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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-10 06:34 AM
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"Killing Our World"
"I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have," wrote Chuck Palahniuk in his novel,"'Fight Club." "Burn the Amazon rain forest. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches. I wanted the whole world to hit bottom ... I wanted to breathe smoke. I wanted to burn the Louvre. I'd do the Elgin Marbles with a sledgehammer and wipe my ass with the Mona Lisa. This is my world, now."

This is our world now, indeed. All those terrible things Palahniuk's protagonist wanted to do, well, most of them are happening or have already happened. The Louvre is still there, for now, and neither the Marbles nor the "Mona Lisa" have been violated, but as for the rest of that rant ... yeah, they're pretty much fact.
Our world.

The Boston Globe web site put together a series of pictures detailing the inexorable advance of spilled petroleum in the Gulf, the slow dread of aftermath from the destruction of the Deepwater Horizon nearly a month ago. I've been staring at them for the last hour, and I'm beginning to believe I have lost the capacity to weep.


more: http://www.truthout.org/killing-our-world59608
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Raven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-10 06:50 AM
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1. Thanks for posting this. I was afraid to. n/t
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-10 06:59 AM
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3. It's a beautifully written piece.
Edited on Wed May-19-10 06:59 AM by annabanana
It brought a tear to my eye that the angry reactions to this stab to the heart of Mother Earth don't.

It was only his hot head that's banned, not his work.
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-10 06:56 AM
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2. article makes a lot of very valid points in a manner to inspire thought
and perhaps even action from many.
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RandomThoughts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-10 07:06 AM
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4. It can be hard not to turn to despair, need to stay away from those things I think.
Edited on Wed May-19-10 07:48 AM by RandomThoughts
One of the reasons people are made frustrated or envious is to turn them bitter and turn to destruction and dark side. Happens to alot of people. I think that was in that movie, although it has multiple meanings in it.

I like to stay happy, and think on better things, and just know that it will get corrected and go up not down. But that is a real thought in many minds. Have to get it out of peoples minds, sometimes that is by removing the suffering and hardships in many places.

The comment about so sad a person can not cry, was in an episode of West Wing, a musician in an episode mentioned it, han - sadness so deep there are no tears.

That can also be a form of oppression, I was like that once, then I heard a song and felt something, very small very faint, and I had to listen to the song 100 times to find feeling again and break out of it, no joke over and over I listened trying to find that feeling, felt something in a song, and watched over and over till I was awake again like earlier in my life. Many times you have to read the words of the songs as they sing, because your mind will block out what they say.

It can be caused by hope despair cycles, and that is done intentionally by some people to break will. So you have to have a steady upward trajectory and not let the down side get to you, but instead skip over the despair, and also avoid bubbles of joy out of perspective. Steady joy seems to be best.

And if it is true that we are a clean up generation, at least we will be remembered for that and not what was done before us, maybe even with much thanks from people still alive in the future. I try to think on it like that.


Many times clowns have not the best connotation, this song I think it means something different about wanting to feel again. And I think they are about joy as I see it. And about hope for the future.

Send In The Clowns.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5os4NFeKFFs

Isn't it rich?
Are we a pair?
Me here at last on the ground,
You in mid-air..
Where are the clowns?

Isn't it bliss?
Don't you approve?
One who keeps tearing around,
One who can't move...
Where are the clowns?
Send in the clowns.

Just when I'd stopped opening doors,
Finally knowing the one that I wanted was yours.
Making my entrance again with my usual flair
Sure of my lines...
No one is there.

Don't you love farce?
My fault, I fear.
I thought that you'd want what I want...
Sorry, my dear!
But where are the clowns
Quick - Send in the clowns
Don't bother, they're here.

Isn't it rich?
Isn't it queer?
Losing my timing this late in my career.
But where are the clowns?
There ought to be clowns...
Well, maybe next year.



Here is a funny one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHT4QBwCicw


Just trying to add a little humor after a sad story, to lighten things up :D
And it only hurts credibility if you are playing the game. :loveya:
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-10 09:09 AM
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5. kicking for the gone but not forgotten. . . .n/t
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