peaceful, loving, change is coming!

The world is changing, and the change is good. 


That thought came to me this morning in my Buddhist chants/prayers.  As those of you who have been reading me know, I'm a Nichiren Buddhist and proud member of the SGI.  We're a humanistic organization that is working for peace and security for society of the world.  We believe our lives are inextricably connected, and that we cannot enjoy true happiness and security while others are suffering or imperiled.  We don't push our faith on others, but we do chant that the world will come together as it is today with the peaceful marches.  And this brings me to today's post: peaceful, loving, change is coming!

 

Trump holding bible to create chaos: nice try bozo!

The signs are everywhere:  Trump has tried to use the U.S. police/military and Christian church for his evil doings, and has failed.  Pictures yesterday showed police officers taking a knee in solidarity with the protestors and the military soldiers hugging men with Black Lives Matter signs.  This had to drive Trump more crazy than he already is -- scary. 

Along with the love between the police/military and protestors, many Christian church leaders have recognized Trump's awkward stunt of gassing protestors to clear a spot for him in front of a church for what it was: an attempt to lie White Church Going People into believing that the Black Lives Matter protestors are out to get them.  Why not, such stunts have worked before! NOT THIS TIME BOZO!  Most of the protestors are of the christian faith!

Then, finally, some Republicans are speaking out against Donald Trump: The Dictator.  The best example of this is Susan Collins (R-Maine), who said:  "It was painful to watch peaceful protesters be subjected to tear gas in order for the president to go across the street to a church that I believe he’s attended only once."

And then Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb) who said: “There is a fundamental — a constitutional — right to protest, and I’m against clearing out a peaceful protest for a photo op that treats the Word of God as a political prop." 

And most glorious of all, the last Christian Right president, George Bush said, "...it remains a shocking failure that African Americans are harassed and threatened in their own country."

And the most telling sign of change, as printed in an CNBC headline:

Iowa voters oust Rep. Steve King, who defended white supremacy

That's right, Steve King is the guy who recently asked, "When did White Supremacist become a bad word?"  

What a dick, and he's gone!  Change is good. 

So enjoy your day everyone, keep protesting peacefully with your mask, and vote, Vote, VOTE! this November. 

~~ Dr TV Boogie

May 23 a day of endings to some bad things.

May 23rd, a day of endings.  

In 1865, the ending of the Civil War is celebrated as the Army of the Potomac marches along Pennsylvania Avenue in celebration.  Only weeks before, mourners had watched Abraham Lincoln's funeral cortege pass along the same thoroughfare. 

In 1934 on this day the crime spree of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker was finally over as they were shot to death by Texas and Louisiana state police.  

Another strange ending on this day was in 1945 when Hitler's appointed successor, Karl Dönitz, was captured.  It was Hitler's last deviant act to leave Germany in the hands of a Nazis who could eventually rise to power again by playing stupid in a country village.  This was a way to end The Second World War with a disputable surrender as Germany had the First World War.  The surrender Hitler had used as a platform to build his vicious Make-Germany-Great-Again campaign (MGGA-pronouced with a gag one gets from drinking bleach similar to the pronunciation of today's MAGA).  Fortunately on this day in 1945 the Allies declared that they would not recognize the legitimacy of Dönitz's administration, and arrested him as a regular Nazis for which he served ten years in prison. 

Stay tuned to see what other bad things end today.  Last I heard, Trump and his idiot followers still weren't wearing their mask.  

I don't need to wear no F*(king Mask!

May 22, the day they killed Forrestal Becasue He Opposed The War Machine.

Forrestal

At around 2 a.m. on the morning of May 22, 1949, America's first Secretary of Defense, James Vicent Forrestal fell to his death from a small window on the 16th floor of The Bethesda Naval Hospital.  A lot has been made out of his death, most recently by the UFO community who believe Forrestal was murdered to keep him quiet about Rosewell.   Undoubtedly, Forrestal's death is peculiar as pointed out by Richard Dolan and his Richard Dolan Press website where Dolan tells us "several oddities" of the death:

         1. Very unusual that Forrestal was placed on the 16th floor, as opposed to the first floor where most mental patients were kept.  

          2.  Scuff marks were found on the window ledge as if Forrestal had changed his mind and tried to climb back up, or, fought to get back up. 

