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The Decline of Violence - Reason Magazine - 0 views

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shared by Gary Patton on 18 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Neuroscientist Steven Pinker on the triumph of peace and prosperity over death and destruction
  • Why is ideology so deadly?
  • There are two features of a lot of ideologies that make them deadly. One of them is demonizing.
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  • The other is if your ideology promotes some utopia
  • radical religions, millennial religions, radical Islam, radical forms of Christianity, that say that there’s some irredeemably evil group standing between the world and perfection: the crusaders, the infidels, the Jews, the polytheists, the nonbelievers, and so on.
  • The age of ideology coined the term genocide. You’ve pointed out that just because we recently invented the term doesn’t mean it didn’t happen before.
  • What it means is we started caring about it.
  • What is the “rights revolution”?
  • The rights revolutions are the various social changes [that are] directed largely at violence on smaller scales.
  • against racial minorities
  • women’s rights
  • children’s rights
  • gay rights
  • Gary Patton on 18 Jan 12
     
    This article by author, Steven Pinker, outlines data regarding human behaviour that offers some hope for the future of Third World countries, especially violent, Muslim-dominated ones like "the stans" in the Middle East and others in Africa. gfp (2012-01-14)
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What is Canadian conservatism? - Brian Lilley's Pad - 0 views

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shared by Gary Patton on 06 Jan 12 - No Cached
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    ""Being neither a religion nor an ideology, the body of opinion termed conservatism possesses no Holy Writ and no Das Kapital to provide dogmata. ... "The attitude we call conservatism is sustained by a body of sentiments, rather than by a system of ideological dogmata."~ RusseLL Kirk in his 1993 essay "Ten Conservative Principles analysed by Brian Lilley in this short OpEd.
Gary Patton

10 Ways to Beat Sugar - 0 views

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shared by Gary Patton on 28 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • 10 Ways to Beat Sugar
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      Gary Patton on 28 Apr 12
       
      Control this killer in what you ingest and you'll be well on your way to better health and wellness plus protect yourself from insulin resistence. gfp (2012-04-28)
  • sugar slips into your diet unnoticed more than any other fat-building substance.
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      Gary Patton on 28 Apr 12
       
      For example, some sodas (Canada pop) contain up to 22 teaspoonsful of sugar. And so-called "diet" drinks contain dangerous aspertame or similar substances which are proven to cause neurological problems. gfp
  • the mind, body, and
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      Gary Patton on 28 Apr 12
       
      It's the spiritual dimensions of yoga that are dangerous. The exercise is simply a packaging for a demoniacal, eastern religion, according to the Bible.
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  • spiritual aspects of yoga
  • Gary Patton on 28 Apr 12
     
    Control this killer in what you ingest and you'll be well on your way to better health and wellness plus protect yourself from insulin resistence. gfp (2012-04-28)
Gary Patton

How to start a movement | Derek Sivers on TED.com - 0 views

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  • Gary Patton on 07 May 12
     
    Discover why the First Follower is crucial in creating any movement.
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It's not Islamophobia to call a jihadist, a jihadist - 0 views

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shared by Gary Patton on 31 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • There is no doubt that such prejudice exists. But there is no doubt, too, that cries of “Islamophobia” are issued to suffocate argument, to deflect or deter analysis of some behaviour that is factually related to Islam. There is no doubt either that some Muslims have acted as terrorists, either singly, or in association with various Islamist groups. To point this out is not a phobia, but a simple respect for reality.
  • It’s not Islamophobia to call a jihadist, a jihadist
  • there also have been calls suggesting that any reference to the Islamist terrorist connections of the killer would be a species of Islamophobia. This is pure nonsense and folly.
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  • It is not Islamophobic to note the motives and background of the murderer. In fact, it is a form of cowardice and evasion not to do so.
  • If one decries Islamophobia, then one must condemn bin Laden as its Nile source. Bin Laden, more than any other person, has besmirched the practice and understanding of Islam and engendered suspicion of some of its adherents.
  • Horrors perpetrated in the name of fundamentalist Islam, such as attacks on young girls going to school, the internecine slaughters of various sects, the cruel penalties exacted by the Taliban’s repressive creed — stonings, amputations and executions for apostasy — also feed the angry atmosphere, and they are not phantoms of a prejudiced imagination.
  • Bin Laden’s declared purpose, his “war” on the West, and his overt linkage of his cause with a fundamentalist version of Islam, are the primary drivers of our non-phobic — which is to say, very rational — fear of, and hostility to, manifestations of Islamic fanaticism.
  • in Madrid, London or Bali — it was not Islamophobia when some immediately assumed these were al Qaeda, or Islamist-inspired. It was just a natural first response, the acknowledgement of a pattern. In most cases, that first response proved correct.
  • The too-energetic effort to fall outside the shadow of prejudice has served to distort the response of investigators. Looking for everybody else except the most “likely” suspects first, wastes time and resources.
  • Our most urgently served impulse should be to make common cause with the victims of violence — in this case, Jews
  • Gary Patton on 31 Mar 12
     
    Rex Murphy feels, and I agree that "...there is no doubt that [anti-Muslim] prejudice exists. But there is no doubt, too, that cries of "Islamophobia" are issued to suffocate argument, to deflect or deter analysis of some behaviour that is factually related to Islam." he states further and I also agree that: " There is no doubt either that some Muslims have acted as terrorists, either singly, or in association with various Islamist groups. To point this out is not a phobia, but a simple respect for reality." gfp (2012-03-12)
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Lifestyle Evangelism Refuted - Dr. Curtis Hutson - 0 views

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  • Lifestyle Evangelism Refuted
  • Joseph Aldrich said, "Sometimes the only exposure to evangelism for believers is being part of a weekly task force on a 'spiritual safari' into enemy territory. On such forays total strangers are confronted with a verbal message said to be the Gospel."
  • Rather, they feel they are simply obeying the Great Commission, "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature" (Mark 16:15).
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  • Nowhere in Scripture is the Christian told to incarnate the Gospel.
  • "button-holing and evangelical mugging."
  • This false philosophy teaches that we witness with our life rather than our lips.
  • Gary Patton on 30 Jul 12
     
    Dr. Hutson refutes something that Joseph Aldrich never taught and many practitioners do do by "cheery-picking" short quotes from Mr. Aldrich's book. GaryFPatton (gfp '42™ 2012-07-30) Few Jesus Followers I know use only their behaviour and deeds to be used by Holy Spirit to draw their friends, neighbours, relatives, and workmates to a saving knowledge of Jesus of Nazareth.
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