Infinitely more hideous and deadly than what Trump is doing, is what tens of millions of Americans are not doing.
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7.24.2018
As one person I cannot change the world, but I can change the world of one person. Paul Shane Spear
As one person I cannot change the world, but I can change the world of one person.
Paul Shane Spear
Paul Shane Spear
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Putridest Stinking Dump leads his mob to hate, hurt, and if they can, kill all the rest who sit and watch, their kids in the crosshairs
Putridest Stinking Dump leads his mob to hate, hurt, and if they can, kill all the rest who sit and watch, their kids in the crosshairs
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Choosing between speaking an offensive truth and not, to avoid offending, losing friends, no f****** contest. I owe YOU clarity.
Choosing between speaking an offensive truth and not, to avoid offending, losing friends, no f** contest. I owe YOU clarity.
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Everything sane people hate in the world is the result of money being spent. Stop spending beyond your need for absolute survival, or at least shut the fuk up.
Everything sane people hate in the world is the result of money being spent. Stop spending beyond your need for absolute survival, or at least shut the fuk up.
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I have given up on the human species at long last it seems. Long overdue. I'll always be committed totally to the one in a million that can still be saved.
I have given up on the human species at long last it seems. Long overdue. I'll always be committed totally to the one in a million that can still be saved.
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Loving it is not, but cheap sentimentality, without radicle committed action
Loving it is not, but cheap sentimentality, without radicle committed action
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7.23.2018
Update. Major repair, recovery, and preventive work on the electrical system.....
Update. Major repair, recovery, and preventive work on the electrical system.
This is an experimental vehicle, we have few if any like it in the country or in the world right now. It has taught very much about where the limits are and where the needs are and it keeps on teaching. It seems to be trying to kill me but with the decency of a few people that help the mission it has not killed us yet.
Recent days and another set of coming days, maybe another five or six, are being spent repairing, recovering, and doing preventive electrical work to do with solar panels, batteries, wiring.
If there were a team of us, adequate funding, stable suitable testing facilities this process would have happened quite a while ago and would be happening much faster now. And all of it would have considerably more certainty. Having said that under the circumstances I think the few people involved can feel that were all doing rather good work.
The work and Investments being made are not a matter of just doing more of the same. Further Investments and efforts are taking place only based on learning that failures thu's far provide. We may well be at the light at the end of the tunnel. Without question we are getting much closer. Solar panels have been failing and almost certainly it is due to either the shocks and vibrations of this form of transportation, possibly major design flaws from the solar panel manufacturer (a new manufacturer is now being tried) , and possibly electrical spikes in this complex vehicle, and within a week that latter cause will be protected against with new diodes, and additional measures are being taken to eliminate the issue of vibration and shock. And regarding the battery failure which amazes leading Engineers, they don't understand it, within a week there will be new protective measures, diodes, protecting the existing and soon new battery.
This is an experimental vehicle, we have few if any like it in the country or in the world right now. It has taught very much about where the limits are and where the needs are and it keeps on teaching. It seems to be trying to kill me but with the decency of a few people that help the mission it has not killed us yet.
Recent days and another set of coming days, maybe another five or six, are being spent repairing, recovering, and doing preventive electrical work to do with solar panels, batteries, wiring.
If there were a team of us, adequate funding, stable suitable testing facilities this process would have happened quite a while ago and would be happening much faster now. And all of it would have considerably more certainty. Having said that under the circumstances I think the few people involved can feel that were all doing rather good work.
The work and Investments being made are not a matter of just doing more of the same. Further Investments and efforts are taking place only based on learning that failures thu's far provide. We may well be at the light at the end of the tunnel. Without question we are getting much closer. Solar panels have been failing and almost certainly it is due to either the shocks and vibrations of this form of transportation, possibly major design flaws from the solar panel manufacturer (a new manufacturer is now being tried) , and possibly electrical spikes in this complex vehicle, and within a week that latter cause will be protected against with new diodes, and additional measures are being taken to eliminate the issue of vibration and shock. And regarding the battery failure which amazes leading Engineers, they don't understand it, within a week there will be new protective measures, diodes, protecting the existing and soon new battery.
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Loving and hatred, two sides of the same coin, inseparable. Without raging hatred of Cruelty, savagery, Injustice, it's not Loving.
Loving and hatred, two sides of the same coin, inseparable. Without raging hatred of Cruelty, savagery, Injustice, it's not Loving.
