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Tue Feb 4 05:15:15 PST 2020

Hi Marianne, Facebook has been a blessing, an opportunity to stay in touch
around the world. It is a way to stay in touch and up to date with family
especially.
The option of "unfollowing friends without "unfriending" is an option. When
something shows up which is "evil" I report it by "hiding it" and choosing
why. When a friend posts a egative response, I delete it and tell them why
via messenger. AND my trump supporting friends do the same to me. Listened
to closing arguments, which were all very professional, but Iunderstood how
each side could find the other "evil". P.S. Does not keep me from
supporting progressive ideals. May your week be filled with sunshine. Judi
White

On Tue, Feb 4, 2020, 6:31 AM Marianna Bailey via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
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> Dear Colleagues,
> This is one meditation dealing with evil. There are others on the website.
> I”m concerned about this country and the evil that has been set loose. I’m
> also re-thinking my participation on Facebook. Do you have any thoughts on
> that subject?
> Marianna Bailey
>
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> *Subject: **[DailyMeditations] 2/4/20: Moving Beyond Evil: Wisdom from
> Howard Thurman*
> *Date: *February 4, 2020 at 3:32:37 AM EST
> *To: *"Marianna Bailey" <wmbailey at charter.net>
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> Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
> Moving Beyond Evil: Wisdom from Howard Thurman
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> Meditation #268, February 4, 2020
> Transforming Evil
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> For two weeks or so—interrupted by several meditations on generosity—we
> have been meditating on Evil.  That is an important meditation for Evil is
> possible wherever humans gather. Evil is often in the air like a wind that
> brings chaos with it.
> It takes self-criticism and criticism of one’s institutions including
> government and media, religion and the legal world, agriculture and art, to
> begin to stand up to Evil.
>
> Indeed, Evil is smart and loves to attach itself to power places and to do
> so subtly as long as possible, hiding from plain sight.  Evil happens.  And
> it can happen anew with each generation if we are not vigilant.
> Self-Reflection of woman in mirror. Photo by Brad Lloyd
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> The lessons to learn from Hitler and his cult are many.  His followers
> were completely subservient to him.  Whatever he said or did or wanted to
> do was fine with him—he gave the marching orders and his followers cravenly
> followed.  Cowardice reigned—courage went out the door.  Fear took over
> souls and society alike.  Resentment reigned.
> Violent riot police retaliate against protestors. Photo by Spenser
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> Hitler’s followers were not just everyday citizens responding to promises
> of a better life but government officials, judicial pooh bahs, university
> professors, fellow politicians, media experts, business men and
> industrialists who abandoned all conscience to participate in his cult.
> One person described such a movement as a cult of persons “hopelessly
> addicted to power.”  Yes, power was everything so it took precedence over
> everything else.  Truly an idolatrous goings on.  Power was god and Hitler
> cultists worshipped at the feet of the fuhrer who could do no wrong.
> One fights evil with all that one has at one’s disposal.  This includes
> moral outrage and the energy that accompanies such outrage—the energy to
> resist and to gather allies and to strategize and to interfere with lies
> and resentments that are being preached.
> Young Adult eco-justice activists protesting on behalf of the planet.Photo
> by Callum Shaw on Unsplash.
> We do not want to spend too much time in the room with evil.  We do not
> want to give it all the headlines.  Evil is itself narcissistic and wants
> the spotlight so we want to resist giving it all it wants.
> Scanned: November 17, 2005 Howard Thurman Dean Thurman @ Marsh Chapel
> March 6, 1959 Historical. Photo originally posted to Boston University’s
> School of Theology, Howard Thurman Papers Project
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> *We want to meditate on—and execute—ways out of evil.  *We have done this
> frequently in our Meditations by sharing stories about people and movements
> who have demonstrated the courage and vision to bring good into the world.
> Among those people and movements are the mystics.
> Consider Howard Thurman, for example, who was so instrumental as a
> visionary behind the civil right movement.  Among his profound questions is
> the following:
> *Precisely what does it mean to experience oneself as a human being? In
> the first place, it means that the individual must have a sense of kinship
> to life that transcends and goes beyond the immediate kinship of family or
> the organized kinship that binds him ethnically or racially or nationally.*
> See Matthew Fox, “Hitler as a Religious Figure,” in Matthew Fox, *Sins of
> the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society, *
> pp.389-398.
>
> See Matthew Fox, *Christian Mystics: 365 Readings and Meditations, *p.
> 210.
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> Queries for Contemplation
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>
> *Hitler’s movement is often called a cult.  Do you recognize in our world
> today movements that are also cult-like and made up of people “hopelessly
> addicted to power”?Howard Thurman’s question is a big one and puts struggle
> into a larger context: What does it mean to experience oneself as a human
> being?  What is a human being?*
> Recommended Reading
> Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and
> Society
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> Fox makes the point that religion has so often oversold the concept of
> “sin” that it has left us without language or power to combat evil. Through
> comparing the Eastern tradition of the 7 chakras to the Western tradition
> of the 7 capital sins, Fox allows us to think creatively about our capacity
> for personal and institutional evil and what we can do about them.
>
>
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> The 365 writings in Christian Mystics represent a wide-ranging sampling of
> these readings for modern-day seekers of all faiths — or no faith. The
> visionaries quoted range from Julian of Norwich to Martin Luther King, Jr.,
> from Thomas Merton to Dorothee Soelle and Thomas Berry.
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