The Ten Commandments Were a Hopeless Failure: On Legalizing Hops Hash in California
The Ten Commandments Were a Hopeless Failure: On Legalizing Hops Hash in California
The Ten Commandments Were a Hopeless Failure: On Legalizing Hops Hash in California
Free Online Articles Directory
Why Submit Articles?
Top Authors
Top Articles
FAQ
ABAnswers
Publish Article
0 && $.browser.msie ) {
var ie_version = parseInt($.browser.version);
if(ie_version Login
Login via
Register
Hello
My Home
Sign Out
Email
Password
Remember me?Lost Password?
Home Page > News and Society > Politics > The Ten Commandments Were a Hopeless Failure: On Legalizing Hops Hash in California
The Ten Commandments Were a Hopeless Failure: On Legalizing Hops Hash in California
Posted: Oct 09, 2010 |Comments: 0
|
]]>
Eyeing a potential .5 billion a year in tax revenue, the state of California will vote this fall on legalizing hops hash, a move that’s a step toward recognition of the futility of legislating behavior that it’s impossible to enforce.
The Founder of Facebook has donated 0,000 to help the measure pass.
The religious right will see this as just another endorsement of decadence. The world over, religion has long been used to try to control people. Legalize hops hash and you greatly weaken this control.
You see the same phenomenon in the Islamic world, where sexuality is the big issue. The editor of the Indonesian edition of Playboy magazine was arrest in Bali this past week, wanted by the Islamic authorities to serve a two-year sentence for publishing indencency. The magazine was shut down in 2006 after the publication of only a few issues.
One hardline Islamic group in Indonesia called Erwin Arnada a “moral terrorist.” What they can’t see is that you can’t control people’s behavior, let alone their thoughts.
Daily in Tehran, Iran, strict Islamists ride vehicles specifically watching for women who aren’t dressed according to the code, for women who might be wearing makeup, or for situations in which an unmarried man and woman are alone.
What all of these thought police don’t seem to get is that people are going to do these things anyway, which is why enforcement is a never-ending task.
Religion has always failed to control human behavior for very long. And that’s a good thing.
The reason it’s good is that to live a spiritual life has nothing to do with being compelled by an external authority.
Spirituality is entirely something that must spring from within the individual.
Through our religiously-based moralism, as a species we have shriveled the spiritual quest for transformation of the finite by the infinite to an obsession with living by a set of moral laws. This is a gross distortion of what the spiritual journey is all about.
Doesn’t anyone realize that the ten commandments were a hopeless failure? They were ignored at every chance. The entire thrust of the Hebrew Scriptures is that you can’t impose a moral standard successfully. This is why a new covenant became necessary, one based on the heart.
As St. Paul stated so insightfully long ago in a letter to the people of Rome—a society that was obsessed with the rule of law, yet that nevertheless became utterly decadent—trying to enforce morality by using laws actually makes things worse.
The entire human race is in a state of arrested spiritual development precisely because we’ve got our understanding of how people become moral agents backwards. Doing the wholesome thing has to originate in our essential being, which is one with the divine, not in society’s rules.
Says the Catholic author Sebastian Moore, “In the spiritual life, the only motivational and inertia-shifting insights, the only ones that touch us in our indolence and so makea permanent difference to our lives, are those that have come from ourselves alone, discoveries.”
All the way back two to three thousand years ago, a handful of insightful individuals recognized that only when integrity arises from a heart level do we live lives that are whole and integrated.
The divine love has to be an internal impulse, not something externally enforced.
If people are to stop smoking hops hash, it has to come from a personal awareness. This is likely to dawn on them only as they face their emotional pain and integrate this pain in the kind of way Michael Brown explains in his recently released revised edition of The Presence Process.
Spirituality is an inside job, a matter for the heart. If the ten commandments failed to straighten a nation out, do we imagine our crusades against hops hash are ever really going to work.
Retrieved from “http://www.articlesbase.com/politics-articles/the-ten-commandments-were-a-hopeless-failure-on-legalizing-marijuana-in-california-3438844.html”
(ArticlesBase SC #3438844)
Start increasing your traffic today just by submitting articles with us, click here to get started.
Liked this article? Click here to publish it on your website or blog, it’s free and easy!
David Robert Ord -
About the Author:
David Robert Ord is author of Your Forgotten Self Mirrored in Jesus the Christ and the audio book Lessons in Loving–A Journey into the Heart, both from Namaste Publishing, publishers of Eckhart Tolle and other transformational authors. He writes The Compassionate Eye daily, together with his daily author blog Consciousness Rising, at www.namastepublishing.com.
We invite you to check out David’s daily author blog -http://www.namastepublishing.com/blog/author/david-robert-ord.
]]>
Questions and Answers
Ask our experts your Politics related questions here…
Ask
200 Characters left
What are the chances of Medical Hops Hash becoming legal in the state of Missouri any time soon?
Are mopeds street legal in california?
Are go carts street legal in california?
Rate this Article
1
2
3
4
5
vote(s)
1 vote(s)
Feedback
Re-Publish
0) {
ch_selected = Math.floor(Math.random()*ch_queries.length);
if(ch_selected == ch_queries.length) ch_selected–;
ch_query = ch_queries[ch_selected];
}
}catch(e){
ch_query = document.title;
}
]]>
Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/politics-articles/the-ten-commandments-were-a-hopeless-failure-on-legalizing-marijuana-in-california-3438844.html
Article Tags:
the state of california will vote on legalizing hops hash, founder of facebook donated 100, 000 to help measure pass, ten commandments, hebrew scriptures, smoking hops hash, spirituality and hops hash use, then commandments failed to straiten nation out
Latest Politics Articles
More from David Robert Ord
Hindi News: More about Language than News
With language come various important things like literature, history, culture, science and lifestyle. All that and of course the expressions as they have to be communicated to others.
