Some of my Beliefs

This was written on Wednesday, June 1, 2005 3:54 AM as an email to my friends and family:

Extraordinarily silly and somewhat sensitive I can overwhelm you with my passion and zest for life! I’m addicted to happiness and exploring new things. The time is now; live for each and every moment and cherish the Sun—especially when it’s rising and setting—for it’s heat and light is sustainable energy for us all. Enjoy the life you have!! It’s important to not have too many goals—for in the constant daily struggle to attain them one often sacrifices their freedom to just have fun and enjoy themselves. Too often are people consumed with the passionate desire to accumulate material wealth (junk?) that they forgot how to slow down, relax a bit and simply smell a few roses from time to time. Life is meant to be an adventure: peaks and valleys will be experienced by all throughout the journey but the true measure of happiness will be found in your life-mate, your family and your many friends you make along your winding path. --- Always question critically the policies and subsequent resulting actions of your political leaders. Make them accountable to the people they represent and demand that they always provide full disclosure of all their political, environmental, social, financial, and, especially, their military activities. ---
Freedom To Speak Freely--- Say whatever you will whenever you want to so long as its intent is not inciting imminent violence. --- Protect all creatures from unnecessary pain and suffering. ---
Work together with other politically and economically oppressed inhabitants of our ONLY planet and help free all from the militarily enforced choke chains that have ensnared the general populace. The time has come, my people, to start an ®evolution of sorts: The intellectuals who know the truth and possess the enlightened wisdom of reasoned thought have given us a fairly short window of time to change our overtly destructive and disastrous environmental (non) policy that currently prevails on all continents and which threatens the very survival of every living being on it. The amount of time available to us to continue our excessively wasteful lifestyles is approaching it’s zenith. ---
It’s becoming quite evident that too many of our elected leaders have scrambled their ideals of fairness and righteousness for the instant satisfaction and gratification of The Mighty Buck. This type of self-righteousness and gross misconduct has got to go! The time to begin the serious questioning has already passed long ago. But until All our Bill of Rights and ‘God-given freedoms’ have been stripped from us through the ‘convenient’ use of the anti-terrorist Patriot Act, we need to do all we can to contain the disease of secrecy that has been unleashed upon our lands. ---
Why do we continually elect into office career politicians who gratefully accept ‘kickbacks’ (bribes!) from wealthy corporate representatives (lobbyists) who are constantly trying to buy enough votes so that the desecration of the Earth’s resources will continue to deplete at an alarmingly fast rate? ---- Why is our foreign policy based upon hate and fear, suspicion and greed, revenge and torture? ----- Where is it written that the optimal way to rule a nation state is through the unwarranted use of military force in order to maintain the ineffective and highly inefficient status quo that benefits the very few rich and powerful families? ----- Why does our media allow itself to be biased and one-sided? Why are their so few of us out here who recognize what is happening to our planet (and to our continued existence on it) and realize that drastic and immediate changes are required if we are to be allowed to live on it much longer. ---- == === +++
The first steps to be taken have to include a fresh new political party which has no strings attached to it by the entrenched stalwarts and thereby could enact sweeping policy changes across all areas and levels of government. The ancient policies of Greed, Fear, and Hatred would immediately be replaced by those promoting the spread of Love, Caring and Compassion for all living things. The lack of understanding and trust between many various leaders and factions has caused an inordinate amount of needless pain and suffering to billions of people around the globe. ---------------
The simple act of recognizing that we are all related to each other as well as to every living thing on this Planet Earth will lay the ‘mental’ foundation for the multitude of changes that must occur as soon as possible. The amassment of material goods produced by utilizing non-renewable resources CANNOT continue to be the end-all goal of every Western culture. It should not be difficult for even the most uneducated persons to realize that Mans’ actions are dramatically challenging the Planet’s ability to maintain its natural state. We are burning the proverbial candle at both ends without regard for the environmental consequences that must surely be dealt with in the near future. -----------------
Is the very idea of—wait!-or even the very WORD of—“Peace” so foreign a concept to our current leadership in Washington that they just can’t afford to ‘give it a chance’? Why not?!? Is it because their profit margin will not be so grand? Or perhaps they fear being held accountable for EVERY action they commit and support and sign into law...? Not sure about the rest of you out there—heck-I’m not so sure too many of you even got this far (congrats to those who have :~) )--- but isn’t our tax dollars to be spent on the good of the nation and it’s citizens?!? I leave you with that little mouthful of my many opinions. I hope you can help me make this world a better place for you and me and, especially, for Her: Mother Earth.