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1. Gb Db Two kinds of people Gb Db Smile back at you when you smile Gb Db Those who are innocent Eb B Those who have been guilty a while Gb Db Two kinds of people Gb Db Laugh when you make a joke Gb Db Those who are innocent Eb B And those who have had a smoke Gb Ebm Two kinds of people Db Two kinda minds Eb B Db Two sides of a coin
2. Gb Db Two kinds of people Gb Db Smile when there is no need Gb Db Those who are innocent Eb B Those who have been freed Gb Db Two kinds of people Gb Db Sometimes you can't tell 'em apart Gb Db The ones who are trying Eb B The ones who have lost heart Gb Ebm Two sides to Paradise Db The emptiness and the full Eb B Db And you have to figure out which side to join
3. Gb Db Two sides to the universe Gb Db What need happen and what need not. Gb Db A web of will and circumstance Eb B In which we all are caught Gb Db Two kinds of people Gb Db Smile back at you Gb Db Those who don't Eb B Those who do Gb Ebm Two kinds of people Db I've seen both kinds Eb B Db Two sides of a coin Eb B Db Two sides of a coin
About a quarter of a century ago, someone asked me the difference,
and rather than think about the question, (or why I was being asked), I wrote the following.
Detached . . . Attached You must realize You must realize where you are where you are in you. in you.
Most of the You aren't your sensory inputs you have body or any of its are situated in your head sensory organs (tongue, nose, eyes, ears) or internal organs which makes sense, because you use them. because where all Lose an eye and these inputs are registered where are you? is in the brain, Lose all five senses and if you have and where are you? only a short distance to go, Stop thinking the less problem and where are you? with garbled information Your thoughts, and cut circuitry like your eyes, you will have. are tools you use. "Where are you" If you try to "Right here." think yourself The body in which to that point you presently reside, it will be like you usually mean. swimming up a waterfall... because your thoughts emanate from that point.
"Did you hear what I said?" "Oh, I'm sorry. Science says I was somewhere else." a nerve-synapse takes How? In your head? a certain amount of time, You can't go anywhere, some fraction of a second. but there are times... How many nerve synapses where are you when are there to a thought? you're dreaming or asleep? How long does it take? Time.
Usually, in a dream, your sensory inputs You're at least that are less detailed, time and distance away but you don't stop from the point you are. to think about Time and space prevent how "unreal" it was your touching your self. until you "wake up." But this delay is hardly Well, WAKE UP!... preventing you from living.
/ Detached ... Attached, page 2 of 3
Oh, you're not dreaming? Living goes on How do you know? even if that SELF When I dream, of which you are aware and when I realize ceases to be it was a dream, aware of itself. I wake up.
The animal processes of Oh, you're not dreaming? Living go on How do you know? even if that SELF When I dream, of which you are aware and when I realize ceases to be it was a dream, aware of itself. I wake up. The animal processes of Dreaming is another seeing, sensing, state of consciousness reacting, surviving, that you play around in and propagation while your body rests. are continued. Wakefulness is the Any bush or cow state of consciousness does that much. utilizing the Mind is what? "rational" levels Even plants seem to react of your mind. to violent intent.
When dreaming, There are levels you're detached where the border between from your body. living and non-living You aren't using seem to dissolve. your normal senses, Where all this leaves us, but sometimes as an existent sound and feeling, and experiential and sometimes light, physical being, from the "real" world is a set of will cross electrical, chemical, into your dreams. and mechanical reactions which can be reproduced in a well-equipped laboratory.
But wakefulness: is it any more real This makes than a dream? every physical thing How real is something you sense or do, you see in a dream including your thoughts, while you're dreaming? inextricably bound to Perhaps as valid and real the physical plane. as what you see around you right now.
/ Detached ... Attached, page 3 of 3
But if you accept But you don't use your eyes that that SELF is not to see that dream world. your senses If light and senses or body or thoughts, and thoughts of this where can you possibly be? state of consciousness Either self-awareness are affecting your is just thoughts, dream-consciousness, and natural animal nature how much does is all there is, your dreaming world and this page is a affect this one? useless diversion from Which of these reacting, surviving, are you living in, propagating, really? or self-awareness, If they affect each other that self-aware point constantly, is something we are living in both outside space and time states of awareness which therefore all the time. sets man free It's just more of one of his mortal animal nature, and less of the other (or rather gives him depending on the freedom to be free of it) how you're attuned. and makes him a human being. Ever been deep in thought and fall into a dream?
