Comments on: What to Do When Fear Beats You https://daredreamer.com/what-to-do-when-fear-beats-you/ The Sites & Sounds of Creative Expression Wed, 13 Jan 2016 21:18:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 By: Ron Dawson https://daredreamer.com/what-to-do-when-fear-beats-you/#comment-1064 Tue, 07 Jul 2015 21:41:55 +0000 http://bladeronner.com/?p=2436#comment-1064 In reply to vocalvarieties.

That’s an interesting tidbit to bring up. What is your bigger point?

]]> By: vocalvarieties https://daredreamer.com/what-to-do-when-fear-beats-you/#comment-1063 Tue, 07 Jul 2015 21:29:29 +0000 http://bladeronner.com/?p=2436#comment-1063 In reply to David.

Actually it’s about states rights. Slavery was started by the African tribes selling each other off. And Northerners had slaves too.

]]> By: Ron Dawson https://daredreamer.com/what-to-do-when-fear-beats-you/#comment-1062 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:03:03 +0000 http://bladeronner.com/?p=2436#comment-1062 In reply to Chris.

So glad you approve Mr. Hennesy. 🙂 I love you too man.

]]> By: Chris https://daredreamer.com/what-to-do-when-fear-beats-you/#comment-1061 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:58:03 +0000 http://bladeronner.com/?p=2436#comment-1061 hahahaha I love you Ron! you chicken shit
that’s really a fabulous piece of writing

]]> By: Ron Dawson https://daredreamer.com/what-to-do-when-fear-beats-you/#comment-1060 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:48:51 +0000 http://bladeronner.com/?p=2436#comment-1060 In reply to tedwca@gmail.com.

Thanks for the correction Ted. You’re right, I haven’t been in many Buddhist temples lately. 🙂

]]> By: tedwca@gmail.com https://daredreamer.com/what-to-do-when-fear-beats-you/#comment-1059 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:36:33 +0000 http://bladeronner.com/?p=2436#comment-1059 Hi Ron,

I’m going to guess have not been in a Buddhist temple as many of them have swastikas on the chest of almost all the statues of Buddha. The arms of the symbol are the reverse of the Nazi symbol, but most people do not realize that. 

From wikipedia:
The Buddhist sign has been standardised as a Chinese character 卍 (pinyin: wàn) and as such entered various other East Asian languages such as Japanese where the symbol is called 卍字 (manji). The swastika (in either orientation) appears on the chest of some statues of Gautama Buddha and is often incised on the soles of the feet of the Buddha in statuary. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika

]]> By: Ron Dawson https://daredreamer.com/what-to-do-when-fear-beats-you/#comment-1058 Tue, 04 Jan 2011 21:31:43 +0000 http://bladeronner.com/?p=2436#comment-1058 In reply to Chase.

I just may have to Chase. We have a vacation club property there. I could take a crew. Wanna help if I do? 🙂

]]> By: Lydia https://daredreamer.com/what-to-do-when-fear-beats-you/#comment-1057 Tue, 04 Jan 2011 20:18:22 +0000 http://bladeronner.com/?p=2436#comment-1057 I don’t have a lot of tips, but positive encouragement sure helps! That to say, I wish you had gone in! 🙂

]]> By: titus nixon https://daredreamer.com/what-to-do-when-fear-beats-you/#comment-1056 Tue, 04 Jan 2011 19:29:37 +0000 http://bladeronner.com/?p=2436#comment-1056 I agree with you on fear, as a African American I felt the same attending a tea-party event, but the jornalist in me said what the hell. the crown was filled with people whom I personally belong on some doctor couch looking up a White celling, but that was just my felling it didn’t get in the way of the story. The interview was good, I must say some was pretty damn nice to me and gave me a lot of content and with that I was thankful. So some time you got to say “What the F–K and go for it.

]]> By: David https://daredreamer.com/what-to-do-when-fear-beats-you/#comment-1055 Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:22:25 +0000 http://bladeronner.com/?p=2436#comment-1055 Ron,

NY Times is doing a great series on Civil War and secession. Slavery was the issue at the heart of the war. The wealthy Southerners didn’t want to lose their lifestyle and the Southern whites didn’t want to lose their status. The confederate flag is all about perpetuating an attitude of racial superiority.

This was confirmed last night when I watched the bio of Robert E. Lee (PBS American Experience). He could not reconcile how God had let his cause lose when it was so moral. RE Lee died still believing in his cause was the moral one.

I think for too long we have let this icon of racial intolerance carry a “James Dean, Rebel without a Cause” characterization. I too have sadly let this pass without comment. The confederacy was all about maintaining a view that blacks were sub-human. This flag was their banner. Reminding people of that fact is important.

David

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