Word: acceptibility
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...actively noticing new things. It doesn’t matter if what we are noticing is smart or silly. When we actively notice new things, we are situated in the present and more sensitive to perspective and context. We do ourselves a disservice when we mindlessly memorize information or accept it as true without considering the perspective(s) from which it may not be. When mindful, we are figuratively and literally more alive...
...Though refugees do eventually make it out of the camps, Australia's policies are nonetheless shameful?and have plenty of historical precedent. The country's refusal to accept refugees from Nazi Germany was notorious in the 1930s. ("We have no racial problems in Australia and no desire to import any," a government spokesman snapped at the time.) Likewise the White Australia immigration policy, which restricted immigration from countries such as India and China until 1973, was a gross insult to the generations of Asian pioneers (principally Chinese) who had helped develop Australia's farming, mining and mercantile sectors...
...scene in Singapore [Aug. 18-25] glamorized a lifestyle that is officially illegal in this country and condemned in the Bible. Not only are Christians against the promotion of the homosexual agenda, but Muslims, Buddhists and people of other faiths in Singapore are also against it. I accept the fact that there are gay people in our society and that we should not discriminate against them. But as Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said, "I do not encourage or endorse a gay lifestyle. Singapore is still a traditional and conservative Asian society. Gays must know that the more they lobby...
...among other things, an opportunity to review ideas, events and interactions of the day. This cannabis review-of-the-day is almost always self-critical, often harshly so, and its scope is broad. In 1980, the cumulative effect of these stoned self-critiques finally made me decide not to accept new psychoanalytic patients and then to resign from the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute...
...decline in record sales in the last few years is ludicrous. The industry has continued to alienate fans through a recession with high prices, cheap gimmicks, and a lack of support for quality artists. They have brought this on themselves and only exacerbate the situation with lawsuits. Accept it. Music was meant to be shared. Heath Huff Texas...