Freedom Works — Rigid Control Doesn’t
October 31, 2007
I just came upon this excerpt on another blog. The author of that blog seemed to be getting it, and stated emphatically “force doesn’t work.” Um, yeah, bingo. But the irony is this person appeared to be quite devoted to religion — apparently oblivious to the fact that organized religion is one of the most controlling systems in our world, one of the most insidious in our lives.
So here’s the excerpt, on the issue of abortion and clear indication that allowing people their “god-given” right to freedom and not fearful control is what actually works. Go figure :)
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ROME, Oct. 11 — A comprehensive global study of abortion has concluded that abortion rates are similar in countries where it is legal and those where it is not, suggesting that outlawing the procedure does little to deter women seeking it. The data also suggested that the best way to reduce abortion rates was not to make abortion illegal but to make contraception more widely available, said Sharon Camp, chief executive of the Guttmacher InstituteIn Eastern Europe, where contraceptive choices have broadened since the fall of Communism, the study found that abortion rates have decreased by 50 percent, although they are still relatively high compared with those in Western Europe. “In the past we didn’t have this kind of data to draw on,” Ms. Camp said. “Contraception is often the missing element” where abortion rates are high, she said.
source: www.nytimes.com
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And because of all of our controlling systems (parents, schooling, church, governments), we feel powerless, suffocated — it’s slowly killing us. We are beings that were meant to be free, to govern our own lives without constant interference from others. It comes to mind how some animals will die in captivity, others will chew off their own foot to become free of their entrapment. “Give me liberty or give me death” says Patrick Henry. Life without freedom is intolerable, and the intrusions and control of the government in our lives now is unconscionable. We are no longer respected as “the People” and have clearly become the slaves. We aren’t respected for the power that all human beings have within them. We all balk at being controlled. Some much more strongly than others, but we all have that anti-control thing. It goes against our nature to be controlled. And yet in this mega-controlling society, we have all come to be very controlling people, many (many) “control freaks.”
And that makes sense, we have been controlled since birth, and there’s our training to control others. And this insatiable desire, seeming need, we have to control others is all rooted in fear, something we live and breathe to our great detriment.
But my original point here — freedom works, rigid control doesn’t. Why that hasn’t become abundantly obvious confounds me. Have our religion-based laws reduced the “crime,” has it gotten our world under control? How’s that “war on drugs” workin’ for us? How ’bout that prohibition thing? Have we dramatically put a cap on prostitution? Did our former abortion laws stop women from getting abortions? No, it just ensured the deaths or suffering of a lot of women. Again, human beings will not be successfully controlled — ever. Either freedom or death will come first. Even as the “sheeple” we have allowed ourselves to become, we are still very powerful beings, we will always push back (in one form or another) upon being pushed.
Dove
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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. Plato
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. Martin Luther King, Jr.
As long as I have any choice, I will stay only in a country where political liberty, toleration, and equality of all citizens before the law are the rule.
Albert Einstein
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
Abraham Lincoln
Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law,’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.
Thomas Jefferson
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
Malcolm X
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Einstein … We Don’t Die
September 23, 2007
Per Einstein, everything is energy. Energy cannot be destroyed. We are energy, we don’t die. We simply transform and become something else…just as we have slowly done throughout our lives as human beings. No? Are you still nursing at your mother’s breast? What happen to that baby? that child? that teenager? :)
It’s all a “dream” … one that we individually and collectively create.
Dove
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What is Energy
September 14th, 2006
When Albert Einstein published his theory of relativity in 1905 he shook the very foundations of science. It was in this publication that he explained what is energy. Without going into complex detail, and his theory of relativity is in fact so complex that most of the worlds top physicists still cannot fully grasp the implications of his theory today, whatAlbert Einstein essentially proved was everything is energy . Previously physicists believed that everything was made up of two separate elements, matter and energy. This, had it been true would mean that the human mind was separate from the human body. With his theory Einstein turned this idea of separateness on its head. E = mc2 in fact proved thateverything is energy and therefore there is no dualistic world, in fact everything in the universe was connected.
