WHERE DO I GO FROM HERE?

                                                            Goal of Prime Directives

           Prime Directives has as its goal to bring together those struggling, spiritually and materially, feeling betrayed, lost and fearful, sharing concerns and ideas seeking a way forward materially, emotionally and spiritually. Kind of like the conversations in the old colonial day taverns.

          The way forward is a life where all, free from the disabling doubts of life, find strength in each other answering the question “Where do I go from here?” 

          A way acknowledging the pillars of man, within you and me, give us meaning and happiness. These pillars, material, mental, emotional and spiritual, cannot stand unless all equally stand. Hanging around is a fifth pillar.

         Contrary to the ways of the world in which we live, explaining its madness, equally necessary is the spiritual pillar for happiness to be. Man lives by more than just bread, football and therapy.

          My way compels me to take my belief, expressing it not in silence out of the light of the world, but in making caring for my neighbor my occupation.

Equally necessary is an economic order, the material pillar, that honors the true producers, that is the workers, with a democratic order reflecting this economic order.

          Organization into a force not ignored by the politicians and their lords, the elite/rich, the hypocrites, today’s pharaohs, the traitors of all good and decent, is necessary. 

           All the while, answering the questions, where are we in history, why are we where we are, and what can we do to move forward as intended with the ultimate question of life, “Where do I go from here”, being answered.

In answering these questions order and harmony are achieved.

                                         STATEMENT of PRIME DIRECTIVES

         We live in an eternity. Who we are today, we owe to those who came before us continuing to make history with our problems being no different than the problems faced by our ancestors. Concerns of shelter, food, health care, employment, security, God and happiness remain the same. 

         All have and continue to care for their children, their futures, their dreams. All have and continue to face doubts and questions concerning issues of God and immortality. All have and continue to dare to have a genuine say in their government, in their community, in their lives. 

         History is the struggle to address these concerns, to answer the questions, where are we in history, why are we where we are, what can we do to move forward as intended and the ultimate question “Where do I go from here”. 

          We are perpetually in a transition period of an endless cycle moving forward with periods of growth, followed by stagnation and decay leading to revival. In revival there is the door transitioning to growth. All we need to do is to open this door. This is the period in which we find ourselves, the revival period.

          For years stagnation and decay have been our way now compelling survival by opening that door. 

           Move forward as intended doing what our ancestors did. Reach out as leaders of the believers, the true producers, grasping truth revealed to us showing the way.

          There is one universe, one law universal to all. “Where do I go from here” is answered moving man forward giving us one prime directive, hence the name of this group.

          A prime directive as the Romans believed is useless unless it addresses the practical requiring its foundation is clear, distinct and beyond doubt, making it our duty to care for our neighbors, making life and religion one and the same. 

There is only one law to which homage by man in all his forms is to be paid. 

          The agenda of PrimeDirectives is to discover the clear and distinct Prime Directive in life living it with no part of life excluded.

                                                            Agenda of Prime Directives

          PrimeDirectives is working on a project acknowledging the number one industry in the United States, is not the steel industry, not the oil industry, not the technology industry. 

         It is the poverty industry acknowledging poverty includes not only the poor, but also the worker at the 7/11 leaving not to go home at the end of a 12 hour shift but to go across the street to work at the gas station in the hope of paying last month’s rent missing homework with their child.

          This project deals with a justice system concerned ostensibly with providing the opportunity for our citizens to become productive. In the end, the goal achieved is a justice system advancing the poverty industry with its subjects entering a life of waste, certainly not justice. 

           Rare to you and me, unique to our times, is that door waits to be opened through which we can enter not as Americans, not as Christians, not as Jews, not as Muslins, but as a people seeing each matter, has value, is to be respected, and seeing forgiveness serves us well. 

            Break away from the ways controlling our lives, tired and failing ways, come together to share our stories, thoughts, plans, views, like the patrons of the colonial tavern, proceeding into a world where each is heard and respected, placing into action the means to give the potency and dreams of our angels an actuality.

           History has and continues to be the making of a world recognizing it is the worker getting up each day to work creating the world in which we live. The workers are the Producers building a world struggling for justice. 

            The conditions of our country, our world, run contrary to this recognition wasting us. This is not acceptable.

