Dear Governor Schwarzenneger,

(From John Thomas “Kooz” Kuczmarski)

I’m a strong believer that the purpose of a city should serve Nature. Nature — wildlife, animals, we homo sapiens ARE Nature — should be the intention of anything municipal, or city-based. Therefore the idea of actually closing beaches, closing a way for humans to enjoy nature (the ocean and beaches) would be undermining the very purpose of a city.

Do you really think people will stand for not being able to access beaches? Have you any idea how ludicrous that sounds?

I think anyone who believes eliminating parks-nature-Beach funding for the purpose of redirecting those funds to something non-Nature-based needs to re-evaluate their mission, don’t you?

If the significance of Nature (the oxygen we breath from the botanical plants of parks) and the body of water that keeps us alive (planet earth ecologically could not survive if it were not for it being covered with over 70% water) is eclipsed, all is lost for EARTH and humans. This sounds extreme and that’s because it is. If anything, funding needs to be redirected to opening MORE beaches and parks to remind us homo sapiens that we are just highly-evolved primates, elements of nature and truly do deserve to connect with Nature readily and frequently.

I think one problem with American government is that it HAS too much funding!! IT has so much funding that it redirects it’s energies, finances, and time away from the absolute necessities (nature, oxygen, planetary perpetuation and survival).

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Obama is a story of a person inspiring and leading a disillusioned country. I’m adamantly a supporter of Obama.

Man he definitely has tremendous words of hope, unfathomably inspiring hope, but they aren’t hollow; you can tell what Obama says is authentic and originates from a source of true belief.

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The drug Ritalin has come under fire in the U.S. for a potential link to heart problems and deaths in children.

Health Canada issued a warning two years ago about rare heart-related risks for all attention deficit hyperactivity disorder drugs telling those with risk factors to avoid them.

Ritalin is commonly prescribed to children diagnosed with hyperactivity disorders and Tuesday the American Heart Association says before children get the drug they should get a thorough heart work-up including an electro-cardiogram.

In past nine years, as many as 30 child deaths have been linked to Ritalin and 2.5 million American kids take it.

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Subject: ADHD Study is Misleading, Charges Watchdog Group

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[Note: Read carefully, because this could be easily misinterpretted. I would never (and am not) endorse war. However, I do encourage action, and that's what this peace is about.]

Just some side notes I’ve taken regarding the 2008 elections.

I’m only interested in democrats this election. And of democrats. I’m only interested in Obama and Hillary.

Obama is BRILLIANT politician and having his political skills for the country would be terrific. There are two downsides that I’ve seen to him so far: family and drugs. A 60 minutes question revealed his use of “blow”, which is a pretty serious and unacceptable drug. The fact that he wrote about it and became clear with it makes this less of a concern, but still the exemplifies a poor choice. Secondly, one shot of him with his wife and kids in their kitchen looked awkward. Obama’s not a family guy; he’s a brilliant, smart, seemingly honesty and genuine politician, but he’s about those executive decisions, not family. But considering all his strengths in leadership and always saying things “the right way” and conveying appropriate good beliefs, those two drawbacks can be somewhat trivialized, a tiny bit.

Hillary is ALL about family . “It takes a village to raise a child”. In other words, she beautifully compliments Obama. Obama has the intelligent, keen, political mind, lacking close family values, and Hillary has that family awareness. Additionally, on a side note, Bill and Hillary Clinton, for some reason (demeanor, appearance, voice tone?), remind me of Larry and Kristina Diskin, and I know them well, so I feel like I know Hillary and feel affirmed that Obama has excellent leadership skills. I am indifferent to who’s elected where, but it just seems like an incomparably uplifting combo to have Hillary and Obama both in executive roles because of their complementary nature, their mutual intelligence, and their general good rapport with Americans.

When I read that great author Toni Morrison thought of Clinton as the “first black president”. My initial and only response was WHAT?!! What?!! I thought this was hilarious, but she supports her wild view: (more…)

In his famous book, “Future Shock”, Alvin Toffler wrote, “Society is a wave. The wave move onwards, but the water of which it is composed does not”. In other words society is warped; something about it isn’t natural, it isn’t right. Waves cross thousands of miles of open ocean fetch expanse, carrying water from storms on the other side of the globe. That’s what waves do; they carry water. The societal wave does not do that. It is a mutant “wave” of stagnant immobility. It’s a distorted entity that has forgotten its core roots. Society has forgotten it’s heritage.

Society is merely progeny of culture. Culture is infinite, while societal is constructed, man-made, materialized. In short, society is finite. When you think of society you think of restrictions and permissions of what you can do and what you can do based on the amount of prizes you’ve “earned”. Of course you don’t earn the prizes in any way different than a preschooler earns a gold star by coloring in the lines. Culture, carrying myths and stories and history from the end of time, is boundless. Society is a hierarchy with no personal history. Joe Schmoe and Abraham Lincoln carry as much importance in humanity in culture; for they are both humans that lived. In society, however, Joe Schmoe’s life — his challenges, accomplishments, trials and tribulations — go unacknowledged. Society, therefore, is the naive child of the grander scripture, culture. Society is various parts and linearly components that myopically function together. The stories, myths, traditions, and heritages compose parts integral to culture, but together, the cultural components create a gestalt. Society blandly constructs parts to complete a whole, while the infinite culture is the grand picture, synergistically larger than the original painting.

