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

[MarshaV]

Arlo,

Sorry about the god references in this article, I don't really even 
acknowledge the word anymore.  Kali Yuga, to me, means were' in a 
period of destruction.  Well, it sure seems that way.  Sorry for not 
being more sensitive.

Marsha






At 12:49 PM 10/1/2008, you wrote:

>Kali Yuga
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>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Yuga
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>Makes you wonder.
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>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.
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>>"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)
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>>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."
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>>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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