Humanity’s fatal
flaws:
disorganized and
lazy
Old, eroding
rock to sand
more easily blown into
waves,
carried to
oblivion
Everyone has their stories,
and they are
fascinating.
So much more fun,
entertaining
than spewing hate or
scorn
The strategy of trolls/bots to
engage emotions
drains energy from positive
engagement with politics
why give them what they expect
to evoke
go to a place of good humor, or
best response:
DON’T EVEN SEE THEM
[fnord]
We do disservice to science by
thinking it as a noun
Science is a verb (and isn’t
that the functional difference
between Science verb and
Religion noun
Science is not a thing but a
series of movements
explore, observe, think,
theorize, analyze – always moving
forward
while religions are about
sticking to traditions,
remembering with rituals, being
bounded by our past
The 2nd Amendment says nothing
about loading,
shooting, using arms for any
kind of violence
We have every right to figure
out and form appropriate
regulations that address
everyone’s rights to live
peacefully.
Remember, regulations are not
some random gasps
of power from on high. We as a
community develop
regulations in response to
complaints, perceived
problems we want to solve. We
can all take part,
with thoughtfulness and mutual
respect, in
self-governance that we can all
live within.
-- in response to March for Our
Lives
Speak, disagree,
disrespect totally, with
malice,
disvaluement of what I
know
I will think you ignorant and
mean,
not worth my time or
thought
Speak, even disagreeing,
respectfully
as someone explaining what you
know,
I want to hear you, to consider
your
differing
experience,
to learn from you a bigger
world
Innovative
inspiration
new views
unusual travel
suggestions
turning, moving to changing
tunes
becoming new words, new
worlds
Democratic
Socialists
Libertarians
agree
government needs to
be
the people’s
employee,
not our god
When the legitimate expressing
of emotional
energy are sex and
war,
we feel entitled to
explode.
What if we truly valued
kindness, creative
resilience, mutual
care
so idealized
humanity
what if
passionate
imagining
who could we be
but why would we
bother
we prove daily what we
are
to hate we must be superior
--
worthy of such
judgment
love feels vulnerable
--
dependence on another’s
fate.
3/14-4/6/18
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Posted by: "Laurie"
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