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Good and the Voyeurs of Violence
The first time I saw images of children locked and stored in cages I had to close my eyes, but it was too late for the pictures had seared themselves to the level of conscience. It was my country that had done this and my innocence had retreated yet another notch to make room for…
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Good, Justice, Private Passion and Public Compassion
Justice in America right now is being preserved and administered by the judges of America. The Department of Justice this nation was initially charged with support and service as oversight and peer review of the judge’s work but has been coopted into something that could be called the Department of Private Retribution and Immigration Prevention.…
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Good, Faith, and The Dangerous Triangle of Efficacy, Fame, and Power
Faith is something hard to define but it is a force far deeper than blind adherence to dogma or human authority. For this Posting, faith is the fuel for the courage to live as a human being; nothing more than a human being and nothing less. To be human is to accept one is imperfect. …
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Good , Ungrounded and the Secular Ecumenical Virtues
Growing up in our divided country is a numbing challenge for both today’s youth and young adults. The current government is busy trashing the language of virtue, disdaining ethics, and simply ignoring morality. Our leadership is promoting pragmatism, and purely transactional relationships, while picking the pockets of our children’s future with lavish spending. All of this…
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Good and An American Tune, Words Better than Mine.
These lyrics have been excerpted directly from the Paul Simon song called called An American Tune published in 1973. I was listening to this while washing dishes last week and realized our song writers are sometimes both prophets and psalm writers for these times beyond times. As you read this, think of your immigrant brothers…
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Good, Vocation, and Reflections from Life’s Last Stage
It is getting more difficult for this writer for this Project to write to the young about life. I am in the last stage of life where my younger person’s strategy has been reduced by the gift of extended time to considerations of morality, purpose and the ethics of truly good decisions. This is a…
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Good and Standing in a Long Line for Justice
If there were to be a fund to compensate people for the weaponization of justice I am pretty sure the folks who trashed and desecrated the Nation’s capital, or participated in the deaths of the police officers defending this beautiful building would not be first in line. Here are a few people who might be…
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Good and Negotiating Victory in a War Already Lost
Throwing the dice may work in a Casino once in a while, but it is not a good idea in the world of geopolitics. The average Iranian has certainly been a loser in this war when you consider the dice throw was counting on a regime change and only accomplished a regime rejuvenation. The average…
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Good, Children Living in the Lions Den While Parents Worry about Freedom
As a writer who communicates through the internet, my sense of that network’s value is extremely ambiguous. As a parent and grandparent though my feelings are far less ambiguous. The internet is an extremely aggressive environment full of snares and dangers. Clearly the dangers of media driven internet are increasing as that internet becomes the…
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Good, Universal Moral Distress, and a Wide Diverse World
I was informed by the website provider that this project called The Good Decision has just passed being viewed in 50 plus nations. This comes as a surprise for as you may know as a reader, this is a pretty humble project that simply tries to say what this writer feels needs to be said. …
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