The first time I saw compelling videos in a conflict zone was when Israel attacked Lebanon and I could watch the youtube videos out of Lebanon. I will never forget those chilling videos. I hope our Preident-elect watches and absorbs all the info he can, and stops Israel from it's bullying tactics. Two wrongs never make a right, but if Israel hates missles launched at them daily, and I see their point, think of how the people of Gaza feel, independent(lol since 2005), but still caged like animals. There has to be a reasoned, well thought out solution to this, and if either or Hamas or Israel do not concur, then we should not continue to arm Israel if they are the ones who won't co-operate.

Living in Israel and having a significant portion of our population living in bomb shelters for the past 7 years, it'd hard for me to swallow your simple analysis, Dolores.  There is a marked difference between launching rockets at civilian populations (one today hit a kindergarten;  thankfully, school can been called off on account of rockets) and targeted military operations aimed at combatants.  

GIVE PEACE A CHANCE!  in 2009 maybe the palestinians will stop launching rockets into Isrealei neighboor hoods and stop sending suicide bombers to kill innocent civilians. the the world can move Isreal to a land give back to captured Arab lands and give the palestinians a futer home land!

Great post! It brings something else to mind: that Israel has for more broadcasting power for any technology platform than the Palestinians do, especially those in Gaza living without electricity and phone service for much of the time.

The crowdsourcing of information runs a risk of being biased in favor of empowered audiences over and above representative audiences.

Finally, let me say that one of the downsides to the media rich web environment is the proliferation of war porn, defined as images so shocking, and used so manipulatively, as to render them useless for conveying truth accurately.

When the mediascape is screaming, you must develop the capacity to hear the soft voices as well.

Oasis For Peace
Is it possible for Jerusalem to become an "Oasis For Peace?"

Within the turmoil raging in the Middle East and the contentiousness between the three major religions of the world, is it time to look again at implementing a resolution similar to the 1948 UN mandate (Below), for a permanent international regime for Jerusalum?

December 11,1948
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194
Article 8. Resolves that, in view of its association with three world religions, the Jerusalem area, including the present municipality of Jerusalem plus the surrounding villages and towns, the most Eastern of which shall be Abu Dis; the most Southern, Bethleham; the most Western, Ein Karim (including also the built-up area of Motsa); and the most Northern, Shu'fat, should be accorded special and separate treatment from the rest of Palestine and should be placed under effective United Nations control; Requests the Security Council to take further steps to ensure the demilitarization of Jerusalem at the earliest possible date; Instructs the Conciliation Commission to present to the fourth regular session of the General Assembly detailed proposals for a permanent international regime for the Jerusalem area which will provide for the maximum local autonomy for distinctive groups consistent with the special international status of the Jerusalem area;...

What i don't like is the fact that people don't see that hamas is taking their citizens and putting them into danger while Israel is trying to stop the continuous rockets that Hamas is attacking with, while Hamas is firring these things blind, the threat of each one is a problem. Israel's trying to keep innocent citizens out of the war, but the way hamas is attacking makes it hard to avoid. this problem in this isn't Israel but hamas.

ok, now to point out something on the other side, Israel, during the 6-month cease-fire, neglected to talk to hamas while hamas stayed open for talks, if they were open then they should have had some sort of concessions they were willing to give out. If they talked and couldn't find anything to agree on, then Isreal and Hamas would still have this conflict, but at least they would have tried

Essentially both sides are at fault for this latest incident, but slightly more-so on Hamas for attacking as soon as the cease-fire expired. After all Hamas has adopted the view-point that they must destroy Israel and all 'non-believers'. It's just the attitude that we as a nation under bush doesn't like, we're on the defencive in terms of morals (after all the radical Islamists are saying that the Koran is written to kill anyone who disagrees, while we are happy to have these guys to exist, as long as they don't want to attack us)

Excellent points, Charles.

