What a week.
A highlight is now having a skip load of rubbish from a clean out
ready to be collected. It is good to do things like that (after five years here for me and nine for my partner, and the moving
out of her children, we were well and truly ready for that:), and some of
the stuff I am getting rid of will assist me in moving on from some past
periods of my life, as well as just enabling a clearing of stagnant energy.
A low point is someone who I have the misfortune to work with
complaining that another culture lives differently during one of THEIR
religious periods. Still, in the course of communicating to our HR department
about that, I came across this
excellent site. The truly staggering thing about having to sit near
that person is that it came about as a result of a rearrangement of the office
during which a former manager of mine thought that we would all get along
swimmingly. Maybe he thought that being in the same sort of (advanced) age group would somehow outweigh the arguments I had
heard that person and I having over various topics, but more likely, he just
either wasn’t observant or didn’t actually think correctly about the situation.
He had thought, that’s true enough, but he hadn’t thought CORRECTLY: he
had thought the matter through solely from the point of view of what was
important to himself, rather than, as the old saying goes, putting himself in
another’s shoes.
That sort of sloppy, lazy or ineffectual thinking underlies MANY of the problems of the Western/industrialised
world. I’ve been watching the excellent (well,
the first episode was … After loading skips I have to watch the second on catch up TV …
) series “The
Men Who Make Us Spend” (see here
also for another review of it; I can’t find any useful link on the BBC, which
originally screened it – apparently they don’t make their programmes available
to anyone else in the world), and reflecting on the fact that one of the
reasons Australia has such generally poor politicians is because voters fail to
think properly and effectively about many issues. (It's also why a lot of people foolishly put personal convenience ahead of internet safety, and expediency ahead of 'right living' ... )
As an example of that last point, ever since the evil John Howard,
Australia’s Governments have been exploiting the politics of fear to get
support for their policies of abusing the victims of war and persecution who
had been seeking a better future for their kids by becoming refugees. Australia
now, in my opinion, is nearly as guilty as the original nations these people
are fleeing in terms of human rights abuses. The response they’ve introduced in
the last couple of years that this is allegedly about safety, introduced, in my
opinion, in response to criticism, is utterly nonsensical.
Their actions are akin to addressing safety problems in the workplace
by preventing workers going to work.
Their actions are, in my opinion, in breach of international Law –
including things like SOLAS (Safety of Life at Sea [2]
), and have been ever since the Tampa affair.
This disrespect for international Law continues under Tony Abbott, with
breaches
of Indonesia’s sovereignty.
Now, most activists approach this issue on the basis of compassion for
refugees, and target politicians. That is admirable, but I don’t think entirely
effective, as the people who REALLY have to change on this is the voters who
put those politicians in. When activists can go into blue collar areas, such as
The Pines, where I used to live, and have arguments about employment and
sovereignty THAT EFFECTIVELY ADDRESS THESE ISSUES FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THOSE OTHER PEOPLE, then we will
be able to start making Australia a genuinely better place to live.
Of course, activists don’t have the resources to do that, so we’re back
to politicians, or perhaps the media, but:
(a) politicians are seeking to immorally constrain the media (see here),
and
(b) some sections of the media pander to the lowest common
denominator (see, for instance, here, here
and here).
Ultimately, the solution is to teach kids to think properly, which is
why I am such a fan of Brendan Myers’ “Clear
and Present Thinking”.
What is it going to take to have that introduced? And how long will
that take?
I don’t know, so in the meantime, I will keep working on, as the saying
in my signature bloc says, having the world of business and commerce remember
that it is a SERVANT of the
community, not a dictator of what society should be.
Now let’s turn to the topic of peace, and tonight’s meditation.
I mentioned sending energy to sections of Africa in recent posts. Well,
there’s been a plane crash there this week. I could say that the energy didn’t
work (possibly because the quantity or quality of energy was inadequate), or …
it could be that the energy has helped people transition, or has and will help
with the response.
Most times I do this nothing happens that I know of, and I simply have
to persist, trusting that the direction to do so has made some sort of appreciable
difference – hopefully preventative.
An on prevention, this
article gives some useful information about the value of prevention in
terms of world disasters. On the other hand, this
article by an excellent media person who I respect, points out the limits
many people feel on empathy.
I’m not going to recommend any specific topics or matters to consider
tonight, other than to point out that there has been a focus on MH17 in Western
media to the exclusion of other problems, including the two other plane crashes,
one into another war zone, the other into a suburb.
The rest of the world still bleeds – not just the Middle East, where
there has been an escalation of violence, but many other places as well. The Ebola outbreak in West Africa continues,
famine is imminent in South Sudan, and so on.
On other matters,
I think this
post was a clumsily written (the word
‘pathology’ in the heading is inflammatory), and missed the issues of
unearned advantage (‘privilege’) and
social power, but has a point that is worth thinking about. I gained most food
for thought from the comments. The original person tarred all Pagans with the
same brush, and failed to acknowledge those neochristians who also seek
attention. In terms of the response, it reminds me a situation around a
gathering some years ago where I wanted to provide education about an excluded
group, and was overtaken by someone taking legal action. Education is fine if
you have the time and energy, but many people get tired and worn out, and may
find others are slow to pick up the burden.
