9 Out Of 10 Americans Are Completely Wrong About This Mind-Blowing Fact

http://www.upworthy.com/9-out-of-10-americans-are-completely-wrong-about-this-mind-blowing-fact-2?c=reccon1

The War on Christmas...

Black Friday, Now Black Thursday, No Wait this commercial says it starts Wednesday. And How it boggles my mind that there are people in this world that are already making plans for this. And they think they are not being controlled by those in power.

It amazes me how 4 out of the top 10 richest People in this country are heirs to the Wal-Mart Fortune, having their employees work through Thanksgiving, because their profit margin is not high enough, I guess. At the same time their employees are holding in store food drives so the can feed their families a holiday meal.  

*Sarah Palin, while hawking her book, told Matt Lauer, “I love the commercialization of Christmas, because it spreads the Christmas cheer.”
Lauer, trying to get Palin to settle on one narrative, then said, “but you say it takes the heart out of Christmas.”
“No,” Palin responded, “what I’m saying is we need to protect the heart of Christmas and not let an angry atheist armed with an attorney, as Scrooge, tell us that we can’t celebrate traditional faith in America. We have a constitutionally protected right to celebrate faith and Christmas is a part of that.”
So, the commercialization of Christmas is the heart of Christmas? And that needs to be protected?*
I don’t get it… Some people truly live the words they preach.
And some truly don’t.
Especially those, who hold the public eye, or make a living off of our tax dollars in public power. They spout their devotion, when it is only sound bites. The problem is that most of those in power, private and public hold the purse strings.
Jesus was truly a socialist and bleeding heart liberal. It was about living the truth that, “there is no success when others are still suffering” **.
So to those who are offended because others say happy holidays, instead of merry Christmas, need to have a reality check. The population of Christianity is not the only group of God’s children here. And this country was based upon one of the tenants called, freedom of religion, not govern and control by Christianity.
So, instead of seeing commercials about how I am going to save money on new crap from China, how about commercials about how we are going to make this country one that holds some worth in the world.
And not the worth that most still hold onto,  waving the flag and yelling we are number one.
There are only 3 things we are number one in at this time. 1) the number of incarcerated citizens. 2) Number of Adults who believe Angels are real. (I do.) 3) Defense spending where we spend more than the next 26 nations combined, 25 of them are allies.
Right now in the world we are the number one laughing stock, the rest of the world is watching us be driven into an land of Kings and serfs, all over again.
Don’t believe it’s true… Look at the austerity measures being pushed through our governments of the free world. Look at the disintegration of the middle class… But as long as I can get a 32” TV for under 100 dollars, who cares? Right?
The Christmas we celebrate in this country has nothing to do with Christianity. The only thing it has to do with Christ in this commercialized epoch, is hiding baby Jesus until Christmas morning, for the giant manger we have out side.  
So how about we throw aside the partisan titles, the religious battles, such as the war on Christmas, and simply start caring about our fellow human beings?  They aren’t towel heads, they are fathers and son’s. They aren’t cheap Jews, they are mothers and daughters. They aren't unwilling to work poor, they are the serfs being created to do the bidding of the masters with the most.
I don’t remember ever reading anything about a world like this in the Bible that I read.
I don’t remember where Christ stated; Judge, Label and condemn your fellow man out of your hearts.
So this Christmas season I will hold you all in my heart and do what I can to make this world a better place for all, not a select few. And I ask that you do the same.
Love, Light and God Bless our silly human ways…

* From an interview on the Today Show.*

** Mother Theresa quote.

LifeWalk Spiritual Community Winter Solstice Gathering

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    Thursday, December 20, 2012
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    7:00pm until 10:00pm

• Sisters, Oregon

• Solstice Blessing - Toning, to balance ourselves and the planet. Thank you to all who showed up last week. Your energy, sharing and blessing were a gift to all present and our home. Join us this week, as we prepare for the Solstice, through joining our voices in the pressure wave of love. Invite all those you would like... Weather permitting we would love to do this around the medicine wheel. Bring a food offering, if you can. We will finish the evening enjoying the gifts of the earth.

The Battle for our Planet...

