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Safety Study of Lisinopril in Children and Adolescents With a Kidney Transplant (PTN_LISINO)
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The drug lisinopril is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of high blood pressure, heart failure, and acute heart attacks in adult patients. In children over 6 years of age, lisinopril is approved for the treatment of high blood pressure. Lisinopril is in a group of medications called angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACE). ACE inhibitors such as lisinopril work by decreasing certain chemicals that tighten the blood vessels so blood flows more smoothly and the heart can pump blood more efficiently.
There is some information available about how children with high blood pressure absorb, distribute, metabolize, and eliminate lisinopril (this information about medication processing by the body is called pharmacokinetic data). However, there is no information about how children with high blood pressure who have received a kidney transplant process lisinopril. In addition to decreasing blood pressure, investigators believe that lisinopril may help kidney transplants work longer by reducing the activity of chemicals made by cells in kidney transplants that can lead to inflammation and injury. Such benefits have not been found with another group of blood pressure medications called calcium channel blockers, which are the most commonly used medication group to control high blood pressure in children after a kidney transplant. A clinical trial will be conducted in the future to compare which medication group helps kidney transplants in children last longer. To guide the selection of the best dose to test in future studies, investigators in this study will try to determine the safety profile, dose tolerability, and pharmacokinetics of lisinopril in children and adolescents (2-17 years of age) who have received a kidney transplant and have high blood pressure.
Drug: Lisinopril
Phase 1
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Pharmacokinetics Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Safety and Pharmacokinetics of Lisinopril in Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients
- Pharmacokinetics (PK) [ Time Frame: PK evaluations will be performed after 14 +/- 3 days of lisinopril therapy at 0 hour (pre-dose) 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 12, and 24 hours post-lisinopril dose ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Area under the plasma concentration-time curve (AUC)
- Maximum observed concentration of drug in plasma (Cmax) and time of the maximum observed concentration in plasma (Tmax).
- Observed concentration prior to dose (C0h) and at the 24h post-dose pharmacokinetic sample (C24h).
- Apparent oral clearance (CL/F) and renal clearance (CLrenal).
- Safety [ Time Frame: First dose of lisinopril to 30 days after last dose of study medication ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- Additional PK data: lisinopril absorption rate (ka), oral apparent volume of distribution (V/F), influence on PK by demographic/ clinical covariates
- AEs during/after study drug administration by organ system
- Additional BP data: control per protocol clinic BPs, 24h ABPM, need for additional BP medications
- Exposure-response relationship: lisinopril plasma concentrations and BP (PK-PD model)
- Estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) change
- Change in urinary protein excretion
- Non-Safety Secondary Outcome [ Time Frame: Dried Blood Spot (DBS) samples will be collected after 14 +/- 3 days of lisinopril therapy at 0 hour (pre-dose) and at 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 12 and 24 hours post-lisinopril dose ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Dried blood spot (DBS) sampling validity
- Non-Safety Secondary Outcome [ Time Frame: Iohexol GFR samples will be collected after 14 +/- 3 days of lisinopril therapy at intervals of 0, 2, 4, and 5 hours post-iohexol infusion ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]eGFR and iohexol GFR relationship
|Study Start Date:
|June 2012
|Study Completion Date:
|September 2013
|Primary Completion Date:
|September 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Low Dose: Lisinopril
Participants will receive study medication for 14±3 days at a dose 0.1 mg/kg/day
Drug: Lisinopril
Lisinopril will be administered as a single oral dose at the following three dose levels: 0.1, 0.2, and 0.4 milligram per kilogram. The medication will be taken orally in suspension or tablet formulation once a day. Participants will receive study medication for 14±3 days.
Experimental: Medium Dose: Lisinopril
Participants will receive study medication for 14±3 days at a dose 0.2 mg/kg/day
Drug: Lisinopril
Lisinopril will be administered as a single oral dose at the following three dose levels: 0.1, 0.2, and 0.4 milligram per kilogram. The medication will be taken orally in suspension or tablet formulation once a day. Participants will receive study medication for 14±3 days.
Experimental: High Dose: Lisinopril
Participants will initially receive study medication at 0.2 mg/kg/day for 5±2 days. If blood tests exclude drug-related toxicity, then the lisinopril dose will be increased to 0.4 mg/kg/day and participants will continue to complete the 14±3 day Treatment Period.
Drug: Lisinopril
Lisinopril will be administered as a single oral dose at the following three dose levels: 0.1, 0.2, and 0.4 milligram per kilogram. The medication will be taken orally in suspension or tablet formulation once a day. Participants will receive study medication for 14±3 days.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|2 Years to 17 Years
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Kidney transplant recipient
- Age 2-17 years, inclusive, at the time of first study dose
- Estimated GFR (eGFR) ≥30 ml/min/1.73m2, with stable allograft function as indicated by <20% change in serum creatinine in the previous 30 days
- Stable immunosuppressive regimen, as indicated by <10% change in dosage (in mg/kg) in these medications, within the 14 days prior to enrollment
- Systolic BP >90th percentile for age, gender, and height, necessitating initiation or addition of an antihypertensive medication
- For females of child-bearing potential, a negative serum pregnancy test prior to initial dosing and agreement to practice appropriate contraceptive measures, including abstinence, from the time of the initial pregnancy testing through the remainder of the study (30 days after last administration of investigational agents).
Exclusion Criteria:
- History of anaphylaxis attributable to lisinopril or other ACEI agents (e.g., enalapril, ramipril, quinapril)
- History of anaphylaxis attributable to iohexol or an iodine hypersensitivity
- Use of an ACEI, angiotensin receptor blocker, or renin antagonist within 30 days prior to enrollment
- Stage 2 hypertension defined as the >99th percentile for age, height and gender + 5 mm Hg
- Blood Potassium value > 6.0 mEq/L (as determined at the screening visit)
- Previous participation in this study
- Physician concern that the participant may not adhere to the study protocol, based on prior behavior
- Current plasmapheresis treatment
- History of angioedema
- Pregnancy
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01491919
|United States, Alabama
|University of Alabama
|Birmingham, Alabama, United States, 35233
|United States, Arkansas
|Arkansas Children's Hospital
|Little Rock, Arkansas, United States, 72202
|United States, Georgia
|Emory University and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
|Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30322
|United States, Michigan
|University of Michigan
|Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, 48109
|United States, Missouri
|Children's Mercy Hospitals & Clinics
|Kansas City, Missouri, United States, 64108
|United States, New York
|Albert Einstein University Hospital
|Bronx, New York, United States, 10467
|New York University Langone Medical Center
|New York, New York, United States, 10016
|United States, Ohio
|Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
|Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 45229
|Study Director:
|Daniel Benjamin, MD, PhD, MPH
|Duke University
|Study Chair:
|Howard Trachtman, MD
|Cohen Children's Medical Center of New York
|Principal Investigator:
|Uptal D Patel, MD
|Duke University
Additional Information:
|Responsible Party:
|Uptal Patel, Assoc Professor of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01491919 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Pro00029537, HHSN275201000003I
|Study First Received:
|November 29, 2011
|Last Updated:
|December 18, 2013
|Health Authority:
|United States: Food and Drug Administration
United States: Institutional Review Board
Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act(BPCA): Data Monitoring Committee
Keywords provided by Duke University:
High Blood Pressure
Renal Transplantation
Kidney Transplantation
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors
Antihypertensive Agents
Cardiotonic Agents
Cardiovascular Agents
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Pharmacologic Actions
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Protease Inhibitors
Protective Agents
Therapeutic Uses
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Recently recieved a fun invite, to photograph, blog and interview at the upcoming Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale sale. This is the world's pre-eminent automotive auction. I remember being spellbound at a friend's house in the 90's, watching cool cars cruise up the carpet with a definitive value now attached to them.