          3.  Why was a rope used when he was jumping out a 16th floor window?  

Finally, in his article, Dolan reminds us:  "The investigation was as much of a sham as that of president Kennedy...fourteen years later."

Okay, so there was something fishy about Forrestal's death, no doubt and before I give you the EsotericDaily read on this, I believe a quick refresher course on the man James Forrestal is in order:

First, Forrestal was from a wealthy family and if he had been born today, would probably be one of the "Deregulation  / Lower My Taxes /  Gated Community" 1%'ers who refuse to pay their fair-share of the pie.   Fortunately, however, this was the early 20th century and a good number of the wealthy were progressive and fought for such things as Fair Wages for employees, Safety Net for the Old, and Rights For Minorities. Yes, Forrestal was a New Dealer who supported the Roosevelt policies that gave us Social Security --  can I get an Amen?

Before he was the first Secretary of Defense, Forrestal had also been a successful -- wait for it -- Wall Street Banker!  That's right, he hobnobbed with the Rockefeller and Morgan’s and helped them get richer.  He was definitely in the club.  Also, though, unlike the Trump and Bushes of today, when war came, Forrestal joined the fight and made a name for himself there.  Forrestal was so proud of his service in the Iwo Jima battle that he kept the original flag as a souvenir -- the famous photo done by Rosenthal of the battle was actually a larger one hosted up for the photo, not the actual flag used in battle which Forrestal kept dear to his heart: a true American!

So, as you can see, by today's standards, Forrestal would be another greedy bastard bitching about your $15 an hour protest for a minimum wage, but as I have said, he wasn't because back then the wealthy knew they were blessed with their fortune from those of us plowing their fields.   Unfortunately, it was probably this reasoning that he either committed suicide over, or was tossed from a window to keep his mouth shut.  Why?

Well, lets look at the highlights of what this man did:

          He introduced the policy of racial integration in the military.

          He opposed dropping the nukes on Japan which some of the politicians back in DC thought approached insubordination (Zacharias, Ellis, "How We Bungled the Japanese Surrender).

          He argued against the Partition for Palestine which created The Jewish State.

          He advocated the release of UFO Roswell UFO records.

          He implemented a "Needs" based budget for military spending.

The list goes on from  Communist Hater to a supporter of the
Republican (Dewey) candidate who ran against Truman and almost won -- yeah, that probably pissed off Truman a little.

So his life was a bit controversial, and his death...  well, let’s look at his death:

On the morning of his death, Forrestal had been reading a book of poetry which he had left opened to an excerpt from Sophocles “Ajax.” 

In the tragic play, Ajax is the last hero and halfway into the play, commits suicide.   The remainder of the play is the argument to bury him as a hero or let him rot above ground.  In the play, Ajax says:

“Woe, woe! Will be the cry—
No quiet murmur like the tremulous wail of the lone bird, the querulous nightingale.”

Forrestal had written these words on a pad of paper beside the the book of World Poetry.   He stopped at “night” of the last word “nightingale.”

So what’s it all mean?  

1st of all, it is highly unlikely that a murderer would have the literature background to leave this book of classical writing for a suicide note, so one has to conclude that Forrestal himself left it.  Maybe he knew the killers were coming for  him and so Forrestal left it as a warning that there are no heroes left, that the governing power is all corrupt.   In the Ajax story, Ajax is mislead by a goddess to slaughter innocent “Sheep” thinking he was killing the real enemy.   This definitely is worth mentioning, but I’ll leave it to you to define.  My read on the Forrestal story is that he was the first casualty of the Military-Industry Complex President Eisenhower warned us about in his final message to the people.   The same War Profiteering company that killed Kennedy because he was standing up to them.   The same War Machine that Forrestal came across as the leader of the department of defense when he implemented his “Needs Basis” approach to spending tax-payers money to profiteers. The same greedy war machine that made the Bush’s and Koch Brothers wealthy.   The same War Machine that fears regulations for they will expose their corrupt lies keeping you and me down.

RIP Forrestal.


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Viking leader Ragnar Lodbrok is remembered on this day.  He was captured by the Northumbrians and killed by being thrown into a pit of poisonous snakes.  His death song, which reflects his faith in the afterlife, has been passed down from generation to generation to provide hope and reassurance about what lies beyond.


