From Provocative Thoughts From The Next Generation
Past Articles
July 4, 2010
Being You To The Fullest
C.J. Doner
Beauty. What is it to you? Please think of what makes something beautiful in your eyes. Whether it is a rainbow in the sky, a fast car on the freeway or a passionate kiss between lovers.
When I was a teenager I soon realized that beauty in itself meant nothing to me. Beauty is simply beauty. But when something becomes beautiful, or, we notice that it is beautiful, that is when the magic happens.
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May 17 , 2010
N.B. This is a subjectively objective investigation of the two main ways of acquiring what you want.
People do not need lessons, books, manuals or seminars to teach us how to get what we want. From the moments even prior to comprehending or forming language, babies and toddlers have become professionals at announcing what it is they want and their displeasure about not having it. From that young age of only a few months old individuals develop the skill and tools that they will need in life to gain what they want from life and from others. Although this article only emphasizes the two main forms of obtaining your desires there are hundreds more. Within the models of coming from above and coming from below are infinite different models and specific styles to “victory”. For times sake, we focus on the main two as we join our Greek friends.
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April 5 , 2010
Jacuzzi,
Free to Be.
How we relate to what we think we know is essential and quite revealing to the way that we lead our lives and make decisions. For the sake of relating to something that we may all be familiar with let’s zero down specifically into the religious paradigm. Though, as we are looking at the way we relate instead of the “it” itself we could contextualize the approach and broaden it to several more significant things that we relate to on a daily basis.
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March 22, 2010

The Adventures of Plato and Socrates: The Cycle of Judgment
"Frustration is often lifted not by fixing the problem, but by exploring it."
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March 8, 2010
Adventures of Plato & Socrates
"Ultimately you can choose to decide to start abiding by their request, rule, suggestion, whatever it is and let them know that it would not be your “road” of choice but out of respect you will take it. Or you can accept their judgment and possible rejection and go down your path creating the map of your life on your own together. Those are the choices that come to my mind at first anyways; obviously there are many irresponsible ones all around."
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February 22, 2010
The Next Best Person
"I once heard of a guy who did exactly that. I’ve never met him in person but from what I understand he embraced people for who they were, not for who they should be. I’m not really sure how he was able to do this for his whole life but rumor is he did… But there is something that I really like about this model of friendship. It’s authentic, it allows us to be us, listen to that, as if we think we have the “power” to allow other people to be or not to be who they are! Or even as if we have the choice not to be ourselves, as if they could be anybody but who they are."
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