I was born in Boston Massachusetts. This pins several labels on me: Bostonian, Masshole (to some), American, Yankee, New Englander … to name a few. My mother was Jewish. This pins other labels on me: Jew, Zionist (to some) … plus some negative ones … yid, cheap skate, killer of Jesus … to name a few. I am anti […]
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I make no claim to be smarter than other people. I make no claim to be better than other people. I believe what I believe, but am always willing to hear a different point of view. I may sometimes find other people’s beliefs odd, or sometimes maybe even humorous, but I never deny them the right to believe what they want. […]
On my way to school a very old lady waves me over So I asked if she was ok. I couldn’t understand because it looked like she had had a stroke. But I tried for 10 mins. Then a man passed me. I asked him could he help. Totally walked past me. Then a young […]
The whole point of PAX Nation is to try to form a collective of like thinkers. Right now nobody seems very inclined to join in so I went to twitter and did a search for the thoughts and ideas of other bloggers with similar aims. These are some other members of that growing blogging collective known as […]
Information is the single most valuable resource anyone can have access to. This is not just an opinion, but a simple fact. Material resources may have a varying value, depending on one’s needs, but without the proper information they qualify as nothing more than wishful thinking. So the true art of governing, the art of creating a […]
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/12″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”10/12″][vc_custom_heading source=”post_title” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:center” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]I belong to several groups on Facebook devoted to promoting understanding. In one of them, which has people from all over the world, someone posted a picture of all the flags of the world, and asked people which flag was there. It was just an innocent question to find out […]
When I was younger, I used to go on a lot of wilderness trips, often involving white water canoeing and rafting. The rafting portion of the trips was usually involving a professional rafting company, which meant that there would be people along who were not part of the group I was in. On one of these trips, […]
I generally don’t judge people. In my mind everyone is entitled to their own beliefs and opinions, and I will respect their beliefs and opinions as long as they equally respect mine. I have no problem even discussing our differences, as long as we both are willing to hear the other side, and at least […]
This project of mine, admittedly a crazy idea from the beginning, has not really caught much attention yet. Maybe it is in how I am approaching it, or maybe the idea is just too out there. Or it could be that I am simply not patient enough. I was talking to a friend that I had not spoken to in […]
