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    We really need to rethink how we do prisons. We want people to pay for their crime, but we keep paying when we render people unable to function.

    We also let people out of prison from solitary. People who haven't socialized in any normal way for years. It's loony.

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    Quote Originally posted by Dreamtimer View Post
    We really need to rethink how we do prisons. We want people to pay for their crime, but we keep paying when we render people unable to function.

    We also let people out of prison from solitary. People who haven't socialized in any normal way for years. It's loony.
    Prisons should be reserved for those who are a menace to society, only! That would include a lot of politicians. And rehabilitation should be the goal, IMO. I do not believe in punishment but, only remedial actions taken to protect regular peaceful people. Punishment is little more than revenge cloaked in justice. The poisonous implications of embracing punishment have kept humanity down. It prevents us from knowing love in the form of the Golden Rule. It makes a mockery of forgiveness. If someone is a danger to society, let us keep them sequestered/quarantined in what ever manner serves us and for whatever length of time it takes to insure they can be safely returned to our midst. Sentencing times are part of a synthetic, machine-like law and have no relationship to organic living in the NOW. Prisons are a business and provide employment for people with little real world skills.
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    People like to pay for punishment. It used to be entertainment: the origin of the word gala is gallows.

    People don't want to pay for rehabilitation. It's hard, takes a long time and there's no immediate, obvious benefit.

    Lack of long term thinking is widespread.

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    Quote Originally posted by modwiz View Post
    Prisons should be reserved for those who are a menace to society, only!
    I agree with that.

    Quote Originally posted by modwiz View Post
    And rehabilitation should be the goal, IMO. I do not believe in punishment but, only remedial actions taken to protect regular peaceful people.
    Punishment should always be educational toward the punished. If it's not educational, then it's useless.

    Quote Originally posted by modwiz View Post
    Punishment is little more than revenge cloaked in justice. The poisonous implications of embracing punishment have kept humanity down.
    True, and quite often, punishment is actually more than just cloaked revenge. It is also intended as a deterrent — and thus, it is state-sponsored terrorism — and for that matter, one which doesn't work, because no one has ever been stopped from committing a crime based upon the penalty they would face in the event that they were to get caught. Not even if that penalty is capital punishment, which for that matter is nothing other than legalized murder.

    A person on death row is already under detention and is unarmed. By consequence, the execution of such a person, regardless of their crime, is nothing other than premeditated murder, and everyone in favor of capital punishment is by definition an accomplice to premeditated murder.

    These are harsh words, but I've needed to throw them in a few people's faces already in order to wake them up from what they were so vehemently supporting.
    = DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR =

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    Quote Originally posted by Aragorn View Post
    I agree with that.



    Punishment should always be educational toward the punished. If it's not educational, then it's useless.



    True, and quite often, punishment is actually more than just cloaked revenge. It is also intended as a deterrent — and thus, it is state-sponsored terrorism — and for that matter, one which doesn't work, because no one has ever been stopped from committing a crime based upon the penalty they would face in the event that they were to get caught. Not even if that penalty is capital punishment, which for that matter is nothing other than legalized murder.

    A person on death row is already under detention and is unarmed. By consequence, the execution of such a person, regardless of their crime, is nothing other than premeditated murder, and everyone in favor of capital punishment is by definition an accomplice to premeditated murder.

    These are harsh words, but I've needed to throw them in a few people's faces already in order to wake them up from what they were so vehemently supporting.
    To really point the light at what capital punishment is, A Satanic ritual murder, we can read about the concern of the condemned Nazi criminals committing suicide while being held for hanging. Same on other death rows. They make sure that the condemned are stripped of any means to hang themselves or kill themselves in another manner. These acts of official murder are dedicated to "beings". Same with soldiers and their uniforms and other ornaments. Little more than which designated "god" their life force is dedicated to.

    The fact that Goering was able to obtain a cyanide capsule and kill himself was very distressing to the Americans and considered a security breach. Having him dead was not enough for them.
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    Jana ~ faerie pond winter serenade...
    Eceti Ranch Washington (2010)





