REFORM AGAINST MISSIONS ZEOLOUS TO CONVERT ALL PEOPLE THROUGH RIVAL RELIGIO-POLITICAL FORCE

The first most insidious way to convert was through psychologically sending unbaptized men, women and infants to a man-made Hell, a deep-rooted fear still lurking in human DNA.  Any deceitful persuasion for power, control and lust of other peoples' land and resources, soon turns into demonic atrocities such as burning women alive on a stake driven into the ground, all based on "witches" in Europe and carried to the New World through archaic Puritan words made "holy" by ignorant  religious monks–the only ones writing anything prior to a wide knowledge of science.

Dear Ones,

To understand today's horror and terrorism we must turn back the stained pages of history.  Without doing so there's only darkness and gray ashes from ruins of radioactive missiles and toxic bombs.  My posts  titled "Angels for Peace" and "Song Birds of the World" reflect international voices for peace, as my first blog, "Cry For Peace," is a collection of ancient global quotes to the present.
 

"You can bomb the world to pieces, but you can't bomb it into peace."

–Michael Franti, Spearhead band leader  

Sequestered men first inscribed words on scrolls of parchment to fill them with bigoted law religion and commands in the the name of an unknown deity.   Soon inhuman slaughter became a manifest destiny.  Words considered sacrosanct turn into brutality–infants burned as sacrifices on alters or girls and young women thrown alive into a pit such as high "holy" mountain in Machu Picchu, Peru.

Today other religions such as Isis in the Middle East mimics the Great Commission–ongoing revenge through forced conversion at the threat of death, with the world now up in armpits of blood–between Israel and Palestine ever since Paul and Peter founded the first original proselytizing church in Antioh, Turkey (Asia Minor).

The United States was founded on freedom to pursue the religion of one's choice.  After fleeing from the clutches of the dogmatic law religious Anglican Church of England, the newcomers  tried to convert the New World into one biased bigoted faith of life, liberty and happiness for Caucasian men who were members of the Protestant Church that had centuries ago protested Catholicism.

However, to the indigenous people of the Americas, the invaders knowing nothing about their indigenous culture, desecrated out of disrespect their early landmarks and art. Out of ignorance the immigrants had no respect for their paradise.  Instead their ethnic cleansing was dirty and genocidal.

The United States became the leading nation not through religion but in spite of its bane.  Only through humanitarian reform in quelling endless bigotry will we gain respect in a world downing in bigotry. The outcry–"only giving up original religion" will you be saved–is the trigger that still savagely slaughters opposing faiths caused by superstition, what turned out to be a nightmare later called religion. From this primitive fixation of anxiety over disasters of nature from the cosmos, came the word "Heaven," in a planet of endless retaliation.   

We can keep our good place in history only when we set an example to reform religion by not tolerating the archaic mission to convert the world into one persuasion–violation of church and state.  International humanism doesn't include invading, bombing and occupying other peoples lands to build more churches that offend rival religions on foreign lands. United States influence of justice and democracy alone is strong enough to help others help themselves through diplomacy, democracy, communication and sincere negotiation.

Mame
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Advocate for support of Indigenous People

THREE ANCHAIC RELATED RELIGIONS STILL TRAP SECULAR WORLD IN CROSSFIRE

Enough said!

Mame
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Advocate for indigenous people

POT PURLSLANE– IT'S HIGHER THAN POT

Nutrition-wise–purslane is plump, fleshy, succulent, wild and sexy.  Unlike Marijuana–this wonder plant is free and legal throughout the world where it can be garnered for its high nutrition.  Mexicans call purslane Verdolagao or Malawi meaning "buttocks of a chief's wife."

Dear Ones,

One of the best plant sources for long life comes from a so-called weed known well for its many benefits in Europe and elsewhere.  With red stems its branches cling to the ground and spread out into a spiral of tiny round leaves often bearing yellow blossoms called portulaca with an array of colorful flowers. This vegetable is also called pig weed.

Purslane is a native of India, Persia (Iran) and the Middle East. For decades in the United States people considered it a weed and killed it with toxic chemical nerve gas pesticides, as with dandelions that are nutritious in all their parts.  US super markets now carry purslane for good reason. It is plentiful for eating and can be planted in wide mouth pots and every Earth garden. 

Hippocrates, father of medicine, recommended this plant as a health food.  Ancient Greeks proclaimed no kitchen or medicine cabinet should ever do without this magical plant.  Henry David Thoreau, who ate a simple diet for strength and good health, included purslane in his writing about the old gardens of Concord, Massachusetts.

This so-called "fatty weed" is an excellent source of omega 3 and the benefit of flax seeds. It contains vitamin D, E and some B vitamins as well as A, beta carrtene found in carrots. It contains minerals such as magnesium, potassium, iron, calcium, riboflavin, water-soluable folate; lithium  and niacin.  It produces melatonin for relaxing and sleeping like a happy baby. It even has more vitamin E than spinach.  Popeye was wise in eating can fulls of it, all though canned food contains salt with too much causing heart problems.

