<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892</id><updated>2010-02-06T16:43:42.707-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A Message from Elder George</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensaction.net/blog/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.mensaction.net/blog/atom.xml'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>85</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-4710414620169961788</id><published>2010-02-06T16:37:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-06T16:43:27.498-08:00</updated><title type='text'>SUICIDE IN THE MILITARY</title><content type='html'>An article &lt;em&gt;The War Inside&lt;/em&gt; in the December 2009 issue of The American Legion Magazine (ALM) coupled with an article by NBC News Services on the internet in November 2009, both addressed the high number of suicides in the military, which motivated me to finally write this article. I say finally, because this subject of mental illness on the part of veterans has been on my mind for the more than 30 years since I first became aware of the disproportionate number of Vietnam veterans in psychiatric care.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What caused the high rate of mental disorder among Vietnam veterans and what causes the high rate of suicide among today’s service personnel? These conditions are related; mental disorder leads to suicide. If we deal with the first the second will be alleviated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ALM article also pointed out that the United States has 33,000 estimated suicides each year and that number might be under-estimated by 25 to 50 percent. That should not come as a surprise. The World Health Organization announced that the number one health issue of England, the United States, and Canada is mental illness. The French take anti-depressants at a rate two and half times that of the British; one can only imagine the incidence of mental illness in France. Western society has not only accepted mental illness, the malady has become a norm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The above statistics serve as background for the issue of mental illness and suicide among our service personnel and veterans who are part of a mentally unhealthy society. Unlike an authority quoted in ALM I do not feel considerable research is required. Societies that have a strong family orientation have low levels of mental illness and suicide. Those societies give people a sense of belongingness. It teaches them the ethics required for positive moral conduct. Western society has destroyed family and is paying the price in the form of increased mental illness and other devastating societal issues.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In focusing more on the military I will first address the passing reference made by the articles to female suicide, which indicated more data was needed on its incidence and more research on its causes. God designed women with the psyche, minds, and bodies necessary to bring life into this world and nurture it. To teach this creation how to kill rather than bring forth life is contrary to its nature and will cause many problems. Do we really need research to support that conclusion?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why do women enter the military? I remember seeing in the newspapers a picture of a mother in fatigues, helmet and carrying full pack leaving her two infants behind for a tour in Iraq and the caption quoting her words “I need the money.” Is that what the army now consists of; female mercenaries who will kill for money? I thought the reason that men went to war was to protect the motherland, to protect women, children, and future generations. Now that women are going off to war what are we fighting for? Let’s remember that question further on in this essay.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The female soldier’s focus on the motivation of money runs contrary to the natural call to arms. Serving one’s country traditionally consists of giving up ones job for subsistence level wages in the military. During World War II the pay for privates was $21 a month. A humorous song written about Army wages had lyrics that went “$21 a day once a month.” I can remember when my motivation came to enlist in the Navy in 1953. I was employed and well paid as a Merchant Officer with the Military Sea Transportation Service and traded that position in for what was then a low level of pay as a Lieutenant junior grade. I never calculated the pay loss for the two years in which I served on active duty. I considered it a privilege, honor, and duty to serve my country. My father before me enlisted in The American Expeditionary Force in World War I, not for money but as a sense of duty for the new land that gave him opportunity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now we have mercenaries defending us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The nature of warfare has also changed considerably over the years. In World War I enemy combatants would often meet after artillery attacks and share a smoke together. Then they would shake hands, go back to their trenches and do what they had to do. There was a sense of comraderie and an understanding that each man had a family at home that loved him; he wanted to survive and didn’t want to kill any one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That sense of comraderie with the enemy diminished in World War II when the allied war policy consisted of inflicting as much harm as possible to the civilian population of the enemy with the aim of breaking their will to continue the conflict. American planes killed 150,000 in one bombing in Hamburg and British planes killed 250,000 during another bombing in Dresden. A few hundred thousand Japanese bodies went up in smoke in Nagasaki and Hiroshima after the killing of 500,000 civilians by conventional bombing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The inflicting of civilian casualties has continued as a part of American combat policy in the Far East. The spraying of Agent Orange and Napalm indiscriminately on the countryside in Vietnam contributed to the 14.25 million casualties in a nation of less than 50 million people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No well-balanced and rational human being wants to kill or inflict bodily damage on another human being; to do so runs counter to his basic nature. It breaks one of the great commandments. It is one thing to drop bombs on people and not see the resulting blood and gore that results from that action. It is quite another thing to pull the trigger on the gun that kills people or throw the grenade that maims them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the sake of this article let’s say that the enemy deserved what they got; we were the good guys and they were the bad guys. But what about us? What has happened to the good guys who inflicted all these casualties on the enemy? The memory of the slaughter of civilians is burned deep in the minds and psyches of the soldiers; it cannot be removed and accounts for many of the psychiatric problems of Vietnam veterans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s one thing to go into combat and do the dirty work required if one has a sense that this activity is helping to protect a way of life he believes in. However, when we get back to the question asked earlier “Now that women are going off to war, what are we fighting for?” the answer becomes more difficult to reach. As our soldiers in the Middle East become aware that increasing numbers of their buddies become afflicted with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) when they return to the States, frequently lose custody of their children, and not infrequently end up in prison, they are less inclined to think that it was all worth fighting for.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The situation continues to worsen for our young soldiers. We lure teenagers off the basketball courts and into uniform, psyche them up with KILL, KILL, KILL indoctrination, and turn them loose on other teenagers who maybe were playing basketball or soccer that afternoon. Whether the civilians were killed on purpose, by accident, or in self-defense, the effect on our young soldiers is devastating. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deprogramming the KILL, KILL, KILL, indoctrination does not come easy and results in questionable success. We are destroying the flower of youth of those in our military. Most efforts to address this issue focus on effects and not causes. It is time that veterans organizations, which always rally to the support of our service personnel, address the underlying causes of why our young men and women are having increasing mental health issues.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Training women to kill is unnatural. Training men and women to kill civilians is unnatural. Having military campaigns without clearly defined objectives is unnatural.  Not having strong reasons for protecting our way of life is unnatural. Reducing military service to a high paid job classification is unnatural. Prolonged exposure to an unnatural lifestyle produces mental illness whether in the military or out of it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The time has come to analyze our lifestyle. Living a natural way of life decreases mental illness and the resulting incidence of suicide.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Note: The mass killing of civilians has reached such an acceptance in Western society that when conducted in the film Avatar no critical condemnation occurred. However, Pandora (the enemy) also had warrior women and a lack of family activity. The &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyqKSbvcBM0"&gt;film&lt;/a&gt; depicted two unnatural, androgynous oriented, and purposeless societies neither of which warranted fighting and dying for.    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-4710414620169961788?l=www.mensaction.net%2Fblog%2Findex.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/4710414620169961788'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/4710414620169961788'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensaction.net/blog/2010/02/suicide-in-military.html' title='SUICIDE IN THE MILITARY'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16731342605296678483'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-5848384015814450767</id><published>2010-02-01T06:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-01T06:22:48.209-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A DISCONTENTED SOCIETY</title><content type='html'>Polls indicate that the dissatisfaction of the American public with its institutions has reached an all time high. This statistic when coupled with a recent finding that most people express dissatisfied with their jobs leads to a reasonable conclusion that discontent prevails in our society. The high rate of depression and mental illness found in all Western societies supports this conclusion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have indicated my opposition to men relying on institutions instead of themselves in many essays, and I have also frequently mentioned that jobs are unnatural and breed dissatisfaction followed by discontent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our institutions have failed us and their deterioration has begun, which gives evidence of the crumbling of Western society. The West will eventually come to the realization that institutions are but poor substitutes for the responsibilities, obligations, and considerations of men, but not before they beg one last institution to save them—the government. When that last institution fails—and the cracks have already appeared in its walls—then people will have to fend for themselves by learning to work cooperatively outside of institutions and a new era of enlightenment will manifest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let’s take a look as some of the major institutions in our society. Our legal institutions have been revered since the beginning of Western society. From Draco, to Solon, to Justinian, to Napoleon, Western society has seen an ever-growing influence of legal institutions. The result in modern America is that we have the highest incarceration rate in the world. We have a greater total number of men in prison than India and China combined. Only conquering armies were once capable of putting such a large percentage of the population in prison, and in America we do it willingly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our medical institutions have developed protocols, which are liturgies developed by pharmaceutical companies in conjunction with our legal institutions and enforced by the high priests of a medical oligarchy that inflicts eternal damnation to those who do not comply. That means the loss of a license. The result has been a highly medicated society so in need of medicinal drugs that it is bankrupting the nation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our vaunted educational institutions produce high school graduates that have to be tutored in how to fill out an employment application. A test given to high school graduates when given to college seniors 50 years later resulted in the college seniors scoring below the high school graduates. What this means in practical terms is that parents and grandparents who only graduated from high school know more than their offspring who are now in college.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All Western institutions are declining. All.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet, Western man has become so dependent upon them that he cannot envision life without them. This is one of the points to be understood in the film Avatar. James Cameron created a green society without Western institutions. It had no purpose. There were no babies, no old people, no families, no religion, no worship, no temples, no growing of food, gathering of fruits, hunting for meat. While the intent of the film might have been good, the end result is that it depicted a society bereft of any concept of the propagation and preservation of the species and spiritual growth. Pandora depicted a vacuous society and represents Western thoughts inability to function without its institutions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Until Western thought is reborn and frees itself from its myopic materialistic thinking it will remain a slave to its institutions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God did not establish institutions. He created men with the authority and the ability to create a society in harmony with its environment while promoting its spiritual growth. Men provide the environment and means for women to bring life into this world and nurture it as humankind progresses on its spiritual journey. Institutions can’t do that, and that’s why we are discontent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-5848384015814450767?l=www.mensaction.net%2Fblog%2Findex.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/5848384015814450767'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/5848384015814450767'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensaction.net/blog/2010/02/discontented-society.html' title='A DISCONTENTED SOCIETY'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16731342605296678483'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-575800321699057710</id><published>2010-01-22T02:16:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-22T02:21:17.813-08:00</updated><title type='text'>AVATAR – A GENDER PERSPECTIVE</title><content type='html'>The whole world seems to at least have heard of the film Avatar and every movie critic has offered his or her commentary concerning it. Heralded as a major breakthrough in film technology it will strongly influence the production of future films. It has shown sensitivity to people who live outside of cubicles (Western man loves living inside a cubicle) and have a rapport with nature. It indicated an awareness of the interconnectedness of all life, and as a space-age version of the old cowboy and Indian movie, it had the Indians win. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For all the technological advances and quasi-metaphysical insights it contained, this picture was devoid of an understanding of the purpose of human existence. As Jake is accepted into the community of the Ne’vi do we see any families? De we see any babies? Do we see any pregnant women? No. Because the Ne’vi women do not have teats! Isn’t that strange? Have you ever seen in National Geographic Magazine pictures of a native village anywhere in the world that did not include lactating women? Lactating women are designed to nurture babies into becoming children, an activity that consists of suckling their offspring.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nurturing the race has become a diminishing concept Western society. Nowhere in our educational system or societal values do we see the creation of families as an objective. On the contrary we see increasing numbers of articles written by the new breed of “independent” women questioning the modern necessity of family.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In accordance with this thinking director James Cameron has depicted the people of Pandora as an almost androgynous race with only slightly differing gender characteristics. In suggesting mates to Jake, Neytiri recommends one woman who is a fine archer and another who dances well (I didn’t notice any dancing women in the film or even any music). I wouldn’t want an archer for a mate. I like a soft and squeezable woman next to me who oozes nurturing love. Certainly children want and need the same and to a greater degree.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Cameron’s androgynous society of Pandora, he does not give us a hint of the purpose of its existence or what it does when aliens are not attacking it. He is clear about the invaders; their objective in life is material accumulation and self-indulgence. What about the Ne’vi—those people who are so in tune with nature that they communicate with animals and trees—what objective or purpose do they have in life? Is it to just to become warriors and fight off some of the more vicious animals of their kingdom? Isn’t there something more?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not that James Cameron can see. His own religious text calls for the first order of business upon the creation of Adam to get him a mate and to tell him clearly to “be fruitful and multiply.” The propagation and preservation of the species is a universal activity of the highest order. Not only do we find lactating females in native villages throughout the world, but among deer, monkeys, bears and all species of mammals as well. The nurturing love of lactating mothers sustains newborns. Not according to Western man who is continually trying to prove that he can make better milk for babies than mothers can. But then that should come as no surprise since he is well engaged in genetic engineering. If he can design a better apple than God can, certainly he should be able to design better milk than what comes out of mothers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This being the case, androgyny seems like a logical evolution to James Cameron, whereas it is a devolution of natural behavior that leads to the eventual extinction of the species. However, James Cameron’s androgynous society confirms what I wrote recently concerning the mutation of the species. Women as a result of unnatural exercise are developing broader shoulders, more muscular bodies, narrower hips and smaller breasts. We also flood their minds with birth control methods. This mutation of their bodies and psyches makes them less desirable to mate with; consequently we have witnessed booming sales of chemical sexual stimulants to men.    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only children that we see on Pandora occurs when the battle gets into high gear and their attempt to escape annihilation serves as a vehicle to arouse the emotions of the viewer. Emotion and sensation are staples for all Western entertainment. If there is no purpose in life, then self-indulgence prevails, which requires the arousing and satisfying of emotions and sensations. In watching the coming attractions in the theater while waiting for Avatar to begin, I saw five previews of films all of which were based on extreme violence. Then we wonder why the United States has the most violent boys in the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The level of violence in Avatar could have been reduced significantly without endangering its limited plot. It could have shown a peaceful family life in Pandora that the viewer would have identified with and wanted to protect.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The purpose of human existence is the propagation and preservation of the species while on its path of spiritual unfoldment. This simple purpose requires the involvement of gender, support of the family and the tribe, and the worship of a supreme entity. In addition to lactating women villages also contain, marriage rituals, worship, singing, musical instruments and temples.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pandora has no babies, no pregnant women, no lactating women, no elderly people, no marriage ceremony, no families, no songs, no musical instruments, no worship and no temples. Sounds like a society someone in a &lt;a href="http://www.mensaction.net/blog/2007/06/cubists.html"&gt;cubicle&lt;/a&gt; would dream up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Director Cameron created a green androgynous Western culture and it rings hollow. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-575800321699057710?l=www.mensaction.net%2Fblog%2Findex.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/575800321699057710'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/575800321699057710'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensaction.net/blog/2010/01/avatar-gender-perspective.html' title='AVATAR – A GENDER PERSPECTIVE'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16731342605296678483'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-3116580215574019917</id><published>2009-12-19T18:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-19T18:31:39.680-08:00</updated><title type='text'>WESTERN RELIGIOUSNESS &amp; THE NEW DECADE</title><content type='html'>Religions are feminine; they materialize and personalize impersonal and unseen spiritual truths. In theory religions represent the collective understanding of the populace regarding the teachings of prophets contained in various texts; in actuality they represent the belief system of those in charge of the religion. The less understanding a group has of matters spiritual, the greater the need for a belief system and the authority necessary to enforce that belief. Western materialistic thought has little understanding of matters spiritual (the unseen); therefore, its religious structure relies heavily upon authority, law, and punishment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western thought develops religiousness in all its institutions. The medical field has little understanding of health; therefore, it developed a religious structure to sustain itself and enforce its beliefs. What the AMA refers to as a protocol is a liturgy prepared by drug companies in collusion with attorneys and enforced by the high priests of a medical oligarchy who demand absolute adherence to the liturgy with the threat of hell and eternal damnation to the physician who disobeys. That means the loss of his license.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The government has little understanding of unseen ethics; therefore it has no basis for developing moral behavior. It focuses on legal and illegal, for it does not know right from wrong. It has created a huge religious institution called the American Bar Association, which has authority, laws, and punishment. Those who do not meet the criteria of the high priests are disbarred.