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Monday, September 26, 2005

From the book of Enoch (Noa's grandfather), more evidence of Alien interbreeding


... with ancient humans. Some argue that the word Angels as used below, actually means "those who decended from above" or extraterrestrials

"And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto

them beautiful and comely daughters. And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: 'Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men"

you can read the entire book of enoch here

www.heaven.net.nz/writings/...fenoch.htm


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Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Racism in America


Today, I want to talk about racism. Racism is alive and well. The ruling power elite that control all the idustries of the world are by and large white, and their policies, by and large are detrimental to Black and Brown people. Let me explain. It's a well known fact that Black and Brown people pay higher mortgage rates. The banking / credit system is set up to reward those who need it the least and penalizes those who already face financial hardships. Also, I believe it's quite possible that the AIDS virus was created by David Rockefeller's virologists employed by his pharmicutical company that just happens to produce the AIDS drug AZT. Also, after his company claimed to have "discovered" the virus, they were successfully sued by a french guy who aparantly had some proof that the virus stollen from him. The judgement was against Rockefeller's company to the tune of 2 million dollars. You see, there was a lot of money to be made on the AIDS testing, and whoever "discovered" the virus then owns the rights for the tests. Here this is a good place to start if you want to do your own research. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS...y_theories

When you look back at history, the racism is undeniable. Everyone knows about giving the "Indians" blankets infected with smallpox, killing them off and displacing the reamainder onto reservations. That's called "Genocide" people! And we did it!, "this great nation" What about slavery? Most definately racist! Slavery is alive and well, it just has a new 21st century face. I don't know, I just think it's interesting that as I put this shit out here on myspace, I feel like those who want to believe "our leader" are mostly white and have some amount of inherent racism wheather it's on a conscious lever or not. Some people will message me and say "I'm a republican" or "I don't like Democrats or Liberals" Fine, that's you, but don't just blindly follow the president just because he is in the same political party as you. Do your own research, analyze the evidence with a clear, open mind. question911.com

Then you have to ask yourself "Am I racist?" What about those little words and little jokes you throw around about other races when it's just you and your friends? Let me play devil's advocate for a minute and say well some people are just smarter than others. Yes, but that is no excuse to exploit them! There needs to be more respect for all life in this world; all humans, all animal, and all plant life. We need to learn to live in harmony with each other and with the earth. And if you're against that, then fuck you! If all you have to offer the world is hate and complaint, do us all a favor and just, as S.O.D. said, KILL YOURSELF NOW!!




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Ok, so ...


Like I said before, I don't care if you don't aggree with me. You can blast the entire myspace world telling everyone I'm full of shit. In fact, I encourage you to! But at least I am seeking the truth! Do you think the Bush Administration is telling you the truth. Are you afraid of the truth? ... Don't be! George Washington supposedly said it best, "The Truth Shall Set You Free!"

question911.com


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Saturday, September 17, 2005

Anotha Brotha putin' the info out

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Hurricane Katrina
Firstly, I don't mean to mix this in with the other things i've typed up but frankly there's nowhere else to put it.
I just want to say that my heart goes out to all the families caught up in this catastrophe, especially in New Orleans. I have prayed everynight for you guys out there and will continue to do so untill it's all over, which is going to be a long time yet by the looks of things. People are being raped in the shelters for the refugee's, people are being murdered and electronic goods and such are being stolen. The people commiting these crimes will surely burn in hell and rightly so. If anyone is able to donate any money to help these people then please do so, even if it means you have to go without. These people need your money more then you do right now. It is our jobs as human beings to look out for our brothers and sisters at times like these. Ofcourse, if you do donate money then please do a little research into who you should donate to because there are charities out there who will rob these people of what they need for their own selfish greed.

God bless you and the folks affected.

9/11

None of us will ever forget the tragic events that unfolded on September 11th, 2001. It doesn't matter who you are, where you are or what your background is, you can probably remember where you were at the time. Every one of us was blown away that day.

Now what if I were to tell you that there is overwhelming evidence to support that not only were criminal elements inside the U.S. Government aware that these attacks were going to happen but that they also involved in the planning and execution of the 9/11 attacks. To say that 19 muslims pulled all that off by themselves is absolutely ridiculous. I suppose these 19 muslims were also to blame for NORAD standing down? Oh, and what about that several of the hi-jackers have actually been found to be alive? Are we supposed to just ignore these facts? Are you aware of the fact that a member of the Bin Laden family helped George W. Bush launch Arbusto Oil? Are you aware of the fact that Bin Laden was treated for kidney problems at an American Hospital in Dubai from the 4th of July till the 14th of July and was actually met by a CIA agent while he was there? Why would a CIA agent be meeting with an Al-Qaeda leader 2 months before 9/11? Perhaps they were getting their stories straight.

New York Magazine - Sept. 24th (2001) Issue

Enlargement of photo showing abnormal protrusion on bottom of the plane just before impact with South Tower

U.S. Air Force militarized version of the Boeing 767

London Bombings

So what have we got? Prior knowledge is an absolute certainty because former Isrealian Prime Minister, Bejamin Netanyahu, was warned.
The so-called suicide bombers bought return tickets before boarding the trains. Why would they even think about getting return tickets if they knew they weren't coming back?

Like 9/11, there were drills taking place at the same exact time the bombings occured. Not only were they at the same time but at the same exact stations. Click HERE for your proof of this. The only thing with the video is that Peter Power says that the only difference between the drills and the real thing is that with the drills the bombs went off simultaneously. A few days later the London Metropolitan Police released a report to the press telling them that the bombs did actually go off simultaneously so the bombings and the drill were exactly the same! There are 240+ train stations in London.
What are the chances of that? Well i'll tell you:
One chance in 3,715,592,613, 265,750, 000,000,000,000, 000,000, 000,000

There are four and a half million CCTV camera's in London, eight-thousand of which are in the area's where the bombings occured yet we haven't seen any CCTV footage on the news or anything of the bombings taking place. Also, the London busses have several camera's on board for the protection of the driver but the camera's on the bus that was blown up just didn't happen to be working that day. Think about that.

Now this is the biggest smoking gun of them all when it comes to the London Bombings so pay attention!
The official story was that Haroon Rashid Aswat was the Mastermind of the London Bombings. This guy belongs to the so-called Al-Muhajiroun group which is based in London. On the 29th July, former Justice Dept. prosecutor and Terror expert John Loftus revealed on FOX News that the Mastermind is actually being protected by British MI6 because he works for them. Click HERE and see for yourself.



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Thursday, September 15, 2005

OK, so I think I have this whole universe thing figured out


So yeah, I was watching these shows that I Tivo'd last night about the universe and it's like this. So we know that there was a big bang like 14.7 billion years ago or something, but what was there before that? ...

Answer: Another Universe.

Let me explain. So we know that there is a huge black hole at the center of our galaxy that if given enough time would devour the intire galaxy before collapsing inward and exploding back outward. But before that happens Another Galaxy, the Andromida, our closest neighbor will collide with ours in about 12 billion years. eventually they will coallice into a giant black hole and eventually collapse inward and explode outward in a huge explosion. Itsn't it possible then, that eventually one black hole will swallow up the entire universe and then collapse inward and explode outward in another "big bang" continually being born in a big bang, dying in a black hole and then being born again in a big bang, over and over and over agian. The cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth just continues and continues. When a star dies it explodes, releasing gasses that evetually forms new stars.


