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#AncientTexanTrump, The Wrecking Ballhttps://ancienttexan.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-wrecking-ball.html
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Black Lives Matter
Build the Wall
Given these two flags, you can pick a side, a tribe, and separate yourself from those on the other side of the "wall." Do the flags do any good? Do they change anyone's minds? If I said "Hispanic Lives Matter," why wouldn't it work for either side? Because it is not yet a political statement. "Black Lives Matter" and "Build the Wall" are political statements that no longer convey a meaningful message, especially to those on one side of...2023-12-1725 min
#AncientTexanGlobal Prosperity Needs Fossil Fuels Big TimeLet's see how energy usage has increased for the Western World over the last sixty years. Now, the other half of the world wants to be prosperous like us with food, cars, houses, appliances, etc. In the next fifty years, our global energy supply will have to double to make that happen. If we double the status quo, that might happen in 50 years. Trying to make it happen primarily with renewables is crazy.
We need to spend a few billion on preliminary engineering studies to show how foolish our current policies and pipe dreams are. That is the op...2023-03-0929 min
#AncientTexanFreedom of Speech for Trump on the InternetInternet and freedom of speech: so, what are the rules, how are they enforced, who enforces them?
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#AncientTexanResolutions: The Art of Prioritizing ValuesI find resolutions impossible to do well. My top three resolutions quickly become my top 20 resolutions that I shuffle through over and over hoping that a few will pop to the top and stay there.
I also find it easy to focus on the results I want (lose weight) instead of the hard work required (daily hiking, no snacks) to make the result happen. And, can we ever get to the heart of our challenges (problems, obsessions, addictions) instead of just the symptoms.
This is my take on this hopeless endeavor.
Nama...2021-01-0121 min
#AncientTexanTwo Poems: Pug. Charles GarnerTwo Poems from the Past Floating in my head.
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#AncientTexanFacebook and Social ResponsibilityI believe FB's path to social responsibility is to require them to set up a platform where the individual is responsible and liable for their words just like in the real world.
We all know the problems called by FB; here is a simple suggestion to improve FB and make it accountable to us all while not trampling on the first amendment rights of freedom of speech.
Namaste,
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#AncientTexanListeners Needed for InclusionWe are a country full of people that feel like they have been left out, abandoned, abused, and ignored. How did we get to a place where everyone's voice is rising and bouncing off the rooftops to be heard? How many thousands of groups supported Biden to get him elected that now hope to be seen? How many Trump supporters feel lost and ignored.
We need listeners for healing and inclusion to begin.
Namaste,
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#AncientTexanAmerican RequiemChis Hedges article on American Requiem written November 5, 2020 is discussed by the #AncientTexan.
Will the end of Trumpism happen when (and if) Trump leaves office? Are the liberals going to grow any balls? Are the Oligarchs still in power?
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#AncientTexanPandemic of the SpiritHatfields and McCoys. Republicans and Democrats.
Anxious, Nervousness, and Fear.
Proactive Anticipation.
As if there is a Pandemic of the Spirit spreading across our country.
#AncientTexan #AnxiousTexan
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remember to thank your ballot workers,
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#AncientTexanSocial CapitalistWhen do you believe socialism is appropriate? Social security? Public Schools?
What is the right mix of socialism and capitalism? What needs of society should be met by capitalism? by socialism?
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#AncientTexanCompetition or CooperationIs our balance between competition and cooperation in America what we need for more people to realize the American dream?
The American Dream has been based on competition, but upward mobility in America has stalled. Is it time to remake the American dream around cooperation?
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#AncientTexanAbortion QuestionsWhen does the fetus become human? What makes life human life? When do the rights of the fetus begin? When do the rights of the mother supersede the rights of the fetus?
Are there acceptable reasons for abortion? rape, incest, mother's health, unwanted pregnancy, unable to care for the baby?
Can external factors like free childcare, financial support, etc. impact the answers to the above questions? Should birth control be free to reduce unwanted pregnancies?
