"warfighter enhancement program" ~ revisited

a new program designed to dull the moral sensibilities of American soldiers in combat-
magic pills to chase away the horrors of war
the neuro/genetic re-engineering of soldiers' minds and bodies
to create what the Pentagon calls "iron bodied and iron willed personnel":
tireless, relentless, remorseless, unstoppable.
the "Psychological Kevlar Act,"
aimed at reducing the alarming spread of soldier suicides and post-traumatic stress disorder
heavily dosing soldiers with Propranalol, which, "if taken immediately following a traumatic event, can subdue a victim's stress response and so soften his or her perception of the memory,"
no difference between offering injured soldiers penicillin to prevent an infection
and giving a drug that prevents them from suffering from a posttraumatic stress injury for the rest of their lives.
Council on Bioethics, object to propranolol's use on the grounds that
‘it medicates away one's conscience…’
Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Barry Romo, a national coordinator-
"That's the devil pill," "That's the monster pill, the anti-morality pill.
That's the pill that can make men and women do anything and think they can get away with it.
Even if it doesn't work,
what's scary is that a young soldier could believe 'it' will."

Antidepressant...Induced Suicide, Violence, and Mania: Risks for Military Personnel

Peter R. Breggin, MD

Ithaca, New York

http://breggin.com/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=28&Itemid=37

Feast of Lots

Purim

Celebrated in biblical times on the 14th and 15th of the month Adar (Feb.-March), this festival has its origin in the book of Esther (Est. 3:7; 9:24ff). The wicked Haman had cast pur, or a lot, to ascertain a favorable day for the massacre of the Jewish exiles in Persia. The failing of his plans by Esther occasioned the institution of the feast, "a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another" (9:19).
Among Jews today the 13th of Adar is kept as the Fast of Esther. This custom of fasting before Purim is first heard of in the eighth century A.D. In the evening which is the beginning of the 14th, they assemble in the synagogue. After the evening service the reading of the book of Esther is begun. When the name of Haman is reached, the people cry out, "Let his name be blotted out," or "The name of the wicked shall rot," while the children spring rattles. The names of Haman's sons are all read in a breath, to indicate that they were hanged simultaneously.

The next morning they return to the synagogue,

and finish the formal services

and then devote the day to mirth and rejoicing.

The wealthy give gifts to the poor.

Purim masquerades,

Purim dramas, and many other customs attend the season.

Some' burn an effigy of Haman,

others write his name on stones and rub them together until it disappears,

still others chalk his name upon the soles of their shoes and stomp and shuffle until it is wiped out. Most Jewish children would agree that, "Purim is the jolliest of all holidays."

Truth Magazine XXII: 1, pp. 16-20
January 5, 1978

http://truthmagazine.com/archives/volume22/TM022011.html

Daddy

Yiddish Purim Rap

Rite of Pharmakos ~ revisited

The Solemn Sacrifice of Mystic Rite

The custom of the ancients in The Time of great peril,

the rulers of the city state would demand through out the land

a living ransom-

the only acceptable tribute to the host of oppressive daemons-

to give up the most beloved of their children in Mystic Rite.

The ultimate sacrifice-

to survive their common ruin.

　

Kronos Stasis

-end of cycle of-

darkness cold sadness,

death and misfortune,

isolation and fear.

Free your slaves to time,

loose control to their harvest,

silence to your demands for the sacrifice of our beloved children.

"It was a custom of the ancients in great crises of danger for the rulers of a city or nation,

in order to avert the common ruin,

to give up the most beloved of their children for sacrifice as a ransom to the avenging daemons;

and those who were thus given up were sacrificed with mystic rites."

~ Sanchuniathon

psychologist Stanley Milgram, we hardly knew ye... now is the time to know.

January the 6th 2011

the frailty
and
self-delusion
that are central to our lives
and
how easy it is
to make ordinary people
do terrible things-
Evil often happens for the most mundane of reasons.
http://proteanstudios.blogspot.com/2011/01/psychologist-stanley-milgram-we-hardly.html

Are We Ready for a Morality Pill?

