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Shit 1. Devoting your life to a cause you will never see completed need not diminish your craftsmanship and dedication. Cathedral builders work backward from a grand vision and a detailed blueprint that if followed, would produce the desired outcome. 2. Cathedral building requires the sharing of strength, the contribution of not just the artisans and the experts, but of everyone in the community. 3. The great cathedrals are built upon the foundations of earlier efforts. The effort to incorporate the work that came before is conscious and deliberate, and the cathedrals are stronger, more solid, and better built for it. 4. Cathedrals were sustained and maintained because they actually generated their own wealth and support. The main source of funding for their building or renovation was income from accumulated land and property. 5. Cathedrals, through their stained-glass panels, statues, and paintings were intentionally designed to convey stories and values to people who were otherwise illiterate. In this way, they taught important history. Prosperity hides poverty. Talmud—stories that rhabis put together to explain stuff. Parsha—weekly portion of the Tora. Socrates—born 470AD Plato, Xenophon, and Aristophanes wrote about Socrates. Greeks founded Delian League. Socrates served in the Peloponesian War between Sparta and Athens. Socrates focused on virtue and values which emphasized inward reflection. Socrates was concerned that his contemporaries were more concerned that their sons know skills of rhetoric, rather than the Truth. Africa is 12 million square miles. 800 ethnic groups. Between 800-1000 languages. Lots of corruption, inesperience in Democracy, AIDS, poverty, and war. Nigeria—Three main ethnic groups: Hausa-frilani, Igbo, and Yoruba. Oil provides 40% of GDP. Gained independence in 1960. New presidency, Obasango, elected in May 1999, after 16 years of military rule. Ewe people: 1.5 million people, Kwa is the group of the W. Sudan people of Niger-Congo. Found today in Ghana, Togo, and Benin. Drums are projections of the human voice. Dance drumming has 3 purposes—Military, Social, and religious. Uses cross-rhythms. Various and conflicting sounds and rhythms. We watched Adjogbo, which is a priestly blessing. Fred Douglass: There are records of slaves in Haiti as early as 1501. Total Slave Trade: Estimates range from 9.5 to 15 million people over 300 years were brought from Africa to the Americas. 4.7 million went to S. America. 399,000 went to America. Indentured Servants: Worked up to 7 years to repay debt of passage. 75% of colonists were indentured. These were outcasts of society. Fred Douglass was born in 1818 as Frederick Augustus Wash. Bailey in Tuskegee, Maryland. Learned to read at age 8. Lived in England for 2 years, and Thomas Auld sold Frederick his freedom for $711.16. MLK “4 basic steps for a non-violent campaign:1) Collection of the facts to determine whether injustices are alive. 2) Negotiation. 3) Self-purification. 4) Direct action. “Non-violent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks to dramatize the issue so that it can no longer be ignored.” Non-violent direct action results in negotiation. There are just and unjust laws. King quotes St. Augustine, “An unjust law is no law at all.” King: “A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. Bibliography:

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