From: slider@anashram.com   
      
   LowRider wrote...   
      
   > I was too lost in my own narrative to realize what a colossal mistake   
   > Iraq was.   
      
   ### - can consider this a powerful statement, because observation suggests   
   that just about every human being ON this planet is currently completely   
   lost in some similar kinda narrative about this, that or whatever... any   
   underlying Reality routinely overlooked/ignored by default...   
      
      
      
      
   > The beginning of the end, for the inheritors of the American Empire and   
   > it's fantasy narrative.   
   > I started to realize it the day they hung Saddam. That was thuggery and   
   > gangsterism.   
      
   ### - to quote leary: you turned on, tuned in, and maybe even ready to   
   drop out ;)   
      
   am pretty sure it all began a lot longer ago than that though, the above   
   event (and others since) being but recent examples of summat that's been   
   going-on for the longest time, a long-term plan...   
      
   e.g., can remember a news report from 35+ years ago that made me sit right   
   up at the time; the FBI issuing a statement that: "after 30 years of   
   damage & delays caused to the system by the hippy era, we feel that we can   
   now confidently say that we're all finally back on track..." (Sic)   
      
   iow: all the crap we're seeing going down today would've likely happened   
   30 freakin' years ago only for an 'extra' generation created by the hippy   
   era?? (yay thanks hippies, that's so cool)   
      
      
      
      
      
   > My favorite positive life affirming metaphor lately is we are baby   
   > turtles   
   > in our shells, in our nest. The point being to break the shell, dig our   
   > way out,   
   > scramble across the beach, and make it into the ocean and grow to adults.   
      
   ### - a wonderful analogy imho, is one of my fav's too from some years   
   back re a half-penned sketch for a short story called 'turtle beach', the   
   story of unfolding creation contained in just their cycle alone for all to   
   see... Nature producing via trial & error 'just enough' eggs to ensure an   
   open-ended hit/miss repeat of the cycle, the whole of Nature performing   
   similarly, to the point that we're literally all related!   
      
   iow: it really IS turtles all the way down haha! ;)   
      
      
      
   > The negative life killing metaphor is termite mounds verses warrior ants   
   > and fire ants.   
   > I'm sticking with natures plan and staying in the ocean, my body a mere   
   > navigation buoy.   
   >   
   > The beat goes on...   
      
   ### - the turtles analogy is complete imho, in that it also covers the   
   darker aspects as well, e.g., in the gauntlet they're all forced to run on   
   their way to the water, of maybe 200 eggs only one or 2 ever survive to   
   repeat the cycle, Nature having thus figured out, over millenia, the exact   
   numbers required to fetch at least those 1 or 2 back each time... this   
   involving a staggering realisation at the time! (can still remember   
   reeling from all the implications of such a thing) especially considering   
   that we're ALL basically those SAME turtles in one form or another!   
      
   that 'every' species is coz that's how Nature works!   
      
   that nature is literally beyond words :)   
      
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