bears - kent rogowski
ceebee: My son has this book on teddy bears. It should really be my book, but he’s only 2 and I’m not going to fight him on it. Beautiful distortions of play things… Enjoy
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ideals vs greed RE: warfare
I was listening to a CD of Alan Watts speak about human nature yesterday and was pretty awestruck by the ideas running through my head. Basically, without getting to into it, it states that war based on ideals cause more damage and inherently evil than the ones based on greed. The idea was that greed preserves certain things of value which are to obtained by the warfare. Righteous wars are about obliterating anything that falls under the category which is opposed and therefore everyone, everything must be destroyed.
So my take on this was that holy wars are the ones with the most evil involved… ironically.
The “war on terror” was marketed more as a righteous war, so it would be safe to assume the worst. I feel for the blind sighted TV viewers who get fed what to think, feel, etc.. and then feed the flames of “american pride”.
…I hate listening to target practice on san clemente island
No I didn't fall off the planet...
Hello all.
The reason why I’ve not written in a while is just because my wife and I are expecting a new little face adding to our family soon. We have the nesting instinct and I’ve been remodeling our garage. It was filled with a bunch of stuff and now it looks completely different. I probably should have created a do it yourself documentary of the process… maybe it’s better I’m not blogging right now because I don’t know how many of you care about that kind of stuff..
back to your browsing!
peaceout, Ryan
NO ESCAPE! HAHAHA! - DON'T WORRY »
I’LL SAY I’M GLAD I DON’T WATCH THE NEWS.. BUT YOU END UP HEARING ABOUT IT ON THE WEB ANYWAYS..
THERE IS A BALANCE TO E V E R Y T H I N G !!!!!
I HEAR PEOPLE SAY THINGS LIKE “I’M GLAD I DIDN’T HAVE A KID BECAUSE I’D HATE TO BRING HIM UP IN THIS WORLD..”
… MY THINKING IS THAT I’M RAISING A CHILD WHO’SE GOING TO HELP SAVE THE WORLD!!! HE’S ASH! WATCH OUT, HE’S AN ANGEL
Could America’s awful state of mind come from the fact that our mainstream news media reinforces negativity with headlines like “Everything seemingly is spinning out of control”?
Hm.
totes, misterpeace, totes.
“Even many of the smartest among us seem to have lost their vision. Cynicism has become a supreme sign of intelligence. Compulsive skepticism masquerades as perceptiveness. Mean-spirited irony is chic. Beautiful truths are suspect and ugly truths are popular.
We have to learn how to stay in a good yet unruly mood as we overthrow the cockeyed mass hallucination that is mistakenly referred to as reality…
Maybe most importantly, we have to be ferociously and single-mindedly dedicated to the cause of beauty and truth and love even as we keep our imaginations wild and hungry and free. We have to be both disciplined and rowdy.
That’s especially thorny because of the fact that a genocide of the imagination is raging world-wide. It threatens to render our imaginations numb and inert and passive and tame.” (quote via Rob Brezsny)Another reason not to watch the news.
technorati sounds like a ferrari type of tech machine
you can click on this if you want…
1... 2... PUSH!!! (KIDDING)
AHH.. LAST NIGHT WE CELEBRATED MY SISTER’S BIRTHDAY AT 5 CROWNS IN CORONA DEL MAR… IT LEFT JENIFER AND I FEELING PRETTY BAD. WE HAD PRETTY BAD GAS AT NIGHT AND WOKE UP WITH STOMACH CRAMPS. HMM. GOOD ARTERY CLOGGING GREASY FOOD!
SO JEN IS NOW HAVING A COUPLE CONTRACTIONS THIS MORNING AND I’M CONCERNED. WAS IT THE FOOD?
