[MD] Shouldn’t we be, like, revolting ?

[MarshaV]

Kali Yuga

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Yuga

Makes you wonder.


At 12:12 PM 10/1/2008, you wrote:
>[Marsha]
>Truth with humor.
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>[Arlo]
>The Age of Passion is over. Consumer and material complacency built 
>atop a foundation of passivity have brought about the Age of Sheep. 
>It will not be until all man's (forgive the sexist language) 
>opiating institutions fail, when wandering on the streets with 
>hunger in his belly, will man's passions be reawakened. It will be 
>too late to save this world, but it will forge the next.
>
>"Phaedrus wasn't sure but he seemed to detect a peculiar gentleness 
>here on the streets now that he didn't remember from the past. It 
>was an ominous gentleness found in old and corrupt cultures, the 
>gentleness one hears in Neapolitan street songs and in old Mexican 
>canciones. It comes not from an absence of violence but from an 
>excess of it. Live and let live. Avoid trouble. It was the 
>gentleness of someone who has given up fighting openly because it is 
>too dangerous to do so. He had the sickening feeling that something 
>like the fall of the Roman Empire was beginning to happen here." (LILA)
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>The unavoidability of this disintigration is described by Joseph 
>Campbell in remarks about the Jain Buddhist cosmogonic cycle. "Our 
>own age, the fifth of the descending series, began in 522 BC, and 
>will last for twenty-one thousand years. No Jaina savior will be 
>born during this time, and the eternal religion of the Jains will 
>gradually disappear. It is a period of unmitigated and gradually 
>intensifying evil. [People are] selfish, unjust, violent, lustful, 
>proud and avaricious." (The Hero with 1000 Faces)
>
>Birth, death, rebirth. Institutions must die. Nations must die. The 
>old ways must die. Maps must be redrawn. From a website on the Hindu 
>God Shiva. "[Shiva's] first and foremost task is to destroy many 
>things in order to ensure the Rta or the order of the universe. 
>Siva's destruction is not negative. It is a positive, nourishing and 
>constructive destruction that builds and transforms life and energy 
>for the welfare of the world and the beings that inhabit it. He 
>destroys in order to renew and regenerate."
>
>To revolt, one must ask, "what are we fighting for? what do we wish 
>to preserve? what do we wish to destroy? what do we wish to create?" 
>To answer these, one must know.
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Shoot for the moon.  Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.........
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