i've got a problem with what Charles said, if Israel is in fact more powerful in media than Gaza, then how is it that Hamas in Gaza can talk to news organizations and spread propaganda around? I've listened to the BBC's world news and the past few days Hamas has been talking and taking a victim hood approach, and it defiantly is being pushed as the truth. personally, it looks (if you take a step back) that Hamas is the agressor and Israel is only retaliating to remove the rocket attacks

I find these comments interesting.  Let’s look at a few facts…Gaza held democratic elections and I believe Hamas won.  Israel and the Bush administration refused to accept the choice of the people of Gaza and proceeded to do all in their power to make it economically impossible for Hamas to govern.     When a people are oppressed, bullied, humiliated and imprisoned they can be expected to fight back with whatever weapons are at hand.  500 Palestinians killed and thousands injured vs. 7 Israel deaths…by all measures this cannot be justified.   Israel will live to regret this latest disregard for the taking of more innocent Palestinian lives.  

There has to come a time when the ordinary person...I'm assuming there are ordinary people in Gaza...must step forward and take control of their own destinies.  They must demand that these terrorists stop their terrorizing so that they and their families can live in peace.  I don't want to harden my heart towards them but I keep asking myself, "Why do they tolerate it?"  I can only assume that they either agree with the terrorists, or that the number of people who disagree is way smaller than the number who do agree.  I am left with this...you don't get to shoot rockets at your neighbors and then cry when your neighbor turns around and kicks you ass.

sara, acctually the people who disagree is much higher than the terrorists, over their they do not believe in free speech (just look at their women). if you speak out against the radicals then they kill you, that's it, no time to get a national movement, no time to apologize, you're dead the next time you step out the door

Nat, I am concerned about the many lies and misinformation  flooding the different media outlets, how can the average person discern the truth from this bombardment of information?

For example, Hamas intentionally hide behind women and children and fire mortars on the IDF, then publish horrific photos of maimed children. Another recent example of people dying in a UN school, this was caused by Hamas booby traps. This behind the scenes is not apparent from the photos and feed the ideological frenzy of the enemies of Israel. Hamas force children to accompany them into the battle field, then when a child gets hit, they blame the IDF.

Nathaniel, Great post! Your connection to TV broadcasting Viet Nam makes a lot of sense. Another example would be the asian Tsunami, which only really captured public attention a couple days after it happened when digital video started making the rounds of the wave coming in.

there are several problems with your argument Will, first off Nixon resigned and was pardoned by Ford, not impeached. and back in the 1700s and early 19th century, blacks were in fact a scapegoat for many things that whites did, but the fact that blacks aren't included is insane, though it took an amendment to allow it, the whole of the constitution is allowing blacks of all kinds to have the same citizenship as whites. while you have it tough in Tennessee, most Americans feel free-er than ever by playing the 'white guilt' card. It's sad that you feel as though you are oppressed, but the problem is where you live. Also, the media is biased, it does not put into account that many people realize that bush kept us safe from terrorist attacks after 911, that is his legacy and damn well i approve of it. He was quite gullible and didn't understand much about 'his' domestic policy (see puppet master Cheney), or his war policy, but he did create the department of homeland security to protect us.

There is no absolute truth.  Just like there is no absolute good or evil.  Hero to one is always a villain to another.   If Israel will not protect its citizens, no one else will.  If they get hurt, the responsibility will be of the government of Israel for failing to protect the people. 

The Arabs in Gazza, however, should place the blame with its government for refusing to wise up and protect the life of the people.  All it would take is to rethink its stated goals of death and destruction and replace them with life, love, and prosperity.

That simple.

If my next door neighbor threw grenades at my house with my sleeping children inside destroying my property and endangering my family, he would deserve any and everything that I do to him and his family. Dont pick a fight and then ask for mercy, you just might not get nor deserve any.