Could you discuss these issues peaceably and with respect to someone that holds the opposite point of view? Could...2020-10-1204 min#AncientTexanTalking About DeathWhat conversations about life and death, especially about death, do we avoid? What is the value in having those conversations?
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#AncientTexanAmerica, an Elite AristocracyWe are told we live in a meritocracy where anyone that works hard can be somebody. Please see the new book by Michael Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit, if you think America lives up to that ideology.
His Ted Talk on the same subject left me feeling a little angry and I ask your forgiveness in advance for taking it out on my audience.
Namaste,
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#AncientTexanWhat is My Religion?
Life is precious, marvelous, exotic, wonderful, sad, scary, everything, and without it, nothing is.
It is the most important thing in the universe.
Nothing exists without life to perceive it.
Does a tree make a sound if it falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it? Without the listener, it makes a vibration; it takes life to turn it into a sound.
Sound is a sense of perceiving. Life is there to give the vibration a name and meaning.
All life is interconnected, a web that expands from the smallest one-cell creature to the elephant in the forest, to t...2020-09-2417 min
#AncientTexanWhat if Trump Doesn't Step Down?What if Trump clearly loses the election and he does not step down? What do you do?
I believe 60% of American Citizens that would consider this an existential threat to our democracy; and, I believe we should go on strike. To be effective when it counts, let's organize now. If you agree, write to me at Wiley.foxes@gmail.com and we can organize on FB. If you believe I am a crazy old man, then just ignore this podcast.
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#AncientTexanThe stories about women that I was taught as a child.I discuss the stories I was taught as a child about women. My lessons were taught to me in a fundamentalist church and reinforced by a sexiest, white culture that I was raised in. Those stories are still embedded in my psychic and are not easily removed. Finding the tools to remove these stories and others from my mind, my being has been a quest for decades.
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#AncientTexanGiving your life meaning and building your identity through stories.The stories you build in your head determine who you are and who you'll become. And you are the author of your story. You determine what goes into your stories and which ones you publish to yourself and others.
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#AncientTexanWe Needed TrumpTrump, love him or hate him, has brought into focus a lot of challenges that exist in America that we have chosen to be blind to for decades, for example:
1. wealth inequality, racism, the divide between rural and suburbia, and the disconnect between Wall Street and Main Street.
2. The needs of the common man and the effect of outsourcing, computerization, and robotics on his opportunities.
3. The dependency of our supply chain on China, Russia, and others not friendly to us
4. The dysfunctional nature of our political system.
5. The inadequacy of ou...2020-09-0626 min
#AncientTexanMeaningful Political DiscussionsMeaningful political discussions required;
1. Defining facts, opinions, theories, and stories and agreeing to properly label your inputs into the discussion.
2. Agreeing on news/information sources to be used.
3. Agreeing on discussing and accepting values held by the other person.
4. Asking questions, listening, and accepting more than talking, pushing opinions, and judging.
5. Dropping the goal of proving yourself right and the other person wrong.
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#AncientTexanYou Don't Know As Much as You Believe You KnowHow do you go from observations, events, reactions in your life to knowledge? How do you make most of your decisions that set your course in your life? It is not as obvious as you think it is. If you are an average human or even an extraordinary one, you believe a lot of stories that do not have much substance.
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#AncientTexanDeveloping Your Own Set of ValuesDeveloping your own set of values is a lifetime effort of learning from your actions, observing the impact you have on the world and then making constant course corrections.
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And last of all, you don't have to reject the entire conspiracy theory. Listen to what is being said and don't be afraid to agree with some of his arguments. You are free to accept some argume...2020-08-2134 min
#AncientTexanImpressions of Kamala HarrisWhat is Kamala Harris's passion?
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#AncientTexanHispanic Lives MatterI grew up in El Paso among the Hispanics. I have always admired their culture and I have long watched "us white folks" discriminate against them. But, I would just like to shot out, Hispanic Lives Matter.
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#AncientTexanChapter 13. Widening the Circle of CompassionHow is blame incompatible with compassion? How is the need to be right counter-productive in bringing our world to a more kind and compassionate place? Do you want to make the world a better place?
