Making Noise

Today,

Find Rhythm

Poetry

Lately

The beginning , the middle, the end
an easy guideline yet
hard to follow.
Water down the dripping of time
water down the intensity still snares
a crash.
We ride along and coast
hard times equating merry ones
into an irremovable energy of
fate, free will or more?
An entanglement ensues
past and present;
time intervening into each other
for what?
This quickly glimpsed notion of security,
an outreach of love
to be shared
to be grown upon
and spread.

- Monique Hrabak

Websites

The Innocence Project

Too many are being incarcerated and put to death because of prejudice and faulty evidence. Educate yourself, help end this cycle now!

The West Memphis Three

DNA evidence could prove that three boys, now men, did not commit the crimes with which they have been charged. One is on death row, two are serving life sentences.

Zeitgeist Source Book

I wanted to alert you to my latest effort - I hope you enjoy it, and please feel free to pass it around.

In collaboration with Peter Joseph, creator of the "ZEITGEIST" series of films, I have composed a 105-page free ebook for your edification with many new sources backing up the first/religion part of the first ZG movie.

In fact, this brand-new document includes a bibliography with over 150 sources, nearly 350 citations, and some 80 illustrations! The sources are largely primary sources and the writings of credentialed authorities in relevant fields.

You can read about the source book and download your free copy here:

Enjoy!

- From Acharya S/D.M. Murdock

Articles

Oil Debate Spills Into Academe

Within three days of the BP oil spill, Joe Griffit was out in the Gulf of Mexico taking water samples to begin assessing the damage. As an assistant professor of coastal sciences at the University of Southern Mississippi, Griffit says he’s been eager to assist in the restoration efforts taking shape in the region. So when lawyers representing BP came to Griffit with an offer -- help us assess the damage and find a way to restore what’s been destroyed -- Griffit says the option was “initially very attractive” to him and some of his colleagues.

- Submitted by Tim Miller

Big Brother

Is Wal-Mart trying out products embedded with RFID tracking chips? Keep your eyes open... all three of them.

Events

Black Wave: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez


A film about the impact of the Exxon Valdez oil spill will be shown Aug. 5 in downtown Pensacola. Directed by Robert Cornellier, "Black Wave, the Legacy of the Exxon Valdez" examines the impact of the millions of gallons of crude oil spilled near Cordova, Alaska, in 1989. The Alaskan Exxon Valdez spill was the largest environmental catastrophe in North America until it was eclipsed by the April 20 Deepwater Horizon spill. The free show is set for 7 p.m. Aug. 5 at Sluggo’s, a vegan restaurant at 101 S. Jefferson St. in downtown Pensacola.


Quotations

All tremble at punishment.
Life is dear to all.
Put yourself in the place of others;
kill none nor have another killed.

- Unknown, taken from Buddhist text

Calls to Action

They don't ALL own Casino's.

No more broken promises - Make a pledge to remember Native Americans.
No American Indian elder should live in isolation. No American Indian Child should go hungry. Generation after generation has broken this promise. Please join me in ending the cycle. No more broken promises - Make a pledge to remember Native Americans.


-Kirk

Art

Three in Evolution

-Eric St. Pierre


A Personal Note

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All material is maintained and written by Eric St. Pierre unless it is otherwise notated. Feel free to use as you see fit as long as the integrity of the piece is not manipulated.



-Eric St. Pierre

7/26/10

You'll soon notice that this issue looks different than those in the past. It looks truncated, rushed, and well, just not as pretty. The reason for this is that because of other social and economic obligations, I have not been able to dedicate any time to our newsletter/blog. I am sending this one out, undeveloped and unprepared, because I feel the information contained within is important. Look out for The Prison Book Project, an art and music benefit show for Open Books hosted by The Postscript Society at Dolce Vita in October.

Apologies,

Eric

From Jill

I have to tell you that Q's friend from Chicago, Orron Kenyatta, is coming down this Tuesday to perform at End of The Line and he's supposedly a big deal. One of his spoken word poems has been adapted to a play and the season is already sold out... and we're
getting a $3000 performance for free, so please (pretty please) spread the word to get him an audience.