This war is on going and there are many fronts to the battle. The number of "greys", (whether Lizzies, Mars Greys, Or any of the countless others), Have a major strong hold on the teetering structures of our false government. I know we have already won... I see it. I see the time that all of the beings that are literally trapped in the 3d realm are so fearful of the moment that they are left alone in this dimensional plane that they are pulling out every conceivable notion at their disposal to keep us from advancing our light signature vibration into higher dimensional vertices.

These attempts will all be in vain... I have witnessed the outcome, I have watched their desperate choices over millennium of times... since they ripped the fabric of their universe through the workings of external merkabas, they have been working to keep our civilizations of Free Will Angels trapped within this field of perceptivity that we are accustomed at this time.

We must fight by holding the light of truth, the vibration of love, and the blessing of all things we see. To witness all things in truth, without loosing our perspective of who we are. The strength with in our collective of souls, that will eradicate the lower level fears and doubts in ourselves, and each other. 2) We must also bring the courage of stepping into the threat of those holding darkness around us. As the Christ stated in his teaching of a young Alexandrian, “Since you know the ways of kindness and value justice, perhaps the Gods have brought this erring man near that you may lead him into this better way. Maybe you are the salt which is to make this brother more agreeable to all other men; that is, if you have not lost your savor. As it is, this man is your master in that his evil ways unfavorably influence you. Why not assert your mastery of evil by virtue of the power of goodness and thus become the master of all relations between the two of you? I predict that the good in you could overcome the evil in him if you gave it a fair and living chance. There is no adventure in the course of mortal existence more enthralling than to enjoy the exhilaration of becoming the material life partner with spiritual energy and divine truth in one of their triumphant struggles with error and evil. It is a marvelous and transforming experience to become the living channel of spiritual light to the mortal who sits in spiritual darkness. If you are more blessed with truth than is this man, his need should challenge you. Surely you are not the coward who could stand by on the seashore and watch a fellow man who could not swim perish! How much more of value is this man’s soul floundering in darkness compared to his body drowning in water!” 

I believe we are ready, willing and able to overcome the degenerative forces that are presenting themselves to us... I also know that we are the ones we have been waiting for... 

Bless us all as we model the light for all to see... 

The Secret to Life...

Worth your time...

 If you have 35 minutes of your life to devote to watching something, watch this. There was nothing in this video I did not know as truth in my four body, liquid crystal oscillating system of light. Know that if you truly open your being to hearing the what is shared, you may just have to shift your prospective. Enjoy!



   

Love to you and all you hold dear... In your heart and in your shadows... Michael

Ascension Earth 2012: Message from the Galactic Federation 1/1/12

Ascension Earth 2012: Message from the Galactic Federation 1/1/12: Dear ones, we come to you today with a message of joy and hope, of love and light, and the promise of a new year for you and your people...

The Gift...

The Gift from keith wyatt on Vimeo.

The Old Ways are Over... Breathe deeply and hold the light...

The moment of your awakening draws inexorably closer; be joyful and open your hearts in acceptance of the abundant Love that your Father is offering you constantly to embrace and share.  As His Love flows and envelops the planet, all can and are encouraged to open in acceptance of It.  It is what you all seek, regardless of what you may think you desire, and It is there within you waiting for you to become aware and accepting of It so that you may enjoy the exhilarating experience of being completely at one with your Father in a constant ecstasy of delight.

Your Father’s Will for you is eternal joy.  To have joy you must be free from anger, blame, judgment, bitterness, and resentment.  When you harbor or hold on to those attitudes, or any similar ones, they smother the potential for joy within you.  It is just not possible to be joyful when maintaining those kinds of attitudes: they depress you, and so you go into a deeper state of sleep, by having your attention narrowly focused on what is upsetting you.  To be awake is to be fully open so that the inherent joy of Reality pervades your whole being and is reflected in your thoughts, words, and actions.

Plato's "The Allegory of the Cave": A Summary

Socrates: "Why do people think philosophy is bullshit? Let me put it this way - imagine you're in a cave, all chained up so you can't turn your body at all, and all you get to look at is this one wall. Some assholes behind you are making shadow puppets using the light from a fire and making echo noises and that's all you or anyone else chained up has seen or heard all your life. Sounds terrible, right? Except it's all you've ever known, shadows and echoes, and that's your whole world - there's no way you could know that, really, you're watching a slightly-improved M. Night Shyamalan film.

