Mass murders seemingly more frequent than what I knew in early times. More fear, more control, less rights. Good people lost. I think about the Crusades and the good people lost in the name of religion. And the continual struggle of people just wanting freedom.
But none of this is new. Many of our forebearers left Europe because of the rigid controls, only to come to the new land to usurp its resources, its land, its people, its life. Are we really any different than those who sought to control us?
Sitting alongside an inlet at lunch, I watched the tide go out. Perched atop a local restaurant, the undulating ripples told a story. The tide comes in, the tide goes out. We are told it is because of the
"moon's gravitational force pulls on water in the oceans so that there are "bulges" in the ocean on both sides of the planet. The moon pulls water toward it, and this causes the bulge toward the moon. The bulge on the side of the Earth opposite the moon is caused by the moon "pulling the Earth away" from the water on that side."
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geophysics/tide-cause.htm
But "Most people grow up thinking that the tides are caused by the moon, and indeed that gravitational 'pull' of the moon is a major factor, as is the gravitational effect of the sun but there is another major factor, which is less often mentioned, and that is the force created by the rotation of the earth itself.
http://www.astronomyknowhow.com/moon-tides.htm
Now I haven't seen any of this 'science' so like many, I am more of a skeptic than ever. Is it true?
know what I was told, what we are told. We all carry the "red" book in a way. Propaganda. Behave and follow the system. But can we really know the answers? The truth?
But the system has let us down. It doesn't care for all people. It never did. Red people, black people, yellow people, straight people, gay, lesbian, transgender people. Nor does it care for non-human living things like animals, dogs, cats, raccoons, skunks. It is set up by and for white men. Nor does the 'system' protect them. It only protects what the current power structure sees as valuable.
How sad for them that they don't know my friends. And all the possibilities that were lost at the Orlando club, and in the civil rights march, in domestic violent, in these continual and senseless wars. As sad as it is for the families - the devastating effects are worse for all of us. The negative energy is palpable.
As I look around the planet, I see so much oppression. New greed, new power mongers try to get in. Those in power continue to usurp it. Everyone wants a piece of the action. We even sell land. Land? Can anyone really OWN land or anything. It all comes from the earth. Yet, we continue to sell it, to sell mineral rights, to drill baby drill. We sell animals, plants, food stuff propagated from the earth and we have sold and continue to sell people.
I think about all the people, many at the dawn of their lives who were only trying to hang out with their community. They were senselessly murdered for being who they are. Flags everywhere are flying at half staff. But that is only a token gesture. A silent one.
Sitting at my table by the window , I see the tide go in and the tide go out. But the tide, like the people have memories. Memories are stored for a time when it isn't so painful to remember.
For now. Forever.
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