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Wednesday, September 14, 2005

overpopulation?


after learning of the David Rockefeller / Trilateral Commision / AIDS conspiracy I got depressed. One thing that cheered me was learning that no matter how hard those illuminati fuckers are trying to kill us off, the earth's population still increases by 10,700 people per day in spite of the fact that 30,000 children die each day of extememe poverty. This raises the question of if we were able to cure aids, and you know those fuckers have the cure, and stop deaths by poverty, would we be able to sustain that level of population growth, of say 50,000 per day. Here are some links on the subject. www.hli.org/populationco...esources.html

blogs.albertesmeralda.com/index...lation

www.rense.com/politics6/overpop.htm

www.geocities.com/lionofjud...oppov.html


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letter I was contemplating sending to my family, thesis, read my older blogs!


I apologize if anyone was offended by the "Secret Evil of 9/11" video. Upon viewing it again, I did think it was a little tasteless in it's choice of music for the opening scene of the towers falling and some poor soul jumping to their death. If you go back to question911.com and view the short flash video they tell you to start with, it should be less offensive, and it raises a few points the other one does not. Didn't you guys see Farenheit 9/11?! Don't you think it's awfully convieneint that both the Bush & Bin Ladin familes and their friends have profitted hugely off of the "terrorist" attacks and the war in Iraq? The evidence of corruption in the election of 2000 is staggering! The vote count woman in Florida was Bush's campaign manager, his brother was the governor of the state in question, and his cousin was at the head of the decision desk at fox news who was the first channel to call it for Bush. There were also reports of local law enforcement officials in West Palm Beach County, the county in question, of them setting up road blocks which kept Black voters from getting to the polls. Gore was an idiot for calling for a recount instead of a revote in West Palm Beach County, which is what the situation required. You'd have to be living in Denial to be "proud" of the "achievements" of Bush.

And what of the debate of "you shouldn't talk about religion or politics with family members". I beg to differ. If you can't talk to your own family about these things, who can you talk to about them. Desparate times call for desparate measures. We are living in a world where poor people are dying for corporate profit, and I'm sorry, but I'm not just going to sit and watch it happen. You can if you want to, but at least be aware of what's going on in the world and what has happened in history. I'm not going to be constanly ranting about it, and I will not bring it up and any family functions unless someone else does first, and then I will probably still hold my tounge. I have found my purpose in life, and that is to, in some capacity be a public figure or agent for social change, for I see a lot that needs changing. I realized recently, "How can I expect to change the world if I'm afraid to change the world around me?" (i.e. the thoughts of my friends and family). So attached is my thesis if anyone cares to read it.
Social change …' it’s something that people have been calling for as long as structured society has existed in the western world. The most common cause, the peasant class calling for an end to their suffering. It is no different today. The rich have always been rich and the poor have always been poor. So who is at the top? Who are the richest of the rich, and how do the decisions they make affect the world we live in. The most glaring example of are time is 9/11. I saw a video last night that changed my life. It began with the collapse of WTC building 7. It fell in a perfect vertical implosion. You could not ask for a more perfect implosion. It fell inward perfectly on its footprint. So what, that doesn’t prove anything, right? How ‘bout the fact that the official story is that the building collapsed due to 2 small fires on one side of the building! How is a building going to fall straight down from 2 small fires on one side?! There is yet a third, huge problem with the explanation that fire caused the collapse of WTC buildings 1, 2 & 7, and that is that never before has fire cased a steel-reinforced building to collapse, even ones where an entire floor burned for up to 18 hours. There is a really good reason for this, and that is the nearly 1400-degree discrepancy between how hot a "carbon based fire" (any fire in the real world, not in a lab) and the temperature that steel melts at. In other words, it is SCIENTIFICALLY IMPOSSIBLE for a fire of that nature, no matter how much jet fuel was involved, to cause the collapse of those buildings, and again, even if it somehow, though the magical bending of the laws of physics, it did …' why would they fall down so perfectly, vertically. Twice again, the way in which those towers fell so perfectly vertically, it could not have been done any better by the worlds best demolition experts! This is because they WERE brought down by the worlds best demolition experts! Hired by the most wealthy power elite of this country, and therefore, the world. But there is even more evidence! There is a really good video at LetsRoll911.org where you can see the demolition charges going off in succession to bring the buildings straight down so perfectly. There is also video and audio taken live on 9/11 of firefighters talking about the secondary explosions. But the best thing is to watch it for yourself. Having just seen this video, now that this paper is completed, it is not covered in this paper. This paper, in the end, is about self-mastery, a term introduced to us in the first semester. It’s about our own individual search for our own personal truths …' the search for the meaning of life, the search for our true calling. The figuring out of how we are meant to fit into this world, and the realization that if we want to change the world, we must first be able to change ourselves and the world around us. It’s about history, the told and untold. It’s about society, "our" "American" culture. It’s about everything that has brought us to this point, and how to go about making social change through creating dialog with those that have been misled. We must go out into the world like Socrates, Jesus, and many others before and since who dared to make people question their beliefs, and question the nature of society. But before we can do this we must be centered in our own strength, grounded in our own reality, and the universal reality that binds everything, otherwise we will be easily defeated. We must forge wills of iron in order to take on the unwitting agents of falsehoods.

Every person on this planet Earth comes from a different place; geographically, hereditarily, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and experientially (including past lives). Many people wonder: What does it all mean? Many do not. Many live in denial of what reality really is. They create their OWN reality as a defense against a deeper understanding. We all have our own rationalizations. That's OK. What’s not OK is when we fail to realize that they are rationalizations, because then we deny the truth. "What is the truth?!", you may be asking. It is something different for all of us, this is our personal truth. In order to gain a deeper understanding for the world, we must always be aware of our own personal truth. Personal and spiritual evolution cannot come if we deny the truth, and not just our own personal truth. There is also a universal truth. This universal truth must be understood and accepted by all in order for the human race to achieve anything close to harmony.

Of course total and complete harmony is a fantasy, a myth, but much progress can, and needs to be made in that direction. The universal truth that needs to be understood and accepted is the history of "civilized man", and the role that history has played in other cultures as well as our own. We need to look at the world with a new perspective, with fresh eyes, from the point of view of other countries, races and cultures. Realizing of course that "our" culture, and the dominant culture of the world in terms of money and power is "white Christianity". Let's face it.

We have been brought up thinking, and being told that this is the greatest country in the world. This country portrays itself as the superhero of the world, helping those less fortunate countries in need. What we are not told, what "Americans" in general are in denial of, is that the "policies" of this country are the reason why many of those "less fortunate", "underdeveloped" countries are in the state that they are in. I will explain this in greater detail later, but it boils down to a result of "imperialism".


"Imperialism" is defined in Webster's as: "The policy and practice of forming and maintaining an empire in seeking to control raw materials and world markets by the conquest of other countries, the establishment of colonies, ect." and, "The policy and practice of seeking to dominate the economic or political affairs of underdeveloped areas or weaker countries".

