I'm sorry but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black men, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each others' happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.
Greed has poisoned men's souls; has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge as made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in man; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all.
Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women, and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say "Do not despair." The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you; who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder! Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men---machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have a love of humanity in your hearts! You don't hate! Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.
Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it’s written “the kingdom of God is within man”, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power.
Let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill their promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people! Now let us fight to fulfill that promise! Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness.
Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite!
Hanna, can you hear me? Wherever you are, look up Hanna! The clouds are lifting! The sun is breaking through! We are coming out of the darkness into the light! We are coming into a new world; a kind new world, where men will rise above their hate, their greed, and brutality. Look up, Hanna! The soul of man has been given wings and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow. Into the light of hope! Into the future! The glorious future! That belongs to you, to me, and to all of us. Look up, Hanna! Look up!
I set up a fundraising link in honor of the recent passing of my closest friend at http://www.smiletrain.org/site/TR/Events/General?pg=fund&fr_id=1030&pxfid=6870
WHAT: Climate Rescue Now! A free screening of the new film ‘The Age of Stupid’ follow by a guest speaker and press photo op. Local residents will join Greenpeace & 350.org for the largest ever international day of climate action to urge President Obama and other world leaders to take fast and effective action on global warming.
WHEN: Oct 24th in Kingston, Oct 25th in Woodstock
WHERE: 314 Wall St Kingston at the Chronogram BEAHIVE WHERE & on Oct25th- 20 Mountain View Ave Mtn View Studio For more information: www.350.org
This advice comes from the great jazz pianist and composer, Thelonious Monk. 1. "Don't play everything or every time. Let some things go by. What you don't play can be more important than what you do play."
2. "A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world; it depends on your imagination."
3. "Whatever you think can't be done, somebody will come along and do it." 4. "A genius is the one most like himself."
http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/NewPaltzNYI just created a group where people who live, work, or are just interested in New Paltz, NY can connect.Please join if this interests you.Currently Care2 has no way to search for members in or near New Paltz. I created this group to fill the gap.Looking forward to meeting you!
My sister-in-law and brother became parents on May 3rd. My first time at being an Aunt. A beautiful little girl named Alyssa Grace has joined our small and bizarre family. Of course, the first thing I did when I came home from my visit to the hospital was to do her astrology chart--definitely an interesting soul!
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To watch the TV
program World
Harmony: Can It
Happen? (a series
that tries to bring more
peace, kindness,
well-being, and human
harmony into our world)
...
Consciousness isn’t
(I don’t think)
like steps - you start
here and climb up to
there. I think it’s
like a pulse. No, an
infinite number of
pulses. I breathe in, you
breathe out; we push, we
pull; in and out - like
that. I can’...
What is a spiritual
journey, anyway? Maybe
all of the journey -that
is, life- is spiritual.
Perhaps we all experience
it differently. As I
continue to explore
looking at things in ways
other than a hierarchical
form, I wonder what other
options there...
Do you want to know
what’s exhausting?
Spiritual journeys,
that’s what.
 As I
struggle to refocus my
gaze from such things as
judgment and fear and
old, old patterns, I find
that my energy wanes
earlier in the day than
it on...
Please be careful....A
friend of mine sent me
this information and I
wanted share it to help
us all be
safe. Caringly,
Stuart
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FORWARD.
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The largest genocide in
human history happened
where? Most people would
answer Germany, and the
Jewish Holocaust.
Actually though, the
largest genocide happened
in the USA, with the
native American Indians,
with estimates of 19
million to 100 millio...
Official Nuclear
Radiation Study; Tokyo
University
Hayno, R.S., et al
(2013) Internal
Radiocesium Contamination
of Adults and Children 7
to 20 Months After the
Fukushima NPP Accident as
Measured by Extensive
Whole-Body-Counter
Surveys, Proc. Jpn....
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In these times of
uncertainty, chaos and
pain,
you can choose to only
rely upon
yourselves
- face the music and do
as best as you can,
with whatever ''concrete
means'' you have at your
disposal -
or
you can ch...