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		<title>Our Society and The Roles We Play. The Story of White Fang</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 19:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across a classic story by Jack London the other day and it really got me thinking about our relationship with others.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I came across a classic story by Jack London the other day and it really got me thinking about our relationship with others.</p>
<p>Jack London was an American author, journalist and social activist born January 12, 1876. The story White Fang was published in 1906, it is set in Yukon Territory, Canada, during the Klondike Gold Rush at the end of the 19th century. White fang was born of half wolf blood and half dog blood. The story is mostly told from White Fangs point of view, he learns how violent humans can be but also realises that in the end he is willing to relinquish what he instinctively wants to do for the love, praise and companionship of his master.</p>
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<p>White Fang was very fond of stalking chicken and on one occasion he raided a chicken house and killed fifty hens. White Fang had to face the wraith of the slaughtered chickens and the disappointment of his master, Weeden Scott, whom White Fang saw as his man god and whom he &ldquo;loved with a single heart.&rdquo; Scott scolded White Fang and then took him right back to the chicken house. As dog/wolf and man stood within reach of the remaining chickens that were busily pecking around the floor, the natural instinct within White fang erupted and he again went for the chicken only to be checked by his master&rsquo;s firm voice. They stayed in the chicken house for a long time and only the times when White Fang made a move did Scott check him. Eventually White Fang began to read the message his master was giving and he learned that his master wanted him to not chase and kill the chickens but to ignore the chickens.</p>
<p>Scott&rsquo;s father thought Scott was wrong and that a chicken killer would always be a chicken killer. So Scott challenged his father and they agreed to lock White Fang in with the chickens for the afternoon.</p>
<p>White Fang had been left deserted and alone by his master, the one he worshipped. He lay down and went to sleep. When he woke he went to drink water from the trough and calmly ignored the chickens as if they didn&rsquo;t exist. All White Fang wanted was to be with his master, the person that guided him and taught him right from wrong, his leader, and the man who had taught him the law. He jumped onto the chicken house roof and leaped to the ground beyond. Gingerly he crept back into his master&rsquo;s house, his lesson learnt.</p>
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<p>Life is like this for all of us. We all roam around this land taking what we want because we are hungry or bored. We are all White Fang&rsquo;s on this planet. Many find their master in their gods and rely on them to lead the way. Others find what they are searching for in humanist traditions. We all need someone we look up to and admire, someone with solid boundaries and good values but it our own choice that is the most important. We should be free to grow in a world where we are allowed to question just so long as we learn from it and make our beliefs count.</p>
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		<title>Feminism?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A look at why the need for a feminist movement still exists. An examination of the root of inequality on a Universal level.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why does feminism still exist? Because inequality exists. Why does inequality still exist? Because ignorance still exists. Why does the ignorance of inequality still exist? Because we are ignorant to what and who we are, so in the egos attempt to find comfort through superiority we create classes; gender, wealth, geography, anything to validate our illusion of superiority and a separate existence. Can we address the still existent need for a movement of gender equality without addressing all of it? The root of it, that root which feeds and is the source of all these &#8220;ism&#8217;s&#8221; that separate; Sexism, racism, nationalism.</p>
<p>Can we ever hope to end the need for a feminist movement, if we do not seek to understand why it is we create separation to feel superior? Can we ever understand this without taking the time and effort to seek to understand this? And will we ever take that effort unless we realize we are the problem? Not them, but us.</p>
<p>Once I ranted about equality, I vehemently judged and pointed and blamed. Blind to the sexism and &#8220;ism&#8217;s&#8221;existing within my own conscience. Blind to the deluge of inequality that is our global culture. Feminism exists because I am sexist; sexism exists within our culture because it exists within me.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s easy to examine the behavior of others, but can we examine our own? Can we be brave enough to take personal responsibility for the state of the World and all it&#8217;s &#8220;ism&#8217;s?&#8221; Our culture is but a collection of individual consciousness, we are the culture, and the culture is us. Can it be any other way?</p>
<p>We will never be rid of sexism until we understand the need for superiority in our own lives, superiority of any kind. Until each of us examines this within ourselves and fully realizes that we are all, already enough, that there is no fight to be fought, only ignorance to be understood, sexism will exist.</p>
<p>This belief that we are not enough is what causes us to destroy others to make us so. When we mock, publicly or privately we are engaged in the roots of sexism. When we take comfort in our possessions, in our status, in our gender, in our sexual identity, we are engaged in the root of separation and ignorance which is the root of all war, beatings, rapes, and discrimination. Violence and hate exist within society because they exist within us.</p>
<p>When we call another a slut, or objectify another human being in any way, when we lose sight that they are an equanimitous living being laden with the same ignorance as we; we&#8217;re engaged in inequality, therefore engaged in the roots of sexism. Can we not see that it is but degrees that separates thoughts from actions? And the &#8220;lesser&#8221; actions from the &#8220;greater&#8221; actions? Can we not see that anything which makes us feel superior in any way is the seed which blossoms into the World as we know it today, a world in which females are systematically and brutally treated as less-than?</p>
