Native American peace sign.
It's crafted from a sheet of mica.
Showing posts with label peace. Show all posts
Showing posts with label peace. Show all posts
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Monday, July 4, 2011
IMHO, Will Rogers Is An Important Part Of Our History
More W.R. quotes: (I don't believe that they are a precise description of the world, but I do enjoy most of them.)
~ When the big nations quit meddling then the world will have peace.
~ I don't care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to.
~ If Wall Street paid a tax on every "game" they run, we would get enough revenue to run the government on.
~ (if there is) one thing we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage someone else's affairs.
~ Nations are just like individuals, lend them money and you lose their friendship.
~ We would never understand why Mexico wasn't crazy about us, we have always had their goodwill, oil, coffee, and minerals at heart.
~ You can take a sob story and a stick of candy and lead America right off into the dead sea.
~ Headlines in the paper read "Europe Criticizes U.S." If memory serves me right we haven't complimented them lately ourselves.
~ I have a scheme for stopping war, it's this -- No nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
~ Well, they finally stopped us from sending the Marines to every war that we could hear of. They are having on in Afghanistan, the thing will be over before Congress can pronounce it, much less find out where it is located.
~ When the big nations quit meddling then the world will have peace.
~ I don't care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to.
~ If Wall Street paid a tax on every "game" they run, we would get enough revenue to run the government on.
~ (if there is) one thing we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage someone else's affairs.
~ Nations are just like individuals, lend them money and you lose their friendship.
~ We would never understand why Mexico wasn't crazy about us, we have always had their goodwill, oil, coffee, and minerals at heart.
~ You can take a sob story and a stick of candy and lead America right off into the dead sea.
~ Headlines in the paper read "Europe Criticizes U.S." If memory serves me right we haven't complimented them lately ourselves.
~ I have a scheme for stopping war, it's this -- No nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
~ Well, they finally stopped us from sending the Marines to every war that we could hear of. They are having on in Afghanistan, the thing will be over before Congress can pronounce it, much less find out where it is located.
Friday, June 17, 2011
A Golden Age
The American Indian Interaction System I've been posting about from time to time may be said to have lasted for over 4000 years. It pulsed and changed with the earth, with life. It was an interaction of varied people of various languages. It was geographically extensive. It supported a value system which included demonstrating respect for ones ancestors and tolerance for ones neighbors.
The interaction of the peoples of this system seems to have been gratifyingly peaceful. There was death and there was violent death, but there was little warlike activity.
A more recent golden age of of the interactions of these people lasted from about 200 BC to about 400 AD. The center of these interactions seem to have been in the valley of what we call the Ohio River. Its manifestation has been called the Hopewell Exchange System. Its influence was felt from the tip of Florida to well up into Canada and from the Atlantic Ocean to the Rocky Mountains. These Amerinds didn't fool around.
The Mississippi River was the main artery of their interaction. The waters of that river and its tributaries were their roads and communication lines, but not their only ones. They, their cultures, and their sacred goods traveled the Great Lakes, and reached the Gulf of Mexico. They knew the Atlantic seaboard, the lands we now call Louisiana, Mississippi, Virginia, Kentucky,m Pennsylvania, and New York, were important to them, but they also knew Labrador and Oklahoma. People of these areas had interacted earlier, but the age we speak of seems more active and the goods more glorious.
Before the Hopewell culture was the Adena culture. It centered to the north of the Hopewell. The Adena culture was strongly active from about 2000 BC to about 200 BC. Before 2000 BC there was another flowering well to the south of Hopewell culture. If you would help me to trace corresponding climate changes we could perhaps find that cultural locus coincided with climate change.
After 400 or 500 AD to about 900 AD this Mississippi valley culture experienced great change. Productive corn came, a new bow and arrow came. New power, ideas, and beliefs came. Perhaps a new people arrived. Exchange systems changed, but continued, for a time. It also seems that more strife came. There was less tolerance of neighbors and more competition. Ancestors seemed less important. Gods had changed.