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#AncientTexanThe Top Three Political Positions of the #AncientTexanNuclear Weapons:
The potential to wipe all or a substantial number of people off the plant with nuclear weapons is real. The system in place to ensure nuclear weapons are not launched is nonexistent. Those with nuclear weapons promised the rest of the nations they would disarm, yet we are in a new 3 trillion dollar nuclear race. My view is that we should work hard toward eliminating all nuclear weapons; this should be our top priority as a human species.
Global Warming:
Global warming from burning fossil fuels is a serious threat to future...2020-08-0214 min
#AncientTexanChapter 12. Growing UpWhat does it mean to grow up spiritually? I discuss what Pima Chodron from "When Things Fall Apart" has to say on this subject and give examples from my own life of small steps I have taken to grow up.
Namaste,
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#AncientTexanOur Life and Death Relationship with ChinaIf America is the hero, and China is the villain, what is America's fatal flaw?
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#AncientTexanLooking to Ireland for SanityLots of Americans are complaining about their rights being violated when they are told to wear a mask to slow the spread of the pandemic. So, I turn to the news in Ireland hoping it is better, somehow happier news than in America. A light-hearted look at how things are across the ocean in Ireland.
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#AncientTexanData Driven Plan for Opening the Schools During Covid-19Comment on the document: Data-Driven Plan for Opening the Schools During Covid-19.
Please contribute, its important.
if the link doesn't work: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O1AKunG7ba2jWVcnMJNLFYQtjSflj0YExng91R0wMFQ/edit?usp=sharing
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#AncientTexanCh 11. Nonaggression and the Four MarasAll the maras point the way to being completely awake and alive by letting go, by letting ourselves die moment after moment, at the end of each out-breath. When we wake up, we can live fully without seeking pleasure and avoiding pain, without re-creating ourselves when we fall apart.
Namaste,
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#AncientTexanReflections on my country on July 4thWhat makes a country great? I guess that depends on your values and if your country is aligned with your values.
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#AncientTexanOut of the Blue, A Voice From 50 Years AgoI got a message today from a third cousin in Oklahoma that I didn't even know existed. She talked to me about people that my dad talked to me about 50 years ago before he died. That of course with modern technology and the internet is possible. But, it is still so damn amazing. We are living in amazing times where amazing things can happen. Technology continues to amaze and change our world in amazing ways.
Of course, this amazing evolving technology can go either way, for good or bad, but that is not today's conversation. Today we are ju...2020-07-0407 min#AncientTexanCh 10, Curious About Existence from When Things Fall Apart.Impermanence, suffering and egolessness is part of life. If you want to experience joy and peace, you need learn to manage these states of being.
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#AncientTexanHope or Punishment in Drug Policy?I grew up in a neighborhood where it was much more likely for me to grow to be a drug dealer than an engineer. My brother went down another road. My children have had their own struggles with drugs. Here is the essence of what a lifetime of living among users has taught me about the difference of those that succumb and those that succeed on their journey through the valley of drugs that divides our country today.
I have watched our punitive approach to drugs fail for sixty years; we need to come with a Plan B that...2020-06-2816 min
#AncientTexanTexans and the Pandemic: We Have Our Rights#AncientTexan
How does the fierce independence of Texans work out in a pandemic?
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#AncientTexanThank You to My Few but Noble ListenersJust a short podcast saying thanks to the few of you that show up to listen to my podcasts. I would love to hear from you sometimes. Drop me a line and I will write you back, wiley.foxes@gmail.com. Please put #AncientTexan in the subject so I can find you in the junk mail.
Thank you for listening.
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#AncientTexanFrom: When Things Fall Apart: Loneliness, Part 2From the book "When Things Fall by Pima Chodron.
How do you handle being alone with yourself? Make up a to-do list? Grab a bowl of ice cream? Blame someone for one of the situations you are in? Do you ever just sit with your restlessness and let it happen? Are you constantly looking for a resolution to some problem while thinking when that is resolved you will feel okay, you will be okay? How do we learn it is not the external environment that needs to change, that instead, it is our relationship with ourselves that needs t...2020-06-2116 min
#AncientTexanWhen Things Fall Apart: Loneliness, Part 1From the book "When Things Fall by Pima Chodron.