<p>The notion that a floppy appendage occasionally gorged with blood could be the source of superiority of any kind is too stupid to be addressed. So ridiculously ignorant that it can&#8217;t help but be seen for what it is, a deep insecurity existing within all of us, whether we are conscious of it or not.</p>
<p>It is not enough to be superficially satisfied that we are evolved. That is the myth sold to us by the corporatocracy that exploits the insecurities existing within humankind to its own profit. We pat ourselves on the back because our actions are no longer overtly sexist. We&#8217;ve obtained a consciousness of greater equality and think the problem is solved. So we return to the mindless void of our lives and slip back into the tub of ignorance.</p>
<p>What is the difference between thinking you are superior for being male or female, and superior for being an American? Or thinking you are superior for being a Christian or a Hindu, for making more money than another, or for your education, intelligence, jeans, car or house? There is no fundamental difference.</p>
<p>So why do we feel so insecure that we design and live or lives around this comparative notion of needing to be better than others? How are we so asleep that we still saturate our lives with images and concepts that tell us we are not enough so we will go out and buy what they are selling to make us enough? Because we are ignorant to what and who we are.</p>
<p>While we simultaneously feed and consume this lie the world suffers and we suffer. We live lives that support the myth of inequality while shaking our heads at the genocide of mass-rape. Wake-up! Please we must each wake up to our intrinsic value as living beings and we will wake up to the intrinsic value of all life.</p>
<p>This value, this peaceful abiding is not found through superiority or separation of any kind, but discovered when we see through the deepest of contemplation that each and every one of us is more alike than not. All of us are born, and all of us will die. All of us want to be happy, and every living being wants to avoid suffering. Is this not so?</p>
<p>When we discover that none is better, and none is worse, when we understand that we are all intimately connected with each other, there will be no need to seek the illusion of a false superiority. And sexism will no longer exist, not because it has been conquered, but because it has finally been understood.</p>
<p>I must be the change I want to see in the world- it&#8217;s the only way it ever happens.</p>
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		<title>Thinking like a scientist, I think</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing new or innovative here, just a reflection on thinking like a secular humanist]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s right, no emotional, any good stuff old thingy with anything other than a good old human being for this old cowboy. But, as insecure as I am, I could worry that I&#8217;m perceived as having an intellectual laziness, for boastfully, compulsively, practicing the “mind”-view, that, there is no emotional assurance from even a knowable, first of all, and higher power, or being, or what in the heck, either. </p>
<p>That&#8217;s right, again. For this really hard to understand life, as an adult, as far as age is concerned, I can guarantee myself, that, not only will those attempted conversations with the real big brother go unanswered, but, when the hard stuff goes on, everyday, persistently and maybe even pervasively, I&#8217;m the only player on the court. I can rest my baby little brain knowing that I&#8217;ll never have to wait for a sign, or go through an application process with a really bored, dead person, or wish for the whole universe to change course, on my damned whim. </p>
<p>Dear god, I pray that a billion-trillion people read this article, so I can buy a billion-trillion grams of. By the way, if I ever think that I saw Jesus, or anyone like that, I&#8217;ll go straight to a psychiatrist, because I&#8217;ll KNOW that I&#8217;d be hallucinating. </p>
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		<title>Human, Humanity, Humanist Three Dimensions of Human Rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Human Rights are in every constitution of countries.  Human Rights are an expression of justice, equality and freedom.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A person who is human is often a person who is humble. This means that this person will not show you his strenghts or weakeness but will show you that he or she is as vulnerable as you can be. There have been some variations of human which are human development, human body human person. </p>
<p>Human Development was one phase of the World Bank and of the countries after the signature of Helsinki to create a Charter of Human rights. In 1977, when the Charter of Human Rights was ratified which is inspired from the Convention of 1792 signed in France, there were many decisions taken to restore democracy in many countries. Helsinki is the capital of Finland which has a border with Russia. </p>
<p>Helsinki has many lakes and is a flat country like Tanzania. It has been said that Father Christmas came with the red deer from Finland. Some of the facts we know about Finland are its famous drivers who are Ari Vatenen and Hakonnen who made Peugeot a care made in France and Holland one of the fastest car in the world which was very popular in Africa. </p>
<p>Humanity is making a master piece in human nature. The noble peace prize winners are models of humanity because some of there inventions save the world. For instance, Federico Garcia Marquez with Hundred Years of Solitude and Ernest Hemingway with The Old Man and the Sea are masterpieces of the way humans can deal with relationships. </p>
<p>It has often seemed to be that there was a confusion between human and man as if being human was an expression of a man and not a woman. This is very true when you consider some fairy tales like Cinderella when the step mother is the one who hurts and there is no mention of what a step father can be. I can imagine how some readers can have felt and not expressed to others. This is why it is important that we stress that men and women are equally in rights. </p>
<p>Humanist is an accomplished. A humanist is a person who has written and dedicated his life to advocacy and to advocate for the rights for others and for a better world. The problem is that the boundary between humanist and lawyer are not clear. The humanist have often been misused and they have been taken for judges. The humanist offer solutions to a problem in society for example but this solutions are not meant to be permanent, they can can with time to adapt to environment. </p>
<p>Of course, the past is not forgotten because something stays. It is like buying new cutlery when they are worn out. Good cutlery does not wear out it depends on the quality. So, let us form a United World and Free for all the populations. </p>
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