Comments on: What Are We?

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:04:20 +0000

That post is excactly what I’ve been saying to pretty much everyone I know for quite a while…

By: David G

David G — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:57:10 +0000

Morris, thanks for your kind comment. Please join us again!

By: morris

morris — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:40:45 +0000

Superb essay!

And at our collective 11th hour.

Maybe the 11th hour will wake us up, like it has you...?

By: Adina

Adina — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:08:10 +0000

Your comment was not lost, it is there Grace.. the one regarding Rules Women. it is posted. I read it and fully agree with it. Cheers.

By: Grace

Grace — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:34:17 +0000

Am so bummed, i just wrote a big long post with without saving it and it disappeared when I clicked to post. Now I have to go. : (
Am enjoying getting caught up on the excellent post and comments.

Basically, re: Sarah Palin, that bullet we dodged! Either Repugs are trying to rewrite history by saying, ‘gee she’s not so bad, look we still like to listen to her and she loks vital and what not.’ Or, the other thing about her is what she represents. She is a “Rules girl” the popular dating manual for succesfully landing a husband. For example a rules girl never leaves the house without a full face of make up as in that is her “battle gear” why do we cling to Ms. Palin? She represents a patriarchal model for men and women to abide by. Ok so is patriarchy the problem? Thanks.

By: David G

David G — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:28:36 +0000

When we've been nobbled from the very beginning, Demon, it's hard to break that conditioning.

It's as though someone long ago realized that humans with questioning minds would be difficult to control so better to condition them not to think or to question.

We need a revolution that breaks the indoctrination, frees us to envision and create a better world for everyone, one that has better values than greed and materialism and elitism.

Cheers.

By: Demonstorm

Demonstorm — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:54:52 +0000

That was one of the very best essays I’ve read concerning the modern human condition. You stated quite bluntly – stripping away all the pretense and BS that we fill our heads with when we bother to think of such things – exactly what the human experience is really all about, and the conditioning we are all given to make us who we are.

Outstanding. Definitely makes you think about even the most basic, taken-for-granted parts of life and how one could possibly do better….

By: David G

David G — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 01:16:45 +0000

Taking a reality check is always confronting, Swan.

Sometimes the reality of what we are or, even more important, what we are not is frightening.

Then when you think about what we could be yet another dimension enters the equation.

Cheers.

By: swan

swan — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:36:53 +0000

You scare me, David. Seriously, I went to the convent in my early 20′s (kind of like hiding out) cloistered, and I understand why others spend time chanting in India or just traveling, to get beyond themselves. Reading your report above, was like taking a trip.