Okay, I'll be in touch soon,

Thanks again,

Jill


From Burt

I have out together many links about what is going on with BP and the oil spill. I hope this puts a better perspective on what people on the gulf coast are facing. I have sent some of the links out already but for this i put everything together, hopefully, in a manner that gets the point across without putting too much to sift through and at the same time getting it out to everyone we can, so please forward. Thanks for everyone's help with the links and info, I couldn't have done it without you.


Clean up just for show


BP contractors cover up oil spill with sand (with Video)


First Amendment Has been Suspended


History of BP Includes Role in 1953 Iran Coup After Nationalization of Oil


BP CEO Sells 1/3 of his shares weeks before 4/20/10. Pays off mansion

BP buys search engine results


Goldman Sachs Sell Stock Prior to 4/20/10 and shorts


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-borowitz/goldman-sachs-reveals-it_b_558774.html


BP Was Battling Gulf Well as Early as February


The Video BP & Big Oil Doesn't Want You to See


Quote: I can confirm the military is looking to abandon the Pensacola region as a consequence of the oil disaster.

Military families are pulling out, and the military is not renewing contracts, and ending future ones.

I have several confirmed inside sources in Pensacola.
End quote.

Trusted Source.


From Eric

The feds seem intent upon MURDERING SHERRY JACKSON. She details how the feds denied her medical care in prison and right now she IS IN THE PROCESS OF DYING. Sherry was one of the stars of Aaron Russo's America: Freedom to Fascism. She was the former IRS agent who cried out, "SHOW ME THE LAW!"

Kirby Dick's provocative documentary investigates the secretive and inconsistent process by which the Motion Picture Association of America rates films, revealing the organization's underhanded efforts to control culture. Dick questions whether certain studios get preferential treatment and exposes the discrepancies in how the MPAA views sex and violence. Interviewees include John Waters, Darren Aronofsky, Maria Bello, Atom Egoyan and more.

Scientists and atheists do something that many believers find repellent: we shatter their perception of their relationship to the universe. And understandably, they don't like that.

Royal Raymond Rife (May 16, 1888 – August 5, 1971) was an American inventor and early exponent of high-magnification time-lapse cine-micrography. He claimed that using a specially designed optical microscope, only five of which were ever constructed, he could observe a number of viruses which he thought were causal factors in several diseases, most notably cancer. Rife also claimed that a "beam ray" device could destroy or weaken the pathogens by inducing destructive resonances in their constituent chemicals. Rife's claims could not be independently replicated, and active scientific interest in the devices had dissipated by the 1950s.

As most reading this already know, The Zeitgeist Movement is a sustainability advocacy organization which is fundamentally built upon/inspired by the social ideas of Jacque Fresco of The Venus Project. It isn’t the scope of this article to run down the vast and rather complex tenets of The Movement. However, I would like to give a basic overview here.


At death a person abandons
what one construes as mine.
Realizing this, the wise
shouldn't incline
to be devoted to mine.

Understanding Meaning

Today,

Understand

Understanding Victor Frankl’s Ultimate Meaning and Religion

Viktor Frankl, while standing in the tradition of humanism and existentialism with Fromm, Allport, and Maslow, contrasts the psychoanalytic theory of Sigmund Freud and the individualistic theory of Alfred Adler. Freud suggests that the basic motivational factor for a human being is the “will to pleasure,” Adler suggests it is the “will to power,” and Frankl suggests it is the “will to meaning” and is manifested in the “spiritual” dimensions, which is what is most unique about the self.

In his idea of a meaningful life, or how to become meaningful, Frankl outlines three main chances to achieve such a life: 1) by doing a deed or creating a work, 2) by experiencing something (nature or culture) or someone whom we love, or 3) by changing an attitude to create meaning in the midst of a situation that causes suffering. His theory sees man struggling for the most meaningful life possible or instead being frustrated in his very “will to meaning” by being disappointed and by seeing there is no place for meaning and thus simply floundering in his search.

In going one step beyond simply being as a human being, the religious person strives for an ultimate meaning. There is a new dimension that religious personalities enter by striving for something that may be experienced and perceived in terms of an ultimate meaning. This person is not satisfied with finding a meaningful task to complete, but also includes the awareness of a task giver, which is divinity.

