Let me begin by saying that I don't feel I have to rush to Patrick's defense because he is always thoughtful, unencumbered with ineffectual thinking and always makes his point, so that is not my motivation in responding to the above mentioned article.

Actually it reminded me of just how much our civilization has lost in the past two decades in our thinking and reasoning abilities.  I became aware of just how shallow our comentators like Bill O'Riley and Shawn Connery had become at the time of the John Kerry pollitical race for president when I suddenly found myself reach a point of utter frustration and turned off my car radio because some radio host became so debased and ugly that I simply could not stand to listen any more!   At that time I asked myself, "where is the civility and extended thinking we used to enjoy ?... What has happened to our world?"  All I have seen and heard since that time is adolescent drama pointing to endless conflict and blame coming from all corners.  I've been asking myself where all of our reflective thinkers have gone and why?  In other words, I asked a REAL question about CAUSE rather than EFFECT and why aren't we ever exposed any more to someone who would remind us that we have something better to do with our lives than to join the crowd in a downward spiral into mediocrity. Where are the leaders that remind us of our greatness instead of our lowest potential because people need a constant reminder to keep from joining the herd mentality.

I believe that we have been purposedly deprived of those thinkers and leaders for a long time and we now  find ourselves in a state of apathy, confusion and a feeling of something we can't quite put our finger on, like dimiinished capacity!  When I try to tell people about the state of affairs of our world and ask the tough questions, I get,  "well what can I do about it?"   Of course, if a person has never asked themselves a question like that, it is unthinkable to them that there could  possibly be SOMETHING they could do!  Instead we now have a society of " Do Not Distrub Me"  people who have become so self-absorbed that they are keeping themselves in a powerless position by not taking over the helm of their ship and pointing it into the storm!  In other words, no more self-reliance!

So, for the purposes of this discussion,  what is the one most responsible cause of this problem?   Our EGOS instead of our SOULS!  Now, I hastedly acknowledge that most of us don't have a clue as to how to change that.and get to higher ground within ourselves.  For some excellent help, try Guy Finley's book,  Letting Go, delinerating how to rid yourself of the "white static" of ego that would keep us dis-empowered toward ourselves. He is, in my opinion, one of the great thinkers of our time!

But to get to the reason for this article, which was the ill-conceived statement of calling a renouned spiritual soldier in a field of the largest conflict our world has ever known for some twenty years, a coward,  I was shocked!  But what it does is to provide one with an opportunity, to perhaps, help struggling mankind to come to some clarity within themselves and  realize that their reactions are caused by one's deadly enemy, their Ego!  That is the base cause of their reactions until one can take the responsibility of their own thoughts and kill that sucker  (the ego) within before it kills them!  Until then,  they are relegated  to the confusion and emptiness of any real connection of their higher potential!  "People, you have a body and a spirit that makes up your Soul that is just waiting for you to wake up, acknowledge it and kick in!  As Emerill La Gasse says,"bump it up a notch!"  and see what happens! You will realize the promise of an entirely different You, one that you can be proud of !

As a collective, we need  to get off these kid's game of blaming others for our inadequacies, come into the true light of our own beings and become part of the solution instead part of the problem. The time is right and is here for us to stop playing "follow the leader" and begin following ourselves!

So,  what do we say?  Can we do it and get back to liking and loving our fellow man amd ourselves so that we can all enjoy a "kinder and more gentle world" !  Give this thought a chance folks and let's see what happens!

Good Luck!

KJ

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