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Good and the Devil You Think you Know
The easiest thing in the world is to accumulate evidence supporting your hatred of another person in the political realm. At the same time it is almost impossible to imagine how you yourself became the devil other people hate. Yet, understanding ones own offenses is exactly what needs to be done here and at this…
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Good and Mistaking Wax for Bronze in Leadership
We have too many people in high places who have discovered you can be in high places wielding immense power for a few billion dollars flying on wings of wax and feathers. They, along with us who put them there, are currently learning the lessons of the ancients. All wealth is “bling” on the scale…
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Good, AI, and Dime Store Demi-Gods Playing with Fire
Yes, calling billionaires Dime Store-Demi Gods may seem a stretch, but in terms of wisdom and caring this writer has no trouble with the radical demotion. AI has been called the God Machine because of predictions this unbridled super-artificial-amoral intelligence could bring our civilization to an end if not end human life altogether. No one…
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Good, and Everyone’s Shape Shifting Mind . . . Sunday Words of Rest
Dog Years by Billy Collins Today I turned 420 in dog years so I have decided to take myself for a long walk on the parth around the lake and when I get back home I will jump up on my chest lick my nose, ears, and eyelids while yelling at myself to get down. …
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Good and Congress’s lmpotence in Crisis: A Call for Presence, Help, and Hope
How would you feel if you opened your heart and spilled your troubles to a person who could help and that person just turned around and walked out the door mumbling something about needing a break? I suspect you might be feeling hurt, angry, humiliated, unvalued, and unfriended. Our democracy teeters on the brink, and Congress…
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Good, Peace, and Violent Voices Condemning Violent Acts
I once explained to a friend I couldn’t vote for the current president because it struck me he has a warring mind and warring minds beget warring acts. Violence begins with violent minds and violent minds express violence leading to violent acts. It is too late for this president to decry violence just because it…
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Words Better than Mine: Hannah Arendt and Authoritarian Government
Hannah Arendt was a German, Jewish, American, Philosopher, and Historian from the 20th century. Her insights on authoritarian and totalitarian government accurately predicted today’s situation in the United States. If you read nothing else by her, these quotes should get you started one what you need to understand. The quotes and language below are from…
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Good, Melting Pots, and America as Creativity
A minister in our community recently warned about` the dangers of attempting to render the complex web of American stories into one absolute, value laden, dominant story. Americans are a tapestry of dynamic, powerful stories in interaction with evolving communities of all colors changing all the time. The near miraculous paradox of America is it’s…
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Good, Globalism and Heart Disease
Certain forms of disregulation in the human body can add up to a heart attack in the human body. No mystery that from the moment the heart stops the entire body begins to break down in a catastrophic hurry. The longer the heart stops the more permanent the damage of the original disregulation. Still we…
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Good, Avoidable death and Affordable life.
It is most unfortunate that when this administration began its budget cuts not many of us had any idea how many lives our taxes in the form of aid were saving in the world and how many lives would be lost by cutting that aid. We are talking about lost lives across the life span…
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