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How to Fight Back
Every so often there comes something that stirs our minds. Our minds that have been conditioned to skillfully whisk over subjects if there is a temptation to dig deeper and understand what is truly going on in our society. From the most unlikely places at the most unlikely times…
It is an ordinary weekday morning — just an ordinary day in the life of an ordinary person in an ordinary world.
We get a call from an ordinary friend who talks in an ordinary manner about ordinary things.
Introductory conversations turn to ideas — ideas that rapidly move to controversial subjects like what we believe about the current state of affairs in each of our worlds. How the political climate in the world today is becoming drama filled, as opposed to governing concerns. We talk about power wielded by so few and sought by so many.
About the religious climate. How we have always known that there have been massive wars fought throughout history. Teaching of a benevolent supreme being that somehow seems to be comfortable with the seething mass of humanity that kills and tortures in its name.
We talk about the rise of people who are beginning to chafe. Chafe at the thought of being held hostage for reasons we did not even know were of concern. An example is right…