"Narcotics have been systematically scapegoated and demonized. The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is an anathema to these idiots. I predict that in the near future right-wingers will use drug hysteria as a pretext to set up an international police apparatus."
William S. Burroughs
(1914 - 1997)
"All penalties for drug users should be dropped. Making drug abuse a crime is useless and even dangerous. Every year we seize more and more drugs but the quantity available still increases. Police are losing the drug battle worldwide"
Raymond Kendall
Secretary General of Interpol 1994
American Drug War
Sunday, April 18, 2010
American Drug War
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Everything Is A Miracle
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
...Albert Einstein...
Two Choices
You have two choices
as you live your life
you can be "happy" or
you can be un-"happy"
which will you choose?
"There is no way to happiness...happiness is the way"
Sunday, April 4, 2010
The Future Is Now
Monday, March 15, 2010
Coherent curriculum
Monday, March 8, 2010
I.Q. test, read aloud...
I am sofa king
we Todd did
I am sofa king
we Todd did
I am sofa king
we Todd did
Monday, February 1, 2010
Lettuce Prey Four Whirled Peas
("let us pray for world peace")
is my first blog and the inspiration
for "GlobaLove Think Tank".
Apparently, several people thought my
photographs and ideas were "objectionable"
and let Google know they were "offended".
I find this fact a vindication of my assertion
that some people are "offended" by the truth.
http://lettucepreyfourwhirledpeas.blogspot.com/
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Star Trek
I believe in a Star Trek world
I believe that food and housing and education
would seem to be better weapons against
extremism and violence
than murder, mayhem and war
I believe that when we put profit above human life
we are feeding on our young
Open your eyes to the new galactic perspective
we are not alone in the universe
human beings are but one race among many
I believe it is time to reject our
culture of scarcity and corruption
the drive for profit alone is self destructive
The New Age of Enlightenment is upon us
and Gene Roddenberry had a perfect vision of it in Star Trek
I believe it is time to change the world......
......we are feeding on our young
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Monday, July 27, 2009
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Let's be Peace-Makers
In these past ten years or so we in Ireland, North and South, have been enjoying a stable and hopefully lasting peace. The thirty years of conflict, bloodshed and loss of life are more or less over. (It ended in the early to mid-nineties of the last century) Yet, as peace-makers we can never become too complacent, because there is much hatred and bitterness North of our border. Now, I am not saying for a minute that our brothers and sisters in the North of Ireland have a monopoly of these two vices - far from it. I readily admit that there is not a little hatred and bitterness in the hearts of some South of the border. However, statistics show that the North of Ireland is an extremely racist country. A report recently declared that some 20 or so Romanian people of the Roma ethnic minority had to flee back to their homeland because they had literally been burnt out of their homes. I am old enough to remember such happening in the Catholic areas of the North of Ireland in the early to mid 1960s. So, all people of good will, North and South of the border, and, indeed, all people of good will everywhere must be peace-makers with a deep compassion for all our fellow human beings! There is too much conflict in the world today - and there probably always was - but in these more enlightened days let's be conflict breakers or conflict busters.
Sadly religions of all hues have been more often than not repositories, and indeed often promoters, of hate and bitterness. Anywhere in the world where there is inter-national and indeed intra-national war oftentimes religion or interpretations of that phenomenon lie at its heart. We have to go beyond religion and find a spiritual ground or baseline - the only solid foundation for intra and inter-national peace. With these thoughts in mind I offer here some words from the wonderful Dalai Lama on the matter of the difference between Religion and Spirituality:
I believe there is an important distinction to be made between religion and spirituality. Religion I take to be concerned with belief in the claims to salvation of one faith tradition or another--an aspect of which is acceptance of some form of meta-physical or philosophical reality, including perhaps an idea of heaven or hell. Connected with this are religious teachings or dogma, ritual, prayers and so on. Spirituality I take to be concerned with those qualities of the human spirit--such as love and compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, contentment, a sense of responsibility, a sense of harmony, which bring happiness to both self and others.
-His Holiness the Dalai Lama
From "The Pocket Dalai Lama," edited by Mary Craig, 2002. Reprinted by arrangement with Shambhala Publications, Boston, www.shambhala.com.