{"id":1168,"date":"2016-05-19T09:09:36","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T16:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/?p=1168"},"modified":"2016-05-19T09:09:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T16:09:36","slug":"the-philosophies-of-terry-by-theresa-viola-buckroth-1929-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/?p=1168","title":{"rendered":"“The Philosophies of Terry” By Theresa Viola Buckroth, 1929-2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally typed in the Spring of 1987<\/strong> for her Philosophy class thesis at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, \u00a0my mother, Theresa V. Buckroth, had this to share…<\/p>\n

“I could begin with “Once Upon A Time,” but this is not a fairy tale; rather it is a mixture of realities that could be made into a collection of short stories.<\/p>\n

“My philosophy\u00a0of life at times is that the planet on which we live or exist is a “scum ball,” covered with a compositions of cells in various shapes and forms.\u00a0 The “living earth” being the giant cell, devouring, regurgitating constantly, swallows its own vomit.\u00a0 There is a constant avoidance in all of us to admit to the constant decay surrounding us.\u00a0 Rather, men mentally annul this, creating an instantaneous beauty in his psyche; fleeting even as it is being observed; gone, then recreated elsewhere in another self pleasing form.\u00a0 The term for this is called “survival,” in which we lie and are deceitful to ourselves, thus enabling us to accept and tolerate our existence.<\/p>\n

“Decay is constant.\u00a0 Change is constant.\u00a0 The cell will die and shatter to form new cells.\u00a0 Metamorphically, how can something be new when it is made from something old?\u00a0 Old is old – always.\u00a0 Being born human has the same implications.<\/p>\n

“Always having been a wonderer, never a doubter but a questioner, I go along, breathing the physical, which seems to always be out of tune with the mental.\u00a0 This is in reference to aging.\u00a0 Perhaps there is a connection in which both will terminate into an energy.\u00a0 There is a belief that a soul leaving the body upon death\u00a0shatters into atoms, ions and cations, to share themselves in the formation of new souls.\u00a0 There is much to contemplate, but the cell does not allow the time.\u00a0 If the cell did allot a period of time to the soul, spirit, or whatever its descriptions may be, it might be given time for research in limbo.\u00a0 Perhaps it does, and the designer has allowed the means of escaping regurgitation via the soul.<\/p>\n

“You may think me pessimistic and too imaginative.\u00a0 My preference in addressing myself is that of being realistic, with the “real” being a constant changing of blends.\u00a0 Real is now, a second from now, or a split second from now, then it is no longer real.\u00a0 Whatever it was, along with its definitions, becomes unclear, replaced, always waiting and wondering, wondering what the waiting is for.\u00a0 As a Catholic, are you wondering where God fits into all of this (I presume you are)?\u00a0 I wonder too.\u00a0 Being told and taught that God “is,” neither makes me a believer nor a doubter.\u00a0 It is often irrelevant to everything as a whole, but probable in parts.<\/p>\n

“To know that I “am” has always been a constant amazement to me.\u00a0 Why “me?”\u00a0 To behave as I do, and think by being is a singular, is presumptuous, but there it is.\u00a0 Avoidance of thinking a truth is not in my nature, but the questioning, not in question form per se, is always close to the surface\u00a0of my being.\u00a0 Acknowledging everything, all with reasons, accommodated by present, past and future events, is to\u00a0me accepting what is, for what it is explained to be at that moment.<\/p>\n

“How much the physical senses interplay with the physical energy (soul or spirit) is always under scrutiny; which is which, in play at a certain instance.\u00a0 Each is called up for use, alternately or together, through circumstances.\u00a0 Survival of the present physical would naturally call on the physical senses; but what of want for continuance after decay of the physical?\u00a0 Do the physical aspects interfere with the intuition and exploration of the mind?\u00a0 I believe that both the soul and the body play games with each other, both being a separation, yet together.\u00a0 Each is real and unreal; termination of one (physical) is known; termination of the other (soul) is unknown,\u00a0a theory.<\/p>\n

“I have always\u00a0played various ages, often having to escape into roles only to return, sometimes as if by force from a guide, not knowing a better word for it other than a conscience.\u00a0 The mundane escape being often the unrealistic escape.\u00a0 Dreaming, for example, is a form of escape where our mind takes us away from present awareness, often only for a few seconds, enabling us to become that which we may prefer to be at that\u00a0instance.\u00a0 Lengthy dreams may be interpreted as an intermission between life and death; a sample perhaps of what is in store for us after termination of the physical.<\/p>\n

