Revolution in Words

Understand what you are feeling - seems as though so much is not, nor can not be achieved when thoughts are being held back by prejudice, radical religious conservative thinking. What would a Revolution accomplish, would it set us back to the civil war mentality, ownership of human life, which includes all of the ramifications, starting over from hate;  killing so many people and causing more heartache and suffering, ingraining prejudice even further?

We need to learn to sit down and talk logically with one another, without the turmoil of emotion, letting go of that hate by learning to understand what it means to accept and forgive, putting love in your heart for one another. You can say the words, acceptance and forgiveness, but it means nothing unless you can face that other person and learn how to talk your differences through; erasing the negative that was learned from past mistakes and failures...replacing them with the new is difficult... but possible.

I have no concrete answers, other than I voice my thoughts to you when I stand up and speak out, or petition and fight for these rights for all of us; not to destroy your words, but simply to start the discussion rolling with a base, a foundation of opinion...I'm both liberal and conservative, I'm passionate and I'm passive. I get sick of the people in politics who try to take away another’s independance, another's right to live and let live, another’s right to love and be loved.  

Like so many, I get sick of the people who say there is nothing we can do to fight back for our rights, having no say and no choice in the matter...But we DO have a choice!  Maybe, it starts out as a child’s voice, but it will grow with time...Speak those words - logical, clear words - speaking out for what we believe. Passivity, alone, takes us nowhere. Conservatives and Liberals are equally passionate when it comes to demonstrating what they believe and want, so it's a double edge sword in dealing with the outspoken.  Take a deep breath, take your time, and think before you speak, refraining from the attack and hurtful words.

The logic is in the Approach. The angry are more than willing to do battle in a revolution, therefore it proves a no point  fight in futility for both sides. Frustration and depression can come to all of us, but the key is to not let it get you down, you keep fighting back with civility in both actions and words...

A friend of mine, in North Carolina, marches and stands with her kids alongside the hundreds of people speaking out for what they believe, showing a silent yet strong voice, a silent yet loud voice. In these cases actions speak louder than words...but with sane and logic, these words get out without violence.  

There are so many ways to be heard, just think first and be aware of the ideology of what freedom of speech means to you - Freedom behind a voice can be spoken, presented or written.  Do not be afraid of your constitutional rights.

Fighting For Freedom - Part 2

Anyone can lose their freedom when another demands something from them that they have no right to. The aggressor is at fault by not leaving the other person (country) alone.

I think there are several ways to looking at this word, freedom, when you consider the mind-set of selfishness, greed and power.

After I wrote my first thoughts on Freedom, I got to thinking about having to defend our freedom to maintain it. But primarily in what I was addressing is the fact that people who start wars, the aggressors, think they have to kill, defeat and defend against an imaginary enemy to gain freedom, when they haven't lost it to begin with.

Do we think we have to set up a wall first, before freedom is gained?

The aggressor by-passes sitting down and talking, setting aside these imagined differences to think through the details of these facts they think need fighting for; to find out how to resolve these differences and to be able to leave each other alone and live side by side in harmony.

I see this in the middle east, or in Russia's trumped up facts to back their aggression with lies because of their selfishness, protecting themselves to maintain their hunger for power; or for decades Protestants and Catholics couldn't see eye to eye in Europe...or any other religion or belief system one demands to have.  If there is a personal one God, one belief,  why do so many people have to selfishly fight over him because of their man made doctrines?  Or why do people want to thrust their own beliefs on others?  

If everyone minded their own business, we could all have and maintain freedom and peace. Live and let live!

The one major attribute of our President is that he listens and discusses and doesn't throw us to the wolves, at least intentionally. I know his hands can be tied because politics is a big game and a complicated dance, and now I just hope we can maintain our freedom from the GOP, the aggressor in our back yard! A belief system wanting to be thrust upon all people of the US.

