Humanity

is anyone really better off when people spend their lives trying to find new ways to prove other people wrong?

All Faith is false, all Faith is true:

Truth is the shattered mirror strown

In myriad bits; while each believes

His little bit the whole to own.

-Haji Abdu El-Yezdi (Richard Burton)

here are two videos of tupac songs i really admire:

Bem-te-vi

Generic Idealistic College Activist Group
Type:
Common Interest - Beliefs & Causes
Description:
There are a lot of bad things in the world: AIDS, poverty, famine, Republicans. We, the bright-eyed bushy tailed college students of America, will be the ones to fix them!!!! We realize that the problems of which we speak are infinitely more complicated than our Introductory Sociology reading syllabi could ever have anticipated, and that scores and scores of the world’s leading “progressive” thinkers have tried and failed to use other pipe-dream solutions to make the world a better place (as we define it). But never you mind!!! We’re college students. We know things. Who needs real-world experience and common sense when we have petitions, bumper stickers, and Noam Chomsky?

The mission of this group is nothing less than revolutionary, and the ideas expressed in it are fresh and innovative! The mission includes:

1. Social justice, social tolerance, social freedom, social rights, social society, and social studies

2. Universal education, universal healthcare, universal health insurance, universal housing, universal employment, and universal happiness!!

3. An end to war, poverty, hunger, AIDS, hate, discrimination, genocide, famine, disease, intolerance, racism, sexism, classism, nationalism, heterosexism, religionism, ethno-centrism, socio-eco-classo-sexo-nationalism, unilateralism, quadrilateralism, pollution, inequality, terrorism, crime, bad weather, anger, fear, sadness, heartache, death, fatigue, general human disatisfaction, disagreement, uncertainty, meanness, pain, and inconvenience!!

4. Peace in the Middle East!! This can be a reality, people. Jimmy Carter has a book about it, and the suicide bombers WILL sit down and read it!!

5. A return to international law and the United Nations!! Specifically, we’d like global peace and prosperity, and the UN is the only conceivable way to achieve it!!

6. More foreign aid!! We’ve given billions to third world nations already, but for some reason, the citizens of those nations never see it (because we’re not giving enough!). Thankfully, however, the leaders of those countries have reminded us that we need to send more - and it is our duty to do so, and their right to our money!!

7. Fair and free elections in Disputed Northeastern Congo Section 17-B

8. Free Mumia (we’re not sure what he did but according to various Web sites which we’re predisposed to agree with anyway, he’s innocent!)

9. A more equitable and just distribution of the wealth!! We have to make free market capitalism work by shackling it with suffocating and arbitrary laws, regulations, activist judges, centralized state control and ownership of all means of production, and think tank policy papers

10. Gay rights, women’s rights, black rights, workers’ rights, disability rights, immigrant rights, foreigners’ rights, intergalactic aliens’ rights, atheist rights, poor people’s rights, homeless rights, and one-armed Alaskan battery dealers’ rights

11. Fairness, equality, love, peace, and brother/sister/non-gender-specific-hood, forever and ever, non-religion-specific Amen!!

We are the world, be the change you wish to see, and other motivational slogans!!

in a world where the innocent are almost completly overrun by the evil and corrupt the good must band together and fight. each bringing to the table their own unique gifts but channeled together in to a force none can withstand.
will you join me?

“M”

http://myimn.com

Iê, viva Zumbi, camará

(this article is from wikipedia  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zumbi)

Zumbi also known as Zumbi dos Palmares (1655 - November 20, 1695, pronounced: /ˈzoombee/) was the last of the leaders of the Quilombo dos Palmares, in the present-day state of Alagoas, Brazil. A quilombo was a refuge of runaway slaves.

Quilombo dos Palmares was a self-sustaining republic of Maroons escaped from the Portuguese settlements in Brazil, “a region perhaps the size of Portugal in the hinterland of Bahia” (Braudel 1984 p 390). At its height, Palmares had a population of over 30,000.

Capoeira or the Dance of War by Johann Moritz Rugendas, 1835

Forced to defend against repeated attacks by Portuguese colonial power, the warriors of Palmares were expert in capoeira, a martial arts form developed in Brazil by African slaves in the 1500s.

An African known only as Zumbi was born free in Palmares in 1655, but was captured by the Portuguese and given to a missionary, Father Antonio Melo when he was approximately 6 years old. Baptized Francisco, Zumbi was taught the sacraments, learned Portuguese and Latin, and helped with daily mass. Despite attempts to “civilize” him, Zumbi escaped in 1670 and, at the age of 15, returned to his birthplace. Zumbi became known for his physical prowess and cunning in battle and was a respected military strategist by the time he was in his early twenties.

By 1678, the governor of the captaincy of Pernambuco, Pedro Almeida, weary of the longstanding conflict with Palmares, approached its leader Ganga Zumba with an olive branch. Almeida offered freedom for all runaway slaves if Palmares would submit to Portuguese authority, a proposal which Ganga Zumba favored. But Zumbi was distrustful of the Portuguese. Further, he refused to accept freedom for the people of Palmares while other Africans remained enslaved. He rejected Almeida’s overture and challenged Ganga Zumba’s leadership. Vowing to continue the resistance to Portuguese oppression, Zumbi became the new leader of Palmares.

Fifteen years after Zumbi assumed leadership of Palmares, Portuguese military commanders Domingos Jorge Velho and Vieira de Mello mounted an artillery assault on the quilombo. February 6, 1694, after 67 years of ceaseless conflict with the cafuzos, or Maroons, of Palmares, the Portuguese succeeded in destroying Cerca do Macaco, the republic’s central settlement. Palmares’ warriors were no match for the Portuguese artillery; the republic fell, and Zumbi was wounded. Though he survived and managed to elude the Portuguese, he was betrayed, captured almost two years later and beheaded on the spot November 20, 1695. The Portuguese transported Zumbi’s head to Recife, where it was displayed in the central plaza as proof that, contrary to popular legend among African slaves, Zumbi was not immortal. Remnants of the old quilombos continued to reside in the region for another hundred years.

Today, November 20 is celebrated, chiefly in Rio de Janeiro, as a day of national pride. The day has special meaning for Afro-Brazilians, who honor Zumbi as a hero, freedom fighter and a symbol of freedom.

One Love

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To ride abroad redressing human wrongs,
To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it,
To honor his own word as if his god’s,
To lead sweet lives in purest chastity,
To love one maiden only […]
And worship her by years of noble deeds….

– credo of the Knights of the Round Table
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http://nationstates.net/

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in·ad·e·quate (Ä­n-ăd’Ä­-kwÄ­t)
adj.
Not adequate to fulfill a need or meet a requirement; insufficient.

can someone be inadequate as a person? is there some kind of requirement or sufficiency to be a person that we need to fulfil or meet? what is it?
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