Morality and Magnets

Today,
Do Something That Matters

You invented a misery index

so I'm a number

You invented desire

so I'm a consumer

You invented death

so I'm a mourner

I've learned what is "true" by first learning what is FALSE

-J. Reid

Morality and Magnets

It was believed for thousands of years that morality was dictated by a higher power (or from a deity via a flaming bush). Science has taught us otherwise. If one's moral compass can be electromagnetically manipulated as easily as an actual directional compass, what does that say about the concept of morality? (article submitted by Gina St. Pierre)

This is a reminder that I will be at Bay View Park this Saturday representing The Zeitgeist Movement. The shortness of this email is due to a combination of my preparation for this Saturday and my research paper due in a couple weeks.

I also created a Post Script Society Face Book Page as well as a Zeitgeist Movement Pensacola Chapter page. The Post Script Society page will work much like this newsletter in as much as you the readers will be the contributors. The format is the same: art, poetry, news articles, original papers, whatever you believe will make the world just a little better. The Zeitgeist page is there solely to promote the Movement and the ideas and values of a resource based economy. We also have a new URL for the blog.

-Eric

I tasted blood in my coffee

this morning on my commute to

work. It awoke something

dormant. Remembering

remembering. Suddenly I

ejected myself from the

cemetery of car/coffins and

dashed for The Woods. Others

already had the same idea; I

figure they got their coffee

at the same place. Soon we

had a Pack. Leaping, running,

forgetting, running. Before

we knew it a salesman from a

local tech company had tore

the head of a rabbit clean

off. His new designer tie was

covered in the rabbit's blood

and guts but he didn't care

today. He also didn't care

about his 401k. Or his

Blackberry phone that he

threw in the river. We were

all proud of his kill but me

and the others set our eyes

on bigger prey. An IRS agent

sighted a buck and we were

united as a Pack. All of us

coordinated our attack. A

math teacher from a local

high school flanked the deer

from the left while I flanked

the right. Every one of us

knew this was right. The most

right thing we had ever done.

We never returned to our car.

That now seems so far. Who

was I then? Forgetting, remembering.

~j. rize

Letting Go

Today,
Let Go

This week our cat, Emerson Adam Jones was struck by a car. This gave me an unique opportunity to practice detachment. Detachment, in the Buddhist sense, is not an expression of heartlessness or contempt. Detachment from life and death is the state of acknowledging that when a body or vessel dies, the being doesn't go anywhere. Ram Dass told an anecdote about a master of his. He said that when the master told the monks that he was going to die the students became sad. They said "No master! Don't leave us! " and the master replied, "But where will I go?" The monks then realized that their worry was needless for it was their relationship with the master that made the master what he was. When people, or cats, leave us they don't actually go anywhere. Things come and go, the tide ebbs in and out, but the beauty of the ocean is what matters. So, I will grieve for my cat friend, I will miss my cat friend; that is the human animal within me. However, I know that he hasn't gone anywhere. Yes, his body is buried and he won't be rubbing against my leg anymore but it's our relationship that matters, and that is timeless. Memories don't die as long as there is someone left to care.

-Eric St. Pierre

"People don't let you down when you don't build them up."

-J. Reid


The fool thinks one has won a battle
when one bullies with harsh speech,
but knowing how to be forbearing
alone makes one victorious

"If they can get you asking the wrong question, they don't have to
worry about the answers"

-- Thomas Pynchon

The good renounce (attachment for) everything.
The virtuous do not prattle with a yearning for pleasures.
The wise show no elation or depression
when touched by happiness or sorrow.

From Kat:

Discovery Communications -- the parent company of The Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, TLC and others, and known for their wildlife-focused programs -- is planning to produce an 8-part TV show on Sarah Palin’s Alaska. Discovery says it regards Palin as being “one of [Alaska’s] proudest daughters.” The former governor was an unabashed champion of Alaska’s brutal and bloody aerial wolf-slaughter program. According to reports, she’ll earn about $1 million per episode from the nature-focused series.

Send a powerful message to Discovery Communications expressing your outrage at their action and urging them to drop Sarah Palin’s new show from their programming schedule.

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The Post Script Society newsletter is a sometimes weekly newsletter that covers topics such as health, spirituality, technology, the monetary system, issues related to The Zeitgeist Movement, religion, esoteric knowledge, and general activism. Its purpose is to spread awareness and information and to serve as a platform for expression. As the maintainer of this newsletter, I hope to encourage others to be self explorative, inquisitive, and motivated to change the world for the better. I also extend an invitation to all readers to submit art, poetry, news articles, journal-like pieces, videos, or anything else for inclusion in the newsletter.

-Eric St. Pierre