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WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED LIFE?

A Handbook

To Better Understand Life and Our Journey Through It

From Both A Material and A Spiritual Perspective.

PART I

“A HOUSE DIVIDED”

Understanding Why Conditions In the USA and Around the World,

Prevent Solving Major Problems In the Lives of Everyday People.

PART II

"SEEING LIFE FROM A HIGHER PERSPECTIVE"

A Universal Guide To Personal Spiritual Growth

And Understanding

By

Miltozah

TABLE OF CONTENTS – PART I

INTRODUCTION WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD!

CHAPTER 1 UNDERSTANDING THE TRUE NATURE OF

POLITICS AND THE REALITY OF LIFE IN THE USA

CHAPTER 2 A HOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF

WILL NOT STAND

Religion

Abortion

The Gay and Lesbian Community

Race

Evolution or Creation?

Gun Control

Taxes

National Defense

Labor Unions

CHAPTER 3 QUIETLY, BEHIND THE SCENES…

Why?

Come Together

Positive Change That Helps The People

A Vested Interest In The Status Quo

Past Mistakes and Other Considerations

Again We Ask, Why?

The Media

Closing Thoughts

INTRODUCTION – PART I

Welcome To the Real World!

There is no doubt in my mind that most of you who read what is written in Part I of this book, already feel (many of you rather strongly) that you have a fairly good understanding of how things work in the United States, why things are the way they are and what is needed to fix the problems (if you perceive any problems). Many of you will initially reject what you read in one or both parts of this book and some will reject it simply because the content doesn’t fit what you have been taught from childhood. Some may reject it in part or totally because they will believe that much of it appears to them to be too liberal and some may do the same because they believe that much of it appears to them to be too conservative. I know these things because that all applied to me more than thirty years ago when I first began to become aware of the information that you will read here. I rejected it then as a great many of you will now, but I did not close my mind to some possibility that there might be a few shreds of truth in there somewhere, so, as time went by, I watched very carefully with even more of an open mind, what was happening and I began to analyze what I observed to a much greater degree than I had bothered to do so in the past. Gradually, over a period of time, I began to see and to realize that there was far more than a few shreds of truth in the information I had learned. It actually was the way things really worked. All I am asking you to do is keep an open mind, pay attention to what you see going on in the country and in the world around you and see if it doesn’t begin to add up to that which will be called to your attention here. If you will do only that much to meet me half-way, many of you will find that what you learn here will strike a chord within you and will ring more and more true as you watch and analyze further, over time. There are others who will find that it is more of a stretch than they are ready to make at this time. For those of you who are ready to know more now, I will say: “Welcome to the real world.”

WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED LIFE – By Miltozah

PART I - CHAPTER 1

Understanding The True Nature Of Politics And Reality In the United States

Wrong thinking in specific areas of great importance have separated and polarized us politically as a people and as a nation, almost to the point of being irreparable. This fact is true not only for The United States of America, but for many other nations also. By the time you finish reading Part I of this book, you will better understand why this has happened, who is benefiting from it, why both sides share in the blame and why many of those responsible continue, even now, to do everything in their power to keep our country moving in the same very wrong and very dangerous direction that we have been going for a good many years now and even though things appear to have slowed a bit since the election of 2008, as far as moving in the wrong direction, there are still a great many changes that need to be made that are not likely to happen because of lobbying interests that are working diligently to make certain that these much needed changes do not take place. These lobbying interests are paid for by the corporate structure of the United States and other countries and by those ultra wealthy persons and families who are very heavily invested in the success and high profits of that corporate structure. If these needed changes do eventually begin to take place, they are very likely to be stymied to the point that they will be watered down or made relatively ineffective.

