Greed @ MindSay

Life is too short for the wasting away of our minds and souls. We have based our daily routines on the self-satisfaction of material life. Ultimately, no matter how un-materialistic we may think we are, we all endure this journey by, if you are like moi, fighting to maintain enough wealth to pay the rent and bills whilst paying for food and school and any other of those expenses we all in developed nations face day-to-day. We eat, work, sleep, party, fuck and do all those human things that humans do, but how many of us have stopped to take time to re-connect ourselves to this beautiful universe? Or have stopped to absorb the energy we are constantly surrounded by instead of stealing it from those we love? Our parents, and our parents' parents, and our parents' parents' parents and so forth have all gone on worrying about physical and material security for years and years and years and years. Up until the past few years, this need has been justified in aiding our world to move forwards. Now, though, is the time for a global awakening.

I am of course talking about the need for spiritual enlightenment! The need for a mass global collective consciousness. Peace is at our fingertips, yet it seems so hopelessly far away sometimes, doesn't it? Such an idea should, one would think, be universally welcomed and accepted. Shouldn't everyone be trying to live with the best of intentions and the warmest of hearts in an attempt to create that idealistic Utopia? That state of Shambhala? Life, as we know it, could be exponentially better!!! Our health, our homes, our relationships (intimate or not) and generally our overall happiness could be the best we would have ever known. A shift in mindset could see the development of impoverish nations, the feeding of every hungry belly, the adoption of cultural beliefs into other cultures and so forth.

Now I am definitely not the most spiritually inclined, nor am I the most positive of people at times, but as an individual, I have begun to devote myself to following a healthy spiritual lifestyle. I am most assuredly not religious in any way, so I searched for something else to fulfill that void I was feeling. I have met many many wonderful amazing people and through these people I discovered a whole world right in front of me! It's the same world you and I both live in , the same people are around me, but it is 100% different. It is a world based entirely on love and energy. A close friend, who calls himself the "Love Activist" taught me the most important thing I have ever learned to this date. No matter who we are, where we are from, what we believe or don't believe in, we all have the capability to do one universal thing. LOVE. Yes, that's it. It really is as simple as that, though I never before would have guessed it. Love is something we are born with and blessed with. With enough love, we can conquer all trials and tribulations. We can eliminate greed, and fear for with love, we need nothing else but each other. With enough love, everyone will be taken care of because that's what love ensures.

Life is hard, make no mistake about that. But with the beauty of such things as Synchronicity and Manifestation, we can start to see how our choices affect our paths, and how our thoughts are one of the most powerful tools we have. Our intentions that we set can determine our successes, our thoughts can forge a path through anything. By connecting ourselves to the beauty in everything, and embracing the feeling of love we can begin a progressive and powerful change in our lives. It will not happen overnight, and will not happen if we don't open our eyes to the truth many people have not yet been introduced to. But with time and patience, we can overcome the dramas of today, the genocides, the wars and the famines.

So educate yourselves! Pick up Celestine Prophecy, or watch The Secret. Learn the Sedona Method, learn to meditate or simply talk with those around you who may have reacher a higher spiritual frequency. There are many others like myself who know a tonne more than I do at this point. But what I do know is that the time for change is now, and that it is our movement that will encourage others to follow suite!

As Bob Marley once said, "Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds."

Things are not always what they seem
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Two travelling angels stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family. The family was rude and refused to let the angels stay in the mansion's guestroom. Instead the angels were given a small space in the cold

As they made their bed on the hard floor, the older angel saw a hole in the wall and repaired it. When the younger angel asked why, the older angel replied, "Things aren't always what they seem."

The next night the pair came to rest at the house of a very poor, but very hospitable farmer and his wife. After sharing what little food they had the couple let the angels sleep in their bed where they could have a good night's rest.

When the sun came up the next morning the angels found the farmer and his wife in tears.  Their only cow, whose milk had been their sole income, lay dead in the field.

The younger angel was infuriated and asked the older angel how could you have let this happen?

The first man had everything, yet you helped him, she accused. The second family had little but was willing to share everything, and you let the cow die.

"Things aren't always what they seem," the older angel replied.

"When we stayed in the basement of the mansion, I noticed there was gold stored in that hole in the wall. Since the owner was so obsessed with greed and unwilling to share his good fortune, I sealed the wall so he wouldn't find it."

"Then last night as we slept in the farmers bed, the angel of death came for his wife. I gave him the cow instead. Things aren't always what they seem.“

Sometimes that is exactly what happens when things don't turn out the way they should. If you have faith, you just need to trust that every outcome is always to your advantage. You might not know it until some time later...

There is a lot of sentiment in this country against free national health care.  Pundits like to point out how long people wait in lines in socialized countries like Canada and England.  They like to pretend that there's nothing wrong with the system we have now that kills 18,000 people a year simply because they don't have enough money to afford the exorbitant prices of hospital care.  The insurance racket has drove these prices up so high that no normal citizen can even hope to afford them.

