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Surely the refugees are our fellow humans, are we going to be afraid of those who have nothing?
It would be easy to become a victim of our circumstances and continue feeling sad, scared or angry; or instead, we could choose to deal with injustice humanely and break the chains of negative thoughts and energies, and not let ourselves sink into it.
Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary
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“The term (political correctness) first appeared in Marxist-Leninist vocabulary following the Russian Revolution of 1917. At that time it was used to describe adherence to the policies and principles of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (that is, the party line).” – Encyclopedia Britannica
The communists killed millions and millions of their people in order to create a utopian society based on equality. In communism, one must be “politically correct.” If you say something wrong you might disappear in the night, never to be seen again. Of course, self-censorship and voluntary compliance are preferred by the regime. Indoctrination keeps an individual within the proper ideological bounds of the state.
“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.” – William Douglas
Many cannot recognize the threat of censorship, because they are ignorant of the crimes of communism. The public is more aware of the atrocities of the Nazis, as opposed to the atrocities of the communists. This is what happens when universities are bastions of Marxism, and professors are fond of Karl Marx. (Karl Marx and Frederick Engels wrote The Communist Manifesto). My grandpa, who went through the Great Depression, used to say, “People go to university to become socialists.” So this stuff is nothing new! This is what leftists call the “long march through the institutions.” The plan was to infiltrate the institutions of the West in order to transform them from the inside out. The Long March of the 1960s sowed the doctrines of critical theory (neo-Marxism). (Critical theory came out of the Frankfurt School). These seeds produced various kinds of critical theory: critical race theory, queer theory, postcolonial/decolonial theory, feminist theory, critical environmental theory, and critical pedagogy. Our children are being taught these subversive ideologies, even though they are rooted in evil. The fruits of these ideologies have produced mass death and misery. They gave us Stalin’s Great Purges and Mao’s Great Leap Forward. Indeed, the communists regulated speech, and millions died.
“Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.” – Potter Stewart
Regulating hate speech is undemocratic; it is rooted in totalitarianism. Regulating hate speech is a way of enforcing the politically correct doctrine of the day. It suppresses free speech, and it suppresses open dialogue. It suppresses critical thinking, and it suppresses creativity. And it will eventually lead to the criminalization of ideological opposition.
“Misinformation, disinformation, hate speech and other risks to the information ecosystem are fueling conflict, threatening democracy and human rights, and undermining public health and climate action.” – United Nations
The West is losing its freedom of speech. People in England are being arrested for social media posts. In Germany, they are trying to ban a political party. We saw Western governments colluding with big tech to censor dissenting views during COVID-19. Various politicians want to fight misinformation and disinformation. The European Union also wants to crackdown on what it deems as misinformation and disinformation. What they are doing, however, is fighting against freedom of speech—against freedom.
“The proliferation of misinformation and disinformation threatens to erode the credibility of public institutions and limit their capacity to implement policies that enhance public well-being.” – World Bank
When central bank digital currencies and social credit scores are implemented, you better watch what you say or do. If you say or do the wrong thing, you will have your money frozen. You will be like the Canadian truckers, who had their bank accounts frozen during COVID-19. With quantum computing, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data-driven technologies, a surveillance apparatus is being built. This Beast system will be an authoritarian dystopia like the world has never known.
“In this case wisdom is needed: Let the person who has understanding calculate the total number of the beast, because it is a human total number, and the sum of the number is 666.” – Revelation 13:18
During evolution, from animals like dinosaurs to human, our brain made a major progress which gave us critical thinking abilities within guidelines of our society. It looks like we are armed with two processes in our fight for survival: instinctive and critical thinking processes. It also looks like we need both, but more weights are on critical thinking.
We really don’t know how is the scale in more developed animals, weights on the same side like us, and how much weights are there?
Surely, our society factor is a big component for our development.The animals don’t have it, the very developed software.
Photograph published April 17, 2023 { link below}
www.futureforwork.com/en/critical-thinking-in-the-age-of-...
Same article in Future For Work in Spanish
www.futureforwork.com/pensamiento-critico-en-la-era-de-la...
Also published on 8/29/2023 { link below}
www.laurahilliger.com/models/deconstructing-power-in-the-...
Alien art
My art picture above is showing on a planet a cool alien, a bird, a space ship and an asteroid.
Human is a biological machine with a computer and following some rules, but to know how human functions is more important than to know who we are.
Consciousness, critical thinking, society and feelings - emotions are the main components of our existence as a human being.
Just with society and feelings - emotions effects, we are like a sail boat ( without an engine and a rudder ) in ocean. Wind could blow us anywhere, to calm or to very wavy waters.
