2.14.2013
nd 'From unwilled blindness I've continued to dis-serve folks by allowing those to travel near me that were not determined Unviolent Warriors.' Loving
nd 'From unwilled blindness I've continued to dis-serve folks by allowing those to travel near me that were not radically determined Unviolent Warriors to their unnecessary suffering.' Loving
2.13.2013
02.13.13 Cancer Update
MRI brain scan fnished just moments ago. Took about 40 min. Huge machine. Massive magnet. Lie still the whole time. No idea what they found. Oncologist meeting Monday at 2pm.
I continue to be 100% Joyful, Loving, Peaceful of Heart, Passionate, Procuductive. Not my business what the results are.
If the liver is not cancer the decision is probably pretty easy - 6 months chemo.
If the liver is cancer, and the prognosis is low odds that treatment will give more than months - is 6 months partial death, for a few months additional, maybe, is that the right choice, use of our kids funds (ALL funds are our kids funds)? Uh, probably not.
Interesting. Oh, given the choice, I'll take the availability of another 30 years, to serve, tho I could end it all in a death fast 12 months from now. LOL. But I'd take the option, if it is available. If not? Hmmm. How to best serve in the little time left - how to make every precious second left - count for our kids - tho this has been my Life for 12 years now. Heaven, on Earth, what Jesus died to give us - the Joy of Complete Service to our Neediest. Mine.
I continue to be 100% Joyful, Loving, Peaceful of Heart, Passionate, Procuductive. Not my business what the results are.
If the liver is not cancer the decision is probably pretty easy - 6 months chemo.
If the liver is cancer, and the prognosis is low odds that treatment will give more than months - is 6 months partial death, for a few months additional, maybe, is that the right choice, use of our kids funds (ALL funds are our kids funds)? Uh, probably not.
Interesting. Oh, given the choice, I'll take the availability of another 30 years, to serve, tho I could end it all in a death fast 12 months from now. LOL. But I'd take the option, if it is available. If not? Hmmm. How to best serve in the little time left - how to make every precious second left - count for our kids - tho this has been my Life for 12 years now. Heaven, on Earth, what Jesus died to give us - the Joy of Complete Service to our Neediest. Mine.
An Arresting Way for Boomers to Protest. New York Times
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Mr.
MacDonald is the founder of Fifty Over Fifty, a new group that hopes to
recruit baby boomers to engage in civil disobedience to promote action
on climate change. The name refers not only to their age range, but also to creating a cadre in each of ...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Daryl Hannah arrested at White House protest
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***** nd 'Second to second this question has Saved my life: Loving, do you really want to focus on ... (female bodies, food, your discomfort, personal fears...) instead of focusing on Loving (being With GOD)??? "NO," was immediately obvious to me, WHEN I AT LAST SAW, FELT, THE CHOICE! With that question coming to me 6 yrs ago, my failed struggles ended.' Loving
nd 'Second to second this question has Aaved my life: Loving, do you really want to focus on ... (female bodies, food, your discomfort, personal fears...) instead of focusing on Loving (being With GOD)??? "NO," was immediately obvious to me, WHEN I AT LAST SAW, FELT, THE CHOICE! With that question coming to me 6 yrs ago, my failed struggles ended.' Loving
"American History is Really a War; A Civil War that Never Ends [between those wanting to expand rights, opportunity, liberty freedom to all, and those trying to restrict them. In the end, the expansion wins out.]" Chris Matthews, MSNBC
"American History is Really a War; A Civil War that Never Ends [between those wanting to expand rights, opportunity, liberty freedom to all, and those trying to restrict them. In the end, the expansion wins out.]" Chris Matthews, MSNBC
100th Tibetan self-immolation protest reported in Nepal The Hindu
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A
Tibetan monk in Nepal on Wednesday became the 100th Tibetan to carry
out a self-immolation protest since 2009, even as the Chinese government
has moved to stop the protests spreading within its borders and warned
of heavy punishments for ...
02.13.13AVERTING ECOCIDE - WAR ROOM - Tracking Plan B blog
Posted: 12 Feb 2013 01:52 PM PST
Fracking seen by EPA as No. 2 emitter of greenhouse gases.
Natural gas and oil production is the
second-biggest source of U.S. greenhouse gases, the government said,
emboldening environmentalists who say tighter measures are needed to
curb the emissions from hydraulic fracturing.
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Posted: 12 Feb 2013 01:51 PM PST
Study: Climate change could devastate U.S. agriculture.