“This part of my philosophies were easy to convey (hopefully understood and properly interpreted).\u00a0 It is in the examination of ones\u00a0true thoughts and feelings, in consideration with other humans which is difficult.\u00a0 It is thus, as policies and cultures are always changing, making opinions and theories difficult to convey for understanding and acceptance; whether it\u00a0is to be “right” or “wrong” for that place in time.\u00a0 Everyone wants to claim the\u00a0acquisitions of truth and knowledge.\u00a0\u00a0Once one appears to have accomplished some or all of a section of learning, the problem is where to utilize it so that it would be advantageous to all concerned.\u00a0 For example, my philosophical views are a “mixed bag.”\u00a0 There are many avenues for thought that are time consuming, especially when there is a continuation of new thoughts being offered for process.\u00a0 In other words, where is a person most useful?\u00a0 Advice often given is that one must look back into oneself and try to be truthful which is very difficult.\u00a0 Also, it calls for self analysis, a dangerous approach for a novice.\u00a0 Thus far, my philosophies emphasize the question of my “being;” it being without a definite definition.<\/p>\n

“You asked for it (my philosophies), now you got it (them).\u00a0 Now I will probably get “it” (your negatives and hopefully positives) for telling “it.”<\/p>\n

“Here is my attempt at reasoning\u00a0the culminations of “Terry Philosophies:” I was once a declared Democrat, uncomfortable in what I witnessed such as their inner self-destructive policies.\u00a0 I became a Republican, trying to counter this, which is a small contribution toward attempts for the continuance of a balanced, “Democratic” government.\u00a0 It was a difficult stand; advertising my beliefs in what I had learned.\u00a0 Many close friendships became alienated from me as I became “different” in my thinking, none of which have been replaced.\u00a0 Republicans are in the minority where I reside.\u00a0 Perhaps I have become a “thorn in their side” by independently coming to my own conclusions (or, so I think I have).\u00a0 In spite of their ignorance of me as I am, or would like to think of myself as being, I aspire no great super intelligence for problem solving.\u00a0 I do care about all humans.\u00a0 Having been reputed as being a humanitarian, I am yet to solve completely one humanitarian problem, not even on an individual level, my own included.<\/p>\n

“Raised to be a conservative, perhaps classical in nature, in a middle-to-lower-middle social class, there are instilled beliefs that I find difficult to change.\u00a0 A person is what they are born into including their religion and station(s) in life.\u00a0 This being a near truth, it is almost impossible to change one’s course in life.\u00a0 All classes being necessary for a cultural hierarchy, “equality” most likely will bring a smirk to one’s features, expressing a joke from within.\u00a0 Evolution<\/em> or Darwinis<\/em>m has demonstrated to us that we have millenniums to go before the possibility of reaching the plateau of equality.\u00a0 Try stepping out of your “class” as I have and you will find that there is always the telltale clue of residue from whence you came.\u00a0 Perhaps my naivet\u00e9 shields me from many insults as I am incapable of recognizing them as such, but rather think of them as another persons’ views.\u00a0 A constructive form of criticism sets me off [and toward] self re-evaluation.\u00a0 I welcome this as I want to know how others\u00a0view me.\u00a0 I view myself differently from most others and do appreciate corrections if they prove to be positive on the whole.<\/p>\n

“Roles I have played in life have been many.\u00a0 Some of which I played without realizing\u00a0it.\u00a0 Most were accomplished\u00a0by circumstance, not by choice.\u00a0 Choice came into being only after the fact, e.g., when my mind became aware of the reality of my circumstances.\u00a0 A\u00a0constant learning process, never truly graduating like a classroom with numerous subjects being taught, all at the same time; each book page containing the unexpected.\u00a0 More and more lessons to be learned, some never to be questioned because of fear in the answer; others to be questioned continuously in search\u00a0of and for truths and knowledge.<\/p>\n

“Never – or extremely seldom – do I plan (perhaps subconsciously).\u00a0 I am often overtaken and turned, not being quite sure whether I had thought to have expressed or exercised a deed set in motion.\u00a0 Thus, never have I felt truly liberated.\u00a0 Therefore, I disqualify myself from being a liberal.\u00a0 One has to know how to act the part before accepting the role.\u00a0 Many connotations of fatalism have been thusly written, but my past life negates this as I will explain.<\/p>\n

