Brightgreengroup

  • Thread starter epitome
  • Start date
  • Tagged users None
jumpincactus

jumpincactus

Premium Member
Supporter
11,609
438
Graywolf said:
If you look at Maslow's heirarchy of needs, you find esteem of self and esteem by others above the physiological requirements of existence. When our physiological needs are met, that is where our mind goes.

Esteem of self, and esteem by others are intertwined and sometimes switch places, but we are pack animals that are concerned about our standing in the pack, as well as how we feel about our selves.

Native Americans had our free will taken away, and were not trained to be all we could be on the reservation. Casinos are service organizations, designed and operated to capitalize on one of mankind's vices, namely gambling, and trains its people in service roles, toward that end.

None that looks challenging or exciting to me enough to lay awake nights pondering, nor one that I would spend time bragging about to my friends. Also not one that pays enough to see the world or build the estate of our dreams around.

A better situation that one I observed in North Africa, where some countries pay for their citizens education through grade 16, and have multitudes of well educated citizens, but no jobs available for them, because the cottage industry is tourism. Lots of depression, anger, and boredom.

What Native America needs to escape the bonds that bind us, is to feel better about ourselves, so that we set higher standards and accept nothing less! I am me, hear me roar!

We are where we are, so that is where we are starting from, but developing our bag of tricks to include growth in the professions and trades that capitalize on our innate proclivities, not just white man's greed, is the way I see back into the sunlight for my Native American brothers and sisters.

Here in the 21st century, it is hard to visualize that as recently as my great, great grandparents, Native Americans (Injuns) were considered the lowest form of life on the planet, and were shot on sight in some locales. Less valuable than the black slaves, because they kept running away, unless they were sent to the East Indies as slaves, so they couldn't.

I'm a mongrel, because my European ancestors were dirt poor, and willing to be looked down on as a sqawman, in order to have a wife and family, cause white women were in short supply and choosey. Native American women were in greater supply, worked hard at the job, possessed a plethora of native skills, and charms, as well as pleasing personalities.

My great, great grandfather was actually the Native American on one side, who was shot and hung on his wedding night to a local white ranchers daughter, by Night Riders, and my great, great grandmother was abandoned by her English husband, so he could obtain a better paying job than was available to him as a sqawman.

By now my ancestry includes Welch and German, and except for high cheekbones, eye folds, and square mandible, my native ancestry goes un-noticed. For every generation after my great grandparents, we have been engaged in technical trades or professions and depression, domestic violence, alcohol and drug addiction are less of an issue, plus we've escaped poverty.

I say less, because those are conditions possible for all mankind, and it becomes numbers and degrees. Some of my hybrid family members still suffer from all of them, starting with either depression or addiction.
Click to expand...
One word brother, WOW. :)
 
Ecompost

Ecompost

5,134
313
I am sharing this post we made to ensure its message reaches people, as many as possible. In it, there is the ultimate counter to synthetic forms of irrigation. I hope you enjoy :-)

Although all forms of life are of critical importance biogeochemically, bacteria are especially significant. This uniqueness arises not only from the great diversity of environments populated by bacteria, but also because they perform many biogeochemical transformations that are carried out poorly or not at all by higher organisms. In addition, bacteria exhibit a profound ability to bind substantial quantities of metallic ions. This retention of metals is facilitated by electrostatic interactions with anionic carboxyl or phosphoryl groups in the structural polymers of the cells. The macromolecular constituents in cell walls and external sheaths of bacteria are particularly reactive, so metals tend to concentrate at the cell surface. These cellular structures also tenaciously bind metallic ions during diagenesis and serve as distinct nucleation sites for the formation of authigenic minerals. Evidence of micro-fossils in ancient sedimentary rocks suggests further that bacteria contributed to analogous processes in the past



Please note this vital takeaway in this pdf and other papers about which you can read online by typing the term "Bacterial Mineralisation" in to google search or other, it clearly puts to bed the idea that inorganic mineral systems are superior in any way to Bio-Organic systems. Pure poppycock in light on numbers of bacteria, total surface area, and an ability ot use two systems of activation simultaneously, not possible inorganically.

"Because of the high surface to volume ratio of bacteria, cell surfaces and the surfaces of exopolymers can be especially important in BIM processes. Negative charges on most cell and exopolymer surfaces can result in binding of cations by non-specific electrostatic interactions, effectively contributing to local supersaturation. Binding also helps stabilize the surfaces of nascent mineral particles, decreasing the free energy barrier for critical,crystal-nucleus formation. By this means, the rate of mineralization of amorphous to crystalline mineral particles can become several orders of magnitude faster than inorganic (i.e., without surface binding and nucleation) mineralization. In some cases this can result in a mineral layer that covers the cell.
Two surface BIM processes, known as passive and active, have been distinguished (Fortin and Beveridge 2000; Southam 2000). Passive mineralization refers to simple non-specific binding of cations and recruitment of solution anions, resulting in surface nucleation and growth of minerals. Active mineralization occurs by the direct redox transformation of surface-bound metal ions, or by the formation of cationic or anionic by-products of metabolic activities that form minerals on the bacterial surfaces."
 
Ecompost

Ecompost

5,134
313
saw an excellent interview today on SophieCo about Dakota pipe line and the native guy speaking was a model for all humanity. If you get a chance do watch it, it was on RT.com so may be wait for it to appear on youtube if this is blocked or whatever, i know people are funny about the Russians. Never the less you can can make your minds up by watching it, its not on youtube now or I would post a link myself. In the meantime, follow the money. You might be pleased to know, we closed a bank account in one of the connected. I wont say which but anyway, enough is enough
 
GT21

GT21

I like soup
Supporter
10,114
438
epitome said:
did you watch the videos? It gets better. I would start at the main page at the bright green group website....phenomenal for all medicinal plants, a projected 40,000,000 plants a year potential, 140 acres under glass...
Click to expand...
I had to run into work to get some papers but i saved this page.... im gonna give it a good thorough read and watch when i get time this afternoon. These are the types of projects that will save the human race.
 
nazarbattu

nazarbattu

458
93
Ecompost said:
yeah this is what worries me, we need to keep an eye on what comes in, and how this is managed for the benefit of the Acoma or not. In the past, many people have gone about dismantling cultures for the sake of progress
Click to expand...
this is what I meant by systemic oppression, I watched that precariat class video...Extremely relevant, sharp shooter you are indeed...
 
Ecompost

Ecompost

5,134
313
GT21 said:
How did i miss this page....AWESOMENESS!!!
Click to expand...
sorry it happened quickly, i wasnt thinking. My mind was on the Acoma people. I find I often drift in to sitting and imaging what life is to be an Acoma citizen, the details of the plans are somewhat yadda yadda, i know plants after all, and i run a plant based business. I am alive and coherent of memory, so over time I have seen the veil of intentions to help, masking the nature of desire to control and to own. To me its the people I dont know, and the lives I cant now see with certainty that fascinate me. I would like to go just to say hello, to listen and to know more. Nothing else
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Latest posts

Top Bottom