Rangnar Lothbrok's Death Song

I did not look to a snake
to be my bane
things happen very often to one
that one thinks of the least.

Soon now will my body
die among the beasts.

The young pigs would squeal
if they knew the state of the boar
of the injury done to me
Snakes dig in my flesh
stab at me harshly
and have sucked on me
soon now will my body
die among the beasts

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Eisenhower’s words have never been more important than they are today with the War Machine owning all politicians through the Koch Brother's Millionaire Fund.




In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of  unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military–industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together. [emphasis added]


                                                President Eisenhower, a Republican

Albert Camus Wrote a Book About Today's Plague in 1948. Weird.

I've been reading Albert Camus' book titled The Plague.  I'm only a 3rd of the way done, so there will be more on it in a few days, but for now just let me tell you that the book reads like a play-by-play book on our current Covid 19 crisis in the U.S.  In Camus' book, the town people are slow to act when they start seeing rats dying in the streets, and are told by the town leaders not to be alarmed because it will "magically" go away.  Sound familiar?   No shit, the guy who wrote the book L’Étranger in which he describes how prisons are made for poor schmucks like you and me, and not the wealthy 1%-ers, also wrote a book on the plague. 

In today's discussion of The Plague, I want to point out a few pages early in the book when the preacher is preaching.  Funny, but seems to me after reading that section, Trump's evilness might be the reason God put a plague on us.  That is, if there is such a thing as capital "G" god? 

If today the plague is in your midst, that is because the hour has struck for taking thought.  The just man need have no fear, but the evildoer has good cause to tremble.  For plague is the flail of God and the world His threshing floor, and implacably He will threst out His harvest until the wheat is separated from the chaff.  There will be more chaff than wheat, few chosen of the many called.  Yet this calamity was not willed by God.  Too long this world of ours has connived at evil, too long has it counted on the divine mercy, on God's forgiveness.  Repentance was enough, men thought; nothing was forbidden.  Everyone felt comfortable assured; when the day came, he would surely turn from his sins and repent.  Pending that day, the easiest course was to surrender all along the line; divine compassion would do the rest.  For a long while God gazed down on this town with eyes of compassion; but He grew weary of waiting, His eternal hope was too long deferred, and
and now He has turned His face away form us.  And so, God's light withdrawn, we walk in darkness, in the thick darkness of this plague.

My brothers, that fatal hunt is up, and harrying our streets today.  See him there, that angel of the pestilence, comely as Lucifer, shining like Evil's very self!  He is hovering above your roofs with his great spear in his right hand, poised to strike, while his left hand is stretched toward one or other of your houses.  Maybe at this very moment his finger is pointing to your door, the red spear crashing on its panels, and even now the plague is entering your home and settling down in your bedroom to await your return.  Patient and watchful, ineluctable as the order of the scheme of things, it bides its time.  No earthly power, nay, not even -- mark me well -- the vaulted might of human science can avail you to avert that hand once it is stretched toward you.  Ad winnowed like corn on the blood-stained threshing-fool of suffering, you will be cast away with the chaff. 

Wow, sounds like maybe God has had enough of Donald Trump mocking him.  

Albert Camus

As if that wasn't weird enough, on this day in 1972, in the St. Peter's Basilica where worshipers and tourist came to see Michelangelo's "Pieta," a man jumps in and yells, "I am Jesus Christ," and commences to hammer the masterpiece.  The blows chipped off the nose of the Madonna, as well as, gouged out her left eyelid.

What if it was Jesus?... 

You decide:

Mad Man With Hammer...         
                         

  

Or Jesus:

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In ancient Rome, Agnoalia was held annually on this date to honor the god Vediovis (or Vedius), who was Jupiter's counterpart in the underworld.  Vediovis was also a deity of swamps and volcanic activity.  At the Festival of Vediovis, a she-goat was sacrificed in an attempt to placate the eruptive forces of nature and the underworld.

Vertigo Time Warp also known as a Solar Minimum

I'm not one to make a mountain out of a molehill, but I have to wonder about the Sun.  According to a CNN Science article, "The sun is experiencing a less active phase called 'solar minimum,'"
The article goes on to say: "...just like us, it (the Sun) goes through phases and changes. Over time, those changes in our star have become more predictable. Currently, it's going through a less active phase, called a solar minimum."

