01/20/2018 Question: Anyone will join me to "reactivate" this "Let's Talk Providence" meetup event and help find a host, such as nearby Café at Mosaic Merrifield Urban Hub, if possible in 2018+ ? A Co-Host is needed, and appreciated. Comments ? http://providencedistrictcouncil.org/ ======================================================================== You take care of you and your fami
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01/19/2018 Posted by: Ethicist () Date: January 19, 2018 07:38AM I'm with Edison on this. We should beat the shit out of hateful, intolerant people. ========================================================== Last night's "penny university" meetup discussion at Café Amouri at Vienna, VA (located downtown Vienna, not far from the Vienna Rail Station Park), the topic of "physical violence"
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01/14/2018 Posted by: Nikola () Date: January 17, 2018 09:53AM blatant hypocrite (Thomas Edison (1847-1931) ?) -------------------------------------------------------------- Conversation: "blaant hypocrite" is perhaps a little too strong language to describe Edison, from our 21st Century perspective. Yes, history suggest he did treat Tesla ( 1856-1943) badley, as an employee, then later, a
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01/18/2018 Double Helix & Emerging Golden Age of Biotechnology 2016 https://www.slideshare.net/icptwin45/double-helix-emerging-golden-age-of-biotechnology-2016 ---------------------------------------------------- Conversation: Our world is built on biology and once we begin to understand it, it then becomes a technology. Ryan Bethencourt WORKING for Quality Living via arts & science
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01/18/2018 What is tolerance (Religious) ? It Is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature. Voltaire Religious Freedom Appreciation Circle Club Twin (Fairfax Vienna Urban) Voltaire François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778) -------------------------------------- Note: "Voltaire was a strong
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01/17/2018 How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization. Chen Guangcheng
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01/17/2018 Act so as to bring out the best in others, and thereby in yourself" https://noves.org/ ============================================================================= Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. Thomas A. Edison
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01/16/2018 Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing. Camille Pissarro
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01/15/2018 Winter Festival (Vienna VA & City of Fairfax Twin Urban Hub) O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind? Percy Bysshe Shelley NOVES Meetup Announcement https://www.meetup.com/Northern-Virginia-Ethical-Society/
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01/14/2018 Act so as to bring out the best in others, and thereby in yourself" https://noves.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Winter Festival Celebration Upcoming Special Event Winter Festival Sunday, January 21, 2018 11:00 AM | Green Hedges School Note: Celebrating "Victory of Light over Darkness" Winter Solstice, in anticipation of Spring
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01/12/2018 Re: Dutch virginia twin proj Fairfax VA Urban (Twin Community Demo at Fairfax VA Urban Hub) Posted by: Demon Chia Pet () Date: January 11, 2018 11:55PM You have to remember that from his point of view, he's communicating meaningfully and coherently. ====================================================== 2017 Virginia Urban Farming Conference Follow Up https://vafb.swoogo.com/urb
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01/12/2013 Posted by: Bill.N. () Date: January 12, 2018 11:57AM Then why bring up Mahone in the first place? Conversation: Mahone's contribution to starting VSU.EDU at Petersburg is not often remembered today, and in the context of the Civil War in the last days. He did surrender with Robert E. Lee, at the Appomatox Courthouse, few weeks after the last stand at this South Side Rail Station
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01/12/2018 Brenda Stith Finch, President of the Virginia State University Alumni Association, Northern VA Chapter, will discuss the legacy of Historically Black Colleges and their impact on the African American community today. Sunday, January 14, 2018 11:00 AM-1:30 PM at Vienna, VA (Behind Amphora Restaurant) https://www.meetup.com/Northern-Virginia-Ethical-Society/
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01/12/2018 Re: PLATFORM ADDRESS - CHALLENGING SOCIAL LEGACY TO UNLOCK HUMAN POTENTIAL (Memory of R.E. Lee's Last Stand Petersburg, VA 1865 ?) new Posted by: Bill.N. () Date: January 11, 2018 11:46PM Bill. N. Comment 01: His expansion plans required he get control of the Virginia & Tennessee. Since the state owned 60% of the stock, gaining control meant getting in bed with the politician
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01/11/2018 Dutch virginia twin proj Fairfax VA Urban (Twin Community Demo at Fairfax VA Urban Hub) Question: How Does an "Urban Farm" Demo at Fairfax VA creates "Go Green Virginia" ? Also while enhance "food security" in case of severe weather 2019++ ? Dutch virginia twin proj Fairfax VA Urban https://www.slideshare.net/icptwin45/dutch-virginia-twin-proj-fairfax-va-urban
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01/11/2018 My inspiration for this community service project for the disabled on wheel chair disabled Civil War Vets. This picture was taken likely toward the end of the war in 1865. This is why I was inspired to name our community service group, Virgiia TX Team 1865. Deed before Creed". Steampunk Virginia FX Team 1865 (Mosaic Merifield FX-Alexandria VA Urban) https://www.linkedin.com/feed/
