Min Mu for President 2012

Min Mu for President 2012

A Real American - not one of those politicians.

I was  thinking how much fun it would be to make a campaign and run a true grass roots campaign for the Presidency in 2012.  It would be a true shot in the dark.  Here is an idea of my running campaign.

"Hi! I am Min Mu. (insert awkward wave here)  It has been said that honesty is the best policy. So I am here to run an honest (point finger upward as in making a point or great idea) campaign for the presidency in 2012 (the end of the Mayan calender)."

(Here is where I would then insert quick clips of different angles of me telling the world about my self.)

"I am a part of the unaffiliated party" . . .   "I like to blog" . . .    "My husband is a hard worker" . . .  "I don't blow dry my hair" . . .   "I am a non-practicing Christian" . . .    " I have never had plastic surgery" . . .    "I am a really bad liar" . . . "I never finished college" . . .  "I have never worked in government"  . . .   "No, I'm not running for President of the PTA, I want to be President of the USA" . . .  "What that is a stressful job . . . I don't do stress" . . .  "What it only pays $400,000 a year - with inflation and taxes what does that come out to like $10" . . .

"If you are looking to elect Jane American as your next President then vote Min Mu in 2012 - if the world doesn't end - darn you Mayan's and your calender"


This is an unpaid advertisement made by Min Mu for the Min Mu for President 2012 campaign.  This has not been endorsed or paid for by anybody - and I mean anybody - do you really think that I can get money for this I am not blood related nor a member of some secret society out to destroy the lives of good hard working Americans and turn them all into socialist zombies out for a Gimme lifestyle.

When has it changed from personal responsibility, to what will others do for me?
Instead of going and getting it myself to putting my pride up on a dusty shelf.
What happened to learning the basics of life, and learning from our times of strife?
Why do we feel happiness is now an entitlement versus a pursuit and it's fulfillment?

Are we a Give me Nation, that doesn't care about inflation?
Give me money, give me tax breaks, give me discounts, give me land, give me clothes, give me health care, give me food - you make more money then me - you must be rude!

Don't give awards to high achievers, give it to those who are day dreamers. Competition is bad, it will hurt someones feelings, because we are a nation of crybaby weaklings.

Giant Killer Bunnies Take over the World

These giant german bunnies are bred to help feed North Korea . . . or are they?  Perhaps a military institution somewhere is breeding these giant bunnies and are going to strap laser beams to there cute floppy ears and set them free to destroy the world.


http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2307544,00.html

A Revolution Revelation

This world today is, how do you say, confusing.  Who is good and who is bad, who is right and who is wrong?  People who once were bad now claiming to be good and people who seemed good turning out to be bad.  Where did everything go wrong.  Is there really a war going on Civilization vs Barbarianism?

It must be stated that this cannot be a war over religion, since all religions and beliefs in one way or another point to the same concept of a Higher Presence, a Universal Being, a Great Spirit aka God, or whatever you would like to call this Spirit which has created all that is, or if you like what holds all that is together.  Science has proven to us the Circle of Life and how even the tiniest of creatures is important for the existence of the others.  It is also proven that harming others only inadvertently harms ourselves.  So wars, biological war fare, nuclear bombs, or even the simple killing of any form that has LIFE in it, will in turn bring to the destruction of not only those who it was intended for but also for those which had decided to engage in it.   Not to mention that if we admit that there is a Creator of ourselves then that Creator also created another person even if that person does not acknowledge it, it does not make that person any less a part of this creation we call earth.  So truly if you harm another person you are actually harming the Creator, this is why we should love everybody, even if they have different thoughts they still are made by the Creator and the death of one, (even if our thoughts don't align) should be a great travesty and we should all mourn the death of our Creator since the Spirit of the Creator resides in all that has life in it.


Here are some dictionary definitions that I had to define to understand more about life and war.

Revolution - 
1390, originally of celestial bodies, from O.Fr. revolution, from L.L. revolutionem (nom. revolutio) "a revolving," from L. revolutus, pp. of revolvere "turn, roll back" (see revolve). General sense of "instance of great change in affairs" is recorded from c.1450. Political meaning first recorded 1600, derived from French, and was especially applied to the expulsion of the Stuart dynasty under James II in 1688 and transfer of sovereignty to William and Mary. Revolutionary as a noun is first attested 1850, from the adjective. Revolutionize "to change a thing completely and fundamentally" is first recorded 1799.


Revelation-

Etymology: Middle English revelacioun, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin revelation-, revelatio, from Latin revelare to reveal

Date: 14th century

1 a : an act of revealing or communicating divine truth b : something that is revealed by God to humans
2 a : an act of revealing to view or making known b : something that is revealed; especially : an enlightening or astonishing disclosure s> c : a pleasant often enlightening surprise

So here we have a breakdown of ideas.

A revolution is where they want to turn, roll back.  A revolution wants to go back to the way it was before.

A revelation is where something is revealed and we move forward.

