randomastrology:

Name: Jessica LeJaunt

Profession: Student

Neovidual abilities: Teleporting to any location by staring at a map.

Hobby: Taking her friends and family on vacations.

Such a Sagittarian character. My favorite one in the Internal Hero universe. :)

I’m a proud participant of the “30 Characters 30 Days” Challenge this year! This is a contest in which each participant creates 30 brand new- never drawn before characters for every day in November! I’ll be posting the characters I create on my webcomic website “Internal Hero Presents” on the “30 Characters” page I’ll create there soon! Exited!  

jazzzyone:

1-Way Communicators Within An Alleged Conversation Are Unsexy

“Not all communication is dialogue. Dialogue is shared exploration towards greater understanding, connection, or possibility. Any communication that fits this definition, the Co-Intelligence Institute considers dialogue. Communication that doesn’t fit this definition, we don’t call dialogue.

Dialogue can at times be truly magical, dissolving the boundaries between us and the world and opening up wellsprings of realization and resonant power. In those rare, deeply healing moments of dialogue in its most ideal form, we may experience the wholeness of who we are (beyond our isolated ego), listening and speaking to the wholeness of who we are (deep within and beyond the group around us). At those times it is almost as if wholeness is speaking and listening to itself through us, individually and collectively. Words become unnecessary; knowing is instantaneous, and meaning flows like a great river within and among us.

These are moments of grace, whose frequency increases as we practice listening more deeply and exploring more openly with each other.

Here are some guidelines for dialogue in its most basic form:

•We talk about what’s really important to us.

•We really listen to each other. We see how thoroughly we can understand each other’s views and experience.

•We say what’s true for us without making each other wrong.

•We see what we can learn together by exploring things together.

•We avoid monopolizing the conversation.

•We make sure everyone has a chance to speak.”

- The Co-Intelligence Institute

If someone attempts interaction with me and doesn’t do the above, I go into withdrawal and/or exploitation mode by looking for the quickest escape route away from the “conversation” and/or exploiting the person’s self-absorption for my own purposes.

jazzzyone:

I read this study that concluded “students’ knowledge of civil rights history has deteriorated” with a heavy heart. Many philosophers, teachers and activists have expressed the same thought in various ways:

• “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” - Derek Bok
• “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” - Aristotle
• “Of all our studies, history is the most qualified to reward our research.” - Malcolm X

Yet we’re still a culture of NOW. No one wants to think about yesterday or risk being labeled “regressive”, “non-visionary”, “stuck in the past”, etc., nor “crazy” for seeing too far into the future. However, it should be common sense that knowing history helps us predict and, therefore, change the future. If we all agree that NOW could use some improvement, then why don’t we all want to look behind us to see how we got here or ahead of us to imagine a better future?

See if you can guess the following civil rights movements by their descriptions (Note: Parenthesis and emphasis mine.)

Movement #1

An extensive Washington Post canvass of hundreds of (angry, disenfranchised) groups found that the organization is “not so much a movement as a disparate band of vaguely connected gatherings that do surprisingly little to engage in the political process.”

More here.

Movement #2

Americans were disillusioned with the state of politics—as being corrupt and unable to deal with vital issues—and desired a viable alternative to the Republican and Democratic Parties.

Movement #3

This name was chosen to echo the (an earlier movement), who fought for independence and because (the slang term for the earlier movement) was then a widely recognized label of choice for people who identified as opposing tyranny. (snip) The party was ultimately destroyed by the question of whether to allow the expansion of (highly divisive human rights issue) to the territories. With deep fissures in the party on this question, the (highly divisive human rights issue) faction prevented the renomination of its own incumbent.

Movement #4:

(A leader) first employed non-violent civil disobedience as an expatriate lawyer in South Africa, in the resident (xxx) community’s struggle for civil rights. After his return to (his birthplace) in 1915, he set about organising peasants, farmers, and urban labourers in protesting excessive land-tax and discrimination. Assuming leadership of (his organization) in 1921, (a leader) led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women’s rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, increasing economic self-reliance, but above all for achieving Swaraj—the independence of (his birthplace) from foreign domination. (A leader) famously led (his ethnic in-group) in protesting the British-imposed salt tax with the 400 km (250 mi) Dandi Salt March in 1930, and later in calling for the British to Quit (his birthplace) in 1942. He was imprisoned for many years, on many occasions, in both (his new home) and (his birthplace).

Movement #5:

Nearly half of all families in the African American community are headed by black women. In addition, more than 70 percent of live births in the black community are to unmarried women. (A movement) is an initiative that seeks to address the problems of – and provide solutions to — the unplanned pregnancies among African American single women.

Movement #6:

They are mainly protesting social and economic inequality, corporate greed, corruption and influence over government - particularly from the financial services sector - and of lobbyists. The participants’ slogan (xxxx) refers to the difference in the U.S. between the wealthiest and the rest of the population.

Movement #7:

In 1961 (a leader) became leader of the (his organization)’s armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (translated Spear of the Nation, and also abbreviated MK), which he co-founded.  He coordinated sabotage campaigns against military and government targets, making plans for a possible guerrilla war if the sabotage failed to end (a highly divisive human rights issue). (A leader) also raised funds for MK abroad and arranged for paramilitary training of the group.

How’d you do?

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