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You’re not wrong in a 0/1 right/wrong fashion. But, I’ll give an illustration. Work with me on grasping my intention, even though it’s anecdotal: As a boy, I was supposed to go to Julliard. I knew I didn’t want to after six months of training for the audition and thankfully got out of it. But I learned a few things. In piano performance, you can have technical ability and emotive ability. I don’t remember what it’s called but I’ll assume you’ve heard of this kind of thing before as it’s culturally known. I had no problem with technical ability, although I hated the perfection quest. I also had no problem with adding myself into the performance, which I liked but during that early training BUT it was at a cost of technical ability. My teachers emphasized technical in order to get into the school. Perfect practice makes perfect. I saw a robot piano player the other day with 53 fingers go against a human. In the vote: “In agility, accuracy and duration, Teo was better than Prosseda; while in continuity, forte-piano and expression, Prosseda won over Teo.” Teo was the robot. Prosseda was the human. Getting history technically correct matters. Your descriptions of movement and change is technically fantastic. But without taking a stand in history… without having an opinion.. without coloring your view of history with your OWN person injected into and added to the continuity of history, you are a robot with 53 fingers playing a piano.

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Child Abuse! THANK YOU! That’s the denomination I grew up in. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. “More than 600 United Methodist clergy and laity say they are bringing church law charges against U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a fellow United Methodist, over a zero tolerance U.S. immigration policy — a policy that includes separating children from parents apprehended for crossing into the U.S. illegally. However, an authority on church history and polity said he’s unaware of a complaint against a lay person ever moving past the district level. The group claimed in a June 18 statement that Sessions, a member of a Mobile, Alabama, church, violated Paragraph 2702.3 of the denomination’s Book of Discipline. Specifically, the group accuses him of child abuse in reference to separating young children from their parents and holding them in mass incarceration facilities; immorality; racial discrimination and “dissemination of doctrines contrary to the established standards of doctrines” of The United Methodist Church.”

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Child Abuse! Immorality! Racial discrimination! Dissemination of doctrines contrary to the standards of doctrine of the United Methodist Church! “a formal complaint against fellow United Methodist layperson Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, by our understanding a lay membe r of Ashland Place United Methodist Church, in Mobile, AL, and an active participant in Clarendon United Methodist Church, Arlington, VA. While we are reticent to bring a formal complaint against a layperson, Mr. Sessions’ unique combination of tremendous social/political power, his leading role as a Sunday School teacher and former delegate to General Conference, and the severe and ongoing impact of several of his public, professional actions demand that we, as his siblings in the United Methodist denomin ation, call for some degree of accountability. ” Apparently, this is the FIRST TIME in Methodist history a group of clergy and lay people launched a formal complaint against a lay person. I’m impressed.

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Well, it’s chicken and egg isn’t it? That photo is used to illustrate the mood and tell a story. History is fixed now and that’s the story of the event. If that moment didn’t come, would that same mood be shown? if so, what might be different about it? Example: This was another photo that could’ve been used: French President’s thumb imprint on Trump’s hand. How does this modify your view of the event Do the other leaders come across as bullies now? Should they?

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