The sun experiences regular 11-year intervals including energetic peaks of activity, followed by low points. During the peak, the sun showcases more sunspots and solar flares.  Scientists at NASA say we're currently in a "Grand Solar Minimum." The last time this occurred was between 1650 and 1715.  

Curious on what the years 1650 to 1715 were about, I researched and found that those years are known historically as the Age of Louis XIV.  Louis ruled from 1643 to 1715.  The most notable events from this time was, war.  According to Wikipedia, France was the leading European power, and it fought three major wars: the Franco-Dutch War, the War of the League of Augsburg, and the War of the Spanish Succession. There were also two lesser conflicts: the War of Devolution and the War of the Reunions.  War was such a part of the time of Louis XIV that reference books such as An Encyclopedia of Global Warfare and Civilization by Cathal J. Nolan, write: "Dominated by the ambitions of France's King Louis XIV, Europe in the years 1650-1715 witnessed a series of wars from which emerged many of the theories, practices, and technologies that characterize modern warfare. 

Another interesting fact I found was that an outgoing French ambassador compared Trump to Louis XIV by saying that they were both "Unpredictable and uniformed."  That ambassador (Gérard Araud) went on to say:  “It is the end of an era, the era of neoliberalism. We don’t yet know what will succeed it,” Araud tweeted at 2 a.m. on the night Trump was elected. “After Brexit and this election, anything is possible. A world is collapsing before our eyes. Vertigo.”

Yes, Vertigo, the world of Donald Trump and Louis XIV.  Yesterday I told you the world under Dr Donald Trump is a world of chaos, but I think "Vertigo" is a better way of saying it. What are the other similarities between Trump and Louis XIV?  Take a seat, the similarities are Vertigo crazy. 

Of all the similarities between Trump and Louis XIV, the most notable are their egos.   Trump says he is the greatest president ever and everyone before him sucked (no shit, look it up).  Louis XIV, not only thought he was the greatest ruler, but also felt he was the Sun King and so had the church priest call him one.  Which the church happily did just as the Christians church today happily calls Donald Trump "Gods Handyman (paraphrased)." 


Louis XIV loved gold.  He had everything around him plastered in it:

Hall of Mirrors, Palace of Versailles.

Trump hotels are usually gold, well, fake gold, but still, gold:

Trump’s triplex is a marble-and-onyx-covered ode to Versailles that he calls “comfortable modernism.” It is a $100 million penthouse that sits atop the Trump Tower on Manhattan’s 5th Avenue. (Scott Frances/Otto)

Finally, from Odyssey Magazine:

Louis XIV was known for his aggressive nature throughout his reign. He engaged France in wars that many historians look back on as unnecessary, and his foreign policy was less than forgiving. During the 1680s, Louis XIV generated public hostility, creating tension and stunting growth among France's rigid class system. 

In a visit to New York's Trump Tower, one is easily amazed at the grandeur of Donald's shrine to himself. The entire building sparkles, and overwhelms the senses through the sheer excess present; individuals can see themselves on every single wall and are painted with a bronze shadow that falls over the entire interior. Guards check bags at the door, and watch the elevator to make sure only those with IDs are heading to the top. Four floors of glitter are open to the public eye, but after that only the very rich may continue. No matter what floor you're on, everything screams Trump: Trump Grill, a signature Trump clothing line, and Ivanka Trump's small jewelry case. Everything shouts Trump's name, singing of his fortune and fame.


The similarities between the Sun King and The Donald are uncanny. Slightly obsessed with themselves and able to dedicate an entire building in their honors? Check. Causing chaos? Check. Looking back to the original architectural cues of both buildings, a continued amazement of self-obsession can be easily noticed, and further comparisons of the two leaders increase with time. Louis XIV was controversial, without much of a soft side.  Trump is, well, Trump.


So, yes boys and girls, we are in a Vertigo Time Warp also known as a Solar Minimum. 

Stand up to Trump or bow to Satan. The choice is yours.

I've been trying to see things positively, but it's so hard.  Everything is so confusing?  In today's headlines for instance, you can read "Why the U.S. Is Not Heading For a Depression" right under another report that says, "We're Already in a Great Depression." Who do I believe? 

