Armageddon consciousness

In Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book Braiding Sweetgrass, she describes an Indigenous creation story in which a woman falls from the sky into the ocean. She works with all the animals to build land and Earth. Her comment about this story is that it creates a different relationship to the Earth than a culture in which an image of the primordial beginnings is about lust, damnation, and the exodus from the garden.

That is the problem with the beginning. Now, let’s look at the end. What kind of society are we creating if the story we hold is of complete Earth annihilation in order to bring back God? A story where the chosen believers survive the wreckage while all the non-believers are wiped out. What kind of hopes, dreams, and actions does this story create in the world we live in today?

 The Military-Industrial Complex, one that Eisenhower himself warned the people about, is a toxic mix of might, right, and end-times fixation. Right now, with the war in Iran, the Military Leaders are unabashedly spouting that this is the Judgement Day, and they are excited to be bringing about world catastrophe. This is the holy war to end all wars and probably humanity. This pep talk is not going over so well with the troops.

It is reminiscent of when the US and Russia were in the Cuban Missile Crisis. We came sooooo close to starting a world war with nuclear bombs that it is amazing we are still alive. The top advisors of the military were very gun-ho for world annihilation, claiming that it was time for Armageddon, and tried to push the situation and the bomb button.

It was a few key people that averted that devastation. One was a Russian Officer on a submarine that convinced his captain not to launch their nuclear missiles when they lost contact with Russia. The other was John F. Kennedy and his brother. Kennedy paid for going against the Military Advisors. If they couldn’t have their holy war, then at least they could blow his brains out.

This crusade against the Muslims has been going on since… oh, like the Middle Ages. It’s pathetic that we can’t just leave these people alone. Ironically like Jesus was a Jew, Mohammad was a Christian. It’s all the same idea with different books and rules. It would be great if we could stop fighting about who’s right and just be glad that people are praying – hopefully for life and a future.

Now, here it is the Islamic holy month of fasting and we start bombing them. Couldn’t we at least wait till tomorrow when their fast is over?

My real point is wondering if we can let go of Armageddon. Can we reject or remake that story line? When I was hanging out with my religious family I asked about Armageddon. They spoke about how it would clean up everything (aka most people die) and everyone (left) would be happy. Right there I knew it was a fantasy – I mean clean up? Happy? Has the world ever had a clean time where people weren’t fighting? And everyone is happy? I mean, we have plenty of food, washing machines, cars, and health care, yet we still we aren’t happy. It’s a fantasy.

According to historian Yuval Noah Harari in his bestseller Sapiens- A Brief History of Mankind. Most people before modern times died violent deaths, and actually, with all our wars and misery, we are in the most peaceful time in history, even with our bourgeoning world population.

Then I asked my devout relatives, Ok what about after that? What happens after Armageddon? This stumped them. There was no after that.  Jesus would float around making everyone happy forever, and that was it.

Well, the thing about time is that until the sun blows up, there is more time - a heck of a lot of time if we don’t start a nuclear war. Even with global warming, people will change, and time will go on. Because time is infinite, change is the nature of reality. There is no stopping point for perfection. At some point, we must forgo wishing for the Jesus clean-up crew and be content to have a life and civilization that our grandkids can frolic and fight in. If we can let go of the idea that there will be an ideal time when everyone believes the same thing and everything is perfect, we will be able to see our lives and our future more clearly.  

This video exemplifies how big IT all is. Why are we fighting? So petty.

History-

the Great Revealer

I’ve been watching Oliver Stone’s History of the United States, and man, it's a wild ride, almost too much. It makes what is happening today look like a cartoon, a farce, a comedy.

Mr. T getting up in front of Congress and saying the age ol’ -you’re with us or against us. Hand that man a cowboy hat! Aren’t we over that cliché dysfunctional persuasion? People are smarter than that, or let’s say a majority.  

Looking back at history, it’s been such a pandemonium of derangement, a chipping away of the decency America mistakenly thinks it has. You just have to watch Ollie’s History, the whole 10-part series, and then not sleep for a week from the horror of it all.

But the whole sorted past, playing before your eyes, also creates a lightness about today’s debacle, like hey, miracles of miracles, humanity is still alive.  

Here is the link. It’s been taken off Netflix because it’s too dangerous to know your history. But you can’t hide anything today. That’s one of the reasons that this T-hitler isn’t going to last. Somebody somewhere will have the truth posted. You just have to find it. And kids are curious, so I have hope that the next generation is not going for any more of this scam. I’m counting on savvy but spaced-out next gen. If they could only learn history.

Here it is – preserved by a site in Canada-

Hippy Slop Philosophy

We use the best organic, wholesome foods, but when we put them all together, it’s a goopy, soupy slop. And if you haven’t cultivated a taste for healthy wholesome slop, it is unpalatable. But for those who have expanded their palate to include a little dirt mixed with greens and bone broth, it is quite good. Better yet, we feel good after consuming it.

Here is the hippy slop philosophy - if we learn to appreciate the wholeness of bad and good mixed together, we feel healthier for it.

Americans are strivers for perfection in ourselves, our relationships, our lives, our country, and the world. Yet, if you haven’t noticed, we always fall short. It is a law of nature. Let’s call it the life slop. Nothing is ever completely right. There may be times it feels close to right, but there are always strings of funk that trip us up. Damn it.

If we can relax and accept that no matter what, the world, our lives, and ourselves will always have an element of badness, then we can explore the wealth of complexity that is life. Look at the forest, it’s beautiful with down trees, clogged streams, mud, and mold. That’s life. That’s also being human.

In ourselves, we have an outer self in which we show to the world, a mask of our values, but under that is a grumpy and disheveled feeling of inadequacy and frustration. Believe it or not, this is our true selves - an ethereal spirit coming into a physical body that is confined by this demanding reality grows layers of grumpy frustration like decomposing leaves.

