Are we stupid?

November 24th, 2013 by admin

If we can conclude that to the limits of our talents and resources we did our best to make a difference by serving a cause or causes beyond self, we can face the approach of death knowing that we have not wasted our life – that’s Heaven.

If on the other hand the honest answer is that we have not used our talents and resources as we could have done to make a difference, and that to some extent we have wasted our life – that’s Hell. (In verbal parenthesis I’ll add that I imagine many obscenely wealthy Gulf Arabs are guaranteed to discover what Hell is. Some months ago Forbes named one of them, one of the hundreds of Saudi princes, as the 25th richest man in the world. He protested, angrily, and said: “I’m not the 25th. I’m the 17th“).

We all need something to believe in. If not the God of any institutional religion, if not the God of money and materialism, if not the God of war and conquest – what can we believe in?

I say why not believe in OURSELVES and our ability, if we are willing to seek, speak and spread the truth, to become politically engaged to make democracy work and cause our governments to change the world for the better; to give our children and grandchildren at least the real prospect of a future worth having. If we fail them, they won’t forgive us.

Thank you.

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    November 24th, 2013 at 2:03 pm

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  2. Serena:

    November 24th, 2013 at 5:54 pm

    We are not stupid. We have been driven insane. How so? Through thousands of years of trauma-programming into the left brain. In seeking or rather, remembering solutions I realised long ago that politics is hot air blown from the posterior of the collective psychopathic party – an allnighter at Earth’s expense. There never was a ‘democracy’ worth considering if we examine ancient Greece. There was an elite group of Pederasts, Psychopaths with a love of violence and bloodshed fluffed up in dainty philosophies and nothing has changed.

    It is we who are changing. After five decades of wandering in the wilderness of dystopia, the answers are simple and most if not all can access them. It’s called intuition, inner tuition. It’s known as right-brained functioning, where all creative inspirations germinate. Humanity was always intuitive, able to telephathically and psychically connect with other humans, animals, plants, trees and the greater cosmos. It is indeed time to return to proper function, higher intelligence for if we do not, we know the outcome being so clearly demonstrated before our eyes.

    I too, have thrown away my cellphone many years ago along with the TV. Mobile communications are a shoddy shadow substitute for our innate (and threatening) ability to connect anytime, anyplace anywhere with anyone through telephathic means as was always the way before our ‘civilisation’ from wild free beings of integrity to dumb imprisoned factory farm cattle. If we bothered to actually speak to the animal cattle, they would tell us to wake up to our insanity and return to our true, loving, supremely intelligent wisdom.

  3. ira krause:

    November 25th, 2013 at 4:54 am

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  4. Jeanine Mansour:

    November 25th, 2013 at 6:20 am

    Bravo, Mr. Alan Hart! Thank you for your words and serving as a true inspiration. Long Live The Truth.

  5. ira krause:

    November 25th, 2013 at 3:07 pm

    your neighbor love your neighbor your neighbor is within
    known to some as your lord. the creators Lord says my Lord speaks to your lord. Invite in the Holy Spirit and keep the proper righteousness , continue dying to self let the real SELF come
    fort for you are a spiritual being so function properly in the
    transformation regeneration properly in the spiritual and physical world. With proper wisdom and understanding brought forth by Lord Christ Jesus and now at hand beyond religious love is the creators Love as it is said all are dead until made alive in Christ. there is the living dead and disembodied dead all are
    dead until made alive in Christ. may your present state and experiences be of benefit. often something that hearts us material
    will benefit us spiritualy know about then know and realize as
    the Holy Spirit works with your will and desire as you make yourself available , let and allow. the Creators activity

  6. Sami Joseph:

    November 25th, 2013 at 6:56 pm

    Kudos to you for telling it as it is. By the way, I personally believe that Ted Heath, RIP, was the very best Prime Minister the UK had in the second part of the 20th Century. It is because he did not succumb to the “ugly face of capitalism” that the brainwashed did not support him.

  7. ron ginsberg:

    November 25th, 2013 at 9:46 pm

    Alan this is the most honest accurate and I’m sure heart felt reflections any of us will hear or read. If I may be permitted as an atheist–god bless you

  8. Pavlov's Bitch:

    November 27th, 2013 at 12:43 am

    I don’t believe Sam Joseph said that …. about Heath the arch child-raping scum and BTW Zionism is the enemy of humanity but then so is the entire Yewish CULT-ure of zealot religions … Jew-ISH, Christian, Muslim … the trinity of the Son (which one?).

    Ha, and there’s ron ginsberg …. using the blessing of ‘god’ as an atheist … Jeez I’m outta here.

    Tara.

  9. Paulo Henrique:

    December 2nd, 2013 at 11:23 am

    The answer is right but impossible to make. All history of the world show this…if there’s something right, is not here.

  10. Dan Huck:

    December 4th, 2013 at 2:29 am

    Thanks for the really great talk that you gave – I wish I had been there, but reading it has been a pleasure. I can’t think of anything you said I would disagree with. Perhaps the decisions not to attack Syria and to make the 6 month agreement with Iran are faint harbingers of what increased input from the people to their government can accomplish.

    Our grandchildren are not going to understand if we don’t take our country back from the warmongers, the violence peddlers, AIPAC and their Likud Israeli allies. But foreign involvement is just one of our issues. People who are not overwhelmed by the hopelessness engendered by acquiescence to things as they are can do amazing things. Today on NPR I heard that while educational accomplishment continues to stagnate in the US, Poland, basically a developing country with massive childhood poverty, has passed the US by in standardized testing of 15 year olds in science and math. They are now in the top tier with scores close to the top in the international ratings.

    It’s not enough to try and lay blame for all our ills; we can start taking much more personal responsibility for putting our legislators feet to the fire, but even more important, we need to become far more involved in understanding the issues more deeply, and helping to devise the solutions. When the Poles were in the bottom grouping, they took that old fashioned maxim “when the going gets tough, the tough get going” to heart, and accomplished what our “good guys” (supposedly) can not accomplish.

    Personally, I believe our totally misplaced confidence in experts and “interested” parties, and our subsequent blaming of them for our failures, a la Obamacare, says more about our unwillingness to accept the idea the buck stops with us. We need to start proving to ourselves democratic citizenship means self-government. Experts are needed to give us factual and technical input, but not to foist what in too many cases is a special interest viewpoint.

    But I recognize all of this is simply to restate exactly what you were sayings!