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The educational system has little understanding of knowledge, which is unseen; therefore, it focuses on information, which is seen and develops religiously oriented institutional structures based on authority, law, and punishment. It will only consider new information if it is based upon the approved liturgy (materialistic scientific approach) for developing and presenting this information. Those within the institutions who do not conduct themselves in accordance with the accepted academic liturgy face expulsion, or if tenured, ostracization. Those who attend these institutions will be fed a diet of rote learning and examined on the retention of the information fed to it. &lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Western thought has little understanding of the unseen forces of nature; therefore, it ravages, pollutes, and distorts the environment. In order to administer the use of natural resources (that’s the name it gives to nature) it has made of it a commodity controlled by international finance. These moneyed interests not only bought Manhattan from the Indians, they bought the world; they own it and decide who lives where and how. They have created an international economic cartel that has its authority, laws, and punishment. They enforce a belief structure predicated on the power of money.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every activity that Western thought engages in is based upon what it sees and believes; not upon what it doesn’t see or understand. The entire world of Western thought is a vast empire of religiously structured institutions based upon gross materialism, which in one way or another acts to enslave the populace.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The major manifestation of Western thought is the lack of understanding of the purpose of human existence. It does not “see” that we are here to propagate and preserve the species on our journey of spiritual growth. Therefore, it does not understand the purpose of gender and the patriarchal structure necessary to attain that objective. Instead Western thought believes in the finiteness of the material world and the unlimited opportunity to indulge oneself in it. This thinking has created a religious materialistic governing structure with a multiplicity of institutions with authority, laws, and punishment designed to propagate and enforce its belief.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These institutions by nature attempt to expand their power. Ecumenism attempts to create a one-world religious order. National governments attempt to create a one-world social order. Financial institutions attempt to create a one-world financial order. The collective goal is to have an institution to govern every facet of life on an international basis. Western thought considers that to be absolute fairness; it does not realize that it is absolute subjugation of the people. It eliminates the necessity for discernment and replaces it with the necessity of absolute obedience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western thought has enslaved its society through the religiousness of its institutions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Various men’s groups around the world (the Western world) are attempting to fight the punitive laws directed against men and family. They attempt to do it through the very institutions that emasculated them. These men’s rights groups are now fighting for parity with women. Imagine that; the Adam principle of the universe is begging the institutions that it created to treat them the same as women. This thinking leads to the impotence of society. “Lord, forgive them for they know not what they do.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, all is not doom and gloom. The universe is always in divine order. What is natural endures; what isn’t doesn’t. The society and institutions created by Western thought are in their death throes. We are witnessing its demise in real time. As it collapses those that remain will be forced to see the thing behind the thing—the spirit behind the material world. Society will recognize its purpose to propagate and preserve the species while on its journey of spiritual development. Men will realize their obligation to provide the environment and means for women to bring forth life and nurture it. Instead of focusing on religion, humankind will focus on spiritual understanding. Instead of focusing on the law it will realize its obligation, responsibilities, and considerations toward its brothers and sisters, fathers and mothers, and sons and daughters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prior to the collapse and the enforced change that it will produce, a small and virile minority with more enlightened views will begin to make its presence felt. Those minorities of people are with us now, and their numbers are growing. They have been reborn; their thinking has changed. They consist of women happy to be women, and men cognizant of their manliness. Working together these men and women realize their responsibilities, obligations, and considerations to the human race. They rear their own children rather than having the state do it. They have ethics that govern their moral conduct. They recognize the impermanence of the material world and have an understanding of matters spiritual. They have an appreciation of nature and the interdependence of all life. These people will serve as the nucleus upon which the new era will be built. The small and growing minority with us that will meet that challenge is fulfilling the prophecy contained in Isaiah, which states that they will rebuild on the old foundations and will be known as the rebuilders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As this year draws to a close we welcome not only a new year but also a new decade, one that will usher in a period of change perhaps unparalleled in human history. We will see the institutionalization of human beings reach its peak and then crack and implode as the impotence it created gives way to the growing virile minority that will be the cornerstone of a new era.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-3116580215574019917?l=www.mensaction.net%2Fblog%2Findex.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/3116580215574019917'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/3116580215574019917'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensaction.net/blog/2009/12/western-religiousness-new-decade.html' title='WESTERN RELIGIOUSNESS &amp; THE NEW DECADE'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16731342605296678483'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-5727551698061058214</id><published>2009-12-07T13:49:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-07T13:56:14.892-08:00</updated><title type='text'>FEMININE &amp; MATERIALISTIC THINKING OF MEN’S RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS</title><content type='html'>A couple of days ago my E-mail address was added to a mailing list temporarily constructed so that every message sent went to all people on the list. This list was created to facilitate the dissemination of and get responses to the results of a case filed against the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and was shut down after a few hours. I didn’t originate any messages (though I responded to one sent to me) but I received 30 E-mails within a couple of hours. This group apparently consisted primarily of so-called Men’s Rights Organizations (MROs) or supporters of them. They complain, they even try to act tough occasionally, but they are completely ineffective in their objective to rectify what they perceive as wrongs heaped upon men by government. I bring some of the details of this incident to your attention for they clearly illustrate the feminine and materialistic thinking that pervades MROs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I state before proceeding with this essay that I have previously made my views known about the VAWA and its sponsor Senator Biden and will not go into it further here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;One of the 30 E-mails I received came from someone complaining about the stance that the MROs often take. Listed below is an unedited paragraph taken from that E-mail:&lt;br /&gt;Like it or not, the advent of the Industrial Revolution in 1820 and the ensuing Technological Revolution that has taken place, is the “Great Equalizer” between the sexes freeing them from Me Tarzan You Jane set the stage for women to assert their rights (especially during and after WWII where there was a group effort to defeat the Axis powers. Feminism has paved the way for men to become more aware of their gender roles and cultural expectations and create Maleism. I believe there should be a more egalitarian system where men and woman’s differences are acknowledged and honored. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This paragraph expressed the general tenor of the E-mail but was unsigned. I wanted to reply to the author but before I did I asked for the writer’s name, as I do not respond to people who do not leave their names. I also thought the writer was a woman given the supposedly positive effects that evolved from feminism stated in the message.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The writer did respond and it was a man. Lest I misinterpreted the first E-mail he wrote the following paragraph in the second E-mail:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Technology is the great equalizer. No longer do men have to go into battle and be torn to pieces because they are physically stronger than women. Swords and knives have given way to guns, bombs, drone aircraft, tanks, etc., which can be operated by both men and women with equal ease. Anyone can pull a trigger or push a button to launch a rocket or fly a drone from the comfort of a base 1000’s of miles away from the war. The lack of a stable front line in Iraq has put women in combat situations equal to a man’s rather than being kept in the rear of a front line, yet another step toward gender equality. Women are proving their mettle in combat situations. Talk to a male solider whose butt was saved by a woman soldier about men being the authoritarians. They no doubt will have a different spin on things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These two paragraphs serve as excellent examples of feminine materialistic Western thought, which I often refer to. “Technology is the great equalizer” and “the advent of the Industrial Revolution is the great equalizer,” reflects gross materialism. He cannot imagine that technology will pass away but life will remain, and that life is dependent upon patriarchy for its functioning and survival. Those statements reflect extreme arrogance as well for they imply the power of man supersedes the power of God or nature.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also in referring to rights the writer does not reflect on where rights come from. What is the power that defines a right and bestows it? It must come from outside of oneself, hence all the efforts of the MROs to gain “rights” through legal action. That’s pure feminine thinking. They believe the power is outside of them instead of within them; therefore, they are victims. If only they could get the government to change the laws then their lives will be better. There are no natural rights in this world; there are obligations, responsibilities, and considerations. Once men realize that power resides within they will understand that change can only be made outside of the government and the economy; however, that requires another trait not found within the confines of feminine materialistic Western thought and that is conceptual understanding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They do not have the concept that all movement depends upon an assertive influence acting upon a receptive entity. They do not realize that there is one assertive force in the universe and it is called the masculine gender. They do not realize that the feminine gender thinks in personal, materialistic and immediate terms because those traits enable it to nurture the race. By the way “nurture” never seems to enter the lexicon of MROs or feminists. They do not realize that women deal in the seen and men deal in the unseen. They do not have the concept that the unseen God created the material universe and the unseen conceptual thinking of men created the material world that sits upon it. They do not possess the concept that man’s primary obligation is the propagation and preservation of the species on its journey of spiritual unfoldment, and that his specific responsibility is to provide the means and the environment for women to bring forth life and nurture it. They do not ask what the attraction would be for the opposite sex in an egalitarian society and what its purpose would be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This thinking has permeated Western thought since the days of Plato; he believed that men and women were the same and that children should be turned over to the State to be raised. That’s what we have today. The author of the above paragraphs in lauding women in combat makes no mention of who is taking care of their children, and “care” is the most that they get today, for nurturing disappeared when the family was destroyed. I am also amazed at his equanimity of thought as he narrates how women are trained to destroy life instead of bring it into existence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lastly, the author wrote in his E-mail to me that in looking over the Men’s Action website he determined that I am angry. In the 18 years that I have promoted my message of gender and patriarchy I have never been called angry by a woman. A few feminists might have gotten angry with me, but they did not call me angry. Only men have called me angry, and a particular group of men at that. Those who do not have the courage to assume their manly responsibilities of providing for a wife and family or those who cannot accept their contribution to a failed marriage call me angry. They are intimidated by my message, and I do feel for them. I have friends and acquaintances in that category. They were usually raised in dysfunctional homes and were not prepared to cope with the responsibilities of manhood. Part of any movement to rebuild society and the family requires rebuilding the man as the first step.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This same group of men that considers me to be angry also asks me what the women say about my message. They wonder if I get in trouble with them. I will tell you what the women say. I have E-mails from women around the world and they support me and nurture me. They are happy to see a man that supports family and the natural relationship of men to women. I wonder if the current crop of MROs gets letters like that. If there is any question about my feelings towards women let them look at the recent series of seven videos I made titled The Natural Woman, especially part 3 in which I mention the commitment I made to women.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In my references to Western thought I have never referred to the terms white, black, Asian or Hispanic. People of all colors, ethnicities, and religions have been indoctrinated in and accept Western thought. The MROs, liberals, democrats, conservatives, republicans, independents, progressives, socialists, and libertarians all have one trait in common—materialistic myopic Western thought. Political science is a study of forms of government created by Western thought that attempt to substitute for patriarchy and fail.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To change society requires a change in thinking. Unless a man is reborn, nothing will change. Men need to crawl out of the restrictive confines of materialistic Western thought and recognize their responsibility to the propagation and preservation of the human race on its spiritual journey. They also have to develop the vitality and courage to fulfill that responsibility.&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-5727551698061058214?l=www.mensaction.net%2Fblog%2Findex.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/5727551698061058214'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/5727551698061058214'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensaction.net/blog/2009/12/feminine-materialistic-thinking-of-mens.html' title='FEMININE &amp; MATERIALISTIC THINKING OF MEN’S RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16731342605296678483'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-4860929003730328171</id><published>2009-12-02T10:34:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-02T10:37:59.299-08:00</updated><title type='text'>INTERNATIONAL POLICY AND AFGHANISTAN</title><content type='html'>A few days ago my youngest son asked me when the Republican Party became the party of war and the Democrat Party became the party of peace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I could see the reason for his question; democrat presidents Roosevelt, Truman, and Johnson got us into Word War II, Korea, and Vietnam respectively. The democrats were known as the party of international involvement and fiscal irresponsibility. However, republican Reagan escalated the Cold War and outspent his predecessor by a wide margin; Bush Sr. got us into Iraq the first time and Bush Jr. with republican control of both houses set a record for deficit spending and the length of a “peacetime” military conflict.  The party affiliation of the President does not have an effect on the conduct of international and fiscal policy, and therefore it should not have come as any surprise that President Obama last night chose to continue the same international posture and fiscal irresponsibility as his predecessors when he announced further military escalation in Afghanistan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America has been on a wartime economy for more than 70 years and during that time the national debt as apportioned per person has grown exponentially as have the laws that undermine the freedom of the people. For all practical purposes we have become a police state domestically and an instrument for a one-world government internationally.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The feminine materialistic nature of Western thought lends its actions to an aristocratic posture based on financial power. Whether manifest destiny, colonialism, apartheid, slavery, or segregation, the impetus of Western governmental action always imposes its will upon others through material control of their environment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The mystics say “as above so below and as within so without,” and this same aristocratic control has now manifested within Western society. An aristocracy of power created by international wealth now controls Western governments. It makes no difference which party ascends to power; the end result of their governance will not change. Whether in the United Kingdom, the European mainland, or the United States there has been a steady march towards one-world socialistic government based on repressive laws that control the people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the United States we have a president who after one year since his election has yet to deliver on any of his campaign promises. He can’t. He’s not his own man; he’s a little wind-up doll with marching orders programmed by a controlling financial aristocracy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Control by an international financial aristocracy is the natural outgrowth of a society that does not know its purpose in life, that has no spiritual understanding and looks upon universal existence as an opportunity for self-aggrandizement and the accumulation of material wealth. Such a society will ultimately lead to control of the world’s resources and finances by a few. Such a society will also ultimately implode as a result of its inability to sustain itself morally.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Society will only change when its thinking changes; when it recognizes the spiritual dimension of human existence and the earthly obligation to propagate and preserve the species; when it understands the principle of gender and the patriarchal structure that provides support for family.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Society will change when men realize their obligation to provide the environment and the means for women to bring forth life and nurture it as humankind proceeds on its path of spiritual unfoldment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;President Obama and the Western world continue on its programmed voyage to a one-world financial aristocracy. You don’t have to make the trip with them. You can get off the ship now and start living your life differently. Why wait until the ship sinks and lifeboats are few and unstable? Chart a new course for yourself now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-4860929003730328171?l=www.mensaction.net%2Fblog%2Findex.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/4860929003730328171'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/4860929003730328171'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensaction.net/blog/2009/12/international-policy-and-afghanistan.html' title='INTERNATIONAL POLICY AND AFGHANISTAN'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16731342605296678483'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-5648601170431353410</id><published>2009-11-16T07:07:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-16T07:17:33.980-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A CLOSER LOOK AT OUR MISSION STATEMENT</title><content type='html'>The mission statement of Men’s Action calls for fostering a more natural way of life for humankind. This statement consists of four objectives, and probably the least known is Objective IV, which reads, “Foster respect for the environment and a lifestyle that results in health and well-being.” The strategies for attaining this objective follow: Promote a toxic free environment, Support organic farming, Promote vegetarianism, and Promote holistic health. Some—if not most—readers will question what this objective has to do with gender, patriarchy, family, or societal issues. This objective and the strategies necessary to attain it have a fundamental relationship to and form an intrinsic part of the lifestyle necessary to sustain the race while on its journey of spiritual growth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first strategy calls for promoting a toxic free environment. Toxic describes every facet of the Western world. The pollution of the air, water, food, and thinking has created toxic conditions in every form of life on the planet. Pesticide and herbicide residue can be found in the glands of all mammals and especially man. Respiratory ailments have risen appreciably as have chronic diseases, all of which are symptoms of toxemia caused by pollution of one sort or another. The pollution of the environment at ever-increasing rates and in a variety of ways has cause an increased incidence of old diseases and the development of new diseases.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Men now develop prostate issues in their 30’s, and heart conditions in their 40’s; diseases once identified with old age. Alzheimer’s disease has begun to affect people as young as 60 years of age. Female disorders such as breast and cervical cancer, thyroid malfunction, yeast infections, and depression now approach epidemic proportions. Hearing disorders among young adults have increased exponentially as a result of the noise pollution caused by the use of various electronic sound transmitters. Increasing numbers of children have diabetes. All of these ailments are manifestations of toxicity caused by mass pollution of the environment. Promoting a toxic free environment will serve as a step to a more healthful society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The second strategy calls for supporting organic farming, which to some degree represents an extension of the first strategy. Organic farms do not use chemical fertilizers and pesticides that pollute the land and rivers. They also grow food with a high nutritional content and energy levels relatively free of unnatural impurities. One reason for the advanced age of people now in their 70’s to 90’s stems from the fact that all the food eaten in their formative years was organic and pollution free. Those who have diabetes in their teens, respiratory ailments in their 20’s, prostate issues in their 30’s, and heart conditions in their 40’s will not see advanced age. We are rapidly developing into a society in which parents outlive their children. Organically grown foods would cut down on the toxicity in people’s bodies and contribute to a more healthful life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The third strategy calls for promoting vegetarianism. Close to 10 million Americans adhere to a vegetarian diet. No longer considered a fad, vegetarianism has a growing following in America and in some European countries. Many reasons account for this trend including improved health, higher nutritional yield per acre of farming, less pollution, and compassion for animals. There is another advantage to not eating animal products. Most meat and poultry comes from animals raised in extremely confining and unsanitary conditions that cause nervousness, anxiety, and suffering. Humans ingest the negative vibrations that dwell within these animals when they eat their flesh. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is not necessary to be a vegetarian to function in a positive manner but it is a goal towards which we are evolving. As a person rids himself of various toxins such as caffeine, smoking, and alcohol he feels better and acts better. He has no desire to return to his former habits and their debilitating effects. So it is with the removal of every negative sheath of behavior as we advance through life. There is nothing to argue about. When you are ready for the next step take it, until then live in accordance with your values, but be open to change.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The last strategy calls for the promotion of holistic health, a term that has various connotations and interpretations in our society. Some prefer the term alternative healing. Whatever the term or definition, humankind has taken care of itself and survived in good health long before the arrival of Western thought and the AMA. It did so with methods of healing that used the energy of the universe along with various poultices and herbal ministrations. Western medicine’s materialistic orientation can only deal with effects. It does not realize that behind every effect there is a cause and if that cause is removed the effect will disappear as well. The major cause of our illnesses comes from not adhering to the first three strategies of Objective IV of our mission statement. The fourth strategy deals with the malfunction that occurs in the human body from time to time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please note that the four strategies are not “new age” concepts, but practices prophets and spiritual leaders have promoted since antiquity. In the book of Genesis we are told that the fruit of the bush that bears seed, and the fruit of the tree that bears seed were made for man to eat. That’s vegetarianism. Jesus healed the sick and taught his disciples to do likewise. That’s holistic healing. Jeremiah made clear that God provided all that we need and Paul informed us that there is no single thing that we have not received. We cannot improve upon what God has made. That’s a basis for a toxic free environment and organic farming.    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God created a perfect universe. Our challenge is not to improve upon what God has created but to learn how to live within that creation. Doing so is living naturally. That’s the mission statement of Men’s Action: foster a natural way of life for humankind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have written frequently that the purpose of the masculine gender is to provide the environment and means for the feminine gender to bring forth life and nurture it. Objective IV serves as one of the steps in attaining that goal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In order to change society we must first change the way we think as individuals. The way we live expresses our thoughts and motivates others to change. We must be examples of our beliefs as best we can, and by doing so we will be on our way to changing this materialistic society into one that is in harmony with the universe. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-5648601170431353410?l=www.mensaction.net%2Fblog%2Findex.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/5648601170431353410'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/5648601170431353410'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensaction.net/blog/2009/11/closer-look-at-our-mission-statement.html' title='A CLOSER LOOK AT OUR MISSION STATEMENT'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16731342605296678483'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-2613741642015771896</id><published>2009-11-10T17:49:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-10T17:50:43.336-08:00</updated><title type='text'>THE LACK OF NURTURING IN WESTERN SOCIETY</title><content type='html'>I have repeatedly stated that the purpose of the masculine gender is to provide the environment and means for the feminine gender to bring forth life and nurture it. Western society rarely uses the term nurture. Instead, it uses the term care and refers to those in need of it as children, aged, indigent, homeless, poor, under-privileged, hungry, uneducated, sick, infirm, orphaned, handicapped, and jobless.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The “care” expressed for others in Western society focuses on the need to sustain them physically. Requests for care for the needy can be heard in the rhetoric of those in the pulpit, in politics, and in various humanitarian and community organizations. The solution recommended by all of them requires contact with the appropriate institution that has the facilities and structure to provide for the specific needs of those requiring help.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The institution-oriented nature of Western thought has made the institutionalized care of humans a cultural export. Day care centers, orphanages, old age homes, mental asylums, homes for unwed mothers, and homeless centers are all of Western origin.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The institutions that have the most complete range of services including provisions for food, shelter, recreational facilities, medical care, vocational opportunities, and educational facilities are prisons; however, prisoners do not seem to be particularly happy. On the other hand, people on the outside of the prisons do not seem to be happy either. Depression is running rampant for people inside the cages and outside of them. Could the reason be that the institutionalized care of people is inhuman and unnatural? Could it be that institutionalization—which is a prison mentality—does not make for happy people?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The gross materialism of Western thought has reduced human needs to material considerations even though the great Master has stated clearly that man does not live by bread alone. Nurturing can only begin when society understands that truism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is the difference between walking in the doorway of your home or the entrance to a prison cell? The prison might have more material facilities than the home. Is it freedom? Then what is the difference between walking into your home or your barracks on the army post or your cabin aboard a naval vessel? Army posts and naval vessels offer all sorts of amenities free or at low cost that are not normally found in the home or in small communities. Prisons, army posts, naval vessels, universities, and institutions provide for material needs and desires, sometimes better than the home does, but still we all yearn to be in the home. What draws a person to his or her home?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The home contains special attention transmitted by a loving wife and dedicated mother to all within her jurisdiction. She transmutes spiritual love into physical expression. She infuses all her actions and activities with unconditional love. When she cooks she adds an ingredient to all her food not found in stores; it’s called love. When she prepares a meal she envisions the effect it will have upon those whom she loves. When she does the laundry she adds love to every fold. When she makes the beds she tucks the sheets with love. This special attention is called nurturing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Women who dedicate their lives to nurturing tend to be very happy, and free of severe emotional issues. They exude love and in turn they are filled with divine love. They create a loving aura in their homes that draws members of the family to it. The warm and caring environment of the home affects all who reside there and helps them to live a more relaxed, productive, and caring life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The nurturing woman needs a safe and secure environment in which to function; mother’s milk can only flow freely when she is safe and secure. Family provides a secure environment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately mother no longer has a safe and secure environment in which to function. Government has eliminated the authority of the natural provider of a safe environment—man. Women now are “independent” and on their own. They can work, vote, own property and provide for themselves. The children whom they once nurtured have been turned over to the state for “care,” not nurturing. Her children live in an institutionalized environment for most of their childhood and are conditioned for further institutionalization upon adulthood.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These conditions make for unhappy women with the result that their primary health condition is debilitating depression. The children raised in institutionalized care aren’t doing well either. America now has the most violent boys in the world, which makes them prime candidates for penal institutions, where close to three million men now live. Three million girls now suffer from depression and close to one million grade school boys take Ritalin on a prescribed basis. The World Health Organization announced that the number one health issue of England, the United States and Canada is mental illness. The institutionalized non-nurtured world of Western society isn’t functioning very well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is only one species of human life designed for nurturing; it’s called woman.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only natural institution for a woman to live in is called family. Men make families. Men with authority commensurate with their responsibilities make families. Male authority derives from the natural patriarchal structure of the universe. No patriarchy—no real men. No real men—no families. No families—no nurturing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If we want to change the conditions of our society we must change the thinking that caused them. To treat the differences in gender as similars is an aberration of nature that inhibits both genders from functioning as they were designed to do. Men must take the initiative and rebuild society along patriarchal lines. Any structure other than patriarchy ultimately results in strong governments that institutionalize the care of people, which dehumanizes them and enslaves them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are you ready to take the steps that will provide the environment necessary for women to nurture the race? If so, then let me hear from you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-2613741642015771896?l=www.mensaction.net%2Fblog%2Findex.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/2613741642015771896'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/2613741642015771896'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensaction.net/blog/2009/11/lack-of-nurturing-in-western-society.html' title='THE LACK OF NURTURING IN WESTERN SOCIETY'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16731342605296678483'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-3517322589307709490</id><published>2009-10-15T12:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-15T12:48:04.505-07:00</updated><title type='text'>IGNORANCE WHEN EMPOWERED BECOMES EVIL</title><content type='html'>Everybody knows something but nobody knows every thing. The purpose of earthly existence is to learn and grow. To assist in this process prophets serve as teachers to help replace ignorance with knowledge Enlightened masters travel about his world teaching and training but not judging. They emit love as they go about providing enlightenment. The scriptures instruct us to not judge so that we in turn will not be judged. People don’t like to be reminded of what they are doing wrong, they respond more favorably when they are instructed in how to do right. We are all in the big classroom of life and learning at our own pace; however, when there is a collective ignorance that becomes empowered and then imposes its will upon others then ignorance becomes evil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Collective Western thought has resulted in empowered ignorance. It does not understand the purpose of gender differences or the concept of patriarchy, and it is imposing this ignorance upon the people, resulting in the mutation of the race. This empowered ignorance is evil; a very deep evil. I have become more aware of the magnitude of this evil the past couple of weeks as a result of two activities. The first has to do with the correspondence I receive from those who have chosen to use the legal system to redress gender issues in family court. Whether in California, Colorado, or New Zealand the relationship between men and women is worsening dramatically. The adversarial positions are deepening. Men and women look upon each other as the enemy. The natural relationship of gender consists of working together towards a common goal. Never before in history has there been such a corruption in gender relationships. Empowered ignorance perpetuates these conditions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The second activity that has honed my awareness of this evil is the video series I am making titled The Natural Woman in which I show the effects of the body, mind and psyche of women of Western thought and its environment. We are already up to part 4 of the series and I ask that you all view these videos. Women’s bodies are mutating—they are getting broader at the shoulders, narrower in the hips, their breasts are getting smaller and they bodies are becoming hardened. This is an unnatural design and not one conducive to bearing and raising children. It has come about by the gross ignorance of Western thought, which empowered is creating a great evil upon the race.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These physical mutations are but surface manifestation of the mutation of the female body. The common age at which menarche (a woman’s first period) occurs is when a human female is about 12 years old. Among women gymnasts the age more commonly occurs at 14 and 15 and sometimes as late as 17. A woman’s body begins producing estrogen at menarche in order to provide for the various changes that are bringing her into womanhood and preparing the body for pregnancy. The bodies of these teenage athletes are not developing properly and they are more prone to suffer from osteoporosis at a younger age. This condition exists among figure skaters as well. Did you ever see a gymnast, figure skater, or swimmer with big teats? Why not? Their bodies have mutated; they have been inhibited from developing along natural lines. Instead of big teats they all have broad shoulders. Have you ever noticed the common wearing of bandages and supports by young female gymnasts? Their bodies are being stressed to the breaking point.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course these conditions do not disturb the Western mind, which supports genetic engineering. If Western thought believes it can design a better apple than God did then designing a better female body than God did is not that big a leap. The gross ignorance of this materialistic thinking has produced an evil of such magnitude that it has not yet registered on the collective consciousness of the populace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These physical mutations occurring in the female body accompany mental mutations as well. Since they have bodies no longer compatible with nurturing they are less inclined to nurture. They dump their children into pre-school programs when they are still in diapers. They not only have no remorse about not nurturing their children, they brag about how early they placed their children in these programs. The state has taken over the “care” of children (it can never nurture them) while their mothers get hooked up to the treadmill of production under the guise of self-development. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Poorly nurtured children also mutate. America now has the most violent boys in the world. Three million girls now suffer from depression. Ten million women suffer from debilitating depression. The race is mutating and going mad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I believe that it was to address this collective ignorance and the evil it produced that enlightened personages chastised the people. Jesus said of John the Baptist “There has never appeared anyone greater than he.” Yet John called the people hypocrites and snakes. Why these words of judgment from a man who belonged to the mystical and peaceful order of Essenes that foretold of the coming of the Master? Why did the loving God have Ezekiel, Isaiah, and Jeremiah wander about Israel chastising the people for their unnatural behavior? I think it was to wake the people up from their empowered ignorance and to show them the evil that it created. The Koran also speaks of the evil of empowered ignorance. It states, “God’s curse is on the wrongdoers, those who debar others from the path of God and seek to make it crooked.” Paul said, “The greatest sinner of all is he who makes another sin.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The most ignorant act of Western thought occurred when Western man willing turned over to the State his natural authority and responsibility for the well-being of women and children.  When historians, anthropologists, and archaeologists review Western society they will be astounded at the depth of such ignorance. Once Western man turned over to government his God given authority and responsibility he created in the government a great evil that destroyed the family, eliminated liberty and mutated the race.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can a man who reads this essay and understands it sit back and do nothing? Can he live in the middle of the mutation of the species and ignore it? I hope not. The making of change will require a change in thinking. Men must be reborn into a more spiritual and less material way of thinking. I hope that you are one that can no longer sit by and watch the mutation and deterioration of the species. You know where we are. The rest is up to you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the bottom of this essay there is a link, which I ask that you look at. It is an essay titled Should Women Play Sports. It was written from the Christian perspective, but I feel the reasoning in it is valid in any religion. Take a good look at the expressions of the women as they compete with one another. Do you think they can naturally nurture the race?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Womens Page/masculine_women.htm" href="http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Womens%20Page/masculine_women.htm"&gt;http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Womens%20Page/masculine_women.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; E.G.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.S. Don’t for get to review the videos The Natural Woman on our website. E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-3517322589307709490?l=www.mensaction.net%2Fblog%2Findex.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/3517322589307709490'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/3517322589307709490'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensaction.net/blog/2009/10/ignorance-when-empowered-becomes-evil.html' title='IGNORANCE WHEN EMPOWERED BECOMES EVIL'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16731342605296678483'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-9220214736106397453</id><published>2009-09-17T18:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-17T18:24:56.730-07:00</updated><title type='text'>NEWSWEEK – THERE ARE NO SEX DIFFERENCES</title><content type='html'>The September 14, 2009 issue of Newsweek contains an article by its Science Editor Sharon Begley titled, Pink Brain, Blue Brain—Claims of sex differences fall apart, which she bases on the information contained in a book written by Lise Elliot titled, Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow Into Troublesome Gaps—And What We can Do About it. The troublesome gap according to the article is believing that there are differences between men and women. You heard right. These two women want to assure us that sex differences are socialized and that there really isn’t any difference between those who have penises and those who have wombs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How does one respond to such a preposterous assertion?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To respond to it gives it credence. Her article did not contain one conceptual viewpoint. That alone would indicate the difference between male and female thinking. Instead of conceptual thought the book relied on 46 pages of bibliography and apparently a mountain of empirical data. I’m not going into a challenge of the article, but I’m confident that one day when historians review the collapse of Western society they will consider it to be a natural consequence of a people who did not know the difference between those who have testis and those who have teats.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will, however, address two areas of activity related to that article. Firstly, two well-educated scientifically oriented women in a major international news magazine bring us this supposedly enlightening news, not some radical feminist writer published in an avant-garde publication. Do you think that the publishers and moneyed interests that control Newsweek really believe that gender differences are socialized? This article reminds me of the one written by Jodie T. Allen that appeared in the June 23, 2003 edition of U.S. News &amp;amp; World Report titled Are Men Obsolete? Do you think that Mort Zuckerman, the powerful billionaire and owner of U.S. News, and the owners of Newsweek, Time, et al, really doesn’t know the difference between men and women?  If so, why do all the major media carry advertisements drenched with sexual motivation?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ads directed at women appeal to the “ME” aspect of their personalities. By going to a certain store or subscribing to a specific service a woman will become more fulfilled, desirable, and important. In the case of men the sex in advertising is more blatant; the promise of sexual fulfillment sells automobiles, cell phones, and nutritional supplements. If those who control the media believe in a genderless society how come they spend so much money to motivate the sexes?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s done for financial gain and societal control. The suppression of male authority and feminine nurturing has led to the dissolution of the family and the control of society by the government. Those that support the government and control it, reap fat profits from sexual exploitation through advertising.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The second area of activity that I will address deals with the mutation of the race. We learned recently that the South African woman runner of recent acclaim is really a hermaphrodite. While hermaphrodites have existed since the beginning of time the mass and self-imposed mutation of the human species is a recent phenomena—if it weren’t recent we wouldn’t be here. The toxic air, water and food that we ingest accounts for a large part of the mutations developing in the race; however, the genderless philosophy and the resultant activities that it encourages lead to mutations of the body, mind, and psyche.