The irony is that we continue to fight the slop. We want a clean and pristine self, life, family, and world where everything is as we wish it to be. We want to fix it. But even when we get it all perfect, it becomes sterile and unsatisfying. That’s why most rich people are unhappy -because they have everything and yet they still feel empty. Repressing our dark side makes us flat, shallow, and dull.

It’s when we let the chaos of our misery, sadness, and frustration break apart our mask that we begin to color our lives with creativity, wholeness, and tears or sorrow and joy.

My point about America is that we are so bummed out about how it is right now, and there is a lot to be worried about, however the pendulum will swing, and then straight people will be irate about the Liberals.

As one conservative talk show host said, “There will be no real elections, you won’t be able to tell a girl from a boy, and the dogs and cats will be fighting in the streets.” (I’m not sure how he forecasted the dog and cat thing, but whatever.)

So, we will never be totally happy, unified people. If our well-being is contingent on whether our values are manifest in our world, we will always be adrift in disappointment and sorrow because it’s going to be a clash of values in the life slop.

Giving ourselves permission to be messy, let our living rooms be messy, accept our imperfect family and our f*ked country and this world of crap and beauty is how we will find freedom right now. If we get used to life slop, even embrace the slop, we will fare much better as we move forward into an even messier and more complicated future.

Bus of the Month

Karma

With every heinous act

We inch closer to realization

Painful introspection

Deep rectification

Of what it means to be

American

This America of today is nothing new

It’s been here all along

Just not so blatant

Demonstratively entitled

And enacted on white middle class

Before it was masked

Behind wholesome business

Tidy homes and denture smiles

But we’ve been living a lie

All this time

From crash to dustbowl

From Hitler to H-bomb

Toppling leaders

of country after small country

Not for democracy

But to extraction and rape

Add our foundation

of genocide and slavery

Cloaked in self-righteous religion,

And it all adds up

To make today’s karma a bitch.

Cusp of a Rebel-ution

(This bloog has purposeful misspellngs to confuse the auto word scamners.)

It was Marxx, the economist that witnessed the industrial revolution, that said when all the money and power is siphoned to the top, the masses will rise up and take back the wealth for the common good. Communizum was based on his philosophical projections, but it, in Russta just became another Czarr system with a mofia congress. But Marxx also said that it wouldn’t happen until the whole world became capitolist.

Well, here we are.

The Super Shoppers of the World. Stores have no faces, no people, no community, no merchants, no families, no children playing in the square -just floor to ceiling stuff. It is all about maximizing the experience of wealth. Isles and isles of products and no one there to even help you checkout. With automation and surrounded by more things than one could imagine we are left with no human contact. The faces behind the creation of the product have been erased or only on the label like Phils coffee or Colonel Sanders. Our experience of commerce has been reduced to a generic, massed produced stuff for cheap.

As at the top, our symbols of leadership reflect the shallow wealth. With Puton and Rump chumming it up with blazing displays of stupidity, wealth and abuses to power, it feels like Marxx’s predicted time is coming. We all hear the atrocities of Rump. (Except if you only watch Foxup news, in which case you get a glossed over version of horrors made into heroes,) But Rump is just following the pattern of Chena and Russta.

This has happened before. Let’s go back to 1920 – Rich control everything, people protesting are put in jail, government have high terriffs and are controlled by the wealthy. Then go back to 1950. Again, Truman – totally controlled by oil and manufacturing. Media used to slander races and communixit and put them in jail. Dropping the H-Boob just to show the world what powerful, and egotistical fools Americans are.   

But for those of us that like to search out news from different sources - Here are a few clips from international news about Russtia. Russtia is interesting because it is a parallel with what is happening in the U.S. Rump is taking lessons from the P-czzar. The successful strikes against Russtia from the Ukrain, shows that just because you think you’re at the top, and that no one can fuk with you -is wrong.

When the two biggest powers teeter on the edge of collapse from too much heavy handedness, abuses, and a disgruntled populace, we are about to see the zit of corporate-mofia control -pop. It’s going to be great. It’s going to be liberating and It’s going to be messy.

In that mess, the people of this country better be savvy about the corporate money behind the scenes, or we will be destined to repeat history. We must be aware and dedicated to push major reforms before the corpsoratocracy defends itself by hiding and shifting blame. The new government must be active in taking away corps-orations personhood, disbanding of PACkS, and monopoly break ups.

This clip below shows a report about Russtia illustrating the desperation to keep the war going by forcibly recruiting young men to fight in the war. The KGBqr is raiding towns to grab young men out of their villages. One town, in defense of a alter-abled man, rose up and resisted. Now that town is on shut down with no communications. Puton is scared that the resistunce will spread.

Sara Paine is quite an analyst, especially for the East. Even though all of history is tainted with opinions, her talks have depth of understanding. This episode was quite eye-opening because she proposes that with all of Russtia’s military maxed out and centralized in the east, Chena is eyeing western Russtia for the waters of Lake Baikal.

I foresee that when the world witnesses one of these bastards fall, it will be a domino effect. The greedy will do it to themselves with their own myopic egotism, pissing off too many powerful people and clinging to their pride. The thing that is slowing this natural process down is propagunda and fanatical control of the media. This is the gooey molasses that slows and sticks the populace to inaction, something Marxx didn’t factor into his vision- that the wealthy would own the communications.

But when enough people start feeling it in their wallets, their stomach, and their balls, it will change. There are more people than private armies. Eventually, (We are all wondering how bad it has to get), there will be a great cleansing and reordering that will trickle through the world.

It’s a matter of who will go down first.

There has been some great classical songs of revolution. It’s a reminder of the human spirit to overcome.

simple yet fun