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Courage of Consciousness – Stones and Newborns – Thomas Merton and e.e. cummings

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Who are you? (From before you were born?) Who was your mother, your father, who were their parents, who was that person called ‘the enemy’, who was that broken person sleeping awkwardly in a doorway, … who was any one … before they began to learn “the stuff”? Continue reading

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Response to: Who’s in hell? Pastor’s Book Sparks Eternal Debate

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My post doesn’t “engage the debate”, but offers a personal, blog-related, response for the debate’s value. Readers are encouraged to go to the link and read the article. Much that Breen includes can, (and should, in the name of critical thinking), lead concerned readers to take-on the questions raised. Continue reading

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The Much Touted “Second Coming” and Philosophical Thoughts on “The Sacred”

There will be no external “second coming” that will “save” some of us, exclude others, and “justify” bashing one another on the head, destroying life-sustaining Earth, while we are at it. Continue reading

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Enlightened or Unenlightened Self-Interest, With Gratitude for the Former!

… able to ward off cynicism, bitterness, because … thoroughly mixed into our larger foolishness, are countless individuals and groups who demonstrate wise enlightened intelligence, wide-scope awareness of the interconnectedness of All That Is. Continue reading

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