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Compassionate Education

Back in the day of exclusively straight white male ****-retentive missionaries, the Church Whether monoculturally Catholic (which may become an oxymoron one enlightened day) or Protestant, But certainly not polytheistically ecstatic, like a perfect Thanksgiving meal shared with EarthMother's sacred deeply co-passionate mutually resonant and co-invested convivial people Proclaimed religious education in response to local questions, and questionable behaviors and thoughts and feelings, moral and legal dilemmas about how to interpret diverse feelings of erotic love and exotic hate Yet not so helpful with all the dully boring nuances of every tedious, often traumatic, days and nights in-between ecstasy and infamy. This was rigidly civil education about how to nonverbally commune and verbally communicate in positive touching ways that feel mutually right to ego happy minds and eco-healthy bodies financially and environmentally and politically wealthy, resonantly resilient but less than fluidly brilliant education from above, transcendently monotheistic. Today we have replaced civil StraightWhiteMale privileged missionaries with cosmopolitan pantheistic and atheistic teachers In neighborhood schools, elite schools, grade and middle and high and tertiary and graduate and post-graduate secularized schools For learning non-violently communicating thoughtful inclusive reason and deeply felt polytheistic possibly artistic treasons free of monotheistic dogma, monopolistic colonization, monocultural predation At least on our best outdoor classroom physical health and metaphysical trust and mental happiness days And full through empty GrandMother Moon blissful indigenously erotic nakedly wise vulnerable transparent co-passionate co-empathic BodyNature/MindSpirited nights Of bicammerally balancing, multiculturally bachanal, ecowomanist, Whole Open Systemic, win/win bipartisan, bilateral binomial Double-cobinary dialectical secular/sacred enlightening/empowering Left/Right thoughtfully felt informed outflowing re-education Perhaps especially useful for exclusively straight white male ****-retentive missionaries for monotheistic monopolies of unenlightened power-mongering.

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Date: 10/31/2022 9:00:00 PM
Wow, you certainly said it all. As an ex-Ohioan in Australia many years, I call also to your attention the Aborigines here, fighting again for some representation in government and again phraseology is the winner. Thank you for articulating the issues. Elizabeth
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