25.9.07

I feel as if we are missing it...

It's a large boat to catch, this world is. Hard to miss it in some ways.

Homo Sapien Sapien - The Genetic Being that we are. Our skin. Our eyes, hands and feet. The meat of what we are.

Human Being - This mind we have. Phenomena that we are. We have the ability to question, conceive, abstractly construct worlds in our mind. "I doubt, therefore I am" - Descartes.

We speak of our social contract. The one in which we must sacrifice for society in order to have personal long term gain and all that jazz. There is a second, more important one. It is more a moral contract. It is a very cloudy concept of definition at the best because of the charged nature of the word.

We have a responsibility for something grander. We should recognize somewhere deep down inside of us that to move from Homo Sapien Sapien to being Human Beings we have an emotional and societal leap to make. We have to allow the individual to move beyond the animalistic struggle for existence. We have to allow the society behind that individual to move beyond the simple search for "money" and grasp the concept of wealth. We have to grasp change and its constant nature; the only true constant in the universe.

We gotta work. We have to struggle. We have to ignore the fear. And we have to change.

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23.9.07

Why doesn't ever really talk loudly about this?

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2.9.07

John Weaver has invited you to join Kiva.org!

Hello!

This is an official invite created and written by me (John Weaver) for Kiva.org. The purpose of this email is to solicit a registration. Nothing else other than some of your attention. If you decide to continue on and give loans, then wonderful. If you only talk to your friends about it, then even better.

Kiva.org is an online tool to distribute money to individuals across the world in the form of microloans (see Wikipedia.com for microloan definition). I am quite involved in my mind. It means something for us long term.

One idea I am stewing that I would like to bring to Kiva is an open market location in Lake Worth, Florida. There is a large migrant population. It could create local owners and workers. It would create a more local, residential atmosphere. The area has a lot of underperforming businesses. One friend of mine is looking to build Kiva with a group of Native Americans in New Mexico. Another friend of mine tells me about the work one of his professors is doing with a migrant population just north of myself in Jupiter, Florida.

Kiva.org Register first...think a little...and then react appropriately. It is the way to live the life you have.

Goodnight

John F. Weaver

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