To celebrate the event thought we'd look at some of the interesting objects on the list and maybe a few followup photos from other events.
The first one that caught my eye was this wild custom 1937 Cord Westchester Custom
(photo courtesy Barrett-Jackson)
I've always loved the lines on the Cords. I never thought about hot rodding such a vehicle and there are a host of folks that would question the exercise.


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And please give me a good credible argument as to why?
I don't want to ruffle any feathers here, but people are coming in with statements & not giving anything further to back their statements up.
Take ME for example, not my wife, but ME.....
I have 500mb per month. I think the MOST i've ever used in 1 month in the past 3 years has been 250MB.
So please, i am really interested in knowing ......... why then, based on what you've just said, >>>I<<< should be on a 1GB-2GB per month plan when the MOST i've ever used has been approx 250MB. Please give me a good argument as to why.
This is ignoring for a minute the fact that 1) I couldn't afford such a plan 2) i clearly don't need such a plan (despite you implying EVERYONE should be on one)
Honestly, i am grateful of the help given, but comments like that, unless you can back it up with something credible, is NOT helpful.
Three has reported that its users have more than doubled how much mobile data they consume every month in less than a year.
It says that the average user now users 1.1gb, compared to 450mb last summer.
Three said that the rise of smartphones has seen customers with iPhones and the top Android devices use more than 1.5gb each per month, on average."
500Mb is not enough for the typical usage nowadays. For some people 500Mb will be enough but everything is getting more data hungry
Posted 16 December 2012 - 13:22
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Right we really need to stop this before it gets out of hand......
IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT >>>>>>YOU<<<<<<<< USE! It really doesn't. It doesn't matter what 3 says, what Vodafone says, or what anyone says about the "average" user. The "average person" is on £xx,xxx per year. The average person gets paid more than me, but what does it matter to me? Because i am not paid as much. It doesn't matter is the answer. What matters is what i am paid & only what i am paid, not what my next door neighbour is paid, or the chap down the street, or the chap in the next county etc.It's all IRRELEVANT. Why don't people understand that?
Yes you're trying to help & it really is appreciated, but what does YOUR data usage matter?
It's like we can have the exact same car. I can get 40MPG out of it whereas you only get 30MPG. It's like me saying well i get 40MPG out of mine ...... so should you. What we're not discussing however, is that your journeys are constant stop/start, you only do 2 miles at a time & you rev the hell out of your car. I am able to get into 5th gear, my journeys are 10 mile a time, my car has chance to warm up & i don't drive like an idiot. Without this crucial information, just saying you should get the same MPG as mine is a waste of time statement.
Hoochie - absolutely no need for your attitude. You use a million GB per month, well good for you, but that doesn't help or interest me. You're happy with your usage, but again that doesn't help or interest me.
Anyway, so we ran a little test....
Went to town. Did not connect to WiFi. Turned on 3G on my iPhone 4S. Turned on mobile data & GPS on her Samsung Galaxy S3. Took screenshots of both....
Then when in town, i used my phone a LOT more than she did with hers. When we exited town i looked at her usage & it said only 1MB of mobile data used.
I then fired up Facebook on HER phone via the stock browser (the APP has been deleted). I let the news feed load, i scrolled & then i opened THREE photos. The usage jumped 2MB.
Here's the final shots as we got home:
As said, i used my phone in town quite a lot more than she did as i was using mine as she was clothes shopping. I was on the Quidco app, i had the MyFreeCarCheck app open. I had Facebook app open - she had none of these open. The only one she did have open was My Data Manager (i had that open too).
Posted 16 December 2012 - 16:16
This is the thing.
2MB doesn't seem unrealistic when you consider that it not only has to download post content, but also photo thumbnails, profile links, etc. The content is "rich" and doesn't just contain plaintext, so it will use a fair bit of data.
Maybe iOS uses different APIs to Android and uses compressed images or something.
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The NYTimes reporting on Benghazi
Yet the article ends with an inconsistency about what military could have responded had they been given the order to do so ..."Systemic failures and leadership and management deficiencies at senior levels within two bureaus," the report said, resulted in security "that was inadequate for Benghazi and grossly inadequate to deal with the attack that took place."
There were some forces available that could have arrived before the death of all four victims.On the night of the attack, the Pentagon was able to divert an unarmed Predator drone operating 90 miles away to Benghazi, and the C.I.A. later used it to help plan an escape route for the surviving Americans. But other military forces were too far away or could not be mobilized in time.
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I will never understand why we didn't at the very least have F18's SCREAMING at rooftop level over the area, breaking every window in the city. I really think that their simple presence would have sent the "insurgents" scurrying. I don't know if we keep F 18's at Sigonella in Sicily, but if we do, that's only about 450 miles from Bengazi, which is less than 30 minutes away.
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50 years from now the truth may be completely revealed, but it will be too late for the families of these brave men.By Guy Taylor-The Washington Times
The father of a former Navy SEAL killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, says he learned the details of his son's bravery not from the Obama administration, but in an email from an American whose life was saved by his son.
Tyrone Woods, 41, was found "slumped over his machine gun, which was caked with blood," Charles Woods, the former SEAL's father, said during a telephone interview from his home in Hawaii.
"He had continued to fire until he had no blood left and was unable to fire anymore," Mr. Woods said.
He did not identify the email's sender but said he later spoke with the person who "told me how Ty died."
Washington politics has largely shifted attention from what actually happened nearly three months ago in the Benghazi attack, in which U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, former SEAL Glen Doherty and State Department officer Sean Smith also were slain.
