Killing By Computer
There is now computer simulated duck murder training..
similar to the computerized bombing of Iraq and Afghanistan
from Florida by computer.
We have a presidential candidate in the US who killed with
such abstraction... bombing Vietnamese women he did not
see from the air. The abstraction of violence generates a greater
level of violence.
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Dream: Agatha Christie's Tennis Match
Agatha Christie wrote 6 novels
under an assumed name. In one
of them her character has a dream
that she is playing tennis alone
opposite her husband and his
secret lover. Agatha Chrstie's
first husband was unfaithful to her.
She divorced him and found happiness
with another. Perhaps the dream
helped her to act more quickly to
end the unhappy yoking.
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Drones Dropping Death And Aerial Hunters
One could compare ethically unconscious trophy seeking
hunters riding shotgun in helicopters as they blast
away at terrorized creatures on the ground to
the unmanned drones which shoot Pakistanis and Afghanis from the air.
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Palin's wholesale violation of US federal law in creating loopholes for aerial hunting
was one of thousands of factors in the defeat of McCain.
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Lightning Struck Pat Robertson's Church
God sent a lightning warning through the windows
of Pat Robertson's church. It struck
the 10 Commandments carved in stone
on a tablet in the church... and
effaced the 'not' in Thou Shalt Not Kill.
God does not like hypocrites or those
who asterisk His message of universal
nonviolence with exceptions for war,
execution, and animal slaughter.
(based on a vision H had)
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California Public Employees Pension
a state retirement fund
run not by the people but
by megathief pawns....
invested in animal
concentration camps,
baby bombing war profiteers,
Mother Earth bulldozers,
strip malls, longlines fish
smothering, the worst
of Wall Street's big bank foreclosers
and evicters, even putting
money in that greasy slop
on the trawler floor bottom:
worse than snake oil: fish oil.
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Coconut Miracle
A coconut bobbed upon the waves
and alighted softly on the sands
of the shore. Years later there
were many coconut palms on the
island. They provided milk for babies,
nut fiber for others, oil for lamps,
coconut shells for dishes, lauric
acid for meditation. Lifegiving
little lakes of milk unstolen from
an animal protected by a hard shell
as transform into heaven
slaughterhouse hells.
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Colors Of Peace
When
a skunk dies by violence
a bad smell infects the land.
When a cow dies by violence
her unheard cries pollute the land.
When a pig lives out his life
in safety,
good fortune accrues.
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Annie Besant in the years when Chicago
was the physical slaughterhouse capital
of America saw its aura of red anger
an hour away.
Nonviolence can change any aura
to deep violet.
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Eisenhower
We are all creatures of the age into
which we were born.
Eisenhower let millions of Russians
die fighting the Nazis in 1942 and 1943.
He ordered cats shot on the White House
grounds.
He for many years patronized the segregating
sands of the Augusta George country club
which hosts the golf masters' tournament.
And yet if he were born in the last 18 years,
he probably would be involved in no violence.
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Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods
rarely hits a ball
into the woods
as he continues to
break down racist stereotypes in Japan,
the Augusta Masters
and everywhere else he goes.
Now, Tiger, please stand
up for the right of women golfers
to play everywhere.
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(The Augusta Masters did not
invite black players til 1975,
nor allow blacks into the country club
til 1990. The Masters still
does not allow women to play.)
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Are All Anglers Stranglers?
Are all anglers stranglers?
No.. some smash the sentient
beings' heads or
decapitate them.
Some throw them back, the
ego thrill of having caught them
and ripped their throat in
removing the hook is enough.
Are all anglers tanglers?
Are they danglers, caught within
their own lines?
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Fishing is with slaughterhouses, killing trees as
lumbermen... one of the 5 most dangerous occupations.
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