Peter Singer and Agata Sagan
New York Times
Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:42 CST

Last October, in Foshan, China, a 2-year-old girl was run over by a van. The driver did not stop. Over the next seven minutes, more than a dozen people walked or bicycled past the injured child. A second truck ran over her. Eventually, a woman pulled her to the side, and her mother arrived. The child died in a hospital. The entire scene was captured on video and caused an uproar when it was shown by a television station and posted online. A similar event occurred in London in 2004, as have others, far from the lens of a video camera.

Yet people can, and often do, behave in very different ways.

A news search for the words "hero saves" will routinely turn up stories of bystanders braving oncoming trains, swift currents and raging fires to save strangers from harm. Acts of extreme kindness, responsibility and compassion are, like their opposites, nearly universal.

Why are some people prepared to risk their lives to help a stranger when others won't even stop to dial an emergency number?

Scientists have been exploring questions like this for decades. In the 1960s and early '70s, famous experiments by Stanley Milgram and Philip Zimbardo suggested that most of us would, under specific circumstances, voluntarily do great harm to innocent people. During the same period, John Darley and C. Daniel Batson showed that even some seminary students on their way to give a lecture about the parable of the Good Samaritan would, if told that they were running late, walk past a stranger lying moaning beside the path. More recent research has told us a lot about what happens in the brain when people make moral decisions. But are we getting any closer to understanding what drives our moral behavior?

Here's what much of the discussion of all these experiments missed: Some people did the right thing. A recent experiment (about which we have some ethical reservations) at the University of Chicago seems to shed new light on why.

Researchers there took two rats who shared a cage and trapped one of them in a tube that could be opened only from the outside. The free rat usually tried to open the door, eventually succeeding. Even when the free rats could eat up all of a quantity of chocolate before freeing the trapped rat, they mostly preferred to free their cage-mate. The experimenters interpret their findings as demonstrating empathy in rats. But if that is the case, they have also demonstrated that individual rats vary, for only 23 of 30 rats freed their trapped companions.

The causes of the difference in their behavior must lie in the rats themselves. It seems plausible that humans, like rats, are spread along a continuum of readiness to help others. There has been considerable research on abnormal people, like psychopaths, but we need to know more about relatively stable differences (perhaps rooted in our genes) in the great majority of people as well.

Peter Singer, a professor of bioethics at Princeton University and a laureate professor at the University of Melbourne, is the author, most recently, of
The Life You Can Save. Agata Sagan is a researcher.

Please follow at: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/28/are-we-ready-for-a-morality-pill/

Welcome 2012

Number of Man

 

"When the Purifier comes

we will see him

first as a small Red Star

which will come very close

and sit in our heavens watching us.

Watching us

to see how well we have remembered the sacred teachings.

This Purifier will show us

many miraculous signs in our heavens.

In this way we will know Creator is not a dream.

Even those who do not feel their connection to spirit

will see the face of creator across the sky.

Things unseen will be felt very strongly.

Many things will begin to occur that will not make sense,

for reality will be shifting back in and out of the dream state.

There will be many doorways to the lower world that will open at this time.

Things long forgotten will come back

to remind us of our past creations.

All living things will want to be present for this day when time ends,

and we enter the forever cycle of the Fifth World."

Last Cry: Native American Prophecies & Tales of the End Times by Robert Ghost Wolf

Kronos stasis

Welcome winter solstice

Kronos Stasis

-end of cycle of-

darkness cold sadness,

death and misfortune,

isolation and fear.

Free your slaves to time,

loose control to their harvest,

silence to your demands for the sacrifice of our beloved children.

"It was a custom of the ancients in great crises of danger for the rulers of a city or nation,

in order to avert the common ruin,

to give up the most beloved of their children for sacrifice as a ransom to the avenging daemons;

and those who were thus given up were sacrificed with mystic rites."

Sanchuniathon

Sun of Earthquake

The Eagle Bowl of Tonatiuh

The Fifth Epoch:

Nahui-Olin

Sun of Earthquake

12th of August 3113 B.C.E. - 24th of December 2011 C.E.

"After Thirteen Heavens of Decreasing Choice,

and

Nine Hells of Increasing Doom.

On the final day of the last Hell,

Tezcatlipoca, god of death,

would remove his mask of jade

to reveal himself as

Quetzelcoatl, god of peace.

The Tree of Life shall blossom

with a fruit never before known to creation,

it shall bear the New Spirit of Men."



-an Aztec Prophecy