The Separation between State and Religion

In time we will realize that Democracy is the entitlement of individuals to every right that was in its times alloted to kings. The right to speak and decide, to be treated with decency, to serve and be served by people in a State of “love” that is, to serve with one’s work for the development of ‘life’. To belong to the Kingdom of Human Beings without racial, national, social or academic separations. To love and be loved. To die at the service of the whole and be honored in one’s death, for one’s life and work was legitimately valued. To be graceful and grateful. To have the pride and the humility of being One with the Universe, One with every realm of Existence, One with every living and deceased soul. To treat with dignity and be treated with dignity for One is dignified together with All others and Life itself. To walk the path of compassion, not in the sorrow of guilt but in the pride of being. To take responsability for one’s mistakes and sufferings and stand up again and again like a hero and a heroine and face the struggle that is put at one’s feet and in one’s hands. Millions of people, millions and millions of people might take many generations to realize the consciousness of our humaneness but there is no other dignified path for the human being.

The “work” as I conceive it is psychological and political. Psychology is the connection between the different dimensions within one’s self and Politics is the actualization of that consciousness in our practical lives. Religion is the ceremony that binds the connectedness between the individual and the Universe. The separation between religion, politics and science, the arts and sports is, in the sphere of the social, the reflection of the schizophrenia within the individual and the masses. The dialogue between individuality and the "human" belongs to consciousness. The tendency to develop cults resides in the shortcomings we’are finding in life as it is structured today. “Life” has become the private property of a few priviledged who cannot profit from it because as soon as it is appropriated it stops to be “life” or “life-giving”.

We are all the victims of our own invention and each one is called upon to find solutions. The only problem is believing our selves incapable of finding them. We are now free to use all Systems of knowledge objectively, sharing them without imposing our will on each other. To become objective about our lives means to understand that the institutions that govern its experience are critically important. That we are one with the governments, one with the religious activities that mark its pace, that the arena’s in which we move our bodies and the laboratories in which we explore our possibilities are ALL part and parcel of our own personal responsibility. That WE ARE ONE WITH EACH OTHER AND EVERYTHING AROUND US and acknowledge for ourselves a bond of love in conscious responsibility. That we human beings know ourselves part of each other and are willing and able to act on our behalf for the benefit of each and every individual. That we no longer allow governments, industries, universities or any other institution to run along unchecked by the objective principles of humaneness. That we do not allow gurus to abuse their power or governors to steal the taxes and use them to their personal advantage in detriment of the whole. That we do not allow abuse from anyone anywhere because life is too beautiful to do so and that we are willing to stop the rampant crime with the necessary compassion Conscious knowledge is every individual's right. Conscious action is every individual's duty.

Blog Archive

Saturday 1 October 2011

Interesting feedback on Wall street


[–]taniquetil 31 points  ago
At first I thought big finance. But I know that's not true because, call me crazy, but I'm sure Goldman Sachs has never contracted out an execution or poisoned the food supply.
Corporations? Well, maybe, but you can't categorically say all corporations covered up oil spills (and I"m also fairly certain that an oil spill is something pretty hard to cover up), and corporations don't make make WMDs.
I'm confused here. Are we still talking about Wall Street? About half of these have nothing to do with the financial industry anymore.
I posted this same critique yesterday, but I guess nobody took it to heart.
They have taken our houses through an illegal foreclosure process, despite not having the original mortgage.
And, just to be clear, how many of these foreclosures were actually illegal and how many of them were people not making their contractual payments? Yes, they've been charged with illegal foreclosures. They've paid that compensation to the families.
They have taken bailouts from taxpayers with impunity, and continue to give CEO’s exorbitant bonuses.
CEOs are paid on the client fees the company brings in. Once a company has repaid the bailout money (which many of them have, with interest), why is this illegal/should it be illegal? As for impunity, their value to investors would beg to disagree.
They have perpetuated gender inequality and discrimination in the workplace.
Vague statement is vague. What specifically are the demands here? You can't force a company to hire just to meet quotas. That's just stupid. They hire who drives most value, and trust me when I say if a meth-addicted transexual hooker could drive more value than he/she takes away, he/she would get hired.
They have poisoned the food supply, and undermined the farming system through monopolization.
Poisoned the food supply? I find that very difficult to believe. Farms export thousands of pounds of produce. If it was poisoned, people would be getting sick.
They have continuously sought to end the rights of workers to negotiate their pay and make complaints about the safety of their workplace.
If you think you aren't getting paid what you deserve, you can always quit, right?
They have held students hostage with tens of thousands of dollars of debt on education, which is itself a human right.
I don't think you can call it a hostage situation when the student voluntarily entered into a contract with the lender.
They have consistently outsourced labor and used that outsourcing as leverage to cut workers’ healthcare and pay.
Makes sense. If you're so ignorant as to believe that Americans are still the tip of the spear in workplace qualification, you need to check yourself. If you want to remain competitive, than you either take a lower-competition job, or get better skills.
They have influenced the courts to achieve the same rights as people, with none of the culpability or responsibility.
I'll buy that. Corporations shouldn't have the same rights as people. Although it makes legislation into ownership or patents and assets infinitely more complex.
They have spent millions of dollars on legal teams that look for ways to get them out of contracts in regards to health insurance.
If it's been determined to be legal in a court of law...
They have sold our privacy as a commodity
Sounds like a plan. Although legally I think there aren't that many laws that cover this.
They have used the military and police force to prevent freedom of the press.
Are we still talking about Wall Street?
They have deliberately declined to recall faulty products endangering lives in pursuit of profit.
I don't think so any more.
They determine economic policy, despite the catastrophic failures their policies have produced and continue to produce.
Ok, I'll buy it.
They have donated large sums of money to politicians supposed to be regulating them.
So do most unions... EVERYONE is on the lookout for their self-interests.
They continue to block alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil.
Or solar energy just isn't profitable. If a company knew they could make more money on solar than oil, they'd go into solar.
They continue to block generic forms of medicine that could save people’s lives in order to protect investments that have already turned a substantive profit.
Yes, drugs are overpriced, but the minute regulation determines how much money people are and are not allowed to make on a product, bad things will happen.
They have purposely covered up oil spills, accidents, faulty book keeping, and inactive ingredients in pursuit of profit.
Again, why is this Wall Street's fault?
They purposefully keep people misinformed and fearful through their control of the media.
Sorry, but free speech only protects your right to say something. It doesn't, however, regulate how big of a megaphone you're allowed to have. The media has the right to free speech as much as you do.
They have perpetuated colonialism at home and abroad.
...Wall Street? Really?
They have participated in the torture and murder of innocent civilians overseas.
Isn't this not a finance problem?
They continue to create weapons of mass destruction in order to receive government contracts.
I don't know if you did the research, but the US hasn't produced nuclear warheads for 25 years and are in the process of decommissioning existing warheads. Do you actually know a company that's made a WMD in the last 10 years?
They have participated in a directly racist action by accepting the contract from the State of Georgia to murder Troy Davis.
Ok, so now I KNOW we're not talking about the same thing any more. The execution was upheld by the law. Big finance doesn't give a shit about one guy, who, by the way, was convicted by a jury of his peers.
Posted by at
Labels:

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)