Imperialism pre-dates written history as does slavery. It is because of imperialism that the global geopolitical structure is the way it is today. I am reading a book right now that likens the different geo-political realms to the tectonic plates; always in flux, in constant motion, constantly bumping into each other and causing upheaval. The global geopolitical system is very complex, but we must look at what is going on behind the scenes at the highest level of global control with organizations like the IMF, WTO, World Bank, Trilateral Commission, and the CFR. Some of the same people have an influence or sit on some or all of these governing bodies. More public scrutiny needs to be paid to the policies made by these governing bodies and how their policies affect the poorest people on earth.

When I was a sophomore in high school, this guy in my class told me that the AIDS virus was created by the Trilateral commission as a means of population control. It’s always been in the back of my mind, and I always hoped it wasn’t true, but I did some research on the internet recently and found out that David Rockefeller, who created the Trilateral commisson, also owned the pharmaceutical company that made the drug AZT for treatment of AIDS patients. Not only that but his company which claimed to have "discovered" the AIDS virus was successfully sued by this French guy who claimed that he "discovered" it and they stole it. Whoever "discovered" the virus would stand to make millions from the tests people would have to take to see weather or not they are infected. I believe that we as conscious Americans should remember and atone for, everyday, the fact that this country was built on land stolen from the "Indians" with lives

and labor stolen from the Africans.

CHAPTER 1


We all must come to a deeper understanding of ourselves and break down the walls that we put up. I'm not saying this with that new-age like attitude of "we all have to love each other", for I believe that that line of thinking rests on a surface barrier of denial. It is important to understand our hate, where it comes from, and to work through it. This is an on-going process. We evolve by understanding ourselves and others, by coming to realizations of the nature of relationships between things. We must be grounded with the earth, with ourselves, and with reality.

I am a spiritual person and have studied some new-age thought. My problem with the new-age movement is that it is almost exclusively white for one thing, and these white people are not grounded in reality. Many are not even grounded with the earth. Many seem to have achieved some kind of inner peace, but in most cases, it is a peace that rests on a surface of denial. This is because they are not grounded in the universal truth and not always aware of the totality of what’s going on in the world geo-politically, or even the issues that face those less fortunate in their own areas. It’s the same thing with the white left of American politics. It’s too white! The same can be said for the environmental movement. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to protect the earth, I just think protecting the people who live on the earth should be a priority.

This is a capitalist nation as we all know. We are also still pursuing imperialism. American society is based on consumerism and consumption. We always think we're right. A key part of this is keeping the masses ignorant. This is done through the corporate-conglomerate controlled media. A couple examples of this is how the government would not let any images of the bodies of U. S. soldiers be released through the media. Another example is how Fox News constantly kept people afraid in the wake of 9/11 with "terror alerts" and constant warnings of attacks.

After Bush was elected last year I knew I had to do my best in my lifetime to try the best I can to change the minds of the average Americans who voted for him, especially since it was the Christian Conservative right who got him re-elected on the issue of gay marriage, which was appalling to me, seeing as how it is only a matter of time before they find the human gene for homosexuality (they have already found it in fruit flies!) Then at just the right time back in feb-march I started seeing all these shows about Christ and the Gnostic gospels, and the rise of the Catholic Church. I have always been opposed to Christianity, but that doesn't mean I can't learn from the very wise teachings of Christ, as we all can. Given the brutal history of Christianity, and the rigid, backwards thinking of modern conservative Christians, I have no doubt in my mind that if Christ were alive today he would absolutely denounce almost everything that Christianity has done and stood for since 323 A.D.

With my studies this year of religious men and philosophers from Thales, to Socrates, from Shankara to Jesus, Mohammed and beyond, I’ve come to realize that I must do as they did and go out into the world challenging peoples’ belief systems. Every one of the men I mentioned and every other man who stood up and make a difference throughout history, (Ghandi, MLK, ect.) did so in the face of rulers who would have their lives for their words and actions. I'm saying lets begin an ideological war by using the Socratic method to challenge peoples belief systems that are built on denial, ignorance, and as you mentioned, fear. Socrates was murdered by the powers that be in the ruling class of classical Athens 2,500 years ago. He simply walked around talking to people asking them questions about their beliefs and how they arrived at them, thereby CHALLENGING their beliefs. He was convicted and murdered for "corrupting the youth of Athens. He became a threat to the ruling class because he was causing people, particularly, young people to see and question the flaws of the system put in place by the ruling class. So you have to go out and engage people. The trick is to do this in a way that the person doesn't feel like you're attacking them, or trying to get them to join your cult or something.

I have realized that there are two kinds of people in the world ... those who "get it' and those who don't. Not to say that there isn't any overlap, and there are infinite levels of "getting it" but you know who I'm talking about, people who drive around with their big white truck with a "W" sticker on the back, who think "we gotta get them terrorists and smoke 'em out of there holes" just don't get it! So after bush was shockingly re-elected last year I started asking myself "what is with mainstream America?", where does this level of ignorance come from? I came to the conclusion that is comes from "Christian Values". The KKK is a Christian organization. Actually I realized some years ago that at some point in my life I was going to have to take on Christianity, but how do you do that? So it was definitely on the back burner to say the least. So then around March I started seeing all these shows on the history channel and pubs about Jesus and the history of Christianity. I learned about and read the Gnostic gospels and how only four out of 54 gospels were included in the bible. then it hit me ... I can take on conservative Christianity with the words of Christ himself because like I said if Jesus were alive today he would be totally opposed to conservative Christianity! If enough of us blow, the house of cards that hold up their delusory beliefs will fall.

We are the ones who "get it" we are the ones who understand that the war is bullshit just so some fat, greedy corporate fucks can get rich by selling more tanks to the army. The rich profiting off the death of the poor ... it's been going on since the beginning, but it doesn't have to go on forever ... or does it?

Getting back to what I feel Jesus believed, here is a quote from Vedanta philosophy that I feel is right in line with what Jesus believed as well as with what I believe: "The divinity at the core of our being is the same divinity that illumines the sun, the moon, and the stars. There is no place where we, infinite in nature, do not exist.

the goal of human life is to realize and manifest our divinity. Not only is this possible, it is inevitable. Our real nature is divine; God-realization is our birthright. Sooner or later, we will all manifest our divinity-either in this or in future lives-for the greatest truth of our existence is our own divine nature."

Since everything is interconnected anyway. I feel that any type of exclusion whatsoever has the effect of producing a distorted reality because if you excluded part of reality then it's not reality anymore, is it ...

I came up with a quote a few days ago "evil springs from the denial of the truth" but really that not true. I think that true evil in it's purest form goes back to "greed is the root of all evil" the denial of the truth just perpetuates the existence of the evil, it allows it to keep existing. Evil is a conscious choice that results in the death and suffering of many for the profit of a few elite running the show globally.


CHAPTER 2


The nature of existence is to exist. regardless of who believes in said existence. so really, the question is, what does exist? I don't like the word god, but I am a spiritual person and I believe in the soul, the spirit and energy. not as three separate things within us but different aspects of a singular existence. I believe in a singular existence in-so-much-as we are all singular people living on a singular planet in a singular universe ... not to say that I don't believe in the multi-dimensional nature of the universe, because I do, but we have one big messy reality to deal with on one big messy planet. We don't need to worry about the other dimensions, they'll take care of themselves.