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Women are getting broader shoulders, narrower hips, smaller busts, and more sinuous flesh. This is contrary to the way they have been designed, which was to have wider hips than shoulders, large busts, and soft flesh in order to bring forth life and nurture the race. These mutations are affecting women’s ability and desire to propagate the species. Since these mutations are not natural the response on women has been an incidence of depression and female disorders that is beyond epidemic proportions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What then are the women to do? What can they do? They are responsive, adaptable, accommodating and passive. The ethical standards that men established for their well-being have been removed and the family structure necessary to their secure functioning has been destroyed. Women are responding to the media and the government, there is nothing else for them to respond to—men have been emasculated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In order to better the lot of women their environment must be changed and only men can do it; however, the majority of men have been neutered. This leaves women and society in a quandary. What women can do is pray that the divine power will motivate Real Men to rise up and start to assume their responsibilities, obligations, and considerations to the race. The men are going to have to be reborn. They must come to the realization that providing the environment and means for women to nurture the race is their paramount concern.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is time to stop the whining and take action especially among the Men’s Rights Organizations and conservatives. Its time to change the focus from attacking women and defending the system, to caring for women and attacking the system that created this genderless society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In keeping with that objective I am launching a video series on youtube titled The Natural Woman, which will discuss the environment conducive for the well-being of women and the negative surroundings into which they have been manipulated and how it affects them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To successfully bring this message to the public requires your participation. If you have not yet subscribed to our website please do so now. It only takes 30 seconds and can be done by clicking on the subscribe button just under my picture on the home page. Next subscribe to my videos on youtube.com. You can find these videos listed under, mensaction, patriarchy, and Elder George. Spread the word to your friends and acquaintances to watch and subscribe to these videos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I thank you for your participation and trust you will enjoy the first &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTwL45YNFRA"&gt;video.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-9220214736106397453?l=www.mensaction.net%2Fblog%2Findex.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/9220214736106397453'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/9220214736106397453'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensaction.net/blog/2009/09/newsweek-there-are-no-sex-differences.html' title='NEWSWEEK – THERE ARE NO SEX DIFFERENCES'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16731342605296678483'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-5383320399566169725</id><published>2009-09-10T06:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-10T06:48:58.267-07:00</updated><title type='text'>THE WRONG TRIP</title><content type='html'>At a subway station in downtown Manhattan a man handed me a religious tract titled The Long Trip. The small 12-page tract contained a cartoon story illustrating the life experiences of a man named John from birth until death. He gets married, has a couple of kids and becomes deeply enmeshed in the “rat race” of modern life. They pass a man holding up a sign The Good News and his wife says “Hold it John, We need some good news.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I interrupt the description to point out that the person who recognizes the need for change is not John, the man, husband and father, but the woman, wife, and mother. Getting back to the story in the tract, the man holding the sign explains there is only one way to heaven, and that is the narrow path…and Jesus is that way. The wife and children choose the way but John hesitates. His wife calls to him, “Come on, John.” The children say, “Aren’t you coming daddy?” Daddy says, I’m not ready for this, I’ll think about it.” The story ends with the wife and two children saved and John going to hell.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The religious tract skillfully promoted the modern philosophy extolled by all communications media and advertising—men are buffoons and women know best. Think of how this message resonates with unwed mothers who now comprise 40% of American motherhood and close to 50% of European motherhood. They already believe that children don’t need a masculine presence in the home and this tract adds religious reinforcement to that thinking. I wrote the minister of the church that distributed that tract and suggested a more appropriate title would be The Wrong Trip.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This tract illustrates the results of Western feminine and materialistic thought. The feminine psyche requires direction from outside of itself—that viewpoint is rarely challenged. The point of contention is where that direction should come from, an example being The famous Virginia Slims advertising “You’ve come a long way baby,” which implies that smoking expresses freedom from the domination of husbands and fathers. Female smoking eventually increased the incidence of long cancer in women, which resulted in the starting of a decades-long campaign against the cigarette companies and the establishing of various laws limiting or prohibiting smoking. For the government to ban smoking at a cost of billions of dollars is called freedom but for husbands—at no charge—to prohibit the mothers of their children from smoking is called female suppression. Tragically this viewpoint has received public acceptance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;European thought will always look outside of itself for solutions to its problems; therefore, it will always create institutions to deal with them. It gives these institutions complete power and eventually becomes enslaved by the very institutions that it created. Western thought has created all forms of government and all of them result in the enslavement of people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the natural patriarchal order the female attempts to mate with the strongest, most courageous, and devoted male who will provide the secure environment that will enable her to bring forth life and nurture it. The duty of the male—its paramount purpose—is to provide that environment and the means for the nurturing of the race. Western thought has turned that function over to the state with the result being disempowerment of the male, destruction of the family, loss of protection for women, and neglect of children. I have addressed these issues in other essays, and will maintain the focus of this essay on the spiritual basis of patriarchy and the Western penchant for creating institutions—including religious institutions—that destroy the family and enslave the masses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Biblical allegory of Eve being born of Adam’s rib illustrates that all things and all movement come from the masculine principle, there is no place else for anything to come from. Also, have you ever wondered why the serpent spoke only to Eve? She represented the receptive feminine entity. With the protective influence of Adam not present the serpent said, “Eve baby, I have a deal for you,” and seduced her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many centuries later when the Magi saw a sign in the heavens that a master was coming, they got on their camels and rode to Judea where they inquired as to who was born about that time. When Herod heard about this he had all the male children that had been born in the two-year period up to the time of the arrival of the Magi killed. There was no doubt in Herod’s mind that the Master would be a man, and he knew as the serpent did, that without the opposition of the male he could do as he pleased.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Revelations contains the story of a woman pregnant with a male child and Satan in the form of a dragon waiting to devour it. The dragon knew that with the male child and its seed out of the way, there could be nothing to oppose him. Upon its birth the male child is snapped up and brought to heaven while its mother takes refuge in the wilderness as the fight between good and evil commences. The issue between good and evil or any other aspect of control entails the necessity of isolating the masculine influence and neutering it. There is no other assertive influence in the physical universe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Paul  states “The man is not of the woman but the woman of the man.” This truism is also contained in the Koran, which states “He created you from a single being, then from that single being He created its mate.” Both of these statements are in accord with recent scientific findings that only the male contains the Y chromosome, therefore the male cannot come from the female. The motivating force of the physical universe can only come from itself, there is no place else to come from. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the first book of the Bible to the last book and many places in between we find examples of the principle of gender and the patriarchal structure. What accounts for the clergy not understanding this truth?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The clergy, like their non-clerical brothers, confine themselves to feminine materialistic thought, which looks outside of itself instead of inside of itself, contrary to Jesus’ teachings. He said, “My kingdom is not of the world.” He further stated, “The kingdom of God is not in one place or another, the kingdom of God is within.” Those statements were not understood 2,000 years ago nor do they receive better understanding today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To the 99% of the readers of this article who are of European ancestry please recognize that your personal, family, vocational, professional, and societal lives will not reach contentment until there is a realization of the inner being. It is this inner being that controls the outer world. To expect the outer world to make the inner being content is to court disaster.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western thought by continually seeking to improve its lot by changing the outer world creates institutions that enslave it. The elder President Bush actively promotes the New World Order as an international government of law. Laws enslave people. The more people are in tune with the spirit the fewer laws they need. Jesus did not add laws. He gave the great universal law—love thy neighbor as thyself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Through spiritual understanding people come to the realization that they have responsibilities, obligations, and considerations to give to human kind. The more these traits are practiced the fewer laws are required.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Getting back to the tract that opened this essay, by debasing and neutering the authority of the male the woman and children had to go to another authority for their survival—the church. By debasing and neutering the authority of the male society has to go to another authority for its survival—the government. Government and church are the two institutions Western man has had to wrestle with since the beginning of European society 2,500 years ago. They are institutions of his creation to which he continually gives unlimited authority through law and then finds himself fighting to free himself of their clutches.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By realizing the power within—by being reborn—man will no longer put his dependency on institutions. Instead he will realize the spiritual power within that enables him to control the world without. He will realize that it is spirit that controls the material world and not the reverse. He will come to the realization of his manly responsibility to provide the environment and the means for women to bring forth life and nurture it. The structure that enables him to do that is called patriarchy; it is based on love and understanding and does not require law for its functioning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-5383320399566169725?l=www.mensaction.net%2Fblog%2Findex.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/5383320399566169725'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/5383320399566169725'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensaction.net/blog/2009/09/wrong-trip.html' title='THE WRONG TRIP'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16731342605296678483'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-9178796724983821049</id><published>2009-08-29T16:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-29T16:33:14.123-07:00</updated><title type='text'>THE KENNEDY LEGACY</title><content type='html'>The passing of Ted Kennedy will elicit commentary from all the media regardless of their political persuasion for he lived in the public eye in many ways and for a long time. I am offering here my views as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a human being he is my brother and whatever shortcomings he may have had they represented the karma that he had to work out on his journey of spiritual unfoldment. All men and women have their imperfections yet receive God’s love. They are worthy of the love of their fellow man as well. No one wants to be remembered for his failings. I wish Ted Kennedy well wherever he is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Having said that, I feel that a person of prominence in society needs to be held to a higher standard than the ordinary citizen. He is remembered not as a person but for the position of prominence he held. During World War II General Eisenhower had an affair with his secretary when he was stationed in England as the head of the European Theater of Operations. He decided he would divorce Mamie and marry his secretary. When he told General Marshal of his plans his response was, “You’re a general; generals don’t get divorced.” That was the end of the matter. Ike and Mamie stayed married until death did them part. Positions of prominence had standards of conduct and living that accompanied them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Senator Kennedy had more than a position of prominence; he was an elected official. People who run for office ask to be judged; it’s the basis of their being elected. Some will say that elected officials should be judged on the issues and not on personal matters. Issues focus on material accomplishment in one way or another whereas personal matters reflect character and morals derived from ethics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Material considerations have come to matter most in our country. Richard L. Block, the last Chairman of Inland Steel Corp stated in a magazine article that corporations over-emphasize the importance of personal integrity in the hiring of executives. He indicated that companies can be insured to cover embezzlement but they can’t get insurance on incompetence. I guess the boys at Enron took Block’s message to heart. Inland Steel isn’t around anymore either. Nevertheless, the post World War II thinking of focusing on material accomplishment in lieu of moral behavior took root and flourished. The Kennedys—and Ted Kennedy in particular—personified this thinking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Harvard University expelled Ted Kennedy for cheating on an exam. He had a friend take a test in Spanish in his name. Harvard later reinstated Ted probably in part because of the power represented by the immense wealth of Joe Kennedy. When each of his children reached adulthood they were given an annual “allowance” of 10 million dollars; even for rich people that was a lot of money 50 years ago&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aside from the blemish on his record caused by being caught cheating, and the negative comparisons to his over-achieving brothers, Ted Kennedy was an active collegian participating in sports and in various extra curricular matters. He played a big part in the campaign to get his brother John elected president and was a worthy campaigner and won handily when he ran for the Senate. However, matters of morals and ethics would plague him all of his life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Mary Jo Kopechne tragedy resulted in a suspension of his driver’s license. If that incident had happened to the average person there would have been a jury trail. Again the Kennedy fortune came to the rescue and quashed any legal activity against him in addition to making a multi-million dollar settlement with Mary Jo’s parents.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Frequently such incidents can awaken in a man the realization of the error of his ways and cause him to start life anew. This did not happen to Ted Kennedy, whose womanizing continued unabated and whose drinking bordered on alcoholism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His sexual conduct represented the norm of the Kennedys. President Jack had two women on the government payroll whose primary purpose was to satisfy his sexual desires. He shocked Prime Minister Macmillan of England at a meeting by saying “Unless I get it every day I get a headache.” It was no secret that President Jack and his brother Robert both had trysts with Marilyn Monroe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Marital fidelity did not exist in the Kennedy compound. Nor did ethics. The Kennedys represented a new era in American thought; it focused on materiality and self-indulgence. It symbolized a disregard for convention, tradition, and the social mores necessary to maintain the moral standards of society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Kennedy power and influence set the stage for Great Society Legislation, which Ted Kennedy strongly supported. The sum total of the effects of the legislation of the past 50 years has been a worsening in the conditions that it was designed to improve.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will briefly address two pieces of such legislation. The first, called Civil Rights Legislation was ostensibly designed to give African-Americans an equal playing field in the attainment of the rewards of the American way of life. By including women’s rights in this legislation it served as a means of emasculating the male and increasing government power.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After 400 years of slavery and segregation the unwed motherhood rate of African-Americans reached 25%, a remarkably low figure and a testament to the inherent extended family culture in their society. After only 40 years of Great Society legislation the rate of unwed motherhood reached 70% and in some pockets such as Harlem it reached 90%. Harlem serves as an example of the de facto matriarchy that results from the emasculation of the male. Nothing happens in Harlem without government intervention either overtly or covertly; a condition that cannot be considered progress for the African-American.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The second piece of legislation, known as Title IX calls for equal opportunity in education regardless of gender differences. The interpretation of this law considered males and females to be identical, a viewpoint contrary to even a rudimentary understanding of the purpose and function of gender. Boys and girls and men and women were put in the same classrooms and given the same instruction, which resulted in a drop in academic performance, unprecedented sexual activity, and an explosion in the rate of teenage pregnancies and unwed motherhood at all age levels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every societal problem that existed at the beginning of the Kennedy era has gotten worse. Every one! The absence of ethics causes degeneracy; it cannot be otherwise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ethics comes from men—those men who understand their purpose of propagating and preserving the species on its infinite spiritual journey. There is no other place for ethics to come from. The government, its money, power and laws cannot provide a viable substitute for ethics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the 50 years since the beginning of the Kennedy era the Kennedys and their contemporaries have not changed with the exception that they now own more of America. They still live the same materialistic immoral lifestyle. America has changed. Its moral fiber has been destroyed and it now lives the same debaucherous lifestyle popularized by the Kennedys.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This lifestyle has among other things created a national loneliness. Allowing that some men feel the inherent desire to make multiple matings with the herd, the overwhelming reason for womanizing stems from the loneliness caused by an inadequate home life during childhood. Whether in the compound at Hyannisport or in the inner city ghettos, money and power cannot provide the love that all humans require to function properly. Ted Kennedy was a lonely man. He did not know love, nor did his brothers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Kennedy era represented lonely men and confused women, which created a national angst that no amount of materialistic manipulation could remedy. The Kennedys did not create this era; they were symptoms of it. They represented the sum total of the collective consciousness of America. The passing of the Kennedy era is the passing of that consciousness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A new consciousness is developing in America and in the Western world, which will become manifest in the next decade. It will understand that the natural patriarchal structure enables men to provide the environment and means for women to being forth life and nurture it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-9178796724983821049?l=www.mensaction.net%2Fblog%2Findex.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/9178796724983821049'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/9178796724983821049'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensaction.net/blog/2009/08/kennedy-legacy.html' title='THE KENNEDY LEGACY'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16731342605296678483'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-8328299066923010640</id><published>2009-08-17T10:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-17T10:32:17.028-07:00</updated><title type='text'>THE HUMAN JACKASS ERA</title><content type='html'>American history, like all history is punctuated with eras signifying personalities, ideas, and practices that define the times. It has had the Reagan era and the Johnson era, the Clipper ship era and the Railroad era. It also had the era of the Horse Soldier, which made possible the conquest of the plains Indians and added to the lore of their famous Chiefs. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America and the entire Western world has moved into the Human Jackass era.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A jackass is usually kept in a barn overnight and in the morning the farmer brings it hay to eat before commencing the day’s work. The farmer provides the on the job training for the jackass, which tends to learn rapidly and becomes a reliable worker, often without use of a tether. If the animal is injured or sick the farmer provides for its healing and when necessary will call upon the services of a veterinary. The jackass normally does not mate unless the farmer brings in a she-ass for that purpose. After mating the farmer decides what to do with the offspring. Life is fairly simple for the jackass; the farmer provides for its every need—as long as it works.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western man now lives the life of a jackass. He has been stripped of all his natural male authority, which has resulted in the demise of the family and reduced his function to that of doing the work that some higher authority dictates. He receives medical care in a form and degree dictated by the government. The state provides for his education, which in one way or another consists of vocational training. When he does mate the state takes over the care and training of his child.