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Name: Meghann
State: Kansas
Birthday: 9/7/1984
Interests: seeking mind expansion, searching for truth, appreciating beauty, living for life
Expertise: CIA/KGB undercover tactics
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Member Since:
3/11/2003
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terribly interesting in these dull days of televison
I could turn that thing off, it’s only commercials.
Background noise stimulus. And I wonder why I stay up late at night to find these moments. It must be the utter sense of freedom. Body set on cruise control for hours/days now, Mind free to roam. It’s these moments of late night study, when I find myself—clear in the ocean of my mind. Waves beyond crashing, to natural ebb and flow. I could be something else in this state of mind. Any character I please. So what if I think like an Irish ‘cunt’, photos of the american flag hung upside down; another antique flag folded in the bedroom awaiting proper freedom. I could be my ancestors—beyond my strong mother, my empathetic grandmother, her mother just as dignified—my women in a green land. With their mothers, and fathers, and sisters, and brothers.
Life gives to the giver and takes from the taker. | | |
| Here you go, allison.
Regarding the Supreme Law of the American People: Erasure of the phrase "three fifths of all other persons" in our Constitution would require more than amendment. That the quintessential American document regarding political, social and moral goals of our government, and thus our people contains, or contained at one point a thought advocating subhumanity shows that this mentality is not abandoned by our people and far from eradicated in the system. However, the idea I propose is radical and could only endure as a long-term goal for the American political system--probably not realized in my lifetime. The possibility does exists for a new constitution to be written--when 3/4 of the states call for a Constituitional Congress, it allows for more than amendment; it opens the entire document up to rewriting. While I believe the Founders put much consideration and foresight into the system created by the Constitution, I agree with the many who felt that it would change through time. Someone (I think Thomas Jefferson) even suggested that a new Constitution would be written every few generations. I believe a new constitution--with as much thought behind it as the first--would go a long way in improving democracy in America. I believe it should include a commitment to individual rights and declare these rights possessed equally by ALL men, or should I say: humans. I also feel that a commitment to a more limited state would define morality on an individual scale and promote personal responsibility of and with regards to human rights. This new constitution would place the primary political value on the individual. Allowing life, liberty, and property/happiness allows for free choice. Beyond this, personal morality--charity and right action.
*words-mdc.
10/20/05: edit: Strike all references to America or American and replace with United States or U.S. as fit. | | |
| ahh. done with finals!
"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,--that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better or worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on the plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact, makes much impression on him, and another none. This sculpture in the memory is not without pre-established harmony. The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray. We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. A man is relieved and gay when he has put our heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends; no invention, no hope.
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson "Self-Reliance" | | |
| "i am everyone"
I am everyone
who ever died
without a voice
or a prayer
or a hope
or a chance...
everyone who ever suffered
for being an Indian,
for being human,
for being indigenous,
for being free,
for being Other,
for being committed...
I am every one of them.
Every single one.
Yes.
Even you.
I am everyone.
"we are not separate"
We are not separate beings, you and I.
We are different strands of the same Being.
You are me and I am you
and we are they and they are us.
This is how we're meant to be,
each of us one,
each of us all.
You reach out across the void of Otherness to me
and you touch your own soul!
Leonard Peltier's words speak across generations, speak across nations to testify this truth: struggle against human oppression involves us all.
The color we own, the circumstances we face matter not in the universality.
Our battles are one in the name of truth.
*I would encourage you to read Peltier's book or check out the facts of his case--the possibility of this terrible injustice touches home. | | |
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