The other two components act like an engine and a rudder, giving us the direction where we want to sail. We don’t go to very wavy waters.
If we are not aware of our consciousness, we are lost in ocean. Noting can help us anymore.
How would aliens maneuver in their lives?
If we think of aliens who would able to travel to us, we will realize that they should be biologically very advance and have a very high science and technology knowledge. The condition and knowledge would probably help them to maneuver better than us in their lives.
Their engines and rudders should function perfectly. Their societies should have rooted out racism, nationalism and other social differences. The societies should also give aliens clear information what to do in their lives.
Their compensating feelings and emotions should be very strong, not allowing the bad feelings and emotions surge above the acceptable limits. Their dominating feelings and emotions should be positive.
We must be aware of how we function and try not to be an engineless and rudderless sailboat in our lives.
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On this last day of November the headlines keep coming...
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Got to push the grain...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBGOpuBF0Kg (1987)
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The world is full of Maple Streets...
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Fast forward to 2021...
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From a full hall in the last 5 years to an empty hall. When crossing the hall you notice banners promoting the show in many other countries. Mexico, Japan, Dubai and one can't stop wondering if the show would not have shrunk to a shadow of itself if they had no "Exported" the show experience to all these places.
Why would all the visitors of a local show still go to its original site. What happens when the show is successful in many more places.@wil, the original show shrink below break-even for all.
Will a less important local show in these countries inspire competitors to take and take the original show into oblivion?
Dive into the bold, thought-provoking world of contemporary art with this immersive black-and-white text installation at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. This dynamic artwork transforms the museum floor into a sprawling, chaotic canvas of powerful words, phrases, and illustrations. The artist’s white-on-black technique commands attention, inviting visitors to physically walk through and interact with a narrative woven directly onto the ground.
Phrases like "THE DAY THE FIRES IN CALIFORNIA TURNED THE SUN AND THE MOON RED" and "EAST COAST" leap out in energetic brushstrokes, capturing social, political, and environmental themes with raw intensity. From references to natural disasters to questions of digital connection—“WE LIVE WITH THE LEGACY OF GLASS”—each fragment demands reflection on contemporary life’s complexities.
As visitors step across this visual tapestry, they encounter faces, figures, and scenes that evoke protest art and street culture, challenging them to engage on both personal and societal levels. The installation’s scale transforms a simple walk through the gallery into an active journey of discovery, contemplation, and dialogue. The artist’s black-and-white palette underscores the stark realities and urgent calls to action that define this work.
The Hirshhorn Museum continues its mission to showcase innovative, boundary-pushing art that provokes conversation and inspires change. This installation exemplifies that mission, bridging the gap between visual art and literature, between protest and poetry. It’s a place where every step becomes part of the story, where visitors become participants in the creative process and are left pondering the deeper messages beneath their feet.
For art enthusiasts and casual museum-goers alike, this installation offers a memorable experience that challenges perspectives, sparks conversation, and leaves an indelible impression on the soul.
Wokeism: Invasion of the Body Snatchers
More and more people are changing; they are being replaced by something alien. On the outside they look the same, yet on the inside they are not. They have been taken over by an alien entity (cult) called wokeism. It’s an ideology that takes over individuals, replacing their original thoughts and values with an alien perspective/dialectic: the oppressed vs the oppressor.
These clones adapt to their surroundings by absorbing the memories and experiences of those they replace. These woke look-alikes adapt their dialectic to the society they want to infiltrate. They use their parasitic dialectic to absorb the identity of the culture, replacing its morals and values. The more they multiply, the more they disrupt the social order and challenge the established norms. Their goal is to undermine traditional Western values and attack the traditional family structure, until democracy and capitalism and the family are destroyed forever.
These body snatchers destroy the individual, thus destroying their individuality. These useful idiot’s are conformists—collectivists. Wokeism (neo-communism) revolves around a collectivist theology, which suppresses one’s own thoughts and opinions. Wokeism is a culture of groupthink, which is null and void of critical thinking and self-reflection. Wokeism destroys individuality, because collectivism prioritizes the goals of the group over the personal rights and freedoms of the individual. Wokeism creates a culture of fear, where individuals are called racists if they don’t conform to the cult’s dogma. Wokeism focuses on subjective experience, emotional validity, and social justice over objective truth. They like to say that truth is relative, yet they hold their ideology as the absolute truth. DEI: Discrimination, Exclusivity, and Inequality.
“They are masters of censoring, blacklisting, scapegoating, deplatforming, ritual humiliation, doxxing, cancel-culture, ostracism, and disbarring.”
