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March 2009 
Irony, thy name is...
Posted on Sep 4th, 2008
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Fist and Fangs
Fist and Fangs
Do ya think that when the Republican Convention had musicians do a song called "Raising McCain" that they were aware that they're playing on a phrase, "raising Cain" which refers to Cain and Able, the two early Biblical brothers who ripped each other up? Do ya think they caught the irony of representing their candidate for the Presidency by implying the action of brother against brother in the name of lust and greed? Cain, a farmer (the first, since he and his bro were the first and second sons of Adam and Eve) commits the first murder in history by killing his brother, Abel (the first shepherd) because Cain didn't like that God accepted Abel's sacrifice and not his. Sounds petty to me. This story occurs in all 3 Abrahamic faiths: Bible: Genesis 4: 1-16; Qur'an: 5:26-32 and in the Talmud in Moishe 5:16-41. "Raising Cain" means to get all ate up about something and then do murder to get what you want.
This disturbs me in and of itself--all the moreso as part of a political campaign,
I try to keep a level heart in these matters, and look for the threads of truth in what's being said, regardless of who's saying it. McCain, at the end of his RNC speech said something I believe to be utterly true: the greatest source of happiness is to find something more important than you and give your life to it. I think he actually mean that. I heard stuff in the DNC speeches, too, that made sense--and plenty to piss me off. But this? "Raising McCain?" the deep, energetic threads of resonance frighten me. Please join me as I pray for our people, and all the citizens of Indra's Jeweled net as we face a rather large collective choice point, and create the next edition of our collective reality. Pray for peace, for reasonable thought, for evolutionary impulses to win out over lower-chakra habits. Visualize balance, and manifest in in your own life so that it may seep into the collective consciousness. But above all, please join me in my fervent hope that this world we live in does not become a case of brother against brother, in a petty, jealous battle about who God likes better.
This disturbs me in and of itself--all the moreso as part of a political campaign,
I try to keep a level heart in these matters, and look for the threads of truth in what's being said, regardless of who's saying it. McCain, at the end of his RNC speech said something I believe to be utterly true: the greatest source of happiness is to find something more important than you and give your life to it. I think he actually mean that. I heard stuff in the DNC speeches, too, that made sense--and plenty to piss me off. But this? "Raising McCain?" the deep, energetic threads of resonance frighten me. Please join me as I pray for our people, and all the citizens of Indra's Jeweled net as we face a rather large collective choice point, and create the next edition of our collective reality. Pray for peace, for reasonable thought, for evolutionary impulses to win out over lower-chakra habits. Visualize balance, and manifest in in your own life so that it may seep into the collective consciousness. But above all, please join me in my fervent hope that this world we live in does not become a case of brother against brother, in a petty, jealous battle about who God likes better.
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