Republicans have accused the Obama administration of attributing the attack to spontaneous protests over a U.S.-made anti-Islam video, and not terrorists, in order to maintain the president's foreign policy image before Election Day.
The White House and congressional Democrats have accused Republicans of exploiting the situation for political gain.
For family members such as Mr. Woods, the need to know what occurred in Benghazi is as real today as it was the moment they learned that their loved ones had perished.
Some are angry at the Obama administration, and even the most politically neutral among them say they are dispirited by the way the incident has been spun by Democrats, Republicans and news media.
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"The frustration is that all of the energy is focused on who to blame within our own government," said Kate Quigley, sister of Glen Doherty, who was 42 when he died in Benghazi.
"There's been so much finger-pointing back and forth, and somebody like Glen was completely bipartisan in his job. What he did was try to save American lives, whether he was protecting Republicans or Democrats, that did not matter," Mrs. Quigley said in a telephone interview from her home in Marblehead, Mass.
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We had NOTHING within 6 hours of Benghazi to assist these people? If this is true, then the fault goes also to the Pentagon for such a failure.."The last two casualties occurred well over six hours after the initial attack. It was known early that the U.S. Ambassador to Libya was missing. His whereabouts were only discovered when Libyan hospital officials, who were attending to Ambassador Stevens, found his cell phone and made a call. It is disappointing to hear that our national command authorities failed to try to reinforce the Consulate with timely air assets, and that a consulate located in one of the most dangerous regions in the world was so unsecured."
According to CBS news, the Pentagon moved a team of special operators from Central Europe to Sigonella, Italy, only a one hour flight away from Libya. There were also fighter aircraft and Specter AC-130 stationed at three air bases in Italy.
CBS quoted retired CIA officer Gary Berntsen who led the team that responded to the Embassy bombings in East Africa. "You find a way to make this happen. There isn't a plan for every single engagement. Sometimes you have to be able to make adjustments. They made zero adjustments in this. They stood and they watched and our people died."
This from the NY TimesWe have now heard the President and the Secretary of State both accept the blame. Emerging information indicates that there could have been more done. Real time drone images were being watched in a command post some where and decisions were made not to respond.
The United States maintains a number of robust and highly classified options to deal with such events. I don't want to read about them in the press, but I do want accountability from the decision makers who had these options and failed to try. Our dead and wounded deserve an honest accounting.
The disaster at Desert One in Iran had an impact on a Presidential election, but its honest evaluation changed the entire Department of Defense for the better. The events in Libya should be examined with the same care.
This is simply unconcionable ... they expected to send help from Fort Bragg? That was the best they could do?
I would say that almost anyone on this Forum could have come up with a better plan than that!
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In view of the fact that Stevens had repeatedly informed his superiors of inadequate security, is there any other explanation for this disaster than gross incompetence? This kind of performance is what is costing taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars? Or did SOMEone resist committing the assets that could have saved some of these lives?The Pentagon's national military command center distributed a report around 4:30 p.m., 50 minutes after the assault started, that there had been violence in Benghazi and that the ambassador could not be located.
President Obama was informed about the attack at 5 p.m. by his national security adviser, Thomas E. Donilon, at the start of a meeting at the White House with Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Libya was not the only worry. There were also protests at the United States' embassies in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen.
In the meeting, Mr. Obama ordered the Pentagon to begin "mobilizing all available military assets to respond to a range of contingencies in Libya and other countries in the region," said Tommy Vietor, a spokesman for the National Security Council.
But the administration was not well positioned to respond quickly.
"Know in your heart that all things are possible. We couldn't conceive of a miracle if none ever happened." -Libby Fudim
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And the beat goes on ...
The four people who were supposedly "reprimanded" for their performance on Benghazi ... three are "on administrative leave" (does that mean they're still collecting a paycheck?) The 4th person, Boswell, the guy in charge, he resigned his position ... but has not left the DOS; perhaps only "moved to another desk".
Does ANYone, at any level, have to accept responsibility for incompetence EVER?
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Search for new state's attorney beginsBy Christian Avard
Staff Writer | January 28,2013The search for the new Windsor County state's attorney has begun.
Two candidates are vying to replace outgoing State's Attorney Robert Sand, whom Gov. Peter Shumlin recently appointed to develop a new DUI court system. According to Windsor County Democratic Committee Chairman William Kuch, 78 delegates will meet at 7 p.m. Feb. 11 at Damon Hall in Hartland to nominate the new state's attorney.
Once they have selected a nominee, the committee will inform Shumlin and Shumlin will make a decision on the appointment. According to Kuch, many Windsor County Democrats will be watching the process very closely.
"It may not be as high profile as appointing a state senator, but there's a lot of interest. Both candidates are very qualified," Kuch said.
David Cahill, Democrat of Norwich, is a Windsor County deputy state's attorney interested in becoming the new state's attorney. He has served for seven years at criminal court in White River Junction.
Cahill graduated from Dartmouth College with a major in history and German and received his law degree from the University of Minnesota. According to a state's attorney's office charge statistics report, he has filed thousands of charges in a variety of criminal, civil and investigative matters in Windsor County.
Cahill said Windsor County residents and law enforcement officials want to know if the new state's attorney will be tough on drug dealers and users. According to Cahill, it's not an either/or solution, but one that requires creative approaches.
Cahill supports criminal sentences that reduce a person's future risk of harm. He said giving first-time offenders and substance abusers the necessary tools to move back into society improves the criminal justice system and spends taxpayer dollars wisely."It's not a matter of being tough on crime or soft on crime.I think the paradigm needs to change in how we can be smart, effective and innovative on crime," Cahill said. "I'm the type of person who is always looking for ways to innovate within our system. I believe I can best fulfill that function as the elected and appointed state's attorney."
Michael Kainen, a former Republican turned Democrat of Hartford, is an Orange County deputy state's attorney. He was a private practice attorney, four-term state representative and executive director of the State Sentencing Commission.
Kainen has worked with the Windsor County state's attorney's office for 20 years on a variety of cases. He is also aware that taxpayers care about how their money is spent and whether the new state's attorney will approach drug cases differently than Sand.
According to Kainen, major drug dealers who come to Vermont to sell large quantities are the ones the state should prosecute. As for drug users who get arrested, treatment and drug prevention are what works best, he said.
"I don't know if I would part substantially from Sand's philosophy," Kainen said. "You treat drug addiction as a public health issue rather than a crime issue. I share the view that the criminal justice system should be used for treatment purposes. Would they like to go to treatment or jail? That should be asked."
Candidates interested in nominating themselves should contact Kuch at 885-6388. Sand will effectively retire as Windsor County state's attorney March 25, Kuch said.
