Pharmacratic Inquisition 2007
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ANTI-FLAG LYRICS
"Anatomy Of Your Enemy"
10 easy steps to create an enemy and start a war:
Listen closely because we will all see this weapon used in our lives.
It can be used on a society of the most ignorant to the most highly educated.
We need to see their tactics as a weapon against humanity and not as truth.
First step: create the enemy. Sometimes this will be done for you.
Second step: be sure the enemy you have chosen is nothing like you.
Find obvious differences like race, language, religion, dietary habits
fashion. Emphasize that their soldiers are not doing a job,
they are heartless murderers who enjoy killing!
Third step: Once these differences are established continue to reinforce them
with all disseminated information.
Fourth step: Have the media broadcast only the ruling party's information
this can be done through state run media.
Remember, in times of conflict all for-profit media repeats the ruling party's information.
Therefore all for-profit media becomes state-run.
Fifth step: show this enemy in actions that seem strange, militant, or different.
Always portray the enemy as non-human, evil, a killing machine.
THIS IS HOW TO CREATE AN ENEMY. THIS IS HOW TO START A WAR.
THIS IS HOW TO CREATE AN ENEMY.
Sixth step: Eliminate opposition to the ruling party.
Create an "Us versus Them" mentality. Leave no room for opinions in between.
One that does not support all actions of the ruling party should be considered a traitor.
Seventh step: Use nationalistic and/or religious symbols and rhetoric to define all actions.
This can be achieved by slogans such as "freedom loving people versus those who hate freedom."
This can also be achieved by the use of flags.
Eighth step: Align all actions with the dominant deity.
It is very effective to use terms like, "It is god's will" or "god bless our nation."
Ninth step: Design propaganda to show that your soldiers
have feelings, hopes, families, and loved ones.
Make it clear that your soldiers are doing a duty; they do not want or like to kill.
Tenth step: Create and atmosphere of fear, and instability
and then offer the ruling party as the only solutions to comfort the public's fears.
Remembering the fear of the unknown is always the strongest fear.
We are not countries. We are not nations. We are not religions.
We are not gods. We are not weapons. We are not ammunition. We are not killers.
We will NOT be tools.
Mother fuckers
I will not die
I will not kill
I will not be your slave
I will not fight your battle
I will not die on your battlefield
I will not fight for your wealth
I am not a fighter
I am a human being!!!
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Passive - A Perfect Circle -(Random Interpretation)-
Taken in the context of the album, the song is APC addressing America, in particular the "passive-aggressive" anti-Government types.
Given what Maynard said about every vote counting and those who don't vote are giving up control, I think this is about people who don't vote but dislike Bush, or those who didn't vote Bush, but don't actively protest against what they see as a horrible government. Indeed, it can be applied to anyone in general who sits at home grumbling about the Government but doesn't actively go out and change things, instead displaying passive-aggressive traits like stubbornness and deliberate inefficiency at work.
Lines like "Wake up" are encouraging the public to go out and do something to stop tyranny and the stripping of civil liberties that has occured in the past few years.
"Playing dead" and "cold and catatonic" describe the state of the people who are happy to trade in their freedoms for stricter controls every day, numbed by an a culture discouraging certain lines of thought.
The protagonist is saying that even though "the doctor" diagnoses the people as "dead as dead can be" (they will never choose to stand up for their rights, just act passive-aggressively), he will not give up hope - "ever the optimistic one".
His final thoughts though, are that perhaps he should walk away, perhaps those people who aren't willing to stand up for their own rights and the rights of others which the government are patently and flagrantly abusing, perhaps they don't deserve this.
Maybe the pressure groups and the protestors who moderate governments, stop them from doing too much to restrict liberty, stop them from being too destructive to the core fabric of society, should just "walk away", disappointed with society.
