We're born good.

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"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience
- we are spiritual beings having a human experience."
~Teilhard de Chardin
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Johnny Appleseed loved everything that lived:
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From:
The Point of Pittsburgh
Production and Struggle at the Forks of the Ohio
by Charles McCollester
pointofpittsburgh.com/About/excerpts_02.html
...“He was very fond of children and would talk to me a great deal, telling me of the hardships he had endured, of his adventures and hair-breadth escapes by flood and field.” Curtis remembered him clearing little patches along French Creek “where he thought at a future day apple trees would be wanted; then, in the fall, repair to Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and wash out of the pomace at cider mills a bushel or two of seeds, and return with them on his shoulder, plant them at the proper time, enclose the spot with a brush fence, and pay some attention to the cultivation. He never secured title to the land for his nurseries.”

With “the thick bark of queerness on him” and no fixed address his entire adult life, Chapman preferred to spend his nights out of doors. A vegetarian, he deemed it a cruelty to ride a horse or chop down a tree; he once punished his own foot for squashing a worm by throwing away his shoe. He liked the company of Indians and children best. Johnny Appleseed stands as a powerful symbol of those who give of themselves for the betterment of those around them with no expectation of earthly reward. (His mystical religious beliefs as a missionary of the Church of New Jerusalem were inspired by Emmanuel Swedenborg who wrote: "Man is first introduced into the innocence of childhood, which consists of knowing what is true and good from the Lord only and not from himself, and in desiring and seeking truth only because it is truth, and good only because it is good.")...
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...who stood up and voted against the war in October of 2002. Watch the remarks from yesterday of Reps. Marcy Kaptur, Sheila Jackson Lee, and Dennis Kucinich...
http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/john.cochrane/research/Papers/mortgage_protest.htm
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livescience.com/environment/top10_weird_weather.html
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Peace, Earth and Justice news
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From

Journal of Life Sciences

tjols.com/weekly_brief-2-329.html.html#dia

Diabetes: "Friendly" Bacteria Protect Against Type 1

Researchers at Yale University and the University of Chicago said that mice exposed to common stomach bacteria were protected against the development of Type 1 diabetes, in what they say is a dramatic illustration of the potential for microbes to prevent disease. Researchers said the findings, reported in the journal Nature, support the so-called “hygiene hypothesis”—the theory that a lack of exposure to parasites, bacteria, and viruses in the developed world may lead to increased risk of diseases like allergies, asthma, and other disorders of the immune system. They also said that the results suggest that exposure to some forms of bacteria might actually help prevent onset of Type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease in which the patient’s immune system launches an attack on cells in the pancreas that produce insulin. The researchers showed that non-obese diabetic mice deficient in innate immunity were protected from diabetes in normal conditions. However, if they were raised in a germ-free environment, lacking “friendly” gut bacteria, the mice developed severe diabetes. The non-obese diabetic mice exposed to harmless bacteria normally found in the human intestine were significantly less likely to develop diabetes, they reported...
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truthdig.com/report/item/20080928_fueling_the_fire_of_real_change
...It is not Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson who will save us. It is Dorothy Day. ...
catholicworker.com/ddaybio.htm
...founder of the Catholic Worker movement...understanding of the shame people feel when they fail...Upton Sinclair's novel, The Jungle, inspired Day to take long walks in poor neighborhoods in Chicago's South Side. It was the start of a life-long attraction to areas many people avoid.

Day had a gift for finding beauty in the midst of urban desolation. Drab streets were transformed by pungent odors: geranium and tomato plants, garlic, olive oil, roasting coffee, bread and rolls in bakery ovens. "Here," she said, "was enough beauty to satisfy me."...In November 1917 Day went to prison for being one of forty women in front of the White House protesting women's exclusion from the electorate. Arriving at a rural workhouse, the women were roughly handled. The women responded with a hunger strike. Finally they were freed by presidential order...Her conviction that the social order was unjust changed in no substantial way from her adolescence until her death, though she never identified herself with any political party...
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therealmccain.com
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Climate Change: Chemical Lobby Weakening Ozone Treaty
by Stephen Leahy
9/16/8
ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43888