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01/10/ 2018 Lawyers are needed in a democratic society like ours, as others such as scientists, engineers, and "community wealth" activists. But I am not a lawyer, and skills to solving "riddles" are important for kids and adults. More Conversattion: "Let's Talk Providence" is designed as a "meeup" type small group event, where neighbors can come together to strengthening "healthier" comm
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01/10/2018 (Under "Select Catagories" on the right hand bar of this website, choose "Let's Talk Providence (Archive)" http://providencedistrictcouncil.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Discussion: This valuable activity of "neighbor to neighbor" and "person to person" of our common interests in the neighborhood basis, such as value added activities th
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01/10/2018 Who was William Mahone (1826-1895) in Virginia (19th Century) ? The Key Founder of Virginia State University VSU.EDU at Petersburg, VA Summary: Civil Engineer, railroad executive, Confederate Generator, Virginia Politician ---------------------------------------------------------------------- he was nicknamed "Little Billy". As one of his soldiers put it, "He was every inch a s
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01/10/2018 What is "Community House Concert" ? ----------------------------------------- Topic 02: Challange to Educate the Public on Virginia Heritage via Heritage Music and Story Telling. Here is a recent music video I created just as a sample on a topic most of the citizens in my assessement have either forgotten or simply do not know as we have had many immigrants here, particularly in F
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01/09/2018 3rd Option to historic preservation of historic railroad neighborhood where R.E.Lee made his last stand & today, 2018 +, is still a "renewal plan" YET TO COME ! Who was William T. Mahone Jr. (1826 –1895), (Founder of Virginia State University at Petersburg, VA) Date: January 08, 2018 05:00AM https://lnkd.in/epYqYiq
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01/08/2018 Here is best way to follow up for those who has a serious interest to help develop ST Virginia FX Team 1865 in 2018+ time frame. "Deed before Creed". Steampunk Virginia FX Team 1865 (Mosaic Merifield FX-Alexandria VA Urban) https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6354457900664004608/
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01/08/2018 Question: Question: Who was William T. Mahone Jr. (1826 –1895), (Founder of Virginia State University at Petersburg, VA) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Brenda Stith Finch, President of the Virginia State University Alumni Association, Northern VA Chapter, will discuss the legacy of Historically Black Colleges and their impact on the African Ame
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01/07/2018 Posted by: SingerSongwriter8 () Date: January 07, 2018 11:55AM I am a singer/songwriter and this sounds very interesting and not gay in the least! Thank you for posting this! Discussion: NoVES Multicultural Open Mic https://noves.org/event-2780653
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01/07/2018 Topic: NoVES Multicultural Open Mic at Fairfax VA When: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 7:00 PM, EST Where: 11925 Bowman Towne Dr, Reston, VA 20190 The event will provide a space for us to share our creative talents and express ourselves through various types of audible expression, including music and spoken-word poetry. NoVES members are planning to perform musical numbers using the
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Posted by: freewillexpert () Date: January 06, 2018 10:59AM Took philosophy in college. Interesting but essentially boring and useless. Here is all you need to know: all human beings think and act based on the assumption that they have free will. There is no practical way of living without going through the emotions and thoughts that that reality exists and that we can control our own acti
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01/06/2018 01/06/2018 To figure out the "time travel" thing, beyond Einstein, it's in the theoretical physics domain topic with the revised Theory of the Universe, with the possible discovery of the "5th force" in 2016. What is "Dark Energy" ? Here is a brief but recent description, published in "Nature". The UCI researchers came upon a mid-2015 study by experimental nuclear physicists at
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01/05/2018 What is Wisdom ? (Going Deeper in Battle of Light & Darkness) "Prince of Darkness" according to Ancient Persians "The national religion of the Persians was Zoroastrianism, which had a very different cultural and geographical background from the dominant religions of Palestine and Mesopotamia. It introduced such concepts as monotheism, a God of pure goodness (Ahura Mazda, me
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Posted by: gyhuj () Date: January 04, 2018 01:54PM Wisdom is that a huge asteroid is following earth in earth's orbit but is not predicted to obliterate the earth like the moon did for the forseeable miillions of years MY - but they've been wrong before, and that Haley's comet does have a probability of immediate ending the planet earth altogether - it is said it will happen "eventually".
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"Light over Darkness" is celebrated by both the Hindus of India called "Dewali Festival" and also by most Hebrew and Christian Sects today. There are different names for each such celebration depending on the historical and cultural adaptations at various places. But the "Light over Darkness", was a key theme of the ancient Persians, who practiced a religion, today called "Zoroastrianism", whos
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