That's a tasty brew

Probably best we didn't attend the film fest
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Together in Truth!

bruxelles is one of my all-time favorite cities...and the women...holy crap! can't wait to return for another visit.
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"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you."Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil 89 (1886).
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(most likely) English (Sofia's voice) with French subtitles

Hi Arie,

"Arie is not accepting e-mails."
Well i am !
As I am interested in your generous offer...
so please contact me promptly
Festival will be held from April 19th to the 22nd, no time to loose !
Best,
EDL

French speaking friends, please visit our website and spread the word around you: we need you as we are a small publishing house !
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I truly appreciate all you do.

www.northtexansfor911truth.com

I'm currently reading a book called "Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany." I recommend it for anyone who wants to understand how easily normally intelligent people can be convinced to support an agenda, even though they don't accept the whole package. The people who are supporting the Bush agenda today are essentially the same ones who supported Hitler then; until it was too late and they realised they couldn't criticise the government for fear of ending up in concentration camps or dead. The amazing thing is how little time was needed from when Hitler took power till the citizens lost all their rights. We still have the precious gift of freedom of speech and we should never take it for granted nor should we ever relinquish it.
Vive le Freedom

They don't call it terrorism for nothin'. (She had a bumpersticker on her car before the election that said "Terrorism Trumps Everything!")

We know why the WTC was over-demolished when it had already been attacked for everyone to see. That spectacular, nightmarish scene in Manhattan short circuited normal thinking function in millions. She is an example of how well it worked -- in spite of all her higher education and worldliness. Now she is experiencing every deeply rooted childlike need for an omnipotent, infallable, authoritarian figure to handle the scary stuff. (John Dean has well described the rise in U.S. authoritarianism that has allowed for exploitation by crooks and fascistic mind-f*ckers.)

This is where the media jerks come in. By acting superior, snide, know-it-allish, bombastic, pugilistic, etc., they function as uberDaddy protecting the clan. "Honey, don't you worry, I'll take care of the bad men who scared you -- and all the people who sympathize with them! Some people are too stupid or unsophisticated to know how dangerous it is out there. But we know, don't we? Now you go back to sleep while Daddy slays some far-left dragons."

It has constantly reinforced the lies. My husband can't explain her seeming brain sloughage any other way. She speaks four languages fluently, has traveled around the world, studied anthropology, etc, but I can't even get her to watch "The Power of Nightmares." If she lets go of the new wiring, her head might explode. I think of her to remind myself that it's not only the fridge-and-upholstery-on-the-front-porch crowd who have been deceived by this massive campaign.

Nuremberg was good enough for the likes of the Nazi propagandists, so let's keep detailing the crimes of the 21-century's front-benchers!

I agree with you that the xenophobic, brain-locked responses to 9/11 facts at odds with the Authoritarian Conspiracy Theory are greatly due to hard-wired genetics. If this is the case, then our challenge as a species is to open ourselves to new and empowering truths. To learn how to take profound responsibility ( response ++ ABILITY ) for what is and is not happening in our personal, local, regional, national and global milieu.
We start with ourselves. As Gandhi stated :
"We must *become* the change that we wish to see in the world."
If we follow that statement down its Rabbit Hole what we will find sooner or later is that each of us must deal with this paradox:

That each one of us, from a profound spiritual level, is creating our world *exactly the way it is*. That we actually prefer it this way.

AND

That others affect us, and we affect others.

Take the first by itself and we become overly self-centered, naive, and grandiose.

Take the second by itself and we become perpetual victims.

How can we, here, now, grab this bull by both its horns and get down to really fundamental work?

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I remember a time in my life, a specific time: walking on a sidewalk in the sun outside of my Junior High School, and I said silently to myself: "God, or Whoever, I'm ready. Whatever it is I'm on this earth to do I am ready to go.
Bring it on."

Well, Somebody, or Something as listening. I deeply wished then to experience an epic awakening: to go down as far as I could, like Jesus into Hell, and to persevere and then rise, free, liberated from fear . . . to be a hero who others would admire: " . . . wow, he went through *all that hell* and look at him now! Wow!"

Haven't most or all of us done this at some point in our lives: decided, dreamed what we wanted our lives to be? And didn't we somehow forget that dream? We need to remember it now, so we can adjust, expand it, to better suit our current vision.

Are we *programmed* to struggle against epic Darkness?
If we are, then we will continually re-create it, trying each time to do it better, to get it right; when all along we've been getting it *exactly* right! We *are* engaged in an epic struggle against the powers of Darkness!

Am *I* willing to give up my need to struggle; to fight heroically against seemingly insurmountable odds, and begin to dream something new: a world of joy. A world of compassion, and creativity, and rich community?

You see, I'm still grandiose as hell: I actually believe that *I* can affect the trajectory of world history! OMFG, is that ridiculous, or what?
Yet I also know that I'm one . . . neuron . . . in this planetary consciousness. That I can only do *my* part as best I can: to *become* that change I wish to see in the world.

I haven't made it, folks. Far from it, but I have made it far enough to know that the more of us who are awake enough to grapple with this enormous, ferocious paradox, are in the best position to affect fundamental ( instead of systemic, or outer, temporary reform ) change. People awake enough to know that anything less, really, is pissing into the wind.

I pray for the grace to see what I cannot see now; to learn to love tomorrow in a way I can't today. To live my life supporting and supported by other beings loving and noble enough to join me.