There are no answers.  Trump and his Bozo the Clown Show is giving us no clear advice.  Trump says one thing and does another.  He says we should wear mask in public but never wears one himself.   His own guidelines say we should continue in lock down until 14 days of lowering numbers, which hasn't happened in the cities where he is now supporting the red-neck melitia protestors with a wink.  What chaos!

When I was a Christian, I remember how a preacher told me that chaos is the work of the devil

(1 Corinthians 14:33 - For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.).  The Preacher Man was talking about the war protesters who were burning flags and protesting the Vietnam War.  "God doesn't like chaos," he told me and it stuck with me.  I mean, I never liked chaos myself, that's why I became a Buddhist.  

I wonder why none of the Christians are saying things about the Chaos Trump is creating by saying one thing and doing another?  Are they... scared?  Have they been eating so much of their Chic-Fil-a For Jesus chicken that they've become... chicken shits? 

Stand up to Trump or bow to Satan.  It's that simple ass whole.

Man, that Jesus chicken does sound good.

 

 

From the desk of Dr TV Boogie.

essence of flower

Most people today are familiar with holistic healing therapies, particularly the practice of using herbs for healing.  But raise the subject of healing with flower essences, and most people are at a loss to tell you what an "essence" is. 

First of all, essences are not the same as essential oils.  In fact they are very different.  Essential oils are used in aromatherapy treatments, home fragrance, and bath and body products.  Unlike essential oils, essences contain no biological material, have no scent, and no confirmed physical therapeutic properties that you would associate with an essential oil used in aromatherapy. 

So what are they then?  Simply put:  essences are liquid solutions that contain the energetic or vibrational nature of the flower or plant from which it is made.  An essence is the energetic imprint of the life force of the flower or plant.  This imprint is captured in water and then a preservative is added (usually alcohol).  This solution, or decoction, is then stored in bottles (which usually include an eyedropper) so that the essence can be taken orally, added to bath and body products, or used on chakras or meridian points.

Unlike essentials oils, essences do not contain any of the biological content of the plant from which they are made; therefore, they are non-toxic. 

Nature has its own energy or life force.  This energy or life force allows everything around us to function, live, adapt, grow, blend, and flourish within its surroundings, and to survive its environment by evolving to cope with challenges around it.

Most people are familiar with the word "chi" or "qi," used by the Chinese to describe the life force.  The yogis of India refer to the life force as prana.  The Hawaiians call the life force mana.  Native Americas call it manitou; in Hebrew the life force is known as ruach, and in Islamic cultures it is known as baraka. 

All life, in whatever form it takes, comprises energy, and this energy is constantly mixing, merging, and exchanging.  People like Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein spent years exploring it through physics and the same goes for those who are studying quantum mechanics today -- so much in the universe does seem to relate to vibrations and energy. 

Essence making is a tool for capturing the vibrations and energies of life.  Much research has been done over years by scientists and other people on how water can be affected by vibration and the energy to which it is exposed, and the way that it can hold a memory of the energy or vibrations to which it has been exposed.  This is why flower essences are prepared in water. 

To understand how essences work, you need to recognize that a human being is more than just a physical body.  Each person has his or her own external and internal energy and vibrational centers.  You may have heard them described as auras, chakras, subtle bodies, or meridians -- to just name a few.  Many people simply visualize these energies and vibrations as mists that surround and go through us;  they can carry different colors, frequencies, sounds, and speeds.  These are not visible to human eye but they are still very much there.  Interchanging, mixing, and merging with each other and all living things throughout the world.

Here is a great example of the way in which these subtle bodies and energy centers can impact the way you feel or affect what you think about a situation: Take a moment to think of a time when you met someone and liked them instantly, although you have never met before.  How about a time when you have walked into a room and not been comfortable or sure about the space you were in, uncomfortable with the "vibes"?  Or a time when you took a walk in nature and experienced a difference in emotion without knowing quite why?  This is because your vibration and energy centers mix with the vibrations and energy centers that are around you, affecting your thoughts and feelings, thus creating a vibration and energy with you.  Those external and internal energy centers evoke emotional and psychical responses making you feel a certain way.