    Fairy Paradise

    "He draws near the periphery
    In disbelief on delivery
    Came child from the deep inferno
    Crusty head of dead volcano
    Heartless crow with brittle beak
    Wooden leg too schocked to speak
    Lilac dust of a woman's hair
    A wooden cross a paper prayer
    A stone where her body lay
    A stack of feathers a pile of hay
    A mushroom for an eye ball
    A mustache from the snow fall
    Worms weave a ring where fairies square dance
    Queens and kings fairies weave wigs with eyelash
    Trance music makes the fairies dance
    From the caves of snail shells
    Echoes the mutter medieval spells
    Mystery flows her wicked river
    Of thorn and blade and silver sliver
    Bending 'round the clover fields
    Their sapling stems don't break but yield
    Her pain inflicts no arguments
    Must learn to sway and un-arrange
    As earth she makes her final passage
    After humans long have ravaged
    Vanished with all maps for motion
    Upward angels last devotion
    One by one escort us home
    To leave the elementals free to roam
    To bathe in the last of ocean's foam
    To beach comb the nuclear debris
    Our plastic toys and our metal trees
    On the perfect day you'll find the breeze
    Once blew the pollen the feet of bees
    Now cry the stars when upon the earth
    Their gaze might rest a nostalgic burst
    A lament be heard through all the cosmos
    Of the dying planet with fallen foes"

    by CocoRosie

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    Oh do believe they truly exist !


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    Great poem. I will listen to the song when an upload I am doing finishes. Excellent re-directing of a conversation that had gone morbid. Thank you, brother.
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    New film from America ...

    'A Stray'

    "In Minneapolis' large Somali refugee community, Adan has nowhere to go. His mom kicked him out, and his friends are tired of his headstrong ways. As a last resort, he moves into the mosque, praying for a little help. Surprisingly, God seems to answer. Adan quickly lands a good job, devout friends, and a newfound faith. When Adan nearly hits a stray dog on the job, he's forced to take it in for a night. But one of his new mosque friends considers the dog impure, and he throws Adan out. With Adan back on the streets, surrounded by his old crew, ex-girlfriends, prying FBI agents, and his estranged family, the dog may be his only friend as he tries to keep his faith and get through the night."

    Release date: October 21, 2016 (USA)
    Director: Musa Syeed
    Screenplay: Musa Syeed
    Cinematography: Yoni Brook


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    Quote Originally posted by modwiz View Post
    Great poem. I will listen to the song when an upload I am doing finishes. Excellent re-directing of a conversation that had gone morbid. Thank you, brother.
    My apologies was not intentional ... Just me moving along as usual ...

    Note - I always appreciate and enjoy both Your's and Aragorn enlightened comments ...

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    Quote Originally posted by giovonni View Post
    My apologies was not intentional ... Just me moving along as usual ...

    Note - I always appreciate and enjoy both Your's and Aragorn enlightened comments ...
    Please, no apology. I was relieved to have an uplifting shift. Thanks for the appreciation. It is mutual.
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    From Tribes To Mongrels - The Secret Judeo Christian plans - Morris

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    Egypt sided with Russia against Saudia (France) in UNSC."

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    Quote Originally posted by giovonni View Post




    Oh do believe they truly exist !
    Clap clap clap

    The Fifth Cottingley Fairy Photo

    Although the hoax involving the Cottingley Fairies Photos, circa 1920, is well known, many are unaware that one of the girls involved insisted that the 5th photo was genuine. As you will see in the 2009 video from The Antiques Roadshow below, Frances Griffiths admitted to the deception in the 1980’s, along with her cousin Elsie Wright, but she always, to her dying day, said that the 5th photo was the real deal.In photos 1-4, the girls both revealed that they used cut-out artwork from Elsie and stuck them in the ground with hat pins.
    When you look at them now, that does seem pretty obvious. However, the last photo seems to have a different quality than the previous four and there are some hidden faces in that photo as well.
    Frances claims that the girls were not prepared (with cut-out images of fairies) prior to taking this photo so she looked around, saw some fairies making a sort of nest and sunbathing, aimed her camera and took the photo.


    Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2uMmQ0R900

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    When i first say one, the energy around it made a popping/crackling sound as if it was between a dimensional here and now ...They are abound in the Trout Lake, Wa. area ... But usually will only
    appear around those with high auras ...

    I was fortunate one evening to be in the accompaniment of my friend Artemus ...Here he is on the left with me and James Gilliland and Jedar (from Andromeda) Note Artemus is a Permaculturist and has an uncanny fix to Mother Earth ... We were sitting on the stumps by the huge fern in the background ~ when the Elemental suddenly sprung from behind (atop) of Artemus's hairy head ... While he was giggling and laughing at a joke i was reminiscently telling ...




    This pic below is what it appeared like ~ Being about the size of a silver dollar ...
    And i am not alone in this ~ I have quite a few friends who have also
    witnessed these magical beings !


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    Fun informative lecture ..

    Jamie Janover | Unified Field Theory –

    Full Length Lecture

    Filmed LIVE @ Sonic Bloom 2016 - http://sonicbloomfestival.com/

    Published on Oct 11, 2016


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