The words of one in congress that thinks outside the beltway... New York Rep. Jerry Nadler

 By our own constitution we can not default on our debts... Period. And for those Republicans That rewrite the constitution to suit themselves and the cronies that fill their coffers... I say a hefty. Fuck You!


But it seems a few of our elected officials actually think outside the beltway and about us average Americans. Here is one. 


I think it is time to march on Washington... It worked in Egypt, It worked in Tunisia... It can work here. Time to rally and send the bullshit corporate puppets home. Hell, even my children can run this nation better.

The response from the honorable representative  from New York,  Jerry Nadler
“Defaulting on our debts is not an option. That’s why I voted for a clean debt ceiling increase, free from the unnecessary clutter of budgetary or other non-related matters. And that’s why I voted for Senator Reid’s plan this past Saturday, though parts of that plan were excessive and imbalanced. I am also the lead sponsor on a resolution to support the president’s use of Article 2, Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution to raise the debt ceiling – solely as a last resort. But this so-called compromise – “the Budget Control Act” – is just the latest blackmail request from extortionist Republicans.
“This legislation lays out an unbalanced, callous plan that will strangle the middle class and working poor, to say nothing of the elderly and kids. These blackmailers are telling the American people, ‘either you will accept deep cuts to vital programs that support seniors, students, children, women, and the poor, or we will force this nation to default on its debts’ – an unprecedented and reckless move that would lead to skyrocketing interest rates on mortgages, credit cards, student loans, and the like. So, either we stifle our economy and stymie job growth, or we kill the middle class and stymie job growth.
“Shockingly, while Republicans are holding us all hostage, telling us our country is broke and we have to cut programs that are lifelines to millions of Americans, they are letting the wealthiest among us – the corporations, millionaires, billionaires, and oil companies – off scot-free, without doing their fair share.
“This proposal is exactly the wrong thing at exactly the wrong time. With our economy still struggling and gasping for air, with more and more Americans looking for jobs, we should be promoting job growth and those federal and state programs that put people to work. But, instead of doing the things Americans do best – that is, building things and creating opportunity – Tea Partiers want to send this country over the cliff. We must say NO.”

Before I speak... I will ask myself...

Socrates,(469 - 399 BC), was widely lauded for his wisdom. One day the great philosopher came upon an acquaintance, who ran up to him excitedly and said, "Socrates, do you know what I just heard about one of your students...?"
"Wait a moment," Socrates replied. "Before you tell me, I'd like you to pass a little test. It's called the Test of Three."
"Test of Three?"
"That's correct," Socrates continued. "Before you talk to me about my student let's take a moment to test what you're going to say. The first test is Truth. Are absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?"
"No," the man replied, "actually I just heard about it."
"All right," said Socrates. "So you don't really know if it's true or not. Now let's try the second test, the test of Goodness. Is what you are about to tell me about my student something good?"
"No, on the contrary..."
"So," Socrates continued, "you want to tell me something bad about him even though you're not certain it's true?"
The man shrugged, a little embarrassed.
Socrates continued, "You may still pass though because there is a third test - the filter of Usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about my student going to be useful to me?"
"No, not really..."
"Well," concluded Socrates, "if what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all?"

The Definition of Love

By: Ryan O'Connell

FEB. 18, 2011

By RYAN O'CONNELL

You can stop taking quizzes in Cosmo. Here’s what love really is.

Love is still wanting to hold someone after you climax. After the initial euphoria from the orgasm wears off, you’re replaced with a sense of calm rather than a panic. You don’t want to search for your clothes, scramble to find your keys and figure out the best way to tell them, “See ya later forever!” You’re fine with chilling out in bed with the person and maybe ordering pad thai later.

Love is unattractive. It can expose our worst traits: Jealousy, irrational fears, heated anger; the gang’s all here! While it can bring out compassion and tenderness, it can also make you behave like the ugliest version of yourself. That can be okay for a little while, but love with real longevity should be like a xanax rather than an adderall.

