Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Walking The Red Road (Oren Lyons - FB Post)
– Oren Lyons - Faithkeeper of the Onondaga Nation
What I say to you today is that the ice is melting in the North as we speak, trees are tipping, the roads are buckling, buildings are falling in. From what? From the permafrost melting. Perma. Permanent frost. No, not so permanent. It's melting right now.
Whatever happens to us will not have any impact on the world. In time, the world will regenerate. It will come back green, and the waters will be clean again. It¹s just that there won¹t be any people here. That¹s all. We¹re not Needed. We¹re parasites. We don¹t help the Earth, we take. So if all the people disappear, then the Earth is going to regenerate because there¹ll be peace here again.
The second message I bring you is that global warming is real. It is imminent. It is upon us. It¹s a lot closer than you think, and I don¹t think we¹re ready for what¹s coming. We¹re not instructing our people, we¹re not Instructing our children, we¹re not preparing for what is coming. And it surely is coming. We¹ve pulled the trigger, and there is nothing we can do now to stop it. The event is underway.
Animals live in a state of grace; they do no wrong. They do only what they¹re supposed to do. They try, they persevere. In New York City I saw geese going overhead, flying the same path they flew a thousand years ago. They have to fly higher, but they¹re still going over. Hawks go right by, the same way. Fish travel in the same place. They¹re still doing what they can, the best they can, despite the bad air and the bad water around them. That¹s what we did to them Now we have to do better. We¹ll be lonesome without them. Being survivors and who we are, we¹ll be the last to go.
The founding fathers of this country, Jefferson and Madison and Franklin, all talked about natural law. It was common-day usage for them. It was part of their vernacular to talk about natural law, and they knew what they were talking about because they learned from us! Natural law prevails. Either abide by it or suffer the consequences. I haven¹t heard any reference to natural law coming from an administration in a long time. That¹s how far we¹re drifting from reality. We¹re drifting, and it¹s costly. We have to get back on course. The chiefs, and I personally, feel that we have not passed the point of no return. Not yet, but we¹re approaching it. And the day when we do pass that point, there will be no boom, no sonic sound. It will be
just like any other day.
We don¹t lead by telling people what to do. If you want people to pick something up off the ground, you start picking it up yourself, and pretty soon somebody¹s going to help you. You lead by example. That¹s the best way to inspire, by example. There¹s no short cut.
You have to meet challenges, and as you move along, it¹s like crossing a stream on stones. We¹ve all done that. You can see some stones and you can¹t see others, but at some point you have to make the run. And as you jump from one stone to the other, you¹re always looking for the next jump. Most of the time you make it. Not all of the time. Sometimes you come to the kind of situation where there¹s not going to be a safe move at all. You¹re not going to get an answer. People want answers, but there aren¹t really many answers
except to keep looking and to become active. If you stick to the principles that you have to guide you, that¹s about the best you can do.
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