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In the tree. 14 November 2011
~ Essay Added 7 May 2012 ~
Essays
~ Documentary Added 29 April 2012 ~
Documentaries
Non-violent thoughts are the only viable thoughts, the only viable way for peace to be achieved. Thoughts of violence lead to violence. Thoughts of hate lead to hate. Non-violence is the only effective way for finding peaceful solutions that can last, and changing the course of thought and life to Love for new generations. Violent angry thoughts, though they may seem justified in the moment, cloud our minds. They act like a drug, the drug of justification. ~ me
So long as the people are dependent on a healthy economy, they will be unhealthy. But when the economy is dependent on a healthy people, then they will be healthy. ~ me
Choose your thoughts with
wisdom, and change the world...
Yours, and theirs. ~ me
Love can only be given, never taken.
~ Many people
Love of the people,
given freely and willingly,
will heal the Earth. ~ me
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Hello. My name is Daemon. I am 43, and
live in Saint Louis, Missouri.
I am originally from Seattle, Washington,
but have been moving for years, so have
not lived there in a long time. Since the
last time I lived in Seattle, I have lived
in Alaska, Missouri, California, Arkansas,
Florida and now Missouri again. And I have
driven hundreds of thousands of miles in a
semi-truck as well as a few road trips,
a cross country backpack trip, a Rainbow Gathering and a couple visits to Russia.
I have 5 brothers and 1 sister. I am the
oldest. Most of us play musical instruments, as well as other artistic endeavors. The one brother (Dylan) who does not play music is a chef. He also plays football.
In my spare time, I watch movies, documentaries, read,
play the piano, play guitar (an old recording
of me) and other musical instruments, and tinker on
computers and Linux.
I am an introspective and contemplative
person, and spend a fair amount of time
wondering about everything in the universe.
My favorite books are the Ringing Cedars of Russia series, by Vladimir Megre'. They are the best I have ever read in my life.
In the past few years I have become increasingly aware and disturbed by the destruction of our planet and unsustainable way in which we as a species are living. It has become increasingly clear to me that we must change. Otherwise catastrophe will occur across the whole planet in the form of many disasters on a scale which Man has never seen or experienced. Please watch the documentaries which are linked to the left, and consider what you learn there.
If you find any dead links or have any questions, please send me an email.
Updated 28 April 2012
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We Need Human Bridges
Deforestation 1978 and 2012
(Click to see full size)
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Earth, the big desert. It is looking more like a ball of dirt than a beautiful green planet. And at that, a ball of dirt with billions (maybe even trillions) of tons of toxic chemicals released into the environment, yours, your children's, your grand children's, your great grand children's, and on and on. Is this right? Is it sane? No. it is completely wrong, and totally insane.
...That is us. We are allowing it to continue. We have very little time, less than you may believe. If every person on the planet started planting trees of every variety without respect to
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borders, governments or property ownership, how long would it take for us to have our forests back? How long would it take for the environment to be clean again?
If every person on Earth participated in the handling of all hazardous chemicals to process them through the use of natural process back into less harmful or even harmless compounds, how long would that take.
50 years? 100 years? The answer is, a long time for everything. And that is if Every person on Earth participates. Imagine how much longer it is going to take, if we don't come together globally as a people. We need all the people on Earth to realise. And to do that, we need human bridges between every group of people with all the different beliefs political, religious or other.
Knowing is not enough. It is realisation that must happen. There is a difference between knowing something, and realising what it means deep down, so much so that you can no longer ignore it. Now you understand it. Now you must tell someone about it. And if you do it in person, you will be more effective than if you try to communicate it over the net, like I am now.
Get out there and use your talent to communicate. Only, do it in the spirit of compassion, passion for healing, passion for Love, passion for life, deep understanding of how our only choice is to heal our planet, and ourselves. Don't hurt anyone with your words, especially yourself. Be kind always. Communicate to your friends, acquaintances, family, neighbors and strangers.
Create the beauty of nature everywhere you go. Plant something. Clean something. Get tree seeds. Sprout them and grow them at home. Then transplant them somewhere where a tree is needed. Expand the edges of existing groves of trees with new trees. If you create beauty, eventually people who are blind to this need will see it, accept it, desire it and even begin to participate.
People, you are working jobs each day. How is your job affecting the Earth? Your neighbor? The stranger on the street? Your family? You? Will what you are spending your life doing mean anything good at all in the future of your children, grand children, great grand children? Aren't you responsible for trying to make the lives of your offspring better? Are you doing that? Or just trying to survive right now? Because if what you are doing now will make it worse later, you should apologize to your children and stop doing what you are doing now. Refuse. You won't stop breathing, even if you lose your home to the banks. It hurts. But making the planet a worse place to live than it is now will hurt your children even more. It is short sighted.
We must each change what we are doing now. Don't wait for someone else to change. Do it yourself. Take the initiative to be responsible. Stuff means nothing if the cost is what we are seeing now all over the planet. Do something that creates life in the wild.
We are responsible for what happens next. It is up to us. We are the 99%, and if we are together, the 1% cannot stop us, even with all their guns and bombs and armies. We must have it in our heart and mind, every one of us.
-- Daemon A. Bernstein
2012-03-09
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Computer Maintainance
Avira Antivir, a good effective antivirus program. There is a free version. The pay versions have more features.
Ad Aware adware/spyware removal
Spybot Search and Destroy adware/spyware removal
A hosts file to restrict malicious websites from even connecting to your computer (for geeks, nerds, dorks and people who want to be)
Ubuntu Linux, one of the best solutions for great security and simply avoiding malicious software infections. And it's FREE!!! This is the operating system I run on my computer.
Slax is a powerful portable Linux derived from slackware which can boot and run from a cd, usb flash drive, or a hard drive. It has a very nifty modular package repository which allows running the package without actually installing it.
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Friends, family
and other related websites
JesseBernstein.com archive
An official archive of Steven "Jesse" Bernstein's work
I Am Secretly An Important Man
This is a documentary movie about my dad, Steven "Jesse" Bernstein which premiered at the Moore Theater in Seattle, Washington on the 6th of October 2010.
Alex Quinn's Japan Journal
Rock Solomon
Harry Pierce
The Vault Night Club, some early exposure to music
Woodrow "Woody" Crockett, Tuskegee Airman #79
Prince William Sound Kayak Center
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