STOP TRUMP!

Trump is a bumbling moron. He needs to be removed NOW. He is killing people and causing the deaths of people that rely on programs. He is getting away with MURDER. By letting him continue, is putting all of our lives in DANGER. Trump must be placed under arrest NOW. We are making the same mistake the Germans made during the rise of Hitler.

DT

ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST!

 This is a comment I posted to Chris Hedges' "YOU HAVE A MOTHER" A story about the Holocaust.

To understand this horror and still think there is a loving god, is why the horror took place to begin with. We have created divisions where none truly exist. There are no Germans or Jews no nationalities they are all inventions of the human mind.

DT 

What you've LOST.

 It  is abnormal that there are still people supporting Trump. Trump has taken away everyone's right of Due Process. If you need to have the experience to understand what you lost then it is too late for you to do anything about it. How pathetic!

DT

DOES the HUMAN MIND have a DEFAULT SETTING?

Perhaps, becoming is the default setting, of the human mind, for we are always trying to become something, other than what we are? However this requires awareness. Awareness is something we automatically are, without effort. Therefore I think we can conclude that awareness is our default setting. Our automatic thought process blocks the process of simply being aware. 

There's a slight twist, in that we must be aware of our awareness.  Just suppose if you will, that we were not constantly being swept along by our thinking. What might our awareness reveal, "if anything"? To understand this, it is said that one must meditate. However meditation is "becoming" simple awareness seems to be a key.  Awareness being the natural state  of the mind requires no effort, therefore one could say that the churning thought process is not natural. 

Let us stay aware of this and see if anything happens. Please report back to me if you uncover anything.

DT

From another post:

What is perceiving this non reality? what is creating the illusion? Can the intellect answer these questions? What is the base of the human experience? The mind without effort is aware. Thinking obscures our awareness, what would our conscious lives look like if thought wasn't always running unchecked? It is said that being aware brings silence an abatement of thought. In this silence there is tentatively something else operating. perhaps it is the understanding we seek. I am not claiming to know anything this is just my opinion. I think the truth is very simple.

And another:

It is an interesting question to ponder, "what if any, is the default setting of the human mind?" "Becoming" is that it? Everyone seems to be in a state of trying to achieve something, to become better, at what they perceive themselves to be. Yet to become requires awareness, hence awareness may be the default setting of the human mind/brain. We must be aware that we are aware!

 Why do thoughts arise on their own volition? This happens when we are consciously trying to navigate the things in our life. Awareness is just there in stillness, when we are not becoming. Doesn't this lead one to consider, is this awareness "deeper" when our thoughts are in abeyance? Our thought process is vital to our survival yet much of our thinking arises from our programed unconscious mind. If we are aware of this involuntary process then our unsolicited thoughts will gradually subside. Now consider this awareness minus our compulsive thinking. This will be something entirely new, (just what) we must find out for our selves. It seems possible that this could lead us to what is natural, our true nature. Also consider with thoughts arising, without choice, is like being nearly unconscious. Surely this is a state that is unnatural, meaning that there possibly must be a natural state i e,  awareness.  It seems we are unaware of how much we are trapped inside of our own programed thinking. We are living in a kind of darkness, which helps explain the current state of world affairs.

In a state of awareness one is not trying to become something, the default setting of awareness is already there, this eliminates the need for us to do anything (becoming) except to be aware that we are aware. We can call this meditation as long as we are not trying to become, what we already are.  

This is DT on the road, to the absence of conflict and true natural freedom.

TRUMP! THE DECLINE!

 Trump is a demented fool and he has no idea of what he is doing. (Trump didn't know what happened at Pearl Harbor). Trump is dismantling our government and yes some of it really needed to be curtailed. However the damage he is doing will have far reaching consequences. He is putting an end to scientific research, including for cancer and other diseases. There is not one aspect of our way of life thatTrump hasn't affected in a negative fashion.   Nader says it best!

From Ralph Nader:

Trump has illegally and impeachably closed the Agency for International Development, fast winding down critical humanitarian aid – medicine, food, clean water, etc. – to millions of impoverished families in poor countries abroad. Tens of thousands have already perished, according to aid officials.

He has illegally and impeachably paralyzed the protector of consumers – the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau – that returned many billions of dollars to consumers from corporate rip-off schemes, mostly from the finance companies. Throwing corporate law and order out the window, Trump is setting records for being soft on corporate crime – ending dozens of underway prosecutions of companies by the Justice Department.