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Update. Very important mission progress, possibly. If it doesn't kill you you grow, and we're not dead yet.....
1. My dealing with people. When people approach me very often it is a harsh encounter for them. Most who approach want to be entertained, that's their right, but it's my right to not spend my time entertaining them. I never seek to offend and I avoid it to the degree I see how. Although I have yet to try this it occurred to me today how to see and speak the truth in a way that might be much more productive than I have seen how to do now. "Friend, please take no offense, but I'm dealing with a series of emergencies here. Everything anyone wants to know about the vehicle is at my website, the first thing that comes up if you Google start loving." I am dealing with a serious of emergencies. This is where I choose to live, every breath. The world is and has been for decades a Cascade of unfolding emergencies. I believe that life is found only in the face of those. And that's where I have planted myself my entire adulthood as best I could see how. But I have not thought to speak this to those that approach me wanting entertainment. I think it's going to be a big help.
2. Crushing financial situation with the vehicle, moving further into debt with a tiny Ray of Hope. A friend of the mission has stepped up with some funding that will go a substantial part way toward dealing with the failure of the major battery and almost all of the solar panels again. In addition one of my two credit card companies, my owners, I am in a position for a very low interest situation for some number of months. So by going more deeply into debt gambling that in fact the vehicle is becoming more stable, Maybe infinitely more stable almost, it's a roll of the dice and we'll either die or maybe survive. Time will tell.
3. Passport, travel schedule. Additional documentation had been requested, understandably given my facial tattoos and years of dropping out of the system in Washington DC Etc, and Friday I confirmed that the documentation has been received by them. They know I am trying to get into Canada August 7th and apparently they try and work around such dates. Middle of next week a clearer picture should emerge. If I do get a passport which I expect to that still leaves the question of whether I am on lists from my years of activism in DC and standing rock that will cause them to prevent my going into Canada at the border. That will be interesting to see.
2. Crushing financial situation with the vehicle, moving further into debt with a tiny Ray of Hope. A friend of the mission has stepped up with some funding that will go a substantial part way toward dealing with the failure of the major battery and almost all of the solar panels again. In addition one of my two credit card companies, my owners, I am in a position for a very low interest situation for some number of months. So by going more deeply into debt gambling that in fact the vehicle is becoming more stable, Maybe infinitely more stable almost, it's a roll of the dice and we'll either die or maybe survive. Time will tell.
3. Passport, travel schedule. Additional documentation had been requested, understandably given my facial tattoos and years of dropping out of the system in Washington DC Etc, and Friday I confirmed that the documentation has been received by them. They know I am trying to get into Canada August 7th and apparently they try and work around such dates. Middle of next week a clearer picture should emerge. If I do get a passport which I expect to that still leaves the question of whether I am on lists from my years of activism in DC and standing rock that will cause them to prevent my going into Canada at the border. That will be interesting to see.
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7.22.2018
All morality worthy the name is lived, We, inclusive of all beings, unconditional. Only this is worship of Creator, Godley, joyful, sustainable.
All morality worthy the name is lived, We, inclusive of all beings, unconditional. Only this is worship of Creator, Godley, joyful, sustainable.
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7.18.2018
Financial Lifeboat badly needed. Donation would be great but Could be in the form of a substantial short-term loan. The vehicle....
Financial Lifeboat badly needed. Donation would be great but Could be in the form of a substantial short-term loan. The vehicle has received tremendous small medium and large upgrades over the last nine months and longer that have made it ever so much more robust. Doing so has cost every penny and more but it has been worthwhile. I am totally willing to let this thing die but not prematurely and it would be premature now. So I'm prepared to go even deeper into debt but I'm putting the word out there that if you know anyone that has substantial Financial Reserves that won't hurt themself to contribute either a donation or a loan it would be extremely timely right now. A $700 battery is now dead. Unknown why. But it's dead. Recent climbs here in the Rockies have shown me that it is past time to have a more powerful., $600, motor mid vehicle. And there are ongoing issues, unknown cause as of yet that are causing solar panels to fail. The mission needs $1,000 to keep afloat right now. If you know anyone that would like to help without hurting themselves, which I will not allow, now would be an excellent time to let me know. I'm almost certain that the answer is no, but it would be irresponsible of me not to put the word out. James
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7.15.2018
Be goodness for the joy of it. Every personal price is worth it.
Be goodness for the joy of it. Every personal price is worth it.
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7.14.2018
Third installment. On goodness, internet searching.