How do you handle being alone with yourself? Make up a to-do list? Grab a bowl of ice cream? Blame some of the situations you are in? Do you ever just sit with your restlessness and let it happen? Are you constantly looking for a resolution to some problem while thinking when that is resolved I will feel okay, I will be okay? How do we learn it is not the external environment that needs to change, that instead, it is our relationship with ourselves that needs to change...2020-06-2027 min
#AncientTexanThe Eight DharmasWe move toward pleasure and away from pain. But much of what we move toward and away from is a construct in our own minds. Understanding how you "work" as a human being can give you a more peaceful life, reduce suffering, and give you more compassion for humanity. But you need an open mind and the willingness to look at things in a different way that you have been taught by Western Culture.
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#AncientTexanActivist, Wildlife Biologist, and Poet Mat BaileyFish School and Zebras Have stripes by Mat Bailey
They say that fish school and zebras have stripes so that predators can’t focus in on a single target.
27 May 2020 was one of those days where the herds of evils swirled around me and I lost track.
First, I learned that T rump was perched to pull the us out of the World Health Organization in the heart of a global pandemic. Then, immediately afterward, some putrescent item about a further deflowering of the Endangered Species Act (herd distraction clouds the specifics for me...2020-06-0631 min#AncientTexanCan money fix racism?Without money what is going to change?
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#AncientTexanDoing no harmDo you see to lead a life that causes no harm? Are you on the path to becoming this person?
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#AncientTexanIt's Never Too Late (for Compassion) #AncientTexanIt is never too late to develop loving compassion for yourself. A chapter from When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chrondron.
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#AncientTexanCovid-19 For DummiesLet's put the risks of Covid-19 into perspective with the risk of our economy collapsing.
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#AncientTexanDelaware Art Museum Poetry Reading30 Amateur Poets reading their poems. Some Covid-19 influence for sure. Enjoy.
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#AncientTexanNow, this moment, is the Perfect Teacher ... if you can embrace it.When things go to hell in a basket, when you are feeling down, that is the perfect moment for spiritual growth. Are you going to grab your opportunities?
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#AncientTexanAsking the Hard Questions About American CapitalismIs the model we have for business in America working for workers and communities?
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#AncientTexanDeflections in Your Life, be prepared and open minded.When something happens to you do not be too quick to judge whether it is good or bad. Time may prove you do not know.
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#AncientTexanWhen Things Fall ApartDiscussion of Chapter 2, When Things Fall Apart by the book of the same name.
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#AncientTexanAre you willing to become intimate with your fear? #AncientTexanWe are discussing a book, "When Things Fall Apart" by Pema Chodron.
Intimacy with Fear is the first chapter. Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.
Do you want to experience the pain of growing?
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#AncientTexanEvaluating Your Life Through the Lens of the VirusWhat if? What if your life was shortened by the virus? As you hear the news "your test is positive," what are your thoughts? Did you spend your last few months in a way that you are satisfied, or did you waste your time? Do your kids and love ones feel and know you better because of how you spent your time? Is there something major that you left undone?
Has the virus made you question how you spent your life before the virus?
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#AncientTexanA Small Stick #AncientTexanA small stick
A small stick
Floating down the ditch
Joining a muddy stream
At the edge of the road.
The stick dodging
Weaving between cars
Til foot slapped
By a small girl
With her own mission
No less important.
I rise each morning
Full of my importance
Grumping how my mission has been thwarted
By the god-sent torrents
Sweeping me down the drain.
Roe
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#AncientTexanthe #AncientTexan Saves the World from the PandemicWhat is the problem we can't solve? We have those that are most harmed by the pandemic mixed up with those that are on average not harmed by the pandemic. It is a mathematical optimization problem that is really quite simple.
