When a Lion is Hunting a Herd of Zebras, the Lion Eats the Slowest Zebra... Removing the Slow Zebra Gene from the Gene Pool... and HUMANS are the Same...

For Example: Currently we have Insane People Killing each other in Israel/Gaza... and The Lunatic Gene is being removed from the Gene Pool...

People say that it is wrong to kill women and children, however... 10 years from now those children are likely to grow up to become insane killers... and the women are going to give birth to babies that in 15 years are likely to grow up to become insane killers too!

Some say we ought to take the Chance that the Children Will NOT Grow up to Become Insane Killers... It appears that "Net and YAHOO" is Not Willing to take that Chance... 

With 8 Billion People alive on Planet Earth right now... maybe genocide is the way to remove the Crazy People... and just like killing off the slow zebras... the gene pool will improve over time... Survival of the Fittest... and we already have too damn many people... We certainly don't need people like that in the future.

and we have Insane people Killing each other in Ukraine... Obviously, Putin never heard the song "US and THEM" from the Dark Side of the Moon album by Pink Floyd...

"Forward", he cried from the rear
And the front rank died
The general sat and the lines on the map
Moved from side to side... 

In Fact, Russia is the Largest Country on Earth in Area... So Putin wants to Make it BIGGER by Moving the Lines on the Map to Include Ukraine... and Chernobyl...

LUNATIC!

anyway... instead of killing people why not learn to play the guitar and sing? Here's a Simple Song!

Iko Iko by the Dixie Cups: Chords A, E

Talkin' 'bout
Hey now (hey, now)
Hey now (hey, now)
Iko, iko, un-day
Jock-a-mo fee-no ai na-né
Jock-a-mo fee na-né

My grandma and your grandma
Were sittin' by the fire
My grandma told your grandma
"I'm gonna set your flag on fire"

~chorus~

Look at my king all dressed in red
Iko, iko, un-day
I betcha five dollars, he'll kill you dead
Jock-a-mo fee na-né

~chorus~

My flag boy and your flag boy
Sittin' by the fire
My flag boy told your flag boy
"I'm gonna set your flag on fire"

~chorus~

See that guy all dressed in green?
Iko, iko, un-day
He's not a man, he's a lovin' machine
Jock-a mo fee na-né

~chorus~

https://youtu.be/z3EI4paWAd8 

One More Saturday Night

Went down to the mountain, I was drinking some wine
Looked up in the Heaven, Lord, I saw a mighty sign
Written fire across the heaven, plain as black and white
'Get prepared, there's gonna be a party tonight'

Uh uh hey, Saturday night
Hey uh uh, one more Saturday night
Hey, Saturday night

Now everybody's dancin' down the local armory
With a basement full of dynamite and live artillery
Temperature keeps risin', everybody gettin' high
Come the rockin' stroke of midnight, the place is gonna fly

Turn on channel six, the President comes on the news
Says, "I get no satisfaction, that's why I sing the blues"
His wife say, "Don't get crazy, Lord, you know just what to do
Crank up that old Victrola, put on your rockin' shoes"

Then God way up in Heaven, for whatever it was worth
Thought He'd have a big old party, thought He'd call it Planet Earth
Don't worry about tomorrow, Lord, you'll know it when it comes
When the rock and roll music meets the risin' Shining Sun

US Blues

Red and white, blue suede shoes, I'm Uncle Sam, how do you do?
Gimme five, I'm still alive, ain't no luck, I learned to duck.
Check my pulse, it don't change. Stay seventy-two come shine or rain.
Wave the flag, pop the bag, rock the boat, skin the goat.
Wave that flag, wave it wide and high.

Summertime done, come and gone, my, oh, my.
I'm Uncle Sam, that's who I am; Been hidin' out in a rock and roll band.
Shake the hand that shook the hand of P.T. Barnum and Charlie Chan.
Shine your shoes, light your fuse. Can you use them ol' U.S. Blues?
I'll drink your health, share your wealth, run your life, steal your wife.
Wave that flag, wave it wide and high.

Summertime done, come and gone, my, oh, my.
Back to back chicken shack. Son of a gun, better change your act.
We're all confused, what's to lose?
You can call this all the United States Blues.
Wave that flag, wave it wide and high.
Summertime done, come and gone, my, oh, my.

What was that Famous Story about a Man making a Fake Coin out of Ice in order to Buy Heat for his room? I believe it was set in England.

