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Collective Punishment : Amerigeddon

How to Profit from the Current Middle East Crisis

(Excerpts from the anonyMoses speech given to the Academy of Multimedia Arts and Sciences*)

INCREASE:

...This is a time for divergent thinking. While some seem to think that this crisis will spark World War III, I choose to deny that dark vision. In it's place I see the crisis sparking World Peace I. But to get there, from here, it will take vision, sacrifice, love, respect, generosity, magnanimity, and the entire panoply of higher human traits and abilities, including the one perhaps most difficult to attain...impartiality. For how can one be impartial when it comes to the death of friends and family? This is why I call the coming age, The Age of Radical Forgiveness. This Herculean effort will result in a breaking of the chain of causation that has allowed the now organic hatred to pass from generation to generation.

A sacrifice of the higher element that produces an increase of the lower is
called an out-and-out increase: it indicates the spirit that alone has power to
help the world.
Sacrifice on the part of those above for the increase of those below fills the people with a sense of joy and gratitude that is extremely valuable for the flowering of the commonwealth. When people are thus devoted to their leaders, undertakings are possible, and even difficult and dangerous enterprises will succeed. Therefore in such times of progress and successful development it is necessary to work and make the best use of the time. This time resembles that of the marriage of heaven and earth, when the earth partakes of the creative power of heaven, forming and bringing forth living beings. The time of INCREASE does not endure, therefore it must be utilized while it lasts.

Increase. Profit. What we have here is a new way of looking at profit...written thousands of years ago.

Thus the superior man:
If he sees good, he imitates it;
If he has faults, he rids himself of them.

While observing how thunder and wind increase and strengthen each other, a man can note the way to self-increase and self-improvement. When he discovers good in others, he should imitate it and thus make everything on earth his own. If he perceives something bad in himself, let him rid himself of it. In this way he becomes free of evil.
This ethical change represents the most important increase of personality.

Increase. Profit. Benefitting from the current Middle East crisis. Each person and leader mining their own personality for that which is best, and removing that which is worst. The war is not with other people. It is within yourself. You must conquer your own evil, and make flourish your highest angels.

True kindness does not count upon nor ask about merit and gratitude but acts
from inner necessity. And such a truly kind heart finds itself rewarded in being
recognized, and thus the beneficent influence will spread unhindered.

* Woody's House

ABC's "The One: Making a Music Star" outshines "American Idol"

"The One: Making a Music Star"

The lineup of 11 talented and attractive young stars includes a young Sir Elton (Austin Carroll), a Jude Law-looking Mick Jagger (Michael Cole), a rocking Kellie Pickler (Aubrey Collins), Keanu Reeves with dreadlocks (Adam McInnis), two singing Orlando Blooms (Jeremiah Richie and Nick Brownell), and more. Were I to cast my vote for "The One" (at this early stage) I would have to say that The One will come from those mentioned in this paragraph.

The show will be repeated tonight, followed by the Results Show.

BIOS
Nick Brownell
Austin Carroll
Michael Cole
Aubrey Collins
Caitlin Evanson
Scotty Granger
Jadyn Maria
Adam McInnis
Jackie Mendez
Syesha Mercado
Jeremiah Richey

David Reportedly Disconsolate with Goliath

-Israeli protesters in Tel Aviv demonstrate against Israel's offensives.
-Israeli protesters in Tel Aviv get their message across during an anti-war demonstration.
-Israeli protesters shout slogans during a demonstration against Israel's offensives in Lebanon
-The protesters roamed the streets of Tel Aviv and held banners and signs which condemn the Israeli attacks.
-Police have arrested three of the protesters
-More than 500 protest in TA against violence in Lebanon, Gaza