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Open letter to humanity

by richard nattress Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2004 at 7:15 AM
richardnattress@yahoo.com

End all hostility, war, terrorism, imposition, oppression, destruction and violence, employed by or organized in the name of religion, politics, commerce, commodity, economics, revolution, greed, exclusion, equality, addiction, favoritism, monopoly, love, hatred, freedom or peace.

An open letter to humanity, a call to action, in response to the conveyed message, and the medium through which it is inflicted. A reply to each, from what ultimately must lord over all, and it is not pretty.

Let us imagine that the final pilgrimage has already occurred. The last opportunity to reach Nirvana passed. Suppose you have experienced your last Hanukkah, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Independence Day or New Year. You have had your last birthday, anniversary, ceremony, ritual, celebration, or in fact experience.

Yet that, which is within and among, remains virtually unfelt and unheeded.

Observing us in our state of limbo: mesmerized and surrounded, or devoted and obedient to illusions and symbols.

Our deeds have all been done and the results lay bare.

Are you imagining this?

Humankind does not commune.

Symmetry is not found.

We are not the beginning or the end although we act as if we are larger then life.

On the whole, we this species, is not a contributing element in the constant and flowing equation. We fail to appreciate in fact most manipulate and deceive.

Yet even as these depictions and exploitations are revealed, we continue to seek and maintain illusion, while mortal obsessions, fundamentalism, extremism and biased affiliations are acclaimed to reign supreme.

Not one is to claim or accumulate more if most others are induced to have less.

However our imbalance, while created by a few, is collectively maintained.




Not one is beyond question or accountability while only a very few are beyond reproach.

Without communal legitimacy there cannot be mutual perspective, reciprocating balance cannot be achieved. Without equilibrium the essential spirit is lost for those who maintain imbalance.

Underlying concurrence, shared in communal discourse, is purest in innocence and most complete in wisdom. Conceiving, consuming and accumulating, only out of mutually justifiable necessity, as the entire is considered, and most are provided for.

Personal contentment or individual satisfaction is secondary to common consideration, yet within there mutual pursuit, become one.

Collective achievement must include the full dimension and depth of most all, and within that shared realm, the fullest nourishment, contentment and enlightenment occurs.

Life requires co incidental existence. Yet most turn away.

Though we comprehend, most still stand in denial.

Placing responsibility in the hands of isolated kings, idols, gods, leaders, representatives, appointees, hierarchies, and systems. And through this proxy relinquish that which none can concede, while guests in a place no other one may own.

Share accordingly, not according to shares.

Still, throughout all that prevails, these remain theories, which we seem to lack the innocence, wisdom, instinct, ability or desire to sustain. Though most do comprehend the multitudes still stand in denial.

We can only be one with all, if we are of the one, in all.

End all hostility, war, terrorism, imposition, oppression, destruction and violence, employed by or organized in the name of religion, politics, commerce, commodity, economics, revolution, greed, exclusion, equality, addiction, favoritism, monopoly, love, hatred, freedom or peace.

Accomplish universal amnesty and observe common ground while appreciating the entire terrain.

Do not recognize any government as a universal representation of the fullest abundance.

Do not recognize any religion, dogma, or culture as a universal representation of what ultimately lords over all.

Do not recognize any economic system as a universal form of equitable distribution and reciprocation.

Our logos, icons, and talking heads mean nothing to existence; our crosses and swastikas, flags, status, statues, statutes, trademarks, brands and copyrights, registrations and claims, ownership's and dividends, rights, royalties, kingdoms, armies, weapons or defenses. They are of no consequence or create no rightful title, exclusive protection or control when we stand and sneer at the ultimate fury and frustration of conception, itself.

Benevolence we may never understand, appreciate or accept.

Sense and experience life within neighborly orientation, as offered, or further provoke an awakened predator. Set loose a creature that nourishes on those who posses pride, and arrogance, and maintain ignorance, exclusivity, inequity, injustice, and imbalance.

An omnipotent presence and relentless force that supersedes; yet a presence we continuously endeavour to cage, represent, repress, control, and violate.

A wise, potent, agile, creative, ancient, accumulating, and ponderous awareness, that we, our species, defile, jeer, and abuse.

A greater consciousness and amassed wisdom, which is disturbed by our ignorance, infuriated by our insolence and in dismay at our collective and indiscriminate selfishness, cruelty, presumption, destruction and greed.

You need not wait for god, allah, jehovah, some deity, divine entity, king, idol, another prophet or jesus to come back.

Those who remain are called upon. A few will determine, if we each do not. Stop blaming, or looking to gods, or choosing the one who offers you the most protection for your investment, adherence or martyrdom. Aspire, yearn; in fact hunger to be as the one within all.

Is this is the point where those who control, laugh, scoff, deny, discredit, and role their eyes, those who enforce, close their eyes, and those who suffer and / or engage the serene duplicity of apathy, continue to?

You want more? responsetohumanity.com


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