The old foundation of this world was the “freedom” of division. We have been exercising that freedom for millennia. Now the Cosmic Clock has been turning and there’s a new foundation replacing the old one. It is Union, Oneness, non-duality. We are all involved in the aligning of the Foundation of all truth that God is One and we are embraced in that Oneness. Even words cannot describe the Truth that we are all God (or at least a Grand Part of God). A window is opening and will remain open till it starts to close on Dec. 21st, 2012 (theory). By then, the faith and trust in this Great Joining will transform to Absolute Certainty. Certain that we have nothing to fear because, as we join, we will gain the certainty of God’s greatest gift that we have temporarily thrown away. The Knowingness that we are Eternal and Indestructible just like God Herself.

[Heather's REPLY]:

Yes, David, because the background for the text is WHITE and the text is BLACK.

It sounds like your page isn’t fully loading, i.e. you’re getting the border color, but the text background isn’t filling in properly on top (and you’re looking at the headline, which is red).

That could be due to a slow connection, OR you might want to update your browser. Firefox and IE both display properly if you have the latest version.

Other than that, I agreed with the source post, and I agree with this one. OK, I’m a bit leery of the consonance/dissonance thing, but that’s just me. In essence, I suspect, it’s a matter of overcoming the attitudes – and prejudices – we’ve been trained, for lack of a better term, to accept.

Nonetheless, the post under discussion, and this one, have merit and are worthy of discerning thought.

Thank you.

[ Barry's Reply ] –

No need to apologize for the Southern vernacular. Yeah, we get it… “row to hoe” — sorta brings up memories for me of my Grand Pappy Horus Pucker (H.P. for short), in Alabama, telling me to not buy a “pig-in-a-poke.” Hey, setting some clever tongue twisters aside, I also remember how easy it was for my kin folk to HEAR something (or read something, like “money is the root of all evil”) and completely not jive with the context of what was SAID or written.

In Heather’s case, she didn’t say journalism IS “fair, balanced, and unbiased” (even though, some is), she said it’s “supposed to be.” And traditionally, that’s what journalism is “supposed to be,” although, as she and you both said, it rarely is.

You see, you may be misinterpreting the journalistic sense of “fair and balanced.” Fox TV news used that as a slogan for a reason… because even though they’re anything BUT fair and balanced, it was meant to represent the basic tenets of true-blue journalism. And, guess what… “fair and balanced” MEANS “unbiased” in the journalistic sense. So they all three go together like ticks on a hound dog… or peas in a pod. Okay, I don’t remember ALL the southern lingo!

To put it in a nutshell, you can’t be unbiased without fairness (after all, fairness means reporting what you SEE, without any prejudice, and being impartial to what you’re about to discover — i.e. being unbiased); and you can’t be unbiased without balance (i.e. you can’t quote the sheriff saying that Billy Bob is meaner than a junkyard dog without getting Billy Bob’s take on that jab).