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T O P I C R E V I E Wdafremen(Dated November 1, 2002)YouKeep telling me the things you're gonna do for me I ain't blind and I don't like what I think I see Taking it to the streets... - "Taking It To The Streets" by The Doobie Brothers What am I doing here? What am I protesting? I'm renouncing the way I live and changing my way of being, inviting all of these people and anyone else to join me on my way back to humanity. As for protest, I'm not protesting a damned thing. To protest I would have to disagree with something, yet allow it to remain, and what I disagree with I am rejecting entirely. I am rejecting the way that I have been taught that I must live, the way that we have all lived up to this time. You must have passed a thousand people on your way here to stop me, and yet you didn't see a single one of their faces. I reject your way of living for this, for it's emptiness and lack of substance. Look at this man. Look at this young woman. Do you really protect and serve THEM? Who ARE they? How can you protect and serve those whom you no longer take the time to care for and understand? How can you pick and choose those who you serve, and yet claim your right of dominion over those who you do not? WE are society, WE give you your power! Tread lightly, for our chains are almost severed. I am here, an AXE. I am here, a monkey with my hammer, to cut those chains and I will NOT be stopped, for there are hundreds of thousands like me all over the world, prepared to rise like some great wave of liberation to throw off these chains which our brothers and sisters were born into. How dare you claim to protect and serve us. You protect compliance and serve obedience. You are no friend of freedom, you are your master's whip. I REJECT the notion that I must be like you. I also reject the notion that I live in a world which is hostile to me as you have taught me to believe. If it was hostile to me it was because I was like you, and because it despises you and your kind. No, it is you and YOUR "society" which are hostile to me. You and the rules, laws and "dreams" which you chain to us from birth that are hostile to me, foreign to my human nature. YOU and the loyal disciples of callousness, hate and envy, THESE are my detractors and my enemies, THESE are your lackeys that shoot their petty venoms my way. They have lost their sway over me, and I will not flinch at their sarcastic words and their cynical tongue-in-cheek insults, for they now appear to me as they are, the groveling lap dogs of their master: your system and it's exalted way of being. I now REJECT that way of being, for it is YOUR dream, YOUR ideals, YOUR lunatic need for security which threatens the liberty that is my due inheritance. It is YOUR system's need for material gain at all costs that has enslaved so many of it's members in poverty, caged them with this twisted indifference that is our code of conduct. Those things are my enemies, I who would be free to treat my fellow man as his human birthright demands, as a human being. Having slowly made cold monsters and apathetic fools of us, THAT is not enough to satisfy your system.Your foolish onion-layered hypocrisies have built upon one another, until these tools-become-masters have us running in droves to starve or prostrate ourselves like animals in the cities. Dashing off to live like cattle in boxes and corrals, feeding and fornicating, pushing and trampling one another like mindless automatons driven by a "dream." WHAT DREAM?! You mean the dreamt up nightmare of productivity and profit which burns away our lives and fills our hands with empty dollars whose value depends upon our continued labor? Is THAT the dream you mean? The one you pump into our minds until we are so filled with wants and desires that your valueless currency sits as a whip in our hands, driving us endlessly TO that labor? Isn't it very telling how your masters hold THEIR currency? They sit with that same whip in their hands, enjoying the fruits of OUR labor without exerting any of the efforts. They sit fat and full of themselves watching the endless dance of human misery play out before them in the form of profits. How many have suffered for lack of a piece of green paper? Starved for a fence or a border around a hunting ground placed in their way by a hand filled with those same green pieces of paper? For a man's labor is not enough in this twisted parody of a life we live. He must have acceptance and the opportunities that come with it. He must have the good fortune to be born into good fortune. His hands and his back and his mind and his will are not enough to survive. His "freedom" is assured only through his obedience. His fate assured only by "going along with the plan", YOUR plan. He must have green paper in his hands or cheap metal coins in his