A Perfect Circle are saying that if people are apathetic toward the onset of tryranny, if they don't do enough to stop the control systems of Orwell, Bradbury and Huxley's nightmares from arising, them "maybe they're better off this way" - without freedom of speech, freedom of choice, freedom from random arrest and freedom from torture.
To me, this song is a development of the Benjamin Franklin quote
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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In A Perfect World
By John Kaminski
[email protected]
1-31-06
A good society is a means to a good life for those who compose it; not something having a kind of excellence on its own account.
— Bertrand Russell
In a perfect world, there would be no soldiers, no police, no crime, no hatred, no oil spills. A ritually stabilized world population, structured so each person connected with an actualized family unit, would have behaviorally internalized integrity and civility and this was reflected in friendly social behavior and totally amiable international relations.
In a perfect world people, would live closer to the land, leave a lighter footprint on the epidermis of the planet. One thinks of Indians, gliding across a world with a much lighter footfall, as a higher form of civilization — big-picture-wise — than our own.
One recent story postulated that the collective sound made by the human race — think of jet engines and nuclear tests, please — is having adisintegrating effect on the tectonic structure of the planet. Planetary harmonics would be a hot occupation in a perfect world.
One also thinks of ancient Greeks, who regarded the planet as a living organism — a “zoon†— to be thought of in the second person — as a “you†rather than an “it.†If you go back far enough in ancient history, you come to a time when speech and logic had no third person. The ability to conceptualize comes, as revealed in Homer, accompanied by rationalized hallucinations for that substantial part of human existence that cannot be named very accurately.
It was something called thumos that men felt upon going into the battle for Troy, an emotion something akin to heart, spirit, and soul, and it drove men to kill. In a perfect world this “thumos†would have been completely ritualized into games and nontoxic religious/philosophical practices.
Aggression, in a perfect world, would be unacceptable behavior, especially since a planetary legal network was in perfect working order, untainted by commercial corruption. In a perfect world the dilemma of aggression and sexuality would still not have been completely worked out.
In a perfect world, the unchallenged distortion now extant in society in the matter of self-advantage would have been unlearned and in its place, the maxim “you may not live this life for yourself†would have been imbued in public consciousness. Jesus and Sartre agreed on this one.
There would be no cops because everybody would be their own police chief, with a responsibility for oneself that does not reflect true responsibility until it demonstrably and positively affects someone else, on a continuing basis. Heck, who’d have time for crime.
There would be no war because everybody would have enough to eat, the world government saw to it. Those xenophobes who saw world government as a threat to their own selfish aggrandizement were laughed into babbling anonymity long ago.
In a perfect world, would be crystal clear that all humans are one family, no matter what the color of their skin, the cut of their hair, or the name of the God they pray to.
Ah, but in a perfect world, the name of the Gods they prayed to would all be understood as synonyms. Not only that, but in a perfect world, God would have regained her female element, so that respect for this lush, bounteous cushion upon which we live would have overshdowed the fashionable, testosteronic bloodlust which had once oppressed the masses and turned the planet into a toilet.
The key part to creating a perfect world is very much like the creation of the United States of America: principles codified for the common good. It’s striking to realize the sincere human dignity of our founding mothers and fathers, particularly compared to the sterile, shrill pronouncements of our current establishment. This is what is missing. I keep saying it. I won’t change.
What is missing from our current structure of government is something you can find in your home. The presence of kids practically guarantees you have it. You can put any name you want on it — I like real life. Some would call it love.
That’s what’s missing from the forces flushing the world down the sewer. This is not a planet to be covered with asphalt and riddled with electronic impulses and funky chemicals. It’s our home, and damned if — really — we know the first thing about it.
In a perfect world this would be obvious, and the respect accorded to every aspect of our environment would, of course, be second nature.
And we would run our governments and businesses as if they were built to serve the home, because they were. And because of this, we would have more time to tell our children that we love them.
In a perfect world we would understand all the larger implications of our actions. We would be much more sensitive. We would understand that nobody ever learned anything by winning all the time. We would understand that profit in one sense is always loss in another. We would not drink Cokes and Pepsis.
