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Shukran Diana. I agree wholeheartedly with so many of your points, the Biden legacy of genocide and warmongering is just ugly. And I wish so much for local and global citizenry with the moral human responsibility of respect to all life.

🇵🇸♥️🙏

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Thanks, Najwan. I hope we can all reach that place together, where there's no more war, and that kindness and restoration of all kinds are paramount.

Have a nice rest of your evening, Najwan.

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The hardest thing to deal with and accept, I find, is my own powerlessness. But that is my reality. That reality, however, does not stop me from writing and publishing on Substack for whatever good it does, and it does not stop me from caring. The very worst thing I can do is not care about the Palestinians, the Lebanese and all victims of war, repression and injustice. But I must also care about myself, my husband, my family and friends. It doesn't serve me one little bit to get depressed, deflated, bitter, cynical, too angry and upset about things that I am powerless to change. Nor does it serve me to forget all I have to be deeply grateful for. We are, all of us on this earth, in a particular place for a particular reason even though we may not see it or never completely understand it, and we have to make the best of our resources and manage whatever comes our way until we get to the other side. By the other side, I don't mean heaven, paradise, Nirvanah, etc. but I do believe that this earthly existence is not all there is.

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I agree, our powerlessness is so hard to cope with, Diane. And I agree with the rest of what you said too.

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I guess the best we can be is stones that when thrown into the water send out ripples.

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Thank you for the links to sanity, and, of course, your thoughtful writing🙏

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You're welcome, Rob. Thanks for commenting.

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Very comforting post despite the chaos around us .

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i'm so glad you find it comforting, Heather.

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Thank you, Diana 🙏

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My pleasure, Natalie. 🙏

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Every word, Diana!

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Good to see you giving Diana support, Pauline. She will be doing a Gust post at @thiscreativeadventure.com in the New Year. Peace, Maurice

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Thanks Maurice! I hope you'll remind me when it's due and what you want it to be about.

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Thanks, Pauline! I'm so glad my post spoke to you.

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Why the outgoing Biden administration is doing all it can to start the next world war is beyond me.

Well, Apart from tryng to justify their reward from master

By provoking and escalating the situation they're hoping to elicit a dramatic response from the Russians where the hidden objective is to ensnare the incoming administration, another aspect will be approving astronomical sums of money created a debt to the MIC as the entire nuclear arsenal will require another update and that's the main reason why there's never any funding for public infrastructure projects but while there's a seemingly endless stream of funds for lie based wars of aggression.

They don't intend to win wars, just to prolong them into endless wars which is hugely profitable for the MIC's major shareholders so here it comes remember how they've already tried to reduce the global population, better be careful what happens next and say no to conscription, meanwhile Putin has warned that if they really want a war then they can have one but it'll be over in 15 minutes.

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