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Mothers of Lost Children uses podcasts to extend their reach. It makes them an intermediary with power to filter establishment "patriarchal" messages. This social media supports marketing of organizational objectives such as raising awareness, exposing institutional maltreatment, whistle blowing, informing and educating listening audiences, gaining understanding, building trust between members of our real and virtual mother groups and also between sister organizations.
This gives activists a reason and a direction for action and pricks the conscience of listeners. Obviously, the ERA must be ratified before women have a legal leg to stand on.
The Women's Media Project answered the call to action, and dedicated a broadcast to Family Court Awareness Month, which is also advertised by the CPPA.
Ahoy! I Am A Pirate Who Lives With Her Mother
I am a pirate and I live with my mother!
My name is Kathy Scholpp, and I have worked hard to earn two Bachelor's Degrees, the first in Political Science/Law and the second in Communication. My experience with my first degree taught me that the law doesn't work the same way for women, and I have dedicated my activism to gender equity.
My first career was Air Force, my second was the Postal Service, and presently, my position is Activist. The founder of Mother's of Lost Children calls me "the official videographer" of the Mothers Movement. Professor Preston has said about my work "That's nice archival footage!" and I replied "ARCHIVAL? I shot that yesterday!" She replied "You are going to have an aspect ratio problem!" And I said "Who knew!"
Now I seek fellow film-makers who also want to change the world and stop the cemeteries from filling up with women and children. In my spare time, I am a DJ at WSKB, where I host the Women's Media Project. I recommend you listen to the January 26th episode, where I interviewed Westfield State President Dr. Linda Thompson! She really cares about students, and she has a LOT to say to you.
(https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ahdk2-118d6ba).
Check out the transcript of the interview published in the Westfield Voice: (https://thewestfieldvoice.com/2022/02/the-womens-media-project-january-26th-2022-with-guest-wsu-president-linda-thompson/)
I am caregiver for my dear Mom, who is 92 years old and has Alzheimer's Disease. As you can see in the photo, she is my "Shero!" Her name is Barb, but we call her Barbosa.
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Explanation for Holden
This explanation is taken directly (quoting, for 95% of it) from the work of Justin Aptaker, a highly qualified scholar in Biblical Greek Translation. He won the University of Tennessee award for his performance in a nationwide intercollegiate ancient Greek translation contest. All credit for this material goes to him.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8—the so-called 1 Corinthians "Love Verse"
New International Version (NIV) 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of
wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. . .
Love Is Patient
“Patient”, in verse four, is a translation of
the Greek word “μακροθυμεῖ” (Macrothumei), which, in the Greek, refers to what Love does, rather than what Love is. It is impossible to describe what God (Love) is, as God is infinite and our words are finite.
In fact, it is impossible to describe what anyone “is”, as any person’s real BEING is also infinite; we are not robots or artificial intelligence so we cannot just be described as a bunch of words. It is, however, possible to say what God (Love) does. God, like anyone else, is best known and understood by what He does. So the Greek passage actually says “love patients” using the word “patient” as a verb and not as an adjective. This will not make sense in the English language but it does make beautiful sense in Greek.
“patient” (“Macrothumei”) can be broken down as follows: “Macro-” (“long”) + “thumos” (“heart/soul”). Literally, this Greek word means “to long-heart” and it is a verb. The Greek “thumos” can refer to the soul or spirit in the sense of one’s very life/essence. To take away “thumos", then, can mean to take away life. “Thumos” also refers to the “heart”, as both the seat of the emotions and of the will. Finally, “thumos” can mean the mind, as the seat of cognition (thoughts). So, when we get to the root of “being patient”, we see that it involves a commitment of all one’s life/essence, emotions, will, and thoughts. This is the kind of gut-wrenching, life-giving “patience” that God does t o all people, and that we must, therefore, show one another. Love, it would seem, does nothing half-heartedly. And this is the complete description of a Mother’s love for her child, which is always blessed by God, and it is the model for all human LOVE.
We continue to examine what it means
to say "love is kind". This is a translation of the Greek word
“χρηστεύεται” (chresteuetai), another active verb. It comes from the adjective “chrestos”, which in turn comes from another verb, “chrao”. “Chrao” means “to furnish/provide what is needed” or to “fulfill”. From this comes the English word “charity.” To “do charity” is different from “to be charitable.” What a beautiful description of what God does for us, and expects us to do for each other. The adjective “chrestos” means “serviceable” or “useful”. When applied to people, it also means any or all of the following: good, honest, trustworthy, and kind.
I hope that by now it is apparent that, by looking deeper into the origins of words in this scripture, we may uncover a vast new world of meaning which was completely hidden before. So that, for example, “being kind” is shown to entail much more than kindness alone. It does mean to be kind, in our usual sense of the word, yes. But more than that, it involves providing people with what they need, being honest and dependable, being “useful/serviceable” to society, and being a good person in general. And so we should also be beginning to see why the 1 Corinthians "Love Verse" really does contain all the most important teachings of religion, as it tells us all the most important things for living a good life.