Born to immigrants during the depression, my independence surfaced at a very early age and was frowned upon by most except the patriarch of the family.\u00a0 My allowed freedom taught me much of human nature and natural science; exploring much, but only allowed to keep the knowledge to myself.\u00a0 There were few capable of understanding or of showing any interests in my newfound knowledge.\u00a0 The so called “working class” never allowed the full extent of wanderlust, neither was there acceptance in fields of endeavor.\u00a0 The “working class” is a type of slavery with the branding of hierarchy intimidated.\u00a0 Distinctions of class will always be in this society as in all societies from the insects on up the ladder of the superior beings in nature.\u00a0 That being the “thinkers,” the human.\u00a0 We, or I, as a person from the “working class” am allowed into the “upper class” only to perform a service, even though I may have attained more knowledge (degrees) than those for whom I perform the services.\u00a0 Therefore, knowledge could be said to be to all important as implied today, but rather the station in life into which one is born.<\/p>\n

“Perhaps there is a form of bigotry in all of this; an intolerance to those other than one’s own “class.”\u00a0 I may also be of this make-up, whereas I at times have resented the intrusion of someone into my own “class” other than those which are of an equal “rank.”\u00a0 As other have done to and for me, enabling me to make slight transitions for improvement, while being reminded of one’s station in life.\u00a0 I too hope to help others ameliorate without giving up or sharing my “rank.”\u00a0 Neither am I persuasive in thinking I am alone in this attitude.\u00a0 Hope is in the offspring where education may assist some to slip through the “cracks” into the “upper classes,” or more likely to marry and bear offspring directly into the “upper classes.”\u00a0 The “lower class” parent may never be accepted, but the offspring will, that is, have access to prestigious schools, elevating them to a “rank” of higher distinction.<\/p>\n

” The learning process never stops regardless of class until the mind stops its assimilations of knowledge.\u00a0 Oftentimes the physical survives without the mind (brain dead).\u00a0 We are constantly exposed to knowledge and therefore forced to think.\u00a0 I often wonder if the thought processes vary due to genetics.\u00a0 Most likely the answer in “yes” as humans have predispositions for acquiring, coding, and encoding the experience of the exposure to life.\u00a0 Therefore, education must include experience in the elementary years and expand, but only in accordance to choice and potential.<\/p>\n