I believe in energy. we put out energy, we receive energy, we are all connected to each other and everything through this singular plane of existence we call life on planet earth, and everything is connected to and affected by us. I believe that when we die our spirit, our energy dissolves into the air and becomes a part of the energy that's just flowing through the air, but our soul lives on and is born again at some point. ... and I believe that if Jesus were alive today he would be totally opposed to almost everything conservative Christianity has done and stood for since Constantine adopted Christianity around 323 A.D.

It's time for world war III and it has to be an ideological war of "new" versus "old" ideology. I use quotation marks because since time is cyclical and linear at the same time, and many of the ideas we must draw upon, such as those from and pre-dating ancient Greece existed thousands of years ago, it hard to call them new ideas, but it's definitely time for teachings like those of Shan Kara from 9th century India to re-emerge! That there is a divinity within us all that’s connects us all as well as everything in the universe. everything is inter-connected

Here are some quotes that sum up where I feel I am at right now with my role to the earth.

"Strange times are these in which we live

when old and young are taught in falsehoods school.

And the one man that dares to tell the truth

Is called at once a lunatic and fool"

-- Plato.

"Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut,

that held its ground." - Unknown

"when you have a system of denial, you will grasp at any reason, explanation, justification or falsehood to keep that system going and upheld" - Matt Mann

"the nature of knowledge is that it desires to be shared" - Matt Mann

An interesting news article:

Uncle Sam wants you - even if you’re 42 years old

'The Defense Department quietly asked Congress on Monday to raise the maximum age for military recruits to 42 for all branches of the service. Under current law, the maximum age to enlist in the active components is 35, while people up to age 39 may enlist in the reserves. By practice, the accepted age for recruits is 27 for the Air Force, 28 for the Marine Corps and 34 for the Navy and Army, although the Army Reserve and Navy Reserve sometimes take people up to age 39 in some specialties. The Pentagon’s request to raise the maximum recruit age to 42 is part of what defense officials are calling a package of "urgent wartime support initiatives" sent to Congress Monday night prior to a Tuesday hearing of the House Armed Services military personnel subcommittee.'(i.e. They are running out of people to die for them) <www.armytimes.com/story.php

I pray for American minds opening, expanding, letting go of old values and systems of belief. I pray people will wake up to the global economic situation and care about more than their own country. I pray that people will seek and find their own spiritual truth within.

I believe in synchronicity. We all are and everything is interconnected. There is no place where we aren’t all interconnected to one another and to everything, living and none, on this earth and beyond. I receive signs all the time that I am on the right path and all the signs are telling me to find and fulfill my calling and my destiny. The American political landscape for most of the last 25 years and being ever so resistant to change, we who seek change face huge obstacles.

It's going to be a spiritual journey for me because I will have to work through some issues that I have like shyness, social anxiety, self-esteem, and defensiveness. I was watching a program about philosophy last night and of course they talked about Socrates and his Socratic Method, whereby he would wander around, engaging people in conversation and he would end up getting people to guest ion there own beliefs and conclusions and how they arrived at them. This is what I am going to have to do as part of my quest, because I feel that most Americans' beliefs rest on a foundation of lies, deception, ignorance, denial, an entitled sense of superiority, racism, and arrogance.



CHAPTER 3


I'm baffled by the fact that Ronald Regan is thought of in such high regard, with and aircraft carrier recently being christened bearing his name. Americans don't like a wimpy president. They want a guy who kicks ass and takes names. When you look back at the election of 1980 and look at the key issues, they were; foreign policy, defense, taxes, and inflation. Americans were upset at how Carter had handled the Iran hostage crisis, and they also held him accountable for inflation, and the energy crisis that created those famous long lines at the gas pumps. None of which were directly his fault. Then Regan stood up there and said how tough he was going to be and how something like the hostage crisis would never happen on his watch, and how he was not going to raise taxes, but Carter admitted he would have to.

What happened? Well of course Regan went back on his word and raised taxes, something people seem to forget when they look at him in such a high regard. Next, he proceeded to run up an enormous deficit, needlessly, I might add, on defense spending. It was the cold war era when Regan and his military hawks were plagued with fear and paranoia. Billions were spent needlessly on nuclear missiles that we were later only to spend millions decommissioning. Now let's talk about the millions, possibly billions that have been spent on "Star Wars" the "Strategic Defense Initiative". All while social programs were and are being cut, funding to schools is being cut, metal health and homeless programs are being cut, and the richest 1% are given huge tax breaks, in Reagan's failed "trickle down economics" policy.

Of course this legacy of tragedy continued with George Bush, who was of course Regan's Vice President, and after eight years of relative prosperity under Clinton, we've slid back down to the bottom of the mountain with Bush's son George W. Bush. I remember under Regan the needless military incursions and loss of life that occurred in Beirut and Grenada. Then of course under Bush "senior" there was the Gulf War, and of course Bush "junior" wanted to finish up the job that daddy started, and now are men are dying over there daily.

Of course the Iraq war has been the key political issue of the last few years, and has been a very divisive and controversial issue, and ever since we went in, people have been asking; should we or should we not have gone into Iraq. For me you cannot approach this question without going back to the Gulf War, because they are definitely connected. When the Gulf War happened, first of all I thought Bush "senior" was much too quick to send the troops into Saudi Arabia under operation "Desert Shield". I think that diplomacy should have been given a chance and I'm sure with enough determination and international support we could have gotten Saddam to withdraw, but because we were so quick to send in the troops, it turned into a macho pissing match where neither party was willing to back down. Then, I like most people think we should have toppled Saddam's regime while his armies were in retreat and we also had some support from rebel groups in Iraq who we encouraged to attack Saddam's regime and told them we would back them up. We then turned our backs on them, broke our promise to them, they were mostly all killed or had to flee into exile, and Saddam remained in power. So if we had done it right the first time and either toppled his regime or established a more constructive and mutually respectful diplomatic relationship, the Iraq war may never have had to happen. Having said that, given that things happened as the did in '91, I do understand the need to go into Iraq and actually saw it coming after UN inspectors were kicked out in '95, for once the inspectors were kicked out, how does the global community monitor them and enforce the UN resolution that Saddam signed.

Now let's talk about the sanctions that followed the Gulf War and it's horrific effects particularly on the children of Iraq. Following the Gulf War, apparently Saddam was not completely bowing to the wants of Bush "senior" and he instituted economic sanctions as we did with Cuba. They didn't work in either case and just caused millions of needless deaths mostly to the poor, the sick, and the children because they couldn't get the medicine they needed. Not to mention that we continued almost daily bombing of Iraq with no media coverage whatsoever. Millions of innocent civilians were needlessly killed as a result.

So the question is; why did/do such policies have such broad domestic support. I believe at the root of it all are "American values", but what are "American values"? After looking at what encapsulates so called "American values" and looking at which type of Americans typically hold those values, one has to say that "American values" are actually White, conservative, Christian values. This not to say that such ignorance only comes from the White, conservative, Christian populace or that all people who fit said description are bad people, but if one were to engage these people, arm them with the truth, and force them to process it, then they would undoubtedly have to question their own beliefs and how they arrived at them.

