THE OLDEST FAITH to Adanowa Aninvya
Every religion has it's person who goes insane. But how can that be in a beautiful Faith that equates balance and peace with health and war with insanity? Genghis Khan and his family were of that Faith and yet he treated other peoples like sheep and demeaned the animals as game. What was the source of the virus that destroyed such a beautiful system of thought in the mind of such a man? Genghis suffered tremendous abuse almost from birth. But With a breathtaking logic on the systems of war Genghis still retained (as if in a dream) the appreciation of beauty and peace and balance. The people of the steppes had been out of balance for some time. Their pledge not to shed the blood of a member of their nation had degenerated into a fear of blood. The human spirit demons reigned within their faith and they descended into the quagmire of superstition based not on the joy of the Great Mystery but upon the mythology that their vulnerability excused any action. The White banner of the peaceful soul rarely flew over the steppes while the black banner of the soul at war was everywhere. Genghis' soul was kept in his war banner with peace lost to the ages. Once he exorcised his anger in destruction and war he became addicted to the flow of goods that war brought in spite of the insanity of murder. Cursed as a baby by circumstances. Cursed as a child by rivalry ending in murder. Cursed as a young man by politics Cursed as a conqueror by a superior mind's ability to justify disdain for life to the attainment of personal ideals. The first was the animals. They became "things" rather than "beings." His faith dictated the consciousness of all life. His life taught him the lessons of caring for the animals but it turned to objectivity and control. Hunting became simple food gathering once more wrapped in dreamy indifference to life for the pacification of his soul's anger. His Ideals for all humanity would justify his choice of efficient insanity. The animals were silent, His heart was cold and Humanity reigned in his mind. A heart wounded by abuse and circumstance would now heal the world as an act of revenge. The Gods give us our freedom only in peace. War is slavery and insanity. For every death there is a reaction. Not even genocide assures the tyrant of mercy. That was the faith of Genghis, That was the faith forgotten. That was the circle that closed in his empire's destruction. There is no benevolent tyranny. There is no benevolent wealth. There is no educated elite. There is no common man. There are just people who are evolving and it is our job to help each other for the good of all. Copyright 2005 Ray Evans Harrell from The Long Dance From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Weick Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2010 8:47 PM To: [email protected]; RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION Subject: Re: [Futurework] FW: The Next 500 Years The topic makes me think of movies. And movies make me think of how we can possibly even think we know. "A Space Odyssey" had us flying about in space with a truly marvellous computer in 2001. "Soylent Green" saw New York with a hugely unemployed population of 40 million and food requirements met by converting the dead into food by 2020. "Blade Runner" saw us making humanoid robots in some not distant future and shipping them off to far off places in the universe and then making sure they didn't come back to Earth. Five hundred years ago, in 1510, the new world had just been discovered. Very little of the great ruination that took place as a result had as yet happened and Christian Europe was still trying to recover from Islamic invasion (so what's new?). There was as yet no industrial or scientific revolution even if the seeds were there. Could anyone then have predicted what the world would be like in 500 years? Ed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Spencer" < <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]> To: < <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2010 6:34 PM Subject: [Futurework] FW: The Next 500 Years > >> Have you heard of Dr. Masaru Emoto? He wrote three volumes of books, the >> first called /The Hidden Mesages of Water. /I'll sum it up for you. >> Water responds to music and to thought. Google it. >> >> What are you trying to say with this bit: >> >> /Suggesting that water is alive, as Parry did, is esoterical nonsense. >> That's how Predators hijack science./ > > Dr. Emoto sells products based on his claims. For example, the > products page of Emoto's Hado website is currently offering > "geometrically perfect" "Indigo water" that is "highly charged > hexagonally structured concentrate," and supposedly creates > "structured water" that is "more easily assimilated at the > cellular level" for $35 for an eight-ounce bottle. > > Chris is saying that anyone who belives that is a classic specimen of > Sucker for Pseudoscience and that the Professional Bad Guys are happy > to exploit such gullibility and ignorance. > > Here's another one: > > <http://www.slimspurling.com/> http://www.slimspurling.com/ > > I know about this only because I met Slim Spurling (now deceased) back > in '76 when he was a blacksmith. Good smith, good teacher, cool guy > but believed all kinds pseudoscientific crap. Eventually he > discovered that he could make good living with gullibility and > pseudoscientific mysticism and gave up smithing. > > > - Mike > > -- > Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~. > /V\ > <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] /( )\ > <http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/> http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/ ^^-^^ > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] > <https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework> https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
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