In a perfect world, a kind of tripartite schizophrenia would govern social thought and legal sanctions: in addition to mental and physical concerns, the human personality would include another category of thinking. You could call it spiritual, but that word has long since become too freighted due to the efforts of establishment religions — ineffable is a better word.
So many of the things in life we truly want — love, children, and safe home, a community of friends in which one can take sincere pride — all are ineffable. You can’t quite reach out and touch them, but you sure can feel them in the silence of your heart.
In a perfect world, every action would be precipitated by first thinking of such things, ineffable things.
In a perfect world, the government would have the ultimate responsibility of eliminating misery. Corporations which manufactured products useful to humanity would pay taxes three times lower that corporations that made money merely by shuffling more money.
In a perfect world, children would not aspire to be Operation Desert Storm warriors and trade playing cards glorifying unmentioned slaughter. Instead, they would aspire to be healers; the untamably aggressive would be architects.
In a perfect world, people would write a lot about what a perfect world really means. The government would not be afraid of new ideas because it was simply a collection of them anyway. A government afraid of new ideas is generally a government with something to hide.
In a perfect world, everyone would vote and no one would run for any office. In a perfect world, all officials served only one term at anything because it was obvious, as the Greeks had known, that government service required no special attributes and that one person could do these jobs as well as another. Problems are inevitable when people stay too long in power.
And above all else in a perfect world, we would have learned that we may not fear what we may not avoid, because all those things are only creatures of our own creation.
http://www.johnkaminski.com/
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Music:
I mostly listen to ambient/nature/chants/alternative(less lyrics) music.
Crimson tide, forest gump, appleseed, final fantasy are some of my favorite movie soundtracks. Oh yea, and lately 'last of the mohicans' =)
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Movies:
THE TRUTH AND LIES OF 9/11
This pioneering, groundbreaking expose of 9-11, now two years old, painted a stark and accurate picture of our world today and TOMMORROW. Mike's new introduction "connects the dots."Other search word: Conpiracy
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let us talk then, of truer things,
let us share of heart,
let us speak the deeper places,
let us speak the unspoken,
let us tell of the dark places,
the places hidden, where fear lives,
let us show the illness,
let us show the terror,
let us show the shadow world,
the life within,
where we hide
~ The Shadows of Iga ~
Television:
Are you a sheep?
Books:
- Buddha's Teachings
- Art of War
- Alan Watts - Teachings on Zen, all his lectures
- Confuscious
- Tao Te Ching
- Thich Nhat Hanh: "love, anger, peace with every step"
- Dalai Lama: "the art of happiness"
- Buddhism Without Beliefs
- Walden
- 'The Bhagavad Gita'(one of my favorites)
and for the last 3-4years Ive been spending hours upon hours studying everything from healthy eating, politics, conspiracies, religion, history and many other topics.
Heroes:
Anyone who lives by the truth.
Deepak Chopra
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Real faith
Not the fake stuff they dispense
in churches, mosques and synagogues
By John Kaminski
[email protected]
11-12-06
"Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?"
— Galatians 4:16
You believe in nothing, you say? Well, you're on the right track. Jefferson and Buddha agreed that God gave us our minds to use, not to turn off and obey weird rules we don't really understand. Convince yourself that you're acting on behalf of some omnipotent deity if you like. But don't ever believe in anything you can't prove to yourself. That would be an insult to God and you’d look like an idiot.
We are more motivated than we know by the terms of our contract in this life that is so bitterly limited by time. It is the one factor that unites humans with all living things. This is why all the belief systems came into being. And, in fact, it's why love is so sweet.
Without death, the possibility of goodness does not exist. This is either my particular form of dementia or it is the road ahead in evolutionary thought. Its alternative becomes more obvious to us every day — species suicide. Death is a natural passage of all living things. To believe that you have somehow qualified for a special exemption as a result of your fervent practice of specific phrases pronounced in a certain way is exactly the twist in the panties that has castrated the human race.