When our energy systems are affected -- whether by thoughts, feelings, or life experience--we can feel off-balance.  This is where working with energy and using the life force and the imprint of the vibrations we can obtain through essences can make a difference.  We use what nature has to offer, by taking the vibration of our mind, body, and soul, so that an optimum state of healthy and well-being can be achieved.  As everything has its own energy, the combination of what to use and when it should be used is unique to each of us.

Dr. Edward Bach

Before we look at a few of the essential therapies themselves, let's have a look at the founder of flower remedies.  His name is Dr. Edward Bach, a physician who got tired of treating the symptom instead of the person and so developed his Bach Flower Remedies.  He specifically defined the seven moods that cause disease and suffering as, fear, uncertainty, loneliness, lack of interest, over-sensitivity, over-concern for others, and despair.  He then went on to discover a total of thirty-eight different flowers that could help bring about changes for his patients.  He defined the seven qualities of healing disease as hope, peace, faith, joy, certainty, love, and wisdom.  He truly believed the mind played an important part in improving general health and well-being, and explained his therapy as a way,  "...to raise our vibrations and open up our channels for the reception of our Spiritual Self, to flood our natures with the particular virtue we need, and wash out from us the fault which is causing harm."

So let's look at some therapies. 

Wild Rose:

The BACH remedy Wild Rose encourages the positive potential for enthusiasm and a lively interest in life. Reignite your passion for life, and find enthusiasm for the world in general, work, and those you care about. Take initiative, and make some changes.

Mustard Flower:

Be Joyful, with BACH Mustard The BACH remedy Mustard encourages the positive potential to return to joy. Everyone faces occasional sudden gloomy feelings. When you are feeling down, bring joy back into your daily life.  

Bach Star of Bethlehem 

The BACH remedy Star of Bethlehem neutralizes the effects of grief and encourages the positive potential of inner strength. Deal with the aftereffects of a life-altering experience. Have comfort and soothe your pain and sorrows.

White Chestnut:

The BACH remedy White Chestnut encourages the positive potential to find tranquility and peace of mind. Don't let those repetitive thoughts cloud your mind and get in the way of your focus. Reclaim your day and cope with the hectic world around you.

Aspen Flower:

The BACH remedy Aspen encourages the positive potential to maintain a state of inner peace and security, regaining assurance of mind. For when apprehensions consume your mind, and unsettling feelings leave you on edge. Face the unknown with your head held high, and take on any moment throughout your day with confidence.

Chicory Flower:

Love Unconditionally, with BACH Chicory The BACH remedy Chicory encourages the positive potential to selflessly take a step back and care for others without expecting anything in return. Care for the ones you love without becoming manipulative or overprotective. Take a step back, and love unconditionally.

Crab Apple Flower:

Accept Imperfections, with BACH Crab Apple The BACH remedy Crab Apple encourages the positive potential to embrace your body and mind, and accept your imperfections. Obsessive thoughts over imperfections can lead to a poor self-image and a feeling of uncleanliness. Learn to accept yourself.

Larch Flower:

Have Confidence, with BACH Larch. The BACH remedy Larch encourages the positive potential to approach different situations with confidence and determination. Are you nervous to try new things due to a lack of confidence, or need a boost to your self-esteem? Find your inner confidence.

Hornbeam Flower:

The BACH remedy Hornbeam encourages the positive potential to be certain in your ability, and “face the day ahead.” Shake off that “Monday morning feeling,” cope with the demanding day ahead and face whatever obstacles are on your schedule, without hesitation. 

Honeysuckle: 

 “Those who live much in the past, perhaps a time of great happiness, or memories of a lost friend, or ambitions which have not come true. They do not expect further happiness such as they have had.” 

Good for: Homesickness, nostalgia, bereavement 
 
Gentian:

“Those who are easily discouraged. They may be progressing well in illness or in the affairs of their daily life, but any small delay or hindrance to progress causes doubt and soon disheartens them.”
Good when you easily get discouraged when faced with difficulties. 

Oak: 

“For those who are struggling and fighting strongly to get well, or in connection with the affairs of their daily life. They will go on trying one thing after another, though their case may seem hopeless. They will fight on. They are discontented with themselves if illness interferes with their duties or helping others. They are brave people, fighting against great difficulties, without loss of hope of effort.”

