Comments on: The Joy of Hopelessness, or Why is it You Can Never Find an Angel of Doom When You Need One?

By: JHF

JHF — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:58:15 +0000

Exactly right, Tom. (Why is your name familiar?)

What I’m getting at is that as long as people have hope, they won’t fight…

By: tom

tom — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:52:01 +0000

Hope is not a strategy. Hope is not a tactic. Change is the result of specific actions applied to effect the change.

By: JHF

JHF — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:58:38 +0000

Joseph, I don’t know what it is, either!

Nobody’s playing games here. It’s just hard to express the inexpressible. Although one way to put it might be that to get back to the Garden of Eden, we have to break our minds.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:54:04 +0000

“if no one can understand the term” but some of us do, and that’s OK it will happen of it’s own accord. Transformation of consciousness can be loud or quiet. I do believe that our time here is limited and purposeful.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:57:24 +0000

John,
Sorry – I didn’t know what “transformation of consciousness” is. I still don’t. Compared to you and Rebecca I am of the great “unwashed”. If no one can understand the term, how are we going to achieve this state of whatever/ANYTHING BUT peaceful?
Joseph

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:15:43 +0000

Dig

By: JHF

JHF — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:10:22 +0000

Joseph, I didn’t say “peace and love.” I said “transformation of consciousness.” Real spiritual energy is ANYTHING BUT peaceful. I mean different…

By: Joseph

Joseph — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:04:29 +0000

John,
I guess reality will probably reign. Your expectation that a tsunami of peace and love will submurge us is commendable but not likely. The glass is half full/empty with polluted contents.
Joseph

By: JHF

JHF — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:11:36 +0000

Yes, we’re all in the same bucket — I would only modify that to say that everyone on Earth is in it. Looking just at America won’t get us anywhere… You could be right about the number of rats, though. We’re certainly in some kind of dysfunctional field here. Nature has a way of dealing with the density, too.

Frankly, I’m expecting nothing less than an honest-to-God transformation of consciousness on the planet that will make politics as currently practiced laughingly irrelevant. (No, really) Nothing else will make a difference, IMHO.

Your comments are much appreciated, as always.