A Tragedy for the ages

" We forget, to our detriment, that many ancient libraries were destroyed in wars and religious purges, so it is doubtful that we possess even a thousandth of the knowledge that was gathered together, analyzed and edited, subjected to additional commentaries, and regarded as reliable by ancient peoples. Richard Mooney, popular science writer, made up a short but important list of the destruction of the great libraries of the ancient world that should give us a bit of pause.: " The library of Pergamus in AsiaMinor... contained 200,000 books, all of which were destroyed. When the Romans razed Carthage in the punic Wars in 146 b.c. they also burned to ashes a library said to contain a half a million volumes. The Romans also destroyed under the leadership of Julius Ceaser, the Druidic library at Autun, France, containing thousands of scrolls on philosophy,medicine,astronomy,and mathematics. In China the Emperor Tsin Shi Hwang-to ordered all the ancient books destroyed in 213 A.D. Leo Isaurus burned 300,00 books in Byzantium in the 8th century A.D."
One of the great tragedies of our planets history, the destruction of the great library at Alexandria, deprived us of a library of 700,000 books in scroll form. The Bruchion contained 400,000 books and the Serapeum 300,000."
-Vine Deloria J.R.

Bitchin For The Sane !?!?!?

There are many arguments and complaints about the screwiness of the Busheviks. Withdrawl from Iraq, Schiavo!!, Faith based programs,who exactly tells the President what to say (yes he is a dumbass,he has his advisors read the daily state of the nation reports to him). We can take care of this problem very simply. Gather all the groups together that have a niche complaint against the Busheviks. Show them the voter fraud evidence (and there is plenty!). Unite these various groups and demand that Ken Blackwell (the man in charge of the recount in Ohio) come clean and let us see the data( which he refuses to do). Impeach Prez Dipshit for being a fake Prez for the past 5 years and imprison anyone involved with the creation of the Policy for a New American Century ( PNAC). Refuse to let the super fantastic electronic voter machines to be used by a partisian group(there are four pro-republican incestuos companies who own all the EVM in the country) using these machines to elect a "person" wrapped up in an ideology. Then we can reverse the effects these lunatics have had on this country. Lets face it if China really felt vindictive they would call in the loans the good ole U.S.A owes them(yes it is true) and send us into a depression much worse than the twenties because guess what WE CAN'T AFFORD THEM!!! Even worse there are more countries out there who could call in our loans and stir up quite the shit storm. It is time to act, impeaching Dimwit(yes there is plenty we can impeach him for) would solve the problems in a flash and oh yes don't forget Dickie C. He is slimyier than Bush because he understands what he is talking about. D.C. should be sent to Darfur to witness the tragedy and destruction. He should also be stripped bare ass naked and chained down to an African ant hill, now that my friends is torture!

Vine Deloria Jr.

" Science is our religion today. Because it officially produces no concept of divinity, it is regarded as neutral on the question of origins. But science is firmly grounded in a crude materialism that precludes the possibility of divinity, indeed even rejects any hint of teleology-the sense of purpose and meaning-in its explanation of the world we live in. "Chance," badly defined at all, is cited as the reason we exist. Life has no greater purpose than to survive without meaning, and we are born,live,and die without knowing why. Although we pledge allegiance to various forms of religion and ethical considerations as a matter of respectability, in fact, we generally accept what science tells us about the world."

" In order to make the Big Bang possible within the parameters required for the open expanding version, the Universe must now be defined as comprising 99 percent dark matter. It certainly is not obvious why the visible universe filled with stars, galaxies, and glowing gases must be relegated to a nearly negligible portion of the matter making up the "real universe." Big Bang faith requires unobservable matter made up of invisible particles because otherwise the Universe could not have formed in accordance with the Big Bang model."

" The biggest problem we face is our failure to understand that science and religion, as distinct concepts, are terms used primarily in the Western intellectual tradition. They came into use when the West accepted the division of knowledge into the realms of reason and revelation in the late Middle Ages. Western thinkers since then have assumed that all societies they encountered had also split their knowledge between sacred and secular, rational and mystical. In the centuries of rapid colonization, whenever one of the European countries encountered other people, they were surprised at their lack of technical scientific knowledge. Consequently, they decided that everything other cultures knew or believed that did not explain or promote the scientific viewpoint had religious connotations. Further, because of the Europeans' firm belief in cultural evolution, non-Western beliefs were regarded as superstitious."

EHM cont.......

Now if the Dictator did not agree to these terms then the jackals would come in to take out the Dictator and if that did not work then it fell to military intervention. This translates to a story in the Washington Post on Thurs. 17 March. The President of Venezuela has said that the Bush Admin. is trying to kill him! For the record he is trying to break away( Venezuela is 6th in oil production) from having to shackle his countries profits to the U.S. oil co. This does not gibe with the Busheviks. The Busheviks do not want anyone breaking away fron their policy of everything to the benefit of the U.S. no matter what. Americans have played this game in Latin America ever since the Panama Canal( anyone remember Noriega?). Here ia a telling quote from John Perkins," Saddam would still be in charge if he had played the game as the Saudis had. He would have his missiles and chemical plants; we would have built them for him, and our people would be in charge of upgrading and servicing them. It would be a very sweet deal -just as Saudi Arabia had been.

Economic Hit Men

There is a very important book out there that i have not heard or read to much conversation about. The book is titled " Confessions of an Economic Hit Man".
John Perkins(author) tells his story as an EHM. Basically him and his team would go into a country like Panama or Iraq and create a prospectus on how much money a loan from the World Bank would take to create a thriving infrastructure in an otherwise Third World Country. Basically they would impress upon the Dictator of said country that accepting the loan would be advantageous to the country and more importantly to the Dictator. With the loan from the World Bank the Dictator would accept a chunk and the rest of the funds would be to pay for contracts to American companies to rebuild the infrastructure of the country. This would basically leave the country indebt to the U.S. for eternity but give the Dictator the power to stay in office.continued

Qutes that...........

" We need Wilderness to save us from ourselves, to remind us what's basic, simple and true."
-William Diehl

" If this earth shall be destroyed it will be by desire, by the lust of pleasure and self-gratification by greed for the green-frog skin, by people who are mindfull only of their self forgetting about the wants of others."
-Sioux

" If you weren't such dumd bastards you would have run away a long time ago."
-Frederick the Great

" Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses in order to justify his logic."
-Dostoevsky
" The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightining and a lightining bug."
-M.Twain
" I never apologize for the United States of America. I don't care what the facts are."
-George Bush

words o wisdom for the christian right

" American denominations are busy frantically trying to appeal to the unchurched by redefining sin so that anyone who has any quirks at all can still be a regular part of the congregation if not the ministry."
-V. Deloria

" Every single ceremonial act of the Christian tradition is based on the belief that history was coming to an end, that the believers would be taken up to heaven, a place radically different from the earth and that everything about the earth and about human society and societies was evil!"
-V.Deloria

More Quotes from the beyond

" No matter how great the vision and no matter how profoundly rich the carrier of that vision, it cannot be actualized until all things are ready for it's actualization."
-Navaho proverb

"God damn my insides are scrambled. My brain is buzzing with some sort of life. Somebody bring me a sedative and tuck me in. When you can't sleep you think, and when you think with no sleep thoughts can be somewhat scary."
-d

" The only way to define a Frenchman was someone who knew the difference between Hitler and Napoleon."
-Anonymous Italian