that’s an open admission that money and power are more important than their constituents well-being. Period.

The percentage of people getting hopelessly screwed by this bill is so high that it makes a super-majority look small. We far outnumber them almost 100 to 1.

(I should also add, the multiple guilty pleas that already appear indicate that the current administration usurped democracy in its quest for power…)

If this isn’t a time for open revolt, I’m not sure what is.

“…when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”