Well, Will, one, Nixon should not have been pardoned, i'll agree there, i just wanted to straighten it out.

however this administration was between Gore and Bush at first (two nuts focused on self interest) and then Bush vs. Kerry (two idiots without any real idea what they'd be doing) and we voted bush both times. you shouldn't complain unless you voted democrat for either election. also, we voted bush in the second time because it is bad to change horses mid-stream.

if you are talking about the conspiracy that bush knew/caused 9/11 then you have to be kidding, there's a. no proof, and b. no reason. i'm sure if 9/11 never happened then we'd be in better shape now than we would have been later.

also, just to correct you on one thing, Clinton wanted to hike taxes high to create more inefficient welfare programs (many of which are still here and are adding to our debt more than both the wars combined) however, the republican majority cried out and the tax hike and the de-regulation caused a small surplus. note the word small.

also, i can't say that bush is a racist, just because you're playing the racist card doesn't mean it's playable. i have seen absolutely no reason to call anything racist in his administration.

also, and i'm not being racist here, Barack will not create a new surplus with a trillion dollars of new spending in programs, and the 'economic stimulus package' isn't one, if anything i believe that democrats (not just Barack) will lengthen this recession longer than it needs to be.

next, the 'white guilt' vote is reverse racism, it puts people who have no reason to be sorry for what others did, and force them to be so. i don't see why i should be 'sorry' for what people who i have no relation with have done.

however, i do agree with you on one thing Will, Israel and Hamas should sit down and talk, if they can stop fighting long enough to do so, and if they can stop their footmen.

Also, will, i don't know where you found it said that we bombed Afghanistan prior to 9/11, i'd love to review it. but i do agree that we should not torcher (i can never figure this word out), it is wrong and in-humane, there are other ways to interrogate. we could always threaten them to kill them and bury them with a pig, that would help (pigs are 'dirty' and therefor you'd go to hell if buried with one)

now i'm sorry for how the Tennessee guards are treating you and i'll agree that they are probably racist, but just because some whites in the prison system are, it doesn't mean that everyone is. i'd suggest asking for a transfer to a different prison on grounds that you are being harassed, i think it's a road without pride but if you try to bring it to court then you'd lose. i'm trying to help you out in this paragraph

well good for you Will, hopefully you do well there. i would suggest packing up and moving north east, back towards new york, perhaps new jersey? (if you don't mind the highest property tax or anything)

now, back to our discussion. affirmative action is actually a racists program because, instead of putting everything on the table as just a person, you are required to put down your race, gender, and ethnicity for so called 'equal' employment. so instead of getting people who know how to do the job in there, we have some idiots being put in charge of high-skill jobs, while i'm not saying that blacks are dumb, (on the contrary, barack's father moved here BECAUSE of the civil rights movement coming) there are certain requirements for certain jobs and this prevents that. in no way am i saying that affirmative action is wrong in spirit, it is just bad in practice.

Next, barack still hasn't seen bill dance (note primaries interview, one of the things that stuck in my mind), so he's not a 'brotha' just yet. (man this is cracking me up, see? we need more fun things like this in our debates)...

and i'll agree that Gore, though a 'good man' as you put it, was jipped out of the fair election by the refusal of the supreme court for the re-count (a similar thing just happened up in Minnesota, where more ballots were counted in then there are citizens in the state). i said that he was mislead because he is the main cause of why the lie of 'global warming' (now called climate change) has become so wide spread (there are several places on the Internet that disprove his 'an inconvenient truth' presentation.

