Sending things to Haiti shows your depth of character, Grace. You are well named.

Also, read some very interesting Aldous Huxley on human nature, The Ultimate Revolution. Unfortunately, I found it at ICH! But interesting reading, nevertheless.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24712.htm

Personally, I waver between outrage and just wishing the bad would go away – while I take steps to move my life in a better direction, That is the best I can describe it. I wish I genuinely felt more hopeful, but I want to feel positive and enjoy this gift of life.

P.S. I just cleaned out my house and gave more than ten large boxes and bags of clothing, medicine, blankets to be delivered to Haiti. These things will be brought directly, by a parent at my son’s school ,who has family in Haiti – so I know those things will go directly to those that can really use them.

It feels good to let go. It is like losing psychic weight and the spirit becomes lighter and Richer!. That is the best I can describe it. I mean, we will have to let go, one day, in death. I will tell you a secret to why my realationships are strong. Because I have to be willing to walk away at any given moment. Not hastily or spitefully, but in the sense of preservation of what is right and true. When I had to walk away from my family and be all alone in the world, I found out that some people will abuse that knowledge and think they have me prisoner – because I have nowhere to go. I am only a willing prisoner of love and life, not one kept by violence to the soul. To trust that I won’t fall off the edge of the Earth if I venture beyond the horizon. That is the faith I have chosen to live by.
Thanks David for giving me a place, where I am not a total stranger, to vent and process the stuff of a planet and a life.
Peace all.

The situation in Israel is one where the general masses are victims of psychopathic leaders. it creates a cult situation. One described well in the above link.

Thanks for the links.

I agree that it is a difficult task to clear peoples’ minds of indoctrination. But I don’t believe it is impossible. Children are born with an innate curiousity and that trait must lie dormant somewhere inside each adult. To start the process going, all that needs to be done is to shatter a few of the major indoctrinations that people hold: that some God exists or that our nation was born to rule the world. Once that process begins and people begin to think for themselves, anything is possible.

Your five year plan sounds marvellous. When I complete my Degree I did some education courses and looked at various educators who have tried different ways to educate rather than indoctrinate. I wish you well in your endeavour but, if you haven’t done so, do some homework. Reinventing the wheel is rather futile!

A rain forest of critical thinkers! If only.

Cheers.

Here’s an excellent link concerning the topic:

http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/05/beware-the-psychopath-my-son/

It will be a very difficult task indeed to “clear peoples’ minds of the mountains of indoctrination,” if not impossible. The window of opportunity for them to have developed the capacity for such clearing has long since passed for most. We can, however, inculcate an environment where the developing minds of children can be free to engage in critical thought, analysis and inquiry….it’s natural state, if you will. My wife and I are embarking on a five year plan to do just that. Our plan is to open our own school with an environment that facilitates the refinement of the natural skill of critical thought. Metaphorically speaking, we are taking seeds and allowing them to become saplings in the hope that they will do the same until we have a rain forest of critical thinkers in all walks of life who, collectively, can change the course. It will take time, and may not be in time, but at least we are doing something positive….rather than further facilitating the Corporatist Model.

For some, it is genetic. For some, it springs from indoctrination. For many it’s both. Certainly the major system in the world, ie capitalism, needs to be changed, by revolution if necessary.

Then we need to clear peoples’ minds of the mountains of indoctrination and encourage them to think.

Thinking people would select a peaceful world, one that is in harmony with nature.

Please understand, I am no apologist for Zionism or the state of Israel. Quite the contrary, I feel what the Zionists/State of Israel are doing to the Palestinians to be deplorable and atrocious. I also feel that what is being done to people of the Congo, and the people of Africa by the psychopathic global ruling elite to be equally deplorable and atrocious….and those powerful ruling elite are not dominated by Jews/Zionists, nor heavily influenced by Zionist ideology. They are driven by pure, unadulterated greed and power and if Zionism helps them attain and exercise that penchant, then they will use Zionism to that end, but Zionism is only one means of many in brutalizing and subjugating their perceived lessers.

Being human is problematic!