BIRTHDAY

CHRISTIANS

  A Jew lives next to a Christian.

     Each takes from the Bible what its roots need

         To keep Jews
 

                          Quite different
  from Christians. 

THISTLES

      

      A thistle grows next to a lettuce.

      Each takes from the soil what its roots need

    To keep a lettuce

    Quite different           from a thistle.

GLASSES

SEEK

  As you SEEK, so are you sought.

  As you teach, so are you taught.

    (As you catch, so are you caught.)

                                                  

SPANISH STYLE

GENOCIDE  SPANISH STYLE (OFFICIAL)

In 1561, Bartolomé de las Casas, wrote that Spanish Catholic colonists had slain 12 million men, women and children in 40 years. 

USA

USA is much too important a country to be entrusted to the descendants of white Protestant settlers who reduced the indigenous people from 12 million in 1500 to barely 237,000 in 1900. 

“Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians! ... I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right and honorable to use any means under God's heaven to kill Indians. ... Kill and scalp all, big and little; nits make lice.”   - Col. John Milton Chivington, U.S. Army, a former Methodist pastor.

SCIENTISTS

Bees fertilise flowers
there are no charges
and no complaints.

Scientists pollute the planet
charge us the earth
and ignore our complaints.

SCIENCE is far too important to be left to SCIENTISTS.

THE BIBLE

THE BIBLE was written in the shade of the Tree of Knowledge.

It cannot therefore be totally wrong. 

Equally it cannot be wholly right. 

It is far too important to be left in the hands of scholars or churchmen.  

EXCUSES

If you are not contributing
then you are taking.
No excuse.

If you are taking
then you will have to give it back.
Still no excuse.

(You will have to give back
 what you did not contribute.)

KNOTTED

Loops in a piece of string. Thoughts. Speeches. Roles. Love affairs. Lifetimes. Knotted?

TIME

If you identify with the Body,
you are identifying with Death;
It is just a matter of Time.

LAUGHTER

If you laugh at suffering, unless it's yours, Suffering will laugh at you. Especially if it's yours.

SCIENCE

SCIENCE is much too important 

to be left to Mathematicians.

        E = MC2

Einstein the Pacifist.  Explosion.  Hiroshima.

        M = E               

            C2

God the Creator.  Implosion.  The Universe.

CONSERVATION

CONSERVATION is far too serious to leave to Royal Conservationists.

Prince Philip and the Queen, following a tiger hunt in India in 1961. 

He and Prince Charles are said to have killed 50 boars in one day. 

The Duke frequently invites sporting friends to the Royal Family's 20,000 acre Norfolk estate at Sandringham. 

In 1993, he hit his target of  10,000 pheasants during a seven week stay when he was out shooting for up to four days a week. 

President of WWF. 

ISLAM

ISLAM is much to important to be left to Moslems 

like Timur 'Sword of Islam' who caused the deaths of 17 million people in the 14th century.

DEATH

DEATH is much too important to be left to statistics.

Killing one hundred and one beings is not worse than killing only one being.
Why?

One dying is as bad as it gets.

No return.

Killing only one being is not better than killing one hundred and one beings.

Why?

One killing is as bad as it gets.

No return.

SPONTANEITY

The strive
to alive.

There are some things
which, though honest,
are better left unsaid.

WHICHEVER

Whichever path you follow
you will always end up here;
and never
over there.

And here
is always now;
never
yesterday
or tomorrow.

HEDGEROW FLOWERS

The more I label
the less I am able to see..
The more I see
the less I am able
to label.

SPIRIT

Spirit is the substance of Happiness.

It cannot be perceived by Mind or Body.

It infuses them 

when there are no fences facing.

PHIL (ETHOS)

The worse things are for you,
the more your upward cresting wave subsides
(its energy expiring like the breath);
the closer you are to total subsidence,
a flat, flat sea of total all-embracing bliss

(and not a bit like death!).

TRUTH IN A NUTSHELL

Are you nut or shell?
Inner seed
that germinates and grows
into the Tree of Life?

Or outer shell
which, having fulfilled its purpose,
is food for compost heap or fire?