“My first recollection pertaining to my own education took place upon entering first grade.\u00a0 I rebelled against having to be placed in a public school.\u00a0 The classroom was dark and dingy.\u00a0 Singing songs about “Jack Armstrong,\u00a0The All American Boy” [which] recommended eating the cereal “Wheaties” – did not interest me.\u00a0 Millbury Street School[, Worcester, Massachusetts]\u00a0is where these experiences took place and are rooted in my memory.\u00a0 Complaining to my parents was to no avail.\u00a0 They did not have the funds to provide me with a parochial education.\u00a0 In desperation, I recall informing my mother of taking the matter into my own hand and enrolling myself in St. Mary’s parochial\u00a0school [Worcester, Massachusetts].\u00a0 She evidently didn’t believe me or thought I could never accomplish my desire to leave the dungeons of Millbury Street School (which hasn’t changed except to worsen in is decay.\u00a0 I have since acted as a substitute teacher there for a kindergarten class).\u00a0 The next recollection I have pertaining to this incident is that of walking a distance, opening very large, heavy door, and looking for the Mother Superior’s office.\u00a0 Attending Mass at Our Lady of Czestochowa probably prompted this, as I no doubt observed St. Mary’s students at Mass.\u00a0 Since then, I have a great appreciation for books and knowledge, proving that parochial education in the elementary\u00a0grades is essential.\u00a0 This formal parochial education continued to the eighth grade.\u00a0 There was definitely no funding the ne high school at St. Mary’s.\u00a0 Public school lasted for three more years.\u00a0 The family patriarch, a blue collar worker, was forced to quit his employment due to an illness that was to last ten years.\u00a0 There were no provisions for medical care as there are today.\u00a0 Families took responsibilities for paying\u00a0expenses in such matters.\u00a0 Also at this time [1945], was with Japan [and the United States] broke out.\u00a0 Monies were scarce as our country’s economy was having its problems.\u00a0 The military offered good paying jobs.\u00a0 My two\u00a0[older] brothers joined the [military] service, discontinued their educations, sending money home [as soldiers]. I also left school to work in factories for the\u00a0“country’s defense.”\u00a0 Employment was chosen for you and once you\u00a0were placed, in whatever factory the employment bureau thought suitable, it could not be changed without having to go through bureaucratic procedures or a doctor’s note.\u00a0 Education became secondary.\u00a0 Our country needed warm bodies to perform certain duties: everything of a material nature became important, everything except the human which was expedient.\u00a0 Necessities for war were taught in the schools, including the need to kill other humans in order to save the country.\u00a0 No\u00a0one really understood, but “trust” in the ruling class was brainwashed into most of the population.\u00a0 Disagreement meant you were a traitor.\u00a0 This was accomplished by teaching young men that the uniform was a symbol of peace and manhood and being classified “4F” (unable to perform in combat) [which] meant you were less that a man.\u00a0 Men directly involved with the manufacturing of armaments were deferred.\u00a0 Education for girls was turned off and only their hands were necessary for the manufacturing of armaments to “keep our men going,” meaning killing or be killed.\u00a0 There were no mental challenges,\u00a0i,e., pertaining to knowledge as a form of wisdom, or logic as a form of meaning.\u00a0 All of this was discouraged.\u00a0 After the war ended, very few went back to school.\u00a0 It again was discouraged, especially for the female who, I suppose, was to marry and be taught to rear a family, perhaps to replace the population that were killed in the war.\u00a0 Men were more fortunate, that is, those that survived and were encouraged to finish their educations under the government “G. I. Bill.”\u00a0 It was the lost Viet Nam War that tuned things around in education.\u00a0 John Dewey’s (an educator in the 1940’s) Liberal form of education drew in importance, i.e., an education for everyone on an equal basis.\u00a0 Trade competition from foreign countries affected the United States’ economy; education in technology was encouraged.\u00a0 Specialization has taken precedence over the advise of past philosophers and educators such as St. Thomas Aquinas, an ancient educator, [along with]\u00a0 Richard Hutchins and John Dewey, modern educators.\u00a0\u00a0They believed in an equality in education for everyone according to potential without favoritism.\u00a0 It\u00a0is true that education should be for all, but the type of education given is what is most important, i.e., one that encompasses the needs for all men.<\/p>\n

“It was during this time of student unrest [that] rioting for increased freedoms of choice and equality that I returned to school.\u00a0 In the late 1970’s, government grants were being offered [i.e.,] financial aid for minority groups and those in the poverty level.\u00a0 I was in the latter category, even though I had a full time job.\u00a0 Five children, a need for improvement, and government aid spurned me on to furthering my education.\u00a0 It took me seven years going full and part time to three colleges in two states\u00a0for me to get a degree in Liberal Arts.\u00a0 My college education began with courses specified for a career in health which I later changed after being exposed to other choices.\u00a0 Liberal Arts was the more sensible choice as I hoped it would widen the field wherein I would have a better chance of finding a job.\u00a0 Employment in the teaching area where I found myself suitable and useful (a humanitarian service), made me aware of competition for college graduates with more degrees, i.e, Masters and Doctorates.\u00a0 This would give me more permanence and security in my chosen\u00a0field of teaching.\u00a0 I enrolled myself full time for a Master’s Degree in Education, taking a full time job and more student loans, hoping and preying while devoting most of my time to school courses.\u00a0 Perhaps this time a new degree will enable me to be employed full time in teaching and taking courses part time toward a Doctorate Degree.\u00a0 As I have intimated earlier, my elementary education instilled in me a need for seeking knowledge in many areas as are available according to my social class.\u00a0 Nothing lasts forever, especially the good things, and I am taking as many advantages as I can while they are offered.<\/p>\n

“With all these positives, I fear that history is being repeated as women are once again encouraged to seek an education in order to get into the work force.\u00a0 This insinuates that women will once again replace men in the work force.\u00a0 In this subtle way, the government is in need, as if in a private war of economics and on the verge of collapse.\u00a0 In a gradual process, we are entering a Socialistic form of government.\u00a0 “Classes” have rebelled fro many years at times with violence and continue to do so, for human needs and more equality.\u00a0 Unless educators are heeded and their policies adhered to, the population as was in past history —\u00a0when our country was strong — will never be.\u00a0 Than again, one never knows fully the predictability of a population when there is strength and determination in the core.\u00a0 Acknowledgment of personal needs and group activities increase the chances of survival.<\/p>\n

