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Created: Nov 30, 2007
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Heather Riede

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Email: sacredchalice [at] hotmail.com
 
Address: Orange County, California
United States
 
I Speak: English
 
I Am: Activist, Advocate, Artist
 
Member Since: November 30, 2007
 
Local Time: Mon Nov 23 14:28:59
 

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About

I have many issues that I care deeply about.  I cannot just confine myself to one as I see clearly how they all relate to one another. 

As people who want to live in a better world, we must all work on everything in order to get real change.  It takes our relationships to each other to really start the change.  We should by loving one another, not fighting one another like we always do, from personal relationships to global wars and genocide.  It all starts with individuals and how they treat each other, then how they treat animals and the environment. 

I believe that the main cause to all of our problems is overpopulation.  Too many people don't even think when it comes to "Should I have a kid?" But instead it's "Oops, I'm pregnant and I don't believe in abortion so I'll just have it even though I don't have the means to bring it up in this world".  I really hate the way people act with this issue.  They don't think about children in a global way like they should - the global impact of you along with many other would-be mothers about to give birth to more people that this world cannot take care of.  Think of the world first, and the quality of your own relationships with everyone and everything around you which already exists before bring another into this dyfunctional life.  Until you can say there's nothing that horrifying about this place we call home, you should never think of having children.  I believe abortion shouldn't be a religious issue, but a logical one based on what can be supported naturally.  Practice good birth control and the issue of abortion shouldn't even exist except for in cases where pregnancy will kill the mother. 

I don't believe in doctrines, I believe in logic to rule this world.  Doctrines didn't get us to be peaceful so why do so many people cling to them to this day?  I believe it's all out of "bad habit".  People do many stupid things out of the cycle of bad habits.  I've come to realize this very much so this last year.  People need to look at themselves more and fix themselves or this world won't get any better.  As of now, I feel we are a virus to the earth and don't deserve to live after the way we've disregarded Earth and it's beautiful diverse species. 

Another big thing is, if you're oging to have children, make sure you teach them to be better than you.  There is always room for improvement when it comes to the human being.  Many parents are too busy to really raise a child and that child suffers, and ends up being another damaged product of society that just adds even more to it by it's actions- one way: by it having more dsyfuntional children.  The cycle keeps going...  We must stop and really evaluate what we should be doing, not what the status quo is.  Because the status quo on everything is really really messed up.  Sometimes I really don't get why I exist here when I look at everything from militaries to people actually still hungry in this world where Americans get fatter every year. 

And I wish everyone who can, would at least recycle and do the little things to make this place more green!  People just aren't getting it enough, we need MAJOR CHANGES really to stay alive. 

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oblio69 about 1 year ago

I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.

 

 

 

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