For example, knowing that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction, how much the war was costing, in money and in human lives, and how much the deficit was going up, how could anyone vote for Bush in '04?! Clearly not with their logic and common sense, but with their strongly held "values", with gay marriage becoming the issue that got Bush re-elected! That's right, Bush's conservative Christian supporters got on the phones all across rural Ohio and convinced people that Kerry was for gay marriage, even though he never said such things. With the election in 2004 Conservative Christian right wing forces led the charge against gay marriage. They worked the phones across rural Ohio (the deciding state) and played on people’s fear that Kerry was going to legalize gay marriage. What happens when they discover the gene for homosexuality? What will happen then? I foresee a lot of backpedaling homophobes stammering for a new explanation for their narrow-minded, backwards beliefs. Scientists have recently isolated a gene linked to homosexual behavior in fruit flies, so it’s only a matter of time. I mean Jesus is supposed to love and accept all, right?



CHAPTER 4


Some other major problems with our American society are greed, selfishness, ignorance, and denial. Lets talk about greed, selfishness, and capitalism. We all know this is a capitalist country and we are not allowed to graduate high school without learning how great capitalism is in our government/civics/economics class. The problem with capitalism that is not mentioned in those textbooks is that the nature of capitalism is that it allows, and one could say, in its rawest form, encourages one person, or group of people to capitalize on another, more vulnerable person or group of people. In other words, one could say that capitalism needs innocent victims being exploited to thrive. This has become glaringly apparent in recent years with increased awareness and scrutiny on the policies of the IMF and WTO. Now, this doesn't have to be the case. We can have compassionate capitalism, which is basically a blend of capitalism and socialism. It's very interesting how the words socialism and communism have been vilified by our culture, and by our government. Of course there have been tyrannical dictatorships that have not exactly been positive publicity for communism and socialism.

Getting back to my point about greed, selfishness, and materialism. This being a capitalist country, these, I would say negative traits are encouraged in our society! All you have to do is look around. Everyone has to have the latest, greatest gadget, cell phone, camera phone, digital camera, bipod, ect. Just look around at the cars! All these people driving around inefficient $30k-$50k automobiles while people are sleeping on the streets in this country and starving and dying of curable conditions in others. The American people are fat, greedy, ignorant, arrogant, apathetic and uninformed!

Let's take a look at taxes and spending. Everyone is well aware of the financial woes of this great state of California. Our deficit continues to number in the 50 billion neighborhood. Meanwhile, the rich enjoy nice tax breaks and can write their Hummer’s off as "farm equipment". To add further insult to injury, Bush has just passed an energy bill that will greatly benefit his buddies in the big oil, big energy industries, in essence using taxpayer dollars to subsidize their companies that have already been swimming in obscene profits since his administration began.

Another big issue facing our nation is the decline of health coverage for Americans. America's healthcare system is the most inequitable, inefficient, and costly systems among industrialized nations. It is driven by embedded vested interests who continue to feather their own beds while it wrecks the lives of millions and squanders our money. Since 1945 special interest groups such as the American Medical Association (AMA), the Insurance industry and the Pharmaceutical industry have wielded their political power to protect their turf at the great expense of the American People. Source: americanhealthcarereform.org/

"Healthcare is the largest industry in the United States, accounting for approximately $1.4 trillion in sales of goods and services in 2000, about 14 percent of U.S. gross domestic product (GDP). It is the nation’s largest employer-one of every nine U.S. employees works in the healthcare industry. The World Health Organization (WHO) completed the first ever analysis of the world’s health systems in 2000. It found that France provides the best overall healthcare followed by Italy, Spain, Oman, Austria, and Japan. Although the U.S. health system spends a higher portion of its GDP than any other country, it has 43 million uninsured citizens, and it ranks 37 out of 191 countries. The United Kingdom, which has universal care spends just six percent of GDP on health services, ranks 18th."

Source: www.ndu.edu/icaf/industr...01/health.htm

I looked at numerous web sites about the "great health care debate". I found one that raised a few interesting points. One of the main ones I thought was good was the suggestion that in order to make health care more affordable, lawsuits related to health care would have to be better regulated because a lot of the high cost of health care is due to the high cost of malpractice insurance required to protect physicians and organizations from lawsuits. I think that America in general has gotten way too sue-happy. While this is a free country and you should be allowed to sue anyone you please if you have a legitimate case against them, we should try to keep court costs down through some sort of reformed arbitration process, and for those who bring frivolous or fraudulent lawsuits, the penalties should be increased to discourage such actions. Another website mentioned that reform of the tax treatment of health care expenses is needed.

The American people need to own up to their mistakes and realize when they are wrong, so that they don’t keep making the same mistakes over and over. When they voted for Regan, he said he would not raise taxes, and did anyway (both times). When they voted for Bush Sr.; the same. Here in California, voters have made repeated mistakes that have const the state billions of dollars. This is something I can bring up with people as I am asking them to challenge their beliefs and the choices they’ve made. It’s well know that the state of California has a $50 billion plus deficit, and it all started with the deregulation of energy, which I voted against but most Californians voted for because they thought it would lower their energy bills. The deregulation campaign was funded by PG&E and other major, big money energy interests. I probably would have voted for it myself, not knowing any better if I hadn’t seen a state assemblyman on a morning news show. He was leading the opposition to the proposition. He explained that what it was really about was a "nuclear bailout" for PG&E, reimbursing them for the money that they had lost investing in nuclear power.

Also, people didn’t realize that deregulation meant that rates could go up just as easily as they could go down, and it opened the door for the energy market manipulation that we are still paying for and took us from having a budget surplus to a deficit in the billions. To throw good money after bad, voters spent sixty million dollars to have a special election to recall governor Davis who was only guilty of buying too much power at too high a price to avoid more energy shortages. Governor Swarznegger was elected in his place, and the first thing he did was to repeal a car tax. Not a very smart thing to do with a state that’s facing a 50 billion dollar deficit.



CHAPTER 5


Coming to the conclusion that my mission in life is to try to change the mindset of conservative Christian America, seeing their system of belief, ignorance and denial as the chief obstacle in the world’s forward progress caused me to ask myself how to go about this arduous task. It just so happened that in March of this year, 2005 I caught a show about the Gnostic gospels, and it hit me! I can use the words of Christ himself to dispute their beliefs and actions, for in the gospel of Matthew Christ says "Blessed are those who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." and with same sex marriage having been banned in many states, I would say that homosexual people are definitely being discriminated against, and one could say, persecuted.

I strongly believe that the world's greatest single problem boils down to a simple concept: The global and national distributions of wealth. It's what starts nearly all revolutions. The peasant class must rise up in armed struggle because they decide at a certain point that they can no longer live in the conditions in which they are forced to live. I believe this to be part of the problem with Al Qaeda. They find most of their recruits among the poorest of communities. Individuals who have nothing to lose and are happy to die a martyr's death because their lives are so miserable. If we go into these countries and provide for some of their basic needs, they won't see us as so evil. At the same time, we also have to realize when we need to give them space.

American military officials recently met with leaders of insurgent groups in Iraq. This happened shortly after I realized that this is what has to happen. Unfortunately, the insurgent leaders we not satisfied with the meetings, and the suicide attacks have increased, killing 50 people the other day. It seems that the main issue that the insurgent leaders wanted to discuss was a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops. Our military leaders only tried to use the meeting to gather intelligence about the workings of the insurgent groups, and as I said, the killing has continued. Here we have a classic big macho male pissing match; we won't leave 'til they stop killing, and they won't stop killing until we leave. Let's see how many more have to die until our troops come home ... at least the one lucky enough to make it home.

The lack of Americans wanting to understand "the enemy" should worry us all.