“Regarding idealism, realism, and pragmatism concerning all of the above, I “think” I lean toward realism but I cannot be sure as nothing is certain.\u00a0 Beginning with idealism in relation to metaphysics, I am in part agreement concerning the investigations into nature.\u00a0 Idealism is divided into ontology: that which deals with the nature of “being” and epistemology which deals with the limits of human knowledge.\u00a0 This began with the philosophies of Aristotle, whose works were arranged by Andronicus, another philosopher in 79 B. C.\u00a0 Today’s new thoughts pertaining to the formation of the idealistic movement developed in the United States in the second half of the 19th century.\u00a0 They were taking place in religious and philosophical areas.\u00a0 The main tenets of idealism are that God is omnipresent and that the soul or spirit is reality.\u00a0 Man in nature is attuned with a divinity can only perform good deeds.\u00a0 Diseases here on earth are mental in origin.\u00a0 The mind, with this same power, also has the power to heal diseases.\u00a0 On this train of thought, I have serious doubts having been taught human sciences.\u00a0 By the same token, I have witnessed a spiritual healing in which seven segments of exorcism were [that] were administered successfully by a Catholic priest in a Catholic church gathering.\u00a0 It was both frightening and amazing to see!\u00a0 Perhaps there is truth in God’s being the sole of reality and illnesses is due to the failure of man to recognize this.\u00a0 Then again, what is truth as questioned by Plato, the Greek philosopher who implied that there was no such thing; only what is real is acceptable, i.e., the spirit is joined with the physical, outside the body.\u00a0 The idealist, or more the dreamer in my definition [is] one who prefers failure in truth as man’s unity with God causes all negatives on earth.\u00a0 This is where everything can be found, including all answers to all questions.\u00a0 They also believe that the mind is where its at, if only people would realize the minds’ spiritual potential.\u00a0 These to me are not accessible, but nice to think about, especially in times of trouble, when nothing on earth can help in a given situation.\u00a0 Idealists also believe that all objects of knowledge come from man’s senses, as they are mental states and everything is created in the mind.<\/p>\n

“Realism on the other hand metaphysically theorizes logic as being realistic.\u00a0 Abstractions such as man are independent from materialistic objects.\u00a0 Again, Plato doctrines are considered,\u00a0i.e., the universe consists of only words without substantiation, and objects are reality in existence.\u00a0 St. Thomas Aquinas maintained that the universe was in man’s mind with a foundation surrounded by reality.\u00a0 Conceptualists believe that the universe exists in the concept of ideas emitting from man’s mind only without any help from the outside.\u00a0 Materialists consider matter to be reality and conscience is the human nervous system.\u00a0 Naturalists believe that cause and effect is and by nature is sufficient.\u00a0 I bring all of this into the writing as to me it is all related.\u00a0 Realism to me is a series of objects that can be perceived substantiating the reality and separate existence outside the mind which is also an epistemological view.\u00a0 Nature and all its contents, tactile and otherwise, can be experienced via ideas and the intellect.<\/p>\n

“Pragmatism is both a metaphysical and epistemological in their doctrine(s).\u00a0 This entails a persons personal “guess” by which one determines whether an experience or happening is due to either the\u00a0natural or the unnatural.\u00a0 It is like “walking the fence,” whatever pleased the intellect at a given time will prove to be sufficient in filling in the blanks;\u00a0epistemology being knowledge and its concept studied is truth, perception, and evidence.\u00a0 \u00a0The relationship between what a person knows and what they object is known as.\u00a0 Again, Plato enters with defining epistemology as the existence of an unchanging world with invisible forms and ideas; none of which contain certainty in knowledge.\u00a0 Objects are imperfect; only mathematics and philosophy are considered real.\u00a0 An unseen world is the goal, or should be, of a human.<\/p>\n

“Aristotle believed that knowledge comes from direct experience.\u00a0 It was he that set down the first rules of logic.\u00a0 I find myself also agreeing with this line of thought: that knowledge comes from perception, but also is used as a guide in life and not as a means to an end.\u00a0 St. Thomas Aquinas followed Aristotle in points of logic where the human intellect gains the knowledge of nature, but only via God.\u00a0 Modern logic in accordance to John Locke includes inductive logic, i.e, knowing is not derived intuitively, but rather from experience or the reflection of a man’s mind on a given subject or activity.\u00a0 He was somewhat of a skeptic.<\/p>\n

