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Good and the Joy of “What Else is True”
A woman who brought aid in the form peer to peer counseling to world disaster areas taught this writer a question that has helped me and so many other people in a troubled world: And so what else is true… Continue reading
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Good, the Parasite and the Public Ethic
A good parasite does not kill its host or at least not immediately. A good parasite knows at some primitive level that for as long as the host lives, the nutrition flows. But like all other communities of life, some… Continue reading
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Good, Generosity, and Poverty; the Ultimate Values Clarifier
True poverty reduces one to their true values but poverty is such a hard edged teacher. One can easily present as a good person if one has sufficient resources, but obeying your own authority regarding the values of good from… Continue reading
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Good, Executive Orders, and Dictating a Democracy
Imagine if you lived on the 10th floor of an apartment complex and the children of the vertical community devised a game which involved pulling the fire alarms for the amusement of watching people scramble. We would stop that kind… Continue reading
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Good and the Vampires of Grief
In death we are all human. No matter how you cut and define your life this writer feels on solid ground in saying that dying and the losses that come to those connected to the dying need to be treated… Continue reading
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Good, Xenophobia and the Gold of Common Ground
The price of gold has had a wild ride in these contemporary economies. That is largely because with gold we can fake it but we can’t make it (yet). Like gold, common ground exists and in terms of value to… Continue reading
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Good, Pardons, Magical Thinking, and the Importance of Real Evidence
Our current leadership holds its position of power because a thin majority the United States seemed willing to override real evidence of crime with “pardons of denial” when it came to voting in the last election. Perhaps the denial phase… Continue reading
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Good and the Presumption of Guilt; Where art Thou Sweet Innocence?
The presumption of innocence is not a new concept with the US Constitution. The matter goes back in a formal legal sense at least as far as the Code of Hammurabi dating back in the ancient near east to at… Continue reading
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Good and Thriving in America like a Tuvan Throat Singer
These are hard days for many people in this country; too many people. The possibilities of despair are endless. The drop into bitterness is the cheapest ride in town. The climb out of despair is certainly not a free balloon… Continue reading
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Good, Peace, Private Interest, Public Loss and Ignorance
In reading the history leading up to the second World War it seemed the world had learned an important lesson in trying to negotiate a peace through the concession of other people’s land and culture to the aggressor. If you… Continue reading
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The Next Democracy
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