There was a
suggestion by someone this week that workers do three 11-hour days, and then
have a four day weekend.
What a load
of rot. This was clearly developed by someone who doesn’t have kids or
housework to contend with, and no interest in stress management or
spirituality.Possibly the suggestion was as a result of psychic influence by entities wanting to increase control over people ... On that, I watched a TV show about Robert F Kennedy this week, and the vagueness of RFK's assassin could be viewed as:
- attempting to deny what one had done, a little like a guilty toddler may deny something with a view to making a parent believe they didn't do it;
- a legal ploy to avoid the death sentence;
- the result of hypnotic conditioning, the line taken by the programme, or
- possession * .
I'm not going to bother to ask my Patron Deities/Higher Self/BPLF Guides which it was: there are more important matters to attend to.
As a final point, here
is a wonderful story about getting kids to connect with Nature.
[2]
Please see here and my post "The
Death of Wikipedia" for the
reasons I now recommend caution when using Wikipedia. I'm also exploring use of
h2g2, although that doesn't appear to be as
extensive (h2g2 is intended - rather
engagingly - to be the Earth edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to
the Galaxy").
Love, light, hugs and blessings
Gnwmythr,
Wéofodthegn
(pronounced "new-MYTH-ear"; ... aka Bellatrix
Lux? … Morinehtar?
… Would-be drýicgan
... )
My "blogiography" (list of all posts and guide as to how to best use this site) is here, and my glossary/index is here.
I started this blog to cover karmic regression-rescue (see here and here), and it grew ... See here for my group mind project, here and here for my "Pagans for Peace" project (and join me at 9 PM on Sunday, wherever you are, to meditate for peace), and here for my bindrune kit-bag. I also strongly recommend learning how to flame, ground and shield, do alternate nostril breathing, work with colour, and see also here and be flexible.
- One size does NOT fit all.
- Don't be mediocre - seek to excel.
- Gnwmythr's Stropping Strap: Occam's Razor only works if the simplest solution is actually recognised as being the simplest, rather than the one that best fits one's bigotries being labelled 'simplest'.
- Our entire life experience, with all the many wondrous and varied people, places and events in it, is too small a sample for statistical reliability about Life.
- May the world of commerce and business be recognised to be a servant, not a master, of the lives of people.
- Ban the dream interpretation industry!
- A home is for living in, not feeling, becoming or being rich or a “better” class than others.
- Being accustomed to interacting via certain rules makes those rules neither right nor universal.
- Like fire to the physical, emotions to the soul make a good servant, and a bad master.
- Expertise at intimacy and emotional happiness is generally not the same thing as spiritual growth.
- Any person, male or female, who has neither a serious health issue, dependents nor an agreement about study. yet expects their partner to work to support them, is, spiritually speaking, little more than a parasite.
- The means shape the end.
- BPLF restraint of uncooperatives is NOT an opportunity for revenge or getting even - even unconsciously.
- As words can kill, the right to freedom of speech comes with a DUTY to be as well-informed, objective and balanced as you can be.
- My favourite action movie of all time is "Gandhi", although I've recently come across "Invictus" and might put that one in to that category. However, I loathe the stereotypical action movie - and, for similar reasons, I loathe many dramas, which are often emotionally violent, more so in some cases than many war films.
- All of the above - and this blog - could be wrong, or subject to context, perspective, or state of spiritual evolution ...
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be
stronger [people].
John F. Kennedy (who was
quoting 19th Century Episcopal Bishop Phillips Brooks)
Jesus loves you. Odin wants you to grow up.
We make our decisions. And then our decisions turn around and make us.
F.W. Boreham
Females, get over 'cute'. Get competent. Get trained. Get capable. Get over 'cute'. And those of you who are called Patty and Debby and Suzy, get over that. Because we use those names to infantalise females – we keep females in their 'little girl' state by the names we use for them. Get over it. If you want to be taken seriously, get serious.
Jane Elliott
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good [people] to do nothing.
(based on
writing by) Edmund Burke
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
Albert Einstein
We didn't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we only borrowed it from our children
Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our gross national product ... if we should judge America by that -- counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. ... Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages; the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage; neither our wisdom nor our learning; neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country; it measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile."
Robert F. Kennedy 1968
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy
If we could change ourselves, the
tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so
does the attitude of the world change towards him. … We need not wait to see
what others do. (Often degraded to “Be
the change you want to see in the world” – see here)
Gandhi
Tags: about me, attitudes, control, discrimination, energy work, failure, fear, governance, meditation, possession, prevention, society, thinking,
First published: Sunnudagr, 27th July, 2014
Last edited (excluding fixing typo's and other minor matters): Sunday, 27th July, 2014