“Pragmatism in itself was formed by Charles Pierce, William James, and John Dewey at the turn of the 20th century.\u00a0 Their empiricism maintained that knowledge is an instrument of action and beliefs and should be interpreted according to their usefulness with rules for their predictability.\u00a0 Logical empericists clarify definition and rules of inference using science, for example, with words such as: knowledge, perceiving, and probable.\u00a0 These are used as verbal rules to make definitions clear.<\/p>\n

“Every thing is constantly debated which oftentimes adds to my confusion as to what is true and untrue; [what] is certain and uncertain, and on and on.\u00a0 All is clear or unclear at different times and is different areas depending, I suppose, on what is in “synchronization” with whatever, i.e., body and mind, mind and the innate, the innate and the subconscious, etc.<\/p>\n

“Maybe I am none of the things I think I am.\u00a0 My views and beliefs may appear otherwise to another person reading my philosophies.\u00a0 I would more likely be very surprised if someone agreed with my philosophies.\u00a0 Perhaps I really don’t know the true meaning\u00a0of an idealist, realist, and\/or that of a pragmatic, but at least I do think and try to fathom the depths of philosophers.\u00a0 There is one thing I am sure of pertaining to the majority of humans: they are materialistic.\u00a0 Their realms consist mainly of substances composed of various elements use mainly for personal purposes.\u00a0 They fantasize life on earth as a place where all said materials must be gathered and treasured as they deem themselves “classless” without them.\u00a0 As Cardinal Cushing once said, “I came into this earth naked and I will leave this earth naked,” a humble and charitable person\u00a0by we can pattern ourselves.\u00a0 Close your eyes and everything disappears until you open your eyes again; but the eyes and the [other] senses are not forever.\u00a0 When your eyes are closed, you know that you are still “you,” which does not disappear, meaning the spirit or the soul.<\/p>\n

“Who taught me all I know and what will teach me what I have yet to learn?\u00a0 How much was innate at birth?\u00a0 How much experience have we assimilated?\u00a0 What is more important and should take most of our energies —\u00a0the plateau during life or the plateau after death?\u00a0 We think we are taught to think from the womb, and therefore must learn, teach, and learn again which is infinite in life.\u00a0 Science has taught me that life is a rom of energy and that these energies should be put to use in all physical areas.\u00a0 How much is spent on thinking and learning?\u00a0 I would like to know how much energy is used for mental exercises in comparison to physical exercises during a specific lifetime.<\/p>\n

“I once rad of a man who made a study of weighing a person immediately before and after death.\u00a0 Each time, the body weighed two ounces less after death.\u00a0 He also did the same for various animals, but the weight\u00a0stayed the same.\u00a0 No one\u00a0weighed him immediately before or after his death.\u00a0 Many lessons could be derived from this, even for myself as I neglected to cut out ad same the person’s name or the article.\u00a0 Who really cared about the study other than the experimenter himself?\u00a0 Why not?\u00a0 As for me, it would mad a good study, as good as or better than those done by some of our greater scientists.\u00a0 It would be in the Idealistic belief that the two ounces were that of a soul being freed of the physical.\u00a0 Those to whom I have mentioned this took it as a joke and maybe it was, but not to the man who was making the study.<\/p>\n

“Nothing really changes.\u00a0 There are and always have been good things and bad things in my life.\u00a0 Perhaps to a different degree than, say, those “stuck” in perpetual ignorance and poverty, or those endowed with great intelligence and wealth.\u00a0 My life, I think, as I can never be totally sure (depending on the interpreter), has fluctuated between ignorant and lower middle class, middle class, upper middle class, and back down to lower class with some gained intelligence.\u00a0 All of this, or part at least, depended on the economy of our country.<\/p>\n

“The last of my “wonderings” is one that has been continuing from my youth to this present day: that is the hypocrisy of the human.\u00a0 From what I have witnessed and observed, hypocrisy stems mainly from fear of harm to one’s person,\u00a0i.e., in various forms from another human.\u00a0 Therefore, a person must by hypocritical and not vulnerable.\u00a0 I sound pessimistic but I really don’t want to be.\u00a0 The times I am happiest is when I look into the eyes of an infant or a very young child and witness an unparalleled beauty and innocence.\u00a0 It makes me smile and feel warm inside.\u00a0 Is what I see at the time really true or am I searching fro beauty to give me joy and hope?\u00a0 Questions, always questions and never enough answers.”<\/p>\n

Theresa Buckroth, ED 601-1, Spring, 1987<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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