Dictionary "W"

WAR (from) Old High German werra, confusion, strife. A confused state of ill-being manifest by discontent males when they realize that, with the exception of a single reproductive act, women can do everything necessary for the preservation of the species without their help. An act males perform out of laziness in order to get from their neighbors what they otherwise have to go long distances or work for. COLD WAR is waged because no one really wants a HOT WAR, and CONVENTIONAL WAR is waged to satisfy the morbid curiosity of tax payers, weapons manufacturers and the media.

WAREFARE (from) Old English waru, articles of the same general kind regarded as articles of commerce. War waged against the tax payers by sucking up the country's resources, labor and genius in building astronomically expensive weapons systems that should never be used.

WARSHIP - What the navy worships.

WASTE (from) Latin vastus, empty. To fail to take advantage of or use for profit. Not cultivated or inhabited, as the minds of those who produce nuclear wastes. The world is vast, and so are the dumps, but they are not empty. The last place to dump nuclear wastes is in the ground! The nuclear bureaucracy probably sells it to other nations that want it. That's not half vast!

WASTE LAND (From) Middle East (where great deserts were seen). The fear of land being laid to waste is found in every agricultural society since the Stone Age. The fear of Mother Nature not providing for Her children has evolved to symbolize collective spiritual rootlessness. The growth of masculine consciousness and Christian patriarchy was perhaps an attempt to ground us in a universal faith and prevent spiritual waste, but it has taken us away from our connection with the Earth. In being so removed, we have exploited the Earth, Her waters and resources, and are surely turning Her into the waste land that has long been feared.

WEAK (from) Old Norse veikr, pliant, flexible. It is a weak country that has no quadrillion dollar missile defense system.

WEALTH (from) Old English weal, the welfare of the community. Have we ever lost the original meaning of this one! We are so into amassing personal fortunes that we have lost touch with our neighbors, the beautiful land, gardening, and our children and their needs. My neighborhood still has street parties and collective yard sales. The greatest wealth I know is the good mental and physical health that comes of recognizing our connection to the family, the home, and the community, the Earth!

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone." -- Thoreau

WHITE MEAT (from) chicken. So called because white women are reluctant to walk into a grocery or butchery and ask for "breasts."

WINTER STORM WATCH (from) Yup Consumerism. When your wrist freezes, an alarm goes off. A global warming phenomenon.

WISDOM (from) Old English wis, wise, (from) Sanscrit veda, knowledge, I have seen, I know. I know I have seen this.

"To learn to do good, to learn what will inspire others to be good and loving towards each other, and to rejoice and inspire others to rejoice also, this is wisdom. More than what we know, wisdom is the sum of our experience." -- Roger Henry

WITCH (from) Old English wicce (feminine), and wicca (masculine), wizard. A name given to wise women in order to have Biblical justification for exterminating them. Removal was necessary because women traditionally carried the knowledge of agriculture, religion, medicine and childbirth, and the Christian patriarchy was threatened because they otherwise had no power over women, except the power of destruction. For example, "That which I cannot understand...," I'll use a quote.

"In all societies women have played a much more important role than their menfolk are generally ready to admit." -- Ashley Montagu

WITNESS (from) Old English wit, knowledge; wis, wise, from IndoEuropean weid-. To see. I'm really glad I did not see the Crusades of the 11th, 12th and 13th Centuries, but I bear witness to the fact that the Crusades are not over yet and the squeeze is on. Ouch.

WORKFOLK (from) Latin werg, to do + Old English folc, people, nation, tribe. Especially, farm laborers. The people who do, as opposed to those who say they do, and for the most part feed everybody else in the afore mentioned classes.

"I want to do work with my body and mind, not just my mind. The process of keeping a home, garden and children growing is most suited to our minds, bodies and spirits. How can the family be firm far from the farm?" -- Roger Henry

WORLD LEADERS (from) Plutocracy. A small group of persons who have more money than God with which they control the world. Not to be confused with the Puppets of State, like presidents and premiers, that are strategically placed to prevent the people of the world from discovering who really pulls the strings on this little planet. The leaders are primarily grain, petroleum and arms merchants who control food, transportation and war, and are not known to this writer.

WOUNDED KNEE (from) Western imperialism. When the white man has to answer for what he has done to the Redman, we are going to get more than a kick in the shin or a wounded knee.