If I were to package up my experience with a recipe for others to follow, and sell it, then that would be irresponsible, but I am very far from doing that. This is what we do. Yves, I can appreciate your use of symbols, such as angels, to represent things you have experienced that you are unable to articulate in other ways. When dealing in this complex arena it is best to define terms: Justice is righteousness, the quality of being true or correct, or possibly, in economic justice in our modern world where laws say something is not illegal, expanding into fairness and morality. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. I know that for a fact, and there's no need for me to argue about it. Alexia stated that for community organizing efforts, there were two primary goals for Christians: to bring moral authority to an issue in dispute, to speak out; and, the second, to be chaplains to the working poor. CLUE also partners with the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, labor organizations, and community groups, with a stated goal of joining low wage workers in their struggle for economic justice. I pass it when I go to the bank or post office. if, as you say yves, that desire comes from dissatisfaction then i tend to agree with you. It is the perpetuation of myth in place of genuine knowledge I object to. Other groups include students protesting college costs, immigrants, car wash protests for those fired over unjust labor practices by employers, and other projects seeking economic justice. There’s a certain spot three minutes’ walk from my place—Crown Taxis’ repair depot, with its oily yard and small workshop. why these things happen i`m not sure but i see it as a recognition that consciousness is a fluid thing.
To take up another point of yours Charles, there is nothing more natural than to create a myth out of what we don’t understand. “Never mind politics, Living is the art of the possible”, I thought, and linked it with the point on which Fleming and I were agreed: that there is nothing supernatural.
I choose “angels” with care. Strikes. Is it still a coincidence if the similarities go un-noticed? Another word for argue.
Alexia estimated the working poor in Los Angeles County, the largest county in the U.S. which is also more populous that 42 states in the U.S., and contains ¼ of California’s population, to be more than 1/3 of the 2010 census of 10 million, or over 3 million working poor, including their families. On the other hand he was quite a spectacular failure in many practical ways. i would hazzard a guess that a fair amount of that stuff would be considered impossible by today`s scientific standards.coincidences……..my children and i were out walking yesterday and my oldest boy was recreating the cheese-shop sketch by monty python in his wonderful ten year-old way, and as we walked i noticed the name on the street sign was palin.i see coincidences as sign-posts to a shift in consciousness. However, to deny ones imagination to delve into realms of the impossible, will result in loss of potential. Marches. I just started reading it, I don't know how effective it is.
(The search engine is inviting me to check my facts, but I won't be distracted. In chemistry, you’d call it a catalyst, or perhaps an enzyme or yeast. These are hot topics of discussion for Christians, with wide variations of responses from the class that showed a lot of interest and empathy but also divergent views on tactics.
In-your-face confrontations. Social service can be pretty straightforward at the local level, but on the broader front, a lot of dissatisfactions cancel each other out, as in wars, fought with arms, ideologies, extreme competition and trade. One hot topic was the inclusion of union members as working poor, since union members with good paying jobs and insurance and benefits did not appear to fit the profile of “working poor.” In many instances working poor in unions would be the bottom tier of a wage scale where the contentious issue of a “Living Wage” is a difficult issue. Alexia ran out of time on November 6 so there was very little Q and A. Alexia was seeking advocacy for CLUE. I like to live well within the possible, but observe many who want to push its boundaries to the extreme. anything is possible. Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand.” Matthew12:25). Mrs. Roberts was not in the mood to argue; she was bent on information. There may be a psycho-neurologist who could explain all the phenomena that I call “angelic intervention” as some kind of brain activity & this is perfectly fine, but I am not such a scientist and I can describe my own experience any way I like.
to adress directly your concern regarding my “high” position of knowledge regarding things………i wish to make a distinction here. Let us at least accept that in witnessing angel intervention, we construct our experience into something coherent, just as the constellations in the Zodiac are constructions based on little dots of light spaced out in the sky. They are generated when people have not gained the knowledge they need to provide an accurate description for some phenomena they experience. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Sometimes, as we grapple with “words of explanation”, we tend to forget that still, small voice. But I will stop pretending to argue with you because I suspect we are largely saying the same thing. I was thinking that there was something fishy about the whole philosophical debate: freewill versus determinism. In-your-face confrontations. Find more ways to say detailed, along with related words, antonyms and example phrases at Thesaurus.com, the world's most trusted free thesaurus. The recent “Occupy” movement said on national TV that one of their goals was “Economic justice.” Sound familiar? They justify the hankering after extraordinary wealth by invoking a so-called Law of Abundance and a Law of Attraction which makes it come to them; conveniently ignoring the reality that they live in a society which permits this, whilst others who pick cocoa or coffee or tea out on the plantations are further impoverished by the inequities of world trade and failure to control the bad effects of rampant capitalism.
As I said in my earlier comment, it is responsible to deny possiblities we have yet to demonstrate or observe in our universe.
( Log Out / They will surely give me time to consider: to argue with myself. History is full of examples of this. Anyone can check them if they have the time, and put me right too.). CLUE also learned the CEO was religious, who his pastor was, and formulated protests that eventually brought the CEO back to the bargaining table. This book attempts to provide you with a means of reaching your human potential. I love this kind of dialogue, especially when I can engage people who are thoughtful and have plenty of their own related experience to share. Life is not so simple after all; neither is our response to economic justice. So much of what is available from this array of input to our senses is filtered, ignored or blocked from our awareness. I remain skeptical of supernatural or perhaps devine inspiration that that some would attribute these leaps in understanding. This latest one had the irony meter pegged, I think it bent the needle a little. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. I wrote about the second in a post titled All we ever need to knoow, on Sept 15th. The fact that we often underestimate our potential and our capabilities does not mean that when we surpass them, that a higher power intervened. ( Log Out / Much more information is needed to understand other groups that CLUE works with.
One recurring theme of what you have written on your own blog is a kind of elitism, whereby you are a person who is qualified to teach, because you know, whilst the others are so lost and ignorant. You inclusive bastards!… The're was a very pessimistic view of the recent election. This job requires courage to overcome fears, expressed in Deuteronomy 31:6: Be strong and courageous. These are controversial tactics used to gain economic justice. One of the women was a single mother of three earning $13.00 per hour and paying $1,200 a month for an apartment.