Climate change could have a drastic and
harmful effect on U.S. agriculture, forcing farmers and ranchers to
alter where they grow crops and costing them millions of additional
dollars, a government report said on Tuesday.
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Glacially Slow: Solar PV Installations Hit 32 GW In 2012, 35 GW Projected For 2013, According To IHS
Posted: 12 Feb 2013 01:43 PM PST
Solar PV Installations Hit 32 GW In 2012, 35 GW Projected For 2013, According To IHS
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Posted: 12 Feb 2013 01:36 PM PST
Greenhouse-Gas Emissions Fall in U.S. Power Plants on Coal CutsBloombergGreenhouse-gas emissions
from U.S. power plants fell 4.5 percent in 2011 from the previous year
as those facilities burned less coal, the most-intense source of
carbon-dioxide pollution. In its second-annual accounting of
greenhouse-gases, the U.S. ...See all stories on this topic »
German Electricity for 2014 Advances
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Posted: 12 Feb 2013 01:25 PM PST
Sea
urchin nickel 'trick' could be key to capturing carbonBBC
NewsResearchers say that the natural ability of sea urchins to absorb
CO2 could be a model for an effective carbon capture and storage system.
Newcastle University scientists discovered by chance that urchins use
the metal nickel to turn carbon dioxide ...See all stories on this topic
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Posted: 12 Feb 2013 01:08 PM PST
Are mini-reactors the future of nuclear power?
The U.S. government is investing millions of
dollars in what it considers a promising new industry for American
manufacturing: nuclear reactors.
Morning Edition
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Posted: 12 Feb 2013 12:54 PM PST
Billions Of Animals Die Because Of Cats
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Posted: 12 Feb 2013 10:44 AM PST
Branching out on climate.
The world's great forests have long been
recognised as the lungs of the earth, but the science establishment has
been rocked by claims that trees may also be the heart of its climate.
The Australian
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Posted: 12 Feb 2013 10:38 AM PST
The future of energy: Batteries included?
Produce the right battery at the right price,
many engineers think, and you could make the internal-combustion engine
redundant and usher in a world in which free fuel, in the form of wind
and solar energy, was the norm. That really would be a revolution.
Economist
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Posted: 12 Feb 2013 10:27 AM PST
Outgoing energy secretary’s parting warning on warming.
Steven Chu was the embodiment of an ideal:
that the truly best and the brightest could come to Washington to serve
the public at our moment of need. He ended his characteristically
detailed final memo with a reminder of the ethical need to fight climate
change.
Time Magazine
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Posted: 12 Feb 2013 10:24 AM PST
US carbon emissions fall to lowest levels since 1994.
America's carbon dioxide emissions last year
fell to their lowest levels since 1994, according to a new report.
Carbon dioxide emissions fell by 13% in the past five years, because of
new energy-saving technologies and a doubling in the take-up of
renewable energy.
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Posted: 12 Feb 2013 10:03 AM PST
Manmade Carbon Pollution Has Already Put Us On Track For 69 Feet Of Sea Level Rise
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Posted: 12 Feb 2013 10:01 AM PST
Tribal members sign treaty calling for an end to Alberta oil sands development and Keystone XL.
Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman’s approval of
that state’s section of the disputed Keystone XL pipeline has united not
only indigenous from the U.S. and Canada but also non-Native ranchers,
farmers and concerned citizens who oppose the pipeline.
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Posted: 12 Feb 2013 10:01 AM PST
Fisheries business threatened by ocean acidification.
Between 2005 and 2009, billions of oyster
larvae began dying at hatcheries around Washington state before anyone
knew what was going on or could do anything about it.
The reason, scientists learned, was ocean acidification.
Everett Herald
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Posted: 12 Feb 2013 09:59 AM PST
US backs off goal of one million electric cars by 2015.
The U.S. Department of Energy on Thursday
eased off President Barack Obama's stated goal of putting 1 million
electric cars on the road by 2015, and laid out what experts called a
more realistic strategy of promoting advanced-drive vehicles and
lowering their cost over the next nine years.
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Posted: 12 Feb 2013 09:47 AM PST
US Missing Out On Its Share Of $1 Trillion In Total Global Solar Energy Revenue
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Posted: 12 Feb 2013 09:38 AM PST
Biochar cookstoves boost health for people and crops.
Three billion people worldwide rely on
open-fire cookstoves. A recent study found that the fumes from those
stoves are the largest environmental health threat in the world.
