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Angela Murphy | 07.19.07 | 10:00 AM |
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This is an excerpt from an article in the Atlantic Free Press, written by Chris Floyd on Friday July 13th. It is a sobering reminder that, while we are on a path to transformation, there are many in this country who are not. And it's time for each of us, individually, to take some action in a positive direction each day!

"Homo sapiens is the only species that dreams of
its own total demise. Our brief history of
conscious thought is replete with vivid scenarios
of the end of life on earth...Religion has
produced most of these -- giddy, voluptuous
nightmares of universal extinction, usually by
fire, at divine order. A favored remnant is
always saved in such tales, of course, but only
after being transformed into some different,
higher order of being. The gross human body --
that bleeding, fouling, endlessly replicating
sack of earth -- is gleefully consigned to eternal oblivion.

It seems that some ineradicable nihilism pervades
us, like a virus, now dormant, now flaring:
something in us that wants to die, to be done
with the long, overhanging doom of mortality --
and to take the world with us."

Read entire article: http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/1970/1/

peace,
Angela

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Submitted by Jeffery DeCelles on July 23, 2007 - 11:20am.

Thanks, Angela, for the link. Mr. Floyd hits on a psycho-spiritual dynamic I've heard identified as Thanatos-(Death Impulse) vs. Eros-(Life Impulse). Denial or repression of one tends to induce overexpression of its complement. Seems significant that "conservative" culture is freaked out by overt eroticism, but fine with death-dealing.
A 60's slogan may be relevant: "Make Love, Not War". Resonance?
How to address this situation? A massive exercise in collective intention invoking ecstatic erotic awareness?
(Why can't we all just get a little) ;)

Submitted by Linda Hassler on July 19, 2007 - 8:31pm.

Thanx for posting that part of the Atlantic Free Press article, Angela. The author's take on the nihilistic side of humanity's dualistic nature reflects his disgust with the U.S. Senate's vote last week to declare that Iran was commiting "acts of war" against the U.S. He is deeply saddened by the grim situation we thinking people find ourselves in - increasingly managed by fools. He correctly points out that the Senate's unanimous declaraton, begun by Sen. Joe Lieberman (who else?), sets the stage for Shrub to begin a new war with a much more formidable nation than Iraq as soon as Cheney gives the go get 'em. This is why James Madison, our 4th president, put so much about checks and balances into the Constitution, so that a mongrel president acting out of malicious power-seeking would not be able to find excuses for perpetual war against not a country but against a type of person - a terrorist - eventually bringing his own country to its demise. (Think the U.S.S.R.) After the author of this fine article states what is being done TO us, he falls into a state of despair over not just the foolhardiness of both the Executive and Legislative branches of govt.. He finds that we, the people who are supposed to be worth fighting for, are too enthralled with our own demise and the blood and gore or war, to be motivated to stop the successive steps that will lead to more and more and more death.

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