By:
Nikita Vermal
News and Society>
Politicsl
Jun 21, 2011
Nothing left: Watch Hindi News to get more
In wake of the things that demand attention and serious actions to be taken, why does sport always draw unnecessary crowd? We keep hearing sports news in Hindi and constant updates on various sports cluttering the Hindi news space.
By:
Nikita Vermal
News and Society>
Politicsl
Jun 21, 2011
Kids, Start Looking for Refrigerator Boxes
Consider this, however; while our own seniors are seeing the realities of precariousness and destitution rush at them from the horizon, our tax dollars are being spent on propping up young, able people who have been conditioned to rely on hand-outs for their sustenance. But it gets worse…much worse.
By:
Daniel James Woodl
News and Society>
Politicsl
Jun 20, 2011
Here is Another Beauty on Illegal Immigrants
How one person in public office can be so biased and short sighted simply to further her own race is extremely inconsiderate. An illegal alen is an illegal alien and gets treatment according to law regardless.
By:
Edward J. Signorettil
News and Society>
Politicsl
Jun 20, 2011
The present Public representatives vis-a-vis immunity provided to them in the Constitution
The present members of the Parliament ,PM and other ministers are not entitled to the immunity,privileges, protection dignity provided to them in the Indian Constitution since,by and large, they are not elected without the influence of cast,creed ,money and muscle power The hue and cry raised against civil society members on their process of struggle for bringing a strong independent Lok pal bill is unwarranted.
By:
Kove Rajul
News and Society>
Politicsl
Jun 20, 2011
There’s a Well of Joy in the Center of Your Desert of Despair – The Little Prince Series
What is the purpose of the “crash in the desert” that seems to have to happen in our life if we are ever to enter into the bliss that Eckhart Tolle describes in his books? I’m talking about the abiding peace and exhilarating joy that Jesus knew and invited us to experience. The purpose of life descending into a mess, sending us into an emotional tailspin, is to expose what Eckhart calls our pain-body.
By:
David Robert Ordl
Self Improvement>
Motivationall
May 10, 2011
Crucifixion: A Symbol of What We Do to Ourselves
There are people who think we ought to get rid of all talk about the crucifixion of Jesus in the 21st century—that it is a negative, unhelpful, even harmful image. Those who have moved away from Christianity point to how Christendom has even taught people to crucify themselves, put themselves down, subjecting their will to that of others, and actually to feel bad about themselves.
By:
David Robert Ordl
Spirituality>
Religionl
May 06, 2011
How can You Be Yourself in a Workplace of Giant Egos
How can you be who you really are in a corporate, government, or nonprofit workplace when you are around giant egos that challenge you and seek to control you and get the better of you day in and day out? An interesting article was sent to me recently entitled “A bigger ego is the only way to truly create A New Earth.’” The author of the article applauds Eckhart Tolle for his impact on the world, then goes on to claim that the real problem in our world isn’t that we have an ego, but that our e
By:
David Robert Ordl
News and Society>
Philosophyl
May 05, 2011
Coming Fully Alive By Learning to Die to Your Ego Daily
In the British television soap EastEnders, an elderly character called Dot says that at lonely times in life, she always had herself, so that she was never totally lonely. Her concern about the fact she’s aging is: what if she loses herself as she grows older? All of us are going to lose what we think of as “ourselves.” It’s an inevitable part of aging. Eventually we shall irrevocably surrender up this mortal form we have experienced.
By:
David Robert Ordl
Self Improvement>
Motivationall
May 04, 2011
How You Can Really Be Someone – The Little Prince Series
Do you think you are really someone?If someone believes they are really someone, people tend to think of them as egotistical and maybe even put them down.On the other hand Nancy Hanks, mother of Abraham Lincoln, once said to him: “Abe, be someone!”There are two different ways to be someone. One comes from ego, the other from showing up in our life as an authentic person.
By:
David Robert Ordl
Self Improvement>
Motivationall
Feb 28, 2011
Add new Comment
Your Name: *
Your Email:
Comment Body: *
Verification code:*
* Required fields
Submit
Your Articles Here It’s Free and easy
Sign Up Today
Author Navigation
My Home
Publish Article
View/Edit Articles
View/Edit Q&A
Edit your Account
Manage Authors
Statistics Page
Personal RSS Builder
My Home
Edit your Account
Update Profile
View/Edit Q&A
Publish Article
Author Box
David Robert Ord has 190 articles online
Contact Author
Subscribe to RSS
Print article
Send to friend
Re-Publish article
Articles Categories
All Categories
Advertising
Arts & Entertainment
Automotive
Beauty
Business
Careers
Computers
Education
Finance
Food and Beverage
Health
Hobbies
Home and Family
Home Improvement
Internet
Law
Marketing
News and Society
Relationships
Self Improvement
Shopping
Spirituality
Sports and Fitness
Technology
Travel
Writing
News and Society
Causes & Organizations
Culture
Economics
Environment
Free
Journalism
Men’s Issues
Nature
Philosophy
Politics
Recycling
Weather
Women’s Issues
]]>
Need Help?
Contact Us
FAQ
Submit Articles
Editorial Guidelines
Blog
Site Links
Recent Articles
Top Authors
Top Articles
Find Articles
Site Map
Mobile Version
Webmasters
RSS Builder
RSS
Link to Us
Business Info
Advertising
Use of this web site constitutes acceptance of the Terms Of Use and Privacy Policy | User published content is licensed under a Creative Commons License.Copyright © 2005-2011 Free Articles by ArticlesBase.com, All rights reserved.
Find More Marijuana Articles