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We can learn by exchanging and discussing our own lists of "10 Things I Know to be True."
After listening to Sarah Kay's beautiful speech and poetry, I tried to write my own list of "10 Things I know to be True." I learned one thing immediately: I don't know much. I learned a second thing more slowly: that's okay! I tried to distill my limited understanding of the world into this list, without being overly philosophical nor literal.
One thing I know to be true, but that is not on my list, was that Sarah Kay was right when she said that if you share your list with a group of people you will find that someone has one thing very similar, someone else has something totally contrary, another person has something you've never heard of, and still another has something that makes you think further about something you thought you knew.
So let's share ours, and find out! What do your lists have on them?
Here's mine:
1. Fiction can, at times, feel more real than fact.
2. One person, with a good idea, can change our world.
3. There are things about our universe that we will never understand.
4. #3 is not an excuse to stop trying.
5. Everyone has a story worth hearing.
6. There is always another side to the story they tell.
7. Questions can sometimes teach more than their answers.
8. Children can sometimes teach more than their parents.
9. Everyone should travel.
10. No one's truth is universal.
AJ Esguerra
Oct 22 2011: 1. Change is inevitable
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2. Change brings pain
3. Pain catalyzes growth
4. #3 happens when you shift your consciousness
5. Growth brings wisdom
6. Wisdom brings open-mindedness
7. Open-mindedness brings empathy
8. Empathy connects us
9. Connection brings happiness
10. We all want happiness, but some are unwilling to accept change.
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Oct 22 2011: You sir, are now my face book status...those words need to be shared with as many as possible! Thank you for your thoughts!Oct 22 2011: Hi AJ,
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Are these original to you?
I would like to copy them to my quote file (I collect quotes) and want to know if I should credit you or another source.
AJ Esguerra
Oct 22 2011: Thank you both. Yes, they are original from me; with inspiration for #9 from Tony Robbins (Connection being one of his 6 human needs).Oct 28 2011: Your #2 made me think of something I once heard somebody mention: "pain is inevitable, misery is optional." ;-)
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Oct 28 2011: FYI: it's a Dalai Lama quote :)
Loved your list!
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Nov 16 2011: "Pain is inevitable, misery is optional."
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Nice Joep!!
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Nov 15 2011: AJ !!!!!! I LOVE THIS
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"1. Change is inevitable
2. Change brings pain
3. Pain catalyzes growth
4. #3 happens when you shift your consciousness
5. Growth brings wisdom
6. Wisdom brings open-mindedness
7. Open-mindedness brings empathy
8. Empathy connects us
9. Connection brings happiness
10. We all want happiness, but some are unwilling to accept change."
It is #4 that is our (humanity's) biggest challenge.
Bernd Fesel
Nov 17 2011: Your words are great and I would love them to be true. But don´t we experience the opposite quite often - and still the world is improving!?
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Here some examples:
1.) stability generates happiness - especially children need stable and securing love
2.) growth brings blindness - especially if growth generates wealth. see the greed system in stock-markets; growth until overkill.
3.) children are most empathic, it is not learned, it is given - and regularly unlearned by knowledge and open--mind-methods. empathic is not about the mind at all. even if you do not understand a matter, you can built an empathy for it.
For me the greatest challenge is to transform personal persuit of happiness to collective peacefulness and humbleness. I am afraid §shifting consciousness" (Nr. 4) is too abstract and easy for me - aren´t children doing it every morning at school?
AJ Esguerra
Nov 17 2011: Bernd, thank you for your response. A few points...
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My list is NOT to say that one thing is the ONLY thing to bring another, but rather that it does. With that being said, stability would be another way to happiness, but I would rather see it as comfort. Is it not only a matter of time after a period of stability that one becomes unsatisfied?
The second point would be under the assumption that growth is synonymous with wealth-which I don't believe to be true. I would say that wealth can bring blindness instead. But to even put that point aside and to think within your framework, weren't individuals happy as their net worth increased as a result of the markets? When financial markets tumbled and much was lost, that is where I would view the start of my list (although one of my points was that each line item can be viewed as their own separate truths rather than part of a single cycle). People lost monetary value-a change in their lives that brought them pain. It would not be until they view all that has changed in their lives in a new light that growth will occur.
I would disagree in saying children are MOST empathic. I recall a TED talk even showing a study that in child development, there aren't signs of empathy until a certain age (somewhere between 5 and 7, I can't recall). And I would say that it is learned from their mother/father by their examples of empathy. Do you truly believe that empathy is unlearned? Have you never met someone who you see a little of yourself in and can understand their perspective, even if it were a matter you understand better now and may have been previously ignorant to? If you do not understand a matter, you build an empathy for parts of which you do understand.
I am unclear of that last one, but to my earlier point- there are other ways of reaching a stage.
Lastly, as I thought about it, if I would to add another item to the list, it would be that Pain is relative.
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Nov 17 2011: Shift in consciousness is understanding that which was formerly not understood and accepting it heart, mind, body and soul and thereafter allowing it to be. This is growth. There is no money involved and yet this is the only thing of value. It actually is priceless.
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It is impossible to shift people's consciousness collectively. You can only provide the conditions that inspire and nurture. This happens in each human as an independent and individual process. Each person must respond to their inner guidance in order to elevate their own level of consciousness. Children burst into this world eagerly with all the right equipment, as phenomenal beings with unlimited potential, but the world, as built by those who got here before them, is set up with all kinds of obstacles and blockages, which takes away their wings and turns them into boxed-in limited adults, who can survive best when behaving as sheep. So saying "growth brings blindness" is like saying " money corrupts". Blindness and corruption are choices one makes. And are usually of one's refusal to allow understanding and existence of the knowing, in other words elevation in consciousness.
Nov 20 2011: agreed juliette when you say: growth brings blindness" is like saying " money corrupts". but it is not the only way to understand blindness by growth. by growth you can get narcissistic or vain. every growth - even the internal balanced personal - tends to make one blind for the own failures.
I totally agree with your desription of the childs blockages. But can this really be changed? Even the consciousness and wise man will be a blockage to his children, because it is the nature of growing up to overcome the educator?! Isn´t this a circle even the best wise man and women can not leave?Nov 21 2011: I agree with AJ that change is inevitable, even if stability is preferred and necessary to develop culture. Too strict a dependence on stability ignores the realities of motion and destruction, to which all species have undergone a series of adaptations (a natural response to change) in order to survive. The instinctual animal flees minutes before the first tremors of an earthquake are felt by most of us, while the permanent structures we created our sense of stability with shake and crumble.
