Well, Del--you got that off your chest. . . . . . . . and you did it for a lot others of us. So, we thank you. I'd even promote your list of legislative actions just because they are rational things to address the indicative situation. I suspect that 5th City would not have experienced the "change of culture" by legislation alone. As someone of us has suggested, the question to solve is what mind-changing/mind-challenging imaginal activities and events that need to take place to begin changing the mind-set, something to off-set the culture of violence in which we now live. At least a part of the problem--and it could be a major part--is the death of our modern worldview and the birth of postmodernism. This is an activity that has been 100 years in the making. At last, the Social Process has not only collapsed--it's GONE! As we learned in the God Lecture, this societal change has been very rapid considering historical time. Each of the other major changes took place over several hundred years. The Modern Era is only 600 years old and it died in 1917 with E=mc2. The death was lingering, but finally committed to its resting place in 1985--the birth date of those who manage the early stages of a brand new invention in history: global society. In particular, those of us born prior to 1985 experience that there is nothing on which to stand that is the least bit familiar and it is scaring people shit-less. All of these experiences, nationally and internationally, are the death-throws of the "end of the age;" this is not a theological position, rather it is an ontological condition: we live in sociological End Times. If the truth-be-known, the solution to our present experience no longer is in our hands. Rather, the generation born on the cusp of 1985 is the vanguard of globality that is replacing nationalism. Those of us who are awake can share the tools necessary for the next generation to build a global society. Isn't this what the ICA is doing along with the support of ToP training? First, some of us old dogs can continue to tell the truth about this huge change of life; the by-word here is "relax, the world is in the hands of the future." Second, we can continue to stir the waters by working on our little bit of the triangle knowing that when we punch our little part of the societal micro-chip, we are stirring the whole Social Process. Now is the time for gentleness with a firm message that the future is in good hands, until then global society lives in a wounded existence. Later, may be the time for ruthlessness and tough love. Remember when Joseph's message shifted from gentleness to awakenment. About the time we joined the Order in 1972, the mood was shifting back because the American society was wounded--they didn't need to be kicked around like they did in 1960's; the hippy generation lived in a time of the great escape, and Joseph would have none of it. Ah, dear Del! It is good to have you back in the harness again. Take good care of yourself so that you can take good care of the turf that is given to you. Inner Peace, Bill Salmon ----- Original Message ----- From: Del Morril To: Order Ecumenical Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 5:40 PM Subject: [Oe List ...] Musings by Del The news is rotting my brain!! January 8, 2013 Musings by Del A six-year old child is sent home for pointing his finger at other kids in his class and saying "bang". A columnist pushes this stupidity to extremes in her spoof on dangerous 6-year -olds. Are we getting so crazy that 6-year-olds are that scary? And speaking of scary, three days after the Sandy Hook massacre of 6-year-olds and their teachers, in her own school, a teacher found the journal of a 17-year old boy, in which he plans his own massacre - six of his targets being Black schoolmates. Also, it was discovered that he was building bombs for this event, in his basement. We are a country (and maybe a whole world) gone mad! Yet the rhetoric continues, and people will soon forget Sandy Hook and all the rest that came before, probably without anything changed. Many people think that if we would just kinder to each other, get more psychological help, or if people are checked better when getting hand guns, or if we put a guard in each school, the carnage will stop. As far as I'm concerned, you'll never get all the crazies before they commit their monstrous acts. How about this thing we used to discuss called "structure is the key to change!" And what are the structures that need to come at the SOURCE of things, not at the various responses. How about some major changes in law that can begin to solve the problem of a nation that owns 100 guns to every 120 people! I would like to see Congress do three things: 1) Enact a law that no manufacturer can sell an automatic weapon to any individual, including any military person. They can only be sold to the military as a whole. 2) Ban all violent games; heavy fines and even jail time to any manufacturer of same. Laws make it more difficult to have child pornography get to children; why not the violence which is just as offensive and dangerous to young minds? 3) Put in place a stricter censorship of the movie and TV cable industries that limits showing gratuitous violence on the screen. Now, we already know these are bound to be impossible, don't we? This country is so driven by "individual rights" and the NRA lobby so strong, and our leadership so conservative, timid or hung-up on making sure Obama never gets anything he wants, that it neglects to do anything to protect society at large. Parents CHOOSE to not inoculate their children, so that later on their children can spread diseases that once went out of existence due to inoculation therapies. People who have AIDS don't have to have bloods tests or take meds, or even let anyone know they have it, so that they can spread the disease even further. Our quarantine system is a joke, practically non-existent, letting people walk around spreading whatever they have and choosing to do so by their own individual rights. Those whose pockets wouldn't be getting as full will have the final word, as usual, by insisting that our rights are being violated should Congress try to do anything to curb the spread of terror and disease. They'll insist that violence on the screen, whether in the home or in the theatre, doesn't do anything to children's brains and ideas. They'll insist on the right to have assault weapons (how many bullets does it take to bring down a deer anyway?). There seems to be little questioning as to why any individual needs anything more than a single-shot weapon. We continue to create laws that, so far, seem to protect the doer and not the "done-to" victim. The best and freest treatment, including surgeries, seems to be in the prisons. No wonder convicts keep going back in once they get out. Suddenly they have to pay for their lodging and food and TV and weight room and sports equipment, and pay for their own hospital care, instead of everyone else's taxes. Perhaps we should all find a way to retire in the prisons! We are a culture gone mad with our so-called individual rights. I am convinced that our forbearers did NOT have this kind of world in mind when it created our Constitution and Bill of Rights. Maybe it is time that those masterful documents be updated to the realities of the world we have been and still are creating. It is truly appalling to me that our own nation should be at the top of the list of nations in violent deaths - above the worst of nations who systematically kill off anyone who the leader disagrees with. No, we are a nation PROUD of the fact that we don't have such dictators - we just let anyone run amok, killing whomever displeases them. Do we believe that our killing rate is a mere drop in the bucket compared to the horrible things like various holocausts caused by other nations in the world. Do we really? Let's start adding up all of the victims and see whose total is higher, shall we? What do you want to bet that we would WIN! Del Del Hunter Morrill 3217 North Mason Avenue Tacoma WA 98407-5419 H: (253) 752-1506; W: (253) 383-5757 delhmor@wamail.net Web site: www. hypnocenter.com The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. (Joseph Campbell) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE@lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.2805 / Virus Database: 2637/6016 - Release Date: 01/07/13