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#AncientTexanWhat's Right in America #AncientTexanIf you listen to the news, your mind will soon believe we are going to hell in a basket.
Namaste,
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#AncientTexanJose's Stories #AncientTexanHumans are story machines. When you are able to first hear your story and then modify your story, you are on the road to having a happier and more peaceful life. Good luck.
Namaste,
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#AncientTexanEpiphanies, a Poem by Roe.Epiphanies. After a long wait, epiphanies come quickly, if at all.
A slow drip of a faucet
Setting a random soul on edge
Sending the mind on tangents
Racing, searching for peace
In a world gone mad
A world evolving, changing, menacing,
With new rules and no order
With no clear salvation or direction
Leaving all searching for epiphanies
A quick way out
Relief for the unsettled
A bright ray on a cloudy day
Warmth at the end of winter
Or just a positive thought
In the chaos.
Roe
April 2020
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#AncientTexanJose and LoveThe Ancient Texan jas a little fun with the podcast and his legions of followers. The first episode of Jose where he tells us about his new girlfriend Ezelda.
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#AncientTexanGetting Back to Work and Life after the PandemicWe need to rethink everything and then get back to work ...
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#AncientTexanOld Cat FriendTwo months ago her bar closed down.
She slides the ring across the counter
“How much? It’s a real diamond.
Got it before that bastard left
Back when he still held my hand.”
Patting her ass
When this is my only asset
You’ll give no more than
Ten cents on the dollar
Hardly enough for a good meal
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I’m moving in with a guy down the road
Corse, it is still up in the air...2020-04-2005 min
#AncientTexanTaiwan is Acing the Coronavirus Exam #AncientTexanTaiwan is right next to China and they have had three deaths from the Coronavirus. They have a system that works better than any other country in the world.
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#AncientTexanOpening Doors for the Weak Among Us #AncientTexanThe black ghost of the virus is visiting America. We are afraid, outraged, insulted, bothered, inconvenienced, but not yet humble. The routine of our life has been disturbed. Our rights as free and superior people have been disturbed. We are too good to have to put up with this forced caring of others. Altering our lives so others will not get sick and die. That is just too much. We are Americans. We are superior.
How long do we have to put up with this may morph for us into how precious our lives have been. How sheltered...2020-03-2812 min#AncientTexanA Poor man's view of Social DistancingA poor man may view his option of avoiding the cornavirus by not working somewhat differently than you do.
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#AncientTexanJournalists should tell the Ventilator Story #ancientTexanJournalists keep getting on Trump about the ventilator shortage. They want the government to "fix things."
Why don't they talk to the three ventilator companies in America, and the seven ventilator companies around the world and bring us the story about what each of these companies is doing to increase ventilator production? Tell us about their efforts, their challenges, their production projections, and what they need to be more productive. Bring us the real story and quit taking the easy and useless account that Trump is the blame for the ventilator shortage. Is that even the truth? Perhaps...2020-03-2410 min
#AncientTexanCoronavirus-Induced Paradigm Shift in Education? #ancientTexanSchool is out perhaps for months, perhaps longer.
The coronavirus has caused a major disruption in our lives. Education has moved from the factory model of teaching our kids the "ABC's" of basic education to new chaos that is currently centered in our homes. Kids and parents hunker down and try to face new challenges.
We look at those challenges and ask the question, "can we learn anything from this crisis that can help us improve our education system?" Can our system become more effective, more equitable, and more fun? Are there some models out there...2020-03-2150 min
#AncientTexanLegacy Options #ancientTexanWhat will be your legacy? Will your legacy promote collaboration and cooperation when its ripples wash up on a distant shore? #ancientTexan
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#AncientTexanHysteria over the Corona VirusWhat is the balance between being responsible and hysterical? The Ancient Texan interviews his lady on her opinions.
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#AncientTexanThe Weakest Among UsWhen you consider your options in the days ahead with regard to the Corona virus will you take into account the risks to yourself or the weakest among us?
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#AncientTexanDreams and Being FaithfulHow do you define being faithful in your relationship?