Bernd Fesel
Nov 21 2011: i would not disagree that change is inevitable. let me try to say it like this:
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we do not need to strive for change since it happens any way. it comes upon us - that means "inevitable".
but to cope with change you have to have a basis, a self-trust and consciousness, and especially growing up with family stability or at least love.
i believe we need to push and promote this stable trust since it is not inevitable. it is the exception.... it is more pressious. and thus - if it happens once in a while - it generates happiness.
I hope i can explain myself more clearly.
Michael M
Nov 21 2011: I like #9 EJ I dont think I have told you.Nov 22 2011: AJ....your key word is change, and I, like many others have a heartfelt recognition for it. If we want our world to be better for all, we have to swing into action. Loaded words uttered, we talk about talk, but action is not as easy. We, who live in democracies cling steadfast to our cushy lifestyles. To give up any of it means sacrifice.
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"Why should I if others will not?"....or...."I worked hard for what I have". If nothing changes with me, my world remains the same. Ultimately, have I chosen yet?
Phillip Shadoin
Oct 22 2011: 1. First impressions are often wrong.
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2. Second impressions are seldom wrong.
3. No apology can unsay a hurtful thing.
4. Encouraging children to excel is good parenting. Requiring children to excel is not.
5. It doesn't take a village to raise a child. It takes a parent who cares.
6. The universe is a very large place. It's statistically impossible that there isn't intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos. It's statistically improbable that such intelligent life has visited this little backwater planet.
7. There is no honesty in politics. There is no responsibility in government.
8. Committees are a waste of time and effort.
9. Proof abounds that God exists. You don't have to believe for it to be true.
10. Nature scoffs at man's hubris.
Oct 22 2011: 9. On what planet, in the universe, are these bountiful proofs? Cos they ain't here.
Oct 23 2011: Lay on your back on a clear night and stare into the sky. Do you see all that wonderful expanse of stars? Where did they come from? A single cosmic cataclysm? Before that, how did all that is come into being? If you believe that you exist and that the world exists and that universe exists, then you have to understand that without God, none of this would BE.
Need more proof, look into a microscope. Look at the smaller and smaller particles until you get to the smallest semi particle and ask, what is smaller than this? And how did this and this and this learn to exist in this pattern? Why does a quark do what it does and why does an electron and a proton attract each other instead of repel?
God isn't in the man made manifestations but in all things. The visible and the invisible alike. God is so much more than what man thinks and can understand, so man assigns God characteristics to make God seem more like us and not the natural origin of the universe.
Tony Ruiz
Oct 23 2011: there you go, "the nature talk". That's an extremely flawed argument, just because someone doesn't understand where it all comes from, doesn't mean that you can fill in the blank with an invisible person in the sky. It's called "the argument from ignorance fallacy". I'm not calling YOU ignorant, that's what the fallacy it's called. If you're giving your god the property that cannot be understood by us humans, then why bother? Anyway, peace. I loved your first 7 points.
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Jas Carter
Oct 23 2011: I think you're all talking about the same thing. The disconnect is simply the semantics of how we define "God."Oct 23 2011: It is not so much arguing that some grand mystery must exist because we don't understand something (i.e. ignorance fallacy). It is that there is never an end to the questioning, that there is always something beyond our grasp in virtually every facet of human life that is the grand mystery. Whether one denies the mystery, basques in it, or fills sutures it with language is pretty much the ultimate personality test.
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Tony Ruiz
Oct 23 2011: Jas: No matter how you fill in the blank with something that "cannot be understood" or "defined", you are still superficially and falsely removing an unknown with another unknown. In reality, you haven't solved anything. However, you've tricked your mind into thinking that you have the answer, preventing you from further inquiry. In other words, the god answer doesn't answer questions about the unknown, it stops them.Oct 23 2011: Tony - You seem to suggest that the entire equation is fundamentally changed because one variable is substituted for another. Whether I write the equation as x + 2x = 10 or y + 2y = 10, solving for the unknown variable will get you the same result and the substitution does not trick me into thinking that I know the answer simply because of the substitution. It isn't a matter of "removing an unknown with another unknown" but simply a question of labels. Trying too hard to categorize what is and what isn't god is a game of semantics that simply distracts from the task of trying to find answers.Oct 23 2011: Phil, I normally wouldn't get into this can of worms, especially not on here, but based on some of the questions you asked I was compelled to respond.
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400 years ago there were many things that we didn't understand about nature. At that time, simple things we couldn't explain were quite simply explained by the existence of God, to the satisfaction of many.
However, 50 years or so would progress, and answers would be discovered by diligently inquisitive characters known as scientists. more often than not, these discoveries would create new questions.
More time would progress, and more things would be discovered that we couldn't yet explain, and the answer by many would be God. However, time, curiosity, and research would reveal the actual answer, and we would move along.
Now here we are in the present day, with logical and provable explanations for quite a many things in nature that were once attributed to God, and somehow yet, for what riddles we have newly discovered and not yet solved, so many still use the answer of God.
If any lesson is to be learned from our history, could we not safely assume that the answer to the questions you posed above will be revealed in fifty to a hundred years? Then you will have something new that we will not understand, and can again use God as your answer.Oct 26 2011: There is no God. At least not in the traditional sense of the word. The universe is infinitely complex, and we are part of the universe, so if you redefine the concept of 'God' into something like nature, or eternity, or that which stands beyond the knowable universe, behind the singularity and before the big-bang, etc. Then we can say that god could exist, but there is no evidence that 'God' is anything other than a human concept developed out of man's insecurity and recognition of our finite existence, and used to control power by influencing irrational minds. To base your decisions and choose your actions based upon such supernatural fictions is foolish at best and potentially dangerous.Oct 27 2011: If you equal "god" as nature, why don't you just use the proper term - nature. If god is something else, explain what it is and then show us how looking at the stars would lead one to think there is a god which you describe.Oct 26 2011: Ah yes, there is no God because there is no proof! I say because the universe exists, God exists, there's your proof. Before there was the universe, there was an infinite power that could create a universe. That infinite power IS God. Just because mankind is incapable of grasping something so infinitely large and infinitely small at the same time, we struggle to define the force that allows our very awareness of being. I take great pleasure in acknowledging the gifts that God has bestowed upon us. Existence. Awareness. Emotion. Pleasure. Pain. Life. Death. Beer.