humm, about the bombing of afganistan, you say it was right after operation desert storm (which happened in 1991 during Bush Sr.'s term). so if anything those bombings happened within 10 years of 9/11, i don't see the connection between George dubah' bush and the bombings of Afghanistan prior to 9/11

here's some facts of Afghanistan. Soviets attacked for about 9 years (ending in 1989) to try to implement a communist regime, October 7th 2001, operation enduring freedom (also known as the war in Afghanistan, but also took place in the Philippines and the horn of Africa [Somalia]) started, it is still going on. between these two the Taliban took control of Afghanistan between 1996 until 2001.  however, we were supplying Bin Ladin and his organization with limited range arms to fight against the Soviets during the Soviet's struggle to gain control. but nothing about carpet bombing. (you are right that we helped osama by giving him weapons, however limited-range they were, and yes, it was 'republican' backing, though it was nessicary because we were in a cold war, a very scary time)

ok, i just looked on wikipedia and found that the US had planned to attack Afghanistan anyways, plans to drive al-Qaida out before they would hit us (sadly it didn't happen),  and the Taliban was going to be handed an ultimatum to hand over Bin Ladin or else. so there were PLANS to attack, but so far i have not seen anything about us actually attacking anyone before October.

and while i do not understand you idea of killings of black men, i can assure you that Bush, however powerful he is, did not order this. he orders the military, not the police, since the police are civilians and are locally controlled.

and on the subject of the weapons of mass destruction, it's true we didn't FIND any of them (they either weren't there or they were moved out-of-country). however, we did have a secondary reason to be in there, the fact that 15 UN resolutions were violated under Sadam. and the united states, (and great Britain and many other nations [except the pissy french] joined in).  So though the UN 'opposed' the invasion (i seriously doubt that they did) we were doing our job as members of the UN to uphold those resolutions. do you think we look at the first reason Hitler started his wars in poland? ('Germans need living space!' he said) no, we look at his second reason to which he switched to (get rid of the jews'). i do not want us to look back at any war and find the most negative parts about it and remember only that, we need to remember all of it.

*please note i'm not celebrating hitler, i have no intention of that, he was a good leader, just had extremely bad morals (remember the bad morals part, because he was a good leader, if you took away the blaming of his regime). the only reason why i celebrate him is for the good leadership through the depression he lead Germany through, his WAY of leadership is extremely bad.

We never seem to learn from all our repetitive history. This has to be one of the most belligerent, inhuman blitzkriegs since WW II and the zionist propaganda makes Goebbels look like an amateur! We better start thinking instead of spending our way out of our collective mess people, or the next replays of history will be worthy of all those insane, Armageddon, hair shirt, chosen few "prophecies" spread by all the fanatic, fatalistic religious lunatics which have perverted the human psyche for the last 3,000 years!

There are NO gods or devils! It's time to accept the responsibility for the consequences of our thoughts and actions and deal with the real world social-economic and environmental issues we ALL face in THIS century!

Its interesting how we use the Military to back up our religious beliefs, yet we claim to not mix politics and religion. Then we fight it out in war so we can become peaceful.

We hold dear the Bible yet it was edited and 122 chapters were removed, the Koran had never been edited however the first account of it being written down was 19 years after the death of Mohammed, before that it was delivered orally, so there is much margin for error there.

Demitri says there is no God or Devils, however there is good and evil, and in many cases evil outweights good. I think we need to learn how to co-exist like my animals do, my dogs get along with my cats, and my horses don't try to kills my dogs or cats, and they have established their pecking order and it is never challenged, however their natural instinct would instruct them differently, but I have trained them differently and they do not know there is a difference between them. I have added instruction with intellect to their instinct.

Humans are supposed to be domesticated however we act like animals who instinctually operate from the capacity of survival of the fittest.