Before numbers of Europeans arrived the great interaction spheres had become smaller, less active, less peaceful, and the goods less carefully made and handled. Had what had thrived for over 6000 years with the old gods been led to a 'dark age' in less than 500 years?
As in hopefully all of my posts I am sharing my best understanding of the day and with the desire to benefit you. I try to ever make my words honest. I do not expect to hit the bull's-eye of truth, but it is there I aim. I pray that you contribute to to my understanding or to question it.
The interaction of the peoples of this system seems to have been gratifyingly peaceful. There was death and there was violent death, but there was little warlike activity.
A more recent golden age of of the interactions of these people lasted from about 200 BC to about 400 AD. The center of these interactions seem to have been in the valley of what we call the Ohio River. Its manifestation has been called the Hopewell Exchange System. Its influence was felt from the tip of Florida to well up into Canada and from the Atlantic Ocean to the Rocky Mountains. These Amerinds didn't fool around.
The Mississippi River was the main artery of their interaction. The waters of that river and its tributaries were their roads and communication lines, but not their only ones. They, their cultures, and their sacred goods traveled the Great Lakes, and reached the Gulf of Mexico. They knew the Atlantic seaboard, the lands we now call Louisiana, Mississippi, Virginia, Kentucky,m Pennsylvania, and New York, were important to them, but they also knew Labrador and Oklahoma. People of these areas had interacted earlier, but the age we speak of seems more active and the goods more glorious.
Before the Hopewell culture was the Adena culture. It centered to the north of the Hopewell. The Adena culture was strongly active from about 2000 BC to about 200 BC. Before 2000 BC there was another flowering well to the south of Hopewell culture. If you would help me to trace corresponding climate changes we could perhaps find that cultural locus coincided with climate change.
After 400 or 500 AD to about 900 AD this Mississippi valley culture experienced great change. Productive corn came, a new bow and arrow came. New power, ideas, and beliefs came. Perhaps a new people arrived. Exchange systems changed, but continued, for a time. It also seems that more strife came. There was less tolerance of neighbors and more competition. Ancestors seemed less important. Gods had changed.
Before numbers of Europeans arrived the great interaction spheres had become smaller, less active, less peaceful, and the goods less carefully made and handled. Had what had thrived for over 6000 years with the old gods been led to a 'dark age' in less than 500 years?
As in hopefully all of my posts I am sharing my best understanding of the day and with the desire to benefit you. I try to ever make my words honest. I do not expect to hit the bull's-eye of truth, but it is there I aim. I pray that you contribute to to my understanding or to question it.
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Life on the Mississippi
For over 3000 years they lived in greater peace than have most men. About 400 BC their peace was disturbed a bit. Around 400 AD it was disturbed a bit more. Then about 1000 AD they were disturbed by hearing of new.strangers in the land. Then around AD 1500 more began to arrive that shook a a culture already shaken.
Than around 1600 those that came bringing disease that killed the people. Then round 1700 AD more strangers came and so many people of the land died that there culture so dimmed that there were those who could not see it.
Around 1800 we began to swarm over the land, despising the people, and killing those who would not die. We did not all fit this pattern, but many too many did.
Still they are among us, many of them are us as we re becoming them. The land carries their names. We carry bits of their wisdom.
Tell me about them. Tell me their names. Tell me their stories. Help me to honor them as I would honor myself. Help me to understand this land and these nations so as to honor our humanity.
Than around 1600 those that came bringing disease that killed the people. Then round 1700 AD more strangers came and so many people of the land died that there culture so dimmed that there were those who could not see it.
Around 1800 we began to swarm over the land, despising the people, and killing those who would not die. We did not all fit this pattern, but many too many did.
Still they are among us, many of them are us as we re becoming them. The land carries their names. We carry bits of their wisdom.
Tell me about them. Tell me their names. Tell me their stories. Help me to honor them as I would honor myself. Help me to understand this land and these nations so as to honor our humanity.
Saturday, August 28, 2010
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