Here are some of my spiritual/political convictions:
Truth and Love is default - lies are perversions of the base truth, fear and law imply the absence of love.
You can kill me just fine with a gun yes, but the idea of forcing me to worship or convert seems impossible due to personal will.
Is this the basis for the "war on terror", the fear of personal carpets and worship of Allah by gunpoint?
I believe in Love, that it is real and law is an illusion. Perhaps a necessary illusion for the loveless to adhere to. Our world is becoming less conducive to Love as generations of potential are being systematically undermined using public education system and fear as tools.
The line between my core-spiritual-values and political-need-for-action is getting so muddy that if I had a god, her name would be An Archy
Posted by Padre Jud
Dec 24 2010 - 3:39pm
Best Christmas album ever!
Posted by jimmytwoshoes
Dec 24 2010 - 3:57pm
Or if the guy has a AR 15, and wants to forcibly change your form of government.
Posted by appfleurs
Dec 24 2010 - 6:54pm
All you need is love - from JOHN DENVER??? Puhleez. I am the daughter of a fatally wounded victim of domestic violence. JD's past history in regard to this is quite muddy. I won't listen to ANYTHING he says or sings, past or present, until the waters are crystal clear.
Posted by Wei Wu Wei
Dec 24 2010 - 9:11pm
Still like Zeppelin and Humble Pie best, but, gasp, have developed a taste for John Denver and Karen Carpenter in later years.
Despite all the saviors, sages, avatars, seers, and wisemen throughout the ages there is still much ignorance, fear, greed, and hate. The wheel of love and fear continues it's revolutions to nowhere. But hey, it's all dream material and YOU my friend are the One and Only Dreamer.
Posted by Ted Markow
Dec 25 2010 - 10:29am
"Despite all the saviors, sages, avatars, seers, and wisemen throughout the ages there is still much ignorance, fear, greed, and hate."
True, but the challenge has always been for you and me to listen to them and live right despite all the ignorance, fear, greed, and hate. None of those saviors, sages, avatars, or wise men (and women) ever said it would be easy. Simple, yes, but not easy.
Peace, all.
Posted by Dogface
Dec 26 2010 - 10:27am
It is time again to watch Joseph Campbell's ..."The Power of Myth" with Bill Moyers.
Posted by JohnSpencer3
Dec 25 2010 - 12:00am
Is this the same John Denver that turned corporate and invested in all of the Condos in Colorado? I never met a regular working person from Colorado that didn't make an ugly face at the mention of his name unless they were groupies or the likes.
Posted by licketyglick
Dec 25 2010 - 5:57am
This is the John Denver who partnered with Rocky Mountain Institute and founded Windstar Foundation, which is still active in environmental preservation work. It's also the same John Denver who wrote and sung with authentic passion hundreds of songs with lyrics like below. And I say this as someone who's never been a fan.
Do you have some specifics to share, some facts to back up your accusation?
Does every person have to be absolutely perfect to deserve any respect or appreciation?
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There's a full moon over India
And Gandhi lives again
Who's to say you have to lose
For someone else to win
In the eyes of all the people
The look is much the same
For the first is just the last one
When you play a deadly game
It's about time we realize it
We're all in this together
It's about time we find out
It's all of us or none
It's about time we recognize it
These changes in the weather
It's about time, it's about changes
And it's about time
There's a light in the Vatican window
For all the world to see
And a voice cries in the wilderness
Sometimes he speaks for me
I suppose I love him most of all
When he kneels to kiss the land
With his lips upon our Mother's breast
He makes his strongest stand
It's about time we start to see it
The earth is our only home
It's about time we start to face it
We can't make it here all alone
It's about time we start to listen
To the voices in the wind
It's about time and it's about changes
And it's about time
There's a man who is my brother
I just don't know his name
But I know his home and family
Because I know we feel the same
And it hurts me when he's hungry
And when his children cry
I too, am a father
That little one is mine
It's about time we begin it
To turn the world around
It's about time we start to make it
The dream we've always known
It's about time we start to live it
The family of man
It's about time, it's about changes
And it's about time
It's about peace and it's about plenty
And it's about time
It's about you and me together
And it's about time
Posted by Phyllis Stenerson
Dec 25 2010 - 11:41am
Previous post - "Does every person have to be absolutely perfect to deserve any respect or appreciation?"
If perfection were required for a person to make a significant contribution to the world, the list of good guys would be very, very short.
The message of John and Kermit is as close to perfect as I've ever heard. It stands on its own as a contribution to a aching world that needs all the love that can be mustered.