The only part of religion that I think will work for all of us including Christian, Islam, Judism, in fact any religion is just by simply being committed to the 10 commandants. That would end most of our problems, we have created by exercising our free will.

ok Demetri, if we need to learn from our past, then where has there been another aggressor like Hamas and Al-Queida in history? none that i can tell (the closest was vietnam's viet-cong, and we lost that war right when we started to win), these is no way to fight them other than outright killing.

ok Will, Freemasons are a secret organization that have a set of plans to make the world better for them in a non-violent way. essentially they are greedy people who've lasted throughout the centuries. just to answer your question there first. however, they are Christians who, that do not worship 'idols' but go through symbolism. their 'all seeing eye' and other symbols for the masons are much like christianity's cross and nativity sets. just symbols of what the inner meaning is. i can't get any more detailed than that because the Freemasons are a secret group and i haven't really done any reading on it. i just know that most of the founding fathers, and several presidents (including FDR) have been Freemasons. the Masons are essentially a foundation on which America is built and are integrated into every part of it. it's not wise to oppose them without a reason (that and i can't find a reason why to do so). and bush is too stupid to be a mason, that's a fact (you also have to have a legacy in America, bush only has his father and his brothers, not long enough)

and the double post is probably just some random glitch, this site is made by liberals so i doubt that bush had anything to do with it.... now you're just paranoid

ok Karen, i understand that you think that our military backs up our religious beliefs, because our enemies, politically and (mostly) religiously, are radical Muslims. The radical muslims read the kroan as if it's telling them to kill people who don't believe. So the problem there is not us, it's them, Israel and ourselves are defencivly attacking (also called a pre-emptive strike).

the 122 books removed from the bible was done during Constantine's regin created what is now known as the bible, effectively not making it ever edited (unless you count the translations into different languages.) and the Koran, a latter day religion, is less likely to be edited through the ages than a 2000 old religion (actually a little less).

next Karen, you say that different species exist peacefully, how about inter-species relations? wolves, gorillas, and even house dogs all do not get along with each other when one is used to be the top dog/ape. i doubt that you've trained your animals to think that every single other is the same as itself, physical appearances and pheromone levels are different.

also, Karen, you are obviously thinking too hard on this issue, Christians, Muslims and Jews all have much more complex religions than the 10 commandments. after all Islam says in the Koran that you may kill, where as Christians and Jews do not have anything written otherwise. next we have Buddhists, the orthodox Buddhists are very wary of their surroundings and do not have any vices linked to them. Hindu and their religion encourage good behavior in order to reach the very top of their ladder, so i doubt that anything like this will change anything. Shinto, a Japanese ancestor/nature worship, encourages good behavior or else you'd upset your ancestors, which wasn't a good idea for even the least paranoid Japanese. I can almost guarantee that it will make things worse. This list can go on and on but i'll stop here with just these 6 religions

i was just talking to the girl who posted before me Will, it's not all about you

Will, that was then this is now, i'm sure people would be glad to hire minorities if they were able to do the job correctly, the point i'm trying to make is that we can't be forced to do these things, it must be done by free will.

and sorry Will, I just wanted to keep the record straight that that post I wasn't talking to you... and I don't like being called Stephanie.
Also, I'm not part of the public forces, i'm actually a community college student (18 going on 19, still too young for any of that). But thank you for thinking that i was cool, not many people do think that. I guess i could have said that post nicer.

Some of these posts really reflect the crust of misunderstanding and intolerance. As an American, I can see that there's a digital divide that we have to acknowledge here; in which the poor do not get to present their view. Many blame Gazans for chosing Hamas, but have the West or the East given an alternative? An economic blockade is as hard as war itself; it leads to death and destruction. We encourage election, and then when Hamas won, we stepped back punished the Gazans. Don't think for a second that I support Hamas or agree with them; I'm just reading into what kept them in power. Extremism could be eradicated through education and social prosperity, not just from Israel, but also from the Middle East if they care about their brothers. Should these  challenges lead usto believe that war isthe solution? In fact, it is the ultimate failure and a support to extremism, such as Hamas and the like. Yes, some religious factions complicate the matters, but overall as Annie Frank's best puts it, we have to believe that "humans are good at heart". I have to believe that Palestinians are good and that Israelis are good to start any good long term solutions. Killing 160+ innocent children is the way to start this long term goal; in fact, it kills. Yesterday, I was brought to tears watching a Palestinian girl of four crawling to the corner of the hospital room to die. I didn't have any resentment whether toward Israelis or Hamas, I simply ask the noble decent question, "can we ever convince her that she died fo a good cause, to kill Hamas? Could we ever bring her back. Please, stop the carnage or speak about it and lets sit together to find our common grounds--both Hebrews and Arabs are Semetic people and Hebrew and Arabic are sister languages. During the middle ages, many Jews preferred living in Muslim countries to avoid the Inquisition, the best era of Jewish and Muslim renaissance took place in Spain, and when Germany in World war II asked the Sultan of Morocco to give the list of the jews living in north africa at the time, the king answered, 'I don't have any Jewish, I only have my people, Moroccans; if they happen to be Jewish, they're still my people and will not sell them." Let's build a better tomorrow for our children.
My mother who died some years ago was from a Jewish tribe in the Atlas mountains, and my father a Muslim, and I'm a Christian, and we're still a family. If we can do it, so can the world, thank you.
        