Love is not afraid to be schmaltzy. There’s a reason why the most popular love songs are so lyrically simple. You can drown it in metaphors all you want but love usually boils down to, “You make me so happy. I want to hold your hand. I just want u 2 be mine 4ever!” You can be a 50-year-old linguistics professor at Columbia University and still find something to relate to in a Mariah Carey ballad if you’re in love because the feelings are so universal. It’s humbling, isn’t it? No matter who you are or what your background is, love can reduce you to Mariah Carey mush.

Love is an all-consuming drug. It gives us these natural highs we’ve only read about in books or heard in songs. It’s addictive. It’s what keeps us going to bars, drinking glasses of wine, going to that stupid house party in Bushwick; it’s all for the possibility of finding love. In the wrong hands, love can be dangerous and scary. If someone lacks a healthy foundation, love can kill. All of these crimes you read about in the newspapers are usually linked to passionate love. “I did it because I loved them just…too much.”

Love is not what our parents had. In high school, you never wanted to think about your mother and father having once slept with people in the backseat of cars and feeling warm and happy. That would make it feel less special and young. It would make love have less to do with you when, EXCUSE ME, it has EVERYTHING to do with you.

Love is getting drunk with your significant other at a party and taking a cab home with your bodies intertwined. You feel safest in these moments, the most secure. Entering a social gathering with someone who loves you is the biggest security blanket. People leave the party as a parade of droopy expressions and sad cocktail dresses. But not you. “Sorry guys, I’m in love! I’m taking a car!”

Love is fucking stupid. Love is fucking smart. Love is about betraying yourself, of compromising your ideals for someone else’s approval. That’s actually the bad kind of love, but I guess it all blurs together when you’re young or when you’re old or when you don’t love yourself.

Love is your significant other telling you about their favorite album and then making a point to fall in love with it on your own. Love is wondering why your better half loves certain things. You think you can find remnants of them in their favorite films, books and songs, but you usually can’t.

Love is finding yourself feeling protective over someone else’s well-being Love is being incensed with rage when someone or something has done your lover wrong.

Love is wanting your partner to cum. And if they can’t, just say, “That’s okay. I’m enjoying this.” It might be bullshit, but they’ll be orgasming in the next five minutes. Trust me.

Love isn’t always marriage. Marriage is spending $60,000 so everyone can know that someone loves you. You know what’s certainly not love? Debt. In some cases, love can be divorce.

Love is a back massage, a mindfuck, a hard cock, a pair of perfect breasts, of feeling unashamed about the cellulite on your body. Love is someone giving a shit about you enough to argue. Love is not passive. Love is “Don’t fucking touch me right now.” Love is “Who the FUCK were you talking to?” Love is sometimes hating yourself for a second. Love is hate. Period. Indifference is the real killer of love and the true antithesis.

When love leaves you, you should be lying on your bathroom floor with no resolve. You’re smoking cigarettes in the bathtub and crying about everything bad that’s ever happened.

Love is someone seeing the beauty in you and wanting to bask in it every day all day. Love is not guaranteed. We are not owed love. That’s why when we get it, we know how lucky we are and hold on to it for dear life.

So, yeah. That’s what love is. Anyone know where to get some?

And we wonder why our society is so screwed up with our sexuality and porn rules the cyber-waves.

Wow... Mind you, this was written by a woman. And the instructions are so perversely manipulative,

that I can only imagine where we would be as a society if love were given as the driving force of connection as

apposed to total malice of sexual control, condemnation and destruction.



Yes, this sounds like what God intended for us all... :) 



The following is a reprint from The Madison Institute Newsletter,
Fall Issue, 1894:

                           INSTRUCTION AND ADVICE
                                 FOR THE
                               YOUNG BRIDE
                                  on the
                       Conduct and Procedure of the
                   Intimate and Personal Relationships
                           of the Marriage State
                                  for the
                    Greater Spiritual Sanctity of this
                  Blessed Sacrament and the Glory of God
                                    by
                              Ruth Smythers
                             beloved wife of
                        The Reverend L.D. Smythers
                     Pastor of the Arcadian Methodist
                 Church of the Eastern Regional Conference
                           Published in the year
                              of our Lord 1894
                          Spiritual Guidance Press
                               New York City


         INSTRUCTION AND ADVICE FOR THE YOUNG BRIDE


To the sensitive young woman who has had the benefits of proper
upbringing, the wedding day is, ironically, both the happiest and
most terrifying day of her life.  On the positive side, there is the
wedding itself, in which the bride is the central attraction in a
beautiful and inspiring ceremony, symbolizing her triumph in securing
a male to provide for all her needs for the rest of her life.  On the
negative side, there is the wedding night, during which the bride
must pay the piper, so to speak, by facing for the first time the
terrible experience of sex.