By the way, if these words irk you, dear reader, then read on, for these truisms exist for you. They exist not to rile your bile, but to stew you to eschew that vacant grasp on what many call “society”.

An essential component of of all societal citizens is to forget their culture ancestry. People living in society have abandoned their roots for the sake of finite prizes, titles, bureaucratic shenanigans. Society thrives under the veil of false necessity. Citizens become deluded into thinking they need society, when all they need, all their intrinsically interact with is culture. Society is the maya, the illusion, concealing the infinite boundaryless culture. Why has this sham perpetuated? Simple, society awards prizes (titles, honors, prestige, which lead to new finite game titles) to those who perpetuate the veil of society. We’re made to believe that the president of a corporation, or president of a country, or some grand Nobel award is something worthy of a life devotion. In reality, such belief — devoting your life to a relationship with society — is about as pragmatic trying to shake hands with a shadow; you’re left with nothing but emptiness.

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From Einstein’s Dreams. Interesting, the idyllic world of immediacy and the present moment with the past and future extracted out.

“Employees are not hired because of their resumes, but because of their good sense in interviews. Clerks trampled by their bosses fight back at each insult, with no fear for their future. It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning, each touch has no past or no future, each kiss is a kiss of immediacy.” (Lightman 32)

Lightman certainly paints a warm picture of a world with past and future “surgically removed” from space-time, but how could such a world go wry? Not in efforts to promote cynicism nor pessimism, but it only seems fair to consider the downsides of an “only present moment world”. What about unpleasant emotions. Would a minor “butterflies in the stomach” feel like overwhelming trepidation without knowledge that such nervousness will pass? Or would we, living only the present, never even experience doubt, fear, reluctance, or sadness in the first place?

Of course, this has a bit of a humorous tone to it, but wouldn’t it be incredibly nifty to have someone like William Wallace around? I mean, man, I could really use this face-painted, clamor-wielding kilt-wearing inspirational freak around when people try to steal, subdue, or bury my freedom. It would feel VERY useful to be able to give old’ Willy a call if, say, your boss made you work longer hours or you “had” to go to that wedding instead of having your time to do your thang. Motivational books, seminars, and reminders fall into one category, but I couldn’t imagine how different my life would be right now if I had a William Wallace character around reminding me to fight for freedom and the things that mattered, pushing yourself, your goal, your energy, and your outcome just a bit further to reap the rewards of success.

How hilariously nifty would that be to have access to some kind of 1-800-GOWILLY Hotline; dial and you here this Scottish voice on the other end telling you to fight for your freedom!

Somewhat in accordance fighting for freedom is examining illusion and reality…
So I’ve been watching entourage. I like that show. A lot. It makes me feel excited about being “part” (even though I’m just watchign it as some random viewer and would MUCH prefer to have more involvement) of something I like and for which I have an interest. The moves, the acting, the scripts, the whole production mechanism, directing, everything. but then I think, wait, I shouldn’t get swept up because it’s just an illusion, it doesn’t exist. True, it IS just an illusion, but taht illusion makes me excited and excitement is good. So the question remains, should we just ride the illusion? But believing only illusion results in insanity and psychosis. What if we could just get the benefits of excitement from illusion, while keeping this small psychological subconscious check on that excitement, knowing that it stems from illusion and is not reality, but always safely feeling that excitement. That’s the solution, keep that “subconscious asterix” next to those exciting illusions (so you don’t break off into psychosis), but then totally ride out and explore and feel out that illusion! It’s either that or saying “that’s not real” to ANYTHING that makes you feel excited and being “Mr. Reality Boy”, but having depression and no zeal in your life. Conclusively, everything commences as an illusion, you can say every dream, every idea — from Einstein’s relativity, to Edison’s lightbulb, to book ideas, to films all originate from “illusion”. Those illusions just mentioned all became reality. Those inventors, authors, or movie stars rode out that illusion and no one calls General Relativity, the lighbulb, or Braveheart “illusion” today. We fully accept those as reality, but they originated as illusion. Ride out the illusion, friend, to reach exceptionally clever and successful realities.

Although admittedly it was a bit of an intellectual jolt at times, I remember taking a “Religion and Politics” class in college and although the professor had a great and unique teaching style, and presented interesting content, I couldn’t stop from thinking, in hindsight, that the Religion and Politics class felt much more political than religious, even though it definitely provided some valuable insights. I, for example, had never really read anything by St. Thomas Aquinas prior to this class, so I learned a lot of new material, but the inextricably intertwined nature of some politics with some religions became apparent, even though that wasn’t a specific message of the class.

