All Discussions Tagged 'peace' - Architects of a New Dawn2024-03-28T14:50:09Zhttps://architectsofanewdawn.ning.com/group/art/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=peace&feed=yes&xn_auth=norandom thoughts on Freedomtag:architectsofanewdawn.ning.com,2010-03-21:2227378:Topic:1627572010-03-21T18:29:20.894ZNick Truskehttps://architectsofanewdawn.ning.com/profile/NickTruske
<p class="style33">Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom’s existence. Totalitarian societies seek to replace the many truths of freedom by the one truth of power, be it<br></br> secular or religious; to halt the motion of society, to snuff out its<br></br> spark. Unfreedom’s primary purpose is invariably to shackle the mind. <br></br> from “Step Across This Line” by Salmon Rushdie p. 215…</p>
<p class="style33">Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom’s existence. Totalitarian societies seek to replace the many truths of freedom by the one truth of power, be it<br/> secular or religious; to halt the motion of society, to snuff out its<br/> spark. Unfreedom’s primary purpose is invariably to shackle the mind. <br/> from “Step Across This Line” by Salmon Rushdie p. 215</p>
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“There is no vantage point from where real reality can<br/>
be seen. We are all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels . . . <br/>
every reality tunnel might tell us something interesting about our<br/>
world - if we are willing to listen.” Robert Anton Wilson explains Quantum <br/>
Physics <div>- Creativity needs passion, aliveness, energy. Creativity needs that you<br/> should remain a flow, an intense, passionate flow. – from Osho Book “The Search”</div>
<div><br/><p class="style27">"There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded and consistent defense of freedom unless that defense is rooted in moral principle." —Murray N. Rothbard</p>
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<p class="style42">Responsibility, not to a superior, but to one's conscience, the awareness of a duty not exacted by compulsion, the necessity to decide which of the things one values are to be sacrificed to others, and to bear the consequences of one's own decision, are the very essence of any morals which deserve the name.</p>
<p class="style42">— Friedrich A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom [1944]</p>
<br/><p class="style3"><span class="style61">“Freedom is the right to choose: . . .” — Archibald Macleish Quote</span></p>
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<p class="style3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204); font-family: Times; font-size: 24px;">“A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.”<br/>Jiddu Krishnamurti</span></p>
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<p class="style3"><span class="style61">". . . Of what avail the Plow or Sail ?</span></p>
<p class="style3"><span class="style61">Or Land Or Life ?</span></p>
<p class="style3"><span class="style61">If Freedom Fails?</span></p>
<p class="style3"><span class="style61">No One's Safe if Freedom Fails.</span></p>
<p class="style3"><span class="style61">The Best Men Rot in Filthy Jails."</span></p>
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<p class="style3"><span class="style61">"Even those who cried "Appease ! Appease ! <br/></span></p>
<p class="style3"><span class="style61">are hanged by those they tried to please."</span></p>
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<p class="style3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: 24px;">“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” <br/>Brian O’Leary</span></p>
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<p class="style30">“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated <br/> simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.” — Quote by: Charles Mingus</p>
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<br/><p class="style58">People with varied interests quickly discover the advantages of <br/> organizing themselves into groups to lobby the state for these<br/> apparent benefits. Ego-boundary identities have proven themselves an effective <br/> means of promoting collective ends. Race, religion, ideology, economic<br/> interests, ethnicity, lifestyle, age, nationality, provide just a <br/> handful of grounds upon which to organize mass movements. Those to be <br/> organized into such groupings, as well as those who control the <br/> machinery of the state, develop a symbiotic relationship in the <br/>
perpetuation of the political process.</p>
<p class="style58">Of course, in order to maintain the seeming effectiveness of such <br/> practices, it is essential that group identities be reinforced. The <br/> boundary lines that separate one group from another (e.g., “employees”<br/> and “employers,” “straights” and “gays,” “Hindus” and “Muslims,” and <br/> other “us” versus “them” categories), must be clearly delineated and <br/> rigorously defended. . . . . Political systems thrive on “crises,” for<br/> they are used to generate the fear that causes men and women to huddle<br/> at the feet of state authorities who – like the “big daddies” of our <br/> childhood – promise to protect us from perceived threats. Any crisis <br/>