Envy and pride/boasting are two sides of
the same coin. Both spring from a self-centered desire to somehow be better than other people. Envy is self-centeredness that becomes even more of a problem because the envious person wants to be better than others and then thinks he should have more than he has, because others may have more. Pride is self-centeredness also, because if we are proud, we want to see
Love Does Not Delight in Evil
This Verse says that Love does not “think
evil”. Some Bible translations say “keep a record of evil” or “keep track of wrongs.” To the contemporary mind, to “think evil” could mean a lot more than merely holding a grudge. Someone planning to rob a bank might be “thinking evil”—and this has nothing to do with keeping record of wrongs. In Greek the words are “οὐλογίζεται τὸ κακόν” (ou logizetai to kakon). Literally, this means, “does not take account of, or reckon, or calculate, the bad.” The word "bad” here can refer to badness or evil in general or it can mean a wrong or injury done to a person. I think that here, it clearly means the latter. This is because “λογίζεται” (logizetai) means “to take account of, to make a record of, to calculate, to count.” So if you are “thinking evil” and “calculating or keeping track of the badness” you are referring back to something you consider bad, and you will not give it up or let it go; you think about it and it festers and can start to make you feel less love.
Love rejoices with the truth (verse 6). For
me, “truth” may be the only concept that even approaches “love” in its beauty and grandeur. In Greek, the word is even more beautiful: ἀληθεία (aletheia, pronounced “ah-leh-THAY-ah”). It is built from the noun “lethos”, which means “a forgetting," and the prefix “a-," which denotes a lack or absence. Thus, in one sense, “truth” means “that which is not forgotten.” To grasp yet a deeper meaning, we may consider that “lethos” comes from the verb “lanthano," which means “to go unnoticed or unseen.” Thus, since the prefix “a-” would reverse this concept, truth means something that is noticed. It is something that, even when it is absent, is still there, can still be felt, can still be strong. So love, even in absence, can still be the strongest thing in your life.
Truth, as it stands alone, is something obvious. It cannot go unnoticed. It will never
"Quid est veritas?" English translation: "What is Truth?" Pontius Pilate asked Jesus this question in Latin when interrogating him. Of course, for each of us, in our life, this becomes a big question. And the answer is always: LOVE is the TRUTH.
Love Never Fails
It is worth repeating: Love will utterly succeed. It is a fact as grand, beautiful, and inevitable as Truth itself.
LOVE CONQUERS ALL!
[Holden: That part was by the author; the rest, below, is written by the people who have helped your mother for all these years of absence and deprivation, to get you back. These people have all tried to manifest love so that your mother could one day return to you to give you the LOVE that you need and deserve. This is how they have been trying to show LOVE to you as well.]
LOVE is PATIENT:
She tried every means to get you back to
her (she wrote to every organization and authority for help; she reached out to a thousand different sources to get someone to help her bring you home; by her getting recognition that keeping your mother separated from you was a human rights violation, ultimately she found the people who have been trying to help her return you). She never gave up. She patiently knocked on every door until finally one door might open. And this is why you can return, no matter when that happens.
Your mother never believed one word
about you or from those who kept her away from you, other than goodness and mercy. She never gave up. She spoke of you to everyone as her precious child and the precious child of God who deserves everything good in life and never deserved any of the suffering or loneliness you felt. She understood how hard it was for you every day and she prayed every day for your health, and welfare, and strength, and that is the source of your resilience. She did not really believe that you did not want to get your mother back; she knew your soul and she knew that love was living in you until the day she could hug you again and tell you in person: I LOVE YOU.
Love does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
In all the years that your mother was fighting to have you returned to her, she did
Love does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Your mother did not use her time trying to do harm to the people who kept you away from her. She did not slander anybody although she was slandered; she did not violate the law or try to pay for illegal advantages; she did not bribe anyone or
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
And this is why your Mother knows that the people who tell you that she never loved you and never wanted you are wrong, and will be shown to be wrong, and this is how she knows that you will see the truth in spite of what they are saying to you or have said to you, because they did not tell you these things from LOVE; they told you these things to turn you away from your mother’s love, for one reason: Because they knew that no matter what they did, your mother’s love for you would never fail and never stop and that she HAD TO WIN because LOVE WINS. So
(1) You deserve LOVE;
(2) Your mother LOVES YOU; and
(3) This will never change and will always
WIN in the end. LOVE always protects:
Your mother was protecting you from violence and abuse from your birth until they took you away; after that she tried valiantly to get you back and prayed for your protection every day and extended the protection of spirit over your spirit with every breath and does this today and always will.
Love always trusts, always hopes, always
The men and women who have helped
your mother over the many years of her struggle to have you returned to her will be able to tell you about all this when you are finally free and your mother is free, which can come soon. They never gave up hope; they helped her keep trying everything that she could do; they saw the trials and tribulations she went through for all these years and she never stopped trusting and hoping and persevering and this is why you will have that kind of strength all YOUR life. You will be this kind of success ultimately just as your Mother will, as she is now starting to succeed against all the forces against her, and she will win because of the faith, hope, trust and perseverance of LOVE. Love never fails. .
Holden, you are already part of the way home to your Mother and you will not fail to return because that is where the love is and where it has been since the moment you were born. It cannot fail; your Mother