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David Sparenberg's Blog – March 2011 Archive (4)

VIOLENCE: EARTH, HUMANITY & GOD



Today we hear about the violent Earth—eruptions of fire, rogue waves, tremors, quakes, mega-storms, speeding walls of ocean water, weather like a rampaging berserker. But we accept without question the violence of humanity. We do not know this Earth as experience, in relationship, anymore than we know God as an authentic and intimate relationship-experience. For most, Earth is not a living truth but a warehouse of resources, exploited to supply senseless and even… Continue

Added by David Sparenberg on March 29, 2011 at 3:48am — 7 Comments

FUKUSHIMA – A Protest Monologue

There is a scene in Bram Stoker’s Dracula which is, for me, the most frightening. It is not a depiction of the vampire’s infernal, blood lusting eyes, of the vampire’s gore dripping fangs and death mask fixation, or even of the vampire vertically scaling the wind tortured, towering walls of Castle Dracula in guise of a biomorphic demon, at once inhuman and reptilian. The situation of ultimate, paralytic terror is one in which the nosferato, the unnatural fiend, enters a room silently through a… Continue

Added by David Sparenberg on March 21, 2011 at 11:26pm — 6 Comments

THE CHOSEN

The chosen will not be chosen

through some grand and mystic mystery:

a golden cloud will not descend

celestial trumpets not sound…

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Added by David Sparenberg on March 15, 2011 at 2:13am — 1 Comment

STREETS OF CAIRO, BYWAYS OF BENGHAZI

how many Jesuses are in the streets of Cairo or the byways of Benghazi where blood of innocents is spilled to fortify power for the latest emperor of madness and oil



where the kingdom of heaven wears the camouflage of rebellion and speaks in the language of eyes of eyes meeting eyes



where the banners of humanity are unfurled to signal an uprising of peace and freedom justice and democracy where there exists—



like the spontaneous flame of an angel’s combustible… Continue

Added by David Sparenberg on March 3, 2011 at 4:56am — 3 Comments

Quote of the moment:

"PEACE
NOT WAR
GENEROSITY
NOT GREED
EMPATHY
NOT HATE
CREATIVITY
NOT DESTRUCTION
EVERYBODY
NOT JUST US"

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