He has illegally and impeachably closed the cabinet-level Department of Education, throwing student aid programs and the status of existing loans into dark holes of chaos.

Across other federal agencies, Trump has closed down crucial scientific programs designed to understand and alert the people to mega-storms and wildfires, infectious diseases, looming pandemics abroad, and expand basic research in medical science for the public’s health.

With his toady EPA Administrator, Lee Zeldin, Trump is chopping our protection against deadly toxic air, water, and soil pollution into pieces. He is closing down the EPA’s celebrated scientific research section, firing people everywhere, and declaring that the EPA has no authority to deal with the oil, gas, and coal fossil fuel emissions causing global warming. Crazily, he has blocked lower-priced solar energy and wind power projects, calling windmills “ugly.” This is just deranged.

FEMA employees have signed a desperate petition to Trump to stop strip-mining the agency, stop slowing its emergency response time, and restore the staff pushed out during the DOGE lawlessness. For their courage, Trump fired or suspended many of these hurricane, flood, and wildfire rescuers, as he does for civil servants who sign other letters and petitions because  they report they are unable to perform their work because of his actions. He has weakened an already weak OSHA and further jeopardized the health and safety of Americans in their workplace.

Trump has reduced successful programs such as Meals on Wheels America, Head Start, and aims to get rid of the Job Corps and AmeriCorps. Again, illegally defying Congressional mandates.

Trump, who eats well, is cutting food stamps for millions of poor Americans. This is hurting desperate families and supplying farmers.

Earlier, Trump got through Congress a law that will cause over 10 million people to lose their Medicaid; nearly five million could lose health care coverage soon when the elimination of subsidies causes prices to skyrocket under Obamacare scheduled by the end of this year. These serious deprivations, sure to cost lives, are what the Congressional Democrats are insisting be reversed before they go along with the omnibus government funding bill. GOP leaders, Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, are resisting. Of course, they have good health insurance paid for by taxpayers.

Trump has shut down diplomacy abroad, replacing it with threats, violence, fantasies, and boastful rhetoric. The skills of the Foreign Service in the State Department are frozen under the arrogant Secretary of State, Netanyahu toady, Marco Rubio.

DT

THOUGHT! and AWARENESS!

 Thought has made up most of my living.  If there is such a thing as reality, thought is outside of it. This means that thought cannot know reality. Reality therefore is a direct experience between the mind and what is actual, "reality". Meditation then would be the vehicle to have the experience of reality. This is a bit misleading in that there isn't a self to have the experience. Note that the self arises in thought.

Awareness is another word for meditation. Awareness is being aware that you are aware, again there is no self that is being aware, there is only awareness. This is why thought has made up most of my life, I was not aware of reality.  In not perceiving the actual reality I invented reality, thought created the self and this is a wrong turn. The entirety of mankind has made a wrong turn, this is why we struggle without results. Reality has no need of a "self" and it is this 'self" that is the source of all our problems. The self does not want this to be true, it is a powerful illusion. 

DT AKA Bill Rogan

Comment of Hedges "Abolishing the First Amendment"

"When the killing of children is seen as justifiable our world is in the throes of a calamitous demise. There is an avalanche of ignorance behind this insidious evil. The goodness in people like Mr. Hedges offers us a ray of hope, in this growing darkness."

DT 

TRUMP IS DOING TO OUR COUNTRY WHAT HE DID TO ALL HIS BUSINESSES !

  Trump, if anything, he is consistent. He is literally destroying our Country in the very same way he destroyed all of his Businesses Trump filed for bankruptcy six times showing a loss of 1. 8 billion dollars. Here is a list of businesses that fell into bankruptcy or failure at the direction of Donal Trump. There is of course the six Casinos, Trump University, Trump Airlines, Trump Beverages, Trump the Game, Trump Magazine, Trump Mortgage, Trump Steaks,Trump Travel, Trump Comms ( a phone company perhaps), Trump Tower Tampa, Trump Vodka, Trump Cologne.

Trump has started numerous other businesses while in office, which is a violation of the emoluments clause found in Article one Section 9 Claus 8 of the Constitution. Trump is wreaking havoc on many aspects of our government. He is attacking education, safety programs that keep us safe in areas such as food, clean air, soil and water. He is curtailing research in all matters of health, science and climate.

