Category: choice
are you pro-life?
if you are pro-life then
you will protest to end all war
you will vote to end executions
you will help stop the global arms trade
you will insist sex-ed be taught in jr. and high schools
you will give out free birth control in jr. and high schools
you will support women to have the choice over their own body
95% of abortions are because people are too lazy or ignorant to use protection
Bruce Pennington art
We are on a train
heading into a brick wall
at 200 miles per hour
towards our extinction
and everyone knows it
- Labels: banks, cannibalism, choice, consumerism, death, deception, extinction, future, human condition, profit, sustainable
Smiling Buddha, Angkor Wat
No matter where you are or what you’re doing,
you have only two choices in life,
to be happy or not to be happy.
Which one do you choose?
There is no way to happiness,
happiness is the way.
- Labels: choice, happiness, now, perspective, philosophy, truth
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.”
~ Theodore Roosevelt
- Labels: action, choice, commitment, history, human condition, perspective, philosophy
âNo beast so fierce
but knows some touch of pity.
But I know none,
and therefore am no beast.â
Somebody
asked me
why I do this
my answer was
“If I don’t do it,
who will ?”
“To thine own self be true,
and it must follow,
as the
night the day,
thou canst not then be false to any man.”
– William
Shakespeare
Most Minnesotans have never heard of Roger Swanson. But among voyagers around the globe, he’s known as the man who circled the world not once — but three times — on a 57-foot sailboat whose home port is listed as “Dunnell, MN.”
His travels carried him from the tip of South Africa to the Arctic, winning international honors along the way. He also happened to launch a half-dozen manufacturing businesses in rural Minnesota, overseeing production of everything from snowblowers to farm equipment.
Swanson is being remembered this week as an extraordinary adventurer who lived an otherwise ordinary life in southwestern Minnesota.
“Roger Swanson was one of the greatest long-distance voyagers of this era or any other era,” said Herb McCormick, senior editor of Cruising World magazine. “Few sailors have gone from the Arctic to the Antarctic and everywhere in between. He was one of a kind.” He died December 25th 2012. R.I.P. Roger Swanson.
- Labels: audacity, choice, discovery, experience, happiness
…the primary human motivations are…
…food, sleep and sex…
…feeble human mores are no match for…
…hunger for food…
…the need to sleep and…
…the urge to merge…
…you will never stop the hormonal tides…
…insemination will result in pregnancies…
…does a zygote rise to the level of “human being?”…
…shall we endow a microscopic cell mass with “full human rights?”
…shall we force every impregnated women to carry to full term and give birth?…
…perhaps we should offer free and available birth control instead and…
…counsel women on how to prevent unwanted pregnancies…
…no one should be using abortion as a form of “birth control”…
…pro-life…pro-choice…both want to reduce abortions…
…anti-choice…pro-abortion…are “loaded words”…
…who wants an abortion?…
…nobody…wants an abortion…
…why do women have abortions?…
…mostly one reason…an unwanted pregnancy…
…why are there unwanted pregnancies?…
…the mistake is getting pregnant when you don’t want to…
…abstinence, sex education and birth control products…
…are the only ways to prevent unwanted pregnancies…
…shouldn’t we employ every practical method to reduce abortions?…
…if you are pro-life or pro-choice you have an obligation to support sex education and the availability of free birth control for the prevention of unwanted pregnancies…in addition to this you have an obligation to protest and vote against:
the global arms trade…
the death penalty…
the war machine and all war…
…to reduce abortions we must prevent unwanted pregnancies with:
abstinence education…
detailed sex education…
readily available birth control products for free…
state supported womens clinics for reproductive health…
…abortions have declined worldwide as access to family planning education and contraceptive services has increased.
No matter where you are or what you’re doing,
you have only two choices in life,
to be happy or not to be happy.
Which one do you choose?
There is no way to happiness,
happiness is the way.
- Labels: choice, happiness, human condition, Life, perspective
“The Fearless Vampire Killers”
starring Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski,
written and directed by Roman Polanski,
is one of the funniest vampire movies ever made.
Fast forward to present day,
Roman Polanski got arrested today,
I’m sure he’ll remember, never, never, never
drug and rape a thirteen year old girl.
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), was a landmark although controversial decision by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of abortion. The Court decided that a right to privacy under the due process clause in the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution extends to a woman’s decision to have an abortion, but that right must be balanced against the state’s two legitimate interests for regulating abortions: protecting prenatal life and protecting the mother’s health. Saying that these state interests become stronger over the course of a pregnancy, the Court resolved this balancing test by tying state regulation of abortion to the mother’s current trimester of pregnancy.
The Court later rejected Roe’s trimester framework, while affirming Roe’s central holding that a person has a right to abortion up until viability. The Roe decision defined “viable” as being “potentially able to live outside the mother’s womb, albeit with artificial aid,” adding that viability “is usually placed at about seven months (28 weeks) but may occur earlier, even at 24 weeks.”
In disallowing many state and federal restrictions on abortion in the United States, Roe v. Wade prompted a national debate that continues today, about issues including whether and to what extent abortion should be legal, who should decide the legality of abortion, what methods the Supreme Court should use in constitutional adjudication, and what the role should be of religious and moral views in the political sphere. Roe v. Wade reshaped national politics, dividing much of the nation into pro-choice and pro-life camps, while activating grassroots movements on both sides.
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…growing up in southern california near the san andreas fault in el centro, it was inevitable that i would eventually experience a major earthquake event…
it happened one hot day…the shaking started and i rushed outside onto the front lawn…sprawled on my belly i witnessed the entire event…
as i looked down the street i saw waves of movement in the lawns, the street, and the sidewalks that resembled the waves on the ocean…i was on the ocean…
the cars parked on the street shook back and forth on their parking brakes…the trees all trembled in place…my body swayed on the waves of earth as the ground roiled and rumbled…
i was on the sea of uncertainty…the fate of time…it’s an earth-quake!
- Labels: center, choice, deviant, experience, matrix, perspective
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani (Persian: سکÛÙÙ Ù
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Ø¯Û Ø¢Ø´ØªÛاÙÛ, born ca. 1967) is an Iranian woman convicted of adultery and murder, and since 2006 has been under a sentence of death under in Iran. An international campaign to overturn her sentence was started by her daughter and son, Farideh and Sajjad Mohamamadi e Ashtiani, and it brought widespread attention to her case in 2010, when prominent media sources claimed that she was sentenced to be executed by stoning. Iranian authorities denied that this method of execution would be used, and gave her a stay of execution in September 2010.
Mrs. Ashtiani had allegedly committed adultery with the man who murdered her husband, Isa Taheri. Taheri was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. Taheri was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment.
In 2006, Mrs. Ashtiani was brought on her first trial, charged with the murder of her husband. She was found guilty of murdering her husband, and sentenced to death by hanging. Her sentence was commuted to 10 years imprisonment, like Taheri’s, in 2007.
In September 2006, her case was again brought up in a different court, this time tried for adultery. She pleaded guilty but later recanted her confession. She was convicted of adultery while still married, and sentenced to death by stoning, and an additional sentence of 99 lashes.
The international publicity generated by Mrs. Ashtiani’s plight led to numerous diplomatic conflicts between Iran’s government and the heads of certain western governments. Due to the reaction of the international community, the execution had been stayed indefinitely.
(read more) (freesakineh.org) (Du’a Khalil Aswad video)
