They lie,they always lie

an interesting video compilation found on liveleak.com

This Orwellian bill has made your thoughts illegal... your words and actions, your opinions all made criminal... are you scared yet?

<a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/1MC/D236DF64EE494BEB870A7A0B083C856B/maps-of-meaning-12-truths-tha.aspx">Part 12</a>

Theme: The movement beyond cultural schemes of meaning   more...(religions, ideologies) can produce stasis and desperation, as the disenchanted individual once again confronts unstructured chaos. Alternatively, identity with a rigid and totalitarian ideology may be adopted, but such identification eventually deprives life of its spontaneous and sustaining meaning, and turns the ideological adherent towards vengeful destruction.  less

Eric Stakelbeck reports.

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Manifestoon is an homage to the latent subversiveness of cartoons. Though U.S. cartoons are usually thought of as conveyors of capitalist ideologies of consumerism and individualism, Drew observes: "Somehow   more...as an avid childhood fan of cartoons, these ideas were secondary to a more important lesson—that of the 'trickster' nature of many characters as they mocked, outwitted and defeated their more powerful adversaries. In the classic cartoon, brute strength and heavy artillery are no match for wit and humor, and justice always prevails. For me, it was natural to link my own childhood concept of subversion with an established, more articulate version [Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto]. Mickey running over the globe has new meaning in today's mediascape, in which Disney controls one of the largest concentrations of media  less

<a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/1MC/65A1BFC5A9324D41805C4F8466A0904A/maps-of-meaning-10-figuring-e.aspx">Part 10</a>

Theme: The individual begins his or her life as pure vulnerable   more...potential, shielded in optimal circumstances from factors beyond control by the benevolent intervention of maternal care. If such care is provided, the developing individual is then socialized into the broader cultural world. Such socialization provides order and purpose as a buttress against chaos. True individual development, however, means movement beyond the maternal and the cultural, and voluntary personal contact with the chaotic unknown. Such contact generates wisdom, and frees the individual from possession by ideology.  less

Gregory Boyd, pastor of Woodland Hills Church discusses his book, "The Myth of a Christian Nation".

Greg's book is based on a sermon series titled The Cross and the Sword. In the book and sermon   more...series, he argues from Scripture and history that whenever the church gets too close to any political or national ideology, it is disastrous for the church and harmful to society.  less

Introduction

"Leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man, yet they murder men everywhere they find them, at the corner of every one of their streets, in all corners of the globe.   more...For centuries they have stifled almost all of humanity in the name of a so-called spiritual experience. Look at them today swaying between atomic and spiritual disintegration...That same Europe where they are never done talking of Man, and where they never stopped proclaiming that they were only anxious for the welfare of Man: today we know what sufferings humanity has paid for every one of their triumphs of the mind."

Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

The following essay, Islam: Religion or Ideology, was written three weeks ago, before the government of Israel began its brutal, murderous assault on the civilian population of Lebanon, allegedly in response to the capture of two Israeli soldiers by fighters affiliated with the Lebanese Islamic organization, Hizbollah. This latest Israeli campaign only underscores the price the people of the Middle East have paid owing to the triumph of Zionism. That price has been high indeed, and as Lebanon is reduced to bloodstained rubble, the price only escalates.

That said, we should never lose sight of the fact that the Jewish people have also paid heavily for that triumph. The growing number of Jewish victims of the deepening cycles of violence plaguing the region, evidenced most recently in the indiscriminant Hizbollah rocket attacks on northern Israeli cities, is part of that price. However, in my opinion, the greater price lies in how the triumph of Zionism threatens to transform mainstream Judaism from a religion characterized by the loftiest of moral codes, to one that is willing to sacrifice its morality on the altar of political expediency.

Evidence of Jewish philanthropy, and goodwill towards the generality of humanity still existsone has to only look at the charitable and social justice work done both here and globally by Jewshowever, the overwhelming support the people of Israel, and Jews in other parts of the world, have given to this most recent campaign of murder and destruction against the defenseless Lebanese people (most of whom are not politically aligned with Hizbollah) points to the sad reality of a great world faith being diminished by the political agenda of the Zionist state.

The following is part of an effort by this writer to warn Muslims against allowing the reduction of our religion by similar political imperatives. We should never hope to see the day when, if possessing the requisite firepower, Muslims would visit upon the civilian population of Israel the sort of savage violence we see decimating the innocent civilians of Gaza and Lebanon. God has imposed limits on our behavior, even in times of war, and we should never transgress those limits. Our failure to observe those limits not only threatens to destroy the moral foundations of our religion, it will also add to the suffering of innocent human beings.

Time does not allow a deeper analysis of the current crisis. In the near future, I plan to write an extensive article on this issue. For now, I will conclude my remarks with the deeply insightful and frighteningly prophetic words of the Zionist philosopher Ahad Haam (Asher Ginsberg). He writes over one hundred years ago:

"One thing we certainly should have learned from our past and present history, and that is not to create anger among the local population against us We have to treat the local population with love and respect, justly and rightly. And what do our brethren in the Land of Israel do? Exactly the opposite! Slaves they were in their country of exile, and suddenly they find themselves in a boundless and anarchic freedom, as is always the case with a slave that has become king; and they behave towards the Arabs with hostility and cruelty, infringe upon their boundaries, hit them shamefully without reason, and even br  less