I agree but it's never an effective strategy to attack people in order to change their beliefs.

In fact, there are many authentically broken hearted
people who trusted the so called valid science, and
lost their children. They trusted the trained medical
authorities, and they lost their kids. It is a subject
worthy of much more compassion, understanding,
better science, better testing, better oversight and
regulation of manufacturers, and genuine give and take
dialogue on both sides of the issue.

You may be correct about many or most anti-vaxxers, but not all are con men or grifters.

Some are parents who lost their children.

If you have never read this book, it's highly recommended,
and might help you and like-minded anti-vax-haters have
a little more compassion.

http://books.google.com/books?id=IjyuHR3GTdgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=shot+in+the+dark&hl=en&sa=X&ei=R5IUVP6jCqLIiwKvioH4BA&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=shot%20in%20the%20dark&f=false

I've had experiences that led me to this belief. When the pain either physical or emotional was

terrifying or excruciating, something from inside and all around me
like an invisible silent pillow, slowing down time, removing all
pain and fear. So I've come to presume it's that way for all of
us, when it needs to be. Life Itself is compassionate and kind.

I believe there is a kindness in nature that cares for all its creatures, helps them through.

If I didn't believe that, life would be much too painful.
We can't carry all of the sadness, we're not built for that.

I am the poor....

But I don't feel poor. I've got people who love me, funny cats
and tons of sunflowers out back, sunshine three hundred days a year.
I've got internet a roof and water and enough food
to share with a hungry person.
I have a feeling heart and life is kind to me.

Now I also have health insurance. Thanks Obama!

Because we've tried to do it backwards.

Fighting to end war, killing to bring peace, trying to change
the people and the world around us.

But peace is already inside of every single human being.
It's a real thing. So we just have to remind people to look
at that, and draw upon that.

Like a well of water within the human heart: one bucket
at a time, one thought, one gesture, one kindness, one
generosity, one forgiveness, it all adds up, and it spreads,
and that is the only way it can happen.

Our true strength lies in peace. War makes you weak.

International Day of Peace • People's Climate March • 21 September

I predict Obama will be remembered for his dignity and his intelligence.

Among other things. How well loved he was, around
the world. How he steered a gigantic ship away from
certain self destruction, after them who shall not be named
left office. They didn't even clean up after themselves.
This seems to be a common Republican quirk.
The party of personal responsibility never learned
to clean up after themselves.

Down the history road Obama will be likened to Lincoln and
Kennedy, and other great figures in world history. His
speeches will be studied and many of his words will
be memorized, thought about, discussed. Hope will
continue to resonate.

For those who choose to complain and be disappointed,
it's understandable but a shame. This is a beautiful and
amazing time to be alive. We have an exceptional chance
to make it good.

An inborn yearning for love and wholeness.

In my experience, watching a heartwarming video
brings up the tears that occasionally sit on top of
my heart like a lead weight.

I think the lonelier a person has been from earliest
childhood and onward may be related to how one is
affected. It's not in our nature to be lonely or even
alone. But we live in terribly lonely times.

The yearning sits there, in the human heart. An ache.
Heartwarming videos cause us to feel our own heart,
the love and longing therein. Or sometimes sadness
and emptiness there.

There's the longing to be free; and for many there
is a load of sorrow and doubt sitting heavily upon
their hearts, suffocating the hope. Then you see a
video like this and it gets into your heart, and hope
gets stirred up again. Tears come up, maybe, and
and so does gratitude, disbelief, relief, sorrow,
gladness. Often all at once. Sometimes just a tiny
bit, and sometimes the dam breaks.

Again, the problem posed in my previous post. The riddle of multiple realities.

Multiple so-called realities, at odds with one another.

Is it possible that your perspective is subjective, rather
than universally true?

I don't see him, the man himself, his time in office,
his efforts and successes while there, the same way as
you do.

I am not claiming to be right. I am firm in trusting my
perceptions, generally, but I've been wrong. If time
proves me wrong I have no problem with that.

You are unhappy about Obama, he hasn't even tried, you
say; he has deserted his supporters, you say; he has
broken his promises. This is a sad perspective and I
do not share it. But I also don't want to argue with it
as you're entitled to your own opinion. I don't know
what you mean by "...why are you blaming us?"

I think this president is a great man, and I rarely say
that of anyone. I am sad he has had such a shitty
congress, and so many obstructions to what he himself
hoped to do in office.