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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 71329286 United States 02/25/2017 07:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Got to love historical revisionism. The Amerindians of today, are a domesticated people. Research, "Mourning War's". There is wisdom available if you listen. Truth has no color, no face, no skin, no ethnicity. I hope you aren't one of those people who have no hope for making the world a better place. It is this sort of stinking thinking that is allowing depravity to become normal amongst people who once glimpsed of a bright future and now wondered if it was only a dream... the folks of the past had hope for their children, and their children's children. Are we going to let the hopes and sacrifices of all of the many many thousands of years of our ancestors go to waste with our irresponsibility? There is still time... please be open to thinking differently and learning... |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 35234473 United States 02/25/2017 07:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | there is reason to believe native peoples are remnants left behind from mining and resource expeditions from the Middle East… native tribes were often at war with each other and prone to some pretty hideous behavior… which included killing any indians who converted to Christ… if there is a God, maybe there is more to life than just warring, whoring and hunting? maybe we have a purpose? why do you think the shamans and chiefs of many tribes knew white people were coming and that their days were numbered? do you think the plagues in Europe were an accident? or perhaps part of a larger orchestration of the stage of history? |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 71329286 United States 02/25/2017 07:15 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Please people... do not direct your mind in the direction of defeatism... Do you know what defeatism is? It is willing to accept defeat. You still have doubts about the ultimate goodness of humanity? Why is it that the vast majority of people enjoy watching movies and hearing stories of good winning out over evil? Lord of the Rings? Star Wars? You think if people were truly evil deep down that they could have even made it this far? NO! Your doubt makes you powerless. You want to believe people are good? Then BE A GOOD PERSON and see what it does for the people around you. You want to see love? Give it! We can help each other, we can heal each other, we can work together. There is still time. Don't let your doubt cripple you. What is even the point in drawing out such a depressing meaningless existence? True lasting happiness is shared.... true depression is from a situation... fix the situation! |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 71329286 United States 02/25/2017 07:20 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Individuals are individuals... some people murder, some people rape and then some people love, and some people devote their life to the trying to become the best possible instrument of the highest possible good! And you know how they did it? Looking for the truth... welcoming it... even and especially when it might cause them to have to completely re-evaluate things. There is no shame in mistakes. The only shame is being so afraid of human error that through the power of denial you perpetuate the same problems forever! Just because one man spoke a good truth, we are to look at his ethnic group and decide whether or not there is efficacy in his words? What if a murderer were to relay some ultimate truth? Is it wrong? Truth is truth. It is naked and formless. Greet it, embrace it, it will take you places you want to be |
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User ID: 73272163 United States 02/25/2017 07:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So true! “If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace "But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you." - Job 12:7,8 "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." - Hunter S. Thompson revstargazer (at) hotmail.com |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 71329286 United States 02/25/2017 07:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Of course, given the track record here, it is easy to see the huffers and puffers coming from a mile away. Welcome Today's society likes to make you think everything is about color... then you have quite a bit of trouble recognizing truth even when it comes up and smacks you right in the face Whether these words were spoken by an alien, an animal, an inanimate object... there is truth there to be appreciated. Don't be so reactionary as the news outlets are. You will become very dense... |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 71329286 United States 02/25/2017 07:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Maybe you are supposed to feel guilty. Maybe guilt is supposed to teach us what is wrong so that we do what is right. Stop running. Face the facts. |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 71329286 United States 02/25/2017 07:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | There is hope, there is hope. Keep the hope alive and it can grow into your thoughts, your actions, your very life. There is hope! "My heart is filled with anger. My heart is filled with anger. It is like the prairie fire that burns. I send my anger like smoke to the heavens. The earth is crying now. The earth is crying now. We need to stop her tears. Fire will not stop her tears. This song is for my grandfathers. I sing this song for my grandfathers." Hate and Anger are the opium of the masses We are all in this together. Whether we as humans will survive, or perish, it is together... Amen |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 74212424 United States 02/25/2017 07:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This is a beautiful post. Thank you O.P. I sure do wish the people would have listened to the Native American people. What a different world this would be indeed. We would be so happy. Not living out of balance and in a not natural way. I was meant to be one of them. I wonder if they would adopt me. I could tell them my spiritual knowledge and wisdom and I think they would keep me. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 73287260 United States 02/25/2017 07:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | -snipped Quoting: Anonymous Coward 71329286 This excerpt was taken from a book called Neither Wolf Nor Dog, an account of conversations with a Native American elder. The excerpt quoted was written by Kent Nerburn, the Indian elder was known as Dan. [link to www.goodreads.com (secure)] . |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 71329286 United States 02/25/2017 07:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | please folks, you can get worked up about some brown person saying things about brown people and white people, but there is more to it than that if you are going to enter and leave this thread pissed off, at least contribute your opinion on this, which I am eager to know. Do you have hope for the future our society? Where are we going? And if you don't, is that why you aren't doing anything about it? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 63297138 United States 02/25/2017 07:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Of course, given the track record here, it is easy to see the huffers and puffers coming from a mile away. Welcome Quoting: Anonymous Coward 71329286 Today's society likes to make you think everything is about color... then you have quite a bit of trouble recognizing truth even when it comes up and smacks you right in the face Whether these words were spoken by an alien, an animal, an inanimate object... there is truth there to be appreciated. Don't be so reactionary as the news outlets are. You will become very dense... It was this native elder who injected "race" into it. "We see the ways of the white man." |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 74215979 United States 02/25/2017 07:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Is that why so many white people claim to have Cherokee in them? Why are white people obsessed with being "Mexican"? Because that's what Mexicans are. White with native American? And the white people who claim to have Native in them, why don't you just call yourselves Latino? |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 71329286 United States 02/25/2017 07:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Of course, given the track record here, it is easy to see the huffers and puffers coming from a mile away. Welcome Quoting: Anonymous Coward 71329286 Today's society likes to make you think everything is about color... then you have quite a bit of trouble recognizing truth even when it comes up and smacks you right in the face Whether these words were spoken by an alien, an animal, an inanimate object... there is truth there to be appreciated. Don't be so reactionary as the news outlets are. You will become very dense... It was this native elder who injected "race" into it. "We see the ways of the white man." it's a simplification intended to talk about the difference in PHILOSOPHIES which ran TWO SEPARATE SOCIETIES with TWO DIFFERENT MODUS OPERANDI. The white one came from Europe, obviously. One destroyed the each other. Don't be so dense. Lighten up folks. There is hope. Smarten up, lighten up. |