A Man Lived in a room that had a Coin Operated Heater. He Would Put a Shilling in the Machine, turn the handle and the heater would run for a few Hours... So... Since he Often Did Not Have Money... He made a coin shaped mold on the windowsill outdoors and filled it with water... When it Froze, he put the coin shaped ice into the machine and "bought" heat for a few hours... Then the Fake Coin melted removing all evidence of the Crime... 

If you remember the name of this Famous Old Time Tale please Leave a Comment or email me at gregvan [at] yahoo [dot] com.

https://www.tribstar.com/features/historical-treasure-coin-operated-gas-meter-an-early-form-of-fuel-conservation/article_b578dd13-c11b-5541-bcd1-abac2a8b536c.html

When walking down “Main Street” at the new Vigo County History Center, you will pass the Wabash Theater, Meis Department Store and a general store. Next you will notice a set of wrought iron stairs from Terre Haute Gas Company. The beauty you see sitting on the stairs is a gas meter, made by American Meter Company and “established” in 1834 in New York City. The company made its presence in New York, Chicago and Philadelphia. This particular model seems to have been manufactured in Philly.

What makes this piece very interesting to us, is that it was coin-operated. Much like a jukebox or slot machine, you paid as you played.

https://forum.heatinghelp.com/discussion/179766/coin-operated-gas-meters

SG Said: 

I stayed for a week in a furnished London flat in 1995. It had a wall mounted combi gas boiler for DHW and central heat.

One morning we had no heat or hot water and could not light the boiler. My traveling companion was steaming and wanted to call the rental agent. I said “Wait a sec, let me check something”.

The gas meter, behind an access panel in the kitchen, had a mag stripe card slot. The LCD display read “£0.0”.

There was a new card sitting on top of the meter. I stuck it in, heard a click and the display read “£50.0”. Presto! Back in business.

Saved by the habit of reading old English novels. That’s where I found out about coin operated gas meters. Since the temperature there almost never drops below freezing, they don’t have to worry about frozen pipes.

SOG Said:

I actually used to have one on display in my office at the gas company. One of the interesting things about those meters they typically worked with nickels. So for those clever folks who wanted to steal gas they made them selves little trays the shape of nickels filled them with water and froze them. They then used the frozen nickel shaped fake coins to get the meters to work. The old timers would know the customers were stealing gas because instead of finding coins in the meter they found "WATER".

NO USA Money for Israel or Ukraine. NO US Soldiers to Fight Other People's Wars. If Those People Over There Want To Kill Each Other, OK... I'm Comfortable With That. I Believe there are Bad People on Both Sides.

Is Genocide Good or Bad? With Eight Billion People on Earth, I'm Grateful Whenever Lunatics Die OFF. Darwin said It's Survival of the Fittest and SOME OF THOSE PEOPLE OVER THERE ARE NOT FIT.

For Example: Take this Current War Between Israel and Gaza. What If 100% of the People in Gaza Died?  WELL... What If they DO?

When was the Last Time YOU Said: "I Sure Wish There Were More Palestinians... You Can Never Find a Palestinian When You Really Need One." 

I Bet You have NEVER Said That!

Of the Eight Billion People on Earth, 7.6 Billion of them are Foreigners... DO THEY SERVE ANY PURPOSE? DO THEY HAVE ANY VALUE AT ALL?

OK... Some are Valuable... Germans Build Great Cars. The English Write Great Books and Songs. The Canadians are Mostly Harmless. Mexico is a Great Supplier of Farm Laborers and Gardeners... China is Great at Building Apple Cellular Telephones... BUT... INDIA? Nothing... Africa and South America? Totally Useless... Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and East Ooga-Booga? Actually, I Have Not Heard Much About Them in 50 Years... What are They Doing? I DON'T CARE!

 

On a Social Media Platform Called Mastodon I See that George Takei Posts and I'm able to Respond to His Messages... Excellent!
He Said: "Infrastructure Week" ( I guess he was referring to tRUMP'S Failure to Get anything Done... about Infrastructure and How the Republican't Party is Failing Badly Again!)
@georgetakei I'm Glad the Republican't are FAILING to Elect a Speaker... IT SHOUTS LOUDLY That they are Incompetent and a Total Disaster as a Political Party... The #RUNAWAY from the GOP Movement is Gaining Momentum as American Citizens are Becoming AWARE of Just What a Pile of SH*T the Republican't Party Has Become.

and then on FaceBorg SE Said:

I understand that when a person dies, their loved ones are under no obligation to say how they died. But I often find myself obsessing over people's deaths if the person died at a young age and there is no logical explanation for how they died, like no long-term illness or anything like that. There is something unsettling about seeing a death announcement for a young, healthy person with no explanation about how they died. Even if the person is a total stranger to me, if I see their death announcement and see that the person was young, it will weigh on my mind trying to figure out how the person could have died. I kinda wish people would put "died in a car accident" or "died of a heart attack" in the announcement, just so people don't sit around obsessing over it and speculating about what may have happened. I'm currently obsessing over the death of a 10-year-old girl that I didn't know and who has no connection to me whatsoever, but I saw the announcement on Facebook that she died, and it's been on my mind constantly since then because I can't wrap my brain around how a 10-year-old could have just died. If it was a car accident, why didn't they say so in the announcement? Again, I realize it's ultimately none of my business, but I can't be the only one who obsesses over this type of thing.

and I Replied:

I often wonder... Classmates of Mine Died from AIDS but it was supposed to be a secret that they were Gay...

and a Lady at work that I really Liked died at age 40... I remember that she was a FAIR Supervisor... and to this day her death is a Mystery... My Guess is Fentanyl...

GOP: Crazy Stupid Evil - And That's Why They Die Young... Wonderful! We Certainly Don't Need People Like THAT In The Future!

 STUDY: Americans in Republican Led States Die Younger... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1MSpTdsDl4

Americans die younger in states run by conservatives, study finds... 

More liberal policies on environment, gun safety, labor, economic taxes and tobacco taxes associated with lower mortality.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/27/life-expectancy-us-conservative-liberal-states

Darwin spoke of Survival of the Fittest... Republicans are Simply NOT the Fittest and are Reproducing their Defective Genes at a slower Rate... That's why they are so concerned about "Replacement Theory" 

On a Happier Note!

CHRISTMAS BEGINS!

"thanksgiving is over now it's on to good tidings and all that rigmarole swapping bird fixings for tree trimming.

having worst thanksgiving ever and not having leftovers to contend with it's full speed ahead prepping for saint nick.

admittedly we have an unlit little tree and little uninvited guests but that shouldn't affect eve night.

as motel six says we'll leave the light on christmas eve.

and after santa delivers his presents we'll share some with the son of the one.

and wish him merry christmas christ kid."

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Prepare yourself to spend time alone if you choose to live a life of honesty and integrity.

If you choose to live a life of freedom, wellness and truth, the pop culture narrative will not appreciate it to say the least.

That’s ok though, let the sheep roam, you cannot stop them from fulfilling their destiny of creating a world full of idiots.

You have your own destiny.

You have your own life to live.

You need to focus on your life and attracting your tribe.

You cannot save people that don’t want to be saved, by attempting that you will slow down you process and possibly drown yourself.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

This is as much of a warning as a call to action.

“Everything popular is wrong”

- Oscar Wilde

Instead of doing what everyone else is doing, use this time to clean up your temple(body), to sit with your fears, to write out your thoughts, to spend time in nature, to read some old books.

Look around you, do you want to live like they do? Do you want to be constantly engulfed in the drama? To be triggered? To be sick and deteriorating?

Or do you want to experience something better?

Your choice.

Happy holidays fockers.

With strength and courage

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Someone Asked:

In your opinion, what are the pros and cons of self publishing? through amazon, for example?

We self published 12 Copies of the Vanderlaan Family History... including all the photographs from that shoebox Dad Had... and Every Written word by my ancestors... PLUS... My Brother "Interviewed" Everyone and Simply Wrote down what they said... EXCELLENT EXPERIENCE FOR ALL OF US... Totally Unimportant to the Rest of the World... Many of those documents I Had Never Read... For Example: A Letter from My Mother to the US Military Draft Board on Why My Brother Should be Granted a Conscience Objector Status and NOT Sent to Vietnam... SO... Do IT! Self Publishing is Fantastic...

I read Three Excellent Self Published Books by Richard Warren Field... He's a High School Classmate of Mine and TOTALLY WORTHY! 

https://www.amazon.com/Richard-Warren-Field/e/B001K8WH2K

https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/richard-warren-field/2712834/

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Is Trump The Anti Christ? or Just a Slave of Satan? EXORCISM NEEDED NOW!

In my honest opinion this is happening now and began in 2015 when the evil scum began spewing and spreading hate towards all races and groups that are not “white”….