According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality http://www.ahrq.gov  , the average hospital stay is 5 days with an average cost of $17,300.  The most expensive hospital stay is infant respiratory distress, which can cost up to $90,000.  Can anyone honestly say that these prices reflect a free market based on supply and demand?  Isn't it more honest to admit they are more likely an indicator of racketeering?  That's why if you want medical care in this country, you need insurance.

Since insurance companies have deep pockets, this leads to over-billing on the part of the hospitals.  Most of us have heard of doctors that charge your insurance company for a whole box of syringes whenever he uses one.  It's not entirely the doctor's fault either.  Doctors often face malpractice litigation that, while sometimes legitimate, is often cooked up by greedy patients, who likely are in debt due to medical bills.  It's a vicious circle of people making bad decisions that keeps medical care out of reach of 15% of the American population.

The results only confirm the grim reality: the United States is among the lowest-ranked nations in the developed world in a variety of health categories that include life expectancy and infant mortality rates.   To anyone who isn't sticking their head in the sand, the system simply, doesn't, work.

There is something strange in the attitude of most Americans I see.  They don't seem to think that everyone having access to necessary health care is something we need.  It's as if they want to be thrown out of the hospital to die at home because the surgery they need was deemed "experimental" by their insurance company who refused to pay for it.  Cable News pundits like to talk about the evils of "some government bureaucrat deciding what medicine you can take and what doctor you can see."  Why the hell don't they complain when it's the same situation, except the bureaucrat is replaced with an insurance adjuster with a rubber signature stamp?  Why would they rather have their health care decisions made by a company who puts profits above patients instead of a government run by officials who are elected by the people?

Imagine if the government decided to get rid of public education, the interstate system, or the post office and left it to private industry?  There would be a revolt.  Yet, for some reason, no one seems to think that everyone having access to necessary medical care (e.g. staying alive) is as important as being able to send a package for $3.95. 

Taken from saikotikgunman 

 

Even in Jane Austen's time there was often a territorial war after a death in the family. The most colorful one in my family was over the collection of really tacky hummel plates my mother collected and had hanging on the kitchen wall.

 

 

All massed they were a little kitschy and I even threatened to hang one up in my kitchen but since some people might think I actually LIKED the thing I refrained. My sister and a grabby nephew didn't like them either, but they were - in total   -worth a small amount of change.  My sister in law had turned my mom on to these oddity in collecting and I advocated for years that Margit should get them when my mother died. My mother was mentally distributing  items for decades in the hopes that it would keep us from abandoning her- (the silver punch bowl was the only I coveted but that was spirited off  while my mother was hospitalized by a nephew who shall be discussed later). My mother never considered that simply being nice to her offspring might be a  more effective way of keeping family together. . And so I told my mother finally that I would be willing to take the plates and she was happy someone would have them.  But I digress.

 

soooooooooooo when my mother died - weeks later at a memorial service to which one sister and one about to be mentioned beloved nephew did not attend- we had all the hummels put in the trunk of my rental car to transfer to my brothers car to go to his wife. and then she decided she didn't want them. I tried the three times offer and she still didn't want them so rather than leave them in the hands of the poor greedy evil embezzling sister (PGEES) I took them to a UPS store early one november morning and shipped them to myself from long island to montgomery alabama. good thing too because when i met the PGEES for coffee she said she would take them off my hands and I could honestly say I just shipped them to bama and watch her face fall. with age comes such grand sensibility.

 

well as relations deteriorated  - and I am legally bound not to discuss the settlement we made - my sister discovered I was selling the plates  on ebay for anywhere from 50 to 300 a plate. was she ever pissed. so she started bidding on them and then blantantly refused to pay and left scurious feedback about me. I was able to get that expunged and even had her ebay rights revoked for a few weeks till she opened an acct in her daughter's name. But she got the message and stopped bugging me. Then about 18 months after my mother had died I get a phone call from a nephew I had never met. one of the brood my older sister produced. she gave birth 4 times each under total anesthesia and R was one of the later ones I never met.

 

He said he was just "touching base" and then proceeded to explain that he would be 40 minutes from montgomery at an auburn football game and could come by for the plates. Conversation:

Me: "Well R, the plates are mine now."

R: "But grandma promised them to me."

Me:"Your grand ma made many promises that turned out to be contradictory."

R: "But she said I could have the plates."

Me: "She said I could have the plates too. and they are mine."

R: " But I want them."

Me: "No can do,  sorry. They are mine.  Anything else?"

stunned silence

Me: "Well I hope you have a great time at the game, Bye."

click. great satisfaction and laughter ensues

 

Yesterday this same said  nephew tracks me down via google and sends a snotty little note about finding interesting sites. and being the very self controlled girl that I am I quickly double delete his note  because I am sorely tempted to write this slimey little twerp..." You were an asshole then and you are an asshole now so please leave me alone."  Ah, the joys of family life. click and they are goners.  Life should be so easy huh?