          Prime Directives seeks to establish a way forward based on you and me embraced by Americans, and the mothers and fathers rising as we do in lands far away deemed your enemy. 

          All share the same life experiences, awakening each day, with the same feelings and hopes. Prime Directives seeks the way embraced by all. All are brothers and sisters.

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                                                                   The American Dream       

       Need to organize to bring about a system where the worker defines his destiny, where the worker creates. Sound economic theory demands this. Historical necessity is at work here.

       Fulfill the American Dream beginning with respect for the worker with laws acknowledging the worker as the origin of wealth. Let the worker has his due. Let's get started and move forward.

                                                                        WAY FORWARD

       We are facing the foulest of our times conspiring to destroy that which is good and decent about our country, and this we cannot allow to happen.

       The dreams of the old, the young, the poor, the worker, the weak are in jeopardy of dying. And no one is there to stand up for them. They have no voice.

       Dreams uniquely American are dying meaning we must go forward with the courage uniquely American to provide the voice to silence the voice of the tyrants. 

       We are to go forward carrying on the fight against poverty, disease, and ignorance possessing a purpose common to all. It is this purpose we serve.

       The way forward is to stand with the old, the young, the poor, the worker, the weak understanding their dreams are common and shared.

       Too long we have talked about the glory and the rights of the working man. It is time to make this glory real. 

       Time to free this country from the suffocating bigotry of the past. To fight for the idea, we each possess value meaning we fight for ourselves by fighting for each other. 

       We must go forward not for profit and conquest but liberation doing so with faith in ourselves and in each other.  

       Focus on a peace in which freedom and justice lives in all.

       The few are people of greed and ignorance originating in racism and bigotry. They are to be conquered.

       Need policies and laws advancing the working man, the creators of our nation's wealth, recognizing the ability of the working man to competently direct his life.

       We have the ability and capacity to stand up for the weak against the wicked giving life to these dreams. 

       In doing so poverty, disease and ignorance flees. The glory of the worker is made real. Bigotry and the chains of the past are let go.

      We have a choice. We can engage in a life for money, fame, land, power, money, importance. 

       Or

       Seek truth requiring a mind and heart open and caring for all. 

       For a world where no man bows to another, where no man has his future determined by his birth, his happenstance. 

       Doubt and fear can no longer be our excuse.

       Focus on a peace in which freedom lives, and all know justice.

Greet and conquer the enemy of our country, the people of greed and arrogance grounded in racism, religion and country. 

       Seek policies advancing the working man not the rich.

       Believe in your ability to act. Go forward caring for our neighbor, 

       Hate, evil, the violence are there placed by the few to divide the many, you and me. 

                                                      Choose to Live for Your Neighbor      

        Reason implies thought and thought implies choice. Choice requires mental activity free of the cravings of passion and desires. 

       "All men are created equal", a man wrote. 

       But is the man in the carriage, the big car, equal to the worker in the mine, the mill, the man seeking to clean my windshield for pennies, the man who made the carriage, the car? 

       One has a marker upon death. One does not. 

       We can fight for ourselves or for each other, fight to be someone or for another to be someone, or the idea each possesses value.

       Our road will be as it has always been long and hard. The greed of the few is strong.

       You and I have the same fears and dreams. It is the dreams upon we need to build. Each of us has souls tried. 

       We each have a choice. Choice being another word for free will. Be a fighter or be a coward. 

       Let us fight to end conquest. To liberate all from the ashes. To be a Phoenix rising from the ashes. Let us not allow the temporal to keep us from this quest. Let us fight greed, racism, ignorance, to find a peace free of the schemes of unworthy men. Where all reap the fruits of their toil.

                                                                  I Am You. You Are I

       I am you. You are I. I will not turn on you whom I love and honor. I will not turn on the people of this country no more than my father, mother, brother, and sisters. 

       The conflict and tension between good and evil is not possible in the absence of free will. Ethics cannot be without free will making free will and moral responsibility of the same with justice not possible without free will. 

       And this free will is unique to man. 

       Reason implies thought and thought implies choice. Choice requires mental activity free of the cravings of passion and desires. 