Mostly beer. :)
Oct 27 2011: "Just because mankind is incapable of grasping something so infinitely large and infinitely small at the same time, we struggle to define the force that allows our very awareness of being. " I totally agree, that's why I don't try too hard to name things I can't even begin to fathom, perhaps one day the human brain will evolve enough for someone to get it, but for right now, assigning whatever existence is, some kind of consciousness, in order to make sense of it in our primitive human way is just pointless. And really boring, I might add. I prefer the wonder to the fake 'know it all' answers.Oct 24 2011: Can we just leave God out of it. It so brings a good conversation down. Makes it irrelevant/tired/uninteresting/crap/lies etc. Just leave the word out and we can all move on. we simply do not need it anymore! Stop with the god i say. Strike me down if you are liste..........................
Oct 24 2011: Very funny!!!!Oct 26 2011: There are only three things worth talking about: Politics, Religion, and Sex.Oct 27 2011: See #10 on my list (which is way down below somewhere). I don't have a problem with God or god or gods. I think talking about religion is fascinating. But, once the conversation devolves into a general cosmic debate, not much is going to get accomplished, and no one takes any responsibility his or her contributions or actions.Oct 27 2011: LOL... Phillip didn't finish the "if you are liste... " because he was stricken!Oct 25 2011: 3. No apology can unsay a hurtful thing. - truest thing in the world ! Someone to raise apology is just trying to amend his image, & no real apologies in the world make any sense.
Oct 26 2011: Apologies make sense if you made a mistake and recognize it. If you don't actually mean it, or are just trying to appease some social structure, then don't be dishonest.
In the past, I've let my emotions affect my judgment and taken unjust actions toward others, and for that I'm truly sorry. But I can't change the past.
Hurtful things are only hurtful if the 'victim' allows them to be hurtful. Therefore, you are only a victim if you allow yourself to be. Words can not harm anyone. However, violent actions can actually harm people.
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Apparently the machine will not let me reply to Phillip McKay's comment below, so I'll edit in my reply here. - Emotions may MOTIVATE your actions, and thus they are an indicator of what you truly value, but they are not values in themselves, and emotions are irrational. Irrationality doesn't matter in arbitrary decisions, like what color do I like today, or who will I fall in love with, but they do matter when you take actions. Words can be actions, and may even be intended to cause harm, like yelling "FIRE" in a crowed theater when there is no fire, but your feelings can only be hurt by words IF you put value in the speaker's opinion. The choice of what you value is up to you. You need not be lonely or unattached to be rational. Hearts break because we value the individuals we choose to love, and we are hurt by their rejection, not because they spoke to us. Perhaps the girl that told you she didn't love you did it because you beat her, or ignored her, or just had no love for yourself, her words didn't hurt, it was your realization that your self-image, or worldview, or opinion of her was mistaken, you were deceived, either by your self, or her, or the world, and when you realize that, your foundations are rocked to the core, What else have you gotten wrong? This is why truth matters. Your ideas are only as good as your model of the world.
Oct 27 2011: I used to think somewhat like you Michael. But your emotions are the value you place on things. without them you are dull indifferent and a flatliner. Remember that beautiful girl that told you she didnt love you. That hurt. Welcome to the real world. You're right - words dont hurt if you're not attached to the human raise and many achieve that lonely existence.Oct 27 2011: Forgiveness is the first step to healing. First you must forgive yourself for being hurt, then you can fully forgive those who caused pain. Alternately, one cannot forgive one whom wishes not to be forgiven. And there, we have apology.
Albert Ip
Oct 27 2011: No, one never has the right to forgive oneself. If one has hurt someone, that's a permanent burden which one has to carry.
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However, one can forgive other and I encourage that. With forgiveness comes a relief as a victim. Bring in friendship and let the one who hurts you feel easy around you and give him/her the chance to compensate of the wrong before.
One can apology, the victim can refuse to accept.
The best thing to do is to avoid hurting other in the first place.Oct 27 2011: very critical points tnx
Peter Han
Oct 23 2011: I don't KNOW any of these items to be true, but choose to use them as beacons and guideposts.
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1) Thinking "out of the box" is over-rated. "Out of the box" means you have simply recognized that you're previous context or "box" was too limiting and that you have broken through many of the assumptions and constraints of that context. But you simply move into a broader and more general context or "box" now. So actually, a more accurate saying might be "are you thinking in the appropriate box?"
2) Experience is inevitable, learning is not. Just going through an experience does not equal learning from the experience.
3) Sometimes, we have to listen someone into existence.
4) Play as if our lives depended on it. Because it does.
5) Imagination is more important than knowledge, but one needs a solid foundation of knowledge to make the most of one's imaginative powers. So don't discount and dismiss the importance of knowledge.
6) There is hard work as we know it in the USA and European countries. And then there is hard work as it is known in Chinese-speaking countries such as China, Taiwan, and Singapore. In Chinese language, the term for hard work is "Eat Bitter" which also has connotations of enduring, overcoming pain and misery. So not all hard work is the same around the world.
7) Problem-solver are extremely valuable. But we might need problem-finders even more.
8) We are all hybrids. Approximately 90% of the cells in our body are bacterial in nature, not human. Relax, there're friendly and vital to our health. But just think...90% of the number of cells in us are bacteria!
9) We tend to forget about opportunity risks when considering something risky. There can be great risk in NOT pursuing a risky venture.
10) Regret is the 8th Deadly Sin.
Debra Smith
Oct 23 2011: Peter, I loved your statement that we have to listen people into existence. It is filled with so much compassion and awareness.
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Oct 23 2011: Hi Debra,
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Thanks for your reply. Isn't it sad that so many people have this need and yet we don't listen enough to them? Our society seems to reward the proclamation of ideas so much more than listening and reflection. Just go to a typical kindergarten or grade school. Gold stars often go to those who speak up and contribute their ideas and opinions. But seldom is recognition given to active and compassionate and self-less listening.
I grew up in Asia and recall my shock when I entered 3rd grade in the USA. Everyone was talking over each other and rewarded for being so darned self-expressive. But there was not much listening...often it was just waiting for a turn to speak or an opportunity to interrupt the previous speaker.
Thank you for listening to me into existence.
Best regards,
Cleo Abram
Oct 24 2011: Peter and Debra,
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I love this idea. To quote Sarah Kay, "I see the impossible every day. Impossible is trying to connect in this world, trying to hold onto others... knowing that while you're speaking, they aren't just waiting for their turn to talk-- they hear you." I know I still need to work on that: truly hearing everyone I listen to. "Listening them into existence" (what an incredible phrase. Thank you.) But I'll never stop trying, because every time I manage to really do it, I learn something amazing.
I grew up going to a Quaker school. We had a weekly mandatory Meeting for Worship which every student, teacher, and administrator sat together in complete silence and periodically listened to short messages people were spontaneously inspired to share. I often learned more about myself and the world around me in that hour and a half than in any class; I wasn't talking, I was sitting in silence. I miss the structure for listening that the meetings offered, but I hope to apply the lessons learned there to the rest of my life.
