Who are the “Lame?”

 

“Lame” people can be anyone of course; the person in front of you in the check-out lane with too many items, your boss who gives you jobs that aren’t your job description, or raging drivers who cut you off in traffic. But the really lame are those in any position in society, or of body (do you watch MaxX TV show? Geez!), who make laws, decisions, acts or behaviors that negatively affect innocent others. (NOTE: It is said that there are no victims, that only children are innocent, that adults have every opportunity and right to stand up and say, “STOP!”)

I actually don’t include MaxX TV type “dudes” as they are asking for it! (I wince and grimace and turn away from many parts of that show because, boy, “that’s gonna leave a mark!” I love the narrator though!)

Lame people “should know better,” but due to greed, power, meanness or other conscious or totally unconscious mental disposition (conditioning and patterning from past experiences/childhood events or traumas) do what they do anyway, individually or in herds.

Sadly, We The Sheeple have become part of these herds too, too often.

We are losing our kids, land, air, water, healthy food, country, freedom and planet at the now tipping point rate - due to lame people and those who would follow them without question.

“Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.”
Euripides, Greek playwright, c. 480-406 BC

But, most of humans of the world are in trance. In fear and unconscious, zombie trance. Lots of amazingly destructive things happen in trances - ask Germany and other countries who could or cannot shake themselves out of it until many are lost to the trance. (Check out Jim Marrs book, The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America
for the full picture.)

Why won’t these lame people change?

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
~ Euripides

We really aren’t very evolved. Not really. Our technology can kill us in a blink. Our toxic air, water and land will do it more slowly.

Freud said that we’re all committing suicide, we’re just choosing different ways, some slower than others. Eating unhealthy diets, using or doing “too much” of anything that is toxic to our minds or bodies, abuse, rape, limiting others their freedom, war, pollution, etc. They are all different ways of killing ourselves.

“Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?”
~ Joseph Campbell The Power of Myth

What can we do?

The best we can do is shake ourselves awake as often as possible, admit to our own lameness, laugh at ourselves, change as much as we can, and do it all over again.

“If I have lost confidence in myself,
I have the universe against me.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Ancient Greek aphorism ” Know thyself” was inscribed in golden letters at the lintel of the entrance to the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, first built around the 7th c. B.C. The Oracle: Ancient Delphi and the Science Behind Its Lost Secrets

DO THIS

  • Our individual job is to KNOW OURSELVES. Know yourself.
  • Wake up. Stay awake.
  • Ask questions: Of yourself. Of others. Of everything.
  • Journal. See what “shows up.” There’s a whole world inside you that you can’t know otherwise.
  • Get out of your comfort zone.
  • Try new things.
  • Be creative.
  • Use your imagination.
  • Risk more.
  • Say No!
  • Say Yes!
  • Be wrong.
  • Ask more questions. More questions. Deeper questions.
  • Meet new people.
  • Read books - real books, made of trees.
  • Sit quietly and listen to your inner you that’s not had time with you forever.
  • Go out into nature more often and experience it anew each time.
  • Travel.
  • Unplug from TV, radio, cell phones, mobile devices.
  • Slow down.
  • Eat slower.
  • Invite people over and regain community.
  • Help others you don’t know.
  • Give a little more of  yourself.
  • Get out of your comfort zone. (Yes, I wrote this before!)
  • Love: Yourself more, others more.
  • Have more fun. Real fun.
  • Collect less “stuff” and “things.”
  • Collect more great stories, and share them.
  • Play more.
  • Love your work.
  • Love yourself.
  • Breathe.
  • Have a quiet mind.
  • Love.
  • Know more peace internally.
  • Be more peaceful to all.
  • Laugh. Laugh. And, laugh more.

“Be who you are and say what you feel,
because those who mind don’t matter
and those who matter don’t mind.”
~ Dr. Seuss

 

  • Question everything.

    "The important thing is not to stop questioning." ~ Albert Einstein

  • Kim Wolinski, MSW . . . . . . . . . . . "Dr. DeClutter"

  • Raising our collective consciousness is our only hope.

    “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” ~ Albert Einstein
  • "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew." ~ Abraham Lincoln