a. A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
b. A comprehension or perception of reality by means of a sudden intuitive realization
If you have followed me for a while, you have see more than a few mentions of a tee shirt that I had occasion to pass out to children upon their "graduation" from a character counts training. A shirt that on its front and back reads;
Stand up for what you believe inObviously the idea of instilling that notion in a child
... even if you are standing alone.
moves me. But why so much?
Yesterday, the epiphany.
I identify with a child who is convinced to stand up
for what they believe in, even if they are standing alone,
and then is abandoned to bear alone, the punishment
that comes with standing up for what you believe in.
It is exactly what Michael Josephson did to me.
He blew into town in 1993 and over the period of a three day seminar, convinced me to stand up for what I believed in, even if I was standing alone.
So I took on the leadership of the APS over their hypocrisy surrounding Character Counts!
It was nasty, really nasty, and I got my ass kicked.
Never on any point of principle; but always simply under
the onerous weight of the power of the leadership of the APS, their lawyers from Modrall, and the cloak of invisibility draped over them by Thomas J. Lang and his Journal.
I asked Michael Josephson to help me defend the Pillars of Character Counts against the corrupt and incompetent administrators who intended their demise.
He passed; for reasons which I could,
and to this day, still can not understand.
Hence my intense reaction to the idea of telling a child to
stand up for what they believe in,
even if they are standing alone;
and then letting them.
... fyi
1 comment:
You have become your own Master, the self-guru, Ched, you don't need Mr. J anymore.
I think he really meant it and knew what he was saying, he really thought you might often act alone and with no back up. I have had to quite a bit. You have, other DAPSE members as well.
He is intelligent, and can see an ethically corrupt organization when he sees it. He codes in the message that he is going to be elsewhere training others to stick up for themselves ethically; it is our fight, not his, he spreads the word but lets change take place locally or not at all.
Sometimes the seeds that ethical trainers plant are not allowed to sprout, the GOBC are too strong.
But from the richest loam of evil, there will grow a rebellious good. The Hopeful Yin to the Yang of Oppression. Particle and anti-particle, intertwined and cognizant of the others' every move.
I am trying to just balance out my anti-particles, and I do it in public like you so there will be no mistakes or misunderstandings. And so younger people don't make the same mistakes I made.
You are doing well Ched, just let it be a PART of your life, not all of your life, Your anti-particles at Madison don't loose sleep over you, don't loose sleep over them or their GOBC.
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