Is it our "choice" to be equal?

[sweetheart]

Have we still choice to pursue happiness? Are we equal?
If it is based on merit, then what basis?

liberty and justice for all
liberty and justice for all
liberty and justice for all
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the cost of cold war brainwashing
is a new social contract
for "all" persons.

Are we free to choose, or has corporate life crowded out
silence, goodwill, nature and love?

[whistle]

1. What do you think....the power elite will give up their control and

....power just like that? For words that are written on a large piece of parchment preserved behind glass in Washington DC? As for "corporate life", the whole idea of the corporate life is based totally on the medieval monastic church commitment of the monks. Read and learn:

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Become a Better Communicator by Keeping your Mouth Shut
by Kenny Moore

As the sun warms my days, I find inspiration in the words of Robert Anton Wilson:

"You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of nearly omnipotent people, and you should think of those people as yourself and your friends."

In corporate life we are in serious danger of believing that those who talk the loudest win the day. My 20 years in business have taught me that leaders who can actually keep their mouths shut and ears open have a better chance of being heard, believed and followed.

Transplanting Monastic Practices
When I lived in the monastery as a Catholic priest, we had a spiritual practice called the "Grand Silence." Each evening after dinner and night prayer, we would retire to our cells under a cloak of silence that reigned until after Mass the following morning.

It was spiritual time spent reflecting on life, death and one’s relationship to the Divine. A chance to grapple with the dynamic tension between human frailty and the personal call to holiness. While religious reading was tolerated, we were encouraged to spend the time creatively doing nothing.

The Roman philosopher, Cato, once said: "Never am I more active than when I do nothing." Granted, he wasn’t a monk, but he was articulating one of life’s golden truths. In sacred silence, we have a chance to hear an alternative voice beyond our self-serving subconscious. There are certain messages that will only be revealed in darkness and uncluttered space. hose who have the fortitude and faith to wait there are often copiously rewarded.

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<link> http://www.itstime.com/jun2005.htm

[sweetheart]

2. time will consume them

It is not in glass, it is engraved in the hearts of all people.

[whistle]

3. Perhaps, but has time consumed the world's exploitative class

....so far?

I am near the twilight of my lifetime. Perhaps you are only beginning your adult life. But really, in the universal scheme of things how much time do any of us have here on this planet?

A life that lasts 85 years consists of 31,025 days. One must consider that the first 18 to 21 years are consumed in preparing one's self for life with the help of parents, relatives, guardians and mentors. Then given a reasonable degree of good health and good fortune for the remaining 64 years, on average about 45 of those years will be absorbed by ones work and career, perhaps finding a life partner, raising a family, cultivating friendships and relationships and preparing for ones retirement. That retirement hopefully will take up the remaining 15 or 20 years of ones life.

Counting on society's exploitative class to provide security and stability to all of it's citizens to realize the opportunities and goals I've listed above is at best delusional. Look what has happened in the last four and a half years under the most corrupt power elite this country has known in the last 75 years. If social and political change favorable to human rights and a fair society is to take place, it has to be fast, direct and deliberate. In my opinion it needs to take place now with assurances that what a renegade political party, the neo-conservatives, the corporate lobbyists, the shadow government, the extreme wealth interests and corrupt politicians can no longer take away basic freedoms, rights and entitlements that the people of the United States have worked for, paid for and earned.

John Roberts as a Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court would be yet another stone laid on the wall of creating two Americas in the 21st century, an America limited to privilege, wealth, power and exclusiveness and an America which has citizens and individuals shut out from the opportunities of the privileged classes.

Unfortunately, the Democratic party may not provide the political atmosphere at any time in the near future to brake away the barriers so that America remains a single society of equal opportunity either. That is the dilemma for the common folk of this country and those who remain in extreme poverty for whatever reasons have put them there.

[sweetheart]

5. How much time

I'm in the middle of that 85, and the whole thing's gone to pot, that
the only security i have is knowing it'll get nothing but worse in my
lifetime, the tragedy of opportunities missed, of goodwill squandered.

Time will kill us all indeed, and what we remember as great, the
potential renissance of the moon landings and the cold war's end,
have turned rather in to a cynical erosion that history will remember
it as an unmemorable whimpering collapse of an empire, and all the
while, the common person will suffer the greatest pain in this all,
as with all civil war.

Wasn't the issue of slavery, in all its guises abolished over a
century ago, yet in the acts of these malfesiant governors, people
are enslaved and reduced to mere subjects, tied servants and serfs.

How much time does it take to re-live every tragedy in history, and
to observe those critical moments that make things a tragedy out of
a comedy, like selection 2000, when the constitution became suspended
for a farce.

[Imagevision]

4. Equal? Right, everyday we awake and given 24 hours to spend whichever

way we can and/or are capable of...that's freedom in the USA, oh, and freedom at the 7-11 your right to choose...!