“Wokeism’s natural logic is to destroy the lives of people of both genders, of all races, and—if need be—of those of every age, all to leverage an otherwise unworkable ideological agenda.”
These woke anti-racists hate the white race, because they hate the West. The West is predominantly white and has a democratic and capitalist system. Communists hate democracy and capitalism! Additionally, these anti-patriarchy feminists want a matriarchy. These sexists hate men and call masculinity toxic, because the West will fall easier if its men are weak and limp-wristed. These pro-woman advocates are anti-woman, because they support replacing biological women with pseudo-women—flipping women’s rights upside down: men in women’s sports, change rooms and washrooms. These subversive agents aren’t pro-life or pro-children. Instead, they pervert the minds of children. Children are very impressionable and their minds are easily molded. The brains of young children are not wired properly to process conversations about alterative ADULT sexual lifestyles. Their brains are not developed properly to process ADULT (+18; XXX; porn; adult entertainment) sexual fetishes like drag queens dancing sexually in front of them. These things teach children to think that sexual predatory behaviour is acceptable and normal. And now they give underaged (immature) teens puberty blockers and sex changes. Can anyone say: the mental, physical, and sexual abuse of children! The woke brainwash their young minds, destroying their innocence in order to control them. Indeed, the children are only pawns. If they can control the minds of the children, they can control the future. As their religious doctrine states: the end justifies the means. Moreover, these anti-bullies love to bully those who disagree with them: “A Regina-based LGBT group Queen City Pride has asked a stadium in the city to cancel an Evangelical Christian event called ‘Come Together’ over the organizing group’s promotion of Biblical views on marriage and sexuality.” “The issue is never the issue. The real issue is the (communist) revolution.”
These anti-police leftists are pro-criminal, and they want high crime and lawlessness. Then, when chaos breaks out, they can start their commie revolution. These anti-poverty activists loot and burn poor neighbourhoods. These anti-slavery crusaders never advocate against the modern-day slave trade. They only use slavery, which has long been abolished in the United States, as an excuse to bash and demoralize their enemy—America. Why? Because these liars don’t care about slavery, they only care about their reparations (money handouts) and their woke (communist) revolution. These anti-border zealots hate the West, thus the West is being overwhelmed by unsustainable mass migration. Globalism: open borders! We are being flooded with cultures that are incompatible with Western culture, so that our culture will be destroyed. How about all the unvetted criminals and terrorists being allowed to enter the US? How about all the unvetted gang and cartel members pouring over the border? Globalism: global citizens—immigration is a human right! Flood the West with cheap unskilled workers to drive down wages and living standards. Raise taxes and impoverish the native citizens in order to support the never-ending flow of illegal immigrants. Less housing! Less jobs! A strain on every system and on all infrastructures! These communists only care about destroying the West, so that they can have total power. It’s only about power dynamics!
Likewise, these climate activists are anti-human, and the Degrowth polices that are being implemented will lead to poverty and depopulation. BTW: these pro-palestinian protests around the West are being organized by communists and islamists. Both of these subversive religions are working together, because they hate the West and Western (Judeo-Christian) values.
How about we add another dynamic to the equation? Governments (and government funded schools), corporations, and the United Nations are using DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) Social Credit Scores in order to indoctrinate and control the masses with their woke neo-communism. BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street Bank are pushing ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) Social Credit Scores in order to control corporations with their New World Order agenda—“a new model of governance” (stakeholder capitalism/neo-fascism). Part of the ESG Social Credit Score system is CEI (Corporate Equality Index). CEI is the reason why Dylan Mulvaney and his lifestyle are being pushed on us. “At stake is their Corporate Equality Index—or CEI—score, which is overseen by the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ+ political lobbying group in the world.”
A global Social Credit Score System is in the making, and it will control all people and governments, all businesses and corporations. So why is a woke commufascist (Anti-Christ/Beast) Social Credit Score system being built to enslave us? Why are we being prodded towards a system of Central Bank Digital Currencies, Digital IDs, Facial Recognition and Biometrics, Social Credit Score systems, and Fifteen Minute Cities? Furthermore, this will eventually lead to transhumanism—the microchipping of humanity (666). Now, do you think that all these things will lead towards more individualism or towards more collectivism? Without true freedom there is no true individualism. Will you become part of the Hivemind of the Beast—the Beast Matrix? Remember, one day you will not be able to buy or sell without a Digital Mark. I think you know where this is all heading! Will you be one of the last true human beings, or will you become part of the woke transhuman-hybrid (alien) collective? Beware of the body snatchers! They’re coming for you!
Revelation 17:13 “With one purpose they will give their power and authority to the Beast.”