There is only one way to stop this evil manipulator is to destroy him with Our faith in God. I got the following from this site

https://www.gotquestions.org/false-prophet.html

It seems like it pertains to what is going on now…

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The false prophet of the end times is described in Revelation 13:11-15. He is also referred to as the “second beast” (Revelation 13:11; 16:13, 19:20, 20:10). Together with the Antichrist and Satan, who empowers both of them, the false prophet is the third party in the unholy trinity

The apostle John describes this person and gives us clues to identifying him when he shows up. First, he comes out of the earth. This could mean he comes up from the pit of hell with all the demonic powers of hell at his command. It could also mean he comes from lowly circumstances, secret and unknown until he bursts on the world stage at the right hand of the Antichrist. He is depicted as having horns like a lamb, while speaking like a dragon. The horns on lambs are merely small bumps on their heads until the lamb grows into a ram. Rather than having the Antichrist’s multiplicity of heads and horns, showing his power and might and fierceness, the false prophet comes like a lamb, winsomely, with persuasive words that elicit sympathy and good will from others. He may be an extraordinary preacher or orator whose demonically empowered words will deceive the multitudes. But he speaks like a dragon, which means his message is the message of a dragon. Revelation 12:9 identifies the dragon as the devil and Satan.

Verse 12 gives us the false prophet’s mission on earth, which is to force humanity to worship the Antichrist. He has all the authority of the Antichrist because, like him, the false prophet is empowered by Satan. It is not clear whether people are forced to worship the Antichrist or whether they are so enamored of these powerful beings that they fall for the deception and worship him willingly. The fact that the second beast uses miraculous signs and wonders, including fire from heaven, to establish the credibility of both of them would seem to indicate that people will fall before them in adoration of their power and message. Verse 14 goes on to say the deception will be so great that the people will set up an idol to the Antichrist, "the image of the beast," and worship it. This is reminiscent of the huge golden image of Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 3) before which all were to bow down and pay homage. Revelation 14:9-11, however, describes the ghastly fate that awaits those who worship the image of the Antichrist.

Those who survive the terrors of the tribulation to this point will be faced with two hard choices. Those who refuse to worship the image of the beast will be subject to death (Revelation 13:15), but those who do worship him will incur the wrath of God. The image will be extraordinary in that it will be able to “speak.” Whatever the image is (a statue? a hologram? an android? a human-animal hybrid? a clone?), it will have some kind of ability to breathe forth the message of the Antichrist and the false prophet. Along with being the spokesman for them, the image will condemn to death those who refuse to worship the unholy pair. In our technological world, it is not hard to imagine such a scenario.

Whoever the false prophet turns out to be, the final world deception and the final apostasy will be great, and the whole world will be caught up in it. The deceivers and false teachers we see today are the forerunners of the Antichrist and the false prophet, and we must not be deceived by them. These false teachers abound, and they are moving us toward a final satanic kingdom. We must faithfully proclaim the saving gospel of Jesus Christ and rescue the souls of men and women from the coming disaster.

Help me remember: 

When I was a kid growing up in Los Gatos, there was this fruit that I ate and I can't remember its name. What I remember is that it was like an apricot, but it had maybe 3 pits that were sort of slimy. Maybe it grew in the area, I don't remember. Anybody know?

Well, in the middle of the night the answer finally came to me, and confirmed here in this thread: loquat. I had been mixing it up in my mind with kumquat, which I knew wasn't the right answer, kumquat being a tiny citrus fruit. I don't remember how I had access to loquats, but I remember eating them. I remember that the seeds took up quite a bit of the bulk of the fruit. Can you buy them at a grocery store?

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and then on FaceBorg LJ Wrote:

I'd like to share one of the many things I love about the teachings that Ram Dass shared with us -I love that it is through my direct experience with Spirit that I am led. In quoting the third great patriarch of something I can't remember Ram Dass often reminds us that "the Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences"

After my kids left their bodies everything took on new meaning and my entire reason for being is being redefined. I am freshly sober since the first Monday of june 2022 and I am developing a non bias take on life and my part in it... The following came to me about an hour ago...

I've created a really tough imaginary dilemma for myself that I have to use real world "stuff" to overcome...

I guess I just "Bass Ackwards manifested some ship (and it's about to sink)

Regardless-I'm now slightly more in tune with the feelings that were involved and the choices I made that invoked them.

