Facing the Challenges of these Painful Times.

Wise and pertinent words as people do their best to facing the challenges of the day

A message from Mike Ruppert

After following several recent threads I have noticed a marked increase in testiness and a tendency towards divisive bickering, often over largely irrelevant points as compared to the life-threatening challenges we share. I have seen inclination to attack personality and sensed an early tendency towards divisiveness. Occasionally this happens between friends who have been in this community for some time.

Not only am I very sensitive to, but I am personally facing the challenges of these painful times. We all are. We must not underestimate how tough things are. Our strength on this page, for those who have participated here regularly, is our love and caring for each other.

Disorientation, confusion, frustration, depression, fear are our constant companions now. We will always be able to find small differences between ourselves. As things deteriorate, in our desperation we might look for even smaller and smaller reasons to argue and differ with each other in the vain hope that finding some small fault, somewhere, might salvage the overall picture.

We are sharing this ride together, my friends. We are sharing it. And I have worked long and hard to make this a safe place for those who belong and contribute. If we do not take care of each other we will find ourselves in Terrence McKenna's "fire in a mad house". I have talked about this with Carolyn Baker and she agrees. She is seeing this in spades on many of our allied pages and web sites. I checked and she's quite right. But it's much worse there than here.

I do not know that this can be controlled or prevented. But it can be acknowledged and mitigated to some extent. I would ask all of you (myself included) to include extra gentleness and tolerance for those in this family who have walked together this far in love and comradeship. We need each other, especially now. It just rips me a bit when I see people I have known for some time, care about, and respect arguing with each other over small things.

We pray for the Spring and a new breath of life and possibility, for the Winter of Our Discontent is indeed clear and present.