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Sunday,May 11 2008, 06:12:08 AMThe End of the World 'Guarantee'.
The End of the World 'Guarantee'
A parable is the only way to approach certain observations: This one deals with the birth of the final, catastrophic disaster that will end civilization as we know it.
When there were two people on the planet (Adam and Eve or George and Helen or Ug and Buggawug) they would argue and, because they had to, eventually comes to terms with the problems.
Then a third person arrived.
Now when the original two began to argue one or both would turn to the third person and say, "Do you understand what I am trying to say?" or "You agree with me, don't you?" or "Tell that person what you think."
Well, the third person had to invest time and energy into problem solving for the other two so, either because of their inherent generosity or the third person's growing knowledge that the use of his time and energy to help resolve their problems kept him from his regular root gathering chores, an agreement must have been reached: "You help us and we'll give you some roots" or "If I help you, you must give me some roots."
Either way our fate was sealed. With that exchange, "time and energy for roots", the first attorney was born and our doom guaranteed.
From that moment forward the third person would only get roots if the first two people were having problems; therefore, it was in the best interest of the third person to promote trouble. When there were too few hassles the third person might scribble a simple ad on the sand so that the first two would see it: "Anything at all that you don't like about your mate, about life, about eating or pooping or coughing or copulating, get in touch with me, The Arbitrator."
And from that moment forward we moved inexorably toward a divided, confused, complicated, horribly unjust world. Today, attorneys scoop billions of dollars from the top of piles of money to be used for the poorest of the poor, the sickest of the sick, the neediest of the needy...and right there, in the foreground, hands and arms deep in the pile of financial goodies are gangs of attorneys. They have always been the despised and ridiculed profession. They, too, laugh at the attorney jokes about attorneys being at the extreme bottom of the bottom cruising mud suckers. They have always been the personification of evil and greed but recently, with the worldwide problems they have helped to create, they have become, from a relatively obscure position, GIANTS of greed and corruption. Now they take billions and call it "just". How foul, how demonic, how lacking in character and fundamental morality. They should be killed, not rewarded for their slimy behavior.
Oh yes, I started out with an End of the World ‘Guarantee’: Because attorneys are now fundamentally woven into the fabric and to ‘unwind’ the attorneys would be to unwind the fabric only two possibilities exist; 1) The attorneys become ‘good guys’, realize the inherent evil, malicious, merciless nature of their craft and voluntarily ‘change their ways' or 2) They continue to greedily consume, with an every increasing appetite, the ‘wealth’ of the world until everything gets totally out of balance and, following the laws of physics, violate the angle of repose causing everything, everywhere to collapse. Since they don't have the moral character necessary to give up their inexorable consumption the angle of repose will be violated and that's it, Ladies and Gents. Sorry about the bad news. That leads to the next paragraph.
Attorneys are everyone's enemy and everyone else on the planet has the moral right to steal all their stuff and/or, if you want, kill and eat them.
Now that's morality!
Sunday,May 11 2008, 05:44:48 AMAre We "The Great Satan"?
Are We "The Great Satan"?
By Clifford Latta "Grey Wolf the Drum Maker"
08-26-07
When Muslims attempt to talk to Christians about God the Christian’s lack of understand of God is generally profound. After a few meaningless attempts at superficial religious understanding the Christians generally want to talk about mortgages, car payments, movies, clothes, how the kids are doing in secular school and other mundane, absolutely non-religious subjects. The Muslim, steeped in religiosity from very early childhood, can not understand how the worldly things, about which the Christian finds compelling enough to take the place of God, have become so important to us. All one has to do is actually watch the TV shows made for children for fifteen minutes, changing the channel so you take in a good part of that which is being poured through the TV into the heads of our children, and you, too, will want to ‘bring it all down’. We have become wicked in our ways. Islam teaches it’s children piety (a daily, movement by moment relationship with God...and even if the direction is, in some instances, obscene, it is still piety) and we teach our children perversion. The little girls on TV dress and act like little sexual tarts; the boys act like conceited jerks and the parents are generally morons. Our children get many hours of this evil, filthy, destructive behavior, as a role model, every day. Check out the names attached to the shows; read the credits; think about the people who are feeding our children this social and spiritual poison....I need not point more clearly at the culprits. They declare themselves.
If there is to be salvation from this tragedy called capitalism and TV it must come from within the ranks of those responsible. Watch the Disney Channel for it is a source of unabated filth in the guise of laughing and dancing and playing and having fun. It’s actually ALL sex and capitalism...trying to get their greedy hands into the pockets of the very youngest children while setting them up to be continuing consumers of junk products. Shame on you, you promoters of filth among our children...and us. We, the adults have our TV delivered to our front room in steaming piles of repugnant but entertaining garbage. We overlook the repugnant for the entertainment. We overlook God for Satan and Good for Evil. We have become the prideless products of our own corrupt, money grubbing system. If there is a solution, I don’t know what it is because greed now runs our world; millionaires willing to destroy the planet itself to become billionaires: Why? On a planet where our intellect now allows us to examine specific genes and search for the underlying particle that holds physical reality together and to land on and take photos of distant planets and moons...while, on this same planet children die of easily prevented diseases and pregnant women get hacked to death with machetes.
Corporate America (now Corporate World) is the enemy. They have lost their humanity and embraced unrestrained greed; they have relinquished any pretense of godliness in their life to glut in excess and to promote an obscene disregard for the well-being of their species.
I am 71 years old and not a religious person and I am without hope: Please, someone reassure me...make me believe, once more, in the future.