Purslane is an anti-depressant as well as an antioxidant.  But most of all it has safeguard quality against cancer.  The plant produces a generous amount of protein and does not cause cells to mutate. It fuels only15 calories per 1000 grams (three ounces).  Such a "weed" lowers blood pressure, a great benefit and is a slight diuretic.

This panacea wonder plant with a slight salty taste can be used in soups, salads, sauted, pickled and steamed.  In scrambled eggs it can add flavor as do capers. Added to food it a refreshing garnish.

Puslane grows in all types of soils with each plant seed providing nearly a quarter of a million seeds that are used for making health drinks.

Years ago I was on a panel where I met Euell Gibbon, the featured speaker, at Landis Valley Farm Museum in eastern Pennsylvania.  Stalking the Wild Asparagus was one of his books, with another that discusses the value of purslane as a dietary supplement.  I also included this plant in a dialogue in my drama-novel and movie script, Where Eagles Fly, a mystery and love story that involves homeless war veterans in Jacksonville, Florida.  The protagonist is an entrepreneur that creates a unique housing plan centered around a lovely  park in which all the characters cultivate and sell their own produce and flowers. The idea takes off and Terraconcord Gardens are started all over the United States.

Mame
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Naturalist 
   

NATIONS STILL PROSELYTIZE–A RELIGIOUS CURSE, AS YOUTHS ARE TRAINED TO KILL ONE ANOTHER

In a gun shill, it can't be stressed enough that forcing one's own faith on another is the cause of a flaming circle of non-stop retaliation. This is not freedom of religion. Such brutality and slaughter indicates police states.

Dear Ones,

Proselytized missions of zealot religion is the bane of the world through youths trapped in serial crimes.  No one living on planet Earth is free from this chronic plague. "Go ye into to all the world and conform everyone to one persuasion" is an obsolete Biblical command.  This Great Commission triggers global wars. After so many centuries of this human atrocity, some religions are now copy-catting the hostility in bloody revenge, a world gone mad.

Mame
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Advocate for traditionalist First Nations within one nation

THE BALFOUR DECLARATION DIVIDED PALESTINE FOR AN ISRAELI HOMELAND

Hamas was founded in 1987 to ease hardships of refugees from Palestine controlled by Israel ever since 1948 when colonial British government gave Arab territory to Israel–the same land to both sides carved out of Palestine.  It is easy for any nation to break up other people's land and say they will support it.  But the Brits broke their promise as the Jews overwhelmed Palestine with a multitude of immigrants violating the documented Balfour Declaration.

Dear Ones,

Israel and Palestine are both Semitic nations in the region around Jerusalem. In Bible times Abraham became the father of Isaac and Jacob (representatives of Jewish religion) as he also became the father of  Ishmael (representative of Muslim religion). Israel claims "God said Hebrews were his chosen people" because their leaders put words into their deity's mouth back in the days when people thought every time there was an eclipse of the moon a monster was taking a bite out of it!

Besides primitive people other cultures throughout history have committed the same arrogant bigotry, as Aryan Nazi Germans said Caucasians were the chosen "master race." But no deity has ever spoken directly to men other than through their own delusions.

In regard to the 1917 Balfour Declaration named for British Foreign Secretary Arthur J. Balfour, the British created an Israeli "homeland" since Great Britain faced bankruptcy and needed to have Jewish support to defeat Kaiser William II during WWI in 1914-1918. This Declaration, leaning toward the Judeo-Christian and the Coptic Christian view in Egypt, assured displaced Jewish people of a place for them by taking land from Arab Palestinians.  This historical document, although favoring Jews, in essence was written to protect the rights of Palestinis whose land was soon occupied with an onslaught of  thousands of newcomers rushing in to take over the Arab land. In no way did this historic document mean that Israel would become a state.  This recorded declaration stated:

"That nothing shall be done to prejudice civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish residents in  Palestine," as Jewish synagogues and Christian churches became prevalent.  Religious freedom is not free when absolutist faiths claim their persuasion is the only true one, such as the three Abrahamic ring of fire. Once that happens, terrorism  reigns violence everywhere. Instead of ending fighting for revenge there must be religious reform through human values that bring civil rights, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to all nations.

Meanwhile the newcomers immediately overpowered the present owners in 1917 and 1918 through  Zionist land-grabbing that Great Britain originally supported. In 1947 and 1948 during the Israel-Palestine  War, Arabs were defeated with 450,000 Palestinis becoming refugees. According to United Nations report by1950 the count reached 700.000 displaced people imprisoned in their own land by Israel who also with Egypt closed ports that made Palestine destitute, with limited or no fishing rights and an illegal blockade against essential needs imported to the Gaza Strip.