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western woman, once revered for being a devoted wife and nurturing mother has been stripped of her prestigious position due to the elimination of the family. What is she to do? The government has told her not to worry that she has a right to do the same work as the men, and as verification of this right she will be given diplomas, licenses, and college degrees all of which serve as she-ass certificates that will enable her to do work similar to that of men. She-asses now toil on the treadmill of production as equals to the jackasses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are many people who like this beast of burden arrangement. They clamor for universal healthcare so that they will no longer have the responsibility of taking care of their bodies; they clamor for aid to education so that they will not have to prepare for their future; and they clamor for surveillance cameras and security police in an attempt to develop the safe environment once provided by men. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many she-asses are content to have the state feed, educate, and provide healthcare for their offspring, which gives it the opportunity to indoctrinate them and thus proliferate the number of people who accept the jackass way of living. By the time state-reared children reach adulthood they look upon government as the source of all things and are quite content to become beasts of burden and let the state provide for all their necessities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The human jackasses, not having families to care for them must rely upon government care when they can no longer pull their loads. Government provides retirement plans of various sorts and social security to help the aged, but eventually the effectiveness of these plans diminishes due to the erosive effect of government created inflation. No longer able to sustain themselves the aged are put in government housing and fed canned and packaged meals that have very little life-force in them. The aged develop reactions to the poor quality of nutrition, which the government treats with medicinal drugs. Eventually these aged bodies can no longer cope with the toxemia of poor diet and pharmaceutical products and they develop “incurable” illnesses attributed to their age. Since families have been eliminated, the government makes the life and death decisions for the aged.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The jackass era has no culture for it was stripped of any traditional practices relating to the propagation and preservation of the species as part of its training for the workplace. Entertainment has become strictly sensation in one form of licentiousness and debauchery or another. These escape mechanisms provide only short-term relief from the boredom and un-natural life of being a jackass or she-ass. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All is not well in the human jackass community. Ten percent of the she-asses in America and 15% of those in Europe suffer from debilitating depression They are slowly learning that the government is not a good substitute man and/or husband. Mental illness has become the number one health issue in the English-speaking world. Some jackasses have begun to chafe in their stalls as they become increasingly dissatisfied with their un-natural environment.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eventually the more enlightened of the jackasses will look into the mirror and see that they created their environment by buying into the materialism of Western thought. The indwelling spirit causes a realization in each one that life consists of more than the acquisition of things. It awakens him to the higher purpose of spiritual growth and the importance of the propagation and preservation of the species. He comes to the realization that to consider those with testis and those with teats as being the same reflects asinine thinking and it was only natural that he began to live the life of the jackass as a consequence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Realizing his responsibility for his present situation he becomes aware that he also has the power to alter it by changing his thinking and having the courage to live out those changes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some believe a new spiritual era will be ushered in by divine intervention. Such thought—the expectation that some other force will take care of things—is part of the passive feminine thinking that led to the jackass era and the institutionalization of human beings. The universe is designed to operate in a certain manner. What is in harmony with the universe endures, what isn’t doesn’t. The society created by Western thought is an aberration and is imploding. When it collapses the “opportunity” will be there for men of courage and spiritual insight to start rebuilding a more natural society. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Change begins with the individual and societal change requires the cooperation of others. Like-minded men working together will break free of jackass thinking. They will unhook women from the treadmill of production and return them to an environment focused on the family that will permit them to fulfill their natural purpose of bringing life into the world and nurturing it. These few men will be known as the rebuilders and in the words of Isaiah they will rebuild on the old foundations. They will realize that the propagation and preservation of the species is the highest material calling on the journey of spiritual unfoldment and that patriarchy provides the structure that enables the establishment and support of the extended family.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The time is at hand for those men and women of insight and courage to rid themselves of the jackass mentality, get off the treadmill of production, and start living the lives that they were ordained to live. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is time to spread the word of another way of life, which can be done by sending this essay to newspapers, magazines and various organizations that have an interest in family and personal accountability. You can invest in the various information materials offered by Men’s Action and distribute them to friends, family, and associates. You can subscribe to the Men’s Action website and to its videos on youtube. No one is going to make the change for you. You and like-minded people working together can provide the change that all of humankind is thirsting for. Now is the time to start.       &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-8328299066923010640?l=www.mensaction.net%2Fblog%2Findex.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/8328299066923010640'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/8328299066923010640'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensaction.net/blog/2009/08/human-jackass-era.html' title='THE HUMAN JACKASS ERA'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16731342605296678483'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-3166437560468734431</id><published>2009-08-09T19:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-09T19:49:31.549-07:00</updated><title type='text'>SARAH PALIN AND THE RULING ARISTOCRACY</title><content type='html'>My readers know that I steer clear of politics in my essays and that I do not believe in having women in governmental positions. You might then wonder why I again devote an Essay to Sarah Palin. The first essay appeared on September 24, 2008 under the title Why Sweat Palin, which I recommend that you review when you finish reading this essay.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All aspects of the media have exhibited a frenzy of activity since the announcement that Governor Sarah Palin would not finish her term in office. She has been the butt of jokes by television comedians, news analysts, talk-show hosts, columnists, and bloggers. This essay will address why this woman unheard of by 99% of Americans a year ago, has garnered such national attention, and its relevancy to the issues facing Western society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I watched the ceremony held in Fairbanks, Alaska on the day that Palin stepped down and a new governor was sworn in. It looked like a small local event, as one would expect to see held for den mothers of a cub-scout troop. It appeared that no more than 35 spectators attended.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The same week that I watched Sarah Palin give her farewell speech I also watched Ambassador Hillary Clinton interviewed on Meet the press. These two events clearly illustrated the stark differences between these two women, what and whom they represent, and more importantly how they are perceived.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hillary Clinton has advanced degrees from prestigious schools and as the former First Lady, then Senator, and now Secretary of State, has become a fixture in the elite Washington political establishment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sarah Palin on the other hand, went to a few small town colleges before graduating with a bachelor’s degree from the University of Idaho. She is in essence a “country girl” who did modestly well in business and politics in a rural state. As the Vice-presidential candidate she was on the losing end of the last election and she has stepped down from her governorship.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why then does the media devote so much time and space to her? Why do they debase her at every opportunity? Can she possibly be a threat to the existing power structure? Before answering that question let’s take a look at what constitutes the power structure of the United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A moneyed class of eastern educated people made up of Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, and nominal Christians and Jews comprise the ruling aristocracy of the United States. Some of the powerful names in this establishment are the Rockefellers, Kennedys, and Bushes. They visit one another, are friends and have many intimacies between them. These people constitute the eastern establishment and they rule America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In theory America is built upon a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people,” which represents the thinking of the Jeffersonian wing of the Founding Fathers of the Constitution; however, in fact we have the Hamiltonian government of “the rich well-born and able.” It is natural that the Hamiltonian practice should prevail for aristocratic structures are intrinsic to Western thought. Everywhere that Western thought has prevailed aristocracies have been established. Apartheid in Africa and segregation in America are two of the more blatant examples of the Western aristocratic nature. The Founding Fathers were aristocrats; they had contempt for Asians and Africans. They owned slaves and indentured servants.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The nature of aristocracies is that they create among themselves more aristocracies in order to become more exclusive. In America we have educational, legal, scientific, and medical aristocracies that answer to the ruling aristocracy of the eastern establishment. The nature of aristocracies is that they think they know what is best for the people outside of the aristocracies. Usually there is no one on the outside represented on the inside, and herein lies the appeal to Palin and the threat to the ruling establishment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sarah Palin speaks for simple folk, who believe in family, god, accountability and self-sufficiency. When have you last heard these values addressed politically? In the recent presidential campaigns neither party even mentioned family in their platforms; there wasn’t any mention of God either. Regarding accountability—we live in the era of the victim psyche—everyone is a victim of something and therefore not accountable for their actions. Regarding self-sufficiency, the ruling aristocracy does everything in its power to stifle that quality. It wants people to be on the dole so that they will become completely dependent upon the government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sarah Palin reflects the values of not only many Alaskans, but of those who live in the mountain states, and many of the rural areas of America. The Pennsylvania blue-collar worker who looks forward to hunting season; the shrimp boat operator on the Gulf coast; the dairy farmer in New York, and the citrus grower in Florida identify with the Palin message, as do the many middle-class wives and mothers all over America. In an article about Palin in Newsweek Roger Stone the consultant was quoted as saying of Palin, “Like Nixon, 20 percent of the country will be with her forever.” The ruling aristocracy shudders upon hearing those figures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The concern of the establishment is not that Palin has the potential to be another Nixon or the ability to rally the troops, groom herself for the presidency, or even revitalize the Republicans. The Republicans are not worth revitalizing. As said earlier, they are part of the ruling aristocracy. They controlled the presidency, and both houses of Congress and showed that they could outspend the Democrats and foster the greed, fraud, and general corruption of Wall Street. There is no viable organization that can pose a threat to those in power. The concern of the ruling aristocracy has to do with the potential discontent among the ruled that the tens of millions of people who identify with Palin’s message can create.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The entire Western world from the westernmost part of the Aleutians east to the Caucuses is tightening its grip on the populace and the people have begun to instinctively feel the noose of government control around their necks. This is especially true in the United States where Sarah Palin unknowingly is awakening the people to the encroaching evil. There are those who are against what this administration is doing, but they will not prevail. Being against something is never enough to bring about change. We are witnessing the final stages of the demise of Western society because of its feminine, materialistic, passive, and impotent thinking. Absolute government control is close at hand, and that will be followed by its demise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those who survive will one way or another come to the understanding that patriarchy is the natural way of life that will sustain their survival. Men’s Action provides the seeds that will enable the living of that life. You can take advantage of this information now and start living the way you were intended to instead of waiting until you are forced to, and then under very difficult circumstances.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The clock is running out my brothers and sisters, my sons and daughters. It’s time for you to act and get involved and support Men’s Action to Rebuild Society. Don’t wait until the aristocracy has got you in its vise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-3166437560468734431?l=www.mensaction.net%2Fblog%2Findex.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/3166437560468734431'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/3166437560468734431'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensaction.net/blog/2009/08/sarah-palin-and-ruling-aristocracy.html' title='SARAH PALIN AND THE RULING ARISTOCRACY'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16731342605296678483'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-3748221055086416588</id><published>2009-07-19T17:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-19T17:41:06.058-07:00</updated><title type='text'>THE DISEMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN</title><content type='html'>The term “empowerment of women” has permeated the media, politics and education of this nation. It is a term that derives from the complete ignorance of gender abilities and relationships. The words power and empower are relativities. A power hitter in baseball gets more extra bases per hit than the average player. A powerful speaker moves people to accept a message more easily than the other speakers. A powerful car has more horsepower than most cars. To empower someone is to give them power relative to others. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To empower women relative to men in manly attributes is an oxymoron. A woman can never be empowered vis-à-vis a man in manly things. Men on the other hand, can be disempowered by castrating them, neutering them, and emasculating them, which has been done by law and their own ignorance. The result has not seen any increase in power of women—they are not hitting a longer ball nor do they have more horsepower—what has happened is that men are no longer permitted to exercise their power and the result has been a complete disempowerment of women.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The way a woman can be empowered vis-à-vis a man is in non-manly areas. When men’s power was unrestricted they built families. They could not do this on their own because only women had the reproductive ability. Therefore, women were sought after and they became empowered because they could do something the men couldn’t; they could bring life into the world and nurture it. This is what Professor Steven Goldberg author of &lt;em&gt;Why Men Rule&lt;/em&gt;, called a “win-win” situation for women. No man can compete with being a good wife and mother. Being a good wife and mother was empowerment not at the expense of men but as a result of the power of men.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This female empowerment leveled up the entire race, because men set standards and women did their best to show that they lived according to those standards. Men married “the mother’s of their children” and were very careful as to whom they would select for that responsibility. Women were treated with dignity. A myriad of courtesies were extended to women such as opening the door for them, allowing them to go first, and having them walk on the sheltered side of the sidewalk. They were protected by their fathers, brothers, and husbands. They were not treated as similars because real men knew that women were receptive and responsive and therefore vulnerable and required protection.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the current era of the emasculated male women have become completely disempowered. They have been reduced to work units. They have become automaton workers and programmed consumers. All the natural protection given to them by men has been removed and their moral conduct has degenerated. Their natural attributes of compassion and consideration have been suppressed and been replaced by a cultivation of aggressive behavior. They have been recruited into police departments to learn how to shoot people and they have been recruited in the military to learn how to kill people. The nurturers of the race are being taught to become the destroyers of the race. They are being motivated to become single mothers, dump their children while still in diapers into state run child care centers while they get on the treadmill of production. They see their children end up in street gangs, on drugs, in prison, and shot dead in the streets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The result of this aberration of human behavior is that women are breaking down. The number one debilitating illness of Western women is depression. They have become so “liberated” that they are going out of their minds, and at an ever-increasing rate. Having the government act as their husband is not working in their best interests. Only men can empower women. REAL MEN who know their responsibility to the family, tribe, and human race empower women.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In order for men to fulfill heir responsibilities, which will result in the empowerment of women, they must understand the principle of gender and the patriarchal structure necessary to maintain the family. They must also have the courage to regain the authority necessary to fulfill their responsibilities.       &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-3748221055086416588?l=www.mensaction.net%2Fblog%2Findex.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/3748221055086416588'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/3748221055086416588'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensaction.net/blog/2009/07/disempowerment-of-women.html' title='THE DISEMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16731342605296678483'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-5426196843716870931</id><published>2009-07-03T04:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-03T04:18:43.829-07:00</updated><title type='text'>ETHICS, MORALS, &amp; STUFF LIKE THAT</title><content type='html'>The June 29, 2009 issue of Newsweek contained a cover story by Fareed Zakaria titled &lt;em&gt;The Communist Manifesto,&lt;/em&gt; which he subtitled &lt;em&gt;Greed is Good (to a point).&lt;/em&gt; An excerpt from the article states “What we are experiencing is not a crisis of capitalism, it is a crisis of finance, of democracy, of globalization and ultimately of ethics.” To lump ethics into the same pot as finance, democracy, and globalization indicates that he does not know where ethics come from. Furthermore, for a proponent of “greed is good” to express a concern for a crisis of ethics indicates a lack of understanding of ethics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A quality that derives from ethics called trust received attention from Burt Ross former mayor of Ft. Lee, NJ. He spoke at the Bernie Madoff sentencing hearing where he pointed out that the major effect of the financial fraud was the destruction of the public “trust.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the same weekend that I read Zakaria’s column and saw Burt Ross on a news interview, I also saw on Meet the Press a concern expressed for the “values” of this nation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These three unseen and conceptual factors: ethics, trust, and values received the attention of the major media within a span of a few days, which indicates the growing concern of the citizenry about non-material matters. Values and trust derive form ethics, a quality not understood by the media, its authors, interviewers, and producers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That ethics should be brought up in a national news magazine by non-other than Fareed Zakaria, is a travesty. If Fareed writes an article without mentioning GDP it becomes a collectors item; he is so enmeshed in the gross materialistic values of Western thought that he has become blind to the source and meaning of ethics. The making of money as an end in itself can never be ethical because it is an activity based on greed, which is unethical and self-destructive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Men who devote themselves to the propagation and preservation of the species establish ethics. There is no place else for ethics to come from. Western thought—which worships the material world and developed a genderless society—is devoid of ethics. It has no sense of right and wrong. It attempts to make up for its ignorance of matters spiritual by developing laws for its societal conduct. Legal and illegal have replaced right and wrong leaving society without any meaning on which to base its behavioral conduct. Solomon said a nation without vision shall perish; we are that nation and we are perishing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A report on the internet also this past weekend indicated that a growing proportion of our youth feel that they will not live long. Research has shown that youth who do not believe they will live long are seven times more prone to contact AIDS and other illnesses, use drugs, and become involved in negative issues than youth who have a longer life expectancy. Our youth have no purpose; they are perishing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The race is perishing. The source of values, leadership and virility has been removed from society. In its place there is a constant barrage of anti family propaganda being promulgated to the public such as Sandra Tsing Loh’s article appearing in The Atlantic describing the end of her marriage. Titled &lt;em&gt;Is It Time to End Marriage?