You're hilarious. I"m nothing if not a realist.
You have all of these concepts and judgements about others and
spirituality and truth which have nothing to do with anything other
than your own ideas.
If you were paying attention, which you obviously weren't, I said it's
ALL because of ignorance. All these problems are based in desire or
greed for objects in the world. When I hear you talk about eating
shit, it doesn't surprise me, as the phrases of "what goes in also
comes out," and "you are what you eat" quickly come to mind. It also
sheds light on your demeanor and posts. :O)
I'm about as apolitical as one can be. I was just trying to make a
very basic point that really has nothing to do with "isms." One can
only go so far in spiritual growth as long as there is still
attachment to objects(concepts), or objectifying in general. I don't
expect the world to be fair, nor do I really care if it's fair or
unfair. I'll just leave it to God to sort all that shit out.
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Personal Growth, Economic Opportunity, Human Rights, War, Environment,
Hunger, Disease, Population
As the world is challenged by environmental disasters and
revolutionary violence bred of the majority of people on earth without
either basic needs, basic rights or both, while a small percentage of
the privileged treat distractions such as sports as life and death
events, subsidized by the advertising of alcohol and violent video
games, it is more difficult to believe that the reality we are facing--
a choice between one sustainable planet with basic needs and rights
for all, or obliteration--will turn out positive. This is a moment for
reflection. Forty three years ago this week, on March 16, 1968, US
Senator Robert F. Kennedy announced he would run for president, saying
the campaign was about US moral leadership on the planet. After the
assassination of his brother, President John F. Kennedy, and then
Martin Luther King, Jr while Robert Kennedy's campaign was in full
stride, he became the last best hope for a better life and for
reconciliation in the hearts and minds of probably most Americans and
people around the world. Anyone alive at the time would likely
acknowledge we have not seen a politician like him since, and many not
alive then have arrived at the same conclusion thanks to the extensive
audio, video and writing about him. Today, March 18, two days after he
announced his candidacy for president, he spoke the following words at
a rally at the University of Kansas: "Too much and for too long, we
seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in
the mere accumulation of material things. ...Gross National Product
counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to
clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors
and the jails for the people who break them. It counts the
destruction of the redwood and the loss of our natural wonder in
chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and counts nuclear warheads and
armored cars for the police to fight the riots in our cities. It
counts Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and the television programs
which
glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children. Yet the gross
national product does not allow for the health of our children, the
quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not
include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the
intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public
officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our
wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to
our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes
life worthwhile. And it can tell us everything about America except
why we are proud that we are Americans."
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Ready-Reference/RFK-Speeches.aspx
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