ok will, for one i'd like for you to use more punctuation, i'm reading and it's going on and on and on. i can't figure out your points quickly enough.

next, you can't tell people who should be in their companies, because that ruins the efficiency of the companies by not letting them choose who they want to work for them. so should we punish them for thinking about their company in a capitalist nation? i think not. a company's employee is essentially a gamble that companies take, if they do not do their job, they are ousted, if they do their job well they move up/get raises.  And they don't take oaths, that's only the public sector that takes oaths, not the private sector, no oath required.

also, take a look at all the democrats around the nation who oppose bush are being found out with various scandals and corruption charges, they are the reason why our economy is in the slumps, not bush and his tax cuts (though some were bad tax cuts). Bush right now is a scape goat for what others have done, so please don't go around blaming our president (still until the 20th) for everything. and bush can't be rich from the oil investments, because by law, you can't be a president and hold a different job anywhere. So bush himself didn't get any money from the war.

and the housing crisis also started with Clinton, the sub-prime mortgages would usually prevent people from making bad loans due to the risk assessment, but democrats in the Clinton years put a stop to that saying that they'd shut them down if people didn't get homes they 'deserved'. and while bush didn't warn us about it, the blame shouldn't be on him alone

and Clinton was impeached because we couldn't trust him, granted the tipping point was Clinton's affair, but he had lied several times before that, a president who lies to the nation purposefully. I would not have a problem if he said 'yes i did have sexual relations with that woman' and i doubt many people in America would have had a problem either (except those who hated him regardless of what he did).

now i know you are being paranoid when you think that bush is getting any chance he can take to monitor your actions, he's trying to keep America safe! not spy on people who are of no interest to him or any threat of the country.

in reply to barack's tax cuts, his tax cuts are temporary, not permanent, permanent tax cuts encourage businesses and consumers to grow/spend more than if they have higher taxes coming at any moment congress chooses. that's the only issue that i have with it.

now, onto Abdul, Sir, i agree with you, Israel should have taken care of hamas already and done what we have done in Iraq, remove the government and put in another one, and prevent terrorist groups from running for office

To Steven, who I think is a student 18 going on 19..

 

All the religious suggestions we have received until today have enlightened us, have cleansed us and have prepared us for religious fulfilment. Universal information can be given only after we digest all  this information. The path of science and learning open only afterwards. The Knowledge book page 83.

While we as humans seeks answers to the secrets, of why we are here, how did we get here, will we be back again, have we been here before, the Universe seeks those who are conscious.

It's time for Humanity to Wake UP. An unawakened human being can not shed light on his/her surroundings. He/she is doomed to remain on the same level. Provided humanity overcomes our EGOS, then we will be accepted to the medium of Social Solidarity.

Those who are not yet awakened can not perform any action anyway until they attain a certain Level of Consciousness.

Once Humanity receives religious fulfilment, and our actions are no longer dictated by a certain religious doctrine we will begin our evolvement. Happiness can never come to those who refuse to transcend the EGO. 

