[Blolover11]

hi dihlon,

this was a very insightful post. i don't so often feel this way, but today i am struggling with it.

it is so easy to be brought down. we are delicate, and our hold upon newly won spiritual territory is delicate indeed.

in general, i'd say my path in the past several years is to grow in unconditional love for humanity, and it has brought me great and unexpected joy.

but tonight, some other people in my house had a tv program on about the history of torture, and the ingenious devices of torture, esp from the inquisition. i became disheartened by its ubiquitousness in history. i watched it for a bit. probably shouldn't have. i almost never watch tv and very few movies. i can't fathom how people watch endless crime dramas and violence when it upsets me so much. i believe it is bad for the soul and irresponsible to watch that kind of thing. spiritually irresponsible, like not paying one's bills on time or being chronically late to work, or not changing the oil in your car.

then i logged on here and some people were gushing about the obama yes we can video, and it's not that i don't like him. i might even bother to vote for him just to help break the clinton-bush dynasty. it's just that it is highly unlikely he is really any better and it is so silly for people to be influenced by a feel-good, slick little video like that when he probably never says anything of substance. (i wouldn't know, as i have never listened to him.) but ron paul, now, he said things of substance.

i mean, remember those "coke: it's the real thing" ads from a few years back? they made us all feel good. but they were about coca cola!

obama probably hired that firm to create his video.

americans are a silly, silly people.