       The freeing of the will, being of the evolution of man, is man's struggle to self-realization, either achieved based on conditioned thinking or thinking conditioned to be free. Will the Will to be free. 

       Let us pick up each and go forward knowing our ability to help each other defines us. Understanding there is no greater glory than a life and a death of one’s choosing. And this free will is unique to man. 

                                                        PEOPLE DID NOT LEAVE RELIGION

                                                                 RELIGION LEFT THE PEOPLE

       I saw dreams in the ashes of life.  

       I saw religions, Islamic, Christian, Hebrew, and Hindu, are of the One with the One being in all religions. The Koran and the Sermon on the Mount equally inspire. 

       I saw people of many religions speak of the existence and realization of purpose in a God centered life, each bowing before an over-riding authority. Each believed their God is almighty. I saw among all a harmony commanded by their God.  

       I saw people lose the candor of youth, of virtue, becoming engrossed in the vulgarity of narrow egotism keeping the man, the woman, toiling from childhood late into life captivated in the cages of religion and patriotism. 

        I saw people no different than I born into this world with no choice of where we are born, of whom we are born not understanding life is overwhelmingly decided for us. But each possesses the capacity to choose how to live and die. 

       I saw religion competing with an economy appealing to the wickedness of the soul. Saw in religion what I saw in the world, constant conflict between good and evil, the secular and the spiritual.

       In place of religion a new god became alcohol and drugs, replacing the minister, the priest, the rabbi with the therapists and alcohol counselor. 

       I saw people did not leave religion rather religion left the people. 

       I saw men of the Holy Clothe, the Church, uttering words destitute of wisdom wondering with stupid looks why people stay away from the church. 

       I saw in men and women, of seemingly impeccable honor and bigotry, lapses of judgment embodying a damaging dissension.

       I saw all religions have an afterlife, whether it be reincarnation, hell, heaven. or something else. Common to each, this afterlife depends on how life is lived.  

       I saw religious dogmatism silencing dialogue, festering intolerance and contempt. Nonetheless, I saw a path fostering inner life. 

       Each of us has as his goal peace and harmony, but this is done far too often through taking the spirit of your brother and making it your spirit without losing your spirit. 

       The forgotten and lowly contribute to the whole. 

       The whole is of the Divine Law defining human law, making human law subordinate to the Divine, the whole. Religion out of line with the four laws, eternal law, natural law, divine law, human law, fails.

                             SAW THE BEAUTY OF THE WORLD IN ITS PEOPLE

       I saw that you like me have been taught not to steal, care for family, friends, and those beyond. I saw you celebrating the 4th of July with fireworks and hotdogs.

       I experience life as you. We are not enemies. Saw our timeless inheritance is Virtue.

       I saw people worshipping the real behind the shadows of life. The truth behind the fragments and shadows of the real. But many worship shadows as real.

       Saw truth and morality are inseparable each being one and universal. Brotherhood follows the grasping of the universal. Truth is not restricted to one book, one temple, one church, one ritual. It is in all as all is in the one.

       All seen and experienced is not possible without an Absolute. It is this Absolute that is the beauty in this world. 

       I saw division but also a commonality making each man an equal. I saw an element of discrimination, human in nature, not divine, giving us evil.

                                                                                       Free Will

       Born not free, we are. But once born, free we are to decide how to live and die. 

       I saw free will being unique to man. Good and evil are not possible in the absence of free will. Ethics cannot be without free will making free will and moral responsibility the same making justice not possible without free will.

       All is part of a whole, the universe, an evolutionary process. As the universe unfolds so do the parts thereof reaching self-realization. Like a flower, we grow. Unlike a flower, we have a choice how we grow.

       I saw a world of opposites. To everything that is there is an opposite. Hot-Cold. Dry-Wet. Limited-Unlimited. Odd- Even. Right-Left. One-Plurality. Male-Female. Resting-Moving. Straight-Crooked, Light-Darkness. Good-Evil. 

       Within these opposites implicit is the conclusion one cannot be without an opposite necessitating endless struggle. Life cannot be without death, nor death without life.

       Truth is found in the creation sustaining all. Saw religion is of our being. Mental and spiritual fellowship, balance and harmony, rest upon this truth.                                                                              

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