Before I get started I think everyone should understand that I love my wife very much. She is very intelligent, hard working, and must use math and her critical thinking skills on a daily basis at her job. For this she gets paid pretty handsomely.
However she is terrible with scientific and technological concepts. It's not that she can't understand them. She just doesn't care. She is not interested, and hasn't ever been.
This has caused no small amount of humor for me and minor problems for her since I've known her.
The current conundrum involves coffee and at least two thermoses. On her birthday, Victoria wanted to use some coupons and points at both Duncan Donuts and Starbucks to get some coffee cheap. It appears to be about a gallon, split up between several containers, which she then put in the freezer.
Three days ago she took out one of the thermoses to let it thaw and get some of the coffee out. I came downstairs in the morning to find the open thermos and the solid block of coffee inside. Around 10:30, she complained loudly that the coffee was not thawing. I asked her why she put it in a thermos. She said, "Well I realize now that was a mistake. But how do I get it out?" I said, "Well it's not going to be easy. Thermoses are designed to keep whatever's in it hot or cold for a long period of time."
I came back later and found the thermos out on the deck on a table in direct sunlight, with the lid on it. The lid was on because she wanted to keep bugs and birds out of it. Fair enough. After lunch, and still unhappy with the apparent lack of progress, she decided to put it in a pot of water on the stove on low for several hours.
By dinner and after much stabbing with a dinner knife, there was some liquid starting to show, but it was still mostly coffee ice. The next day she just decided to leave it out in the kitchen with the lid off. At the end of the day there was significantly more liquid coffee, but as of today there are about two good sized cubes of coffee ice still in it.
Now, all of us who understand even the basics of thermodynamics know immediately that it was a terrible idea to freeze the coffee in the thermos. By design they are terrible conductors and fantastic insulators. Again, it's not that my wife is dumb. It's that she was never interested in science or technology or finding out how things work, unless those things relate directly to her chosen field of life, which is accounting and banking, and perhaps the children's health.
As a result she completely lacks the ability to think through some things. "That's what I have you for," she's said, on more than one occasion. Try as I might, I can't convince her to learn more, UNTIL it directly affects her in some way, such as a solid block of coffee inside a thermos that she wants to drink three days ago.
The second thermos is still in the freezer. By the way, we thought this Girl Scouts thermos that my daughter got for selling cookies or something was kind of cheap and not very good.
But clearly that was not a correct assumption.
Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah deleted tweets he posted after a gunman assassinated Minnesota Democratic state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband and seriously wounded state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife. One of those tweets said, "This is what happens when Marxists don’t get their way." The alleged assailant, Vance Boelter, voted for Trump in 2024. Lee's tweets are the kind of cruelty that divides us. He was asked to take them down or resign. It took him three days to remove them.
Democratic Senator Tina Smith of Minnesota told Lee, "I thought it was brutal and cruel. He should think about the implications of what he’s saying and doing. It just further fuels this hatred and misinformation."
Comparing the Democratic Party to Marxism is ridiculous. The Senator needs to learn what Marxism really is and how to think critically. And I know just the books for him.
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My family converted to Sunni Islam when I was 6-years-old. Sunni Muslims are forbidden from creating images of living things. As a result, I have no childhood pictures (save for two pictures taken before our conversion).
Whenever I have the opportunity to photograph children, it has special meaning for me. In giving them something I was denied, I feel a part of me is restored.
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Here is an example of a common logical fallacy known as the ad hominem argument, which is Latin for "argument against the person" or "argument toward the person". Basically, an ad hominem argument goes like this:
Person 1 makes claim X
There is something objectionable about Person 1
Therefore claim X is false
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Critical thinking: Why our students need it and resources for teaching it
Created by Dave Maki for opensource.com
Modern Education Brochure design template by Chelsea Conboy. Showcased on Inkd.com.
This brochure could serve as a short informational pamphlet for a school or academy. The graphics on the exterior certainly reflect the image of a school rooted in bettering the lives of all children.
“My flag looks like the original American flag. The red stands for blood and the blue stripes stand for the original colonies. The difference is that it is warped. There isonly one star because America is self-centered.”
--6th grade student artist’s own words written in Dec., 2005
This flag was exhibited on a bulletin board in 2005 at Capital Hill Gifted and Talented Magnet Shool in St. Paul. The student, who was in the 6th grade when he/she made this , is now a Senior in High School. Previously I did not want to name the school for fear that it might alert federal agents to investigate and intimidate the teacher or the school for being "anti-american"! That was 6 years ago though . . Great debate below that deals with issues such as brainwashing kids with liberal political propaganda and patriotism, etc. Read on and make a comment!