Thanks for listening,
CleoOct 24 2011: Not all at once.....of course, but I have to speak for two important reasons I can momentarily think of: speaking my mind so others can know what I am all about, and
if nobody speaks there is nothing to listen to.
In most cultured conversations one considerately awaits their turn while listening to others.
Otherwise, how can one's comments be pertinent to the subject discussed? Ill mannered parliamentary debates should not discourage us from remaining civil.Oct 24 2011: Wow. This truly is a beautiful and remarkably true statement.Oct 23 2011: Peter
I really liked #,s 3&4 There are a lot of people out there waiting for someone to listen to them. On a persoanl level, playing is becoming a sort of new found joy for me...and I am not young. Those things are really true.
Oct 23 2011: Hi Michael,
Thanks for your reply. Like you, I am not young (chronologically, but youthful in outlook) and have found play to be "serious" priority for me.
I think we need to re-learn and recapture the joy of play in our very busy and stressful lives.
Have you read Free Play by Steve Nachmanovitch? It is a small eloquent tome to the spiritual and pragmatic value of play. Homo ludens "the playful human" is another meme to which I subscribe.
Playfully yours,
Thomas Jones
Oct 23 2011: Someone posted this over on the "Favourite Quote" conversation:
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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. – Aldous HuxleyOct 23 2011: Listen someone into existence..... that is absolutely wonderful.Oct 23 2011: Peter your number 6 and Cleo's number 9 have been integral in my development. When I was a child growing up in the United States, I had a powerful desire to travel and see the great and wonderful things in the world. My mind conjured images of beautiful architecture, delicious new foods, wondrous landscapes, and curious people.
At the age of 25, I have spent over half my adult life outside of the United States. Exposure to cultures such as India, Cambodia, Afghanistan, and Vietnam have taught me incredible lessons about self pity, simple pleasures, and viewing the world in its entirety.
Oct 24 2011: Hi Tim,
Happy to hear that you've benefited from your wide travels. What did you find most surprising during your travels? Any truths you found that apply across all the cultures you experienced?
I'd like to travel widely as well and learn as you did. What brought you to Afghanistan in your young life?
Best regards, Peter
Oct 24 2011: Peter I served the first few years of my adult life as a special operator with the United States Army, an experience which catapulted me into an understanding of myself as a world citizen.
Of course there have been many
surprises during my travels, but the one that has had the biggest impact on me would be the realization of China as a superpower, witnessed firsthand. It is one thing to watch the news and read the Economist, but something else entirely to visit a place like Hong Kong and marvel at its efficiency.
According to the Motley Fool, the US economy as yet remains three times the size of China's, but that ratio only further demonstrates where one is to find opportunity and growth. I see a new world developing, one in which global influence is shared by more major players on nearly equal footing than the disparity witnessed in the last 30 years. This surprise has lead to a reevaluation of my goals, which now involve studies in the mandarin language, chinese history, and philosophy.
In regards to universal truths, I have found that the giving spirit is ingrained in all of humanity, though the mechanism is dramatically different from place to place. In powerful western economies, we like to use an intermediary. Charities, food banks, and homeless shelters are common for this purpose. In less abundant economies, food is often handed to the needy, and small villages take a communal approach to their problems. Neighbors help one another fix leaking roofs, and orphans are often supported by the many.
Peter where in Asia did you grow up? You discussed your surprise with the classroom after entering third grade in the United States. Do you believe that multicultural exposure for children is an advantage?Oct 24 2011: Hi Tim,
I could not contact you via TED email (it's not working) so I am contacting you this way.
"This surprise has lead to a reevaluation of my goals, which now involve studies in the mandarin language, chinese history, and philosophy." Wow, you really are proactive! Kudos for seeking trends and patterns and acting upon them. Your wide travels has benefited you immensely.
Yes, I believe multi-cultural experiences are a MUST for any young person on this planet, esp. for an ethno-centric and super power country such as the USA. "Fish are the last to discover water" goes the adage. So a mudskipper who transitions between water and soil understands so much more about water by virtue of having left its boundaries.
I grew up in Taiwan, then Japan prior to landing in the USA as a youth. I identify myself with both the American and Chinese cultures.
Tim, You write extremely well which reflects a cultivated mind. Why don't you start a TED Conversation? You have a great deal to offer the TED community.
Keep in touch. See you in one of the other TED conversations too!
Best regards,
Peter Han
Oct 24 2011: Peter,
I agree with you and appreciate your praise.
Here is the link to a TED conversation I started a few days ago:
http://www.ted.com/conversations/6500/is_there_potentially_an_econom.htmlOct 24 2011: I think we do learn thorugh experiences particularly when we are young. Problem is sometimes what we learn does bnot help us in life. I know young people who have learned to push people away in order to protect themselves. Obviously this is not always a useful action. Somtimes however, it is.
Sometimes it is just as important to unlearn.
Debra Smith
Oct 23 2011: My ten things that I know to be true
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1) Love is better than hate.
2) Love feels better too.
3) Hating hurts you as much or more than it hurts the one you hate.
4) Hope is always a good thing.
5) Life will out. Just look at that blade of grass coming up through the crack in the pavement.
6)There are a lot of really truly good people in this world. We should encourage them.
7)We all have blind spots about ourselves.
8)Differences are not to be feared for they are the source of our greatest strengths as societies and as individuals.
9)Just because people live in big bodies does not mean that they are grown up inside.
10) Singing, dancing and art are better uses of human talent than war.
Oct 23 2011: All good observations. I especially like number 8.
Oct 30 2011: I enjoy conversations about "Differences". I focus on learning to be comfortable with differences, and that I can make a difference by doing this.
One of my favorite catch phrases is "The Difference that Makes a Difference!"Oct 23 2011: I especially like #7. It makes me wonder what mine is!
Oct 23 2011: Indeed. I've always sought to find mine, but then how long does one look and question? Would we ever discover them all?