Two political parties totally dominate American politics today. In other countries, there may often be more than two political parties, but two often tend to be dominant. In many ways, they appear, on the surface, to differ significantly in ideology in that those who see themselves as conservatives generally consider themselves, in the United States, to be represented by the Republican Party while those in the United States who see themselves as more moderate or even as liberals, generally consider themselves to be represented by the Democratic Party. For the purposes of this (Part I) portion of our book, since the author lives in the United States and is more familiar with that country and its politics and issues, we will focus our attention there, but the basic concepts involved are likely to hold true for a number of other countries and their political parties and issues, just as they do in the United States. That is, of course, an oversimplification of politics in the United States, but it will help you to better understand the situation and will therefore suffice for now. Obviously, there are degrees of conservative and liberal philosophy and we will consider some of those later. It might surprise you to learn that at the top levels, neither party, despite protestations to the contrary, is truly dedicated to having the best interests of the average working family as their primary focus. The primary focus of far too many party leaders and other elected officials in each party (at the national and even at the state level) is to get elected, carry out the party objectives, find ways to pay back the big contributors and keep them happy, keep the electorate just satisfied enough to get their vote again, and then get re-elected over and over again. I am aware that what I have stated will seem to be an extremely cynical “shot from the hip” kind of statement, but if you really take the time to think about the growing level of poverty in America and about the lack of educational and health care opportunities that are affordable to the average working families and to the poor, regardless of the party in power, then it should not be so difficult to come to that conclusion.

There have been many significant changes in America’s political landscape over the last forty to fifty years. The main reason for the creation of this document, however, is the fact that the speed and the direction of these changes have greatly intensified in the last fifteen to twenty years with a special emphasis on the last eight or nine years. They are changes that have revealed the dark side of what most would call “partisan politics”. They involve those areas that are very often the basis of fundamental disagreement between those average citizens who consider themselves politically to be Democrats and those who consider themselves politically to be Republicans.

There have always been serious fundamental disagreements perceived between the two sides, but in the past, those in each Party at the top levels of government usually managed to work through their differences in such a way, that at least on the surface, it appeared that there was a certain level of civility that existed between them. Today however, I find that even the perception of that kind of civility has deteriorated to the point that, far too often, there is little more than a pretense of its existence. In this environment, there has come into politics an atmosphere such that too many of our politicians and political pundits seem predisposed to extreme partisanship. The more partisan the politics, the more name-calling that takes place, the more dirty tricks that are successfully carried out or the more vicious the personal attack, then the more that many of those who seem predisposed to such behavior, seem to revel in it. The news media, while struggling to appear indifferent, actually encourages this kind of combative partisanship at every opportunity because the more extreme the situation, the more “newsworthy” it becomes; translation: the more they can profit by a highly increased level of following from a more interested public, so, far too often, the media, as already indicated, encourages or at times, even tries to create this kind of combative partisanship and then they continue to repeat the story over and over again until the number of viewers begins to drop or until the next big story breaks.

You will see as we proceed that there are many important reasons why I have decided to become involved and to call these matters to your attention in the very direct way that I have in this document. Let me point out the two basic reasons (in the next two paragraphs) why I became involved. Some of you will be amazed at what you will read here. Many of you will have grave doubts about it and many will be amused or angered at what you will likely feel is my going “over the top” in my analysis. Nevertheless, as earlier stated, for those who are open-minded enough to give it fair consideration and who are willing to take the time to put together the points being made and add them up, many of you will come to see that it really does make sense, given all that has transpired and all that is currently happening. If it does not make sense to you now, rest assured that as time passes, you will become aware that there are fair-minded individuals in and out of government who believe in justice and who have access to proof of what I am describing, and who will eventually find a way to make their information public and verify much, if not all of what is being said here.

First, let me say that among the problems that we face as a country today, there are several that I consider to be the most polarizing because they are so inflammatory to people’s emotions. I want to mention them now and then later, consider each in greater detail. The fires that are burning so hot around these very serious matters of disagreement are still so intense because, in far too many cases, the two sides have reached this state of intensity based on the fact that one side or the other or both have approached these problems from a foundation with a faulty premise; nevertheless the media continue to fan the flames because the hotter the fire, the more profit there is for them in the story. These areas of difference are religion, abortion, the gay and lesbian community, race, evolution, gun control, taxes, national defense and labor unions. Although many of you will know of others that you feel are also important, these are the ones we will consider here. The first four involve those areas of social concern that have been the cause of a very great deal of misplaced anger and hate, which have resulted from the subtle but clever use (by those who exercise considerable control) of the divisive (divide and conquer) politics of anger and hate. Those four areas of concern (as indicated), and the others mentioned, will be considered here individually at greater length, but very importantly, they will need to be considered in that light, meaning that they need to be considered in light of the fact that people and organizations of great wealth and influence have been, and continue doing everything in their power to use these areas of disagreement to divide us as a people in order to facilitate maintaining their disproportionate levels of control and/or influence over important decisions and legislation that affect the Country and its people.

