I’ve been thinking the same thing for weeks, months even - UKRAINE WILL WIN THIS WAR. The question is only how fast. The fight they have put up is extraordinary, and watching explosions caused by UKRAINIAN MADE missiles- idk what kind but big ones! That was awesome.
Anyway I have been working on the connection between community, story and belonging for a long time, and I’m posting about it soon (I hope), and I think a big change we could make easily and used to do it naturally - simply look each person you interact with every day in the eye. Say hello. We are not colors on a graph or words on a page. Jesus came to save souls but he healed bodies! We are humans and we need and deserve to at least be seen.
Laurie, so interesting you’d mention that about looking each person in the eye, saying hello… making a genuine connection with another soul. Over the past year I have found myself doing the same, for the same reasons, and added a bunch of times: ‘give me your hand, I need to feel the warmth of another human’ or words like that. Well it’s amazing. Once it was a Pepsi delivery guy waiting around for something and I was walking by and we had a little chat. When it was time to go I said give me your hand, man, because I really enjoyed this. And we joined hands and he looked at me and smiled so naturally. It was such a cheap & easy & enjoyable thing to do and it revived me all the day long. Pretty sure it had some affect on him, too. That was several weeks ago but you know what? I can still see his face and hear his voice.
Sally and Laurie, I am right there with you both. The relief (and sometimes shock) that I see from people when I greet them with a smile and kind, open-hearted (if that makes sense) eyes, lifts me and lifts them. I usually see a lightening of the spirit and a return smile or greeting. Every person matters! We all have a story. We all have good times and bad times and a lot of people are going through really hard times. I hope there is a change coming. We are the many, they are the few. Have a nice day.
“Blessed are the Meek, for they shall inherit the Earth” … an inheritance wrought from the malignant, dying hands of the arrogant. How much of our birthright is left for us to inherit is directly proportional to how many of us choose not to give ourselves and our political power to those who would oppress us.
That which is unsustainable ultimately will not be sustained. The question for all of us is, “When are we going to step away from the conflagration and build something independent from it?”
Until we do, we will continue to just be fuel for the fire.
We can be firewood for the arrogant or we can be a living garden of something better, and more humble, and more humane. But it won’t happen using the same tools that got us here.
Mike! I agree and for once disagree with you. I love and applaud your humanitarian instincts here, 100%. And that holds despite my disagreement, come what may. Where I think you are perhaps jumping the gun is the part where people figure out who/what is primarily to blame. I do not expect people to blame the liars, the con artists, the authoritarians and the system that’s been engineered to enslave them… just yet. I think majorities of once-democratic nations are only beginning to perceive what has happened. I think there is a LOT of hate and mindless vengeance yet to spill out from all directions (and not very coherently). I am influenced by Vlad Vexler who has slowly, gently, been educating his flock that we, the proponents of more democratic & equal societies, are headed into worse, more deceptive & authoritarian waters, probably for decades to come. And those who are poised to pick up the mantle are more wicked and more competent power mongers. I hope like hell I am wrong. I hope Vlad is high on Absinthe and hallucinating. I hope all the tRuMps & Co. die miserable deaths before next Tuesday. But my internal Accuweather says: storms likely, for the foreseeable future.
Totally best result is that the Islamic Republic of Iran in fact "wins" the trump/Bibi war of choice...yes, rooting against this country and its military, time for administering some lessons that still haven't taken...Vietnam, 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan...not enough? Fine, then add this latest FUBAR to the growing list of failures.
What actually does it take for you people here in the US to recognize that you've continually got it bloody wrong? I mean, how many times does your government and your sainted military get bashed in the face to acknowledge that the old ways are kaput? Hmmm? Seriously.
We need to fix the money; unfortunately there is no appetite. The current system incentives are too entrenched. That means without unravelling of the kind you wrote and I fear is unavoidable.
(No, not bitcoin but it's welcome addition. More like Keynes Bancor).
It needed to be said Mike. And you said it. The most powerful man in the world is insane. I can only hope the MAGAtards figure that out before he burns down the economy and the planet. Those poor puppets have made the most fundamental intellectual mistake possible - they’ve confused their map for the territory.
Mike, will we still b able to storm the castle? This is what terrifies me the most - that those mfs will b unreachable. If we cannot bring justice to them that would b unbearable. I could live through collapse but not that.
I’ve been thinking the same thing for weeks, months even - UKRAINE WILL WIN THIS WAR. The question is only how fast. The fight they have put up is extraordinary, and watching explosions caused by UKRAINIAN MADE missiles- idk what kind but big ones! That was awesome.