At this point, dear reader, let me concede one shocking truth.Some
young women actually anticipate the wedding night ordeal with
curiosity and pleasure!  Beware such an attitude!  A selfish and
sensual husband can  easily take advantage of such a bride.  One
cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten:  GIVE LITTLE,
GIVE SELDOM, AND ABOVE ALL, GIVE GRUDGINGLY.  Otherwise what could
have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual lust.

A wise woman...

A wise woman who was traveling in the mountains found a precious stone in a stream. The next day she met another traveler who was hungry, and the wise woman opened her bag to share her food. The hungry traveler saw the precious stone and asked the woman to give it to him. She did so without hesitation. The traveler left, rejoicing in his good fortune. He knew the stone was worth enough to give him security for a lifetime. But a few days later he came back to return the stone to the wise woman. "I've been thinking," he said, "I know how valuable the stone is, but I give it back in the hope that you can give me something even more precious. Give me what you have within you that enabled you to give me the stone." - Author Unknown

Okay... Now I'm getting a little pissed off... Anyone for a revolution?

Who, in the republican party works ethically from a place of Courage, Hope, Compassion and Understanding.

For all you right wingers out there I have a question to you... Isn't this how Jesus would choose to address the world of humanity?


I understand, and even my children and their friends see it, with no prompting from me. Why does the GOP wish to live in a world wrapped in nothing but fear? Why do they insist on believing, that we as human beings, do not have an inherent responsibility to all humans...?

Mother Theresa stated, "There is no real success if there is still suffering in the world." Everything the GOP fights for is a fear based reaction to their own lack of freewill, and or, self worth.

For the party that claims, they want less government, I wish you would just tell the truth. What you want is less control over your own greed... and systematical control of individual choice of every person in, not only this country, but the world.

Why? simple minded fear. Fear of going to hell, fear of your own inner unwillingness to trust anyone's personal choice for themselves. Fear of actually admitting to yourselves that you are not superior to the rest of the world, because if you were, you would not need to pass laws restricting the personal choices of others.

So lets take a few of the issues you speak against...

Gays & Homosexuals... What are they really doing to you? I hear of the fear, they are recruiting our children... Hate to break it to you, your children will make their own decisions in their own time, no matter what you think. Or is your fear, a projection of your own lack of self worth, that you gave up in your life to others you believed had power over you. I have yet to meet a child of a gay couple who was more messed up or more dysfunctional as a GOP child. How many GOP kids are on Riddlin?  And yes, I have had gay friends throughout my life. Sorry your claims are untruths based in fear.

The sanctity of marriage, is not threatened by gay people. For if it was... Everyone of you, in the GOP, who has ever been divorced has done more damage I believe (as a Minister), to the sanctity of marriage, than any gay couple I have ever known. For better for, worse, through sickness and health... How did letting go of these, true vows, not rip apart the depth of what a marriage commitment was meant to be. Oh, I know why, because 2008 the GOP, in a gallup poll, believed Divorce was Immoral by 64% ... but in 2010 only 52% of you believe this. Anyone want to explain to me how this became less Immoral?? And why you are more okay with this now, is it, that more of you are choosing it?

A Woman's right to choose... In your fear, you have gutted the gun stores, emptied the ammo depots and stockpiled, against what? If anyone talks about gun control, you scream, " No one has the right to take my gun away from me." And in the next breathe, you decide, that your beliefs allow you the right to take away a woman's choice to decide if it is time to bring another being into the world. To truly decide whether they have the true capacity to raise a child. I hear you screaming, for what you want them to do, because you think so. In the movie "Parenthood", Keanu Reves Character say;" They make you take a test to get a license... But they will let any asshole be a parent!" A woman's right to choose is not always about just having sex and getting rid of the evidence... Sometimes it is an extremely excruciating look into their own souls, to determine what is the best, for both mother and child...

