Tag: civility
member name: Sylvester Steffen
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September 30, 2006 04:59 AM EDT --
As an involved observer I've come to believe that institutional education like institutional food is commercial, bland and unhealthy. Kids deserve better than canned education and . . . more
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January 18, 2007 10:38 AM EST --
Religion and politics are not above the unseemly usage of orthodoxy in litmus-testing. Purity of orthodoxy can be a deceptive measure that bedevils popes and presidents alike. Pope John Paul II’s . . . more
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September 02, 2007 07:38 AM EDT --
Walter Brueggemann has made the connection of ecological wasting (sin against the God/ Land/ Human Covenant) and the exploitation of women:
“…Adam, that is, mankind, has a partner and mate, . . . more
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September 20, 2007 05:21 AM EDT --
The political/ religious/ cultural paradigm of a discredited worldview no longer works in a new world order. Case in point is the static worldview (SWV) and the evolutionary worldview (EWV).
It is the . . . more
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October 07, 2007 10:54 AM EDT --
The dominant ethics/politics in American culture, which came from Europe, have brought about the dead-end wasting of the global ecology/environment. American ecologies were pristine 600 years ago, not . . . more
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December 01, 2007 03:47 AM EST --
In a representative form of government, the election of a person to a high office is to the purpose of serving the people and the greater public good. Public election is a sacred privilege, honor . . . more
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July 30, 2006 05:31 PM EDT --
The politicized use of guilt and fear for purposes of manipulation is wrongheaded and morally reprehensible. "Justified living", . . . more
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November 10, 2006 10:13 AM EST --
The election cycle of 2006 might be interpreted as a mission rescuing American culture from drowning in a sea of distrust. The danger of asphyxiation continues and so does the need of respiratory help. . . . more
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June 25, 2007 02:59 PM EDT --
Needing answer is the question "what is a TRUE bureaucrat?" By convention, the TRUE bureaucrat is the zealot who stands by the Party, the Institution, with knee-jerk fidelity, even if it . . . more
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July 28, 2007 09:58 AM EDT --
The joined offensive of dominion theology and imperial politics is lethal. Indeed, by culture and genetic hard-wiring, male domination continues to be a mortal threat to personal/social wellbeing. The . . . more
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May 19, 2006 03:50 AM EDT --
panic tubaing
in frantic wilderness - moose
calls the rising sun
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July 11, 2006 04:31 AM EDT --
From personal experience we know that life originates within and is sustained in the continuum of cosmic energy. At the same time we experience . . . more
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September 17, 2006 07:03 PM EDT --
The ambivalent experience of transformation burdens even the gradual unfolding of life's mysteries. Experiences of good and evil implicate the unfolding of the mystery and the plan of nature. Natural . . . more
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October 03, 2006 03:58 AM EDT --
The arrogance of absolutism leads to all manner of perversion. Revelations about people in the US Government now boiling to the surface are not unprecedented. The perversity of absolutism, . . . more
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December 09, 2006 11:33 AM EST --
QUESTION Based on universal understandings of cosmic origin and evolution, what faith convictions (certitude) and rational conclusions can all religions and civilizations accept and advance in . . . more
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January 31, 2007 10:56 AM EST --
Changing Worldview, Changing Dogma
Worldview is a personally and socially developed consciousness. Personal consciousness dictates personal dogmas, the package of beliefs that inform personal . . . more
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February 06, 2007 08:30 AM EST --
In the pursuit of “truth”, Enlightenment and Religion come together. Universal (catholic) Religion is a “universal call” - vocation. The universal “call” for every person, . . . more
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February 11, 2007 08:55 AM EST --
Ours is an epic time marked by wars between religion and civility, but also a time of the apocalyptical enlightenment of ignorance and arrogance. Each of us has a capacity to be irreligious and uncivil; . . . more
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March 24, 2007 05:32 AM EDT --
“All of us long for a Pentecostal church; a church in which the Spirit rules, and not the letter; a church in which understanding breaks down the fences we erect against each other. We are impatient . . . more
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April 13, 2007 10:01 AM EDT --
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think all CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS NOT ONLY DO NOT ACTIVELY EMBRACE EVOLUTION BUT THEY ACTUALLY DISDAIN IT, as evidenced in their total unwillingness to confront . . . more
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