pockets. Paper that he cannot eat and coins that will not keep him warm at night should the system renig on that money's promised "value." Even THAT is not enough for your system. Slowly the paper and coins, which we can hold in our hands, are being replaced by ones and zeroes that YOU keep track of for us. Our chains are bound tighter with offerings of free wishes in the form of credit.You weaken our will to resist by constantly bombarding us with your messages to BUY, BUY, BUY! How can you claim to protect and serve US, when we burn away our lives each day for these nothings whose only REAL value is to be counted in the faces that we fail to see on our way to work each morning? If your system serves us, how are we its masters anymore? If your system is our protection, why are we still hurting so? For that matter, WHERE is there any danger to us OTHER than those caused by the concentrated power of the system? I am NOT afraid of those dangers you would protect me from. I am not afraid of this WORLD. It is YOU that I have feared for so long oh long-arm-of-your-bloated-master, and I fear you no more. This steer has found his horns and they are named FREE and WILL. This worker will be penned up by your narrow beehive dreams no longer. With a thrust of my left I WILL defy your conventions, with a push of my right I shall be FREE from this illusory cage you've kept me in. Damn you and the necessity you CREATE by denying basic bread if we do not comply. I will not starve, for the world is WITH me, not against me. It will not hurt me, for it created me, but the system? It USES me. It is your "SOCIETY" that rubs my back and pats my ass while it twists my arm. What am I doing here? I am ENDING this lunacy here and NOW. This is the beginning of the end for your archaic way of living. This is the beginning of a new era when men will hold what they earn and be free men, seeing their children born into freedom as well. It is the end of rewards for empty words and emptier deeds, a time when a man's worth to society is measured by the honor of his word, his value by the sincerity of his caring. It is the beginning of a time when we will again value the truly valuable; the beauty of human relationships, the closeness of personal interaction, the nobility of sacrifice. It is the end of society's urban power centers, centralized governments and the other tools of "human" greed. It is the beginning of human understanding, a time for all people, not just the chosen few. You few have had your time, you have enjoyed your power and your profiting from the rape and plunder of our character and our dignity. Enjoy the memory of your insanity, for it is OUR time now. Your time is over. Solane Star Amen Solane Star Rainbow~ 26taurusSimply brilliant, Daf. quote:I now REJECT that way of being, for it is YOUR dream, YOUR ideals, YOUR lunatic need for security which threatens the liberty that is my due inheritance. It is YOUR system's need for material gain at all costs that has enslaved so many of it's members in poverty, caged them with this twisted indifference that is our code of conduct. Those things are my enemies, I who would be free to treat my fellow man as his human birthright demands, as a human being. Thank you, a million times, thank you.quiksilverHowever, the rejection is another division in and of it itself. Is the idea that division must precede unity?26taurusBTW, thanks for getting that song stuck in my head. I love the Doobies. ~~~`,"~~``~>>...*^!@ GiaVery good indeed!dafremenWhen the waters are muddy, my friend, you cannot get them clean without first removing the dirt. Interestingly enough, one way of doing that is to fill a handkerchief with sand and pour the water through. Darkness(dirt or sand) has always acted as a filter which traps the impurities in our water, then transforms them. If our response is clean, then we will pass through the darkness, if our response is dark(dirty), then we will become stuck there, identified as discardable...along with the dirt.Thank you all for your kind compliments. I'm honored, truly. Glad you found this enjoyable. Here's to Global Unity.Love,dafRainbow~ lioneye68You can't live on love alone. SOMEONE has to pay the bills and buy the food. (unless you can raise/grow all your own food, but that would require owning land, which requires monetary resources).Who are you railing against, exactly? "THEM"?dafremenLioneye...I love you enough to grow food for you. Let's grow food together. Lioneye...I love you enough to share the land with you. Let's share the land together. Lioneye...I love you enough to give of what I have without asking anything of you in return. Let's share freely together.Lioneye, if everyone could do these things...truly do them...what need would we have for monetary resources? What bills would there be?Native Americans lived this way for centuries