Debra Smith
Oct 28 2011: Hi Paula, I do not really think it is a matter of actually looking for our blind spot. Rather, I think we just need to be aware when the evidence of feedback indicate that we might have a blind spot. When people see things that we do not we need to consider that we have something to learn. At least this is how I try to stay aware of the possibilities.Nov 4 2011: the past months I have been exploring the 5 elements (earth, metal, water, wood, fire) and my experience is it is for quite some people easy to understand what their blind element(s) is/are
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metal = structure, managing, tradition
wood = coaching, growth, direction
earth = self realisation, materialisation
water = life-force, vitality, rest
fire = communication, transformation, relations (man - woman)
gave me much insight to sdiscover my blind spot was metal (and fire) and I began to understand my whole life and that of my surroundings ;)
perhaps this is usefull to someone here
Debra Smith
Nov 4 2011: That's an interesting approach, Steven. I like the use of metaphor to think in new ways. It takes us out of the rut in our habitual thinking processes even if we do not attach it to religious thought or ideologies.Oct 29 2011: Love and hate are part of the same human emotional state, that of being passionate, between which can be a very thin often blurry line and since one can not exist without its companion to say that one is more important than the other lends itself to a narrowing of perception. All human emotions have a place and time. I would say that outrage one may feel at the presence of inequality and cruelty come from a place of love but will move an individual to action and help to shape the world. Less the rational be willing to act the strong will always prevail regardless of their motives or politics no matter how irrational, selfdestructive, or short sighted they may be.
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Debra Smith
Oct 31 2011: Hi Skylar! While I love it when you play devil's advocate, I cannot agree that love and hate are the same emotional state not even polar opposites. There is not much psychological literature to support that contention either. Additionally, outrage and shock which leads to action does not necessarily stem from hate and is often not nearly as effective when it does stem from hate. Hate is often associated with fear and threat. Love comes from an entirely different place. I am quite convinced that humanity could live pretty nicely without hate. Hate is in itself self destructive. I once read that hating is like drinking poison and expecting the hated person to die. The poison of hate only hurts the one who partakes.
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Nov 1 2011: I did in fact over simplify the truth a little and thank you for calling me on it. More to the point I wasn't really disagreeing with you entirely just trying to recognize that horrific things are sometimes done in the name of love (of which there are many different kinds and I wish that we had more than one word for it in the English language). Sometimes actions motivated by hate can bring about positive change. While I to am an advocate for love and empathy I still understand that every tool has it's pros and cons even love. Hate while usually a more destructive force has it's place as well. It is my hope that one day hate and violence (which aren't always mutually inclusive) will become obsolete and loose their necessity, but recognize we have a long way to go before we are there. Until that day whatever may motivate an individual to propel us closer to this new world is what is needed and I believe hate plays a role. I myself while not a fan still see a need for many unpleasant and harmful aspects of not only human behavior but the actions of the universe. Significant change rarely comes quietly and never without a cost. My love for my fellow man often times paralyzes me and while I don't want to be the one to swing the axe or condone the actions of the one who does I can't help but wish that I could fashion my love into a tool as sharp and wieldable. Hopefully one day I will... Thank you for being you and best of luck in your journey.
Carol A.
Oct 25 2011: 1.That I love and am loved.
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2.That life is precious and worth living.
3.The best things that ever happened to me are the birth of my children.
4.That I know very little and can learn something new, everyday.
5.If I had my life to live over again, I would change nothing.
6.Being happy is a choice. It has nothing to do with what you own and another person is not responsible for your happiness, only you are...
7.The saying "If at first you don't succeed, try again" is not just a saying.....
8.Laughing is really good for the soul and should be done daily and several times each day.
9.The best gift is the gift of time.
10. Last but certainly not least, God is real, he is love and he is good.
Oct 25 2011: Amazingly said!Oct 26 2011: I like these, they are true only from your perspective yet could be universal too.
God is only real in the minds of men as a concept and the actions such men take.
People can't take your happiness, but they can take your food.


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Friends, what an honor it is to stand before you today at the culmination of our undergraduate journey, and the commencement of the rest of our lives. When I look back on my four years, I am so thankful for all of those people who inspired me, challenged me, and accepted my talents as well as my shortcomings. I encourage you today, to think about those individuals in your own life who have made this journey possible. Were it not for the teachers, mentors, coaches, administrators, employees, and most importantly, our friends and families, we wouldn't be the people we are today. This opportunity has truly been a blessing and a privilege.
As you, Hamilton College's 200th class, prepare to enter the world, recognize also that this privilege comes with responsibilities. We are called to be stewards of this nation and this planet – politically, socially, and ecologically – and we cannot shirk our obligations.
The need is great, the urgency palpable; we inherit a world full of division and inconsistency. The banality of hyper-partisan rhetoric masks the severity of the crises we face as a nation and as individuals in this globalized world order. We have to start asking the tough questions: how can we preserve the ideals of our political institutions while challenging injustice? Do we have ethical obligations to those marginalized groups that carry the burden of our affluence? How much is enough? How much is too much? How can we reconcile the fibrous roots of tradition with the winds of progress? I concede that there are no easy answers, but the exigency of the present moment compels us to ask.
Throughout the 20th century, we, as a people, approached questions of this magnitude with calls for innovation, revolution, government action, or political change. But I contend that superstructural solutions will not adequately address the foundational problems that plague our society. What we need most are not Marshall plans or Manhattan projects, bailouts or Federal legislation; we must look closer to home. Creating a world that is freer, more equitable, more just, and more tolerant, begins with each one of us.
As members of the millennial generation, we may easily feel disunited, disconnected, and cut-off. Technological innovation and political centralization have drawn us away from the communal bonds that have formed the bedrock of human identity since time immemorial. Our reality seems ever fragmented and fractured, oriented towards individual desires and impulses.
What we need now is a bit of humility and a holistic conception of the self to inform our vision of the future. Our actions have consequences that extend far beyond our own lives. We cannot afford, therefore, to live as atomized individuals. As members of a human community, we have the opportunity, as well as the obligation to care for our neighbors, and those less fortunate than ourselves, to promote freedom in all of its manifestations, to ensure the longevity of democratic political institutions, to live conscientiously, and to make ethical choices in our everyday lives
In this room are some of the best and brightest the world has ever seen. We must use our lives as a model for the world we hope to inhabit. So have the courage to build community. Take pleasure in our mutual responsibility to one another. Realize that differences in language, ethnicity, sexuality, geography, and political persuasion are vital to the health and beauty of every community and polity. Celebrate these differences by cultivating empathy. Find something to love in everybody, but hold yourself and those around you to a rigorous code of ethics.
I'm optimistic that this liberal education has prepared us to meet these challenges. Our time at Hamilton has taught us to think critically about the decisions we make in our own lives, and to consider local and global repercussions. We have learned the value of truth and the importance of honesty. We have been taught ambition as well as conscientiousness, individual expression as well as commitment to a group. These are the values that must outweigh the mere earning potential of our degree.
So as I leave you this morning, I charge you to apply these values in your own life and remember how fortunate you have been. Never forget to thank those people who have made a difference; gratitude and humility go hand in hand. Focus on the details but never lose sight of the world around you. Be great in the small things. Plan for the future, but surrender to the present; the world is never more beautiful than right now. Take a chance and dare to live boldly – this is the only life you get, so make it special.
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