I noticed this in the wake of 9/11. I didn’t hear anyone asking, "Why did they do this?" It was just, "Well they’re a bunch of crazy terrorist who just want to kill innocent people." Now come on, if you were going to kill a bunch of innocent people, wouldn’t you have a pretty damn good reason for doing it? These people are killing themselves and innocent people because their needs are not getting met. I think it’s about time we start trying to meet some of their needs, or at least ask them just what it is they want.

It was clear what the Palestinians wanted in May and June of 2001 when Israeli tanks were rolling into the West Bank and Gaza Strip and reclaiming Palestinian land for Israel. They asked the United States for help but their pleas fell on the deaf ears of President George W. Bush. He did not want to get involved. People will retort that the attacks of 9/11 were 13 years in the making and that they wouldn’t have called them off just because we decided to help out the Palestinians. Well, thanks to the Bush administration, we will never know.

Getting back to the issue of Global distribution of wealth, when all major industrialized nations met in Rio for Earth Summit in ’92, they all agreed on a target of donating 0.7% of their gross national product (GNP) to the world’s poorest countries. Since then the U.S. has fallen to second-to-last place at only 0.16%, (Only in 2004 did they move up from last place by one.) Compared to Norway in first place at .87%. Even though these targets and agendas have been set, year after year almost all rich nations have constantly failed to reach their agreed obligations of the 0.7% target. Instead of 0.7%, the amount of aid has been around 0.2 to 0.4%, some $100 billion short. Source: www.globalissues.org



CHAPTER 6

Now, lets shift gears a little bit and talk more about Jesus, for it's quite safe to say that no man has affected the lives and beliefs for all of Humanity for the last two thousand years than Jesus of Nazareth. But what do we really know him and his beliefs. Everyone knows that he had 12 apostles, however only four of them wrote gospels that in the eyes of the church fathers, illustrated points that they wanted to make about Jesus, serving their needs to establish an all powerful church that all Christians would adhere to or in some cases be put to death. There are at least 52 gospels about Jesus dating back to the first and second centuries AD, from people who knew him, or stories that had been passed down a generation or two from people who knew him. By the third century AD there were numerous and wide spread different sects of Christianity. When Constantine ascended to Rome's throne by "conquering in the sign of the cross" that he saw in the clouds, he embraced the growing faith and declared himself it's protector. Of course Christian churches were already in place at this point, they had just been operating underground. When Constantine chose the head priest of the head church of Rome, of course he would have chosen the wealthiest and most powerful Christian priest of Rome.

But why only four gospels? I recently learned that the gospel of Peter was denounced as a forgery and Heresy by the church fathers, but he knew Jesus better than they did, and why would someone want to forge such a thing? The earliest gospels, called "The Gospel of Q, written around 30 AD, reveals that many of the earliest Christians did not believe in the divinity of Christ or that he was a messiah, but that we was a great man and a wise teacher.

Here is some info on Irenaeus of Lyons, who was the first person to name the four Gospels: "Irenaeus is remembered as the second bishop of Lyons although there is no clear evidence that he ever officially assumed the Episcopal duties. The first bishop, Pothinus was martyred around 177 during persecutions under Marcus Aurelius when Irenaeus was visiting Rome. Irenaeus wrote a number of books, but the most important that survives is the five-volume On the Detection and Overthrow of the So-Called Gnosis, normally referred to as Adversus Haereses (English: Against Heresies). Only fragments in its original Greek exist, but a complete copy exists in a wooden Latin translation, made shortly after its publication in Greek, and Books IV and V are present in a literal Armenian translation."

Whenever the word "God" comes into a discussion and whenever that word comes up as being a universal reality for everyone, I'm going to have to put my hand up and say "Why not 'Goddess', 'The Universe', 'Earthly Reality', or 'Your Own Consciousness', for not everyone believes in 'God'". Yet on all of our currency, and many public buildings there are the words in bold "IN GOD WE TRUST". "God Bless America" was almost the national anthem and was the single most unifying phrase after 9/11. Bush rode to victory on a conservative Christian agenda. We have been experiencing a Conservative Christian backlash in this country with as many states as they can control passing same sex marriage bans recently. What happens when they discover the gene for homosexuality? There are going to be a lot of Christians, homophobes, and those who just don't agree with the concept of homosexuality having to eat their words, rethink their beliefs, and do a little soul searching.

As Conservative Christian influence on our national and foreign policy has increased, it's become more and more apparent to me that the only way to achieve the changes that I want to see in this country and the world is to take on that point of view. But I kept struggling with the question "How do you get someone to see things a new way without them feeling like they and their belief system are being attacked ... The Answer ... Through understanding the beliefs of the man himself, Jesus, and taking everything in context of the beliefs and social and political climate of the time. The basis of my belief is that given the current socio-political climate of Conservative Southern Christians, that their beliefs actually go directly against what Jesus believed, and if what they are is Christian, than Jesus himself would be totally opposed to the Christian Church.

Jesus himself said that when one learns to balance the masculine with the feminine, that is when they will enter the kingdom of heaven. One of the hang-ups I have with Christianity is that they are always talking about "God" or "Father" preferring the masculine form for the universal divinity. I happen to prefer the feminine form, "Goddess" or "Mother". I learned recently that it would have been completely ludicrous in Jesus’ culture to suggest that "The Almighty" was female. His own apostles were outraged enough that he had accepted Mary of Magdala into their camp. I guess if Jesus was truly a rebel he might have suggested a "Mother" or "Goddess", but he was only human after all.

When reading the below excerpts from the gospel of Mary of Magdala, it's easy to see why the church fathers denounced it. It clearly would undermine church authority by encouraging people to think for themselves and be at one with nature.

Excerpts form the Gospel of Mary of Magdala

22) The Savior said, all nature, all formations, all creatures exist in and with one another, and they will be resolved again into their own roots.

23) For the nature of matter is resolved into the roots the essence of every nature in order to restore it of its own nature alone


31) That is why I said to you, Be of good courage, and if you are discouraged be encouraged in the presence of the different forms of nature.

34) Beware that no one lead you astray saying Lo here or lo there! For the Son of Man is within you

9) Blessed are you that you did not waver at the sight of Me. For where the mind is there is the treasure.

These quotes from the gospel of Mary are my favorite. To me they illustrate what Jesus truly believed and that we are all divine. There is no need to worship some external deity because we all have a piece of the deity within us. There is also a lot of reference to nature, and being at one with and in harmony with nature. This contrary to the majority Christian view that this earth and all it’s creatures were made for "man", to serve "man".

I believe, from what I have read, and from the quotes above, that Jesus did not believe what conservative Christians hold him to have believed and taught. I don’t believe that Jesus taught that "God" was something to be feared and worshiped above all others as all three of the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, & Islam) teach. ing like, "The kingdom of man is everywhere" or "all around us.", or in the words of Bob Marley "Most people think, great god will come from the sky, take away everything and make everybody feel high, but if you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth. Now you see the light, stand up for your (or you’re) right!"

As Conservative Christian influence on our national and foreign policy has increased, it's become more and more apparent to me that the only way to achieve the changes that I want to see in this country and the world is to take on that point of view. But I kept struggling with the question "How do you get someone to see things a new way without them feeling like they and their belief system are being attacked ... The Answer ... Through understanding the beliefs of the man himself, Jesus, and taking everything in context of the beliefs and social and political climate of the time. The basis of my belief is that given the current socio-political climate of Conservative Southern Christians, that their beliefs actually go directly against what Jesus believed, and if what they are is Christian, than Jesus himself would be totally opposed to the Christian Church.