Cookstoves that burn cleaner can help fight this epidemic, and when
configured to produce biochar, can become a prized asset for rural
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Posted: 12 Feb 2013 09:37 AM PST
Report underscores vulnerabilities of U.S. coastlines.
No part of the U.S. will escape the harsh consequences of climate change,
which has already begun to cause trouble, and which will worsen as the
century goes on. But according to a new report, the nation’s coastlines —
Atlantic, Gulf, Pacific and Great Lakes — are likely to get the worst
of it.
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Posted: 12 Feb 2013 09:35 AM PST
Wind Enegy Surpasses Nuclear As China’s 3rd Largest Source Of Electrical Power
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Posted: 12 Feb 2013 09:26 AM PST
What Would Make an All-Electric Car Appeal to the Masses?TIMEIt's
widely assumed that the car of the future will be powered by gasoline.
At least partly powered by gas, that is, and at least for the near
future. When, if ever, will the pure electric car—one powered solely by
battery, without a drop of gas—go ...See all stories on this topic »
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Posted: 12 Feb 2013 09:23 AM PST
China now burning as much coal as the rest of the world combinedWashington Post (blog)Coal,
of course, is the world's premier fossil fuel, a low-cost source of
electricity that kicks a lot of carbon-dioxide up into the atmosphere.
And China's growing appetite is a big reason why global greenhouse-gas
emissions have soared in recent ...See all stories on this topic »
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Posted: 12 Feb 2013 09:05 AM PST
Smart Grid Spending Rost to $13.9 Billion Driven by ChinaBloombergInvestments in smart-grid
technologies that boost efficiency and curb energy waste rose 7 percent
last year to $13.9 billion, driven by spending in China, according to
Bloomberg New Energy Finance. China raised investments by 14 percent to
$3.2 billion ...See all stories on this topic »
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Posted: 12 Feb 2013 09:03 AM PST
Smart Grid May be Shortest Route to Obama's Green Energy GoalsForbesA smart grid
could have profound implications on electric power markets, affecting
the whole utility supply chain — from the way power is generated to the
way it is delivered to customers, and ultimately how much energy is
consumed. At the moment ...See all stories on this topic »
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Posted: 12 Feb 2013 08:55 AM PST
Protesters in Maine rally against tar sands oil.
More than 1,000 people rallied in Portland on
Saturday in what was billed as the largest protest yet against the
possibility of so-called tar sands oil being piped in from Montreal.
Associated Press
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Posted: 12 Feb 2013 08:54 AM PST
Your biggest carbon sin may be air travel.
One round-trip flight from New York to Europe
or to San Francisco creates about 2 or 3 tons of carbon dioxide per
person. The average American generates about 19 tons of carbon dioxide a
year; the average European, 10.
New York Times
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Keystone XL pipeline protester arrested in Oklahoma. Tulsa World
Keystone XL pipeline protester arrested in Oklahoma
Tulsa World
Norman resident Elisabeth Leja chained herself to a piece of construction equipment Monday to protest the Keystone XL pipeline and the transportation of diluted bitumen from Canada's oil sands. By JAY F. MARKS NewsOK.com. Published: 2/5/2013 8:22 ...
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Tulsa World
Norman resident Elisabeth Leja chained herself to a piece of construction equipment Monday to protest the Keystone XL pipeline and the transportation of diluted bitumen from Canada's oil sands. By JAY F. MARKS NewsOK.com. Published: 2/5/2013 8:22 ...
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nd 'Loving, is Loving in DEED, or it is not Loving.' Loving
nd 'Loving, is Loving in DEED, or it is not Loving.' Loving
***** nd 'Jesus Entire Gospel: The Secret of Life (Escaped even Gandhi, Tolstoy, King, Sorokin...): Loving (in Deed, Our Neediest) is Living, the Only Means of Joy; Heaven; the Ultimate Gratification.' Loving
***** nd 'Jesus Entire Gospel: The Secret of Life (Escaped even Gandhi, Tolstoy, King, Sorokin...): Loving (in Deed, Our Neediest) is Living, the Only Means of Joy; Heaven; the Ultimate Gratification.' Loving
Jane Goodall on climate change: 'We've just been stealing, stealing, stealing ... Raw Story
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Jane Goodall on climate change: 'We've just been stealing, stealing, stealing from our children, and it's shocking'.