It is good people who make good places.
Anna Sewell
Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
Marcus Aurelius
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
Charles Baudelaire
Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.
Shannon L. Alder
Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.Aldous Huxley
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.Oscar Wilde
Goodness is the only investment which never fails.Henry David Thoreau
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Look for no reward in goodness but goodness itself.
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.Aristotle
In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.Euripides
No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.Phillips Brooks
The devil himself is good when he is pleased.Thomas Fuller
It is within my power either to serve God, or not to serve him. Serving him I add to my own good and the good of the whole world. Not serving him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, which was in my power to create.
Leo Tolstoy
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise
of others, but from doing something worthwhile.
Wilfred Grenfell
If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act,
you have neglected much, and most of all yourself.
A. Neilen
Do things for others and you'll find you self-consciousness
evaporating like morning dew.
Dale Carnegie
If one is to do good one must do it in the minute particulars.
General good is the plea of the hypocrite, the flatterer and the scoundrel.
William Blake
Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate,
whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.
Heloise
And when we come to think of it, goodness is uneventful.
It does not flash, it glows. It is deep, quiet, and very simple.
It passes not with oratory, it is commonly foreign to riches,
nor does it often sit in the places of the mighty: but may be
felt in the touch of a friendly hand or the look of a kindly eye.
David Grayson
Doing good for others is not a duty. It is a joy,
for it increases your own health and happiness.
Zoroaster
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Each of us, I think our top five responsibilities are to be good in the world every breath. I wish it were otherwise, but it is not.
Each of us, I think our top five responsibilities are to be good in the world every breath. I wish it were otherwise, but it is not.
It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.Ralph Waldo Emerson
We want to be perfectly entirely free of cancer within us, but we protect the evil, the selfishness within us, with all of our might. I wonder how that will turn out?
We want to be perfectly entirely free of cancer within us, but we protect the evil, the selfishness within us, with all of our might. I wonder how that will turn out?
Second installment. Quotations on goodness. Internet search today.
Good people are like candles; they burn themselves up to give others light.” Anonymous
Goodness is love in action.” James Hamilton
Live in such a way that if people should see you they could see God’s goodness in you.” Anonymous
Wisdom has its root in goodness.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained.” Lao Tzu
There is no limit to the amount of good a person can do if they don’t care who gets the credit.” Anonymous
Be the reason someone believes in the goodness of people.” Anonymous
Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:
- I shall not fear anyone on Earth.
- I shall fear only God.
- I shall not bear ill will toward anyone.
- I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.
- I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.
Mahatma Gandhi
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
William Shakespeare
It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.
Mahatma Gandhi
I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, "aw shit, he's up!
Steve Maraboli
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
Marcus Aurelius
Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Good people see the good and bring out the best in other people.
Roy T. Bennett
Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
Marcus Aurelius
To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.
Mahatma Gandhi
You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!
J.K. Rowling
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
Mahatma Gandhi
When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.
Jim Henson
Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.
Terry Pratchett
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First installment. Quotations on goodness. Internet search today
God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.
Desmond Tutu
A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.
Bhumibol Adulyadej
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.
Anne Frank
Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.
Athenaeus
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
Francis Bacon
Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.
Pablo Casals
That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.
Denis Waitley
In Christ we see a maturity of love that flowers in self-sacrifice and forgiveness; a maturity of power that never swerves from the ideal of service; a maturity of goodness that overcomes every temptation, and, of course, we see the ultimate victory of life over death itself.
Vincent Nichols
One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.
Ashley Montagu
I happen to be a Christian, but I know that there is one God. People worshipping goodness and love and kindness and truth are worshipping the same God.
Anne Lamott
Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows.
Ray Stannard Baker
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy
We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.
Desmond Tutu
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
John Updike
By their innocence and goodness, by their boundless capacity for forgiveness, and by the sheer power of their faith and hope, children redeem their parents, bringing out their best selves.
Cass Sunstein
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
Albert Einstein
It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
Stephen King
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Two more solar panels have failed after about 4 months. This is not financially sustainable. It is killing us. More
Two more solar panels have failed after about 4 months. This is not financially sustainable. It's killing us. In 5 or 10 years maybe there will be a service industry for this type of panel but today it is virtually unknown. The odds are quite High that one or both of two things have happened, vibration has cracked a cell breaking the circuit within the panel and or one or both of two diodes that I'm told are in the tiny control box have failed. On Tuesday an electronics place will be evaluating the diode which I pray is the problem because I think that is repairable.
