Fighting
If time is money, then time spent fighting is like paying to be in a cage match. What's the point? And I don't mean just fighting with our families or the people we work with or the people who drive other cars, but time spent fighting, for instance, disease, or crime, or people we're protecting from their fearsome rulers.
When we fight disease, we contribute to it's energy on a very real level. Stress takes a toll on the immune system, where calm and understanding boost it's efficiency. If instead of acting out of fear when disease is present in our lives we stop and find a way to understand it's presence - not find a place to put blame, but just look at our lives in the moment and see where we hurt and what makes us angry or frustrated - we can begin to address the source of the discomfort. Spiritual wounds, energetic wounds, manifest in the physical and the physical world feeds back into the spirit. If we are ill now (no matter how we got that way) it will create that spiritual wound, which comes back to the stress and lowered immunity. It doesn't matter what route we take to health, but it's the health upon which we need to focus in order to remember what it feels like. Remembering what health feels like gets us in a habit of feeling healthy, so the aches and pains of daily life go largely unnoticed and real physical injury or states of ill health are more easily unraveled and rooted out. The goal of not fighting is also not to ignore illness, but to address it from the same rational space as we go about the rest of our lives allowing us to see it for what it is and know the best way to address it or have it addressed. This allows us to use doctors more effectively, helps them tailor a treatment program for us if medicine is what we need, and allows the whole process to progress more smoothly, thus lowering stress.
When we fight crime we lose perspective. Crime, like disease, is a part of life. It cannot be eliminated and should not be or we would become complacent, forget to be cautious and aware. Fighting it is a waste of time, and time is money. It should be understood (not like, "Oh, poor thing had a hard childhood," but like, "Hm, this was a crime of passion committed in the heat of the moment, that was premeditated, and the other was the result of insanity") and kept in check. It is for the good of society to rout out those who would tear at it's fabric. It serves no one to tear at that fabric for the 'good of the people' or the 'public safety'. Fighting does the latter. The former must be done with care and precision, surgically, which is the face war will take in a peaceful world. We will possess the tools, intelligence, and wisdom to strike at the heart and head of any criminal operation, disable that criminal body, and leave no collateral or civilian damage. Our armed forces will be much smaller, perhaps largely robotic, and while some will inevitably go rogue they will be dispatched with as much skill and as little fanfare as any other rotten egg. To this end, if we feel the deed must be done by human hands (and it's possible that needs to be the case), we keep a penal colony, perhaps on the Moon or Mars, perhaps on old oil rigs for ease of access, and those who are relegated to it are used in the manner most appropriate to them (killers kill, anyone incarcerated with them who commit more heinous if less deadly crimes like rape or pedophilia will not last long in their presence without the supervision of guards and wardens, theives steal, and on occasion a thing must be stolen, even if it's only another person's thoughts, in order to have the intelligence one needs to keep that peace). Those who are unusable, if they can live with their fellow sociopaths, are never brought out of the colony, they'd be the ones to go to the farthest reaches. Fighting crime has brought us nothing but death, war, and corruption, the things most vile about the criminal world.
Iraq... Saddam may have been a low human, I didn't know him, but I know that soldiers have been told that they were safer and happier under Saddam than at any time since the US 'rescued' them and we started killing them and destroying their homes and livelihoods, often even their families. We've put our soldiers in a position to have to defend what cannot be defended, so many will cite the unconscionable acts of the 'enemy' as reason to do what we've done, and I am compelled to respond by asking, "What creates such desperation?" How many of us would die for our God, if we have one? What does it take? We had an opportunity just before the first undeclared war on Iraq to strike at Saddam and his top advisors in a bunker the location of which we knew and the capacity we had of taking out. Why didn't we? Because we needed shock and awe. In order for the world to change, for the 'free' American people to accept a new world order in which we are not supreme, but one vital part of a functioning global society, we had to be humbled. We rose up in our arrogance when al Qaeda made a tortured move to tell us we must get out of Afghanistan and roared with our cheerleading President, "FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!" and fight we are. And we're finally getting sick of it. War must end, and since the next one will likely kill too many for the cost to be counted it needs to end here and now. The only way that can happen is if we realize that our leadership of the world must come from love and empathy, brute force just makes us bullies. We must be part of a global society, which in no way means giving up our place or our identity. It means giving up our superiority complex and seeing in the myriad of people and cultures around the world anything positive we can find while doing our best to let the negative go without lying down and exposing our bellies in situations where to do so would be foolish.
