Comments on: No Stone Left Unturned http://www.mydrmay.com/2009/12/19/no-stone-left-unturned/ Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:38:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: lee http://www.mydrmay.com/2009/12/19/no-stone-left-unturned/comment-page-1/#comment-207 lee Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:54:04 +0000 http://www.mydrmay.com/?p=717#comment-207 to sow seeds of disobedience, one has to acknowledge the value of "obedience" - always found the word itself difficult to comprehend. Great fan of "respect", but "obey" sounds anti-evolutionary! Don't know if I have mentioned this analogy to you before, so I apologize for the redundancy. In soccer, there is something called "fuera de juego" (offside?). I may butcher the proper terms, but it is called when one member of a team, in their enthusiasm to make a goal, advances beyond any players from the opposite team. The Dutch national team was once referred to as La Naranja Mecánica ... they dressed in orange and were extremely precise at getting themselves out of the game. Well, after that long-winded explanation, I feel we individually, one by one, have to step away from the game. NEXT SENTENCE NOT PERSONAL ... any energy directed towards it, merely fuels it further. Awakening people to alternatives, which you do do, is a great beginning. Walking one's talk and setting an alternative example also may awaken a few. In the end, we live in a world of belief, non-belief and perpetual doubt ... to sow seeds of disobedience, one has to acknowledge the value of “obedience” – always found the word itself difficult to comprehend. Great fan of “respect”, but “obey” sounds anti-evolutionary!

Don’t know if I have mentioned this analogy to you before, so I apologize for the redundancy. In soccer, there is something called “fuera de juego” (offside?). I may butcher the proper terms, but it is called when one member of a team, in their enthusiasm to make a goal, advances beyond any players from the opposite team. The Dutch national team was once referred to as La Naranja Mecánica … they dressed in orange and were extremely precise at getting themselves out of the game. Well, after that long-winded explanation, I feel we individually, one by one, have to step away from the game. NEXT SENTENCE NOT PERSONAL … any energy directed towards it, merely fuels it further. Awakening people to alternatives, which you do do, is a great beginning. Walking one’s talk and setting an alternative example also may awaken a few.

In the end, we live in a world of belief, non-belief and perpetual doubt …

]]> By: lee http://www.mydrmay.com/2009/12/19/no-stone-left-unturned/comment-page-1/#comment-206 lee Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:00:06 +0000 http://www.mydrmay.com/?p=717#comment-206 What creative genius! While difficult to envision a world where such creativity were widespread for the greater good, it is even more challenging to understand what drives our society. It is easy to point to our sadly warped economic model as the culprit, but it is merely the vehicle. The quest for power and greed are a close second but, again, what needs, as a society, have we not addressed that make us lust for such things at the expense of others? Difficult to grasp the concept of connectivity and oneness, when we are so conditioned and fragmented. The healing process will largely remain in the shadows until we accept that whatever we do to "them", we do to "us"! As I've delve further into the grant business, I am amused and amazed. Corporations, institutions, foundations, etc. hiding behind the 501(3)C status and the likes, are able to hand out money which they managed to avoid paying to the government. The government, i.e. the representatives of the people, become less efficient and less powerful, as does the voice of the people. The tax-evading entities get to be the good guys by entering communities and helping where the government has failed AND they want free publicity, public acknowledgment, gratitude and loyalty all wrapped up with ecological-waste (balloons, glitter, plaques, bows and ribbons). Oops! Guess you hit a sore spot with this last write-up! What creative genius! While difficult to envision a world where such creativity were widespread for the greater good, it is even more challenging to understand what drives our society. It is easy to point to our sadly warped economic model as the culprit, but it is merely the vehicle. The quest for power and greed are a close second but, again, what needs, as a society, have we not addressed that make us lust for such things at the expense of others? Difficult to grasp the concept of connectivity and oneness, when we are so conditioned and fragmented. The healing process will largely remain in the shadows until we accept that whatever we do to “them”, we do to “us”!

As I’ve delve further into the grant business, I am amused and amazed. Corporations, institutions, foundations, etc. hiding behind the 501(3)C status and the likes, are able to hand out money which they managed to avoid paying to the government. The government, i.e. the representatives of the people, become less efficient and less powerful, as does the voice of the people. The tax-evading entities get to be the good guys by entering communities and helping where the government has failed AND they want free publicity, public acknowledgment, gratitude and loyalty all wrapped up with ecological-waste (balloons, glitter, plaques, bows and ribbons).

Oops! Guess you hit a sore spot with this last write-up!

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