I am beginning to love how my sober mind works-it's pretty amazing to observe myself from a viewpoint that's sort of like watching a movie, except it's more like the raw script, pre first draft while there are still so many different choices...What's really enlightening is watching my sub conscious self zip on past all the choices, as if they're not even there along a fixed and repetitive route the perpetually leads to the same unsatisfactory results every single time.

It's quite comical, really; and it's not like one piece of daily life here and there, It's the whole friggin puzzle! So, what is comical is when I catch my observing self wandering off into the vast abyss, hand in hand with my sub conscious self. I used be provoked when this happened, but I can't help but chuckle now-and bless them with Godspeed-they served their purpose well...

and I Replied:

Thanks for Sharing... I found that Quitting Drinking and Smoking made my thoughts more clear... I was able to understand more and - Write better... and Sing Better... and Get Stuff Done! I published about 10 Music Videos while Smoking Marijuana and Tobacco... and then I Published about a Hundred after I quit.

Thanks for the add, and apologies if this has been done to death but...I have been playing for years (about 40?) and I'm in a pub rock band but I have never got my head around theory. I bang away using blues scale for everything. I've bought books over the years and I kind of understand things but it is not like it feels part of my language. Like, I've played with people who understand theory and they will throw things at me like "are you playing the 3rd there?" or "how about adding the 9th to that chord?" and it's not like I have no idea what they are saying but I need a reference book, pencil and paper to work it out. For them, it just seems like they are fluent in the language of music, while I'm struggling along with a phrase book!

Recently I've been watching some podcasts where people break songs down and point out that some well known songs have solos in the wrong key and things like that - really interesting and it sounds much better in the right key...although I would never have noticed there was anything 'wrong'.

I guess I'm wondering - how do I get fluent in music theory? I suppose it's practice...but I have no real reason to practice. By which I mean, I play covers in the band...so I learn the song then play it. So, theory isn't a huge part of my day to day.

Anyway - sorry for the long post. Any advice gratefully received!

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Greta Thunberg

@GretaThunberg

We are 636 young people in @auroramalet

who are suing the Swedish state for insufficient climate action.

”When the state carries out climate policy that threatens our human rights, it breaks the law.”

#aurora #ClimateTrials #UprootTheSystem

3:12 PM · Nov 24, 2022·Twitter for iPhone

https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1595872978247598082

“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”

Walt Whitman - Preface to ‘Leaves of Grass, 1850.

Mel Tol Said:

We’d better start to elect more fair minded intelligent lawmakers to begin with who actually value human lives over a powerful lobbying group who doesn’t seem to care about anyone other than themselves in my opinion. I’m for the right to bear arms, but in a reasonable responsible way. In my opinion there’s no civilian justifiable reason for owning and using military grade automatic/semiautomatic weapons. Responsible law abiding gun owners will tell you that the majority of them support common sense gun laws in this country. Some of the very people who carry on about their freedoms are actually taking away far too many other people’s freedoms in my opinion. If this public killing spree is allowed to continue in this country, mark my words it will eventually cripple our very way of lives and severely inhibit our businesses as well as our economy in my opinion. You might ask how. People are already starting to be cautious in public. Even a car back firing at a mall can cause a stir. People want to have their loved ones and themselves safe in public as well as private settings. Something that Americans never gave a second thought too even ten years ago, as in going to the grocery store, a movie, a concert, the mall, going to a place of business, have all been scared by mass shootings. The confidence in American’s feeling secure in public settings is eroding at the hands of one powerful lobby group. I say why do they get to determine Americans safety and security for their own benefits? More and more businesses are going to feel the pinch of gunmen with an agenda dictating where people actually shop and socialize in my opinion. Will America get its act together and stop letting a lobby group dictate to us? I hope and pray we do. Not only do lives literally depend upon it. America itself does too

History: Youth Walks for Survival - An Ecology Fundraiser in Berkeley, CA in 1970. We asked Sponsors for a Nickle per Mile (or a Dime) and Hiked 20 Miles...

We Started at the Football Stadium on the UC Campus then Walked around Lake Merritt in Oakland and then Back to The Stadium. The Last Part was Uphill and a Real Struggle...

I Wonder Who Got the Money We Raised and What they Did With It...  I was a High School Student in Los Gatos (about 50 miles away) at that time. Did We Rent a Bus? Carpool? 

Does anyone Else Remember this Event? Email me at gregvan (at) yahoo (dot) com or Comment at the Bottom of this Post...

http://collections.museumca.org/?q=collection-item/20105420918

I'm contacting people and Groups that might remember this event... 

