Greenland Ice Sheet (1) FACT!

 The Greenland ice sheet loses 10,000 tons of ice per second,  into the planets oceans. There is already 5 feet of sea rise baked into the global system.. If all the planets ice melts the seas will rise 230 feet directly affecting 3.6 billion people. Of course the entire human population will be affected by climate migration. Many people will lose their properties and be left homeless. The price of real estate in desirable locations will sky rocket, it is already happening. 

We are on the threshold of the most threatening event that humanity has ever faced. Without a unified effort to mitigate fossil fuel consumption we will find ourselves facing the worst possible aspects of global warming. It is unfortunately true that humanity is divided on many fronts, i e, we are economically divided, we are politically, racially and religiously divided. These divisions will hinder our ability to save ourselves from ourselves. 

Humans are capable of dealing with climate change we are very creative yet so far we are not rising to face this challenge. We can't mitigate what is already baked into the system but we can prevent the worst possible scenario. (230 feet of seas). Time, however is not on our side, we need to act NOW!

DT 

While all this is unfolding the US politicians continue to fight amongst themselves and the wealthy continue to hoard vast fortunes, that feed their egos. 

Class Warfare!

 The Rand Corporation did a study and they found that within the last fifty years - fifty trillion dollars (fifty trillion) was transferred from the bottom ninety percent of the population to the top one percent of the population. / In the fifties and sixties there were no bank bail- outs. Starting with president Reagan and financial deregulation, the financial crashes and the subsequent bailouts by the bottom ninety percent, began. Corporations including banks took control of the Government and turned it against the average US citizen. The average wage earner today receives compensation equal to compensation of the decade of the seventies, this if anything is criminal. Meanwhile CEO wages increased by 1,460%, hence we find ourselves in the middle of class warfare instituted by the one percent and made possible by the sycophants in the US Congress. There are basically three reasons behind this warfare, they are in order "stupidity, ignorance and greed, you have to be stupid and ignorant to be greedy. 

DT  

The Truth about the Ukraine War

 Jeffery Sachs explains why the US is a madman! 

https://youtu.be/uJ33GaBpSbY 

DT

The Minds Default Setting!

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.

Social Security.

Some things to think about:

 Social security was founded to allow people a way to live after they retire. Not all people are comfortable with investing to survive. Some people, after paying in for many years die before collecting anything from their Social Security account, 16.5  % of men & 10% of women. Social Security sometimes provides benefits for the survivor in a marriage and children if any.

Twenty to twenty two percent of US workers earn more that $147,000 per year, this number is the social security tax, cut off point.. Also there is no social security tax on earned interest, dividends from stocks, and capital gains. 

Social Security is forecasted to stay solvent until until 2035. It can stay solvent awash in money by taxing income that is not a wage. Social Security can raise the cut off from wages. Some people argue that they can do better with their retirement than the government and this may be true. Yet if they fail then social security will be there for them. If people are allowed to opt out of social security and fail with their own retirement plan, then will they want welfare. In the long run it is best to pay into Social Security in that most will get their money back. 

It is also possible to manage the money in Social Security in a way that it grows. The politicians that want to gut Social Security are causing our senior citizen unnecessary worry, that is quite frankly, inconsiderate and cruel. 

DT  

Bank Failures

 Money is an invention by humans that we have become subservient too. The vehicles for this subservience are greed and stupidity. Depressions, crashes, Inflation, run on banks, collapses, deflation, disinflation and so on are due to the subservience through greed and stupidity.

DT

Inflation the Fix!

 Very simple, everybody agrees to lower prices! Of course the people causing the inflation will not want to lower their prices

DT

Sustaining Belief! Warning Danger!

The holy books actually teach us something we need to understand, unfortunately we seem to be missing it. Consider that thought is capable of sustaining itself from generation to generation. This gives rise to the stream of human consciousness, where ideas and beliefs are sustained. In many instances people are thinking the exact same thing as people that lived thousands of years ago. Some people question what has been passed down and others do not and I'm uncertain as to why. In the case of the holy books, perhaps the people that accept them do it because they think they are getting something out of them, i e, Salvation. The idea of salvation is a thought sustained idea, people think they need to be saved via the holy book that then purports to save them.  

Let's consider, if the stories of the bible were introduced today for the first time. These tales would most likely, not be taken seriously, as the word of god, they would be taken for what they are and that is, tales. They may be seen as allegory but certainly not actuality. It is doubtful that people would be arguing to justify these tales, they would more likely be seeking proof. This proof would not be accepted if it came from with-in the tales themselves. The proof would need to be arrived at through the use of logic, i e, justified by reason. We also must consider that concrete proof one way or the other may not be possible, proof needs to be objective not subjective.We cannot say our holy books are true via their content or because they say they are.

Do we see the role that thought is playing? Our handed down thoughts are responsible for the role the holy books are playing in our lives. In one word "tradition" it seems to add validity to our beliefs. Yet is there such a thing as tradition or is it just more thinking? As we see, if thought did not play this role, we would question the validity of the contents our holy books. We think we need salvation via the books that tell us without actual proof that they are the way to thought induced salvation.  Delving a bit further into the role that thought is playing in our lives. We see that thought is constantly projecting the me in surroundings that are also projected. Here's the thing, there is no reason to project this reality because it is already happening without the interference of thought. In other words thinking you are here is redundant. Then there is this, if we are "thinking our existence" then we are missing the actuality of existence. Can we see that much of the stream of human consciousness is habitual. One more thing concerning the role that thought plays in our religious beliefs, every individual perceives god in their own unique way. Doesn't this tell us that it is our perceptions, that we are taking for god. If this were not the case everyone would think of god in the exact same way which would imply knowing. This points out that we do not know the god that we claim to worship. We just think we do. A god that needs or wants worship is a needy god which is pretty much a disqualification, of godliness.  

