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7 Jun 2004 @ 00:12, by skookum. Ideas, Creativity
To the Green-ness
There you are
In the midst my silent dark seclusion
As you wend about my walls
Safe and strong More >
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 6 Jun 2004 @ 13:09, by quinty. Visual Arts, Graphics
Those of you who are familiar with this site may know that my father was an artist. As a result of this, I have always had plenty of paintings and drawings to decorate my home with. My walls here are covered with my father’s art. (To see his work go to this [link] )
Another result of having so many paintings and drawings More >
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 3 Jun 2004 @ 22:19, by skookum. Visual Arts, Graphics
From National Geographic
detail of 11x14 watercolor on standard watercolor paper More >
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 3 Jun 2004 @ 15:24, by ming. Crime, Policing
A good article on alternet about the costs of the drug "war". Each year, the U.S. government spends more than $30 billion on the drug war and arrests more than 1.5 million people on drug-related charges. More than 318,000 people are now behind bars in the U.S. for drug violations. This is more than the total number of people incarcerated for all crimes in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Spain combined. Well, I believe that the meaning of an action is the result that it gets. The purpose of the drug war is obviously to finance a multi-billion dollar criminal cartel, to make sure that the american population get unpredictable bad quality drugs, paying as much as possible for them, and it is to acquire hundreds of thousands of prison slaves who can work for the commercial prison industry for next to nothing.
If we even assumed it for a moment to be a worthwhile goal to inspire people to use fewer drugs, of the kind not manufactured by the pharmaceutical industry, then prohibition and criminalization has the worst possible record. In Holland, where one can freely buy hashis in coffeeshops, there are half as many cannabis users as in the United States, and Holland has amongst the lowest rates in the world of hard drug use, overdoses, drug crime, murders, and any other bad stuff that relates to drugs. See here, here, here or here. As several of these articles point out, the real studies are mostly forbidden reading in places like the U.S.
The drug war is a criminal scam. Its likely aim is the complete opposite of what it claims. More >
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3 Jun 2004 @ 14:35, by bkodish. Violence, War
Professor Khaleel Mohammed rejects the fanatical, narrow, antisemitic and anti-zionist political ideology (Islamism) that threatens to become mainstream among Muslims.
For, you see, according to Professor Mohammed, the Koran actually teaches that Israel belongs to the Jews.
The Koran and the Jews More >
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 3 Jun 2004 @ 09:10, by scotty. Spirituality
(the pic is called Jump for Joy by Lisa Keaney)
Funny - but this poem made me think of how we react to things in our lives ! Things that do not really have anything to do with us - and yet - we grasp them - we claim them as ours - we cling to them as though our life depended on them - we just can't let go .. can't let go of the insults the hurt the memories .. the pain !
We hold it to our hearts and play it over and over and over again - like a record stuck in the groove ...
he said - - -
she said - - -
over and over .. again and again !
What is it that prevents us from moving on - forwards - letting go of the pain and simply living in the now !
What is this illusion that we fabricate for ourselves - this illusion that keeps us prisoner in our comfort zone !
If sometimes we could only call to mind the simple fact that none of these illusions will be important ten years from now - because - Now is all we have !
Why waste it!
Live Now - Live Passionately ! More >
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 3 Jun 2004 @ 03:31, by jazzolog. Education
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
---St. Francis De Sales
My life has been the poem I would have writ,
but I could not both live and utter it.
---Henry David Thoreau
Tear open the tree!
And can you see
The cherry flowers that yearly
Bloom on Yoshino?
---Ikkyu
Am I preaching to the choir? Oh well, I love a good rant!
Picture of Dave Eggers at a recent booksigning at Boston College.
Reading, Writing, and Landscaping
Mowing lawns, scrubbing bathrooms, selling stereos: How teachers make ends meet
Dave Eggers
May/June 2004 Issue of Mother Jones
As a nation, we're confused about how we see teachers. Most polls show that respect for the profession has risen in recent years, yet we have certain quietly entrenched ideas—that teaching is easy, that teachers get out at 3 p.m. every day—and these notions, all ludicrous, allow us to accept the injustice in teachers' dismally low salaries. We love teachers, we think they're saints, but most of us consider unavoidable the fact that they are underpaid and often have to work two or three extra jobs to maintain a middle-class existence.
