Who are you?   What do you want?   Why are you here "students": At this university — to be indoctrinated (we are not being educated) so that you can become enslaved to the almighty dollar at some corporation (government agency, university, company, or other entity)?   Or to find yourself?

In order to illustrate the societal lies that we deal with on a daily basis, here is an excerpt from Creating A World That Works For All by Sharif Abdullah: "When my eldest daughter was in fifth or sixth grade, she asked me a homework question: ‘What is the principal cash crop in Florida?’

My answer was immediate.   I didn’t even look up from my newspaper.

‘Marijuana.’

The next day, her teacher sent a note home, asking for a conference.   At the conference, I supplied the teacher with statistics that conservatively estimated the marijuana crop at twice the value of citrus products.   She said, ‘That may be true, but it’s not the answer we want.   It’s too controversial.’

I declined her invitation to participate in the consensual lie.   I told her that I expected my daughter to get an ‘A’ unless the teacher presented hard evidence refuting my assertion or redefined the question.   My daughter got her ‘A.’

The teacher expected us to participate in the lie that our economy is not based on drugs, pornography, stealing, or other activities we label criminal or antisocial.   By our refusal to consent, the teacher had to face her own acquiescence in the lie.   What was she teaching her students about society?   Why was it important to lie to them?"

Why do you exist?   How do you know that you exist?   What is your purpose in Life?   Are you dead (emotionally, intellectually, and/or culturally) or awake?   How do you know?   What does it mean to be dead and/or asleep on this plane of existence? What about awake and/or alive?   Who owns you?   Or do you even care?

The BSA newsletter may be "controversial" to some because it may say that which we don’t wish to hear.   As we would rather continue acquiescing in the lie that this is a "free" and "democratic" nation Empire that we live in.   And that the University of Tennessee system[1] operates for the...

What do you think?   What do you observe?   What do you question, if you do choose to do so in this "free" society?   What are your solutions to the interrelated problems of the world?

As the Chair of the Newsletter Committee, I would like to discuss the purpose of this newsletter, how it is envisioned in my mind: the purpose is to challenge, expand the consciousness of, inform, inspire, motivate, and enhance the understanding of the world around you, the reader.   Hopefully this newsletter will be a "beacon of light" and will shed and erase various myths and will get you, the reader, to want to educate yourself and change yourself/the world.   Truth is elusive, since lies are so readily accepted.