Thanks, John. R.I.P. Thanks, Kermit. It's good to know you'll always be with us.
Posted by dboylon
Dec 25 2010 - 1:31pm
Actually believe in love can save people. If you believe in love...of yourself and your family and you put that first in your life you will not do things...and will encourage your family members not to do things like join the US armed forces. The greatest force for evil on the planet. After our masters in DC and wall street led us into killing millions of Asian people and over 50,000 of our own...mostly public school educated zombies (who blindly take their marching orders from this crowd)...over some obscure theory about dominoes falling...we leave and no dominoes fall and the remaining Asians wind up making our tennis shoes. LOL. Than after bombing, invading, killing, bombing, starving, not allowing medical equipment and medicines into a country for 10 years (killing millions of Arabs...with the Secretary of State telling Leslie Stahl on 60 minutes that "the price (of mainly arab elderly and children deaths) is worth it"...in a country called Iraq. A militant group of Saudis we support when they were fighting "godless communism" ...took offense to our killing in Iraq and support of the apartheid state in Israel and took revenge on us killing 4000 American civilians. We than invade kill and terrorize Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan killing millions in a span of another 10 years. The threat of Isalmic terrorism is so real that no more Americans die of arab terrorism in this 10 years...because really the threat was small...and exposes Americans as frightened cowards easily manipulated by their masters in DC and wall street. 50,000 Americans die a year in car accidents. 150,000 Americans die a year of hospital staph infections. Where is the department of homeland traffic safety? Where is the department of homeland hospital bacteria safety? Do our masters not really care whether we live or die? America is the greatest force of evil on the planet. Hopefully its economic ruin is right around the corner.
Posted by Dogface
Dec 26 2010 - 10:15am
Here! Here! The truth shall set you free!
Posted by colosaurus
Dec 25 2010 - 1:52pm
This is my 35th Christmas with "John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together"... I wouldn't let a Christmas go by without it. "Alfie" may be part-responsible for my becoming an environmentalist, and JD&M's version of Silent Night remains one of my favorites as well.
I am a working class person and a Colorado native and contrary to what the above commenter says,most people I know had fond memories of John. A person should be allowed to invest their hard-earned money somehow. John kept his investments close to home where he could at least see the implementation through.
I am grateful that my kids are still at an age where they can embrace the simple messages in tender songs like this without inserting cynicism and bitterness. Of course there are terrible things in this world. But sweetness and light must be generated somewhere. My kids will learn to question authority and turn a cynical eye to goodness soon enough; instilling a little holiday wonder and positivity now may help them through darker times. Bless you and RIP, John Denver and Jim Henson.
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Show AllBrilliant music vid BTW.
Here are some of my spiritual/political convictions:
Truth and Love is default - lies are perversions of the base truth, fear and law imply the absence of love.
You can kill me just fine with a gun yes, but the idea of forcing me to worship or convert seems impossible due to personal will.
Is this the basis for the "war on terror", the fear of personal carpets and worship of Allah by gunpoint?
I believe in Love, that it is real and law is an illusion. Perhaps a necessary illusion for the loveless to adhere to. Our world is becoming less conducive to Love as generations of potential are being systematically undermined using public education system and fear as tools.
The line between my core-spiritual-values and political-need-for-action is getting so muddy that if I had a god, her name would be An Archy
Best Christmas album ever!
Or if the guy has a AR 15, and wants to forcibly change your form of government.
All you need is love - from JOHN DENVER??? Puhleez. I am the daughter of a fatally wounded victim of domestic violence. JD's past history in regard to this is quite muddy. I won't listen to ANYTHING he says or sings, past or present, until the waters are crystal clear.
Still like Zeppelin and Humble Pie best, but, gasp, have developed a taste for John Denver and Karen Carpenter in later years.
Despite all the saviors, sages, avatars, seers, and wisemen throughout the ages there is still much ignorance, fear, greed, and hate. The wheel of love and fear continues it's revolutions to nowhere. But hey, it's all dream material and YOU my friend are the One and Only Dreamer.
"Despite all the saviors, sages, avatars, seers, and wisemen throughout the ages there is still much ignorance, fear, greed, and hate."
True, but the challenge has always been for you and me to listen to them and live right despite all the ignorance, fear, greed, and hate. None of those saviors, sages, avatars, or wise men (and women) ever said it would be easy. Simple, yes, but not easy.
Peace, all.
It is time again to watch Joseph Campbell's ..."The Power of Myth" with Bill Moyers.