These are opposites.  These are the opposites that are fighting today.  We have Revolutionaries who want to go back to the original ways and we have the Revelationaries who want to reveal more.  This is what has been happening for forever.  There are people who want to go back and people who want to move forward.  Personally I cannot see how going backwards will get us ahead, what is so wrong with moving forward?

I came up with this concept after hearing the Israeli President say that there has always been a war on Civilization by Barbarianism. That to me was a revolutionary revelation.

Civilization- 
1704, originally "law which makes a criminal process civil;" sense of "civilized condition" first recorded 1772, probably from Fr. civilisation, to be an opposite to barbarity and a distinct word from civility.

Date: 1772

1 a : a relatively high level of cultural and technological development; specifically : the stage of cultural development at which writing and the keeping of written records is attained b : the culture characteristic of a particular time or place
2 : the process of becoming civilized
3 a : refinement of thought, manners, or taste b : a situation of urban comfort

Barbarianism-
 Barbarous-
1526, "not Greek or Latin" (pertaining to words or language), from L. barbarus, from Gk. barbaros (see barbarian). Meaning "uncultured, savage" is recorded from 1538; that of "savagely cruel" is from 1588.

Barbarian -1338, from M.L. barbarinus, from L. barbaria "foreign country," from Gk. barbaros "foreign, strange, ignorant," from PIE base *barbar- echoic of unintelligible speech of foreigners (cf. Skt. barbara- "stammering," also "non-Aryan").

Barbary-

c.1300, "foreign lands" (especially non-Christian lands," from L. barbarus "barbarous" (see barbarian). Meaning "Saracens living in coastal North Africa" is attested from 1596, via Fr. (O.Fr. Barbarie), from Arabic Barbar, Berber, ancient Arabic name for the inhabitants of N.Africa beyond Egypt. Perhaps a native Arabic word, from barbara "to babble confusedly," which may be ult. from Gk. barbaria (see barbarian). "The actual relations (if any) of the Arabic and Gr[eek] words cannot be settled; but in European langs. barbaria, Barbarie, Barbary, have from the first been treated as identical with L. barbaria, Byzantine Gr[eek] barbaria land of barbarians" [OED].



So is this the battle still ensuing today?  A battle between Civilalization and Barbarianism?  Perhaps it is better understood in these terms versus a war of good and evil, or to help explain the war on terror better.  It is so hard to understand what is going on today and why there is such fighting and what for.  And also when we see the term "Revolution" put to a group of people does that warn us that they want to go back in time versus moving forward?  I think that if we all stopped trying to be Revolutionaries and try to be Revelationaries we could come up with a way to move forward.

A simple study of words helped me to understand what is happening in the world today.  So when I see certain words come up I can understand what they mean, and that I can have a slight clue to who the people are and what they are doing.  Since I am one who wants to move forward, and move past where we are today, I want to be considered a Revelationary.

There is a constant battle throughout the world and it is between wanting to go back to the way it was or to move forward.

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past are certain to miss the future." John F. Kennedy

"Forgiveness is letting go of the past." Gerald Jampolsky

"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsiblity of our future." George Berrnard Shaw

"Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present." Petra Nemcova

"Create your future from your future not your past." Werner Erhard.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

- Lord Byron

The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid.

- Jose Ortega y Gasset

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

- John Wayne

Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.

- Ellen Gilchrist

Living in the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way.

- Edna Ferber

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

- Heraclitus

The worst thing you can do is to try to cling to something that's gone, or to recreate it.

- Johnette Napolitano

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.

- Andre Maurois

Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead.

- Lillie Langtry

The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.

- L. Thomas Holdcroft

Without forgiveness life is governed ... by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.

- Robert Assaglioli

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

- Hannah Arendt

Forgiveness is the way to true health and happiness.

- Gerald Jampolsky

Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.

- Horace Bushnell

Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.

- Joseph Jacobs

The answer I can come up with is to Forgive not to Fight.  But the problem is will fighting continue if the one side does not have it in them to forgive.

Forgive -

O.E. forgiefan "give, grant, allow," also "to give up" and "to give in marriage;" from for- "completely" + giefan "give" (see give). The modern sense of "to give up desire or power to punish" is from use of the compound as a Gmc. loan-translation of L. perdonare (cf. Du. vergeven, Ger. vergeben; see pardon).

–verb (used with object)

1.	to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.

2.	to give up all claim on account of; remit (a debt, obligation, etc.).

3.	to grant pardon to (a person).

4.	to cease to feel resentment against: to forgive one's enemies.

5.	to cancel an indebtedness or liability of: to forgive the interest owed on a loan.

–verb (used without object)

6.	to pardon an offense or an offender.

So if the answer to the problem with war is forgiveness- who makes the first step.  Who forgives the other and gives up on the claim?  Is forgiveness a two way street.  Will war end when one side finally decides to truly forgive the other?  I think it may be a genius tactic that has never really been tried.  True Forgiveness, no strings attached.  Would it work?  Jesus talked about forgiveness and even turning the other cheek, how long does it take for true forgiveness to take hold, before it brings down the other side, before they realize that they are truly forgiven? 