before Western man came with his papers and words that said that one could OWN the land. Does one OWN one's mother? Does one OWN the womb that gave it birth?No lioneyes, what you speak of is an illusion of necessity that is created by the system that surrounds us. Once that system is gone, the necessity disappears.Thank you for sharing your ideas with me.Love,daflioneye68Daf, you'll love this link http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/shaker/utopias.htm In fact, (if you believe in past lives), I wouldn't be surprised if you were a part of one of these communities, perhaps even a founding father. One of them is still in existance, the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Community, in New Gloucester, Maine. There are others here in LL who might find this kind of lifestyle to be for them as well. See? You DO have options.(PS, thanks for the generous offer for food, but I just stocked up on Sunday...at the evil grocery store, with money I earned at my evil job...lol...j/k - just yanking your chain)dafremen(Hey, I aim to please. You wanted it...so here ya go...consider my chain yanked. )Just got back from the EVIL swap meet, where I engaged in the EVIL practice of taking EVIL money from my WONDERFUL customers. I sold them EVIL movies and EVIL MP3 players and EVIL VCRs so that they wouldn't miss their daily dose of the EVIL programming that the system's got in store for them. My EVIL wife and I (also quite EVIL) laughed (almost a cackle if you can imagine) in glee as they bought our EVIL silver jewelry and our EVIL martial arts toys. But the EVIL didn't stop there, see, I've taught my daughter to be an EVIL merchant too. Ohh the insidious acts of EVIL she committed selling barbie dolls and accessories all day. BUWAHAHAHA! At the end of the day, when all of the WONDERFUL customers have gone home, we convene in our "circle of EVIL" counting our EVIL money, setting some aside for our EVIL landlord who charges us rent on our EVIL apartment, some for the EVIL conglomerate of phone and internet service providers. Yes, we indulge ourselves with their EVIL services. We set some of the DIRTY, EVIL, NASTY money aside for our food, our kids' school supplies and some for who knows what sort of hedonistic (and EVIL)activities? (BOWLING anyone?) Then we hop in our EVIL, foul smelling petroleum burning car, and we drive home where we continue, unabated, practicing our EVIL ways.Isn't it nice when two prisoners like you and I, lioneyes, can come to grips with the fact that the warden makes the rules and we're stuck with them? Hey...see you next time you're out in the yard, maybe we can dream and talk about freedom like two rational adult human beings. Oh, and could you leave your shank in your cell this time please?Love,daflioneye68 I do hope you were being blatantly facecious for the sake of amusement, because I found that rather hilarious, daf! dafremenOh, if I couldn't laugh at your comments lioneye...what hope could there possibly be for this world? Love,daf(By the way...I did! Guess that means there's hope after all.. So who's pulling the plow? You or me?)
YouKeep telling me the things you're gonna do for me I ain't blind and I don't like what I think I see Taking it to the streets... - "Taking It To The Streets" by The Doobie Brothers
What am I doing here? What am I protesting? I'm renouncing the way I live and changing my way of being, inviting all of these people and anyone else to join me on my way back to humanity. As for protest, I'm not protesting a damned thing. To protest I would have to disagree with something, yet allow it to remain, and what I disagree with I am rejecting entirely. I am rejecting the way that I have been taught that I must live, the way that we have all lived up to this time.
You must have passed a thousand people on your way here to stop me, and yet you didn't see a single one of their faces. I reject your way of living for this, for it's emptiness and lack of substance. Look at this man. Look at this young woman. Do you really protect and serve THEM? Who ARE they? How can you protect and serve those whom you no longer take the time to care for and understand? How can you pick and choose those who you serve, and yet claim your right of dominion over those who you do not? WE are society, WE give you your power! Tread lightly, for our chains are almost severed. I am here, an AXE. I am here, a monkey with my hammer, to cut those chains and I will NOT be stopped, for there are hundreds of thousands like me all over the world, prepared to rise like some great wave of liberation to throw off these chains which our brothers and sisters were born into. How dare you claim to protect and serve us. You protect compliance and serve obedience. You are no friend of freedom, you are your master's whip. I REJECT the notion that I must be like you.