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Today scientists still cannot explain what is energy. Energy takes different forms of course but it is considered in terms of its vibration. Dense forms of energy like metal or stone vibrate at a very slow rate, where as gas or sunlight energy vibrate at a much faster rate. From our human perception, things appear to be solid and separate from one another. However at the subatomic level seeminglysolid matter is actually electrons spinning in a circular fashion around the nucleus of the atom and beyond the subatomic level we find elementary particles which scientists have proven to have a dual nature. They sometimes act as tiny particles of matter and sometimes they behave as awave of pure energy. Fully trying to comprehend the concept of energy is indeed complicated to say the least.
Albert Einstein in his studies to comprehend what is energy also insisted energy cannot be created or destroyed it can only be changed or mutated from one form to another. A simple example on an energy cycle is when the sun sends rays of sunshine energy to the earth, the sun and the rain cause the plants to grow, the animals eat the plants which in turn provide energy for the animals, the food passes through the animals and comes out as waste which acts as a fertilizer for the plants which continue to grow, the animals breed and eventually they die and their bodies decay and go back into the earth which continues to sprout new life and the cycle is endless. Everything is constantly changing, moving and transforming from one form of energy to another but the amount of energy always remains the same.What is energy? Everything is energy.
As scientific studies progress we get closer to an understanding what is energy. What science has ultimately discovered is that the universe consists of something beyond the realm of matter and that something is therealm of pure energy. Quantum physicists with the use of highly advanced equipment known as particle accelerators have performed documented experiments which have revealed subatomic particles sometimes appear out of thin air. These new particles appear to divide and then collide with one another and then disappear. This, scientists believe proves that there is auniverse of pure energy beyond our material universe. Some say this universe of pure energy produces the universe of matter that we perceive as human beings.
Due to our physical senses most of us still perceive the world as dualistic, that being matter and energy as two separate entities. This is, and science has now proven it, an incorrect perception of what is energy and therefore what is reality. By clinging to this inaccurate view of the world we limit ourselves in experiencing the full scope of our consciousness. With the knowledge we have learned from thesebreakthroughs in science we need to let go of these outdated perceptions of reality and understand that there is no such thing as matter, there is only forms of energy vibrating at different rates. Some vibrating so slowly they appear to be matter but understand the matter you appear to see is only an illusion created byswirling masses of energy. Know that matter is a concept created by the human mind but it is not an actual substance.
If you can get your mind around this concept you may get an insight into what is energy. Understanding that nothing is matter, not even your body, it is easy to understand that your feelings and emotions are not matter but very fast vibrating forms of energy. These feelings and emotions are elements which are a part of your consciousness. An easy way to bring in this new concept of everything is energy into your life is to imagine that everything around you is made up of vibrating energy, even though you can’t see that it is vibrating. Try to imagine it as tiny microscopic particles vibrating together to make up objects of different shapes and sizes all around you.
At this point you may be asking yourself how this article on energy has anything to do with personal development. Well now let me get to the good part. By accepting that everything is energy including your body and your thoughts you are taking a step closer to being able to take control of every aspect of your life.
You may have once believed that your brain was responsible for creating your thoughts but now if you accept that everything is energy you will understand that your brain is not some material that produces thoughts because your brain is not made of matter, it is made of the same thing as everything else, energy, and energy as we have learned from Einstein cannot be created. Although your brain’s electrical and chemical processes do affect your thoughts, scientific experiments have proven this, your thoughts come from your consciousness which is another form of energy and that consciousness has existed in some form or another since the beginning of the universe.
Albert Einstein said “reality is merely an illusion.” What reality is, is a projection of your thoughts or the things you habitually think about. Your entire life and everything in it is a result of your belief system coupled with your thoughts. The feelings and emotions you have cement this in your mind and the illusion of all of this combined is what you see as your reality on a moment to moment and day to day basis. Sowhat is energy on the human level? The bottom line and the most important thing in life we must understand is belief is everything. The law of belief is the law of life. Change your belief and change your life.