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=revolution&searchmode=none
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/revelation
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=civilization
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Civilization
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1354284/ten_quotes_on_stop_living_in_the_past.html?cat=38
http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/topics/the_past_quotes.html

 http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/forgive?db=luna
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=forgive&searchmode=none

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882

I think it would be wise for everyone or simply anyone to read Self-Reliance to read it online http://www.emersoncentral.com/selfreliance.htm.

Here are a few memorable moments from it:

Then, again, do not tell me, as a good man did to-day, of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong. There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold; for them I will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; — though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold. . .

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. . .

The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character. If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers, — under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are. And, of course, so much force is withdrawn from your proper life. But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity. If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument. I hear a preacher announce for his text and topic the expediency of one of the institutions of his church. Do I not know beforehand that not possibly can he say a new and spontaneous word? Do I not know that, with all this ostentation of examining the grounds of the institution, he will do no such thing? Do I not know that he is pledged to himself not to look but at one side, — the permitted side, not as a man, but as a parish minister? He is a retained attorney, and these airs of the bench are the emptiest affectation. Well, most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion. This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars. Their every truth is not quite true. Their two is not the real two, their four not the real four; so that every word they say chagrins us, and we know not where to begin to set them right. Meantime nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere. We come to wear one cut of face and figure, and acquire by degrees the gentlest asinine expression. There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history; I mean "the foolish face of praise," the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease in answer to conversation which does not interest us. The muscles, not spontaneously moved, but moved by a low usurping wilfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face with the most disagreeable sensation. . .

The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.

But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then? It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity: yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

To read the entire essay visit:

http://www.emersoncentral.com/selfreliance.htm

I can read this essay over and over and learn something more each time.

A little about the Author

The Minday News is a blog written by a Mindy. Mindy is a unique individual with a love for research and great imagination and sense of adventure. Most of the information posted on The Minday News is based on what she has acquired from reading books and watching life.

Mindy loves to do research and loves to create stories, adventures and formulate thoughts. She also loves a good conspiracy. Perhaps one day she will be able to put all of her thoughts and ideas into one super good novel. But until then she will limit her thoughts to a blog.


Mindy loves America, loves her life and is a spiritual free thinking scientific researcher which has found a way in which to express her self through christian church. Her true beliefs are only based on facts or on the Truth- as it presents itself. Please in no way try to understand Mindy.

Mindy has adapted a philosophy on life and that is based from Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self-Reliance."

The one Philosophy that Mindy follows is:

"Speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today. 'Ah, so you shall be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." - Ralph Waldo Emerson from his essay on Self-reliance

The Minday News is evidence to show what Mindy is studying at the time. If Mindy is studying humorous news stories - you in turn will read funny news stories. If Mindy is studying religious doctrine the news will portray her thoughts at that time. Currently The Minday News has been posting much about American Life today and a Study of America's History as well as Roman history. The posts on The Minday News reflect the thoughts of Mindy during that time. Those are her hard words of today and tomorrow they may contradict the thoughts of today.

Some very influential authors that Mindy has drawn peace and knowledge from are Ralph Waldo Emmerson, Thomas Jefferson and a more recent author Eckhart Tolle.

Peaceful protesting - a non-stressful approach to change

FYI - this is just an overview of past philosophies that helped people
when they set out to be heard and make a difference. They are not new
and I am aware you all know this. It is just a quick compilation of
ideas we should think about every now and then.


When we get out to speak our peace remember not to let anyone get the better
of us.

We do not have to be loud to be heard. Stick to the truth as it is
and continually rely on that. Let others be at a loss of words, let
the others have a loud voice. The quiet voice of knowledge will always
be much louder then the loudest megaphones and speakers.

We do not have to "fight" for our rights. Never resort to violence.
Stand strong in your knowledge of truth, be well versed, not well
armed. Know why you are there, have your purpose, your plan, and your
truths ready to go. Ask your questions and repeat it calmly until it
is answered.

Just as a little child asking "why?" Children always ask innocently
"why?" so they can learn. We should do the same. Just keep asking,
"why?"

Remember the golden rule, it applies everywhere and will work for us.
Treat others as you would like to be treated.

If you want some one to listen to you, then listen to them. (in
listening you may hear what you need to help break down what they are
saying)

If you want the right to life, then respect other peoples right to
life. (no violence)

Also We MUST remain united! Unless we as a group of people can stand
there side by side with each other as one - they will be able to break
us apart.

I have seen at the town hall meetings, and even now and again in some
threads that sometimes we have disagreements or we make quick humorous
jabs at others, and I have seen some that are down right disrespectful
to each other. This will divide us. I am not saying we all have to
agree with one another but we sure need to respect one another and act
as one. Any little fracture in us will cause "them" to have a place
to break us apart.

I know everyone is aware of all this, because these are far from new
thoughts, but it is just a reminder.

Good luck to everyone going out and wanting to make a difference to
help our nation move forward to protecting our freedoms.