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Pondering on voting, honesty and words
On voting:
I absolutely want the things I vote for to win, but I would rather have everyone (even those who will vote against what I vote for, and those who will vote without being informed) vote.
As with most election times most of the people I saw comment on the concept encouraged everyone to vote, and one or two people are like no, really if you don't know the issues don't vote.
Here's my response to that. I think that it's more important that we all participate in the government if we're going to claime that our government represents the populace than that any one issue is successful.
To me this is about honestly. In the US we claime that all people are equal, at least have equal rights as far as the government is confirmed. We know that we're not perfect in our attempts to do that, but we claim that as the goal.
We claim that we are a government from the people and the point where that doesn't mean encouraging everyone to vote that's not government from the people.
On Word use:
At church we are encouraged to fill out cards with what we've done to better the world or be disciples of Christ (I don't recal the precise instructions), but I was filling out a card.
There's been a very nice gentelman begging along my way to drop off Kosh at daycare, and I've given him money a couple of times, and chatted with him a bit more, so I went to write this down, and realized that I didn't know if he was homeless, I mean I wouldn't be out on a bench before 8 in the morning this time of year if I had somewhere warmer to be, butI wasn't sure.
But my brain balked at calling him a beggar. I went with begging gentleman, but it made me ponder my perception of language. Why would I have no problem identifying someone as homeless, but hesitate at beggar. I think that it's the difference between the label begar is the identity of the person where homeless person is the situation of the person, but I don't think that's all of it.
Just made me think.
I also hope he is well. I haven't seen him at all this week. I wonder if it's related to the switch from daylight savings time, but I worry about him.
I absolutely want the things I vote for to win, but I would rather have everyone (even those who will vote against what I vote for, and those who will vote without being informed) vote.
As with most election times most of the people I saw comment on the concept encouraged everyone to vote, and one or two people are like no, really if you don't know the issues don't vote.
Here's my response to that. I think that it's more important that we all participate in the government if we're going to claime that our government represents the populace than that any one issue is successful.
To me this is about honestly. In the US we claime that all people are equal, at least have equal rights as far as the government is confirmed. We know that we're not perfect in our attempts to do that, but we claim that as the goal.
We claim that we are a government from the people and the point where that doesn't mean encouraging everyone to vote that's not government from the people.
On Word use:
At church we are encouraged to fill out cards with what we've done to better the world or be disciples of Christ (I don't recal the precise instructions), but I was filling out a card.
There's been a very nice gentelman begging along my way to drop off Kosh at daycare, and I've given him money a couple of times, and chatted with him a bit more, so I went to write this down, and realized that I didn't know if he was homeless, I mean I wouldn't be out on a bench before 8 in the morning this time of year if I had somewhere warmer to be, butI wasn't sure.
But my brain balked at calling him a beggar. I went with begging gentleman, but it made me ponder my perception of language. Why would I have no problem identifying someone as homeless, but hesitate at beggar. I think that it's the difference between the label begar is the identity of the person where homeless person is the situation of the person, but I don't think that's all of it.
Just made me think.
I also hope he is well. I haven't seen him at all this week. I wonder if it's related to the switch from daylight savings time, but I worry about him.