Religion is fine. Probably is essential to a good life live properly. But it turns deadly insanity when we live as though it is reality rather than human created construct.
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8.05.2013
***** Want to know if you're a good person? Really? You are, if earth can support 10 billion of you living at your level of net consumption. No?
Want to know if you're a good person? Really? You are, if earth can support 10 billion of you living at your level of net consumption. No?
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For all the thousands of years of complex societies the fighters for justice have failed, have lost, have been defeated, and recently at an accelerated pace. And yet only they are alive, & I wish to be among them.
For all the thousands of years of complex societies the fighters for justice have failed, have lost, have been defeated, and recently at an accelerated pace. And yet only they are alive, & I wish to be among them.
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Cancer update: too weak to leave the infirmary today. Hopefully tomorrow.
Cancer update: too weak to leave the infirmary today. Hopefully tomorrow.
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8.04.2013
Without the joy of fighting for how things should be I would have no reason to go on. I detest near everything about what we made of the world. Greed, addiction, incarnate. Rape, plunder, desecration of all creation.
Without the joy of fighting for how things should be I would have no reason to go on. I detest near everything about what we made of the world. Greed, addiction, incarnate. Rape, plunder, desecration of all creation.
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Cancer update: followed the same pattern as the first infusion. First 30 hours no symptoms. Next 40 hours completely knocked out. Zero appetite, slight nausea. Starting to feel human again. I expect to be back at the Embassy tomorrow or day after.
Cancer update: followed the same pattern as the first infusion. First 30 hours no symptoms. Next 40 hours completely knocked out. Zero appetite, slight nausea. Starting to feel human again. I expect to be back at the Embassy tomorrow or day after.
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Joy is fighting to make the world what it was intended to be. The rest is addictive pleasure, tempting you away from joy.
Joy is fighting to make the world what it was intended to be. The rest is addictive pleasure, tempting you away from joy.
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4 Republican EPA heads - global warming is real. Deal with it.
https://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct3=MAA4BEgCUABgAWoCdXPYAQE&usg=AFQjCNHiZetOtQD2vmj0P6z5YqjdRj7B4g&rt=HOMEPAGE&url=[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/03/former_republican_epa_directors_climate_change_is_real_deal_with_it/&ei=lIL-UaIfypiDB9OuAQ&sig2=La3sO9KYuh5o-KSBORgOfg]
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Here is the left: son Johnny slept all the way through high school. ' Harvard rejected him?! Let's go pickit Harvard!'
Here is the left: son Johnny slept all the way through high school. ' Harvard rejected him?! Let's go pickit Harvard!'
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Inside we have many wells. Drink only from those of love, of life. Avoid the others like the death that they are.
Inside we have many wells. Drink only from those of love, of life. Avoid the others like the death that they are.
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Cancer update: wiped out. 36 hours sleeping and counting. No pain...
Cancer update: wiped out. 36 hours sleeping and counting. No pain except a back that wants no longer to be in bed. Slight nausea. Near zero appetite. This is pretty much how the first infusion went as well. Hopefully by tomorrow I'll be up and about and back at the vigil. Third infusion August 15th. Return to the infirmary one day before.
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8.02.2013
Coal plants virtually unrestricted in pollution they can dump in lakes and rivers
https://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct3=MAA4C0gCUABgAWoCdXPYAQE&usg=AFQjCNEVPb3pVvzdrkdy6gQu3S1m_H7kjA&rt=HOMEPAGE&url=[http://www.treehugger.com/fossil-fuels/activists-raise-awareness-toxic-coal-pollution-our-waterways.html&ei=wQj8UZD9GsqYgwfTrgE&sig2=iFwN0l3XNvc1VU-spqT74w]
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Who are the most absolutely giving people you know of? They are also the only Christian people you know, by whatever Creed or none.
Who are the most absolutely giving people you know? They are also the only Christ-ian people you know, by whatever Creed, or none.
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8.01.2013
Snowden receives ultimate compliment from Booz Allen CEO
https://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct3=MAA4AUgCUABgAWoCdXPYAQE&usg=AFQjCNE4GjNWpKJgHmcwKnIN6XuekTk7Ig&rt=HOMEPAGE&url=[http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/booz-ceo-snowden-was-not-a-booz-allen-person/2013/07/31/a349b51a-f9f6-11e2-8752-b41d7ed1f685_story.html&ei=kYX6UejQO87twAGQ5QE&sig2=utPNApNfRNC8TGhN5e2_HQ]
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7.31.2013
7.30.2013
Cancer update
My cancer treatment will resume on Thursday. It seems that the Creator wants me to keep working, that creation wants me to keep working, and not come home for rest just yet. Dang!