Is this the same John Denver that turned corporate and invested in all of the Condos in Colorado? I never met a regular working person from Colorado that didn't make an ugly face at the mention of his name unless they were groupies or the likes.
This is the John Denver who partnered with Rocky Mountain Institute and founded Windstar Foundation, which is still active in environmental preservation work. It's also the same John Denver who wrote and sung with authentic passion hundreds of songs with lyrics like below. And I say this as someone who's never been a fan.
Do you have some specifics to share, some facts to back up your accusation?
Does every person have to be absolutely perfect to deserve any respect or appreciation?
------------------------------------------------
There's a full moon over India
And Gandhi lives again
Who's to say you have to lose
For someone else to win
In the eyes of all the people
The look is much the same
For the first is just the last one
When you play a deadly game
It's about time we realize it
We're all in this together
It's about time we find out
It's all of us or none
It's about time we recognize it
These changes in the weather
It's about time, it's about changes
And it's about time
There's a light in the Vatican window
For all the world to see
And a voice cries in the wilderness
Sometimes he speaks for me
I suppose I love him most of all
When he kneels to kiss the land
With his lips upon our Mother's breast
He makes his strongest stand
It's about time we start to see it
The earth is our only home
It's about time we start to face it
We can't make it here all alone
It's about time we start to listen
To the voices in the wind
It's about time and it's about changes
And it's about time
There's a man who is my brother
I just don't know his name
But I know his home and family
Because I know we feel the same
And it hurts me when he's hungry
And when his children cry
I too, am a father
That little one is mine
It's about time we begin it
To turn the world around
It's about time we start to make it
The dream we've always known
It's about time we start to live it
The family of man
It's about time, it's about changes
And it's about time
It's about peace and it's about plenty
And it's about time
It's about you and me together
And it's about time
Previous post - "Does every person have to be absolutely perfect to deserve any respect or appreciation?"
If perfection were required for a person to make a significant contribution to the world, the list of good guys would be very, very short.
The message of John and Kermit is as close to perfect as I've ever heard. It stands on its own as a contribution to a aching world that needs all the love that can be mustered.
Thanks, John. R.I.P. Thanks, Kermit. It's good to know you'll always be with us.
Actually believe in love can save people. If you believe in love...of yourself and your family and you put that first in your life you will not do things...and will encourage your family members not to do things like join the US armed forces. The greatest force for evil on the planet. After our masters in DC and wall street led us into killing millions of Asian people and over 50,000 of our own...mostly public school educated zombies (who blindly take their marching orders from this crowd)...over some obscure theory about dominoes falling...we leave and no dominoes fall and the remaining Asians wind up making our tennis shoes. LOL. Than after bombing, invading, killing, bombing, starving, not allowing medical equipment and medicines into a country for 10 years (killing millions of Arabs...with the Secretary of State telling Leslie Stahl on 60 minutes that "the price (of mainly arab elderly and children deaths) is worth it"...in a country called Iraq. A militant group of Saudis we support when they were fighting "godless communism" ...took offense to our killing in Iraq and support of the apartheid state in Israel and took revenge on us killing 4000 American civilians. We than invade kill and terrorize Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan killing millions in a span of another 10 years. The threat of Isalmic terrorism is so real that no more Americans die of arab terrorism in this 10 years...because really the threat was small...and exposes Americans as frightened cowards easily manipulated by their masters in DC and wall street. 50,000 Americans die a year in car accidents. 150,000 Americans die a year of hospital staph infections. Where is the department of homeland traffic safety? Where is the department of homeland hospital bacteria safety? Do our masters not really care whether we live or die? America is the greatest force of evil on the planet. Hopefully its economic ruin is right around the corner.
Here! Here! The truth shall set you free!
This is my 35th Christmas with "John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together"... I wouldn't let a Christmas go by without it. "Alfie" may be part-responsible for my becoming an environmentalist, and JD&M's version of Silent Night remains one of my favorites as well.
I am a working class person and a Colorado native and contrary to what the above commenter says,most people I know had fond memories of John. A person should be allowed to invest their hard-earned money somehow. John kept his investments close to home where he could at least see the implementation through.
I am grateful that my kids are still at an age where they can embrace the simple messages in tender songs like this without inserting cynicism and bitterness. Of course there are terrible things in this world. But sweetness and light must be generated somewhere. My kids will learn to question authority and turn a cynical eye to goodness soon enough; instilling a little holiday wonder and positivity now may help them through darker times. Bless you and RIP, John Denver and Jim Henson.