Friday, January 29, 2021

mental revolution

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If we honestly care
about making change, we need
to commit to learn what can be
done, how, and do the work at the
level available.
Having tantrums is not meaningfully
making a difference.
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Have you considered that the person
you oppose may be perceiving from
a different point of view, which,
without scientific exploration of outcomes
based on each, may potentially be as
valid as yours -- or maybe the truth
is between, or somewhere else.
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When conservatives (so-called)
have power, they don't offer unity.
They punish those with whom they
disagree or project as "not us"
and therefore Enemy.
Punishment is all they understand.
No questioning the costs of war,
large or small -- military weapons
their proof of strength.
 
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You say children (strangers about whom
you have no real knowledge) need saving
from traffickers.  How many actual children
have you saved or helped in any way?
Traffickers mostly target children who have
no one to protect them -- runaways,
throwaways, alone and desperate.  These
kids are on the streets of most cities.
How are you helping them to get safe
places to go, people who care?
What are you doing that you, personally,
can do for them or children in your town
who are in need?
Or do you only like the idea of saving
children because it gives you friends,
a social bubble to protect you from
loneliness or powerlessness, to give
you a mythology to believe?
 
 
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conspiracy theories as such are no more
dangerous than any fantasy -- and like any
fantasy they become a source of danger
when their fans so break from reality
that they are unconcerned with actual
social codes that seek to control violence
 
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I have quite recently been starting to look into
the vagus nerve as an emotion moderator and
possible treatments for autoimmune
inflammatory disorders. 
I have been experimenting with those long, deep
breaths and a "become calm" mantra, and
becoming calmer, more focused and I guess saner.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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a village raising a child, planning for agriculture,
sharing information and education,
dealing with disagreements and fights,
these are all governance
 
Government is not any particular model but
the ways we develop to live civilly in society.
 
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obviously these people have no idea how
this country is organized to be run, and don't
care because they don't want an organized
social responsibility but only attention and 
capitulation paid to their ad hoc tantrums
 
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1/25-28/21

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