Prime Minister David Ben-Gurian of Israel declared independence in 1947 followed by the Israel-Palestine War in which  children especially suffered.  By then Israel had also captured the Golden Heights and the Old City of Jerusalem (1967) making the inhabitants Israeli citizens.

Thus, Palestine was forced into building tunnels into Egypt and Israel for smuggled material. When Hamas was intentionally being annihilated, the Palestinis for defense used these same tunnels to transport weapons into their people.  This strife that began when the Balfour Declaration was broken by zealot Jews ended up in both sides trying to kill off one another, most devastating to all youths involved in futile religious revenge that has no end.

Today Gaza is smoldering in gray ashen ruins by religious hostility in which Israelis killed nearly 2000 people, mostly civilians of Palestine, with about 65 Israeli soldiers disportionately dying.  Although a ceasefire has been called on both sides, the stench of death from schools, hospitals, clinics and United Nations so-called safe refuges, still lingers in the air.  Palestinis suffered the most grief and anquish, what the UN calls a war crime in need of prosecuting–the nation having an overabundance of nuclear missiles and other weaponry overpowering their foe. As a penalty how about Israel cleaning up the environment and rebuilding ruins  that  contaminate and cause aftermath devastation deforming generations of   yi=ouths for decades with toxic radiation and lethal chemicals.

Mame
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Advocate for international peace

AS MAD MEN GIVE GUNS TO YOUTHS TO SLAUGHTER ONE ANOTHER IN WAR THE CREATER WEEPS ETERNALLY

Translucent vapors and shrouds of world mythology cannot hide the grief and anguish especially felt by nurturing mothers and young people trapped in man-made aggression.  The endless religious circle of religious revenge still explodes with lethal bombs on Earth.  It's not a god who wages wars but instead a devil who gets its glee in the serial crime of youths sacrificed as scapegoats on burnt alters called war.

Dear Ones,

For my children's and grand children's families and anyone in interested in 60-years of searching for international peace, this is my personal condemnation against damning nations still childishly waging ethnic wars.  In a civilized world intellectual negotiating, communicating with foreign leaders using diplomacy and hiring professional researchers to squelch political differences is quintessential. In essence International Law has outlawed toxic munitions  contaminating Earth.  Besides,  war zones are urban and ammo causes genetic child-deformities all over the world.

It is dangerous to not know the history, persuasions and mores of any culture before some political administration decides to invade, attack and occupy for the lust of its oil and land.  In  2003 when the United States and its allies broke and found out they owned the ruins of a war torn country and its  polluted environment, incriminating nations must now borrow enough funds to put it back together again, other than with unwanted foreign churches paid for by their members.

Youths  suffer the most from political aggression and sanctions. Political leaders never go hungry. It is youth's bright red blood that soaks Earth's soil and runs in rivers flooding over and reaching great depths into the bowels of Earth.  It is not the crimson blood from non-combatant veins of men that flows freely.  It is the illegal chemical and radioactive ammo that poops out bullets killing children and youths who suffer the longest time if they survive the onslaught of obsolete war.  It is the shit of contaminating accumulative long-lasting aftermath ammunition and war machines that cause radical climate change through war's excessive carbon and CO2 emissions increasing nature's destructive catastrophes.  It was Oscar Wilde who wrote that until blind men wake up and see war for its vulgarity, a total world-wide ceasefire will never happen.  How can young combatants in training and in war erase brutality and beastly, gruesome nightmares engraved upon their mind?.

World's global governments  export illegal weaponry according to International Law that outlaws urban war zones where children play and civilians shop.  It is corporate manufacturers and war economies that are the only ones who profit from industrial warfare paid for taxpayers mostly against child-deforming wars.  It is parents of malformed babies that genetically brutalizes one generation to the next.  It is they who handle toxic munitions causing two-headed infants also having missing arms and legs with parts of their innards hanging outside their bodies, still witnessed in Fallujah, Iraq.

King Pyyrus of Greece, the general who defeated the Romans, must continually turn over in his grave like a rolling pin on steroids.  His Pyrrhic victory was not worth the cost of all the lives of his nation's youths.

Mame
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WHY IT IS QUINTESSENTIAL TO A WRITER TO HAVE A BLOG

Personally each post keeps me thinking. In writing as a blogger I learn something new each day, besides observing nature and human nature alike.  I am an eternal student.  However surtout, above all on yesterday's post my research taught me that Roger Williams purchased property from First Americans. 

 Dear Ones

My intuition tells me as a historian that Williams was magnanimous and followed his conscience–a word that infers science instead of superstition.  But in my leisure I must research this colonial lust and disrespect for other people's property in more depth. This founder of Rhode Island had an open mind and believed in inherent human rights.  He must have been an exception since a tiger does not change its stripes.

I am thankful that my mother was creative and my father was honest, something that my children's  grandparents on both sides passed on down to them. I hope my husband and I had at least a wee part in doing that.

Mame
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Advocate for equality among traditionalist First Americans