http://www.djpauledge.com/wewillnotbesilenced/ (http://www.djpauledge.com/wewillnotbesilenced/)
whooot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :twisted:
That was intense. Who is the speaker, btw? I like his fire and his effort to take back the faith moniker from the religious war-mongers.
Back to reality...
I'm with you, cen. All the way. But I'm afraid it's going to take the rise of a third party candidate to make any real difference at this point in time. However, I imagine it has to get worse before enough folks take ot the street in opposition of the status quo.
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You could be right, my friend. Or something more fanciful like aliens invading, or a global epidemic that truly is global and an epidemic, and hits the rich white folks too.
I see it every day. People have forgotten they are one tribe, one species, that skin color and nation-states and languages don't mean squat but in local, changing ways, not universal to all times and places, and moreover that the planet is our home, not the house or town or country we allie to.
This morning I bus driver honked at me and yelled he'd run me down if I got in his way. I called the bus company, put in a complaint, but what I really wanted to do was ask him: were you ever taught that all people are your kin? That everything on earth is of value and deserves its place? That life can be better if we make it so?
Would I have sounded like a nut? A self-righteous asshole? Who knows...I just see it all the time, peace not war as a last option...communication reserved for if-all-else-fails, if one side doesn't back down, etc.
I don't know if the world can be saved, or what that would look like. Or if everyone would be saved, or would want to be. I don't expect heroes to appear from nowhere. I don't expect the laws of gravity or the jungle to go away.
But one has to live one way or another, and I think one should try to live as one believes life should be lived. I don't think many do. I think people live like someone is watching, some parent, some teacher, some cop. Some deity in the sky or elsewhere.
I don't know who the preacher was in that video, or the DJ who so slickly created the piece itself. It just hit me.
Hope is powerful, as is despair. I think all here have lived dominated by one or the other at different times. Loneliness is potent, as is a kind touch or word.
We can affect things, as individuals. Our decisions count, they sum us. Together we sum more than is easily comprehended.
It matters. It all matters. I choose to believe this.
I agree with you on most of the things you said, I feel the same way and I think you should have told the bus driver what you wanted to, as its one of the problems of our society, everyone wants to say things like that but we keep quiet because we think no one wants to listen.
Personally, since about 6 months ago, I've told every person I've met exactly how I feel and I've had a lot of heated arguments (with the heat on their side, I don't get angry much, its funny when people do) and you know what, yes its difficult to begin with to just express yourself, and it may have been awkward at the time to tell people what you thought, but in the end, after some time has passed you are pleased to know you did what you truly wanted.
I haven't been to this Forum properly for about a year, but many things have changed in my life since then. I'm going to be posting a lot of insightful videos I've found out on some things, hopefully I don't get flamed and sent back to hell whence I'd come... ^_^
Welcome back Vivid.... I certainly be interested in seeing some of those 'finds' of yours... Don't worry 'bout the flames.. We's usually a pretty agreeable conglomeration of folks here..........sal
Quote from: "cenacle"This morning I bus driver honked at me and yelled he'd run me down if I got in his way. I called the bus company, put in a complaint, but what I really wanted to do was ask him: were you ever taught that all people are your kin? That everything on earth is of value and deserves its place? That life can be better if we make it so?
Well you see, Seattle bus drivers are in fact the reconnaissance arm of a race of evil beings from the nearby Andromdea galaxy, the rest of whom will follow within a few hundred years to take over Earth.
Some of those Andomedians have slipped into Florida of late, as well..... There a menace I say. A menace------------ sal