Gene's Blog

Now that Election Season is once again upon us

Yes, I capitalized Election Season for a reason and not a good one, not to emphasize its beauty, say, or its eloquent presentation of ideas designed to foster debate and improve the human condition, the planetary condition along with the condition of all our planetary co-inhabitants. No, I capitalized it because it is really the season which brings out the worst in us, at least here in the land of the free. One must make allowance for that, freedom, freedom of speech, but that doesn’t mean one has to like it. And I don’t begrudge their right to express themselves, it is the way they do so that I find objectionable. We have one half, though I truly do not believe that is the case, I think the harbingers of hatred are a much smaller percentage than half, but they did get themselves elected into control of the House of Representatives. Now that they’ve been there two years and showed their true colors, the depth of their fear and just how far they are willing to go to protect the top one percent, just how many lives they are willing to allow be lost that the wealthiest of us might maintain a lifestyle so foreign to the majority experience as to seem more like the way the highest echelon of the Roman Empire lived, only with airplanes so this group can have houses on both coasts and in hidden havens as well. The group that thinks nothing of jetting across the Atlantic, or Pacific for a birthday celebration. 99% of us don’t understand that lifestyle and a good percentage don’t envy it either, I find it profligate, distasteful and a waste of that which might sustain those who live under bridges or lack food, health care, the basic necessities of life. I truly don’t understand the mind that can spend like that without feeling guilty. And I know that CWG would say guilt is not necessary, but for me, that which comes at the expense of another, as that lifestyle MUST, is not worth having. Perhaps that is the vestiges of my Lutheran upbringing, no matter, it feels, and therefore for me is, wrong. Wrong to party the night away when others are dying in the street. I’ll talk more about that another time. It is a treatise unto itself, I assure you.

The real reason I am here is that the lamp next to my bed burned out last night, it is a small thing, very old, and bulbs for it are difficult to find, so I buy two, always, though they last quite a long while. So I just opened the top drawer in the dark and reached in, a dangerous task as I have sharp edged things in there and I am prone to nicking myself quite severely in the brightest of light and always have been, but unerringly my hand was guided to the last bulb in the packet, but it was covered by a page I’d jotted down in the night sometime, I have no actual recollection of having done so. So I unscrewed the old bulb (hot, hot, hot) and put in the new one, nearly blinding myself in the process, then I looked at what had covered the bulb and decided I must have intended to put it here. And since I have put nothing here in quite a long time; there have been anniversaries to get through, one a first, one the fifteenth, and the holidays as well, I’ve not felt like writing in a while. I should more. I think I will. I finally edited the main site to get rid of the reference to IE 6, lol, which has been dead for many years, at least I hope there are none of you out there still using it, it is a “holy” mess, or maybe that is holey. Both apply. Anyway, assuming you are all safe browsing by now, I cleaned out that bit. Then thought that while I was here, I’d drop in those couple paragraphs I wrote some time in the past, no real idea, no memory of writing them, though they are most assuredly me. I don’t know where they came from, well I DO know, my subconscious, maybe it is more that I don’t know when they came from, but they were true then and are now as well. You’ll see.

“They are not saints, those who come to you in the name of religion, for they serve not God, but men. They do not give you anything for the sake of love alone. They have ulterior motives, they want your obeisance, your money, and your fear. It is these things that gives them their power.

Those who come to you in their own name, with open arms and love in their hearts, who ask nothing but to be allowed to help you. These are saints. These are people well along the path toward realizing themselves in this reality as the fully evolved souls they are in ultimate reality.”

I wonder what I was dreaming when those words came to me and what woke me enough to write them down. And how long they’ve been sitting in that drawer – like I said those bulbs last years, lol. Then again, nothing has changed, if anything it has gotten worse. And we have not yet reached bottom. I’ve noted before, though I don’t recall if I have here, that every society that has had as great a gap between the richest and poorest of its citizens as we do now, has collapsed from within. I don’t know what the tipping point is, I’ve not studied history that closely, but at some time, people decide they have had enough and a leader emerges and the society falls or changes greatly. But we aren’t really just one country anymore, though most of us still seem to think so. We are a global community now, not a civilization, things happen every day around our globe that would not be possible in a true civilization, terror, rape, bombing, abuse, degradation, denial of the basics of subsistence to the poorest of us, hoarding far beyond that which could be spent in a dozen lifetimes, refusal to even see those in need of help, food, shelter, clothing, health care. As long as it isn’t in our backyard, we ignore the suffering around the world. And we do so at our nation’s peril. I still have hope we’ll emerge from the “dark age” we are in capable and willing to lead the world into the light, we have the resources, we lack the will. The “haves” around the world must decide to share with the “have nots”, must decide that what is good for one of us is good for all of us, what is bad for one of us is bad for all of us, must bring morality and by that I mean the Platinum Rule (Do unto others as they would have you do unto them” into our business and government in every possible way. Then we will be taking baby steps toward becoming a civilization. It could go the other way too and the way it sounds, in America, that is likely, but I hear beacons around the world, small voices becoming louder, small lights shining brighter and I see a generation coming of age that will not countenance what has been but will forge a new world. There are blueprints for change out there and people with vision strong enough to implement them. May that beginning come soon. Much love, :^) gene

If today brings even one choice your way,
choose to be a Bringer of the Light :^) gene