Anyway I have been working on the connection between community, story and belonging for a long time, and I’m posting about it soon (I hope), and I think a big change we could make easily and used to do it naturally - simply look each person you interact with every day in the eye. Say hello. We are not colors on a graph or words on a page. Jesus came to save souls but he healed bodies! We are humans and we need and deserve to at least be seen.
Laurie, so interesting you’d mention that about looking each person in the eye, saying hello… making a genuine connection with another soul. Over the past year I have found myself doing the same, for the same reasons, and added a bunch of times: ‘give me your hand, I need to feel the warmth of another human’ or words like that. Well it’s amazing. Once it was a Pepsi delivery guy waiting around for something and I was walking by and we had a little chat. When it was time to go I said give me your hand, man, because I really enjoyed this. And we joined hands and he looked at me and smiled so naturally. It was such a cheap & easy & enjoyable thing to do and it revived me all the day long. Pretty sure it had some affect on him, too. That was several weeks ago but you know what? I can still see his face and hear his voice.
Sally and Laurie, I am right there with you both. The relief (and sometimes shock) that I see from people when I greet them with a smile and kind, open-hearted (if that makes sense) eyes, lifts me and lifts them. I usually see a lightening of the spirit and a return smile or greeting. Every person matters! We all have a story. We all have good times and bad times and a lot of people are going through really hard times. I hope there is a change coming. We are the many, they are the few. Have a nice day.
Yes. Personal integrity, kindness and clear vision is needed by all now to refocus on humanity rather than power and money.
So right.
“Blessed are the Meek, for they shall inherit the Earth” … an inheritance wrought from the malignant, dying hands of the arrogant. How much of our birthright is left for us to inherit is directly proportional to how many of us choose not to give ourselves and our political power to those who would oppress us.
That which is unsustainable ultimately will not be sustained. The question for all of us is, “When are we going to step away from the conflagration and build something independent from it?”
Until we do, we will continue to just be fuel for the fire.
We can be firewood for the arrogant or we can be a living garden of something better, and more humble, and more humane. But it won’t happen using the same tools that got us here.
Mike! I agree and for once disagree with you. I love and applaud your humanitarian instincts here, 100%. And that holds despite my disagreement, come what may. Where I think you are perhaps jumping the gun is the part where people figure out who/what is primarily to blame. I do not expect people to blame the liars, the con artists, the authoritarians and the system that’s been engineered to enslave them… just yet. I think majorities of once-democratic nations are only beginning to perceive what has happened. I think there is a LOT of hate and mindless vengeance yet to spill out from all directions (and not very coherently). I am influenced by Vlad Vexler who has slowly, gently, been educating his flock that we, the proponents of more democratic & equal societies, are headed into worse, more deceptive & authoritarian waters, probably for decades to come. And those who are poised to pick up the mantle are more wicked and more competent power mongers. I hope like hell I am wrong. I hope Vlad is high on Absinthe and hallucinating. I hope all the tRuMps & Co. die miserable deaths before next Tuesday. But my internal Accuweather says: storms likely, for the foreseeable future.
Totally best result is that the Islamic Republic of Iran in fact "wins" the trump/Bibi war of choice...yes, rooting against this country and its military, time for administering some lessons that still haven't taken...Vietnam, 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan...not enough? Fine, then add this latest FUBAR to the growing list of failures.
What actually does it take for you people here in the US to recognize that you've continually got it bloody wrong? I mean, how many times does your government and your sainted military get bashed in the face to acknowledge that the old ways are kaput? Hmmm? Seriously.
♥️😊🙏🏻😊♥️ We are ONE♥️🇨🇦
We need to fix the money; unfortunately there is no appetite. The current system incentives are too entrenched. That means without unravelling of the kind you wrote and I fear is unavoidable.
(No, not bitcoin but it's welcome addition. More like Keynes Bancor).
Not just Trump. The Republican Party. The Republican Party is what would happen in Captain America: The Winter Soldier if HYDRA had won.
RETRIBUTION is coming
At End Capitalism
for all your backsliding from the great sacrifice of the Civil War
MAGA is getting all it wants
and more
Your days if Empire are dwindling
And you have fooked yourselves!
It needed to be said Mike. And you said it. The most powerful man in the world is insane. I can only hope the MAGAtards figure that out before he burns down the economy and the planet. Those poor puppets have made the most fundamental intellectual mistake possible - they’ve confused their map for the territory.
Mike, will we still b able to storm the castle? This is what terrifies me the most - that those mfs will b unreachable. If we cannot bring justice to them that would b unbearable. I could live through collapse but not that.