I also reject the notion that I live in a world which is hostile to me as you have taught me to believe. If it was hostile to me it was because I was like you, and because it despises you and your kind. No, it is you and YOUR "society" which are hostile to me. You and the rules, laws and "dreams" which you chain to us from birth that are hostile to me, foreign to my human nature. YOU and the loyal disciples of callousness, hate and envy, THESE are my detractors and my enemies, THESE are your lackeys that shoot their petty venoms my way. They have lost their sway over me, and I will not flinch at their sarcastic words and their cynical tongue-in-cheek insults, for they now appear to me as they are, the groveling lap dogs of their master: your system and it's exalted way of being.
I now REJECT that way of being, for it is YOUR dream, YOUR ideals, YOUR lunatic need for security which threatens the liberty that is my due inheritance. It is YOUR system's need for material gain at all costs that has enslaved so many of it's members in poverty, caged them with this twisted indifference that is our code of conduct. Those things are my enemies, I who would be free to treat my fellow man as his human birthright demands, as a human being.
Having slowly made cold monsters and apathetic fools of us, THAT is not enough to satisfy your system.Your foolish onion-layered hypocrisies have built upon one another, until these tools-become-masters have us running in droves to starve or prostrate ourselves like animals in the cities. Dashing off to live like cattle in boxes and corrals, feeding and fornicating, pushing and trampling one another like mindless automatons driven by a "dream." WHAT DREAM?! You mean the dreamt up nightmare of productivity and profit which burns away our lives and fills our hands with empty dollars whose value depends upon our continued labor? Is THAT the dream you mean? The one you pump into our minds until we are so filled with wants and desires that your valueless currency sits as a whip in our hands, driving us endlessly TO that labor?
Isn't it very telling how your masters hold THEIR currency? They sit with that same whip in their hands, enjoying the fruits of OUR labor without exerting any of the efforts. They sit fat and full of themselves watching the endless dance of human misery play out before them in the form of profits.
How many have suffered for lack of a piece of green paper? Starved for a fence or a border around a hunting ground placed in their way by a hand filled with those same green pieces of paper? For a man's labor is not enough in this twisted parody of a life we live. He must have acceptance and the opportunities that come with it. He must have the good fortune to be born into good fortune. His hands and his back and his mind and his will are not enough to survive. His "freedom" is assured only through his obedience. His fate assured only by "going along with the plan", YOUR plan. He must have green paper in his hands or cheap metal coins in his pockets. Paper that he cannot eat and coins that will not keep him warm at night should the system renig on that money's promised "value."
Even THAT is not enough for your system. Slowly the paper and coins, which we can hold in our hands, are being replaced by ones and zeroes that YOU keep track of for us. Our chains are bound tighter with offerings of free wishes in the form of credit.You weaken our will to resist by constantly bombarding us with your messages to BUY, BUY, BUY! How can you claim to protect and serve US, when we burn away our lives each day for these nothings whose only REAL value is to be counted in the faces that we fail to see on our way to work each morning? If your system serves us, how are we its masters anymore? If your system is our protection, why are we still hurting so? For that matter, WHERE is there any danger to us OTHER than those caused by the concentrated power of the system?
I am NOT afraid of those dangers you would protect me from. I am not afraid of this WORLD. It is YOU that I have feared for so long oh long-arm-of-your-bloated-master, and I fear you no more. This steer has found his horns and they are named FREE and WILL. This worker will be penned up by your narrow beehive dreams no longer. With a thrust of my left I WILL defy your conventions, with a push of my right I shall be FREE from this illusory cage you've kept me in. Damn you and the necessity you CREATE by denying basic bread if we do not comply. I will not starve, for the world is WITH me, not against me. It will not hurt me, for it created me, but the system? It USES me. It is your "SOCIETY" that rubs my back and pats my ass while it twists my arm.
