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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… Continue reading
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Good, leadership and the Chains of Retribution
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we would like to punish we would find in each life a sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all our hostility. Henry. Wadsworth Longfellow as quoted by Magaret Wheatley in… Continue reading
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Good and the New/Old Amoral Religiosity
This writer finds it curious that some times the most religiously aligned political actors use their political power to suspend the morality of their own religion. Our current President is criticizing and denouncing Catholicism’s leader for speaking out in support… Continue reading
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Good and What We Want to be True
Truth is not what we want it to be, but rather what it is. In an esoteric discussion of black holes, David Kaiser a professor of physics and science at M.I.T. made an elegant summary of their discussion of science… Continue reading
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Good, and Deep Joy Beyond Grief’s Long Road; An American Easter Wish
It could be very easy to let Easter slide by this year without learning or feeling its meaning. In America we have a war, domestic terror for ourselves, our neighbors or both, rising prices, a crumbling democracy, and diminished international… Continue reading
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Good, Nationalism and Religion, and the Creative Tolerance Mandate
The word good, under the right circumstances, can be paired with either nationalism and religion, but never can good be tied to nationalism and religion linked together. The founders of this country knew from the outset that nationalism and any… Continue reading
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Good, Political Hatred and Orthocardia, Right Heart
“I am tired of being pitted against my neighbor. I’m tired of being told to hate my neighbor. It’s been more than 10 years of this kind of politics. Politics as blood sport, politics as trolling and owning, politics as… Continue reading
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Good, AI Propaganda, and Two Goliaths Seeking their David
The David and Goliath story is known in both secular and religious contexts to almost every man woman and child raised in western culture. The giant of a warrior with shining armor, certain of victory, is brought down by a… Continue reading
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Good and the “Near Life” Experience of a Nation
“Bitterness is the easiest way to leave this world having had only a near life experience“ Andrea Gibson from the poem Time Piece found in the book entitled: You Better Be Lightening Rage can become just another form of addiction. We are built… Continue reading
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Good and Saving Your Soul for the Long Struggle
The Good Decisions Project’s series of posts, the current news, and this writers instincts warn that the current life of an activist and resister to the chaotic, often brutal policies in the United States can lead to the malnutrition of… Continue reading
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