I’m grateful Barack Obama won reelection. Of the two candidates he is the more principled and the one more able to understand and address the needs of the entire country, not just the other 47%. In spite of the powerful propaganda that says he has done nothing during the past four years, Obama has [...]
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On Teaching Children How to Think or What to Think
This showed up one day on my Facebook newsfeed. It’s among the thousands of catchy image quotes that friends like to share. I found one attribution to cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead. Although I couldn’t verify the quote anywhere else, it does seem consistent with other things I’ve read about her. Teaching children how to think seems a [...]
Posted in I Saw It on Facebook, Random thoughts, Social matters
Also tagged Fear, Morality, Religion, Thinking, Truth, Virtue
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Two Post-election Scenarios—Neither One Bright
Two weeks ago, a friend of mine shared this photo-quote on Facebook. I started to write a snarky comment but deleted it. I realized I had much more to say about the quote than I could cover in the two or three sentences that would quickly get lost within Facebook’s short attention span. Instead, I [...]
Posted in I Saw It on Facebook, Politics, Social matters
Also tagged Fear, Politics, Truth
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