The green calls all of us...few listen

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Embracing...

I am in an academic program that tells me repeatedly I am amazing and disassemble anything that discourages me from believing it. If I take this from a finite individual perspective and project it out inductively that we all are amazing, I can see the potential. I can see the potential! I am led to start asking myself not what problems can be solved but what benefit to synergy will solving this problem create. This might also lead me to ask what consequences will I gain from the void of this current problem. Most importantly I am beginning to re-frame the negative stigma that I have placed on the term problem. I am embracing the utility of problems. In that foolish and radical way I am trying to appreciate my problems, in a way that leads me to understand before solving. A problem may exist that should not be solved but integrated, avoided, or nurtured. I've got 99 problems but I value each one. Go figure!

SOPA and PIPA

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What is at stake



Some interesting legal filtering already in use in the from of take downs (copyright infringement).

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MLK is more than a day

It is a struggle.  I am reminded how today is not a remembrance but a reminder. I am reminded that America is like a cancer survivor.  The disease survived is discrimination.  We are not cured and everyday is a struggle to keep the overt and severe symptoms of discrimination manageable.  discrimination is living among us and functioning in our major organs like justice, education, and civics.  It isn't something in our past, like a healed injury.  It lives today and is polymorphic.  

So today I am reminded that I must exercise and manage my discrimination.  I am a carrier of discrimination.  Like diabetes I must make every effort to supplement the qualities that produce respect, dignity, and empowerment.  I must not be lax in moderating my use of will power, tenacity, and individualism. I will remember the man Martin Luther King Jr. today but I will aspire to live a vision daily, because there is clear evidence that our disease is alive and thriving.  

We are not at the mountain top, many are still dreaming, and we are still overcoming.  There are still those who cannot sing the words free at last, free at last. 

Microaggresion at it worst

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This man represents a core and fundamental perspective on poverty and welfare, unfortunately along many others. It is confusing to believe this man Newt has a higher education and at the same time prooves that accreditation does not equal quality. I believe that our communities do not have a consistent validating system for producing qualified leadership. And it gets even more complex when people argue that Newt is qualified by their standard. Oh and if you are not familiar with microaggression here is a gateway to the definition.

Forgiveness

As a simple person, from a simple city, with a simple family, living in a simple home, struggling through simple stresses, I am thinking about open source forgiveness. I am wanting to describe the forgiveness experience. My goal is to understand what happens in my body that leads me to achieve forgiveness. What psychology can I tap into to create an economy for forgiveness? What biology can I leverage to justify the human quality of forgiving? I today declare war on the forgiveness process. How is forgiveness measured? The research begins here