For Example: https://ecologycenter.org/climatecoalition/

https://revolution.berkeley.edu/projects/secret-history-recycling/

After We Finished the Walk There was a Concert With Malvina Reynolds Singing "Boxes, Little Boxes" 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cjk0zst3Cs

Lyrics: Chords: E, A, B7

Little boxes on the hillside
Little boxes made of ticky tacky
Little boxes on the hillside
Little boxes all the same

There's a pink one and a green one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same

And the people in the houses
All went to the university
Where they were put in boxes
And they came out all the same

And there's doctors and lawyers
And business executives
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same

And they all play on the golf course
And drink their martinis dry
And they all have pretty children
And the children go to school

And the children go to summer camp
And then to the university
Where they are put in boxes
And they come out all the same

And the boys go into business
And marry and raise a family
In boxes made of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same

There's a pink one and a green one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same

https://revolution.berkeley.edu/declaration-of-interdependence/

Cliff Humphrey both drew upon and utterly revised the “Declaration of Independence” to create this crucial founding document of the environmental movement. With its calligraphy, the “Declaration of Interdependence” looked like Thomas Jefferson’s document, and with its syntax it sounded like it too. But Humphrey’s manifesto suggested that the world needed to break with the attractive illusion of “independence” and be governed by a new principle—”interdependence”—if it wished to be aligned with the laws of nature.

Full Text of “The Declaration of Interdependence” 

When in the course of evolution it becomes necessary for one species to denounce the notion of independence from all the rest, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the interdependent station to which the natural laws of the cosmos have placed them, a decent respect for the opinions of all mankind requires that they should declare the conditions which impel them to assert their interdependence.

We hold these truths to be self-evident that all species have evolved with equal and unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

——— That to insure these rights, nature has instituted certain principles for the sustenence of all species, deriving these principles from the capabilities of the planet’s life-support system.

——— That whenever any behavior by members of one species becomes destructive of these principles, it is the function of other members of that species to alter or abolish such irrelevant behavior and to reestablish the theme of interdependence with all life, in such a form and in accordance with those natural principles that will effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that cultural values long established should not be altered for light and transient causes, that mankind is more disposed to suffer from asserting a vain notion of independence than to right themselves by abolishing that culture to which they are now accustomed.

——— But when a long train of abuses and usurpations of these principles of interdependence, evinces a subtle design to reduce them, through absolute despolation of the planet’s fertility, to a state of ill will, bad health, and great anxiety, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such notions of independence from other species and from the life-support system and to provide new guards for the reestablishment of security, and maintenance of these principles. Such has been the quiet and patient sufferage of all species, and such is now the necessity which constrains the species homo sapiens to reassert the principles of interdependence.

——— The history of the present notion of independence is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations all having in direct effect the establishment of an absolute tyranny over life. To prove this let facts be submitted to a candid world.

——— 1. People are proliferating in such an irresponsible manner as to threaten the survival of all species.

——— 2. People have refused to recognize that they are interacting with other species in an evolutionary process.

——— 3. People have fouled the waters that all life drinks of and they have fouled the air that all life partakes of.

——— 4. People have transformed the face of the earth to enhance their notion of independence from it and in so doing have interrupted many natural processes that they are dependent upon.

——— 5. People have contaminated the common household with substances that are foreign to the life processes which are causing many organisms great difficulties.

——— 6.  People have massacred and extincted fellow species for their feathers and fur, for their skins and tusks.

——— 7.  People have persecuted most persistantly those known as coyote, lion, wolf, and fox because of their dramatic role in the expression of interdependence.

——— 8. People have warred upon one another which has brought great sorrow to themselves and vast destruction to the homes and the food supplies of many living things.

——— 9. People have denied others the right to live to completion their interdependencies to the full extent of their capabilities.

We therefore, among the mortal representatives of the eternal process of life and evolutionary principles, in mutual humbleness, explicitly stated, appealing to the ecological consciousness of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do solemly publish and declare that all species are interdependent, that they are all free to realize these relationships to the full extent of their capabilities; that each species is subservient to the requirements of the natural processes that sustain all life.

——— And for the support of this declaration with a firm reliance on all other members of our species who understand their consciousness as a capability, to assist all of us and our brothers to interact in order to realize a life process that manifests its maximum potential of diversity, vitality and planetary fertility to ensure the continuity of life on earth.

Ecology Action

https://revolution.berkeley.edu/ecology-action-is/