Just another little quote
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Posted:Mar 4, 2007 1:19 pm
Last Updated:Mar 9, 2015 2:25 pm
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This helps to open the eyes of those that think there is a strict code of conduct to acceptance in society today.....
The world is big. Some people have trouble comprehending that fact. They want the world on their own terms, its peoples just like them and their friends, its places like the manicured little patch on which they live. But this is a foolish and blind wish. Diversity is not an abnormality but the very reality of our planet. The human world manifests the same reality and will not seek our permission to celebrate itself in the magnificence of its endless varieties. Civility is a sensible attribute in this world we have; Narrowness of heart and mind is not.
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stubborn attitudes
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Posted:Jan 27, 2007 3:44 pm
Last Updated:Mar 9, 2015 2:18 pm
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Men and feelings, huh? Now there's a subject and a half and I'll try to
express my thoughts on the matter as best I can, though it's not easy.
First of all because each of us will have a different idea, and also
because I'm a man.
Most men seem to spend their whole lives hiding behind a mask of false
bravado which covers a whole plethora of ordinary human insecurities.
By revealing any truth about themselves, they render themselves liable
to judgment by others and possibly questioning, thereby causing them to
examine and question themselves, and therefore show weakness. If a man
shows any weakness, other men will bully him until he either goes away,
dies, or stops showing those signs of weakness. It's the law of the
jungle, the playground, the workplace, the pub, in fact anywhere you see
men or males of other species together.
I feel that it is a great shame and a symptom of modern life that in
this day and age an act of kindness is seen as an act of weakness. By
going out of my way to help somebody do something, like help pick up their
shopping they dropped on the pavement, the ignorant and badly educated
chavs of this land will call me a fool (only using stronger
terminology) and generally give me a hard time. If I beat nine bells of shit out
of that same stranger and steal their wallet, I'll get respect from
those people. Strange, huh?
Men who are secure within themselves have less trouble talking about
their feelings as they won't care so much what somebody else thinks,
especially if they are martial arts instructors. It's also about ego and
how mighty a person feels. I can talk about my inner feelings but then
I'm very happy within myself and have no discernible issues of machismo
to overcome.
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EVOLUTION
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Posted:Jan 11, 2007 12:10 pm
Last Updated:Mar 9, 2015 2:40 pm
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Cultural diversity is not only humanity’s hallmark of progress, but an insurance policy against extinction as a species.
Diversity gives not only cultural and economic riches derived from different perspectives on natural resources and what it means to be human, but options to problem solving that are stifled in a homogenized society.
When such a society is organized around economic goals that are measured by profit margins for private gain by powerful elites, where the demands of those who bear cash as the ticket of admission to the marketplace rule, rather than the needs of people, then those who are deprived ‒ and those who have never been part of such a global economy ‒ must necessarily suffer.
The genocide of tribal peoples, therefore, is symptomatic of a deep malaise in the world’s metropolises.
Indigenous peoples will suffer the most, but humanity as a whole will suffer the loss of some of its memory, not only of a unique knowledge of the natural world, but of its ability to cope with the future in various, diverse ways.
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