We are back again to awareness just look at awareness, it is natural, we are always aware, yet we must be aware that we are aware. The people that penned the holy books because they were unaware set in motion the quest for salvation which has resulted in human suffering and sorrow. What I am about to say for me, seems to be true but I cannot say that it is actually true. "Yet" This natural awareness will awaken us, allowing us to meld with our true nature eliminating our questions concerning existence. 

DT, On The Road To Freedom!

Letter to Tim Cook from Ralph Nader

 

In the Public Interest Letter to Tim Cook, Other Ultra-rich CEOs and Hedge Fund Titans

The victims of the devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Turkey and Syria need your help now. The surviving families and children and those rescued alive from the rubble are in serious danger in affected wintertime impoverished regions. Refugees in other places fleeing their war-torn homelands are also suffering. International aid agencies are grossly insufficient for these immediate humanitarian necessities. What are you Big Business Titans doing sitting on massive pay, profits and tax escapes? Awakening your consciousness for your fellow human beings may be a modest form of redemption. Further, you have access to logistics specialists, delivery systems, communication facilities and many other contacts and resources. You get your calls returned! Fast! Tim Cook, you have been making $833 a MINUTE (plus lavish benefits). Remarkably, your compensation is not even in the top ten of operating company CEOs. Moreover, your own cultivated sense of envy knows that there are Hedge Fund Goliaths, who in some recent years, made off with over $2,500 per MINUTE on a forty-hour week. Tim, you and the Apple corporation are known to pay few taxes given what tax attorneys and tax accountants do for you (especially with Apple taking advantage of foreign tax havens while receiving the fruits of Washington’s free government R&D over the years). Your company has so much leftover money, flowing from the deprivation of a million serf laborers in China, and so few productive outlets for this mass of capital that you have set records for stock buybacks—over $400 billion in the last decade. You and Apple and the Hedge Fund Titans are not known for your charitable giving as a percent of your adjusted gross income. Yet, if asked “Do you believe in the Golden Rule?” you would probably say “Yes” – at least in public. Use your wealth and newfound empathy to organize direct relief for these earthquake victims and other major refugee areas such as the starving children of Somalia. Deliver food, medicine, clothing, shelter, mobile clinics and many other available airlifted essentials. Hire skilled people to make it happen. Give your new organization a prominent logo for permanence and for setting an example for other super-rich to emulate. Your isolation from the public expectation that you enter the above engagements in a significant way is quite remarkable. That should trouble you and your public relations advisors. Just this week National Public Radio (NPR) featured a startling compilation of what producers of movies and TV shows believe appeals to their viewers. It is no longer awe or envy of the ‘rich and famous.’ It is no longer the Horatio Alger myth. It is encapsulated in NPR’s headline: Why “eat the rich” storylines are taking over TV and movies. As Bob Dylan sang, “the times, they are a-changin’.” NPR reporter Kristin Schwab related: “Hollywood’s depictions of the wealthy – and perhaps societal attitudes toward them – have changed.… The moment isn’t random. Think about the extreme economic events we’ve been through. There’s the pandemic, when essential workers kept the country running while the richest 1% amassed a huge sum of wealth – twice as much as the rest of the world put together (her emphasis), according to the non-profit Oxfam. And before that was The Great Recession, which is how we got the term “the 1%.” Mr. Cook, Apple is reportedly making a contribution to the Turkey/Syria relief effort. Are you personally making a contribution? Your Big Business Titan comrades may think they can get away with gated, cold-blooded mentalities. They may be right about that if the mass media doesn’t turn its steely gaze toward their hoards of gold and question their “don’t give a damn” attitude. Maybe they just can’t help themselves – so busy are they counting their lucre. Here is an idea: ask them to ask their grandchildren, 12 and under, what they want them to do. Absorb their moral authority and MOVE FAST TO HELP THOSE IN NEED! Ralph Nader

PAIN a Warning Sign.

  If the body receives a physical injury the nerves respond by alerting us with pain. Pain is simply telling us that there is something wrong and we must take corrective action. With that in mind we could say that pain is a good thing. I am going to suggest that mental pain is serving the same purpose. Mental pain has many sources that I will divide into two parts. The first one sees pain arise in regards to our personality. An example of this would be feeling pain because we think and feel that we are in some way not living up to standards be they self imposed or imposed through societal pressures. There are countless ways this type of pain can arise. The second avenue for the sensation of pain has to do with "being". A good example of this type of pain has to do with, not understanding why I, we are here, this encompasses the entirety of our existence. This pain is also telling us that there is something intrinsically wrong with our life. This type of pain explains the rise of religion however it is important to understand that religion is the outcome of pain, if there were no pain, people would not pursue religion. Religion arose after the feeling of pain. Religious people have not put an end to pain in many cases religious belief has worsened their pain. Religions, have their followers waiting for a reward, in the mean time pain prevails. 

The pain we are feeling from not understanding our place in life can only end when we have an insight into living. This insight will not come about through the process of thinking. This insight must be natural and there is only one thing we have that is natural and that is awareness. See that you are aware without any effort, when you are aware that you are aware, stay there, at first your mind will wander just be aware. Imagine God creating us and then making us pass a test to gain the totality of creation. What ever talents we possess to pass Gods test are God given, there is simply no logical way around this. 

with love, DT