The latest statistics put the average teacher's salary at about $46,000; some teachers earn a little more, some a little less (the average teacher's salary—not the starting salary—is $38,000 in Kansas, $36,000 in New Mexico, and $32,000 in South Dakota). Overall, that's about the same that we pay pile-driver operators ($45,980) and about $8,000 less than the average elevator repairman pulls down. Meanwhile, a San Francisco dockworker makes about $115,000, while the clerk who logs shipping records into the longshoreman's computer makes $136,000.
The first step to creating an education system full of the best teachers we can find is to pay them in line with their importance to their communities. We pay orthodontists an average of $350,000, and no one would say that their impact on the lives of kids is greater than a teacher's. But it seems difficult for everyone, from parents to politicians, to shake free of a tradition in which teaching was seen as something of a volunteer project for women whose husbands brought home the real money. Today's teachers need to, but very often can't, support a family on their salaries. They find it difficult or impossible to buy homes, to save money, to live comfortably, and, in wealthier areas, to live in or near the towns where they teach. More >
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2 Jun 2004 @ 13:40, by adi. Spirituality
The SHIFT is upon us... Get ready for the down load!
So here is the scoop. They said "The SHIFT is upon us... Get ready for the down load!." We have come to the place we have all been waiting for. We are about to embark on the shift of the ages. What is happening is ALL the upper and lower dimensions are going to make a big leap in consciousness together with us right in the middle of it all. The Maya believe that there are 9 underworlds, and 13 heavens above us, but the Star Elders say there are many more dimensions than this. What is happening is doorways are beginning to crack open on all levels and dimensions. The BIG MANEUVER is that they all these different dimensions have to open and shift at the same time, this way lower dimensions will not contaminate the higher ones.
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So what is causing all this shifting? The Star Elders say it is the current Venus Passover we have just entered. A Venus Passover is when Venus retrogrades and passes in front of the Sun. Venus retrogrades every 260 days but it only passes over the sun every 122 years. The exact Passover is on June 8th, beginning 5 am GMT, UK time zone (Pacific Standard time it is from 9 PM on 6/7/04 to 4 am 6/8/04). It will take about 7 hours for Venus to pass in front of the Sun. The last time this happened was in 1882. No one alive today has felt this energy before.
The ancient Mayas call the Venus-Sun Passover the return of Quetzacoatal but is also symbol of death and a rebirth of a higher consciousness. The Venus Passover repeats again on June 6th 2012, the very near of the end of the Mayan Long count calendar (ending on 12/21/2012) and the ending of a huge 26000-year cycle. In Christianity the Venus-Sun Passover symbolizes the return of the Christ Consciousness. Christ and Quetzacoatal are both messengers of love and wisdom, light and knowledge.
Venus is like a Holy Grail in the stars holding the power of the feminine, the power of love, and the power of abundance. Our Sun is power house of lighted divine wisdom. When the two planets cross paths it will give us the ability to take all relationships, intimate and otherwise to the next higher level.
[link] More >
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 2 Jun 2004 @ 05:51, by scotty. Neighborhood
..is one that stays humble and discreet !
G'morning all !
only just after 7am and it is HOT !
One of my next door neighbours Emma ( not the hen-killer!) is an absolute doll!
This morning her gardener started work at 6.15am - now Emma is very able bodied - as is her daughter and son in law - they don't need a gardener !
But Emma knows that this old guy doesn't have any money and she wants to help him out - so rather than make him a 'charity case' she pays him to cut the grass and sweep up the leaves, there are never too many leaves 'cos she sweeps them up herself a day or two before he is due to arrive !LOL!
I know too that she drives round to his house a couple of days a week and asks him to 'help her out' by accepting the 'excess' of food that she had filling up her fridge !
She's always looking for 'discreet' ways to lend a helping hand or just simply make someone feel good - whether it's collecting clothes to give to people or simply just giving her presence and listening to someone who's lonely she does it all with the same vitality and joy !
She's always smiling - she wanders about humming quietly to herself all day long - she's an ACE !
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 1 Jun 2004 @ 22:26, by skookum. Ideas, Creativity
Rests The Folly
Slumbers pillow in form a lover’s dream
Sweet kissing’s befall the midnight air,
To embrace soft bedclothes in lonely emptiness
Substance lost spite ardent prayer.
Reaching out in silent, quiet loneliness
I beseech the sacred to blaspheme More >
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