There is One Race, and Other Useless Platitudes

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There is One Race, and Other Useless Platitudes

Post by mnaz » July 10th, 2021, 8:42 pm

There is one race: Us.

Okay, so that was the hippie era.
That bullshit don't apply anymore.
We're into war, the natural medium,
bashing each other in the skull
like the very first cave men.
Oh how far we've come.

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Post by judih » July 10th, 2021, 9:55 pm

a lot less violent
sweetly destroying the planet
gentle cruelty

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Post by judih » July 10th, 2021, 9:58 pm

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mnaz wrote:
July 10th, 2021, 8:42 pm
There is one race: Us.

Okay, so that was the hippie era.
That bullshit don't apply anymore.
We're into war, the natural medium,
bashing each other in the skull
like the very first cave men.
Oh how far we've come.

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Re: There is One Race, and Other Useless Platitudes

Post by saw » July 11th, 2021, 9:51 am

as more video emerges from the Jan.6th attack on the Capital , we can clearly see we are a divided nation here in the US....and this was not a peaceful demonstration....4 people died.....they wanted to hang people as evidenced by their cries and the gallows out front .....it was in fact a violent mob......incited by people very far up the food chain....and don't get me started on war.....all the skirmishes around the world....but if we focus for a minute just on the citizens, isn't it clever how filthy rich people can get all the same people that need things like health care, and good jobs to fight with one another.....We'll call some of the states red....and some of the states blue....and while they are bickering like impotent children, we'll run off with the gold.....Think Tanks.....control of the Media.....simple game.....constantly stir up trouble to keep them fighting each other so they never look in our direction.....gerrymander, suppress the vote, without it we know we wouldn't be popular....and our greatest trick of all...confuse folks into voting against their best interest......throw out the word "Socialism"....scare 'em.....throw out he word "Communism"......welcome white nationalism....welcome armed mobs to insurrection at our nation's Capital......and then have the insiders try to protect them......there are US senators referring to that bloody day as a " normal tourist visit "......remarkable.....even with tons of video, they look straight into the camera which is the eyes of the American public and say...." I don't care what you think you saw, I say it was just another touristy day with well behaved visitors".....they want you to doubt your eyesight.....they want you to discard your brain....these liars aren't just ordinary citizens....they're in Congress

there you go....Steve's Sunday Sermon...haha... 8)
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Post by mnaz » July 11th, 2021, 11:45 pm

Judih, and Steve. Well said!

Was thinking of all the '60s stuff my parents sneered at, and some of the Joseph Campbell reading I did about 19 years ago-- before I met any of you! "You and the other are one..." There comes a time in a person's life when they realize that any societal movements toward enlightenment that arose in one's younger years and seemed to have an inevitability and unstoppable momentum in fact were mostly an illusion. "Enlightenment" will not be forthcoming. We will continue to wallow in our own shit. I suppose some or even most people come to this realization quite early in life. For others it takes an inexplicably much longer time...

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Post by mtmynd » July 13th, 2021, 1:24 am

Today is not like yesterday.... and so on and so on...

Aren't we humans subject to our age/beliefs that we feel to be what the "younger generation" believes to be their story..?
That generational truths runs the world... those that grow into the ability to create their ways of life? It's the story of man
that takes a shot at tossing their belief into the next stew of their generation... better than before?? We sit on the sidelines
and watch the game, that generation games, goes on and on... knowing that is what the game has always been and will always be -

a shot at tomorrow to make it better than yesterday... once we can agree harmoniously... ain't gonna happen.

Reading google facts "It may surprise you to know that there are over 4,000 recognized religions in the world. These religions consist of churches, congregations, faith groups, tribes, cultures, and movements. Even though there are so many, three-quarters of the world's population practice one of the five major religions."

Even with five major religions tapped into be our mankind, the wars continue, the lies keep spewing, greed will always be envied, and tomorrow is another spin around the planet earth... all alone in the massive universe we see in the night's sky.
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Post by mnaz » July 13th, 2021, 1:58 am

True, the clear desert night sky has always been an antidote to endless clouds..

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Re: There is One Race, and Other Useless Platitudes

Post by saw » July 13th, 2021, 8:21 am

this is why I spend so much time in the woods....it's real....and despite all the other crap, it fights back in its little beautiful ways determined to survive....and there is still plenty of inspirational growth each season for eyes to melt on.....
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Post by mnaz » July 14th, 2021, 12:16 am

How useless I am. I don't believe in manufactured war.

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Re: There is One Race, and Other Useless Platitudes

Post by mnaz » July 29th, 2021, 4:36 am

I meant to comment on this earlier. What a great shot, Steve! Light is perfect.

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