We will be reborn the moment we unite Genuine tolerance, Genuine Love, & Genuine humility in our essence by passing through hoops of fire by the exams to which we have been subjected. Our depressions are the deposits of our spirit and our essence.

There is infinite happiness in the medium of purification. Once we embrace even our enemy with love, once we can think of sharing our food even if we are hungry, once we can ask forgivness even from the soil on which we walk, then we begin to solve the mystery of the Universe.

The genuine seed of Peace is held in this. We who live on the face of the planet also live under the roof of the world as a whole a family. Every action taken within this family will influence everyone. However certain individuals within the family have no idea about this program.
This leaves humanity as a mass consciousness unable to find Peace of Mind under this roof.
Many have entered the Medium of quest and have started to look for happiness in different ways. While other have fallen in accordance with lower mass consciousness levels in search of Peace of Mind.
Meanwhile in an effort to experience moments of happiness, love, acceptance, significance & Peace of mind, many find themselves spiritually exhausted on the path of addiction, especially the younger generation.
There can never be any peace of mind in individuals where matter gets the upper hand over spirituality. However there is infinite happiness gained by being purified and freed from the unconscious EGO.
Peace begins in the Mind....
Peace of Mind, Peace at home, Peace on Earth..
Pass it on,

To ARWA Al,
Israel isn't going anywhere, this is what Is-real.
It's comments like Zionist should be killed and hated are comments of the EGO. Instilled deep in our being is belief.
Belief is one of the most powerful forces in the universe, and it exist only in the mind. 

Belief and instinct lie at the core of the thought process. The instincts created over thousands of years developed the EGO. The EGO is the part of each human that is concerned with survival. The EGO believes the world is a dog-eat-dog world, and its mission is to survive.

Spiritual consciousness (the invisible energy) and EGO consciousness are the two energies interacting simultaneously in the mind. EGO consciousness is easily intoxicated by the world there is no human who will not be seized by the colorful and powerful attraction of the world. 

Spiritual consciousness is engaged  when you learn to give for giving, love for loving and forgive your enemy. EGO consciousness is with us at all time, Spiritual consciousness is within us at all times.

In societies, religions, governments, companies or families where EGO consciousness is prevalent, you will find hate, fear, control, lack, oppression, opposition and force.

Spiritual consciousness fosters faith, love, freedom, abundance, collaboration and the highest levels of awareness; every action creates empowerment and a state of enlightenment.

The state of enlightenment is attained by transcending the EGO. However, the physical body is dependent upon the EGO for survival and the two will remain together forever. Separation from the EGO is not possible. We must transcend the EGO by freeing it from limiting beliefs and thoughts so it no longer holds us in the lower levels of consciousness.

i can't find my previous comment nywhere!! guess it been deleted, i don't know but to Karen Mayfield, instead of talking about Ego and Peace i invite u to come and live here in the middle east in palestine in specefic among families who have lost at least a dear member of their family, who have lost their homes, lands and lives. I'm not a Palestinian but i envy thier strong will and spirit. i once saw this brave palestinian woman who have lost three of her sons and who said with tears in her eyes God gave them to me and to him theyr back. She till has two left whom she said she wouldnt stop them from fighting for thier lands, religion, and dignity. Such act isnt an act of ego its an act of a strong faith and belief. an act of bravery , resistance and patience, its an act of victory that will soon come one day. if u dont want palestine then go to iraq where more than a million civilians been dead in a war that had no justifications just like now in Gaza. and what did Mr. Bush said!! "OOPPSS SORRY, we mixed up as apparently there r no weapons of mass destruction"!! sorry for the poverty they live in, or sorry for fighting them for no reasons and torturing thm in prisons, or sorry 4 the millions who have lost their lives??!! Here i think Ego is the right word in such unjustified actions not in the resistance and dignity.

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