He causing people to die and if allowed to continue many more people will die on a global scale. Trump is taking away our rights of free speech, our right to protest, while imprisoning those people his thugs have detained or arrested.

He is destroying our economy wreaking havoc on farming, and all types occupations and services.

We simply can not allow him to continue with his total destruction of our way of life. Why can't people see that the division in our country coincides completely with Trumps reign.

DT

THE WONDER OF IT ALL!

  Beauty!

There is a pristine beach where, for eons the sea has thundered ashore just being there is wondrous and soothing, inland from the coast is a forest, a deep mossy woodland where creatures roam and when the human eye takes it in, the mind is stilled. Far south from here, lies a sprawling desert where the quiet beauty can seem harsh but rest assured life thrives and flourishes here. Towering above all this, the majestic peaks stand like guardians, letting their waters flow to nourish what lies far below. This is our home, this is where each and everyone of us, are to live out our lives. This is nature, this is our essence, to be alive is to know that we are not opposed to this we are of this, and its essence stretches to the very edge of the universe. In the natural silence of nature, pulses the energy the love, that brings to fruition all that was, is and ever will be. It is also in the face of every person that walks this wondrous Earth. There is no need for anything beyond this, something produced in the mind that tries to explain this. Everything that exist is infused by a spirit, a primordial energy, always moving always in stillness, mysterious and you cannot be separate from it. The cycle of birth and death are contained with-in the spirit and it is only our thinking that makes a division where none exist. Let go and let it be, if the letting go is just an idea then you haven't let go. Is your love of the beauty just an idea?

DT

THE UNINHABITABLE WORLD

 If global temperatures continue on with the current trend then the planet will become uninhabitable for humans and many other species. As temperatures rise, food production will fall off and the outcome will be mass starvation. Crops that aren't scorched by the blistering sun will be inundated by torrential rains. If there are some sources of food that survive people will kill each other for them. The quest for water will have the same outcome. What is being over looked by many people is the fact that rising global temperatures thus sea level rise are already baked into the planets climate.

The US, Russia or China may ascertain that a first strike killing most of the people on the planet will be their best bet for survival. However, nuclear winter may be an unsurvivable result of this attempt at, "to be the last man standing". 

I do not know if humanity has crossed the point at which survival is no longer possible. It is altogether possible that we will succumb. If there is a chance of surviving then according to the "extinction rebellion" and many scientist, we must act decisively and we must act now. Goggle the "extinction rebellion" and or Roger Hallam. 

The US government and many of the countries corporations are doing nothing to lower carbon emissions, consider that carbon emissions have risen since countries gave their pledges to get carbon emissions under control. The government of the United States along with US corporations have enslaved us, now they are killing us. 

There are places in Africa that have already reached temperatures that make human survival impossible. Countries are running out of water adding millions of people to climate migration. Foods grown under conditions of more carbon in the atmosphere have less protein. The demands humans are placing on the natural world are reducing the natural worlds ability to sustain us. 

One of the main things we have not understood is the very delicate balance of the natural world. I recall the Gia theory that demonstrated that life is a self governing process. Humanity neglected the environment acting as if we were not a part of it. Eight billion people in an industrialized world have never lived in harmony with the nature that produced them. 

In early August of 23, parts of China received nearly 30 inches of rain in a period of five days. The devastation was immense, the devastation included the loss of crops resulting in the predictions of widespread famine. 

Extreme weather of all types is becoming the norm and we are told that this is just the beginning. One can not help but wonder, do the people that are directly responsible for climate change have families? What could possibly be their mind set? The facts though are inescapable the people with the money and our government simply do not care. Is it that they believe it is to late to stop what's coming "the total collapse of human society". That is not for them to decide. 

I find it incredible that people are doubting human activity is effecting the climate. The planet is a closed environmental system and there is carbon in the atmosphere and that carbon has an effect on the weather, climate. Humans have raised the amount of carbon in the atmosphere and that is causing the planet to warm. It is simple science. Think of your car in a closed garage with the motor running equals death. Now understand that the planet is a closed system and hundreds of millions of cars and hundreds of thousands of coal furnaces etc, are filling the system with carbon, it is really quite simple.

I believe things are going to get worse, but I also believe we can stop the worst of what's to come.

DT remaining hopeful!