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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Our enemies are not flesh and blood but cartoon villains.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
22 November 1932 | French Jewish boy, Yves Netter, was born in Anzin. He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy on 13 April 1944. He was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection. --- A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
Photo of brother and sister in the garden. A young girl and a boy with their hands on each other's shoulders. The girl is wearing a collared dress, the boy a short-sleeved shirt.
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
One must wonder if Charlie was consulted about being a sacrificial lamb. #philosophy
"So long as all is ordered for attack, and that alone, leaders will instinctively increase the number of enemies that they may give their followers something to do." - W.B. Yeats

A bespectacled Mr Years in profile depicted.
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
With freedom comes uncertainty, but better the uncertainty of freedom than the certainty of slavery. #philosophy
"Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty! I say that the loss of that dearest privilege has ever followed, with absolute certainty, every such mad attempt." - Patrick Henry
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
3 September 1935 | An Italian Jewish girl, Sissel Vogelmann, was born in Torino. In January 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz together with her parents Schulim and Anna. On 6 February she and her mother were murdered in a gas chamber. The father survived.
Black and white photograph of a young child with curly hair.Vintage black and white photo of a woman and a child walking hand-in-hand outside a building. The adult wears a stylish hat
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
The Apocalypse is now. #bethepeople
Written on a chalk board:
"Your comfort zone" - pointing to a small square
"Where the magic happens!" - pointing to a big circle
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Take the values you subscribe to here and apply them to the world. And when it is asked if it is possible the answer is, "With God, all things are possible."
Photo of the inside of a cathedral.
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I don't want to fight for power, but also I don't want to be dominated either. Troubling.
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
As we commiserate with each other about ourselves, fighting for power becomes more ingrained within us.
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
We do not know how to love properly. And for this, we blame ourselves.
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
All of your arguments against democracy are precisely why fighting for power is so evil
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
To be equal in the eyes of God is to be equal where it matters most
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
1 September 1890 | A Hungarian Jew, Sándor Stern, was born in Veszprém. In 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
A man smiling behind a rustic wooden gate, surrounded by a flock of chickens on a farmyard.
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
It is very hard to see things clearly when we are in the negative state. Isolation drags us down. Therapy for a price, is a slap in the face.
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
The solution to the problems of society is the same as it's ever been, depending on your perspective. If you believe in democracy, then sharing power is the obvious answer. If you don't, then concentrating power obviously is.
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Having a conversation with an adversary is not the same as having a conversation with a friend. Living in the same house with an adversary is not the same as living in the same house with a friend. This is how we become egotistical. This is how we become mean.
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
State of grace or sanctimonious idiocy
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
"Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life. Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?" - Mr Miyagi discussing the facts of life with the Karate Kid
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
"The humble sages, by virtue of true knowledge, see with equal vision a learned and gentle brahmana, a cow, a dog and a dog-eater." - Bhagavad-Gita 5.18

Lord Krishna playing a golden flute depicted
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
"The individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to other individuals; he exists only by transcending himself, and his freedom can be achieved only through the freedom of others." - Simone de Beauvoir
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
"Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth." - Toni Morrison

Save the Children - Change the Future
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Dominate or be dominated be dominating us
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
"At a time like this when we live in fear of the future on account of the great advances of science and technology, it is essential for all those who have faith in wisdom and a love of God, whatever may be their religious denominations, to get together, form a sacramental brotherhood and work for fellowship in which alone lies the redemption of Man." - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Do not fear for tomorrow. Speak for today.
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Mouthing the words 'I love Jesus' while seeking the upper hand is what the Antichrist is all about.
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: "Love your neighbor as yourself." - Galatians 5:14

Two hands in the shape of a heart with the sun shining through
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
It is only when we lose hope of being respected as an equal that we become domineering.
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
"Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous affects will invade his heart, extravagant thoughts will generate in his brain, like thorns in an uncultivated land." - Denis Diderot
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
The heart of the issue is not this sin or that sin, but why we sin in the first place.
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
When we find a way to be dominating, we find a way to be dominated.
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
"Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near." - Isaiah 55:6
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
"Imagine the monarch Agha Mohammed Khan, who orders the entire population of the city of Kerman murdered or blinded - no exceptions. His praetorians set energetically to work. They line up the inhabitants, slice of the heads of the adults, gouge out the eyes of the children... Later, processions of blinded children leave the city. Some, wandering around in the countryside, lose their way in the desert and die of thirst. Other groups reach inhabited settlements... singing songs about the extermination of the citizens of Kerman..."
Ryszard Kapuściński: Shah of Shahs
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
"To practice justice is to practice liberty." - Simon Bolivar
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
You owe yourself the love that you so freely give to other people.
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
"That which was at first bound, cast out and rent by many and various beaters will be respected and honoured, and its precepts will be listened to with reverence and love." - Leonardo DaVinci
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
We have been fighting for power for so long, we have forgotten what it is to be human.
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
"We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
We must unite. There is no other way. #bethepeople
"I am the way, and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." - John 14:6

A simple drawing of the face of Jesus with a crown of thorns and a tear in his eye depicted.
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
There is order and then there is the pecking order. #philosophy
"World peace can be achieved when the power of love replaces the love of power." - Sri Chinoy

Sri Chinoy with his hands together and his head bowed depicted.
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
If you're pastor/ethical counselor is not clear about what is worth fighting for, then they are either being weak or being deceptive. #philosophy
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy." - Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln looking right at you depicted.
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
When in doubt, remember, you are more powerful than any emperor that has ever lived. #philosophy
Never, never stood anywhere, in greater luxury, than surrounds me now. This is a chamber of marvels! There isn’t a King or Queen or Emperor I have ever known - or eaten - who would step into this room and agree to ever leave it again. I knew the future would bring wonders. But I didn’t know it would make them ordinary.

Dracula (2020)

Claes Bang as Dracula lost in thought depicted.
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Out of the frying pan and into the fire. #philosophy
Nuclear armed communists - girl making ugly face

Nuclear armed oligarchs - Oppenheimer
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Just because I don't bend the knee doesn't make me your enemy. #philosophy
No one deserves an equal say more than you.

The White House at dusk depicted.
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
The lesser of two evils is knuckling under? You don't say. #philosophy
"Political parties are likely to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious and unprincipled men will be able to subvert the power of the people and usurp for themselves the reigns of government." - George Washington, Farewell Address September 17, 1976
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
If the idea of democracy scares you, it is because you frighten easily. #philosophy
"Respect... Respect everyone!" - Buzz Lightyear showing an apprehensive Woody the way
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Do not be shy about speaking from your heart. The only thing that can stop us is our own timidity. #bethepeople
No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.

Robin Williams as John Keating, standing on a desk, speaking to his class in Dead Poets Society.
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
You will serve the greater good whether you like it or not. #philosophy
"The devil knows scripture like the back of his hand." - Tom Waits

Tom Waits looking right at you depicted.
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
There is the Tree of Life and the Tree of Judgement. Which one are you barking up when you get in your pulpit. #bethepeople
This is a period where everybody is struggling to exist. They don't have time to be a community anymore. - written in industrial typeface on a crumpled piece of burlap
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
To elevate is to alleviate. #philosophy
"What if everything you believe is wrong and you could still be loved and still be forgiven?" - Cassandra Clare 

Tom Hardy as Bane with his head bowed in prayer depicted.
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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
It is easy to believe hierarchy dispels anarchy, but in truth it only damns it for a time. #philosophy m.youtube.com/watch?v=8j7o...
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Led Zeppelin When the Levee Breaks (music video)
YouTube video by DJ Fuggi
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