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Why America Must Stay in Iraq

First off let me tell you I have never voted for ANY Bush past or present and I’m proud of that. Secondly, I did NOT agree with going to Iraq to search for fuckin’ WMDs or for OIL (operation Iraqi Liberation) or any other reason, particularly when we had allegedly been attacked by TERRORISTs not by Iraq, Iran, North Korea or any other member of the cartoonishly infamous “axis of evil”.

I do believe that there are terrorist who want to destroy America, but prior to America’s preemtive strike on Iraq they didn’t have the numbers, motives, power or news coverage that they do now. The war in Iraq has possibly made internation terrorism have a united cause.

I actually agree with 94′ Dick Cheney’s views on why it is a bad idea to take Iraq:

So why, then do I think we should stay? I see it as our responsibility to help the Iraqi people out of this chaos that was created by uprooting the structure they had in place. I am not an apologist for Saddam Hussein. I believe he was an evil man who violated the UN resolutions (a violation punishable by war, I might add). And though I think it was a VERY bad idea to unleash this “quagmire” that is now up to nearly half a trillion dollars (at a time when America itself faces a baby boomer social security disaster) we have an obligation to follow through. If we bail on the Iraqi people it will be worse than mere cowardice, it will dishonorable, heartless and above all, it will be betrayal. The same kind of betrayal that the U.S. exhibited in the Gulf War when we abandoned the Kurds and the resistance that rose up when we and many other nations stomped Saddam and got him out of Kuwait.

While I think we should stay in Iraq, I don’t buy into the AM radio, RUSH-Ditto-headed, “We have to win for OUR freedom” BULLSHIT! Its the height of arrogance to pin the successes of a stable Iraq in our hands for our own purpose when all the heavy lifting MUST be done by the Iraqi people. Yes, we will be will benefit by their stability but it is their country. We can help them attain stability, but ulimately success is in the hands of the Iraqis.

What annoys me about the Democrats and main stream liberals rhetoric is that they claim to want prosperity, health and love for everyone, but they want to bail out on the Iraqi people. I mean, yes it was wrong to go! Yes, the Bush administration sucks, but the fact is that we are there NOW and those people are suffering because of our actions.

Leaving Iraq now would be like a hit and run. We could call it “Sucker Punch” Diplomacy. It is sad that only the war mongers that flirt with a nuclear world war III (Guiliani) are the only ones who want to stay in Iraq and even they want to stay because, “We have to win for OUR freedom.”

I believe it is our moral and spiritual duty to stay in Iraq. Not for some BS religious reasons or devious political and strategic reason, but because there are people there (woman and children) who just want to live their lives.

Dream: A beautiful Woman

She was mahogany skinned, with long raven black hair. Was she spanish? East/West Indian? Whatever she was looked gorgeous. I was surprised that she was attracted to me. I found out through her friend.

the immigration wars

Well, spoken, man.

European laws may be stupid and pussified, but is that any reason to generalize all Muslims as fundamentalist idiots? Surely, you have one or two Muslims in Europe who don’t contemplate stoning women and blaming rape on victims.

I understand your passive aggressive indignation (we have similar BS going on it the US) but your intellect would be better served with another pinch of aperspectival objectivity (something lacking in the conservative brain).

People in the US have similar appeasement toward illegal immigrants (i.e. not enforcing the law that is in place, creating laws to make it easier for them). Naturally conservative and liberal leaders blame each other. And then contradict their alleged values by calling American citizens “racist” when they speak out.

The real problem is both sides. They both seem to have an agenda of uniting Canada/US/Mexico (it is totally denied by officials even as it is happening).

I suspect that in europe there is a similar mission of uniting all peoples.

It sounds noble but there are two problems:

1) the corrupt elite who want it (only want to control the masses like cattle)

2) People are NOT ready for it.
Particularly fundamentalist and ethnocentric people. They can not accept other cultures. Ironically, the US (as diverse as it is) is very ethnocentric.

Socially eloquent people like this make influential statesmen. Their attraction (beyond entertainment) is that they have a valid point. They are able to clearly and bravely point out that something is very wrong. But then they have a muddy perspective that can’t be bothered with critical thinking because their world is black and white with no spectrum and no shade of grey.

The masses follow like a flock of sheeple because they don’t think for themselves. Rush Limbaugh’s HUGE audience is a perfect example. They call themselves “ditto heads” because “rush is right” no matter what he says.