While the “will to meaning” seems to be an extremely common motivational factor for human beings, I do not know if I agree that it is an intrinsic motivational factor of all human beings. I must agree with Freud in his idea of a “will to pleasure.” That is, pleasure is the primary motivating human factor when discussing motivation beyond survivalism, and this is even true in religion. Many religions provide a comfort or a crutch for human beings in a world that is full of half truths, contradictions and is difficult to understand. All of these religions claim to provide meaning, but ultimately they provide a pleasure of sorts – the comfort and satisfaction of an indoctrinated “ultimate meaning” that holds no intrinsic value. So, really, a “will to meaning” is in fact a “will to pleasure.”

- Gina St. Pierre

Websites

Are You Addicted to Oil?

Dr. Warren is a psychologist with 20 years experience helping individuals conquer addiction and deal with its lasting repercussions. The calamitous oil spill in the Gulf brings into sharp relief America’s addiction to dirty fuels. She draws parallels between our collective behavior in regards to oil and addictions that may be more familiar to us, such as smoking, drinking, drug use or gambling.

Take the test!

Articles

Acupuncture Stimulates release of Natural Painkillers

A recent study in Nature Neuroscience from the University of Rochester suggests a physiological explanation of how acupuncture relieves pain. Needles inserted in mice increased levels of the naturally occurring (and pain relieving) chemical adenosine by 24-fold in surrounding tissue.

Events

I would like to invite you all out to visit this product of community at the University of West Florida. We have a host of different veggies and are growing this garden without chemical pesticides or fertilizers.

*We are always at the Garden on Fridays at 10am. Please let me know if you are interested and I will add you to the garden club contact list.

Location: Parking lot SP2, 9 mile rd. is in the far right corner intersecting with campus drive.

- From the Progressive Student Alliance

Free Art Lessons for Foster Kids

Dolce Vita is holding an art party on Saturday, June 26th from 6pm to 3am. There is a $5 cover and a silent auction. There will be beer and wine. The proceeds go to Art Reshaping Tomorrow, a program that gives free art lessons to foster kids. Dolce Vita is located at 309 Rues street in downtown Pensacola behind Ever'man natural food store.

Quotations

"Some recluses and brahmins, so called,

Are deeply attached to their own views;

People who only see one side of things

Engage in quarrels and disputes."

- Unknown (taken from Buddhist texts)

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now."

-Goethe

"At the end of every attempt to objectify our subjective lives, is elusive anxiety about the fact that reality is completely empty...and Free*"

-J. Reid

Calls to Action

Dear Friend,

The media conglomerate Discovery Communications used to be known for their earth-friendly offerings. But they've just paid millions to Sarah Palin to host a "nature" show, despite her decidedly anti-environmental stance: She vocally advocates for habitat-destroying oil drilling, she denies global warming is a human-caused threat, and she spearheaded a brutal wolf-slaughter program as governor of Alaska.

It's one thing if Fox News gives Sarah Palin a platform. But when Discovery Communications -- home to the Discovery Channel, the "Planet Earth" series, the Science Channel, Animal Planet, and TreeHugger.com -- gives a show to Sarah Palin, it undercuts everything the Discovery brand has come to represent.

Anti-environmentalism has no place in the Discovery Communications lineup. Join me in demanding that the company cancel "Sarah Palin's Alaska" before it airs. Just click on the link to send your message.

-Kirk

The second Hands Across the Sand event is happening Saturday, June 26th, only this time it is a nationwide event. Last time the focus was to help stop the petro-chemical companies from drilling in our State waters, as close as 3 miles off shore. This time the event goes further in helping to bring awareness to the root issue: our deadly addiction to fossil fuels. Thank you to Margaret Biggs who is helping to organize, and Mary Gutierrez who is trying very hard to work out some public transportation options for us. So far the best that can be done in Escambia County is for us to all meet at the Park and Ride (near the civic center) and car pool. We will meet at 10:15 a.m. No seat should go unfilled. We will then meet at Pensacola Pier at 11am, hold hands from 12 to 12:15 to show solidarity on our support for renewable energy and public transportation. Perhaps someone wants to organize a meeting place in Santa Rosa County for car pooling also? Okaloosa? Walton?