2.11.2013
***** nd 'Loving - Its own Ultimate Reward. Loving, is the Optimal Human Experience, the Ultimate Gratification [sole means of Joy generation]: So Odd that Tolstoy, Sorokin, Gandhi... came so close to seeing this, but couldn't lock in on it. Jesus nailed it, Teresa of Calcutta got close.' Loving
nd 'Loving - Its own Ultimate Reward. Loving, is the Optimal Human Experience, the Ultimate Gratification [sole means of Joy generation]: So Odd that Tolstoy, Sorokin, Gandhi... came so close to seeing this, but couldn't lock in on it. Jesus nailed it, Teresa of Calcutta got close.' Loving
nd 'To avoid Personal Responsibility: Why Joe Romm, McKibben, environmental hactivists Blame, focus on, whine at... Pr. Obama. [Oh, it brings in good money, too.' Loving
nd 'To avoid Personal Responsibility: Why Joe Romm, McKibben, environmental hactivists Blame, focus on, whine at... Pr. Obama. [Oh, it brings in good money, too.' Loving
Israel advances plan to steal new Palestinain land. MiamiHerald
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JERUSALEM
-- An Israeli official says the government has given final approval for
construction of 90 new homes in a West Bank settlement, a move that
could cause tensions with the U.S.
Medal of Honor to Afghan battle hero Clinton Romesha. NBCNews
Medal of Honor to Afghan battle hero Clinton Romesha
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Slideshow:
Medal of Honor recipients. Mark Wilson / Getty Images. A look at heroes
from a post-9/11 era of war. Launch slideshow. By Daniel Arkin, Staff
Writer, NBC News. President Obama will award the Medal of Honor to a
celebrated Army veteran on ...
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***** Phil Oachs: Love me, I'm a [activist] Liberal
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Phil Ochs -- Love me, I'm a liberal
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İ cried when they shot Medgar Evers
Tears ran down my spine
I cried when they shot Mr. Kennedy
As though I'd lost a father of mine
But Malcolm X got what was coming
He got what he asked for this time
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
I go to civil rights rallies
And I put down the old D.A.R.
I love Harry and Sidney and Sammy
I hope every colored boy becomes a star
But don't talk about revolution
That's going a little bit too far
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
I cheered when Humphrey was chosen
My faith in the system restored
I'm glad the commies were thrown out
of the A.F.L. C.I.O. board
I love Puerto Ricans and Negros
as long as they don't move next door
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
The people of old Mississippi
Should all hang their heads in shame
I can't understand how their minds work
What's the matter don't they watch Les Crain?
But if you ask me to bus my children
I hope the cops take down your name
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
I read New republic and Nation
I've learned to take every view
You know, I've memorized Lerner and Golden
I feel like I'm almost a Jew
But when it comes to times like Korea
There's no one more red, white and blue
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
I vote for the democratic party
They want the U.N. to be strong
I go to all the Pete Seeger concerts
He sure gets me singing those songs
I'll send all the money you ask for
But don't ask me to come on along
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
Once I was young and impulsive
I wore every conceivable pin
Even went to the socialist meetings
Learned all the old union hymns
But I've grown older and wiser
And that's why I'm turning you in
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
Tears ran down my spine
I cried when they shot Mr. Kennedy
As though I'd lost a father of mine
But Malcolm X got what was coming
He got what he asked for this time
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
I go to civil rights rallies
And I put down the old D.A.R.
I love Harry and Sidney and Sammy
I hope every colored boy becomes a star
But don't talk about revolution
That's going a little bit too far
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
I cheered when Humphrey was chosen
My faith in the system restored
I'm glad the commies were thrown out
of the A.F.L. C.I.O. board
I love Puerto Ricans and Negros
as long as they don't move next door
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
The people of old Mississippi
Should all hang their heads in shame
I can't understand how their minds work
What's the matter don't they watch Les Crain?
But if you ask me to bus my children
I hope the cops take down your name
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
I read New republic and Nation
I've learned to take every view
You know, I've memorized Lerner and Golden
I feel like I'm almost a Jew
But when it comes to times like Korea
There's no one more red, white and blue
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
I vote for the democratic party
They want the U.N. to be strong
I go to all the Pete Seeger concerts
He sure gets me singing those songs
I'll send all the money you ask for
But don't ask me to come on along
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
Once I was young and impulsive
I wore every conceivable pin
Even went to the socialist meetings
Learned all the old union hymns
But I've grown older and wiser
And that's why I'm turning you in
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
2.10.2013
nd 'Honestly, I may be on different planet than Tolstoy, and Jesus, if Truly, shooting someone about to hammer an infant is 'Violence.' That is insanity to me. I don't think Jesus meant that, nor that, given time, Tolstoy would have, either. Gandhi's more with me.' Loving
nd 'Honestly, I may be on different planet than Tolstoy, and Jesus, if Truly, shooting someone about to hammer an infant is 'Violence.' That is insanity to me. I don't think Jesus meant that, nor that, given time, Tolstoy would have, either. Gandhi's more with me.' Loving
'Loving, is it tough living with a cancer diagnosis,' a friend asked? 'Nope....'