will do, particularly those that can be seen by some groups as threats<br/>
arising from others . . . from Butler Shaffer: <br/>
<a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer189.html">http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer189.html</a></p>
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<p class="style58">“You will not have any doubt that psychological time is a mental disease <br/> if you look at its collective manifestations. They occur, for example,<br/> in the form of ideologies such as communism, national socialism or any<br/> nationalism, or rigid religious belief systems which operate under the<br/> implicit assumption that the highest good lies in the future and that <br/> therefore the end justifies the means.<br/> The end is an idea, a point in the mind projected future when<br/> salvation in whatever form; happiness, fulfillment, equality, liberation, and so<br/> on will be attained. Not infrequently, the means of getting there are <br/>
the enslavement, torture and murder of people in the present.<br/>
For example it is estimated that as many as fifty million people where<br/>
murdered to further the cause of communism — to bring about a better <br/>
world in Russia, China, and other countries. This is a chilling<br/>
example of how belief in a future heaven creates a present hell. Can there be <br/>
any doubt that psychological time is a serious and dangerous mental <br/>
illness ? How does this mind pattern operate in your life ?” . . . .</p>
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<p class="style17">. . . The pollution of the planet is only an outward reflection of an <br/> inner psychic pollution —millions of unconscious individuals not<br/> taking responsibility for their inner space . . .</p>
<p class="style17"><span class="style38">“In the normal mind identified, or unenlightened state of consciousness, <br/> the power and infinite creative potential that lie concealed in the<br/> now are completely obscured by psychological time. Your life then looses<br/> its vibrancy, its freshness, its sense of wonder” . . .<br/> from Eckhart Tolle in The Power of Now</span></p>
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<p class="style17"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 204); font-family: Times; font-size: 24px;">But there is that in us which doesn’t want to be free; which prefers discipline and acceptance and patriotic local tunes to the wild loose-haired love-music of the world. There is that in us which wishes simply to go along with the crowd, and to blame all naysayers and pelvis-wigglers for rocking our comfortable boat. “Don’t follow leaders,” Bob Dylan warned in “Subterranean Homesick Blues,” “Watch the parking meters.” Yet we continue to want to be led, to follow petty warlords and murderous ayatollahs and nationalist brutes, or to suck our thumbs and listen quiescently to nanny states that insist they know what’s best for us. So tyrants abound from Bombay to Mumbai, and even those of us who are notionally free peoples are no longer, for the most part, very rock ‘n’ roll.<br/>from “Step Across This Line” by Salmon Rushdie p. 271</span></p>
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<p class="style17"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#9900CC" face="Times, Arial, sans-serif" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;">Being free of Fear -</span></font></p>
<p class="style17"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#9900CC" face="Times, Arial, sans-serif" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204); font-family: Times;">“Fear does not come from the unknown. Fear comes from letting go of the known.”<br/>J. Krishnamurti - from “The Impossible Question”</span></span></font></p>
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<p class="style3">"The great theme of true individualism is that in the spontaneous collaboration of many free minds there is a mysterious creative power far greater than the power in any individual mind."</p>
<p class="style3">— Garet Garrett, American Affairs [1949]</p>
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<p class="style3">"The mystery is in you. You are the mystery. If you were not mysterious yourself - you cannot create that which is mysterious on paper or on canvas." - from N. Scott Momaday<br/><br/>So being mysterious - we create mystery, awe, . . . reverence for our amazing lives we experience thru the creations of our being human creative creatures . . . sharing lovely emotions, intuitions that speak mysteriously to us in many languages . . . we listen, feel . . . breath this mystery into our hearts . . .<br/></p>
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<p class="style66">my vision . . . i view people being able to freely & spontaneously share <br/> & exchange ideas, talents, in all sorts of overlapping, creative <br/> endeavors, feeling the wondrous deep joys of community & belonging.</p>
Knowing the security of family & friends in the real love connections <br/>
that true trust in oneself & others - - which is possible — now if<br/>
we live with & nurture our courageous integrities - - open to our<br/>
ethical, spiritual individual ahimsa striving consciousnesses - with true<br/>
respect for the lovely beingness of each of us — now in our precious<br/>
individual lives . . .<br/><br/><br/></div>