Anger Management 101

[Brenda Shoop]

This is a recent post from our email group. Reverend Nancy explains very well how forgiveness is the only answer. Read on...
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On Sep 3, 2009, Daniel Peterson wrote:

THE UPRISING ~ the second American rEVOlution has begun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE2GlV8wl8g&feature=sub

ocdp
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On Sep 3, 2009, clearcloud9 wrote:

Aloha OCDP and blessings. I'm not sure what relevence this video
has to this group?? getting mad is not the solution...raising your
fist in the air will give you high blood pressure but that's about it.

"good thoughts, good words, good deeds" highness praise.

Always your bud E.C.D.J., CoC, puna, HI.
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On Sep 04, 2009, Daniel Peterson wrote:

I guess it's not about Cannabis.... I see all of it as one. Ya know like One Love or One Evil.....? I see the top issue as Cannabis/hemp. 2nd probably Federal Reserve, banking and on and on.... but it is as we all are connected....
I hear ya 'getting mad is not the solution' yet in my recent spiritual journeys I have read things about how there are 18(ish) Psalms in the Bible about praying for the death of evil people? Can anyone help me with that ? God said 'Let vengeance be mine"..... I guess I am dealing with some anger/pain issues with not being able to partake in my holy herb and also having money issues and dealing with the foreclosure of my home has me feeling the effects of the war and that I wish the Karma on those that would take from me, hurt me and imprison and or kill me for growing and using Cannabis? I'm very angry today folks. I am choosing my words very carefully as to not ruffle any feathers.
goodthoughtsgoodwordsgooddeedsgoodthoughtsgoodwordsgooddeedsgood..............


ocdp
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On September 3, 2009, clearcloud9 wrote:


Totally understandable....it makes it hard when the herb is
denied us. blessings to you and as far as the vengance
thing goes I won't touch that one..lol. One Love...Haoma.

Always your bud E.C.D.J., CoC, puna, HI.
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On Sep 4, 2009, Rev. Nancy Harris wrote:


Yes it is totally understandable to be angry. Just not useful. Like most Rastafarians, I realize that the Bible is not perfect. But I think most of those Psalms to which you are referring can, and often are, be interpreted as referring to the death of Babylon as a concept. The purpose of forgiveness is not for the person who perpetrated the evil upon you, the purpose of forgiveness is to heal YOU, the victim. Anger will dull your intellect, shorten your life and wound your spirit. If you dwell on it, you and those closest to you will pay the price. It's harder to do without the sacrament, but it is possible for those who are initiates, to deal with things on a HIGHer plane.

One Louve,
Nancy
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Now that's what I'm talking about! Great advice from Sister Nancy as usual.

Love and Blessings,
Brenda

[Mystic]

Yes it is totally understandable to be angry. Just not useful.

Amen to that.

Anger distracts us from our goal, and our methods. In this "debate" we must remain the calm voice of reason. Let the prohibitionists have their anger and their rants -- it reveals the lack of logic and the lack of LOVE which plagues them.

Brightest Blessings,
Rev. Ben Power

[SmokeDogg]

Yes it is totally understandable to be angry. Just not useful.

Well put Rev. Ben... LOVE and lets Live!

[ocdp]

..... still having a tough time 'forgiving'. I watched the film about Gandhi staring Ben Kingsley the other night and, well, it was ok.. I love the quote "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." But Gandhi's wife died in prison and he was shot!
I am off to see my so-called probation officer on monday. I plan on handing him some things Rev Mike Senger sent me on the Zoroastrain Religion, a piece titled 'The Limit of The LAw by Paul J Von Hartman, an excerpt from The Emperor Wears No Clothes 'The Sociology Of Cannabis And World History', ''Things You Might Not Know About Cannabis, God and Babies' by Dr. Bob and my letter 'To Anyone and Everyone That Supports the Evil Drug War' -
To any one and everyone that supports the evil drug war,

21 Years of peacefully and respectfully using and sometimes growing my own cannabis for my personal medicinal and spiritual needs, I had never seen one act of violence connected with cannabis or anyone involved with cannabis. Then, the NW Metro Drug Task FORCE broke my new doors of there hinges, trashed my home and stole my property. A normal person would never do that to another person.

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www.oathkeepers.org/oath

I went from being a productive home owner supporting local business and improving a devalued (by design by the bankers that really run the USA) property, to being a man in foreclosure and debt.

A man in pain for not being able to use a natural plant that is far superior to any drug produced by the criminal Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex.

www.cannabisscience.com

A man that is not protected by the Constitution to Worship as I feel.

Minnesota

Preamble:
We, the people of the state of Minnesota, grateful to God for our civil and religious liberty, and desiring to perpetuate its blessings and secure the same to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution.

Article 1, Section 16:
The right of every man to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience shall never be infringed;

www.infowars.com

NOT YOUR CORPORATE ENTITY/SLAVE "DANIEL PETERSON"

LONG LIVE THE CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!

Ordained Cognisenti of the Neo-Zorostrain Church

www.theunitedcannabisministry.org

Daniel Eric Peterson

(signed)

I am dealing with a LOT of pain issues that cannabis handled nicely and no other drug works for. I am very upset on a daily basis having to capitulate to this tyrannical government by abstaining from my holy herb for fear of being imprisoned by force at gun point. It is very difficult to forgive these people even though I know full well that the forgiveness is for me. ocdp

[Anna]

Anger is useful for me in one respect, which is that it goads me to some sort of action. One challenge of anger is that it needs 'direction' for the action. Anger itself, doesn't care which direction it goes. So, this is where ZaratHushTra's advice about using "Good Mind" comes into play.

"Anger" is an energy which I do not beleive can be 'controlled' very much. I think of it as an energy force that flows through the universe. For some reason, it can 'collect' within me. I see this 'collection' spot as an injury area, within me. I would say, within my soul, but that might be somewhat confusing, as my definition of 'soul' may be different than others'. I can FEEL the collection spot in my body and when it collects, it feels like an illness or disease...or some (burning?)foreign object that should not be there. I've found that with some visualization, that if i feel the anger starting to collect, that i can 'deflect' the anger or just give it permission to 'pass through'. I can thank anger for bringing a situation to my attention for a good bathing in Good Thoughts, Good Words, and ESPECIALLY Good Deeds, but then i ask it to be on its way.

A collection spot for the anger possibly does need healing,while the anger itself just needs to be acknowledged and released. I don't know if that means forgiveness. Perhaps the place of injury needs 'Justice' as a healing agent more than it needs forgiveness.

Blessings of Haoma to all,
EC Anna

[Brenda Shoop]

Meanwhile, back on the email list......

Rev. Randy wrote:

Because I am a war veteran, I have struggled with violent thoughts towards those I have considered to be my enemies for much of my adult life. I have had to work extra hard on myself to find peace within and to be able to hear the "still small voice" of wisdom during meditation and other inspirational times.

As an ex-prisoner from the California state prison system, I have had even more personal struggles to tame my emotions and thoughts, so that I could function peacefully and productively in my life. Prison (and even jail) are too often places of violence and torture---both physical and psychological. My experience in prison was far more traumatic than being in the war, and I saw more cruelty, meanness and human ugliness than most people could imagine. I swore to myself many times that I wanted to live my life in such a way as to counter the inhuman way that people treat each other in these places.

Though I still have my own dark and ugly side, I have clung to my values and ideals, and I am learning that it is possible to be the change that I desire to see in the world. At sixty years of age, I am more optimistic than ever that the evil systems which seem to rule this world will give way to peace, justice and unity as we repudiate violence and meanness in our own lives, while making our claim to religious freedom.

Peace,

Rev. Randy