<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Seems like we can sort of add the current President to our team :) based on his comments last night. Of course, the hidden assumption that the way to solve any problem is to pass a law and spend public money on it may need to be questioned<br><br> I keep experiencing that folks like the NRA, conservative republicans, etc. seem in this for the long haul, they have a sort of long term, movemental focus -- see the ground work laid for the dissolution of labor unions, then when the opportunity presents, like one of this Japanese wrestlers, wham they move, like the right to work legislation. We are members of the Southern Poverty Law Center who track hate groups, etc. There are thousands, and they are off training on weekends<br><br>The progressive side seems split between sort of meditation on higher consciousness and protests and
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AICP Planners: 14.5 CM for all ToP courses<br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 12/17/12, Randy Williams <i><rcwmbw@yahoo.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Randy Williams <rcwmbw@yahoo.com><br>Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Sufficient unto the day is the contradiction there of<br>To: "Colleague Dialogue" <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net><br>Date: Monday, December 17, 2012, 6:27 AM<br><br><div id="yiv683568192"><div><div>Paula, that's a really good insight. We used to identify individualistic over-emphasis as a contradiction. But perhaps it's really the de-emphasis of community that we need to focus on. </div><div>Randy<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Dec 17, 2012, at 7:16 AM, Paula Philbrook <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:paula.philbrook@gmail.com" target="_blank"
href="/mc/compose?to=paula.philbrook@gmail.com">paula.philbrook@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><font color="#000000"><font face="comic sans ms,sans-serif" size="4">Sufficient unto the day is the contradiction there of. . . . </font></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><font face="comic sans ms,sans-serif" size="4">I have carried this phrase in my head since Town Meeting days. What is the contradiction? In the Fifth City process we identified the VICTIM IMAGE as the underlying spirit problem or contraction, has that changed in our life times?</font></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><font face="comic sans ms,sans-serif" size="4"><br></font></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><font color="#000000">Daughter, Rebekah, writes and is the content editor of <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://Dictionary.com">Dictionary.com</a>. </font>They selected bluster as the word of the year for 2012. (follow this link if you want to read about it- <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://hotword.dictionary.com/bluster/">http://hotword.dictionary.com/bluster/</a>) In the article, she says you cannot solve a problem until you articulate it. Is that right?</font></div>
<div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4">The culture of drugs, guns, domestic violence, excess consumption, and bullying, all point to a similar underlying contradiction-deep personal isolation coupled with a vacuum or absence of community has produced a mindset of "super" power individuals. <b>The individual is more important than the whole. </b></font></div>
<div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4">The victim image was from the Freedom section of RSI, I keep thinking this contradiction is related to the last section, the CHURCH. There is no WE.</font></div>
<div><br></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4">Paula</font></div><div> </div><div><br><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif"><em>Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow</em>.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif" size="1"><em>Melody</em> Beattie</font></div><br>
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