Uncle Taz, Uncle Sam, and Bradbury
From: Tarjei Straume
Date: Sun Nov 9, 2003 3:52 pm
Subject: Uncle Taz, Uncle Sam, and Bradbury
At 21:04
09.11.2003, Christine wrote:
So, dear Uncle,
For the record: I am not an Uncle; I am only
Tarjei, a normal human mortal. But I take it as a compliment
that you're getting me mixed up with my mentor and guru Uncle
Taz. He is an elf, Uncle Sam's very cousin, and a member of the
Lodge of Planetary Uncles.
we have to keep writing and speaking the
TRUTH for as long as we can. Then we have to archive it and hide
it for the time when all sources of communication are cut down
(soon). We need to survive, or rather someone does who will bring
it back to the light of day after the holocaust and teach the
young. That is what we must teach those who are children now
- to be teachers in the future.
Reminds me of a couple of sci-fi movies. One
of them was a British flick from the 1970's where a police state
practiced book burning; all books were banned, and people had
to memorize them to keep their contents alive, going by the names
of the volumes they's memorized.
That is why is it such a subversive act.
Do you think "Farenheit 451" by Bradbury is just a
fairy tale??? It has happened and will happen again.
I haven't seen or read that one. But I like
some of Ray Bradbury's short stories, especially "Charlie,"
which has two screen versions. The first version starred Cliff
Robertson as Charlie; I recently watched the newer version but
don't recall the names of the actors.
Anyway, Charlie is mentally handicapped, but
he is cheerful, trusting, happy, and so "dumb" he doesn't
realize people are making fun of him. He actually laughs _with_
them when they are laughing _at_ him, taking pleasure in _their_
fun. And as the story goes, the researchers have discovered a
clever piece of surgery that can make him into a genius, with
the possible side effect of becoming even dumber than before
if the experiment reverses itself. So Charlie becomes a genius,
and he reverses to what he was before, but in the meantime, at
the height of his intellectual powers, he succeeds in teaching
a lesson to academia: The cleverness hase made him cynical, angry,
and unhappy, because he sees through the selfishness, arrogance,
etc. in people and the world. But the "old Charlie,"
or the "dumb Charlie," is happy. It was a wonderful
film, and I wish they'd make more of them.
I find a particular insight by Rudolf Steiner
tremendously interesting, and in fact very moving. t makes a
lot of sense to me when I read that he claimed something like:
"Every time I look at genius, I see at least one former
incarnation as a mental retard." This makes so much sense
because most of us use a meager 5 or 10 per cent of the brain's
capacity. If you use 40 per cent, you're better than Einstein.
And let's say you have to live through a whole life with a defective
brain, when even tying your shoe laces is a tremendous challenge.
You have to use an enormous percentage of your severely disadvantaged
brain to perform menial everyday tasks. So imagine what happens
when you reincarnate in a healthy body with a well-endowed intellect!
You'll use its full capacity (as you had to do last time), and
you'll be a genius!
So of course Steiner said of the mentally
retarded, that they are preparing for their future incarnations.
And with this in mind, he established so-called "curative
education."
Someone once mentioned
on an e-list that Rudolf Steiner speaks about "rest incarnations"
and the frequent occurrence of a life with disabilities shortly
before a life of great accomplishment. (Can someone enlighten
us here?) "Rest incarnation" seems to me an odd description
of brain damage or mental handicap.
With the above in mind, a mentally handicapped
condition would not be an incarnation of rest, but of exercise,
of hard work.
Have you ever seen the movie "The
White Rose" about a group of college students in Munich
who, for a time, published a newsletter against Hitler?
No I haven't.
They were caught and executed. This is
the price. We cannot go "to the table" with the Antichrist.
It's his table right now and we are not welcome.
Steiner did write and work in order to try to head off the forces
at the end of the first world war that would eventually lead
to the second world war. Of course, not even he could stop the
tide of destiny. But his work stands in the Akashic and at least
for now, in the physical world to help us garner the inner spiritual,
mental and emotional courage to live in these times and work
for the times to come.
With love, not malice,
Christine
Who would ever suspect you of malice? I think
your exposes and links are fascinating. And you're so right,
we have to vouchsafe the truth from the bad guys and the tyrants
to come.....
Cheer up!
Tarjei
http://uncletaz.com/
Continued
in another thread
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From: golden3000997
Date: Sun Nov 9, 2003 3:57 pm
Subject: Re: [anthroposophy_tomorrow] Uncle Taz, Uncle Sam, and
Bradbury
That British movie WAS Farenheit 451!!!!! : )
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From: Tarjei Straume
Date: Sun Nov 9, 2003 4:15 pm
Subject: Re: [anthroposophy_tomorrow] Uncle Taz, Uncle Sam, and
Bradbury
At 00:57 10.11.2003, Christine wrote:
That British movie WAS Farenheit 451!!!!!
: )
Wow, deja vous!
Tarjei
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