&lt;/em&gt; Sandra not only has no inhibition about sharing her infidelity with the whole world, but also challenges the institution of marriage itself.       &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No society has ever survived the loss of male authority and its virility. One would think that Western man would have learned from the fall of Greece, Rome, Spain, and France, but he remains as ignorant of the cause as ever. He hopes that somehow the law will set things right even though the laws of Draco, Solon, Justinian, Napoleon, and the Constitution have failed to do so. He so desperately wants to find some legal precedent that if adhered to will make things all right again, or that failing, perhaps an aspect of his religion that if properly implemented will change things for the better. There aren’t any laws or institutions that will make things better. Only men can make things betters&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Men make families. They also develop the ethics necessary to hold them together. The law is an ineffective substitute for manhood just as money is an ineffective substitute for fatherhood.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s time for men to &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b0IXPSBwh8"&gt;assert&lt;/a&gt; themselves, re-establish the family and reinstitute the ethics necessary to maintain it. There are no other options for positive change.    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-5426196843716870931?l=www.mensaction.net%2Fblog%2Findex.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/5426196843716870931'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/5426196843716870931'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensaction.net/blog/2009/07/ethics-morals-stuff-like-that.html' title='ETHICS, MORALS, &amp; STUFF LIKE THAT'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16731342605296678483'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-5058893542975153651</id><published>2009-06-26T03:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-26T03:45:25.468-07:00</updated><title type='text'>FATHERHOOD IS NOT A JOB DESCRIPTION</title><content type='html'>Fathers received attention this week as a result of President Obama’s message appearing in Parade on Father’s Day entitled “We Need Fathers to Step Up.” There was also some media attention given to the letter he wrote to his daughters two days before his inauguration. Whether they were his words or those of his writers they conveyed the impression that he is pro-family and understanding of the responsibilities of fatherhood.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His message might have had more credence if he had not chosen as his vice-president the sponsor of the Violence Against Women Act, the enforcement of which has resulted in the increased incarceration of men, removal of fathers from their children, and the further breakdown of the American family. It might have had more credence if he did not wax eloquent calling it a “wonderful day” at the signing of his first piece of legislation, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Play Act of 2009.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you question what these two pieces of legislation have to do in addressing the issue of fatherhood, they were both designed to usurp the authority of men.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regarding the Lilly Ledbetter Act, its focus was on equal pay for women. I am a former owner of a small manufacturing business and during the 23 years that I ran it I paid people according to the contribution made to the company. I paid them fairly, a policy that at least partially accounts for never having been approached to unionize. I made the decision as to what constituted fair pay, not some bureaucrat in Washington, the state legislature, or city administration. Since the enactment of the Lilly Ledbetter Act the judge of fair pay will come from a source outside of the business owner and will further erode the authority of men to conduct business according to their own judgment and ethics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A fundamental of all organizational operation requires that authority be given to those with responsibility. The president has a cabinet and every member in it has the authority to run his department as he sees fit as they strive to attain the goals set by the president. There is no organizational structure that can long endure without giving those with responsibility the authority to do what is necessary to fulfill that responsibility.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Put another way, every organization has its head, whether a business structure or societal grouping. Every corporation has a president and every herd has its buck. There can only be one leader and that leader must have authority.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The government has destroyed the family structure by usurping the authority of the male; therefore, it no longer refers to the family in domestic relations but instead speaks of fatherhood and motherhood, reducing both activities to job descriptions prepared by the government. In keeping with the ever-growing emphasis on a genderless society, motherhood and fatherhood are being increasingly referred to as parenthood.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fatherhood is not a job description; it is a function of developed manhood. The process of fatherhood begins with the development of men—real men—who understand that their primary function in life consists of providing the environment and means for women to bring forth life and nurture it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When a real man decides to start a family he seeks a woman who has what he considers the desirable attributes to be the mother of his children. When he finds her and she in turn decides he has the attributes that will provide the environment and means that will enable her to nurture a family, they agree to mate. This mating agreement is formalized to the community in a ritual known as the rite of marriage, in which the man and woman are making a commitment to the community to bring forth life and raise it to the best of their ability. After this ritual they become known as husband and wife.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As husband and wife they begin preparing the nest in which they will raise their offspring. This nest or home will vary according to the social mores and customs of the husband and wife, and their particular economic strength. After the first child is born, they will become known as mothers and fathers. The progression of fatherhood is from man, to husband, to father. Real men make good husbands, and good husbands make devoted fathers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This progression applies to women as well. A good woman makes a good wife makes a good mother. To think that it is possible to be a good mother without providing the child an environment containing a good father represents fallacious thinking at best. 90% to 95% of our prisoners come from homes in which there were no fathers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Government has removed all male authority; consequently there can be no family. There will eventually be no free enterprise either. The elimination of family has left society without a cohesive bond. Government attempts to administrate the relationship between men and women, mothers and fathers, and parents has resulted in a national angst caused by a lack of belongingness. Fatherhood in that arrangement becomes a job description such as carpenter or stockbroker. It becomes devoid of any obligation towards the propagation and preservation of the species including its spiritual development. Government has no spirituality; nor does it possess any ethics. It has replaced moral and immoral with legal and illegal. It is this thinking that enables President Obama to take a pro-abortion stance while publicly proclaiming support for fathers. He does not see any tie in with abortion-on-demand and the usurpation of male authority.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Only men make families. Only men make any organization. The disempowering of males leads to the collapse of society. Women cannot be empowered vis-à-vis men any more than the earth can be empowered vis-à-vis the Sun. The Sun can be disempowered, that is, its energy can be diminished, it can lose its pull of gravity, and eventually as it becomes more like the earth the Solar system will fall apart. The earth on the other hand, cannot in any way become more like the Sun. So too in the relationship between men and women, men can be castrated, neutered, and emasculated, but the woman can never become empowered. A sex change will never occur in which the new male can be empowered with virility.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What this society calls the empowerment of women is the disempowerment of men by law and the usurpation of this power by the government reducing men and women to automaton workers and programmed consumers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Having reduced fatherhood to a job description our children will continue to do poorly in schools, teen pregnancies will remain the norm, ADD will increase among our youth, the rate of marriage will decrease, and the rate of divorce will increase. These conditions do not bode well for women since 10% of them already suffer from debilitating depression in America, as do 15% of European women.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Until such time as men retake their authority and re-establish themselves as head of the family government will continue to extend its tentacles into every facet of society reducing it to a huge ward of the government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fatherhood is not a job description. Don’t accept it as such.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-5058893542975153651?l=www.mensaction.net%2Fblog%2Findex.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/5058893542975153651'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/5058893542975153651'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensaction.net/blog/2009/06/fatherhood-is-not-job-description.html' title='FATHERHOOD IS NOT A JOB DESCRIPTION'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16731342605296678483'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-8900498605289441941</id><published>2009-06-14T19:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-14T19:26:13.481-07:00</updated><title type='text'>COLBERT’S NEWSWEEK SATIRE</title><content type='html'>Comedian Stephen Colbert guest edited the June 16, 2009 issue of Newsweek, and except for two introductory pages and a few obvious satirical comments, the issue seriously addressed the issues facing the nation and the world. Or so it seemed, and that was the satire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Top-notch writers and media personalities such as Jonathan Alter, Dahlia Lithwick, Sharon Begley, and Newsweek’s Asian honkie Fareed Zakaria commented respectively upon education, the domestic prison issue (a true rarity in mainstream media), health care, and the war in Iraq. I felt that all these articles supported the satire and parody that represent the core of Colbert’s comedy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These writers of national if not international fame, addressed effects and not causes, an activity that represents great philosophical and metaphysical satire. They actually believe that effects can be changed by a reorganization of material activities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jonathan Alter indicates in his article that president Obama and his educational team understand that the key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can’t. That statement comes from gross ignorance and the satire is the belief that this ignorance can correct an educational problem. When children have fathers at home school dropout rates decline, the rate of unwed motherhood is cut in half and scholastic performance increases. Not once does Jonathan Alter even hint at manhood, fatherhood, or family. Yes, the key to learning is better teaching and that is found in the home, not outside of it. It comes from observing the deductive reasoning and problem solving that parents utilize in maintaining the home. However, a given in all of the Newsweek articles is that family is unnecessary.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next we have the article by Dahlia Lithwick titled &lt;em&gt;Our Real Prison Problem.&lt;/em&gt; I have considered our high prison population the number one issue in America since I wrote my book and first began activities discussing gender and promoting patriarchy. The prison population in America doubled every eight years from 1976 to 2000 going from 250,000 to two million. It leveled off somewhat during the Bush administration reaching 2.4 million in 2008. Ms Lithwick’s article pointed out that the United States has 5% of the world’s population and close to 25% of its prisoners. She could have added that 90% to 95 % of the prison population comes from broken homes, and 95% percent of street gang membership comes from broken homes. Every night 24 million American children go to sleep in a home without a father in it. The prison population has climbed for 35 years; no solution is in sight because family is taken off the table of discussable items when addressing this issue. The satire and parody of articles written by persons of acclaim in news magazines in particular and the media in general are that they ignore fundamental causes and consequently can never reach solutions to issues.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sharon Begley’s article in which she addresses the administrative delay in bringing new “cures” to the market is another case in point. Scientists do not invent or develop “cures” to anything. All medications developed by the pharmaceutical industry treat symptoms not causes, which is a major reason the industry has grown so rapidly. A major growth in the pharmaceutical industry is in the production of drugs to treat depression and attention deficit syndrome. One million school children are now administered Ritalin, and the number of people taking anti-depressants numbers in the tens of millions. Those children who come from broken and dysfunctional homes are the primary users of medicinal drugs, and single, and divorced women account for the preponderant use of anti-depressants. The breakdown of family leads to the breakdown of society, but this concept cannot be readily understood by the feminine materialistic thinking of Western thought and hence did not receive Sharon Begley’s mention.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lastly we come to Zakaria’s article titled &lt;em&gt;Victory in Iraq&lt;/em&gt; in which he states the following: “Most observers—especially many in the U.S. military with whom I have spoken—believe that the cardinal errors of the occupation of Iraq were to disband the Iraqi Army, de-Baathify the country and shut down all state owned enterprises. In doing this America engineered not simply regime change but the total dismantling of the state and a massive social revolution as well, all in the space of two months.” Why doesn’t Fareed Zakaria—who has absorbed Western thought down to the marrow in his bones, and can’t write an article without referring to productivity and employment—understand that those activities were not in error, that they were planned to destroy the family structure and cultural practices of the Iraqi people? This destruction has succeeded. Part of the plan for a New World Order is to destroy the patriarchal structure of the Islamic world. That plan has succeeded in Iraq, and a contingent of U.S. soldiers will remain in Iraq to be sure that they do not revert to their previous culture, just as American soldiers are still in Japan 65 years after hostilities ended to be sure that they do not revert to their previous culture. The destruction of the family remains a paramount goal of those who want to establish the New World Order and they are succeeding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The four articles described above and the other articles contained in Newsweek predicate their pseudo intellectual reasoning on gross materialism, a lack of spirituality, and the destruction of the family. To imply to us that the government is working on a resolution to issues that have been with us for decades is satire and parody. The very belief system that they employ has produced our problems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The unseen God produced the physical universe and the unseen conceptual thing of men produced the material world that sits upon it. Just as there can be no universe without God, there can be no society without men. By destroying the natural gender balance called patriarchy government with the help of the spiritually myopic media is taking over control of every fundamental aspect of our environment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To counter this governmental destruction of the natural order of things requires your awareness and your action. My sons and daughters who are reading this essay you can subscribe to my future essays and join with the many who have already done so by clicking on the subscribe button under my picture. It will take you only 60 seconds to do and it will assist in promoting our message significantly. Once you are accustomed to receiving my essays you might get a friend, acquaintance, or co-worker to do likewise. That could lead to investing in my book and booklets, and eventually becoming active with Men’s Action. At the very least you will be contributing to a concentration of thought that will eventually break through the materialistic confines of Western thought and pioneer a return to a natural way of life.         &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our message is gathering strength and it will not take much longer—a year at the most—before we begin to make significant inroads into our impotent society. No one can make this change alone; all of us can do it together. I thank you for your interest and look forward to your support.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-8900498605289441941?l=www.mensaction.net%2Fblog%2Findex.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/8900498605289441941'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/8900498605289441941'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensaction.net/blog/2009/06/colberts-newsweek-satire.html' title='COLBERT’S NEWSWEEK SATIRE'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16731342605296678483'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-8000825135144918856</id><published>2009-05-28T05:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-28T05:31:43.834-07:00</updated><title type='text'>OPEN ADVOCACY OF TORTURE</title><content type='html'>As I watched interviews and panel discussions concerning the use of torture and the fate of prisoners at Guantanamo I became increasingly uncomfortable, annoyed, and saddened to see in the American government open advocates of the torture of human beings. These advocates came primarily from the conservative element of the Republican Party that also receives significant support from the “religious right.” These advocates of torture are proud of their religious affiliation and can usually be seen in church on most any Sunday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wonder as they worship, pray, and listen to sermons what causes their difficulty in understanding the fundamental tenets of their religion. What part of  “Love thy neighbor as thyself,” “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” and “Turn the other check” do they not grasp?  Is the meaning of “Love one another as I have loved you” so deep that they cannot comprehend it? Apparently it is and always has been.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The corruption of spiritual truth by Western thought has existed from the beginning as has the torture of those who would not accept its ignorance. From the earliest days of the Christian influence in Egypt, through the Crusades, Middle Ages, and the present time, there have been those who persecute and torture those who think differently than the “enlightened” group in power. The early immigrants to this nation such as the Quakers, Pilgrims, Puritans, Huguenots, Mennonites, Jesuits, and Lutherans were victims of severe persecution in Europe. There are among us today those who would welcome the return of The Inquisition provided of course that they were the inquisitors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the other side of the spectrum of political Western thought are the liberals who believe that if the resources of the material world could be redistributed societal happiness would prevail. What part of “Man does not live by bread alone,” “My kingdom is not of this world,” and “What does it suffer a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul” do they not understand? These liberals who rely upon academic learning, material considerations, and governmental power apparently have no grasp of the meaning of the words of Jeremiah “ Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom, nor the valiant of his valor, nor let the rich man boast of his riches.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, liberals and conservatives alike unite in their focus on matters material and in their aristocratic attitude towards those who do not see as they do. It was because of this European thinking that prevailed at the time of Jesus that he uttered near the end of his earthly sojourn the words “Forgive them for they know not what they do.” They still don’t and that is why Western society is in its death throes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every segment of Western society is in a state of decline and its political activists are scurrying about trying to find something in their institutions that will “fix” the mess that 2,500 years of gross materialistic thinking created. It is not fixable. Nothing will change until the thinking changes. The time has come for Western thought to reflect on the meaning of “Lest a man be born again.” A change in thinking must occur within the individual man, and then he will begin to change society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Men will begin to make change for the soul has begun to regurgitate the toxicity produced by the diet of gross materialism. The indwelling spirit is rousing man from his somnolence. Real Men of courage will rise up and re-establish the patriarchal structure necessary to sustain human development and spiritual growth. Patriarchy is a spiritual structure wherein men expressing the love of God within them dedicate their lives to the propagation and preservation of human existence. It is a structure that enables women to dedicate their lives to the nurturing of the race. It is a structure in which men and women working in accordance with their unique attributes grow spiritually.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Be ready my sons and daughters, you are witnessing an event that has already begun that will transform society to a degree beyond your wildest imagination. You are witnessing the implosion of a grossly materialistic, aristocratic, and monolithic government that is frantically extending its influence into every facet of our personal lives in order to maintain its control. As we see it tightening its grip by the enactment of onerous laws against the family, increasing the use of surveillance cameras, manipulating the economy to financially disempower ever-larger segments of society, and using the media as a huge propaganda vehicle to justify its actions, it appears that it is approaching complete control of our lives; however, it is decaying from within.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This decay will continue until the whole aberrant structure collapses and makes way for the only natural societal structure of the universe—patriarchy. Such a society loves its fellow man and does not devise ways to torture its brothers and sisters.  