Good for exhaustion, overwork, workaholic, fatigued, over-achiever

Willow Flower:

“For those who have suffered adversity or misfortune and find these difficult to accept, without complaint or resentment, as they judge life much by the success which it brings. They feel that they have not deserved so great a trial that it was unjust, and they become embittered. They often take less interest and are less active in those things of life which they had previously enjoyed.”   

Fights self pity, resentment, short-changed, poor me, sulky, irritable, grumbling, bitterness, blame, complain

 

 

 

The Wicked Bible and Trump Depression.

It's May 8th everybody, hurray!  This is the day readers in 1631 were shocked, or pleased by today's standards, to read in the King James Bible:  "Thou shalt commit adultery."  No shit, this became known as the "Wicked Bible" or the "Adulterous Bible," and on May 8th 1631 the printers were hauled before the fearsome Star Chamber for their blasphemous mistakes.  Fortunately, they were only heavily fined and banned from their profession instead of mutilated as so often happened by the church back then.  My only guestion is this:  What about the other criminal parts in the bible that weren't changed?  Like (resourced from American Humanist Association):

 ...the Inquisition; the Crusades; the burning of witches; religious wars; pogroms against Jews; persecution of homosexuals; forceful conversions of heathens; slavery; beatings of children; brutal treatment of the mentally ill; suppression of scientists; and whippings, mutilations, and violent executions of persons convicted of crimes. Those acts were a regular part of the Christian world for centuries and in some ways, still are.

Trump signs bible.

Trump bible signature.

Thomas Paine

As Thomas Paine said: “It (the bible) is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.”

 Ouch, so there you have it boys and girls, what's in your bible? 

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On this day in 1980 the World Health Organization announced that smallpox had been successfully eradicated as a disease; unfortunately, Ronald Reagan was also elected that year as our first Slash and Burn president and the Republican Starve the Beast tax cuts for the rich, War on Science, and deregulation for all, began.  Since that time we haven't cured shit, we've only found ways to postpone diseases with Big Pharma meds meant to make a shit load of money at the expense of you and me.  

Wake up people, you're a lobster in hot water not seeing what's happening.  The next step is kill social security.  In a Motley Fool article today, they point out that Trump's budgets have all called for Social Security Cuts, and without reelection concerns if he is reelected, he'll surely cut the shit out of it (I paraphrase, read the complete article here). 

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Finally, May 8th in the day Harry S Truman was born.  Here's what he said about the depression:  "It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job, it's a depression whey you lose yours." 






Now you know. 

Let Them Drink Bleach With Their Cake.

I wanted to blog about some good news this morning, good news like the fact that there are only a few hundred tobacco-spitting right-wing nut protestors out-and-about with their assault riffles pointed at us while the good majority of us are staying at home being the silent majority as usual.  A fact that shows you their true numbers are way lower than ours, way, like a few-hundred thousand to millions.  The big question is why do they get so much news coverage for their small numbers?  Answer:  because the 1% Corporate Elite want it that way.  

Did you know that there is a true peoples protest going on that triples the size of these Trump/Hate protest?  Since 2018 the Poor People's Campaign has held protest with marchers in the thousands, but, because it is a real bottom-up protest you don't get it on your CNN, MSNBC, and F*&ked, I mean, Fox News feeds.  It was the same with the Dakota Access Pipeline protest where thousands were protesting the pipeline everyday and it got zilch coverage by the mainstream press. 

Here's the good news: just like with the French revolution when Marie Antoinette told us to "Shut-the-f&*k up and eat cake (paraphrased)," and it led to the violent revolution that gave us today's democracy, or in 1968 when young Americans stood up to the war machine and said they wouldn't die for the draft dodging Donald Trump's of the day, the people's will was eventually done as it always is in the end.  And it is this fact that scares the Berkshire Hathaway Shit out of them (fyi, Berkshire Hathaway is a stock that only the 1% can buy according to SwoopWoop.)  Of course, you can never trust what you read.  

So, brothers and sisters, be strong, be proud, and be the silent majority you are.  They are pushing the last of their Hate Warriors out on us now because our victory is near! 

Remember, we will crawl over glass to vote this November, and they know it!