What am I doing here? I am ENDING this lunacy here and NOW. This is the beginning of the end for your archaic way of living. This is the beginning of a new era when men will hold what they earn and be free men, seeing their children born into freedom as well. It is the end of rewards for empty words and emptier deeds, a time when a man's worth to society is measured by the honor of his word, his value by the sincerity of his caring. It is the beginning of a time when we will again value the truly valuable; the beauty of human relationships, the closeness of personal interaction, the nobility of sacrifice. It is the end of society's urban power centers, centralized governments and the other tools of "human" greed. It is the beginning of human understanding, a time for all people, not just the chosen few.
You few have had your time, you have enjoyed your power and your profiting from the rape and plunder of our character and our dignity. Enjoy the memory of your insanity, for it is OUR time now. Your time is over.
Solane Star
quote:I now REJECT that way of being, for it is YOUR dream, YOUR ideals, YOUR lunatic need for security which threatens the liberty that is my due inheritance. It is YOUR system's need for material gain at all costs that has enslaved so many of it's members in poverty, caged them with this twisted indifference that is our code of conduct. Those things are my enemies, I who would be free to treat my fellow man as his human birthright demands, as a human being.
Thank you, a million times, thank you.
~~~`,"~~``~>>...*^!@
Thank you all for your kind compliments. I'm honored, truly. Glad you found this enjoyable. Here's to Global Unity.
Love,
daf
Who are you railing against, exactly? "THEM"?
Lioneye...I love you enough to share the land with you. Let's share the land together.
Lioneye...I love you enough to give of what I have without asking anything of you in return. Let's share freely together.
Lioneye, if everyone could do these things...truly do them...what need would we have for monetary resources? What bills would there be?
Native Americans lived this way for centuries before Western man came with his papers and words that said that one could OWN the land. Does one OWN one's mother? Does one OWN the womb that gave it birth?
No lioneyes, what you speak of is an illusion of necessity that is created by the system that surrounds us. Once that system is gone, the necessity disappears.
Thank you for sharing your ideas with me.
In fact, (if you believe in past lives), I wouldn't be surprised if you were a part of one of these communities, perhaps even a founding father.
One of them is still in existance, the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Community, in New Gloucester, Maine.
There are others here in LL who might find this kind of lifestyle to be for them as well.
See? You DO have options.
(PS, thanks for the generous offer for food, but I just stocked up on Sunday...at the evil grocery store, with money I earned at my evil job...lol...j/k - just yanking your chain)
Just got back from the EVIL swap meet, where I engaged in the EVIL practice of taking EVIL money from my WONDERFUL customers. I sold them EVIL movies and EVIL MP3 players and EVIL VCRs so that they wouldn't miss their daily dose of the EVIL programming that the system's got in store for them. My EVIL wife and I (also quite EVIL) laughed (almost a cackle if you can imagine) in glee as they bought our EVIL silver jewelry and our EVIL martial arts toys. But the EVIL didn't stop there, see, I've taught my daughter to be an EVIL merchant too. Ohh the insidious acts of EVIL she committed selling barbie dolls and accessories all day. BUWAHAHAHA!
At the end of the day, when all of the WONDERFUL customers have gone home, we convene in our "circle of EVIL" counting our EVIL money, setting some aside for our EVIL landlord who charges us rent on our EVIL apartment, some for the EVIL conglomerate of phone and internet service providers. Yes, we indulge ourselves with their EVIL services. We set some of the DIRTY, EVIL, NASTY money aside for our food, our kids' school supplies and some for who knows what sort of hedonistic (and EVIL)activities? (BOWLING anyone?) Then we hop in our EVIL, foul smelling petroleum burning car, and we drive home where we continue, unabated, practicing our EVIL ways.
Isn't it nice when two prisoners like you and I, lioneyes, can come to grips with the fact that the warden makes the rules and we're stuck with them? Hey...see you next time you're out in the yard, maybe we can dream and talk about freedom like two rational adult human beings. Oh, and could you leave your shank in your cell this time please?
I do hope you were being blatantly facecious for the sake of amusement, because I found that rather hilarious, daf!
(By the way...I did! Guess that means there's hope after all.. So who's pulling the plow? You or me?)
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