Now, if you are not your body, or your senses, Now, what if or your thoughts, there are other or your emotions, states of consciousness... or your desires, just that close, if you aren't any of that, just that real, what good are you, all the time? and what are you up to?
Use is a right
Abuse a med prob
Actions governable
Do you want
drug warriors
or peace officers?
If God wanted us
to enjoy ourselves
we'd have pleasure
God planted here
good things to please us
Prohibition is
anti-Jesus
This evil so-called
war on drugs
Makes our good law
a tool of thugs
The war is all
inside your head
A change of mind
drug peace instead
Prohibition is
no solution
Give us back
the Constitution
Citizens!
We should be free!
Prohib
is anti-family
Let's end this
evil prohibition
Smoke or drink,
Let's just go fishin'
The One who made all
flora and fauna
gave us the gift
of marijuana
Justice has
become a joke
When I can booze
but cannot toke
Drugs may be used
in moderation
All prohibition
kills the nation
Repeal!
Lord set our country loose
from prohib
which is law abuse.
Booze is legal
So's tobacco
Pot is not
The law is wacko
God gives us chocolate
pot and wine
and life and love
all gifts divine
The so-called war on drugs is utterly unwinnable and in its very conception perverts the purposes of good government.
[Published in the Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise 1997 Mar 25.]
1997 March 16
Editor, the Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise
P.O. Box 1278
Bartlesville, Oklahoma 74005
Editor:
I write to take issue, respectfully, with a recent Examiner editorial opinion. We are not by any reasonable measure winning the war on drugs, and whatever statistical blips may so indicate cannot compare with decades of continuing social self-destruction. Indeed, not only is the so-called war on drugs utterly unwinnable, it is in its very conception a perversion of the important purposes of good government, an approach more suited to totalitarian governments we have always opposed than to our bastion of liberty.
Drug abuse is an individual, personal, and medical problem with social repercussions, but it should never have been made a criminal activity in and of itself. Whether the drugs in question are relatively soft like coffee and marijuana, or relatively hard like alcohol or heroin, we will never be able to stop their acquisition and use, and a government ostensibly of personal liberty and social responsibility should not even try!
The hypocrisy, dangers, corruption, and social destruction caused by Prohibition is written in our very Constitution, and in the dark history between the 18th and 21st Amendments. Although you can see it even right there in such as the historic-reprint pages of the Examiner and the Tulsa World, Americans have refused to learn this hard lesson of history. Many evil and powerful vested interests are allied with the misguided well-intentioned successors of Carrie Nation to give us an era of modern equivalents to the rum runners, poison bathtub gins, speakeasies, and all a hundred times worse than back then. Prohibition inevitably magnifies, rather than alleviates, the social problems which drug abuse can create.
We have learned the proper approach to the problem of alcoholism is to treat the alcoholic, and adjudge the drunk driver or public inebrient, without making a criminal of the individual drinker. Repeal did not do away with the problems of alcohol abuse, but society suffers infinitely less from legalization and regulation than it does from prohibition, which is tantamount to law abuse.
We must abandon the "win the drug war" prohibitionist propaganda which supports gangsterism, invites corruption, undermines drug-awareness education efforts, and criminalizes non-threatening private adult behaviors. We must embrace the legal models we have evolved for dealing with alcohol and tobacco and apply those models to all these currently-illegal substances. Turn our "drug warriors" back into peace officers, end the obliteration of our precious Constitutional rights, end the threat to personal privacy and to familial and social stability, and release us from the burdens of a perverse, protracted, unwinnable civil conflict. As families stood up and protested in a previous generation, let our cry be: REPEAL!
1997 March 27
Editor, the Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise
P.O. Box 1278
Bartlesville, Oklahoma 74005
Editor, it's humbling to have one of my many swelled-headed opinions see print in our esteemed local paper, but my writing skills are poor if my call for repeal deserves the depressing headline "Lost Cause." Folks are weak, the toll of substance abuse terrible. Yet, in the spirit of the original editorial, I do see that we are making continuing progress in education efforts, franker and better-informed health-care approaches. Family, community, and congregation should continue to employ every tool in the arsenal of our families, educators, doctors, ministers to heal the sick in habit and educate for healthy spirits. In our "crusade for health," the social reform of repeal abandons a weapon which backfires. Repeal heals, amending the law to be just, consistent, conforming with the Golden Rule. History and faith both teach: the way to personal or social health is positive, peaceful yet powerful. This week most especially, I'm reminded that the best health habits come from strength of faith. Say not lost, but just cause!
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