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Our Trying Times:

A Great Opportunity To Search For Lasting Truths

Written for: theShamansTent.com & money-tigers.com

I can no longer (and won't) add to the parade of news items and political outrages that march in front of us daily.

The negative or fear-news seems to be trying to capture our attention for the next hour or so until they can come up with another distraction for us to focus on for the next several hours.

Instead, I propose that we take a different tack.

Just consider for a moment that our present times are offering us an excellent opportunity to weed out our enfebling habits or rituals we may presently have.

It's these habits and rituals that either got us into this present political & economic mess or which have distracted us from taking action in time to make a difference and prevent them.

Were I to cast a vote for which personal evil I'd choose to start with, I'd vote for television every time.

Television (and all news delivered either over-the-air, via cable, satellite dish, newspaper, magazine or radio) should be the first cargo to go overboard to lighten our ship during these perilous stormy times.

I've given it some thought and I cannot locate a single instance where news has

• lessened my personal stress (quite the opposite in fact!),
• increased my intelligence (I need all the help I can get in this area and can't afford the brain-numbing programming and low-grade-level discussions) or
• created any needed changes in the minds of the powers-that-be(which is the most effective place for change to be accomplished).

Given all those deficiencies, I think it's time that my life-long devotion to television and the hope that was held out for it's raising the consciousness of Humanity be brought to an end.

I've given the process years, even decades of chances to improve my lot and that of my fellow citizens to no avail.

Why should I or you, sacrifice another minute of our own time (hich is a finite and a potentially valuable resource for us) for total strangers or society and their corporate sponsors?

It's just 'no contest' when put in that light.

Try it for yourself and confirm the Truth of it all.

Unplug for a day or evening my friends and watch what happens to you. It will be at once uncomfortable and enlightening all at the same time.

That uneasy, antsy feeling you'll be experiencing right afterwards is called 'withdrawal' in drug parlance.

The fact that we feel withdrawal should be our biggest confirmation that we've been programmed to an addiction of some kind.

Now, that can't be either Natural or Healthy for us.

Reclaim a huge part of your Life and what it is to be just YOU (instead of what someone from the media tells you to be).

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