Physicists Discover Inorganic Dust With Lifelike Qualities

Science is beginning to sound like mysticism and shamanism. People of ancient times and even some to this day (i.e. shintoism) believed that everything has a living ‘spirit’ associated with it. It was simplistic, but maybe there is something to it.

Science Daily — Could extraterrestrial life be made of corkscrew-shaped particles of interstellar dust? Intriguing new evidence of life-like structures that form from inorganic substances in space have been revealed in the New Journal of Physics. The findings hint at the possibility that life beyond earth may not necessarily use carbon-based molecules as its building blocks. They also point to a possible new explanation for the origin of life on earth.

Could extraterrestrial life be found in particles of interstellar dust (like that which obscures the giant molecular cloud DR21, shown here in an infrared image taken recently by the orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope)? (Credit: A. Marston (ESTEC/ESA) et al., JPL, Caltech, NASA)

Life on earth is organic. It is composed of organic molecules, which are simply the compounds of carbon, excluding carbonates and carbon dioxide. The idea that particles of inorganic dust may take on a life of their own is nothing short of alien, going beyond the silicon-based life forms favoured by some science fiction stories.

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When everything is a decaying symbolic copy of a copy, it becomes natural to be apathetic toward everything because nothing is real.

someone forgot to mention

tell me about your problems:

I have something that can solve them/
tell me about that guy that cut you off in traffic the other day/
tell me about how your boss didn’t give you a raise in pay/

sing the song of “the victim” while I play the world’s smallest violin/
confess it to me privately so I can absolve the sin/

its sad to see humanity dying at the feet of a vulture/
morally bereft, obsess over celebrities in a so-called “first-world” culture/

can we save the world with 200 billion dollars instead of investing in invasions on another nation’s sovereignty?/ (the answer is no)
but maybe we can save one mother, one man or this child from poverty/

She is special because she is our child; she is the baby we have conceived/precious child indeed, closer than the air we breathe

but she is dying of starvation with stomach in distention/

it is useless to blame anyone for this child’s suffering and that is not my intention/

I just want to remind you not to take your life for granted which is something someone forgot to mention/

perhaps when we can love outside of our personal strife, fear and petty grief/ we will learn to love God while she is crawling at our feet

god bless you..

Big Heart speaks: Dharmic Body

The greatest way to pray, wish, dream and ask God/higer self/source/universe for anything is to ask by becoming that which you desire.  Don’t just see it, be it! 

Asking with words in a prayer or by writing down goals are powerful techniques, but sometimes the things we desire are just lower parts of our selve’s wants and needs activated by feelings of emptiness.  This can be painful if we don’t know the true self.  Settling for the lower impulses is shallow and many times disappointing (the resultant equivalent of habitually looking in the refrigerator for something when bored).  By looking within and looking fearlessly into that which we really desire we can attain all of our dreams with effortless ease.  For our deepest, peerless desire is no different from who/what we are: formless without begining and without end, “the dreamer” as Aboriginal shamans say.    From that all accepting, painfully joyous emptiness arises all forms “dreams”.  But we should not become attatched to those forms and lose our selves. 

“For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?“ KJV Mat 26

“..in the Aboriginal Dreamtime, there is a Dream in which everyone and everything is being Dreamed. Given the Dream, there is also a Dreamer, and the connection between the Dream and the Dreamer is the process of Dreaming. We all have the power of the Dream within us; it is our likeness to the Dreamer.”  — Nigel Taylor, Dreaming our Way Back to the Dreamer 

Never allow the dreamer to get lost in the objects of the dream.

We sometimes get fixated on the external objects and forms of life.  We think material things will make us happy.  We create for ourselves an ironic paradox as strange as the ego with which we interface with the outside world.  The very “desire” of the object can many times become the biggest obstacle because we unknowingly become fixated on the gap (not having) between us and the object which makes an even bigger gap between us and our happiness.  

We can have happiness instantly by simply living from our dharmic selves or dharmic body.  This means living toward our ultimate dream without comprimise and with our every action.

Having objects is not an intrinsically bad thing.  But don’t get fixated on the “wanting gap”.  Instead feel the objects and situations you wish as if they are already in the NOW.  Replace the gap of time/space with the wholness of feeling it NOW.  Allow that feeling to consumne all your fears.  That is the way of the dharmic self. 

“We are the music makers, We are the dreamers of dreams” - Arthur O’Shaughnessy

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Its finally up. Steve Pavlina got his forum up. He’s got subjects like Health, Spirituality and Awareness, personal effectiveness, emotional mastery, tech, and others. The community are a group of very insightful people. I recommended it to all.

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