A baby-boomer friend with whom I’ve brainstormed a great deal, and I reflected that a “religion has a lot of politics in it”, and to get to the “real core of religion” you have to subscribe to the meditation, spirituality,and faith aspects to it. With the tenets, dogma, commandments, even “noble truths” of various world religions, just seem like formatting and compartmentalizing politics, which, of course, as a purpose, but that raw faith and inspiration often attributed to religion, seems to in reality derive from a very different source: passion, love, emotions, something more visceral, something less tangible, more alive, and less containable.

Apparently students are now being suspended and experiencing harsher punishments for improper paper-writing content, which is, of course, the classic American, idiotic attempt toward reform. This is what American’s do. They recognize a serious problem (like school shootings) and then, instead of observing, tapping into intention, listening into the feelings — the essence of the problem, the ailment that needs to be nurtured — they start punishing and prohibiting. Punishments and prohibitions dangerously glaze over a problem like school shootings, temporarily embalming it, only to have it resurrect itself with an even more uncontrollable ferocity. Are the people on school boards really this ignorant, naïve, and bloody stupid?! Do they really think that prohibiting a certain type of paper writing is an attempt towards a solution? This is a “sham resolution” – an attempt to remedy that APPEARS like a lot of action, but is actually all show. It’s useless, and it’s beyond infuriating and downright funny that they actually think they’re alleviating it.

If you read THIS, you’ll get some great insight into the origins of violence, and THIS paper offers another great insight.

After you read those quality pieces, you’ll quickly be able to assess that violence is schools is caused by improper upbringing, violence in the media and video games, and peer pressure for a reputation. Conclusively, the last thing you do is start scolding and slapping wrists (which is the first thing that American bureaucracy began doing) and you commence healing the home front, ensure family’s don’t infuse violence, change the exposure to violence in the media, and address social image concerns. ACTING like they have a solution, and knowing they really don’t is one thing, but the fact that bureaucracies may actually think that they’re solving a problem by actually altering paper writing topic structure is actually an asinine procedure quite typical of most bureaucracies.

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What to say? What not to say? How can you address the three elements of grieving in regards to the Virgia Tech Shootings:

1. Past — Why did it happen? Why did Virigina Tech wait 2 hours before sending out an all-school email alert, and three hours before cancelling classes and taking drastic alert meaures? What compelled the shooter to act? Is it SES differences? Is it balancing out the academcic social scene or nurturing the emotional construct?
2. Present — What stage of grief is everyone at? How can we most effectively be not owned by, but manage our emotions effectively. Do we talk about suffering or perseverence and learning? How can we not talk about vengeane and talk about healing? Do we draw our attention elsewhere? How can we reach out to friends, family, those closer to the calamity?
3. Future — How can we What can we change to prevent this? How can we present non-violent forms of communication in additon to (of course) than reading my book, “Our Compassionate Reservoirs“? How can we focus not on what we want to expel, but what we want to include?

There’s still an opposition ruckus in Zimbabwe, Kiwis can keep their cool even in shaky territory or fast floods, ancient religions still face opposition, and psychotic authors fictionally write about and act out murder.

Zimbabwe government and Robert Mugabe has gotten so intense that they are fracturing the skulls of leading Opposition members, preventing them from leaving the country, near Harare airport. Some radicals, expressing the dire nature of the situation, agree that Britain has more grounds to invade Zimbabwe than it did Iraq. These climactic protests could foreshadow a resolving period marking the end of Mugabe’s dictatorship.

Seismic technology reaches new heights, as New Zealand volcanic river eruption is predicted and local citizens from nearby towns were evacuated to safety.

Despite their ancient pre-Christianity roots, Savior Mandayans are persecuted by Islamic extremists, fearing their religion may become extinct. Islamic extremists throw acid in the eyes of these refugees and make them jump over bonfires.

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Great Things About George W. Bush

• He’s our 43^rd President;

• Respect what we’ve got
• He is a symbol of continual, unabating order and peace and the pursuit of happiness

• Our nation stands for order, peace, and happiness and represents that.
• Shows continuity in American government for 217 since April 30, 1789.

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Why Religion needs to Serve our Spirituality

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A part of me feels that religion is simply clinging to a belief that is unproven and lacking scientific data, but does that make religion false? No! We ARE spiritual beings having a human experience. But the exclusion of religion produces tremendous war, agony, pain and suffering, so this myopic outlook of only ONE doctrine to access spirituality has got to stop. “There is only one religion, but there exist a hundred versions of it”, says Aldous Huxley, one of the great, brilliant literary genius’s of the 20^th century. We should not just heed but APPLY the words of that literary genius and recognize that all religious dogma, all consecrated scriptures, all the 10 commandments, 5 pillars, 3 Jewels lead upward to a single vicinity of veracity – the exhilaratingly confident location of the synergistic spirit.

What happens if we fail to see all religions as the same process leading to the same beautiful, enriched, congruent, synergistic place?

• Our humanity dies

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