Secondly, there has been a growing trend which, by now has come to be a headlong rush, over the last eight years and (as much as they are able) even under the first year (and beyond) of the new administration, for the leadership in the conservative movement (as instruments of the extremely wealthy elite) to continue their efforts to implement a very partisan conservative political agenda (which continues to place ever higher profits over the needs of the people) as the permanent law of the land in America. This must not be allowed to happen.

These two basic reasons that I became involved, are inexorably intertwined, because the four primary areas of concern mentioned: religion, abortion, the gay and lesbian community and race are being skillfully used, along with the other subjects mentioned above, as tools by those at the top of the heap (in wealth, power and politics), and they have had a great deal of practice in using the politics of division and hate to divide the rest of us as a means to permanently install their conservative political agenda as the law of our land. Through mis-information and by exercising influence and sometimes even control over the media, they have managed to mis-inform a substantial portion of an otherwise honest and well-meaning electorate as their allies. It is my hope that by the time you have completed reading Part I of this document, you will have a much better understanding of what is really happening in our country, and why.

This extreme partisanship has been seen, to one degree or another by others besides this author. Perhaps you will remember that during the last few years of the George H. W. Bush administration, quite a number of elected officials from both sides of the aisle, who had been in politics at a national level, were, one by one, beginning to retire from their respective Congressional and Senate offices that they had actively held, some for many years, because the nature of politics, their profession, had changed to the extent that it had become much too extreme and too fiercely partisan. Most of them felt that they were seeing too much anger, too much name-calling, too much partisan animosity manifesting in vicious attacks directed toward the opposition and not enough of doing the work necessary to benefit the people directly, and they no longer wanted to be a part of it. Sadly, for the same reasons, this has, once again begun to take place from those on both sides of the aisle, during the current Administration, elected in 2008.

Those who are at the top of the heap (in wealth, power and politics) have, over a great many years, been able to create an environment of combativeness wherein we find the Republicans against the Democrats, the whites against the people of color, the Christians against the non-Christians (and even against themselves via the differences within the many denominations), and from time to time over a number of years, even the men against the women. Many of the more influential conservatives, over the years have been successful, often in very subtle and sophisticated ways, to make the word “liberal” receive the same reaction from “polite company” as it might if it were a “four letter word”, while many liberals have made similar efforts to discredit the conservative point of view, but with far less success. When we are finished here, you will see that the political leadership (of both major parties) is very skilled at playing “good cop, bad cop” with the public. When the public becomes notably unhappy with an administration in power, then that party tends to take on the roll of the “bad cop” in the eyes of much of the electorate while the other party, the “good cop” shows up describing themselves as being on “your side” and being ready to make “change” that will fix everything… you know the story, but there are rarely any truly significant changes. Do we have universal free or low cost health care or free higher education, or thirty days paid leave per year, or a truly decent living wage, or a respectable minimum wage or teacher’s salaries that attract only the best? You know that the answer to every one of those questions is no regardless of the party in power!

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Although regrettably, I may not be able to respond to each and every message that I receive, please be assured that all sincere messages are both welcome and appreciated. I understand that not everyone will be receptive to the information expressed in this book; likewise I am sure that you will also understand when I say that I am not interested in debating the information provided herein. You are free to accept or reject it. I trust that you will read it with an open mind and heart and in the same spirit with which I offer it to you and to others. Thank you.

Copyright ã 2010 by Miltozah
You can reach me by e-mail at: miltozah@live.com

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