Here are some excerpts from the gospel of Thomas to illustrate some points.

The first thing of note is the use of the word "Father". I myself prefer the feminine "Mother" or even better an asexual term like Pythagoras' "Monad" to name the one source for everything in our existence, suggesting an interconnectivity between all things. But in Jesus' time or culture "Father" was the accepted term, heir’s being an extremely Patriarchal society with Moses, Abraham, his son, so then naturally their god, all being men.

22. Jesus saw some babies nursing. He said to his disciples, "These nursing babies are like those who enter the (Father's) kingdom."

They said to him, "Then shall we enter the (Father's) kingdom as babies?"

Jesus said to them, "When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one, so that the male will not be male nor the female be female, when you make eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image, then you will enter [the kingdom]."

This first quote, for me, is the deepest one in the gospel of Thomas. Even though Jesus does use the term "Father", he makes a point here where he says "when you make male and female into a single one, so that the male will not be male nor the female be female". Of course this is not the kind of "nonsense" that the patriarchal church fathers wanted to here, so it was branded as heresy even though Thomas was one of Jesus' apostles. To Jesus' credit he did accept Mary of Magdala into the camp of his apostles, much to the shock and astonishment of his apostles as women were thought of as much "less than" men in that time and culture. And Mary especially since she was allegedly a prostitute. The other part of the quote where he says "When you make the two into one…'", I feel illustrates his belief in oneness. More like the ancient belief that we all come from the same source and are all, therefore, interconnected. It also reflects a need to be centered in your own oneness. To be centered in yourself, but also to be centered in the oneness that binds the universe. We have that saying about being "of two minds" on an issue, meaning that we are conflicted or can’t "make up our minds". That’s why we always say, when one faces a decision that they are conflicted on, to "follow your heart". You always hear on yoga instructional videos to "find your center", and to "listen to what your body is telling you". Be at one with yourself, with nature, with the divinity that unites us all. This is the message of Jesus. However, the message of Christianity is quite different. The message of Christianity is more like "Neal before God", "Repent your sins", "Accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior". From what I’ve read so far I don’t hear Jesus saying these things. It seems that Christianity is more a creation of the Catholic church than it is a creation of Jesus. It is simply a means of population control. This will sound shocking to some. Yet others will say, "Well duh!"

28. Jesus said, "I took my stand in the midst of the world, and in flesh I appeared to them. I found them all drunk, and I did not find any of them thirsty. My soul ached for the children of humanity, because they are blind in their hearts and do not see, for they came into the world empty, and they also seek to depart from the world empty.

But meanwhile they are drunk. When they shake off their wine, then they will change their ways." The only thing I have to say about this quote is that the part where he says "My soul ached for the children of humanity, because they are blind in their hearts and do not see, for they came into the world empty, and they also seek to depart from the world empty" This is exactly how I feel about Conservative Christian America.

61. Salome said, "Who are you mister? You have climbed onto my couch and eaten from my table as if you are from someone."

Jesus said to her, "I am the one who comes from what is whole. I was granted from the things of my Father."

"I am your disciple."

"For this reason I say, if one is whole, one will be filled with light, but if one is divided, one will be filled with darkness."

The quote, "When you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner" I believe illustrates his belief that we are all and everything is interconnected and until one realizes that, they will not be able to enter "the kingdom of heaven". Again, this is not what the church fathers wanted to hear. They wanted people to believe that the only way they would be allowed to enter heaven is if they paid financial tribute to the church. This is another reason why Jesus wouldn't be a Christian, also, I don't think he would agree that only men could be priests.

67. Jesus said, "Those who know all, but are lacking in themselves, are utterly lacking."

This one is self-explanatory

70. Jesus said, "If you bring forth what is within you, what you have will save you. If you do not have that within you, what you do not have within you [will] kill you."

Again speaking to those who are spiritually and emotionally empty.

113. His disciples said to him, "When will the kingdom come?"

"It will not come by watching for it. It will not be said, 'Look, here!' or 'Look, there!' Rather, the Father's kingdom is spread out upon the earth, and people don't see it."

Again, not the kind of message that the church fathers wanted being put out, for it would undermine their power and authority.



CHAPTER 8


Jesus did two things to enrage and get the attention of the temple priests. First, he

forgave a woman for her sins, something that only the temple priest had the authority to do. Then he walked straight into the temple, tipped over the table of the moneychangers and said something to the effect of "You have turned this house of God into a den of thieves." The temple moneychanger allowed people to trade in their "dirty" money for clean temple coins that were used to purchase white doves that one could then sacrifice to Yahweh so that "he" would forgive their sins. Jesus objected to people having to pay for repentance, just as he objected to only "desirable" people being let into the temple in the first place. Therefore Jesus surely would have objected to a similar practice perpetrated by the Catholic church in the middle ages of selling forgiveness of sins as a way to raise money for the church.

People will see that all to often their belief system is built on ignorance, denial, fear and hate. So that they will see that the foundation of which the White, Christian, Republican agenda, which won the election and has consumed the minds of the American populace like the worst mental illness known to man, is cracked, sinking and infested with termites and dry-rot.

In the first semester, after the election, Ali talked about how the Bush campaign had tapped into White, Christian, fear, "morals", "beliefs", and "values"; and that there

was definitely a racial undertone to the whole thing. These White, Christian, Republicans are the people we most need to reach out to in our quest for social change, for we cannot achieve "social change" without changing the minds of society, and you’re never going to change someone’s mind by confronting them in a confrontational manor. They must be approached with compassion, understanding, and universal love. They must be approached with an understanding of where they are coming from. One must reach out to them by talking to them on their level.

Right away in the first semester the subject came up of evolution vs. creation. I still cannot believe that this is a debate, that Christians continue to turn a blind eye to the irrefutable scientific evidence that we and apes evolved from common ancestors millions of years ago. In Kansas, they are even trying to teach creation in public schools. Like I said last semester, this IS a Christian nation. We do not have a separation of church and state, even though our constitution says we are supposed to, and it is tremendously important to view this nation in that context, and in the context of the brutal history of Christianity and its global domination, for lets look at what Christianity and Christians have brought us throughout the ages; oppression, repression, sexism, murder, genocide, slavery, the inquisition, witch-hunts, and war, endless war. That’s not to say that without Christianity there would have been no wars, but there would have undoubtedly been fewer.

CHAPTER 9

Lets go back to the story of Creation and Creationist beliefs vs. what we now know to be scientific fact. We all know that the earth is approximately 4 billion years old, the universe is 13 billion years old, and humans have been around for about 2.5 million years. I’m not sure what timeline the book of Genesis gives but I’m sure it’s way off. Let’s also remember that when Columbus said he could sail around the world, everyone thought he was crazy because they believed the earth to be flat. Let us also remember that when Galileo discovered the workings of the solar system it was the church that threw him in jail, even though, I believe, he was a devout Catholic. So that’s fine if you want to say that a divine consciousness created the universe 13 billion years ago, and guided natural evolution from there, but to say that we did not evolve from apes is completely ignorant and in denial of scientific fact.

