If you want revolution…

• Take up gardening.
• Think good thoughts.
• Do good deeds.
• Stop competing.
• Share
• Find a sacred place to celebrate.
• Dance
• Get your shit together before you have kids.

 

Smoke high, free your mind, and then save the planet...

 

True, all true. I thought this was going to be a tribute to the Beatles though..

 

Get drunk for better feeling!

 

what i want, is an end to the tyranny of the dominance of aggressiveness, under ANY idiology, form of government, economic theory, or system of belief.

and no, i don't see killing people or even tearing up crap, as being very likely ways of achieving this.

yes, as the origeonal post suggests, it does all begin with SELF dicipline.
if enough of us practiced it, well i do believe the day WILL come when we can and do,
and there just won't be the means for governments to poke their noses as far into everyone's every day lives as they do now.

it's not that we don't still need to hold governments and industry accountable,
we certainly do,
but rather that we ALSO need,
to hold ourselves accountable for the markets and incentives,
the priorities we actualy live by, togather create for them.

and thinking, not what some arbitrary set of assumtions, but our own honest and objective observation tell us are good thoughts,
that and NOT putting trying to impress each other, ahead of the kind of world we all have to live in,

even just these two things, if that was how and what all or most of us actualy did,
would indeed go a long way, maybe even all the way, to making this world the kind of place we could all live in peace and harmlessly persue and even find, gratification, living in.

i believe in all of that.
competition was invented to convence slaves they were free while keeping them slaves.
you only need to watch the average joe sixpack watching football on t.v. in a house he's paying for on credit (i.e. endenture) with a job he more or less hates that he drives a car (that he's also endentured to) to get to and from five days out of every seven to see that it still does.

and there's more then just escape from indenture in growing a garden if you have the good fortune to be able to.

i don't know about dance, but you do need to get out and explore, on foot, so you can really understand and KNOW, your surroundings.

and yes, please, about kids, do something, anything, to lower your own probable fertility, whatever it is you can live with doing about it, there really is, honest to whatever god or gods you believe in, no shortage of humans on planet earth!

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This should be the new mantra of a new generation...it's not about how much you make, what your own. Your life and the world should be about consideration for the world and all who are in it. You should be judged on the basis of what you have done for each other. "First do no harm." (Primum non nocere).

Guess Bush never heard of Hippocrates while at Yale. Skull and Bones probably don't include him in their indocrination.

 

• turn off the TV
• stop going to church
• pick flowers
• organize a community garden
• build a sweat lodge
• organize a weekly neighborhood music jam

 

If you want to start a revolution, start with your stomach

 

No, actually that DULLS the senses. That's why early settlers gave alcohol to Native Americans...so they'd be too drunk and lazy to fight back.

 

• turn off the TV
• organize local activist media
• stop paying taxes
• organize a community garden/discussion group
• pass out flyers (especially at malls where u find the dumbest of the dumb)
• call for an independent investigation of what took place on 9/11

 

How do you stop paying taxes?

 

Find others who share the same principles. Thank God for the internet!

 

• raise a child in the garden.
• teach a child that we are all earths children.
• teach a child that we are all brothers and sisters.
• teach a child that the nature in human nature is Mother Nature and that the mother of nature is the garden.

 

Speaking as a "horti" I approve. Knowing about the growing world is to truly know and understand your place in the world.

 

This is the "inner self" of what humans need to achieve. While this is happening on a spiritual and emotional level, we need to become more active in community organizing, even if it's just weekly group-meets in someone's living room sharing coffee and crumpets. We need to basically take everything Benther said above and begin doing it as groups rather than always alone. We need to get to know eachother as people again. There are so many divisions between Americans, and that's before even addressing the divisions between people who agree with eachother 99% of the time but that 1% always seems to turn into once-strong coalitions breaking up. Of course this happens with the assistance of govt forces intent on seeing popular movements fall.



Even though we don't live in utopian villages, we need to re-learn how to approach eachother as though we WERE one people STRIVING for a long term collective goal. Native prophets and others prophesize that we are nearing the end of an era in defference to a new Dawn...of universal paradise on earth, where we'll look back on our old differences with chuckles and handshakes (and hugs) realizing that we should have been hugging eachother all along.



If I agree with 67% of your overall outlook, no matter how significant our differences may be in other areas, we have A LOT to go on. That's a strong foundation. If only we could remain focused on that instead of letting the difference take dominance, rendering a potentially strong friendship/comradery impossible. It's time to re-connect, folks.




I'll start by saying...let's just move into a brighter future, where our grandkids will thrive and CHOOSE Living over despair and apathy.

 

I am blessed to live in a magical community that is very interactive. Twice a month we have 200 - 300 friends dance and drum around a large bonfire. Every Friday we have a music jam to make sure that we celebrate life and each other at least once a week. We have community gardens with rope swing, huge sand pile, covered performance stage, sweat lodge, and water garden. We have young adults that take our garden for granted and they will make a difference.

Join the revolution!
• Organize a Halloween neighborhood pumpkin carving party.
• Provide an opportunity for kids to interact with animals.
• Plant a community orchard and vineyard.
• Build a community water garden.

A neighborhood without a garden will never know real community!

 

breathe, sleep, eat, drink, dream, think change.
change.change.change.change.change.change.

^^meditations always good too. clears the mind of all the other stuff so you can think about change more.

 

Benther, I'm not blessed with a strong active community. I live near the epicenter of corporate-consumerist mainstream American life. Where do you live?? I'm coming!!! haha

 

Close but slightly off center. lcclt.org

 

• Start an ORGANIC garden with edible plants and fruit-bearing trees ( "They can't tax your garden...and they can't stop you from loving them" )
• Realize that you vote with how you spend your money
• Buy as much organic food as possible
• Learn to forage for wild edible food
• Purchase products from the most ethical companies you can source out as often as possible
• Buy Seventh generation cleaning products, and recycled toilet paper
• Shop @ farmers markets
• Buy Fair trade
• Grow gardens instead of grass
• Watch Abbie Hoffman's movie and feel inspired to make the difference that you can make with your life