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\"Centrist's<\/a>
Centrist's Creed – Posted August 5th, 2012 on Facebook by Eric Brooks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’m not gay…<\/strong> but I can understand the importance of spending the rest of your life with the person you love, and have society recognize it.<\/p>\n

I don’t have any tattoos or piercings…<\/strong> but I understand the need for people to express themselves.<\/p>\n

I don’t own a gun…<\/strong> but I understand why some people want them to protect their family.<\/p>\n

I don’t own a pitbull…<\/strong> but I can understand how people love them for their loyalty and sweetness, and how fears and exaggerations from the media can spin so much bullshit and unfair laws against them.
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\nI don’t own a uterus…<\/strong> but I can understand why someone would not want to have a child at this current time, and would prefer to not bleed to death correcting that mistake.<\/p>\n

I most likely don’t share the same beliefs in your God, nor do I dismiss the idea of a Higher Being and order in the universe.<\/strong> If it brings you comfort, and makes you a better person, then I respect you for it.<\/p>\n

I am neither Conservative or Liberal…<\/strong> I make up my own mind and see one or the other makes a good point here and there.<\/p>\n

It’s called compassion.<\/strong> The ability to see things from another person’s point of view, and realize not everything is about you.<\/p>\n

We are all set on different paths, headed for the same destination. The difference is the stops we make on that road, and the lessons we need to learn along the way to become better people.<\/p>\n

It’s all about Love and living without Fear.
\nDon’t be assholes, unless it’s absolutely funny.<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> I originally wrote this August 5, 2012 on my Facebook page. Took me forever to find it as it’s deep down in the in the memory hole over there. I have to wonder why I bother writing anything over there as we have the attention span of gnats now, and unless it fits in a meme, no one will bother to read it. So I figured, “Let me post it on my site, where no one will read it!”<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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