Hi. The other day in an email, among the things a friend commented on,
very compassionately, was how difficult it must be with a cancer diagnosis.
I didn't mean to blow past that, it was just that other things in that
email grabbed my attention.
In well over a decade I'm unaware of any second that my own mortality
has concerned me personally, as it might have in my earliest years. HOWEVER, my mortality as it relates to the benefit or cost thereof to
those to whom I
am trying to be a benefit concerns, and conerned me throughout adulthood,
greatly. Even 20 years ago, or so, off and on, when business downturns
threatened my income, layoffs, whatever, and my life was of little emotional benefit to the woman I was married to, and the two bio-sons I had, otherwise, my only thought was how to commit suicide in
such a way that they could collect on the insurance, that I would not lead the boys to ever do the same, and in a way that they all would not be too embarrassed, or traumatized (grossed-out) by how I off'd myself. Obviously I squeakedby on this one, never figured out a way that satisfied all those
requirements. Well, except I 'killed' myself to be sure the income kept coming, thru the downturns, fulfilling my Loving duty as husband and father, as best I knew to do. LOL.
It will be interesting to see if things change, but regarding the cancer, so far
not a twinge of personal concern. My guess is that if and when it takes me,
I'll probably be able to get into a hospice to manage the pain, tho even when
just weeks ago I was guessing till-death institutionalization due to the Death Fast, guessing the cancer would take me, painfully, in a psych ward, still, no twinge of concern for myself.
It is pretty simple - Life is ONLY found in the face of the emergency of others - I greedily do whatever I have to to Live there - now, averting global Ecocide - I soooo completely identify with the billions we are torturing that there just isn't room to be concerned with myself, EXCEPT as it relates to removing a tool, an avatar, a Loving Spirit from a role that may be beneficial to them. I am not reckless, casual or irresponsible with these tools I've been given to work for others. But these tools, me, are of interest as a means to an end not in themselves. It is Heaven. Sanity. "If you seek to hold on to your life, you will lose it. If you seek to lose (totally give) your Life for the sake of our global neediest Family, you will Gain your Life." Amen.
What may seem confusing, and contradictory to this is, well, my depression
of last week or so - completely gone now. That was zero concern about
my own mortality or suffering -it was horror at how to keep serving in view of
nice, Nurse Ratched-responding folks around me that seemed all to happy
to have me 'Dead' for 6 months in a place like Christ House (no internet, no working, no laptop...) while 60% of that time I otherwise maybe could be fighting for our kids! That was a horror to me, "Cuckoo's Nest," the prospects of being useless to our billions for half a year! The horror of the nice folks around me so zombie-like, dead, clueless, heart-dead. Did you ever see "The English Patient?" And of course, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?"
nd 'I KNOW I'm 'different,' 'difficult,' 'irritating,' maddening....' Imagine what it's like for me! Living with this 24/7!?!?!?! [It's Heaven, by the way, and Hell, inseparably, all the time.]' Loving
nd 'I KNOW I'm 'different,' 'difficult,' 'irritating,' maddening....' Imagine what it's like for me! Living with this 24/7!?!?!?! [It's Heaven, by the way, and Hell, inseparably, all the time.]' Loving
nd 'Huh. If your policy is Always, Unconditionally, Loving [as mine has been], you automatically return Good for Evil - Jesus teaching. I hadn't noticed, till now.' Loving
nd 'Huh. If your policy is Always, Unconditionally, Loving [as mine has been], you automatically return Good for Evil - Jesus teaching. I hadn't noticed, till now.' Loving
***** nd 'Ushering more Loving into the world: The Sole Healthy, Divine, Joyful purpose of Every Breath.' Loving
nd 'Ushering more Loving into the world: The Sole Healthy, Divine, Joyful purpose of Every Breath.' Loving
Ways and Power of Love [EPUB, PDF] P. Sorokin - Harvard
"GOSPEL IN BRIEF," Tolstoy, Leo
Ways and Power of Love [EPUB, PDF] P. Sorokin - Harvard
"GOSPEL IN BRIEF," Tolstoy, Leo
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