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The horizon, the hills and valleys, the flow of water, the shape of rocks, plants and animals, and the human figure are composed of curves. Nature is curved with few exceptions. The straight lined, angular, man-made world sharply contrasts with the natural world.  

Curvism seeks to move out of the square, rectangular, cubed world and into the sphere of the curved line, the circle and the ellipse.

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Jesus the Economist
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Jesus the Economist

Our current capitalistic system is immoral. Capitalism has corrupted human nature and is killing the planet. We can no longer afford this type of economy. Capitalism as we know it is ending. The economic philosophy of Jesus offers us a new way forward.

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Off the Road
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Off the Road

I love to get out of the cubical world and into the light. I love to see my shadow. I am my shadow and my shadow is me. We are connected. When I see my shadow I know I am alive and standing in the light. My shadow and I are dependent on the light for our existence. Without light, we die.

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My dog is my Zen Master
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My dog is my Zen Master

I love the way my dog seems so alive, awake and aware when we go into the woods, to the river. He is such an animal. I’m stuck being human. I’ve forgotten my animal nature. It has been almost completely programmed out of me by our modern, computerized, commercialized consumer culture.

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Election 2008 Begins

I believe America is ready for its next unstoppable revolution in democracy. Will this be the year the non-voters elect themselves as representatives of American democracy and overthrow the rich and powerful controllers of America's government?

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Freedom

America needs to wake up. American democratic freedom is dying. The free rein of laissez-faire capitalism is killing true democratic freedom around the world. Capitalistic freedom and democratic freedom are not the same cause or force and should never be equated. Capitalistic freedom is a false god. True democratic freedom is the only force that has the possibility of controlling and containing the corrupting power of capitalism. Democratic freedom is the last hope of the hopeless.

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Buddha and the Wilderness

Every time I get a chance to escape the man-made world, I see it from the perspective that it’s all a man-made illusion and that it suffers mostly from unnatural causes made by humans themselves. Consequently, I realize that if it’s all an illusion and man-made, then it can be imagined differently … remade, recreated. Humans have the capacity to choose to live differently, to establish and live by economic systems based on needs, equity, fairness, justice, compassion, respect, mutual aid, cooperation, and love. Not greed.

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No More New Roads

What business do the Republicans have building more roads in our National Forests? Big business! The special interests of the timber, mining, oil, coal, uranium, cattle, natural gas, and tourist industries all want new roads built so they can get their machines into the last remaining wilderness areas and their hands on the last remaining natural resources currently controlled and protected by the federal government.

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Bad News

We have cut our umbilical cord to mother earth. Believing we are independent, we have forgotten our ties with nature. Our individual lives are now directly dependent and chained to the life and growth of the machine. There’s something wrong with this way of life, something inhuman about this way of living.

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Old God, New God

Each and every one of our transactions, transgressions, deeds, words, and thoughts are monitored and recorded forever, traceable and unerasable. Science did away with the old God and took God’s place.

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Heaven and Retirement

The afterlife of heavenly paradise has been replaced by the golden years of retirement, but only if you work hard all your working years serving the scientific economic system and follow all its rules. People must constantly worry about how they spend and save their time and money and what investments they make to be able to afford a comfortable retirement.

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