Category: Ethics
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Where Are You When We Need You, Lamont? 5 of 7
Where Are You When We Need You, Lamont? 5 of 7 The December 9, 1980 entry in my journal reads: “John Lennon was killed last night. His death has taken the spotlight away from Iran, Iraq, Jordan, and Syria, for the time being at least. There have been several news specials about his passing, and…
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Where Are You When We Need You, Lamont? 4 of 7
Where Are You When We Need You, Lamont? 4 of 7 I spent much time alone reading, writing in my journal, or just sleeping, trying to recapture the innocence so long gone. Sometimes I’d see him in a dream, walking by a stream, conversing with a dragonfly about its long life, or the philosophical ramifications…
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Where Are You When We Need You, Lamont? 3 of 7
Where Are You When We Need You, Lamont? 3 of 7 The Ohio National Guard murdered four students at Kent State, and I snapped. I joined the marches, not because I necessarily believed in the politics of the peace movement or its organizers. I didn’t really trust their motives (old ‘cold war’ conditioning), especially the…
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Where Are You When We Need You, Lamont? 2 of 7
Where Are You When We Need You, Lamont? 2 of 7 Soon I saw Bobby Kennedy murdered by Sirhan Sirhan, and my thoughts of Beauty, Truth, and Justice started to disappear like morning dew in the heat of midday. Dr. King was Murdered next. Then I watched as students and news reporters got their heads…
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Where Are You When We Need You, Lamont? 1 of 7
Where Are You When We Need You, Lamont? 1/7 There was a time, long ago, when I would say my prayers every night and go to sleep dreaming of my lady fair, whoever it happened to be that day, whom I had just rescued from the neighborhood bully, or Fu Manchu, or Moriarty. Sometimes I…
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Always Preposterous 2/2
Always Preposterous 2/2 What powers it all? Our basic beliefs, conditioned into us from cradle to grave, propaganda and indoctrination from our social gatekeepers, our institutions and their leaders, secular and religious. And regardless of their denials, both are political in the extreme. The whole purpose is to keep the ruling class, the rich and…
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Always Preposterous 1/2
Always Preposterous 1/2 National and international news is often quite revealing in what it neglects. Just look at what is going on around us right now. From destroying our water resources and pumping so much garbage into our air that our climate is already changing (undoubtedly past the critical tipping point), ruining two of the…
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Birthrights of all children of Mother Earth (3/3)
Birthrights of all children of Mother Earth (3/3) Where the Declaration of Independence declared the “unalienable Rights” of all men, the Constitution substituted the rights of the wealthy to property and power. It is not a “holy” document. It can, and has been changed multiple times over its history (usually to the benefit of power…
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Birthrights of all children of Mother Earth (2/3)
Birthrights of all children of Mother Earth (2/3) The ruling classes, the rich elite (in their own minds) claim ownership and stewardship of all the discovered and undiscovered resources and the land masses of the planet. Ninety-nine percent of humanity lives at the “pleasure,” beck and call of this one percent. The rest live in…
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Birthrights of all children of Mother Earth (1/3)
Birthrights of all children of Mother Earth (1/3) • No one chose where and to whom he/she was born. • We were all born in the “amniotic fluid” (biosphere) of our mother, Earth. • None of our direct biological mothers would be viable without that same “amniotic fluid” either. • From our present understanding of…
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