McNamara: Lessons from War and Peace Perspectives
Robert McNamara in the previous blog featured in a documentary called the Fog of War depicting his recollections of pivotal wars in US history. It appears to me to be an honest account and retrospectively drawing upon his own lessons that he learned from mistakes. I feel from his experience he is… Continue reading
Trust Your Unfiltered Net
UNFILTERED NET
Is your mind made up,
Who made up your mind,
All those passing faces from the ridiculous to the sublime,
But you are not an island,
Those words create images in your thinking,
Every stimuli is subconsciously sinking,
To form your world view,
but is it you?
I watch my… Continue reading
From the Blarney Stone to the Philosopher’s Stone
From the Blarney Stone to the Philosopher’s Stone
I am not your enemy,
I am not the other,
I am asking questions,
Freedom is the arrow that sends forth,
For we share this world together,
We are family,
No matter how you see yourself,
We came from the same root,
From the tree of life,… Continue reading
Enlightened Truth and Justice
Sometimes I just look at the news and the violence and it astounds me. Sometimes it gets too much to watch. I try to work for peace, yet this is mostly unpaid as it is not valued by society until unrest occurs. I watch the same patterns play out, the same rhetoric… Continue reading
Truth Awakens Humanity to Itself
I felt to re-post this poem tonight as over and over I see truth as so important. It is not that I am right you are wrong, it is the universal truth that is true always. When you adhere to this, you see through a higher lens, and a new world awakens.
I recall sitting… Continue reading
Poem: Children are lie Detectors
SAVE THE CHILDREN
Children are a paradox.
Their innocence ensures their honesty,
and makes them good lie detectors and truth reporters.
This perennial paradox is memorialized in Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale,
The Emperor’s New Clothes,
which contrasts the real perception of a child with the surreal self-deception of adults.
How ironic that adults must… Continue reading