Can you face death without that special exemption you have worked so hard to create?
Take a step beyond all these ritualistic parochial insanities by which truly healthy human nature is retarded rather than enhanced. By accepting the fact that we actually die rather than try to put some honeydew spin on it, we better see the contradictions that engulf us. It makes us more honest. And it makes our love real, because then it becomes all that really is. Which is the realest of real deals.
Sigh. I wonder if anyone will get that.
We get one chance. We better not blow it. We get one chance to make things right. Otherwise, they never will be. There is no real supernatural sanction for anything. Those are all just fear-based mechanisms. All magic, no real meaning. Delusion, not a common sense approach. We get one chance.
Deal with it, and get on with the work, because plenty needs to be done.
It takes real faith to do this. Not that leather-bound book stuff. To disregard everything you’ve been taught and figure things out for yourself. To embark on a journey knowing in your mind that you may be wrong, but knowing in your heart that you can’t be. The question is too important.
All we need to know is that we are here for just a little time, with one chance to make it right. It’s not that hard. You’d think.
We are put here for a little time to figure out how best to repay this debt we acknowledge simply as the gift of being here. Wouldn't you agree your life is the greatest gift you have ever received?
Surely you agree that we may not live this life for ourselves, for what can we give to ourselves that has not been given to us by others? Surely you understand by now that actual consciousness does not exist within ourselves, but in the bright field between us where our information is exchanged.
So what kind of person are you? Were you brought up ‘right’? Are you civilized? And honest? So how would you say thank you for the gifts that you've been given, to kind of spread that effortless contagion of simpatico felicity that's the mood in which you would would prefer to spend every moment remaining to you?
What would be the best way to do that? How about the first step being repatterning the way you live your life?
Step A is gratitude. Could we have been provided a better example for ourselves than George W. Bush, a perverted, preprogrammed cutout who can order the murder of millions without a second thought? For who is he but a reflection of ourselves, all our raging impulses at the injustices that have been done to us exploding outward onto innocent victims instead of focused inward to strive toward peace, enlightenment, understanding, and compassion.
We're going in the wrong direction. We all need to turn around and look squarely at ourselves. This is, for want of a better term, the galactic synchronization that is upon us. It is not the latest Illuminati curriculum. What's happening now is beyond the manipulations of clandestine focus groups. Earth is going into the universe. The one rule is: Play fair, or you can't play at all.
It is human destiny to teach the universe about how it turned an evolutionary hazard faced by all living things into the grandest, most sublime kind of love that could possibly be known by anyone, even God.
That love is made possible by recognizing that we know that one day the people most important to us are not going to be here, and that we won’t be here, either. What will survive of us but the love we gave to others?
This information is borne through understanding the predicament we all share, and that in understanding the nature of time we gain the highest ecstatic feeling available to living beings, which is sublime oneness with the All.
You don’t have to trust me when I tell you this is something you might like. I encourage you to try it out for yourself. You see, this attitude leads to no wars at all.
Playing fair is all about understanding ourselves.
Why are we here? What are we doing? Can we answer the big questions? Do we ever contemplate them?
As our material world hurtles toward its own destruction, we all must face some hard questions.
How would we feel if we were responsible for this accelerating death of the Garden of Eden that we witness happening every day? Can you admit to your soul that we ARE responsible. OK, we're at the next step. Talk is one thing, action another.
1. What role have we played in our own destruction?
2. Has someone assisted us on our road to perdition?
You can't really answer the second question unless you've looked at the first. That too many people have not is the cause of most of our woes.
Thus, we need to decide if we have caused our own problems, or if somebody has caused them FOR us. You need to be aware of this question, and examine the evidence as objectively as you can.
