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Pray for an end to the Darfur conflict and the unrest/misery throughout of sub-Saharan Africa (and Haiti)...as well as all people suffering throughout the world...and the attainment of peace among nations...and for the people of northern half of the Korean Peninsula, Turkmenistan, and Zimbabwe, who labor under repression...and for an end to female mutilation.

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  • Christian Theology
  • Geography // Historical philology & linguistics // Political & social thought // Philosophy
  • China
  • Psychology, mental health, & psychiatry // Medicine & health
  • Peace, human rights & social justice

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July 20: Charles Chibitty, 83, last surviving Comanche code talker

(Note: these articles are mostly not my creations, with the exception of a few small contributions.)

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I have also edited as 70.57.139.181.

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  • All should place the firmest hope in the succour of God - Council of Trent)
  • Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions. - Isaiah Berlin, The Listener, 1978) [cf. St-Exupery]
  • You have enemies? Good. That means you stood up for something in your life - Churchill
  • There have been two approaches to accomplishing this destruction: one as in traditional, continental totalitarianism [...] where the mind of a citizen is, by some violent means of the centralized state, wrenched away from its otherwise natural tendency to connect with reality and forcibly re-modeled to think as the Party says. (George Orwell’s 1984.) This approach has [to some degree] become extinct. The other is the consumerist way invented by the Anglo-Americans, where the mind is reduced, through consumerist seduction, from an instrument for reception of and reflection on reality to a mere intestine of the noosphere level that dissipates away meaningless sense-impressions and eventually itself. Without consciousness the body is then naturally mechanized as a mere cog in the metabolic machinery of the supraorganism (group homophone). [1]
  • 窗户洞儿[-戶-兒] chuānghudòngr n. small opening in a window (for smoke/cats)
  • "The original version of this book, Language in Action, published in 1941, was in many respects a response to the dangers of propaganda, especially as exemplified in Adolf Hitler's success in persuading millions to share his maniacal and destructive views. It was the writer's conviction then, as it remains now, that everyone needs to have a habitually critical attitude towards language — his own as well as that of others — both for the sake of his personal well-being and for his adequate functioning as a citizen. Hitler is gone, but if the majority of our fellow-citizens are more susceptible to the slogans of fear and race hatred than to those of peaceful accommodation and mutual respect among human beings, our political liberties remain at the mercy of any eloquent and unscrupulous demagogue." (S.I. Hayakawa)
  • Gasmask_for_man_and_horse
  • Many observers here and abroad note a kind of higher illiteracy in our college graduates. But we like it that way. In our cars we like horsepower; in our studies we like slow-motion and low-gear. In education the intellectually second-rate does not shock us. To insist on the first-rate would be arrogant. Anyhow, if we are so second-rate, how come we are the richest nation in recorded history and the fattest people on earth? (Stringfellow Barr, 1958)

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