Monday, January 24, 2005
wedding, wedding, wedding
All is the wedding! And all is moving along ok. We have many questions yet to answer and things to do but we are moving along ok. We are still looking at wedding cakes or alternatives. And what about that Champagne Fountain? As in "Unbearable Lightness of Being"
Friday, January 21, 2005
non-partisan suffering
Democracy is a wonderful thing, we think. But do we really think and believe that? "Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried." -Winston Churchill.
Ah... to suffer about ones opinions and social, political wishes and values. That is what happens when ones viewpoints are in the minority. And that suffering is not made easier because you are not alone but you have the company of as many as 50% of the voters less one! The suffering is magnified and multiplied by being in the company of those others who have LOST!
But have you/they lost? Has the other side WON? Do the winners suffer, too, as they anguish over the possibility of becoming losers sometime in the future?
Democracy means, perhaps? most fundamentally - CHOICE. And choices change as time progresses. Perhaps a new context appears. Perhaps new feelings arise. Perhaps when young a person wants what an older person has but when the young become older then they are the elders who have earned what they have and want to keep it. Simple as that and more complicated, too.
BUT SO MUCH SUFFERING!!!
Why don't YOU (you) see ME (me)? Why don't YOU(me) see ME(you? There are KNOTS to untie and not until then can the straight and narrow be seen as the infinite continuuom life and reality it.
Pluralism is reality. There are groups and diversity and differences and conflicts and harmony AND at core there are certain things that are common to us all. What is the commonality? That is THE GREAT QUEST.
Ah... to suffer about ones opinions and social, political wishes and values. That is what happens when ones viewpoints are in the minority. And that suffering is not made easier because you are not alone but you have the company of as many as 50% of the voters less one! The suffering is magnified and multiplied by being in the company of those others who have LOST!
But have you/they lost? Has the other side WON? Do the winners suffer, too, as they anguish over the possibility of becoming losers sometime in the future?
Democracy means, perhaps? most fundamentally - CHOICE. And choices change as time progresses. Perhaps a new context appears. Perhaps new feelings arise. Perhaps when young a person wants what an older person has but when the young become older then they are the elders who have earned what they have and want to keep it. Simple as that and more complicated, too.
BUT SO MUCH SUFFERING!!!
Why don't YOU (you) see ME (me)? Why don't YOU(me) see ME(you? There are KNOTS to untie and not until then can the straight and narrow be seen as the infinite continuuom life and reality it.
Pluralism is reality. There are groups and diversity and differences and conflicts and harmony AND at core there are certain things that are common to us all. What is the commonality? That is THE GREAT QUEST.
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
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