So here’s just my 2 cents worth today. Race… that word is being used today in a way that is racism itself. The suffix “ism” means methodology, and “ist” means one who practices that methodology.
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From How to Lose an Argument… To What Is an Argument… and Back Again.
I found an interesting infographic (at the end of the article) which shows 30 ways to lose an argument. I do not agree with everything that the infographic shows as cause for losing an argument… and this is because I have a different way of looking at what an argument is… based on the standpoint of what purpose I feel argument itself serves in my experience in getting along with others.
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Upcycling Creatively: The Importance Now
If it wasn’t for the creative reuse of garbage, one of the most beloved characters in children’s literature would have been nothing more than a plateful of bacon. In the children’s book Charlotte’s Web when Wilbur’s life is in danger, his farmland companions employ every resource possible to save him from certain death. When things seemed at their darkest for Wilbur, his community got creative and took social action by presenting found text in a new way to assure his continued existence. Anthropomorphic upcycling made the simple country folk in E.B. White’s classic novel think differently and reimagine their value systems. The farmer Zuckerman didn’t know he was looking at garbage, he just knew that what he was seeing was convincing, and that is the power of upcycling.
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A Poem
For every piece of fruit I eat a child goes hungry
For every truth I tell, a politician lies, and thousands die
For every animal that is adopted, one is shot for sport
When a baby laughs, an old man moans with pain
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What is America?
Here are some thoughts from an unnamed author in the Information and Education Division of the US Army in 1945 entitled WHAT IS AMERICA? I did not write this, I lay no authorship claim to it… I just want to share it with you on this 2014 Independence Day weekend:
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The Structural Integrity of Ecocultural Systems
Life is sacred. Within all of us there is a yearned for sense of ecological permanence, a desire to experience an ever increasing quality of life; health, happiness, and longevity for ourselves, our families, and our neighbors. These things are sought by way of the capacity to function that is our bodies, according to the outward uniqueness that is our minds, as it is willed by the true spirituality that is the interactions of our souls.
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What a life HIS is!
I originally intended this to be read only by those who consider themselves to be Christians, with the thinking that whoever does not, may as well not even read this…. but now… with the condition, unless you are interested in a more equal religiously free US, as this is a much farther ranging subject than just me, and I only merely scratch the surface of many important discussions in writing this…. but… I will continue as though I originally intended. Even so, I welcome all your comments.
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Do You Believe?
This is a response I posted on a forum website in response to a topic by someone who does not believe in ghosts, but who is asking for ghost stories by way of the question, “Do you believe?” I believe; and here’s one of the reasons why:
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Concerning Witchcraft
Concerning witchcraft, where it is mentioned in the Old Testament that witches are evil, it is referring to what is correctly traced translationally back into the original language (Hebrew) as “a person who wishes harm on others”. The English translation of the Bible unassuredly and thus incorrectly included the word “witch” because of the medieval popular perception (which was perpetuated by the clergy and those close to the clergy) that individuals who had nature wisdom and herbal understanding were also believed to have “powers” to cause famine, illness, etc.
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Write-up on “Bendum: In The Heart of Mindanao”
The Lumad people, the “people of the uplands”, live in the upper catchment of the Pulangi River, the largest river on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. This region is called Bendum, and is the ancestral home of the Lumad. Because of mass deforestation, many upland peoples, whose ancestral way of life is integrated with the forest, have felt pressure to move to the lowlands to live in cities, especially the younger generations. The culture of the Lumad and the forest cannot be separated. Even though many have left the uplands for the modern world below, the Lumad will not abandon their culture, especially the sacred places in the forest, nor their traditions.
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About me… 
