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Humanity of Horses

My internal experience of depression today shames external ecology of elation, all I might know as warm extended family of profoundly peaceful impressions still bare surviving at end of this slow-fading thread. This morning one Epictetus sentence speaks of blaming left-hemisphere dominant GodVoices: "People are disturbed not by things, but by the view they take of them." Similar to proving and approving: Universal Gods are undisturbed not so much by peaceful events, but by the transcendent view they own by knowing them. Some days, like yesterday, I feel excruciatingly intolerant of Earth's Losing healthy systems--LeftWing and Losing wealthy democratic resilience--RightWing depression suppressing what might, more positively, notice integral bilateral energy trends. This synergetic, yet distinctly negative, degenerative feeling travels far beyond compassion exhaustion to despair. Even an omnipotent God could not have, could not even evoke to grow, further and faster extensions of sufficient compassion for so much global death and dying misery; absolution... redemption... all unjustly tolerated if not forgiven Among humans, of course, but extended to other dying and already extinct species reduced to fuel for some predator species' relentlessly extracting fire And beyond all creatures here below, to macro-political living systems like self-cleaning rivers, healthy surfing salt-water oceans with multicolored coral reefs, wealthy bones, And topsoil organic life systems and MotherTree forests, and wild, complex boundary areas of creolization, interbreeding recircling research and discovery recovery uncovery incovery excovery anti-covery pro-covery positive covery negative covery expanding covery shrinking covery elation covery depression covery exhalation covery inhalation covery investment covery divestment covery empowering covery disempowering covery not not double-binding cooperative covers, Bilateral labels, nomials, variables, experiences, memories, rememories, memes, images, imaginations, designs, divine hopes and humane fears I disagree with Epictetus; This person is empathically disturbed by experiences. Rape and violent militarized sadism and politically sanctioned death sentences come immediately to mind, cold hearted starvation and dehydration of innocent children, ponies, mothers, mares, peaceful fathers, faithful stallions. Meanwhile corporate gods drilling and fracking greedily extracting win/lose against future healthy regenerations of Earth's organic life. Tell God: A mother watching her children stabbed and/or starved to death is not disturbed by events but by the subjective view parents take of them. If He agrees with you, find a different Goddess Earth with sufficient win/win compassion and hope to change our competitive Left v Right-hemisphere story. All creatures are disturbed by negative events and by Win/Lose and/or Lose/Lose views we take of degenerative ZeroSum violence, eco-political and neuro-psychological, whether horse or dog or cat or rat, grateful and co-empathic predator or cooperative divine-humane nature. But, my divine elation Right unitarian yin climate, reminds my humane depressive Left universal Yang culture, deductive proof of negative pudding is in inductive gratitude for positive multiculturing outcomes, All creatures are undisturbed by positive events and by Win/Win views and memories and designing images we receive for regenerative NonZero-Sum peace, eco-political, neuro-psychological, theo-ecological. I know and deeply appreciate an ecofeminist equestrian farmer who says all this depressing and elating stuff much more simply, "I trust the empowering humanness of horses far more than the competitive horsiness of humans."

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Date: 2/25/2020 4:53:00 PM
BRILLIANT, Gerald. A joyious, yet foreboding, read. Thanks my friend, well worth the time,,,
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