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James Patton

@JamesICRD

Aspiring. Grateful. Father. Working to nourish empathy & transform broken humanity away from the worst of who we can be. Escape plan is art and ethnobotany.

Washington, DC Katılım Ekim 2014
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James Patton@JamesICRD·
Whatever your politics, it’s refreshing to see a politician willing to support the ideas that he or she stands for carried forward by others, rather than push forward for their own personal recognition. The individual should be second to the principles.
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A Sharon Olds poem from 1983, as ripe and relevant today as 40 years ago.
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@bernstein_ariel @BurbridgeDuke Reminds me of people pouring out water in the desert crossing between Mexico and the US. Another video of this shows young children with flags destroying aid. The dehumanization, violence, and indoctrination of hate all around promises generations - generations - of death.
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“On social media you have the illusion of social contact without having to perform the gestures that actually build trust, care, and affection. On social media, simulation replaces intimacy. There is judgment everywhere and understanding nowhere.” David Brooks
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James Patton@JamesICRD·
Grateful to #EmiratesScholar and #UAE #MinistryofTolerance for the invitation to speak at the Dialogue of Civilization and Tolerance. As the Minister of Tolerance HE Sheikh Al Nayahan said, “Common ground is possible when we become both astute communicators and careful listeners”
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The difficulty of getting people, groups, or nations to adhere to collective agreements when conflict arises is that the “rightness of principles” dissolves under the pressure of the “righteousness of grievance”.
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@MeidasTouch My politics aside. We live in an era where journalism has become political. The parties "own" their media outlets. That's broken journalism. He's a political candidate. That's our system. Neither celebrate nor denigrate, but let him speak and let his speech prove his character.
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James Patton@JamesICRD·
@TizzyEnt Always appreciate your tweets. Focused on awareness raising of intolerance. Balanced. Intimidation and rejecting other people's identity rights is NOT our "way of life". Keep up the good work.
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TizzyEnt
TizzyEnt@TizzyEnt·
Hey Tucson AZ, be on the lookout for this guy.
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Please listen to my recent interview about religion and conflict in the US on Utah’s KSL News Radio’s podcast “Inside Sources” with Boyd Matheson omny.fm/shows/inside-s…
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@AmandaTylerBJC Legitimate establishment clause concerns. Heard King Abdullah give passionate call for peace at the NPB this morning, though. While NPB advances unabashed Christian message, it pushes attendees to embrace pluralism as religious conviction. A message desperately needed by some!
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Amanda Tyler
Amanda Tyler@AmandaTylerBJC·
What are we to make of the #NationalPrayerBreakfast and the signals it sends? Holly and I discussed the decades-old tradition and explored the questions it raises on last week’s Respecting Religion #podcast.
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BJC@BJContheHill

On today’s #podcast, @AmandaTylerBJC and Holly explore the National Prayer Breakfast, from confusion created by its name to the proper relationship between government & religion. Listen to Respecting Religion on your favorite podcasting provider, or here: bjconline.org/s4-ep-11-the-n…

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Caring for a harmful person = understanding their motives and seeking to shift a broken relationship to a less broken one. Aiming harm at them often reinforces/justifies their own destructiveness. End results are either a deepened mutual empathy or enmity. Consider the impact.
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Does your opinion - political, social, religious, etc. - inspire you to care for people or harm them? Caring for those with whom you disagree is not = to supporting their ideas. This includes those who are doing real damage and might best be removed from interacting with others.
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What life should look like. All of you screaming for your own gain, please stop for a minute and watch.
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Allistair McCaw
Allistair McCaw@AllistairMcCaw·
This is so heartwarming ❤️ Parents, teach your kid to have the character and compassion of the kid in blue 💙
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@elonmusk And there’s the punch line. Could have done so much with that money, changed lives in real ways, but this is the “injustice” you tackled w/ your billions…as one user used to say …sad
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Elon Musk@elonmusk·
Reinstate former President Trump
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Congratulations to Rev. Mansfield Kaseman on receiving the Rumi Forum Award for interfaith peacebuilding. “The power of love is greater than all forms of loveless power.”
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The path to civil violence: the ‘other’ is defined in simple, homogenous terms; ‘their’ thinking is wrong; ‘their’ beliefs are dangerous; ‘our’ beliefs and ‘their’ beliefs cannot coexist; ‘they’ are an imminent threat to ‘our’ very survival…the same language precedes genocides
Republican Accountability@AccountableGOP

Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I am not going to mince words with you all. Democrats want Republicans dead and they have already started the killings." This rhetoric is dangerous and unacceptable.

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James Patton
James Patton@JamesICRD·
Please join an incredible lineup of speakers this Sunday the 2nd to Tuesday the 4th of October for an ICRD webinar in recognition of the UN Day of Nonviolence.
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