It doesn’t keep them in prison without a trial either.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-8000825135144918856?l=www.mensaction.net%2Fblog%2Findex.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/8000825135144918856'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/8000825135144918856'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensaction.net/blog/2009/05/open-advocacy-of-torture.html' title='OPEN ADVOCACY OF TORTURE'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16731342605296678483'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-5322842437396198241</id><published>2009-05-14T04:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-14T04:44:08.691-07:00</updated><title type='text'>AWAKENING TO THE SPIRIT</title><content type='html'>This past Mother’s Day I visited the New York Botanical Gardens in the Bronx and from the moment I entered the grounds the sight of the colorful flowers and lush green foliage produced an exhilaration in me that lasted long after I left. I attended a lecture and demonstration given by one of the staff on the care of tulips and in listening to her I realized that she was describing how a segment of the world that God had created functions, and that the entire Botanical Garden was God’s creation in action. Insects, birds, animals, plants, trees, and minute organisms went about their respective tasks of propagating and preserving the species in an interdependent community operating in accordance with universal laws and design.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I compared this activity to life in our modern civilized society with its emphasis on what man has made. Raised in an environment almost devoid of nature (see my &lt;a href="http://www.mensaction.net/blog/2007/06/cubists.html"&gt;essay&lt;/a&gt; cubists) and schooled in the works of man, increasing numbers of people have been cut off and insulated from the natural environment they were designed to live in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The vocational and career training of our children focuses on occupations created in response to the negative effects of our un-natural lifestyle. Social workers deal with the breakdown of the family; occupational therapists deal with job-induced stress; physicians deal with the effects of the pollution of our air, water, and food; and lawyers deal with our inability to relate with each other. An increasing proportion of societal activity focuses on “fixing” the damage wrought by the ignorance of its un-natural lifestyle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In his book The Holy Science, Sri Yukteswar defines ignorance as the perception of the nonexistent, and the non-perception of the Existent. He goes on to explain that &lt;em&gt;man believes that this material creation is the only thing that substantially exists, there being nothing beyond, forgetting that this material creation is substantially nothing and is a mere play of ideas on the Eternal Spirit, the only Real Substance, beyond the comprehension of the material creation. This ignorance is not only a trouble in itself, but is also the source of all the other troubles of man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sri Yukteswar’s comments were in essence an explanation of Jesus’ statement “My Kingdom is not of this world.” At the time of Jesus, the focus on the material world and ignorance of the spiritual world was the source of all troubles, as it is today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The gross material focus of Western society, especially Anglo-American society is upon material possessions and accomplishments. I had a blogger say to me, “Just look at what we have done,” referring to the accomplishments of Western man. I emphasize the word “look” for the results of Western man’s efforts can be seen. The skyscrapers, airplanes, automobiles, highways, bridges, dams, home appliances and communications equipment serve as visual examples of the results of Western man’s productivity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The blogger, however, did not “see” our children suffering from a lack of nurturing due to the breakdown of the family; nor did he see the ever-expanding prison population and explosive increase in mental illness. He did not see the utter defilement of the female beginning in grade school where 10 year-old girls participate in sex clubs; continuing to adulthood where streams of women journey to the California, the world’s Mecca of pornography, to serve as interns in X rated films in order to build up resumes necessary to obtain work in big city strip clubs; to the unprecedented rate of unwed motherhood, which spawns juvenile problems and creates stress induced depression upon their mothers. These conditions are not readily seen, but they do exist and evidence the collapse of society caused by its focus on the seen and its ignorance of the unseen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My pleasure in the Botanical Gardens derived partially from what I saw, but also from what I didn’t see. Looking at the tulip bulbs caused me to reflect on how they produced the offspring that would be the next generation of flowers. I was aware that flowers follow the path of the sun and that trees reach their branches out to it. I realized that the roots of plants and trees unerringly grow towards the source of water and nourishment. Birds always seem to know just where to build their nests and bees know which flowers to pollinate. Unseen forces guide the movement of the entire community of the Botanical Gardens, which provides the environment for the interplay of gender called patriarchy. Everything seen and done at the Botanical Gardens derived from the unseen and its harmony with universal vibrations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This interplay of the unseen and the seen to produce life and sustain it is not limited to plants, animals and insects, but occurs in greater depth among humans. The indigenous peoples of all continents except Europe based their communal existence on unseen principles. All rites, customs, rituals, traditions, and religious practices derived from their efforts to propagate and preserve the species while it grows spiritually. Their farming, fishing, gathering, and hunting were in harmony with nature and the unseen forces upon which it depended.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western man calls these societies primitive because they had not exploited their resources to construct material things. These “primitive” societies did not have orphanages, foster care, old-age homes, prisons, and insane asylums. They had no need for social workers, therapists, police, or parole officers, and they didn’t have to take vacations or anti-depressants. They had a high regard for matters spiritual, lived in harmony with nature, and were happy.    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The “ME” orientation of Western society focuses on the accumulation of material things and a self-indulgent lifestyle. The American Constitution emphasizes the right to health, wealth, and the pursuit of happiness; there’s nothing in it about the propagation of the species, family, universal love, or spirituality. Freelance writer Wendy Dawn’s article titled &lt;em&gt;Wealth, Wealth and the Pursuit of Happiness &lt;/em&gt;that appeared in Associated Content described the growing emphasis on material accumulation in America and the resultant decline in fundamental values.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Published on November 20, 2007 Wendy’s article reflects a growing awareness on the part of Americans that the emphasis on gross materialism is creating negative effects on society and is un-natural. At the time of her article there was little recognition of the cause of this materialistic emphasis, namely the imbalance of gender in Western society. However, I have noticed an increasing awareness of gender issues in the past six months along with an increased realization that men and women are different not only in appearance but in attributes. Eventually people will come to realize that these different attributes were designed for different functions and that a genderless society is an aberration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This trend is encouraging, especially when I consider that the establishment and all the institutions under its jurisdiction such as education, law, and especially the media has a grossly materialistic focus that it projects to the populace on a continual basis. However, what the establishment does not recognize is the existence of spirit and that it works through all people. This spirit provides the truth that eventually prevails over material ignorance. The spirit that causes plant roots to seek water, flowers to follow the sun, and bees to pollinate is always at work. Adversity tends to motivate us out of our somnolence and get back in touch with the spirit and the harmonious life it produces.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are at the threshold of great societal change. This decade will witness a return to a more natural way of life and the survival and growth of those who embrace it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-5322842437396198241?l=www.mensaction.net%2Fblog%2Findex.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/5322842437396198241'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/5322842437396198241'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensaction.net/blog/2009/05/awakening-to-spirit.html' title='AWAKENING TO THE SPIRIT'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16731342605296678483'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-61212260062390472</id><published>2009-05-04T05:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-04T05:33:55.086-07:00</updated><title type='text'>EXPANDING OUR OUTREACH</title><content type='html'>The essays I have written under A Message from Elder George address the negative conditions of Western society with an emphasis on their cause and resolution. I will continue to write such essays but at a reduced level, as expanding our outreach collectively and individually requires an increasing amount of attention. This website already contains an abundance of material addressing the adverse conditions under which we live, its cause, and the message of Men’s Action.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sixty-six of my essays precede this one and can be reached by clicking the last title shown at the bottom of this page, and then the last title on the bottom of the page it brings you to, and so on until the last essay is reached. If you log on to google.com and search for “&lt;a href="http://mensnewsdaily.com/author/elder-george/"&gt;Elder George&lt;/a&gt; – men’s news daily,” you will locate an archive that holds about 125 of my blogs. These blogs together with my essays, home page information, and streaming videos contain approximately 30 hours of continuous viewing and reading for people interested in our message. Anyone logging on to our website for the first time can spend a month exploring it—an activity that I believe would be interesting and rewarding; however, I feel no compulsion to supplement these archives by adding variations to the subject matter they contain. The time has come to advance and address issues that we can control.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The implosion of Western society has accelerated and cannot be reversed. Our activity must focus on what we can do during this implosion to prepare for its aftermath. What kind of society will we establish? Will we continue with the gross materialistic thinking that has caused our present downfall or will we move on to a more natural and enlightened way of thinking? Will we work to fulfill the mission statement of Men’s Action “To foster a natural way of life for humankind?”  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will we recognize that the purpose of human existence is spiritual growth? Spirituality is the recognition that there is more to the human being that the physical body and more to life than the material world. The continuance of this growth requires the propagation and preservation of the species, humankind’s natural activity and highest calling. The natural interplay of gender called patriarchy establishes the family as the focal point of society and makes possible the propagation and preservation of humankind. Men and women are not the same—they are opposites. Our goal is not to compete with each other but to come together and become complete as we work to fulfill the purpose of human existence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These values are contrary to Western thought, which has made a god of the material world and does not recognize the purpose of existence and the interplay of gender necessary to fulfill that purpose. Here lays our challenge—to live a more natural way of life in the midst of the collapse of a grossly materialistic society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A portion of my future writing will describe the activities of the men and women who promote our message and recommended lifestyle. It will recognize the man who distributes fliers to his friends and acquaintances as a means of spreading our message. It will recognize those who send our message to local radio and television programs. It will recognize the man who invests in five books and distributes them to his friends and family. It will recognize the first $1,000 donation, which most likely will come from a woman. It will recognize those who promote our message to other websites, who send leads to me, who meet with others in their home to disseminate our message, and who on occasion give me moral support.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Besides this promotional activity we can also put forth effort on living our lives differently. We can change to more natural diets and also prepare more of our own food. We can practice home economics and teach it to others. We can share more of our time, talents, and treasures with others in the development of a more friendly and cohesive community. Most of all we must enlighten and empower men so that they can fulfill their responsibility to women and children by providing the environment and means that will enable women to nurture the race.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is much to do, and I plan to write more about what needs to be done and those who do it. News of these activities will be published under Men’s Action News rather than under A Message From Elder George. In a few days I will publish an article there about the promotional internet activities of one of our supporters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our comatose society has begun to stir. As it awakens it will begin to seek change. Men’s Action will through its active supporters provide the message for that change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-61212260062390472?l=www.mensaction.net%2Fblog%2Findex.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/61212260062390472'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/61212260062390472'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensaction.net/blog/2009/05/expanding-our-outreach.html' title='EXPANDING OUR OUTREACH'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16731342605296678483'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-787556701623455438</id><published>2009-04-22T06:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-22T06:16:29.424-07:00</updated><title type='text'>DEVASTATION OF WESTERN WOMEN</title><content type='html'>Feminists have taken deliberate overt action to destroy the value structure of women in order to motivate married women to leave the home and single women to avoid the institution of marriage altogether.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Removing women from the marriage environment served as the vehicle for fulfilling the ostensible purpose of giving them independence and equity in society, including entry into all organizations that men made. This goal of parity masks a more sinister objective the effects of which have produced devastation among the ranks of women and a deleterious effect on society. The time has come for the unmasking of this sinister objective and then for a return to a naturally functioning society that cares for women and children. However, we first need to determine the reason for the creation of the institution of marriage along with related institutions that have become subject to attack.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The mating ritual of most all life results in the forming of a reproductive structure that supports the propagation and preservation of the species. Among humans that structure has become known as the institution of marriage and it existed long before the enactment of any governmental laws to sanction it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Women bring life into this world and provide its nurturing through their natural attributes such as adaptability, responsiveness, and visual thinking. They can only fulfill their function in an environment that provides them with safety and security. The highest order of activity for men consists of providing the safety, and security that enables women to bring life into this world and nurture it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The attributes of constancy, assertiveness, and conceptual thinking enable men to provide the environment conducive to nurturing through the organizations they create and by the ethics they develop. These organizations and their ethical foundations interweave into the development of cultural mores and religious rites that in one way or another relate to the propagation and preservation of humankind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By removing male authority from the home the institution of marriage has crumbled resulting in high divorce rates, low marriage rates, and an explosive rate in unwed motherhood, which in 1950 hovered between 1% and 2% in America and has now reached close to 40%. The same increases have taken place on the European continent with unwed motherhood near 40% in England and 50% in France. The negative effect on the children of unwed mothers has far reaching consequences such as high drop out rates in school, increased likelihood of a relationship with the law and prisons, and the prospect of their daughters becoming unwed mothers as well. The effect on women of unwed motherhood and the efforts of the government to deal with it such as promoting birth control pills, condom usage, and abortion, has been devastating.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By destroying the institution of marriage women also lost their prestigious positions of good wives and mothers. All through history women who were raised to be good wives and mothers were sought after by men and revered by society. Women dressed and acted in a manner to be attractive to men and men dressed and acted in a manner to be worthy of having such a woman as his wife. Women lived in a “win-win” situation. No man could compete with a good wife and mother.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Women no longer have that prestigious position because they are no longer considered to be women. They have become persons instead. What is a person? What does a person do? How many ethnic groups have the word person in their vocabulary? Most of the world refers to its members as men and women. The Bible states that God created men and women. What part does a person play in the propagation and preservation of the species? Persons do not desire to become attractive to other persons; their dress and behavior reflects this lack of desire. The attire of men has become slovenly and that of women runs the gamut between dressing as a street person or a porn queen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Women do not naturally feel any joy in being a person. The motivator of a woman’s life is the ME aspect of her personality. The ME factor motivated a woman to become a good wife and mother. How does personhood satisfy the ME aspect of a woman? It doesn’t; other criteria have been developed in an attempt to satisfy the ME aspect of the female psyche. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Girls are now taught to go to school, get and education, get a job, and make some money, so that they can be somebody. A big step towards becoming that somebody requires obtaining a piece of paper that indicates completion of certain areas of rote learning. That paper will serve as a pass to do what ex-men do (relieved of their former authority they have now become jackasses on the treadmill of production).  These pieces of paper that women receive entitle them to join the jackasses on the treadmill. Regardless of the name given to that piece of paper—whether degree or license—it falls under the greater heading of what I call “she-ass certificates.” These “she-ass certificates” serve as the primary criteria for hiring and admittance to the treadmill of production.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Part of the requirement of utilizing these she-ass certificates necessitates turning over to the state the responsibility of all aspects of child rearing. The state now sets the requirements for health, education, discipline, food, and dress for children. If these requirements are not met the child is taken from the custody of the she-ass certificate holder and given to other persons that the government deems qualified to raise children according to their standards.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since men have been removed from all levels of authority and their organizations and institutions weakened the meaning and purpose of life has become obscured and ethics have disappeared as is evidenced by the removal of restrictive laws on incest in Europe. Three European Union nations -- France, Spain and Portugal -- do not prosecute consenting adults for incest, and Romania is considering following suit. It will soon become the norm in the Western world to conduct sexual relations between mother and son, father and daughter and brother and sister. Livestock raisers know that this type of inbreeding weakens the herd, but in a genderless person society apparently this fact has little significance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The establishment of a genderless society had nothing to do with the liberation and benefit of women; on the contrary, women have lost out on all fronts. They are being used and abused and consequently suffer from mental, physical and spiritual deterioration. Feminists served as dupes of a sinister conspiracy to have government control all of society. By neutering the male all institutions designed for the propagation and preservation of the species were weakened or destroyed, which enabled the government to step in and take over the administration and control of every aspect of societal activity and in the process has reduced men and women (or persons) to the role of jackasses and she-asses on the treadmill of production.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Government can provide substitute authority but it cannot provide substitute ethics, which can only come from men; consequently we are witnessing the complete moral decline of the Western, genderless, person oriented world, which is responsible for the devastation of its women.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-787556701623455438?l=www.mensaction.net%2Fblog%2Findex.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/787556701623455438'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/787556701623455438'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensaction.net/blog/2009/04/devastation-of-western-women.html' title='DEVASTATION OF WESTERN WOMEN'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16731342605296678483'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-2231719539588273695</id><published>2009-04-16T18:41:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-16T18:55:17.066-07:00</updated><title type='text'>UNDERMINING THE NATURAL PATRIARCHAL STRUCTURE</title><content type='html'>One of our supporters forwarded me an excerpt of an evaluation of patriarchy in India, which I have posted below. I received his Email the same day that I sent an Email to Henry Makow of savethemales.ca concerning his &lt;a href="http://www.henrymakow.com/130103.html%20Articles%20%3E%3E"&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; Helen Gurley Brown: “How to be a Whore.