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Premium Member Turning Weapons Into Tools

A more prolific key
to preventing a sinful monoculture of crime
is recreating a sincere inclusive climate 
for trauma prevention

Just as a more robust tool
for healing narcissistic egocentrism
is curiosity to understand
catastrophic anthro-supremacism

Just as a more effective resource
for ending investment
in militaristic nationalism
is to promulgate polycultural panentheism,
robust solidarity extending family residents,
soul cousins of macro-organic soil,
our ecologically economic 
global EarthTribe home

Just as fixing religious partisan dogmatism
is to experience unitarian integrity,
empowering universal energy democracy,
delightful synergetic strategies 
for creolizing inter-religious
cultural diversity

Just as monoculturing weapons
of discommunication
reinvest in polyculturing tools
of trust communionation.

Premium Member The Old Cupboard

I used to scrub my memory clean
I packed the sadness
Into an old cupboard
Before I packed my tiredness
Into the night
And slept soundly
I locked the rain and the wind outside
I never let the cupboard open nor let the sun in
Hoping that the sadness will degenerate and walk away 
With the old days
And with the old cupboard
When the garbage truck comes by one day

Degenerate Double Standards

No principles 
Only pleasures
They will bend the ledgers 
For their own gain
At the cost of others pain


Premium Member Degenerate Culture

I'm reading "Daring Democracy,"
Frances Moore Lappe and Adam Eichen,
noticing here too
racial justice glops onto EarthJustice.

This isn't news,
although maybe gospel GoodNews,
that polycultural regenerativity
and multicultural democratic health
are two reverse faces
of White
and Climate
Fragility,

In turn,
the ancient green health/wealth Face
resisting white nation-state western privilege,
militarism
colonialism
patriarchalism
nature/spirit dualism
fundamentalism

Anti-evangelical multicultural health,
regenerative wealth.

I lay my Daring Democracy paperback aside
lost in wonder
how we ever could imagine
degenerative monocultural elitism
as more worthy of a healthy democratic republic
than regenerative polycultural privilege
of sacred grace

Equally true
and cause for gratitude
whether atheist,
and/or monotheist,
and/or polytheist,
and/or pantheist,
and/or panentheist,
and/or ecologist,
and/or co-redeemer for EarthJustice.

Degenerate

nastiness of degenerate souls,
 hate and murder in their guile,
 seething, never happy, whole,
 causing pain, etched on their dial,
 hatreds face, is not worthwhile,
 black-hearted EVIL demon style,
 Logic thinks a suffering soul,
 pays a price for murder's role,
 where to suffer something vile... 

Don
re: "Grey of Today" Laura Breidenthal

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