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10. Really?
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 11:16 AM
Sep 2012

After that "vote" on the reinstatement of Jerusalem on the plank was absolutely ignored? They needed 2/3rds and didn't even get half the crowd to agree with their position.

We no longer have a democracy. When it takes half a billion dollars to get name recognition and be considered a "legitimate" candidate, who the eff can/will run?

Why are people so easily cowed and easily amused? Do you know about NDAA? It's already being used, to chilling effect.

Osho (formerly Rajneesh) once said something to the effect that when we worship someone like a guru (could be a Presidential candidate), we are acting as if it's outside us to be the same way.

We need to grow up and stop needing to worship somebody. It's all projection and it's childish. It's a fantasy parent complex. The truth is staring us in the face and we get distracted by theatrics and looks and crumbs thrown our way (or the promise thereof).

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Wow, it's kinda exciting again to check [View all] kimmerspixelated Sep 2012 OP
I so agree NJCher Sep 2012 #1
People are waking up! findrskeep Sep 2012 #2
I hear it and see it sandyshoes17 Sep 2012 #3
Yes, Yes, and Yes! kimmerspixelated Sep 2012 #4
Felt like Why Syzygy Sep 2012 #5
Yes, effortless... kimmerspixelated Sep 2012 #6
I feel like a huge weight has lifted get the red out Sep 2012 #7
:) OneGrassRoot Sep 2012 #8
The moral choices & values are clearer than ever before...truth & light are finally leading. mother earth Sep 2012 #9
Really? special snowflake. Sep 2012 #10
We never said all is well, we just see the light poking through. It's going to take a whole lot mother earth Sep 2012 #11
And one more thing, the party is re-energized & that's a fact, I didn't expect this, it's a huge mother earth Sep 2012 #12
Nicely put me sandyshoes17 Sep 2012 #13
Thank you, sandyshoes17, the beginning of this re-awakening for me was Sister Simone Campbell, mother earth Sep 2012 #14
I loved her speech Tumbulu Sep 2012 #25
What mother earth said. OneGrassRoot Sep 2012 #20
YES REALLY! get the red out Sep 2012 #15
So true sandyshoes17 Sep 2012 #21
Neptune and Chiron Ricochet21 Sep 2012 #16
Well then, here's to Neptune & Chiron, to righting wrongs & to healing the nation & take it globally mother earth Sep 2012 #17
PRECISELY Ricochet21 Sep 2012 #18
EVOLUTION (D) or DEVOLUTION (R) - what a bumper sticker! mother earth Sep 2012 #19
I second that idea! Tumbulu Sep 2012 #26
Nep kimmerspixelated Sep 2012 #23
Wow -- felix_numinous Sep 2012 #22
"I am so mad I wanna throw rocks at my television set." Manifestor_of_Light Sep 2012 #24
Another thing noticed from the convention sandyshoes17 Sep 2012 #27
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