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First Principles: Before I Formed You In the Womb I Knew You; Before You Were Born I Set You Apart; I Appointed You As A Prophet To the Nations
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” – Jeremiah 1:5 NIV
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Tagged Appointment, Birth, First Principles, Formation, Jeremiah 1:5 NIV, Knew, Nations, Personhood, Prophet, Set Apart, Womb
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Elephants Mourn Their Dead (Happy the Elephant)
Elephants Mourn Their Dead (Happy the Elephant)by Michael DoyleNo freedom, no libertyNo right to fundamental dignityHappy the Elephant pays the costAnd the decision it seems is lostThere will be no sanctuaryPersonhood has been denied capacityRegardless of intelligence, elephants are thingsSubstantially … Continue reading
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Tagged "X", Ability, Aesthetic, Arbritary, Autonomy, Beauty, Capacity, Chattel, Complexity, Cost, Dead, Decision, Dissent, Dominant Tusked, Elephants, Empathy, Factors, Family, Forehead, Freedom, Full Recognition, Fundamental Dignity, Given Hand, Happy the Elephant, Human Beings, Humanity, Intelligence, Language, Legal Reasoning, Liberty, Love, Majestic Giants, Memory, Mirrors, Mourn, Nonverbal, Personhood, Picky Eaters, Poetry and Poems, Points of Similarity, Present, Recognize, Refinement, Rejected, Sanctuary, Science, Self, Sentient Beings, Solitary Confinement, Talking, Things, Things Unsaid, Understand, Unfeeling, Walking, Words, World, Zoo Enclosures
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Thought For the Day: The Only Thing To Ask Freedom For Is Freedom
“The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.” – Alexis Tocqueville
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Tagged Alexix Tocqueville, Born, Freedom, Personhood, Slave, Thought For the Day
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 