I cried when I got the news yesterday that CCNV infirmary, part of a massive homeless shelter here in town, happily agreed to have me for 3 5 day periods For each is my upcoming chemo treatments. This as opposed to 45 days incarceration, all that had been considered for my housing up until I asked the question last week - can't we limit my incarceration to 5 days for each of the treatments? Thus allowing me to be away from the vigil for a minimal amount of time. Yes, was the near immediate answer. Oh My.
During this process three individuals and a working-class Hispanic church, came forward to fund a room for me during treatment. What an unspeakable joy for me to see such loving. I could not have accepted such kindness. But it did encourage me to push on for this final solution, which otherwise I would not have done. May these folks know the goodness and good that they have done. And likewise, without the kindness of my suburban friends for the first treatment I'm a well not have made it this far.
So tomorrow, Wednesday in the afternoon I enter the infirmary. Thursday morning I'll receive four hours infusion at Georgetown Hospital and return to the infirmary with a pump attached to me for 2 days. An infusion nurse will come to the infirmary to detach the pump, and I'll remain at the infirmary or two more days to recover from sickness. Then, thank God, I'll return to the vigil. The next treatment is mid August and the final treatment is late August.
I am immensely appreciative of the kind folks at unity healthcare, Georgetown University Hospital, Christ house, here in DC. Our wealthcare system in this country is a scathing testimony to the sub humanity of we Americans. We hold is our most sacred right the right to care less about our neighbor.
But here in DC some citizens over the years have struggled sheroically and built a better system for we poor. That it is way below the standards of most developed countries, is not the fault of these heroic individuals, and it is more than sufficient to get me a 40 percent chance of surviving this cancer. I'm profoundly admiring and grateful.
Imodium AD is my new best friend. I no longer have a manageable bowel without it. Don't ever bother with the Rite Aid generic.
I remain substantially fatigued, requiring 12 to 14 hours of sleep per day, at night and through naps.
A major Public Radio Group has begun working on a story on the vigil. Of course it may or may not come to fruition.
I cried when I got the news yesterday that CCNV infirmary, part of a massive homeless shelter here in town, happily agreed to have me for 3 5 day periods For each is my upcoming chemo treatments. This as opposed to 45 days incarceration, all that had been considered for my housing up until I asked the question last week - can't we limit my incarceration to 5 days for each of the treatments? Thus allowing me to be away from the vigil for a minimal amount of time. Yes, was the near immediate answer. Oh My.
During this process three individuals and a working-class Hispanic church, came forward to fund a room for me during treatment. What an unspeakable joy for me to see such loving. I could not have accepted such kindness. But it did encourage me to push on for this final solution, which otherwise I would not have done. May these folks know the goodness and good that they have done. And likewise, without the kindness of my suburban friends for the first treatment I'm a well not have made it this far.
So tomorrow, Wednesday in the afternoon I enter the infirmary. Thursday morning I'll receive four hours infusion at Georgetown Hospital and return to the infirmary with a pump attached to me for 2 days. An infusion nurse will come to the infirmary to detach the pump, and I'll remain at the infirmary or two more days to recover from sickness. Then, thank God, I'll return to the vigil. The next treatment is mid August and the final treatment is late August.
I am immensely appreciative of the kind folks at unity healthcare, Georgetown University Hospital, Christ house, here in DC. Our wealthcare system in this country is a scathing testimony to the sub humanity of we Americans. We hold is our most sacred right the right to care less about our neighbor.
But here in DC some citizens over the years have struggled sheroically and built a better system for we poor. That it is way below the standards of most developed countries, is not the fault of these heroic individuals, and it is more than sufficient to get me a 40 percent chance of surviving this cancer. I'm profoundly admiring and grateful.
Imodium AD is my new best friend. I no longer have a manageable bowel without it. Don't ever bother with the Rite Aid generic.
I remain substantially fatigued, requiring 12 to 14 hours of sleep per day, at night and through naps.
A major Public Radio Group has begun working on a story on the vigil. Of course it may or may not come to fruition.
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