-PSA

Art

By Aaron Ridgeway

A Personal Note

The Post Script Society publication is maintained and compiled by Eric St. Pierre unless otherwise notated. This issue of the Post Script Society was edited by Gina St. Pierre , many thanks are due to her. If you would like to contribute to our publication please respond to this email.

Allowing it to Happen

Today,

Allow it to happen

Art by James Blackburn

Spirituality, stripped of religion, is the urge to connect with something that is often referred to as a higher power. Once you take the -isms out, that urge is what you're left with. I don't personally refer to the sense of connectivity as a higher power because that suggests that it is something that is separate from us. I don't believe in a deity that dictates morality. The reason for this is that what is considered moral has fluctuated over time and has never been the same all over the world. The one thing that every human - and indeed every living thing - has in common is the drive to survive. Our ethics and morality and thus or spirituality should be based on this drive. It has been shown time after time that cooperation supports life while competition destroys it. This cooperation, or connection, is my form of spirituality because it can be measured. Pondering the abstract - things that cannot be measured - is fun and intellectually stimulating but in the end it doesn't add up to the tangible. I am more so concerned with "Now that we're here, what do we do?", rather than "How did we get here?"

-Eric St. Pierre

Websites

WolframAlpha

WolframAlpha's goal is to take all the world's information, make it all easily assessable to everyone in the world, and make it testable and computable by everyone in the world. While this tool is, for the time being, strictly mathematical in nature, it is the basis of Jacque Fresco's Venus Project. With WolframAlpha we have the beginnings of a holistic system that utilizes the scientific method to arrive at solutions and decisions. In the future, a system like this would allow anyone to test hypotheses on better social systems and structural organization in general. In the Venus Project, if the result is a better way to do things, then that new way is adopted. The "better" way to do things is not voted on, but instead scientifically tested to determine it's worth. This is an example of what can be done.

Equality Trust

Income inequality leads to poor physical and mental health, drug abuse, lower levels of education, imprisonment, and other undesirable social fallacies. This is true in human and nonhuman primate societies. Here is the proof.

HydroCopia

Organic, automated farming. This is a glimpse into the future of food with a focus on health and abundance.

Articles

A Life Without Fear

Read about Isabelle, the child who is unable to fear. Our society views this as a disorder - and it very well may be - but imagine if we all had this "disorder." Is this child sick, or has she evolved?

Draw Muhammed Day

May 20th is Draw Muhammed Day. The purpose is to water down the pool of targets that Islamists have their jihads set on. It's just an image, get over it. If we can't laugh at ourselves how can we ever make this world a better place? Oh, and here's a link to images of Muhammad from Medieval Times (no, not the restaurant)- thanks to Steve Walker for the link.

Quotes

"States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions."

-Noam Chomsky

"For one who mindfully develop

Boundless loving-kindnessSeeing the destruction of clinging,

The fetters are worn away."

- Itivuttaka 1.27

Action Alerts

Friends,

For now, I am not aware of any volunteers organized to help clean Pensacola nor Navarre Beaches or wildlife. BP has said they are not accepting any volunteer help. Anyone wanting to help with oil slick clean-up in Orange Beach should contact captain_lori@yahoo.com . More info below. This morning I received word that two more leaks have been discovered, and an estimated five-times more oil is escaping than previously thought (more than 275,000 gallons per day). Remember to contact your local, state and federal representatives, and tell them we don’t want drilling off our coasts.

Thanks,

Tim Miller

Other Links of Interest

Eric's Art

James' Book
The Post Script Society Face Book Page

A Personal Note The Post Script Society publication is maintained and compiled by Eric St. Pierre unless otherwise notated. This issue of the Post Script Society was edited by Gina St. Pierre and James Blackburn, many thanks are due to them. If you would like to to contribute to our publication, please respond to blog. To reseive email updates from The Postscript Society, send an email to thepostscriptsociety@gmail.com