Source: www.mic.com | Original Post Date: April 16, 2014 –

In a recent report from the academic journal Perspectives on Politics, the United States is not a democracy, but is instead, an oligarchy. For those who aren’t up with fancy words, this means that the US government is very, very corrupt.

The news: A new scientific study from Princeton researchers Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page has finally put some science behind the recently popular argument that the United States isn’t a democracy any more. And they’ve found that in fact, America is basically an oligarchy.

An oligarchy is a system where power is effectively wielded by a small number of individuals defined by their status called oligarchs. Members of the oligarchy are the rich, the well connected and the politically powerful, as well as particularly well placed individuals in institutions like banking and finance or the military.

More than 45,000 people came together last weekend and set the Guinness World Record for single-day reforestation efforts.

You often hear saddening statistics about the rate of deforestation from ecologically-minded friends and the news, but how often do you hear about the good that is being carried out to reverse environmental damage? Not as often, that’s for sure.

Therefore relish this news story, which features more than 45,000 people coming together to set the Guinness World Record for single-day reforestation efforts.

God said:

The name of the game in the world is change. In the world, everything is changing a mile a minute. In the world there is speed. Nothing stays the same, or, not for any length of imaginary time does anything stay the same. Even puzzlement shows different faces. Truth, however, does not divert. The absolute exists in the world, yet far deeper and beyond the surface. The surface of the world is surface. Surface life is a lot like a train that is rushing to get somewhere. And when the train gets there, the train is off in a rush to get somewhere else.

Satisfaction in the relative world flits around. In the world of God, stability exists. No one rocks My boat, beloveds. You may well not see the depth, yet the depth is running the show no matter how random life may look to you. From the deep silence, My Will is done. The surface is souped up and all over the place. In the Silence, I reign.

The surface of life can make you cross-eyed. You try to make sense of it, and, often, this is not possible. Nonsense doesn’t make sense. All you can do is laugh or smile and let what has no decipherable meaning go.

You may like the idea of staying the same, living in the same house, never growing old, yet, when you think about it, you don’t desire this either. You are stalemated. You don’t want to change, and you don’t want to stay the same.

All of life in the relative world is about change, and change upon change.