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Trump is not the problem. A world that tolerates this stinking orange turd pile is the problem.
Trump is not the problem. A world that tolerates this stinking orange turd pile is the problem.
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Update. What is goodness? These are the musings that are going through my mind as I desperately try to find....
Update. What is goodness? These are the musings that are going through my mind as I desperately try to find.... my footing among these tidal waves of evil unfolding on Earth, or rather, showing themselves. They've been there for thousands of years. It is not that I feel at a loss for what is good, for knowing what is good, I feel that I do. I feel that almost every young toddler knows before we destroy that within them. And even more
than one in a million people Beyond toddlerhood there is still a dim obscure clouded light as to what his goodness. But how to set a lighthouse on a hill that goodness can be more Shirley found and stood on? This is Central to my task right now. Somehow my lifelong study of history is great change agents is relevant but not on point. By way of analogy I have studied those who were courageous and Brilliant and good at stopping out plague or weeds of evil. But what is more essential is what is good and how to cultivate it.
than one in a million people Beyond toddlerhood there is still a dim obscure clouded light as to what his goodness. But how to set a lighthouse on a hill that goodness can be more Shirley found and stood on? This is Central to my task right now. Somehow my lifelong study of history is great change agents is relevant but not on point. By way of analogy I have studied those who were courageous and Brilliant and good at stopping out plague or weeds of evil. But what is more essential is what is good and how to cultivate it.
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I in business 27 years out of thousands of executives worked with at most two or three who cared for their employees as people not profit. And so is with all government officials. Think about it.
I in business 27 years out of thousands of executives worked with at most two or three who cared for their employees as people not profit. And so is with all government officials. Think about it.
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7.13.2018
This is a really really hard couple of days. And two more solar panels are failing. This is financially crushing. If it doesn't kill you you grow. And if it kills me that's totally fine.
This is a really really hard couple of days. And two more solar panels are failing. This is financially crushing. If it doesn't kill you you grow. And if it kills me that's totally fine.
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Imagine the person that avoids every bit of cancer prevention and treatment as they think they can get away with. This is humans with respect to large heartedness.
Imagine the person that avoids every bit of cancer prevention and treatment as they think they can get away with. This is humans with respect to large heartedness.
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Important Update. Several things. The level of relative peace that I'm feeling.....
Update. Several things. The level of relative peace that I'm feeling..... continues from the other day when I saw that the Arc of the moral Universe does Bend toward Justice and Justice is that we tiny tiny tiny hearted American citizens and World citizens really are finally coming to justice for our small heartedness with our Collective torture and suicide as a consequence. But my instincts to try and save everything are still there so it's very hard for me not to spend too much time watching world events and looking for some way to stop it all. But I must to large degree because what's needed from me as best I can articulated right now is to do the work that I wish had been done for young James, me, 60 years ago, 50 years ago, 40 years ago, that might have saved me from wasting so many decades on Pleasure instead of joy. On a more pragmatic note, as mentioned yesterday the journey is lengthened by several weeks due to passport creation delay the so one or two or three significant vehicle issues may be addressed in that time. This fabulous RV trailer, experimental, could use an improvement in the hitch arrangement to make it more solid and with the advice of a fellow that I encountered by chance yesterday I have found a metal fabricator than on Monday May do so about 50 miles from here. Horribly, another solar panel has failed. The two lead theories are Road vibration but there's also a possibility that an electrical problem is causing high voltage to go back through the panel. A warranty was purchased on some of these panels and for the first time I am exploring to see whether those will be honored. If not it might be in Oregon or Washington which are fairly Progressive from an energy standpoint that a solar supplier might be willing to help me diagnose what's going on. The ongoing expense of replacing these is crippling. Major work was done to increase the support under the solar panels, about a month ago, and it is hoped the that will protect the panels and keep most of them from failing. Or at least your medically slow the failure rate down. Probably in the next few days additional work will be done along those lines.
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7.12.2018
Update. In a bit of a holding pattern, probably a 2-week delay on the passport, which means mid-august. They wanted additional documentation (more)
Update. In a bit of a holding pattern, probably a 2-week delay on the passport, which means mid-august. They wanted additional documentation
to prove who I am. This is some of what I have submitted.
to prove who I am. This is some of what I have submitted.
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When there are many more offering a hand up there will be few if any asking for a handout.
When there are many more offering a hand up there will be few if any asking for a handout.
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