So... fighting. I don't see the point. Love you all.
When we fight disease, we contribute to it's energy on a very real level. Stress takes a toll on the immune system, where calm and understanding boost it's efficiency. If instead of acting out of fear when disease is present in our lives we stop and find a way to understand it's presence - not find a place to put blame, but just look at our lives in the moment and see where we hurt and what makes us angry or frustrated - we can begin to address the source of the discomfort. Spiritual wounds, energetic wounds, manifest in the physical and the physical world feeds back into the spirit. If we are ill now (no matter how we got that way) it will create that spiritual wound, which comes back to the stress and lowered immunity. It doesn't matter what route we take to health, but it's the health upon which we need to focus in order to remember what it feels like. Remembering what health feels like gets us in a habit of feeling healthy, so the aches and pains of daily life go largely unnoticed and real physical injury or states of ill health are more easily unraveled and rooted out. The goal of not fighting is also not to ignore illness, but to address it from the same rational space as we go about the rest of our lives allowing us to see it for what it is and know the best way to address it or have it addressed. This allows us to use doctors more effectively, helps them tailor a treatment program for us if medicine is what we need, and allows the whole process to progress more smoothly, thus lowering stress.
When we fight crime we lose perspective. Crime, like disease, is a part of life. It cannot be eliminated and should not be or we would become complacent, forget to be cautious and aware. Fighting it is a waste of time, and time is money. It should be understood (not like, "Oh, poor thing had a hard childhood," but like, "Hm, this was a crime of passion committed in the heat of the moment, that was premeditated, and the other was the result of insanity") and kept in check. It is for the good of society to rout out those who would tear at it's fabric. It serves no one to tear at that fabric for the 'good of the people' or the 'public safety'. Fighting does the latter. The former must be done with care and precision, surgically, which is the face war will take in a peaceful world. We will possess the tools, intelligence, and wisdom to strike at the heart and head of any criminal operation, disable that criminal body, and leave no collateral or civilian damage. Our armed forces will be much smaller, perhaps largely robotic, and while some will inevitably go rogue they will be dispatched with as much skill and as little fanfare as any other rotten egg. To this end, if we feel the deed must be done by human hands (and it's possible that needs to be the case), we keep a penal colony, perhaps on the Moon or Mars, perhaps on old oil rigs for ease of access, and those who are relegated to it are used in the manner most appropriate to them (killers kill, anyone incarcerated with them who commit more heinous if less deadly crimes like rape or pedophilia will not last long in their presence without the supervision of guards and wardens, theives steal, and on occasion a thing must be stolen, even if it's only another person's thoughts, in order to have the intelligence one needs to keep that peace). Those who are unusable, if they can live with their fellow sociopaths, are never brought out of the colony, they'd be the ones to go to the farthest reaches. Fighting crime has brought us nothing but death, war, and corruption, the things most vile about the criminal world.
Iraq... Saddam may have been a low human, I didn't know him, but I know that soldiers have been told that they were safer and happier under Saddam than at any time since the US 'rescued' them and we started killing them and destroying their homes and livelihoods, often even their families. We've put our soldiers in a position to have to defend what cannot be defended, so many will cite the unconscionable acts of the 'enemy' as reason to do what we've done, and I am compelled to respond by asking, "What creates such desperation?" How many of us would die for our God, if we have one? What does it take? We had an opportunity just before the first undeclared war on Iraq to strike at Saddam and his top advisors in a bunker the location of which we knew and the capacity we had of taking out. Why didn't we? Because we needed shock and awe. In order for the world to change, for the 'free' American people to accept a new world order in which we are not supreme, but one vital part of a functioning global society, we had to be humbled. We rose up in our arrogance when al Qaeda made a tortured move to tell us we must get out of Afghanistan and roared with our cheerleading President, "FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!" and fight we are. And we're finally getting sick of it. War must end, and since the next one will likely kill too many for the cost to be counted it needs to end here and now. The only way that can happen is if we realize that our leadership of the world must come from love and empathy, brute force just makes us bullies. We must be part of a global society, which in no way means giving up our place or our identity. It means giving up our superiority complex and seeing in the myriad of people and cultures around the world anything positive we can find while doing our best to let the negative go without lying down and exposing our bellies in situations where to do so would be foolish.
So... fighting. I don't see the point. Love you all.
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