Once you accept that the universe, the earth, and all it’s inhabitants have been continually evolving for 13 billion years, (the earth again for 4 billion), then you must conclude that we must continue to evolve as a species, and to resist the evolutionary process can only be detrimental to ourselves, the human race, and to the earth and all it’s inhabitants.

The fact that so many Americans are opposed to homosexuality even though most homosexuals will tell you that they didn’t have a choice of being or not being homosexual and that is just the way they are and the way they were born, much like someone is born a certain skin color, and they don’t have a choice of what their skin color is going to be, they are just born with it, tells you how far we have to go, and of course most people who are opposed to homosexuality are Christians. and the less mentally stable - committing suicide, and bombing genetics laboratories and gay organizations, sad but true.

Now let’s talk about socialization, gender roles/stereotypes, and misogyny. This ties in with homosexuality and religious views as well. The traditional stereotype is that the man should be manly, the woman should be feminine, and "lady-like" and no one should be gay. Little boys should play with trucks, little girls should play with dolls, and again no one should be gay. The obvious problem with this way of thinking is that people are gay, and some boys and men are feminine in nature and some girls/women have a more masculine energy. This doesn’t mean they are gay. We all have masculine and feminine components, like the yin and the yang that make up a whole. We as beings are whole unto ourselves and therefore we must. Yin is the feminine energy and Yang is the masculine energy. Now I believe that one’s own feminine energy can manifest itself in a masculine way and vice versa.

If you believe in astrology, each sign is either masculine or feminine in nature. I, for example, am a Cancer, which is a feminine sign, and through my own personal and spiritual growth have gotten more in touch with my feminine side. It is interesting to notice how young boys and girls are socialized into their respective gender stereotypes at an early age. I was watching cartoon recently (to say that a 31 year old isn’t supposed to watch cartoons is an ageist stereotype) and they had two commercials on back to back. First they had the commercial with the little boy playing with his tool set followed by a commercial with a little girl playing with her "My Little Pony". Now, I guess there’s nothing wrong with that because most girls would prefer to play with dolls and most boys would prefer to play with trucks, but people shouldn’t think that is wrong if the opposite happens to be true.

In recent years a man from Sacramento, CA has made national news for challenging the phrase "One nation under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. I always resented having to say that in school and I always new from the youngest age that it wasn't right. I'm so glad that finally someone has come forward to challenge this hypocrisy. Recently he challenged the Presidential oath at the inauguration because the word "God" was in there and he was to have his hand on a bible, I believe. Ironically on Flag Day and the 50th anniversary of the phrase being inserted into the pledge, the Supreme Court handed down the ruling rejecting his motion. When the whole thing about the pledge first started happening, where I live out in Pleasant Hill there were big SUV's driving around with these giant stickers taking up the entire rear window, which is illegal, I might add, that said "One Nation UNDER GOD". It’s an interesting commentary on the community in which I live in the supposedly liberal bay area, and just a reminder to me that if I want to change the mindset of conservative Christian America, I need only start in my own backyard.

I believe strongly in the wisdom of Christ! It's just that he would not believe in the "wisdom" of Conservative Christianity if he were alive today! So those of us who want social change must go forth and spread the gospel of Jesus the way he meant for it to be spread, not the way it has been spread for the last 1700 years! But what I’ve learned from all this is that we have to see through the smoke screen of so called reality and be grounded in our own self worth. We cannot stand by while those who would seek to discredit us go about doing so while they live in a false reality. We must also be aware

of our own faults and continue to work on ourselves in order to manifest our own divinity, and operate more as our higher selves. Only if we are centered within ourselves, and with the oneness that is all life, all matter, the planet Earth, and the universe, will we have the strength to take on those who would seek to maintain things the way they are and who are resistant to


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Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Do we come from Mars?

Mars



Mars was once much warmer and wetter than it is today
If water remains hidden below the Martian surface, it may harbor simple life forms
Although Mars is smaller and colder than Earth, it is still quite similar to our planet. It has a thin atmosphere and polar ice caps, and dry riverbeds crisscross its surface. And frozen or even liquid water may exist beneath the red Martian soil -- perhaps providing a home for living organisms. But it is not the planet described in science-fiction books and movies. There are no signs of civilizations on its surface -- past or present.


In August 1996, though, scientists announced the discovery of signs of possible ancient microscopic life in a meteorite from Mars. The meteorite was blasted into space when a huge boulder slammed into Mars. The meteorite eventually landed in Antarctica. Trace elements inside the meteorite prove that it came from Mars.

Evidence in the rock suggests that microscopic organisms a thousand times smaller than a human hair may have lived on Mars 3.6 billion years ago, when the planet was much warmer and wetter than it is today. The finding is disputed by many scientists, and additional tests are underway to try to confirm or refute the report.

Within the next few years, a spacecraft may scoop up samples of Martian rock and soil and return them to Earth. Scientists will select a Martian landing site that would have been likely to harbor life in the past.



Mars looks red because iron in its surface soil long ago reacted with the tiny amount of oxygen left on Mars, making rust. Its surface is marked by ancient volcanoes and a "grand canyon" that's as long as the United States is wide.

The largest volcano, Olympus Mons, may also be the largest volcano in the solar system. It towers 17 miles (27 km) above the surrounding desert. The base of Olympus Mons would cover the state of Missouri.

The heat from the Martian core, which powered Mars' volcanoes, is mostly gone now, and most of its early atmosphere has escaped into space or is frozen in the surface layer. A few thin clouds still punctuate the Martian sky, and scientists think that some pools of frozen or liquid water may be hidden underground. Although it is unlikely, the water could harbor simple forms of life similar to those found in Antarctic ice on Earth.

It is possible that Mars once had an atmosphere somewhat like Earth's, and almost certain that water once covered part of the Martian surface, in rivers, lakes, and perhaps small seas. Although no water flows over the Martian surface today, frost covers the north and south poles. These polar ice caps are made mostly of frozen carbon dioxide (dry ice), although the north polar cap contains much more water ice than the southern cap.

If You Went to Mars
Mars is more like Earth than any other planet in our solar system, but it is still very different. You would have to wear a spacesuit to provide air and to protect you from the Sun's rays, because the planet's thin atmosphere does not block harmful solar radiation. Your spacesuit would also protect you from the bitter cold; temperatures on Mars rarely climb above freezing, and they can plummet to minus 220 degrees Fahrenheit (?161 C). You would need to bring water and oxygen with you, although if you brought the proper equipment you might be able to get these from the air or the ground.

View in 2005
Mars begins the year as a moderately bright "morning star" in the southeast at first light. It looks like a yellow-orange star. It slowly creeps into the evening sky during summer, and puts in its best appearance of the year in autumn. Mars is at opposition on November 7, when it passes closest to Earth and appears brightest for the year. It will shine as a brilliant "star" with a definite orange tint, and will be brighter than anything else in the night sky except the Moon, Venus, and Jupiter.

Fact Sheet

Average Distance from Sun
142 million miles (228 million km)
Mass
0.107 Earth's mass
Diameter
4,222 miles (6,794 km)
Length of Day
24.6 Earth hours
Length of Year
687 Earth days
Surface Gravity
0.377 that of Earth (If you weigh 80 pounds, you would weigh about 30 pounds on Mars.)
Known Moons

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