Constantly being said is, Greed and Power is the enemy of freedom, and  the love of money holds their hand!  Now you are back to defending yourself from tyranny  ...Is this what life is about, you are left with either being on the side of the aggressor or on the side of the defender?  Is this the corner you are backed into when trying to maintain your Freedom?

Review: The Examined Life, How We Lose and Find Ourselves, by Stephen Grosz

This book was a reread...

Each chapter is approximately two pages of different patient's unique problems, and the patient-therapist relationship/progression through therapy. Very well written, easy to read and understand for the lay person - worth reading over and over again.

The subjects are based on real life accounts by this psychoanalyst. The challenges we all face and get through, in one way or another, is examined with a great deal of wisdom in this small book. Psychoanalysis is a process...self examining, and eye opening. This particular sentence struck to the heart. "The future is a fantasy that shapes our present."

Review: Unsinkable, a memoir of Debbie Reynolds

This is a wonderfully written memoir of Debbie Reynolds, Unsinkable, which truly is remarkable that she survived her three marriages; the loss of all of her money, twice, and the heartbreak of having to sell her multimillion dollar Hollywood memorabilia collection...a dream of having a museum for this collection came to an end...She tried three times, with everything she had, but lost the fight.... and still came away standing up with a wonderful sense of humor. The one thing that stands out in this lady's life is her positive attitude. I personally don't know how she did it. She, of course, had to have some help to get her through the really rough times, but staying strong, her faith, her family, and stick-tuitiveness seems to be her motto.

I've been reading books by these different movie stars of the golden age of theater and movies and it's been fun, interesting, and eye-opening, each actor having their own personal perspectives of this era to tell.

Fighting For Freedom

My question to you is, freedom from what?

How many realize that war is the furthest thing from freedom?

It locks you in a never ending fight, day after day, month after month, until years pass over bloody fields, the rubble of towns and discarded life. Do you wonder the point?  

Everyone wants something...but why discard life in the process of this search...does life have no meaning in this word called freedom? Does the earth simply represent dirt to trample down and bury the dead?  Where is harmony of life?  

When will these warmongers realize that their idea of freedom has captured them in chains and locked them in a cell in which there is no key to those who do not stop and look around?

Freedom will never exist for the short sighted.

What’s your idea of freedom?

Suffer Fools

As I was driving into town this morning, I looked at our beautiful mountains, minus enough snow to be absolutely gorgeous, and had these strange thoughts;  thoughts run free on clear days, mulling over the idea of life before and after death, mortality, probably because I’m at the end of reading Debbie Reynolds’ Memoir, Unsinkable, and in her writing, she recalled having to deal with the ashes of someone she cared deeply for.  My thoughts went from the solid body to ashes.  

I looked up and into the universe, and thought about the many universes...how many we will never know...then I thought about Carl Sagan, and his belief of life on other planets.  We, as humans mostly live in the moment, day to day moments, and not seemingly caring who or what might inhabit other solar systems, and their stars or planets.

I thought about life after death.  What is heaven?  I wondered if when we die we’re reborn, but on another planet, way, way, far away.  We have no memory of past life, at least most of us don’t.  I wondered how many lives, how many chances do we get?  Reincarnation is a supposition, heaven a belief, but just exactly where does life exist, begin and end, besides here on earth?

Do we think we’re the only intelligent (and I use that word with caution) being in this wide expanse of dark and lights, seeing more than three colors out there in space?  Do we start over as newborns, over and over again; each time we die and reappear on a new planet until we get it right?  Suffer the fools, and destroy our planets through greed and selfishness that overrides the one commandment God gave us that was the key to unlocking this world to peace.  That word is Love.  And the sarcasm runs deep...as Paul said,  For you suffer fools gladly, seeing you yourselves are wise.

 

When will we slow down long enough to see those moments - mountains, fields and streams, and oceans that we are held accountable for, and each other for as long as we all shall live?  Will we ever live in harmony and peace without hate overriding that one important commandment, love?