education is the enemy of indifference

education is the enemy of indifference...

indifference is the opposite of love (and hate)...

love can conquer any fear...

we only fear what we do not know...

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i don't watch the news... i read it instead... it helps my mind to pause once in a while in order to digest all the information... and it gives me time to do my own research (google, wikipedia, etc...)

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it saddens me that google is following the smell of profit (in china) instead of maintaining its resolve to become the first corporation to "do no evil"... every brand manager knows that once a brand is tarnished, it will take a very long time for it to earn its shine once again...

news.google.com was a very subtle yet effected means to direct people's attention to multiple sources of news information... the american public really needed that nudge...

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democracy only works if the citizens participate... indifference hinders participation...

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this e-mail got me in trouble with a few of my friends almost three years ago (a few days before the US started bombing Iraq)

this was not written from the point of view of indifference...

From: Joseph Laurino
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 12:07 PM
To:

Hello Friends,

I wanted to let you know that my party has been cancelled.

The continuing events in the Middle East have proven to be something that I can't let go of and escape from. This war based on the ignorance of each side's points of view, the craving for revenge and economic stability, and the hatred between world leaders is something that I don't support.

I can't put a price on a life lost in the World Trade Center and on a life taken by this war funded by my tax dollars.
If terrorism didn't affect us economically, I don't believe we would have acted this way. If we were all really into helping each other in this magnitude, the war on poverty would have been over a long time ago.

For a different perspective, please read the following web sites:

http://www.thehungersite.com/
http://www.datadata.org/
http://money.cnn.com/

Thanks,
Joseph

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The challenge we have upon ourselves is to find the facts... they are not very well hidden...

Once you have the facts, it is your next challenge to propagate that information... use the talents which have been entrusted unto you and drive it with this new source of passion!

Everything can be done... everything just takes some time... (everything excludes immortality)

-Joseph