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will address patriarchy in India further in a subsequent essay. This essay will address the significance of Henry Makow’s article as it relates to the material Emailed to me and the action that Western man has taken about this matter, or more correctly, the action he hasn’t taken.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The excerpt follows:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The focus of this paper is domestic violence among rural women in India. The question asked by this study is: How do regional, family, and personal characteristics of a woman affect her likelihood of being hit by her husband? &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Contrary to predicted results, however, being in a nuclear family structure, having greater decision-making power, and labor force participation increased the risk of women beingassaulted by their husbands. These surprising findings, taken together, suggest that the relationship between patriarchy and violence is not a clear-cut one.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;A deeper understanding of the conditions under which violence is used by patriarchal families to control recalcitrant women will enable feminists and researchers to more fully comprehend the ways in which patriarchy controls women’s lives.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The conclusion reached in this study indicates that women are less likely to receive physical abuse in patriarchal environments than in Western nuclear family arrangements. Keep in mind that this study focused on patriarchy in Asia, a continent that has a gender imbalance just as Europe does except that in Asia the imbalance tilts towards the masculine, whereas, in Europe it more than tilts towards the feminine. In both cases women suffer. In Europe the suffering results from neglect by the masculine presence and in Asia the suffering results from abuse by the masculine presence. Nevertheless, we have a confirmed study that Asian women are less likely to suffer from abuse in patriarchal structure than those in the Western nuclear family arrangement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet the intent on the part of feminists and liberals will be to debunk this study. We have only to look at the opening paragraph of Henry Makow’s article to learn why. He writes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;In 1965, Helen Gurley Brown, the editor of Cosmopolitan, said that a housewife was "a parasite, a dependent, a scrounger, a sponger or a bum." She didn't call them whores because she teaches them to be whores. Her sister-in-arms, Betty Friedan, compared homemakers to "concentration camp inmates" because of the lack of stimulation and opportunity for advancement in concentration camps.   &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These two women along with contingents of other feminists and an army of liberals attacked the very foundations of human existence. These were Western women, working through the governments of Western nations. And what did Western man do about it? What did the religious right do? What did the Catholic Archbishops do? What did the Imams here and abroad do? What did real men do? What did anybody do to protect humankind from the self-inflicted scourge of Western society?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I say self-inflicted because feminism did not develop from some organism found under a rock or in the trunk of a tree. It did not come from an asteroid crashing into the earth’s atmosphere and spewing out a virus. Western man created feminism. Not only did he create it but, but he brags about his enlightenment—how he gave women equal rights in all things. Why is that considered an achievement? What is the benefit of treating dissimilars as similars? By bringing women into the organizations that men create—and which women on their own cannot create or maintain—causes the weakening of the organization and the defeating of its ultimate purpose, to provide the environment and means for women to bring forth life and nurture the race.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the more than forty years since Helen Gurley Brown expressed her degenerative opinions the lot of the American woman has done just that—degenerated. The number one health issue of the American woman is debilitating depression. Close to 10% of the adult female population suffers from this malady. In Europe where feminism has taken stronger root 15% of its women suffer from depression. Do those figure indicate progress for women?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What were the men doing as this monstrous attack on human life progressed? We can say that we didn’t know, that we were busy earning a livelihood and raising a family. Really? From the earliest days of television “family entertainment” such as “The Honeymooners” depicted men as buffoons and women as the stable and dependable homemakers. Didn’t we all see that? Didn’t we see the end of all male educational institutions and clubs? Didn’t we see our sons taught physical education together with girls? Didn’t we see the teaching of promiscuity taught in the schools and all the media? Didn’t we see pornography and smut develop into accepted businesses? Didn’t we read articles such as Do We Need Men Anymore, which appeared in US News and World Report, or witness Oprah expressing the same sentiments to millions of viewers? Did we miss all that?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have witnessed an overt attack on the fundamentals necessary to maintain human existence, and it has been and still is overwhelmingly successful. Right now conservatives are introducing legislation in various state legislatures calling for equal rights for men. The feminists must roll in the aisles with laughter every time they read of such activities. I find the very thought of men asking a third party to treat them equally with women, repugnant, especially when that third party is responsible for the usurpation of their manly authority.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We can no longer claim unawareness to the degenerative conditions around us. In addition to savethemales.ca there is rense.com and books by David Icke describing in detail the conditions caused by deliberate attacks on natural value systems. Videos can be seen of these conditions on nmatv.com, on youtube, and on a host of other websites. Whoever does not see these conditions does not want to see.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The time to take action is at hand, and Men’s Action to Rebuild Society offers a vehicle through which to do it. It has a mission statement, essays, videos, information materials, and most importantly a message. It calls for a patriarchal way of life to be conducted outside of the mainstream of society. It calls for an understanding of the purpose of human existence—the propagation and preservation of the species while on the path of spiritual growth. The only thing required for it to succeed is a collective will. Do you have the will to make change? If so, then subscribe to our website, and join with others in spreading the word.&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;The time for action has arrived.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-2231719539588273695?l=www.mensaction.net%2Fblog%2Findex.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/2231719539588273695'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/2231719539588273695'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensaction.net/blog/2009/04/undermining-natural-patriarchal.html' title='UNDERMINING THE NATURAL PATRIARCHAL STRUCTURE'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16731342605296678483'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-4904304023874334994</id><published>2009-04-13T03:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-13T03:14:54.799-07:00</updated><title type='text'>GENDER AND RELIGION</title><content type='html'>Newsweek’s cover story for the April 13th issue entitled The End of Christian America, provided me with the motivation to address religion from a gender perspective—something I had intended to do for a long time. However, as I started writing this essay I realized that the Newsweek story came out during Easter Week. For an international news magazine to promote its lead story with the words The Decline And Fall Of Christian America written in large red letters on a black background of its cover during the holiest week of the Christian calendar was an “in your face” attitude of disrespect by the media.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This blatant public disregard of the feelings of the Christian community in essence proved the point of the publishers. What would or could the Christian community do about it? The article—like most that appear in major news magazines—covered both ends of the spectrum that they addressed in an effort to show fairness; however, the headline and title of the article delivered the message. This attack on religion by the media and the powers that control it is part of a planned effort to destroy religious influence in society. I have addressed this issue in other articles and will now continue with the original intent of this essay.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Newsweek article expressed little understanding of the reasons for the waning of religious and non-governmental institutional influence. I will comment on both of these conditions, as one bears upon the other. The reader familiar with my message will see gender woven into many paragraphs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Religions are feminine in nature and reflect the materialization and personalization of unseen spiritual truths. They also represent the understanding by the local populace of matters spiritual and its resultant method of worship, which accounts for the same religion having dissimilar practices in different parts of the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Religions represent the common understanding and interpretation of the unseen by a particular group of people. This understanding might be based on scripture and/or from the sayings of prophets and other categories of “holy men.” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Changes in religion are not changes of the truth, which cannot be changed, but in the understanding of the truth, which continually changes. The Christian religion had its first change in understanding when Eastern Orthodoxy broke away from Roman Catholicism. The next major change came with the Protestant Reformation, which ushered in several different denominations.  Every major religion has its various offshoots or sects, which represent groups of people with a similar understanding of matters spiritual.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The practice of considering religions as synonymous with scripture reflects erroneous thinking. Differences—sometimes vast—exist between religious practices and their sources. Christianity in particular was formed by a feminine materialistic culture more than three hundred years after the death of Jesus and spearheaded into acceptance by a Roman emperor who worshiped the Sun god. All liturgical Christian denominations derive their liturgy from the ritualistic worship of the Sun god for which there is no basis in the vast spiritual compendium called the Bible. Significant remnants of the European culture in the Middle East during the time of Mohammed influenced the interpretation of the Koran and the practice of Islam.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The spiritual understanding of a religion and its ability to communicate it varies inversely with the authority required to maintain its influence. The more that a religion can teach, guide, and train its members, the less authority it needs. Religions that preach blind obedience to dogma require complete authority over their members.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As spiritual awareness of people grows they become less inclined to have religious authority imposed upon them and instead seek to increase their understanding of themselves and their world. On the other hand, people want a certainty and constancy of matters spiritual. They want religion to be authoritative without it becoming authoritarian. The European influenced religions have never offered much enlightenment to its members and now that they have lost their authority they are rapidly losing their influence in society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The societal structure in which religions function also affects their influence upon that society. Religions little influenced by European thinking offer great enlightenment and seemingly hold little authority over their members even though vast populations operate in accordance with their teachings. These religions function in a patriarchal society, which by definition has authority. There is respect for the father, the mother, for elders, for ancestors, for everybody and everything. Religions do not need added authority in patriarchal societies. Society IS the authority and all activity centers about the well-being of the family—the core of all patriarchal societies. You can be sure that the gurus, swamis, and enlightened masters that now offer their enlightenment to the Western world did not do anything without the blessings of their fathers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We do not have such a society in America or the Western world, hence the Newsweek cover article indicating the decline of Christian influence in America. Indeed it has declined, and for two significant reasons. It has failed to provide enlightenment of the true meaning of Biblical scripture and instead relied upon fear to maintain its hold on the people. Secondly, all institutional authority in America and the Western world has collapsed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While all religions are feminine in nature, the structure in which they function is masculine. Men build organizations; an inherent trait that manifests early in childhood. Boys form clubs, teams, and gangs. They know the abilities of each of their members: who can yell the loudest, run the fastest, lift the most, spit the furthest and even pee the furthest. These traits are utilized when it comes time to accomplishing a task that requires the participation of all members. As the boys grow into manhood the purpose of forming groupings becomes manifest—to provide the environment and means for women to bring forth life and nurture it. Whether to form a sailing crew, hunting party, or defensive detachment, the objective remains the same: the care of women and children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now that Western governments have done a comprehensive and thorough job of legislating away all male authority, all organizations and institutions have lost their virility. Civilizations decline when virility declines. All institutions and organizations in the Western culture have declined in influence and now rely on government support and involvement in one way or another as it attempts to become the substitute male.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The institution of the Church requires the same masculine leadership as any other institution. Its failure to provide this leadership is self-imposed. Focus on the Family for example, in its three decades of existence never extolled the virtues of manhood. It believes it can build families with fathers but without men. It does not understand the patriarchal structure of the universe. This thinking permeates all of Western society and consequently the influence of all its institutions are declining including its religious &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxfGin_Rkzk"&gt;institutions.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As humankind continues its quest for spiritual meaning, the trend to meditation and an awareness of unseen forces increases; however, a new spiritually oriented world will not come about without the development of natural gender relationships called patriarchy. Enlightened or not, people need the patriarchal structure in which to function. Chanting OM, Amen or praying the Rosary will not sidestep that need.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-4904304023874334994?l=www.mensaction.net%2Fblog%2Findex.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/4904304023874334994'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/4904304023874334994'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensaction.net/blog/2009/04/gender-and-religion.html' title='GENDER AND RELIGION'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16731342605296678483'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-8919966517209252251</id><published>2009-04-07T04:05:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-07T04:11:35.279-07:00</updated><title type='text'>SHIFT IN WESTERN THOUGHT CLOSE AT HAND</title><content type='html'>In my frequent referral to the gender imbalance of Western thought it might be perceived that I do not appreciate all that it has accomplished. To the contrary, I am well aware that the industrious nature of Western thought has literally moved mountains and produced an unprecedented amount of material development. The feminine principle reflects industriousness; therefore, feminine, materialistic, Western thought will by its nature produce great quantities of material product.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western man has exhibited an almost superhuman intensity of thought and physical activity in his efforts to produce more goods and services for the world. Whether climbing frigid mountains with 100 pounds of belongings strapped to his back in order to enter the Yukon and search for gold, or forging a path through mosquito infested tropical forests of Panama to build a canal, he has endured severe physical hardship to reach his goals. His prodigious mental achievements exhibit similar stamina. Authors such as Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Turgenev wrote their voluminous works in longhand in pen and ink. John A Roebling, builder of the Brooklyn Bridge designed every component of the bridge himself. Superhuman efforts and their resultant achievements permeate the history of Western man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, for all his industriousness, pioneering efforts, and inventiveness, and the huge material accumulations that they have produced, Western man has not found truth or peace—the ingredients for happiness. He has looked in the wrong places. The following parable will shed some light on his misdirected efforts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A man searched every corner of his garden for his keys. After a few hours of this activity his wife came to the window and calling out to him asked what he was looking for. He told her that he had misplaced his keys. When she asked him where he had seen them last he replied that he last saw them in the house. She then asked why he didn’t look in the house and he replied, “I see better out here.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western thought functions best in the material world that it sees; therefore its activities relate to external pursuits. Truth and peace however, reside within, and cannot be found through the external searches of Western thought. Unable to find truth, even after diligent search, Western man developed theories, which are guesses as to what the truth might be. He especially likes to develop economic theories, which he hopes will give meaning and justification to his material pursuits. Keynes, Friedman, Malthus, Galbraith, Smith, Marx, and Veblen have all espoused economic theory and their names have migrated into the common Western lexicon. None of these economic theories ever work, and as I write this article an international meeting is taking place to determine what to do about the deepening world economic crises.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western thought creates theories about all observable phenomena and academic disciplines. Some of the more famous are Einstein’s theory of relativity and Darwin’s theory of evolution, but there are psychiatric, medical, nutritional, and political theories as well. All theories eventually pass away as new observations are made along with the development of supporting data.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At this point my sons and daughters I interject that my message about the universal principle of gender and the patriarchal structure is not a theory; it is a truth. It does not require proof, only understanding. Western thought has difficulty with understanding because it has made a god of the material world and has developed a belief structure based upon what it can “see.” A collection of what it sees has been given the fancy name of “empirical data” and is used as “supporting evidence” for its theories.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Getting back to the thread of this essay, there are two approaches that the man in the garden can use to find his keys. He can start to look inside the house where he would more easily find the keys, or he can increase the intensity of his search on the outside. He can pull out all the weeds, then the flowers, and then every bit of vegetation until he leaves the garden completely barren. He will then deduce that if the keys are not on the outside they must be on the inside where he last had a glimpse of them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western man has chosen the latter option. He will develop one theory after another, as he continues to exploit the material world in his quest for peace and truth. Only after he has significantly disrupted the natural order of things without coming any closer to peace and truth, will he come to the realization that maybe he has been looking in the wrong place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He is close to that point now as he sees the earth deteriorating from the ravaging of its resources and his own life suffering from increasing economic exploitation and environmental pollution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once he decides to go inside he will find the keys that will unlock the door to peace and truth; which will enable him to get on the road to happiness. The inner quest requires the same diligence and passion that accompanied his material accomplishments. It will require service, devotion and an expression of love in all that he does. He will come to the realization that just as everything seen outside the house in the parable—its color, state of repair, type of garden, and condition of the property—depends upon the unseen thinking inside the house, so does all that he sees in this world come from unseen influences. He will come to realize the necessity of maintaining a balance between the inner and outer, between the seen and the unseen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As he changes his direction and begins to spend more time looking within he will come to the further realization that he couldn’t be on this new path if he wasn’t here; therefore, in order to make it possible for others to gain access to the same path the primary activity and objective of humankind must be its propagation and preservation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The propagation and preservation of the species requires the efforts of a receptive adaptable, responsive, and caring entity that will bring forth life and nurture it. In order to function properly that entity requires a secure environment and the means with which to conduct its nurturing. It is the responsibility of man to provide the environment and means for this function to take place. It can only be done through the interplay and balance of gender called patriarchy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That’s the truth.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-8919966517209252251?l=www.mensaction.net%2Fblog%2Findex.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/8919966517209252251'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/8919966517209252251'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensaction.net/blog/2009/04/shift-in-western-thought-close-at-hand.html' title='SHIFT IN WESTERN THOUGHT CLOSE AT HAND'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16731342605296678483'/></author></entry></feed>