And I have the solution. I hope your sitting down.

I have yet to hear, all those fighting a woman's right to choose, that they will make this proposition.
" We as those who believe we should decide what another human being should do with their own body, hereby declare that we will take into our homes, every unwanted child. In this way we can abolish abortion because we will take care of all the reasons for having one."

Who in the GOP is ready to sign up for this one? Anyone? I thought not.

The only depth you will go to solve a problem like this is to take the freedom away, from another, so you can feel better about yourself. And once again we go back to the first truth... that this would infringe, once again, on your personal greed. Oh yeah, and the occasional killing of people to support your cause... hmmm, anyone else see something askew here?


This post, in no way, is to crack on religious beliefs... This post is a crack on the desire to control the rest of the world through fear. (Sorry, a lot of it is motivated by those who use the bible against their fellow man), which goes against the teachings of Jesus... I am sorry to say.

It is a crack upon narrow minded views, in a time when the most powerful nation could be leading the way to Peace on Earth and the success of the human race.


Sorry, GOP War Mongers, we tried your way for thousands of years and it really hasn't created a successful human race. So how about we quit thinking, we can bomb and bully the world, to letting us screw them for our own selfish wants as they starve and sleep in tents...

We should really be ashamed of ourselves, for not using our ability, to create a better world for all... I for one will always fight for truth and for the forwarding of Love, Life, Compassion, Courage and Hope.

But then again I wouldn't have fantasy football, dancing with the stars and Tivo time, if I actually work to better the world.

Blessings to you and all you hold dear in your hearts... and in your shadows...

http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/hr3_vote/?rc=fb_share1

It all makes sense... even if you don't understand it yet...

This video is about 35 minutes... and it will stretch many minds into places they may have never been... Enjoy.

An atheist in the woods...

An atheist in the woods

An atheist was walking through the woods. "What majestic trees"!
"What powerful rivers"! "What beautiful animals"! He said to himself.
As he was walking alongside the river, he heard a rustling in the bushes behind him.
He turned to look. He saw a 7-foot grizzly bear charge towards him.
He ran as fast as he could up the path. He looked over his shoulder & saw that the bear was closing in on him.
He looked over his shoulder again, & the bear was even closer. He tripped & fell on the ground.
 He rolled over to pick himself up but saw that the bear was right on top of him, reaching for him
with his left paw & raising his right paw to strike him.
At that instant the Atheist cried out, "Oh my God!"
Time Stopped. The bear froze. The forest was silent.
As a bright light shone upon the man, a voice came out of the sky. "You deny my existence for all these years,
teach others I don't exist and even credit creation to cosmic accident." "Do you expect me to help you out of this predicament?
Am I to count you as a believer"? The atheist looked directly into the light, "It would be hypocritical of me to suddenly ask you
to treat me as a Christian now, but perhaps you could make the BEAR a Christian"?
"Very Well," said the voice.
The light went out. The sounds of the forest resumed.
And the bear dropped his right paw, brought both paws together, bowed his head and spoke:

"Lord bless this food, which I am about to receive from thy
bounty through Christ our Lord, Amen."

If you Love Someone...

If You Love Someone

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Are you an ant or a grasshopper...

The keys to the way this world works are right here before us. They have always been here and always will be. Since this is a planet of free will we have the responsibility to open our eyes and our minds to a new way of perceiving this world. 

To tell the truth, to express the truth of who we are, takes a shift in awareness and perception.

To just tell the truth is not a viable option when the level of consciousness that I hold is not in alignment with the vibration of the truth. In other words we must elevate ourselves to a level of existence where the expression of the truth is lived not only in thought or word but also in action. That does not mean that I need to act upon the truth, that inside me is a liar, a cheat, a manipulator a killer, and so on. But the truth is to own that I have the capacity no matter how much I want to hide it from you that all of these exist inside of me.

For each of us that have felt the insurgence of movement through this time by way of the events in the world and the dramatic unfolding of the waking world we are now standing upon the precipice of the next shift in our world consciousness we will walk into the next dimension of existence as, free will human angel beings.

Let us begin this journey together. Since for all of time we have been doing this together.