[GJM] Discussion Digest, Vol 47, Issue 41

[Steve Consilvio]

Robert, aren't you in England?  Never underestimate dumbness in  
America. :-)

Seriously though, everyone is dumb, including myself.  If it were not  
for our mutual capacity to grow and learn, then there would be no  
point in communication at all.  Unfortunately, experience is the best  
teacher, not wisdom.  Wisdom is just a seed, it needs time to root  
and flower.  What once seems like a crazy idea (love your enemy,  
jubilee) does eventually make perfect sense.

Richard, why do you assume I wrote it? :-)
I did, just kidding.  You can republish this and anything I write  
without permission.
Thanks for the attaboy.

Don't underestimate how difficult it is for people to love their  
enemy and forgive debts, however.  To do so also requires recognizing  
ones own faults and forgiving themselves, too.  The mirror is a  
treacherous place.  Perhaps the most treacherous place of all.  The  
one thing that we have absolute control over is ourselves, and it is  
ourselves that is the most difficult to change.  By offering a  
political roadmap out of this quagmire, the underlying problem is  
still "spiritual self-esteem."  We are everything we hate in others,   
ergo, the love and forgiveness we offer is because we need it for  
ourselves, too.

Robert, what is "self-evident" is anything but.  That is also why the  
Declaration of Independence is such a farce.  It basically says that  
it is self-evident to hate the King, declare war, and kill people.   
With such a hypocritical beginning (and every nation begins the same  
way,) it takes many generations to filter out all the lies we learned  
from our forefathers.  The only way to change the world is to change  
ourselves, particularly in regard to the use of power and money.  A  
virtuous society can only be created by virtuous people, and the  
hypocrisy of the hypocrites is "self-evident" in our own mirror.   
When our own hypocrisy is "self-evident" to ourselves, that is when a  
big change for the better will occur.  History has many examples of  
this, too.

There is a reason why I have this graphic on my website:  http:// 
behappyandfree.com/templates/new_westminster/images/testmain_03.jpg

peace,
steve

On Aug 28, 2007, at 6:30 AM, discussion- 
request at globaljusticemovement.net wrote:

>            I do not think the American people are
> dumb. They already know the simple self-evident  truth
> that the illegal war in Iraq is another Vietnam.
> Trying to publicize the obvious is largely pointless.
> Even before the war was started many claimed it would
> be akin to Vietnam......
>
> R.Searle


> Steve can we have your permission to send this to our local
> newspapers, radio and tv stations, and all our local churches, and
> all our politicians, on your behalf?  -Richard Foley
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