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#AncientTexanFloat on Your Back A While by RumiPerhaps free will is a fantasy? But can we just enjoy the amazing ride through life?
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#AncientTexanThoughts on Capital PunishmentTexas and the Saudi's both have oil and both like to execute people. Coincidence for sure.
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#AncientTexanRumi and the conch shellPerhaps your ego has grown so large that you can't get out of the conch shell you are stuck in.
By Rumi
WITHOUT A LOT OF HOOPLA That conch shell you crawled into on land, then grew so large in there, you got stuck— I am going to help get you out. It is just a matter now of whether I should use my hammer, or chant some magic words that could knock twenty pounds off your ego and/or waistline. Then you could just slip back into God without a lot of hoopla and sw...2020-02-1706 min#AncientTexanOur amazing livesBeing alive is amazing
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#AncientTexanLife after New HampshireWhat did we learn about the democrat race from New Hampshire? Two cents from the Ancient Texan
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Of course,2 that is not fair, the greatest means who makes the most money.
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#AncientTexanSunday in Costa RicaWhat can we learn from Costa Rica? But could we ever be as brave as the people that inhabit this beautiful country?
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#AncientTexanNo One Beats Odle 56 years in a rowWhat does Vitas Gerulitus and Odle have in common?
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#AncientTexanAsking the Right QuestionsIn R&D if you ask the wrong question and then answer it with the appropriate research, nothing of value is created. In society and politics, if we ask or debate the wrong question, when we answer the question we still have nothing.
When we ask does this action increase the GDP we blindly accept that if the answer is yes, then we should proceed. What if that is the wrong question. These and other examples are explored to see if we could make more progress as a society if we spent more time looking for the right q...2020-01-0521 min
#AncientTexanRebekah, her values and poetry. (Edited)I am pleased to introduce you to Rebekah, a beautiful and unique person writing poetry that tells her story. I enjoy her poems and believe you will too.
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#AncientTexanRebekah, her values and her poetryRebekah tells beautiful stories in poetry about the journey that is her life. We discuss a little about her values, then she shares with us three of her poems. Sit back and enjoy.
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#AncientTexanTattoo, a poem by Roe (the Ancient Texan)Tattoo
I’ve considered a tattoo
But I’m afraid
I won’t value tomorrow
What I value today.
My daughter, that’s tried knitting
And a dozen other things
None of them she mastered
Before moving on
Can choose her tattoos in an afternoon
Confident she will love it
Love it now and tomorrow.
The solstice is next weekend
At least that’s what I’ve heard
Solstice is...2019-12-2304 min
#AncientTexanPoetry: Into the Darkness of TomorrowA Poem by Roe, otherwise known as the softer side of the Ancient Texan.
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#AncientTexanHow Do the Democratic Candidates Stack Up in the Eyes of the Ancient TexanAndrew Wang was the big surprise ... wow is he up to date with the times, both evidence, opinions, and facts. Tom Sayer, the Green candidate, needs to get up to date on the nuclear reactors ... very necessary if we are going to be serious about climate change. Biden, sorry, I don't like your son getting rich on your fame. Bernie is just lovable Bernie. Warren, you are not answering questions ... your hedging. Klobuchar voted present on impeachment, perhaps she is running for Republican VP. Pete is good, but he got in some petty fights with Elizabeth.
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#AncientTexanChristians for TrumpChristians given a choice between Jesus and Trump chose Trump it seems. How does what Jesus taught align with tv-Trump? Imagine saying to your children, follow Trump, he is just like Jesus.
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#AncientTexanAre You into BDS?Ancient Texan: Anyone into BDS?
Trump Executive order on discrimination against Jews on 12/18/2019
Jews are both a race) a nationality and a religion.
The Federal Department of Education can now withhold funding for someone they believe are discriminating against Jews using Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. DE can act on discrimination based on race, color or national origin but not on religion. Hence, Jews can now refer to race.
Why now? Because of BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanction movement against Israel for their treatment of Palestinians. Now appearing on...2019-12-1908 min#AncientTexan#AncientTexan (Trailer)---
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