Whichever conclusion you reach, there does exist substantial evidence that one shadowy group — the one that always seems to be the behind-the-scenes "advisers" — has dogged human civilization down through time, and consistently profited from conflicts they create themselves, through manipulation of the systems by which society operates. Currency control and thought control have led us to this dangerous situation we see in AD 2006, in which official government language represents a plastic reality that does not actually exist. (Any resemblance to to standard religious versions of reality is NOT coincidental.) What they say is happening is not really what actually IS happening, except for all those dead bodies caused for reasons that everyone knows are lies.
I urge you to investigate this question.
Then, if you can, prove to me that your faith in the United States of America, for God and country, is either justified or justifiable. You won’t be able to do it. Corruption reigns supreme, and those on the take don’t give a second thought about those like us crushed beneath the wheel. We’re just another derivative commodity to them.
Not only have our political leaders made the most depraved crimes fashionable, but our religious leaders have utterly failed us.
Where are the words of Jesus in the mouths of TV evangelists who preach the conflagration of Israel as the only way to a stultifying new reality?
Where is the man of God who will stand fast and say “No more!†to the perverts who crush our children to death so their War on Terror that is really a War OF Terror can cannibalize the entire Earth?
Though I belong to no church and espouse no creed, I am that man.
I see through the charade. The calming power known as God is instantly available to every person on this planet with absolutely no intercession needed by anyone. In fact, anyone who pretends to say HE knows the way is by definition a fraud, lying to himself with a certainty that cannot possibly be true, and then trying to convince himself of his own lie by converting YOU to what he believes. We’ve seen way too much of that on this planet. We need to do away with that form of Pavlovian proselytization.
I put my faith in front of all the purposeful searching I have done, because I know none of it would have been possible without the glowing inner knowledge that I had to do it, that I had no other rational choice. I mean, what other occupation is there for any decent human on this planet?
Some Buddhists believe in the bardo, an after death state in which each soul gets to review the gory details of its past incarnation in preparation for choosing a new life into which to be reborn. I always liked that description metaphorically. The Tibetan Book of the Dead is really a book about life, and teaches us how to review and reconstitute our lives in a more functionally satisfying way. Philosophers from Castaneda to Gurdjieff urged us to recapitulate our lives to see, if we could, what it was we were actually doing.
Of course, human society is well past that point now. An odious Nutrasweet syrup of petrochemicals laced with viruses has flowed across our consciousness to the point where we live in a country that enthusiastically endorses torture of innocent people, and mass death by remote control — before a bomb drops in Afghanistan, a button is pushed in Tampa.
And still at night, when everyone has gone away and I can no longer hear the cyberharpies complaining about my boorish personal behavior, but never once answering the questions I posed, I hear the song of the universe, which has provided all of us with such great beauty.
Hey, I fell in love at age 57. There must be a God, AFAIK.
But I knew my real faith before I found love. And that faith was surely not grounded in the fetid rituals of centuries past.
I found it in the stars actually, where there’s a rhythm that exists beyond even Fibonacci’s mind that animates every living member of this reality we perceive. The same pattern, the same song, in everything.
The human opera is caving in on itself. Its mordant dreams have simply manifested in reality.
It’s well past time to change the dream, wouldn’t you say?
How about a more realistic goal?
How about the Three Commandments?
1. Do no harm to any living thing anywhere. (Let the Iroquois determine hunting rules.)
2. Be honest and fair and realize any other living being is really another yourself. (Check with the Mayans.)
3. Understand that no one can live alone. Yet we enter and leave alone. Make the most of your time. We can’t live WITHOUT each other, because we MUST die alone. That’s when we’ll know we are loved.
OK, maybe four commandments. 4. Know that real warmth is best found in giving shelter, because then we know we have lived and loved.
We’re all in this together. And we have one reality.
It has, as you know, been hijacked.
The scam is a very old one.
Real faith is believing we can fix it, that we must fix it.
As Robert Frost once said, “For Heaven and the Future’s sakes.â€
Let’s cut out the bureaucracy and build heaven right here. Now that’s what I call real faith.
