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Defeat is not surrender,

nor is darkness light.

Though pain may overwhelm us

it cannot stop our bright.

Defeat is not surrender,

nor is the battle lost.

Defeat is not surrender,

though we have paid great cost.

For in our hearts a forest grows,

its branches strong and green,

and our forests will grow again

though all we hear is keen.

It seems to drown out all we know.

It seems to black out light.

But if you listen carefully,

your heart will guide you right.

Much pain endured, many hearts lost

we've hurt and we've despaired,

but we are stronger than you know.

We wear the heroes' pale.

Music, as strong as candlelight

that lights until the dawn

will honor and will shine with you

till all your fears are gone.

And if you listen closely,

and if you listen close,

Music will teach you secrets,

the language magic spoke.

That language that we long thought dead

that death and pain had beat

is not something that can be killed

and it still sings as sweet.

As sweet as music ever was

and once again shall be

you must now listen - careful, close -

to what it says, I plea.

For we did lose the hearts and minds

of those we thought our friends

and if we hope for peace to come

them we must understand.

I know I ask a thing absurd

a thing that rhymes with pain

but if you want a kinder world

you must not now abstain.

But do not compromise too much

or let the pain drown out

the secret words of dreaming light

your forest must still sprout.

For we must hold the line -

strong, true -

that they would see us yield

that they would trample in the dirt

and vicious power wield.

We must not fear to hold the line

against those who seek cold

unflinching power, reckonings,

vendettas grim and old.

And we must not fear to hold firm

against those who don't think

who put some power's word above

those they push to the brink.

For those you love,

and those who you like,

and those who you hope love you,

whose dreams are made of candle light,

whose forests live in you,

they need you now.

They need you strong.

They need to hold your hand

as they stand with you and with me

to save our broken land.

Crossposts: http://zetasyanthis.livejournal.com/24225.html

The torch is lit
the gauntlet thrown
the steel glints in darkness
and now it comes to us at last
to defend 'gainst this harshness.

The trumpet blasts,
the arrows fall,
but we will not be shaken
for within us dragons' blood flows,
"These lives will not be taken."

So listen now ye sheltered folk,
ye trembling in darkness,
and listen now yet hearts gone cold,
ye broken, and ye heartless.

We'll not become that which we fight,
but fight we ever shall,
for each kind heart,
our cherished art,
and freedom's shining sail.

You would not do
to judge to quick
those who now stand to face you.
We are not those you ought to fear;
in love, we will embrace you.

We seek your hearts
to join with ours
to build a better world
a kinder, gentler, novel place,
where fear's banners stay furled.

It won't be quick;
it won't be light,
this burden we now don,
but we accept and raise our lights
to watch until the dawn.

Crossposts: http://zetasyanthis.livejournal.com/21741.html

This is basically a dump of my philosophy, goals, and what I'm planning in the near future. Suggestions more than welcome!

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Actions to Take
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- Attend local Democratic party meetings, town halls.
- Write Illinois state reps about gender change on birth certificates. (Currently surgery is required.)
- Write and call local politicians often. Volunteer with them, maybe.
- Start weepwith.us
   - Only truth. No agenda. Only stories.
   - "I'm here to cry with you."
- Find ways to *encourage* personal expression.

Philosophy
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- Kindness above all. Respect whenever possible.
- Fear is the only true enemy.
- We are all linked. Suffering in one part of the world echoes across all, eventually.
- We must restore and preserve natural beauty for future generations as well as provide for the possible evolution of other species who have not yet appeared.
- "If you build it, they will come" approach -> create a better society and let people see what it can do for them...

Philosophy, Applied
===================

- Individual freedom is the foundation of everything I seek to accomplish.
   - This must apply to all sentients, a category that is to be more inclusive if there is to be error.
- Mutual respect between individuals, groups, and nations.
- Empathy with conflicting viewpoints.
- Support for basic living standards
    - It is not ethical to have any job pay so little that working full time at that wage, you could not safely live.
      (We have built a country in which people may live, but their dreams may die.)
   - THIS IS DEMANDED BY THE RIGHT TO PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
   - Food, water, electricty / gas, unfiltered internet, healthcare.
   - SAFETY
- Revamped K-12 education
   - Much more focus on civics *and recent history.*
- Promotion of a sense of awe at the beauty of the natural world. Only by respecting it can we hope to preserve it.
- End the following
   - War on Drugs
   - War on Terror
- Government actions must be founded primarily on consent wherever possible, else they will run into resistance.

Challenges
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- How do you kindle peace in the heart of someone who knows not what it is? Everything requires background!
   - We need diversity, others, difference, to not be alone. Animals help this too.
- How do you unite people in the absence of an external enemy? Culture?
- How do we handle the concept of honor?
- Institutionalized racism / sexism.

Dangers
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- Corrupt liberal and center vs. right wing. Right wing wins *every time*. (Includes perceived corruption!)
- Ethical myopia
- Mindsets trapped within frameworks designed to keep them surpressed. Realization of frameworks frees your mind. How the hell do we do this?
- Do not forget those who need help, or they will be your downfall.

Completely Random Ideas
=======================

- Pursuit of new frontier (Case for Mars) to revitalize western civilization.
- Have news agencies create textbooks for education. Gives them a reliable source of income and improves student knowledge.
- What do we do if we can't educate people enough? What about while we're working on improving it?

Source documents
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- Bill of Rights
- UN Declaration of Human Rights

Crossposts: http://zetasyanthis.livejournal.com/21256.html

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