Darwin Vander Stelt wrote:

... So Teddy, being a Calvinist as I am, ...

You're a Calvinist ? ME TOO !! That Hobbes was one way cool
stuffed tiger, wasn't he ?

Ponder this traditional Zulu oral teaching translated into the English
and transcribed by the novelist Jordan Ngubane.

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I evolve forever, in response to the challenge of being human.
I have a mind to light my path in the mazes of the cosmic order.
This mind has many sides;
It comprehends all things;
It establishes my right to latitude; to being heard;
It makes me feel at home in the cosmic order.
My neighbor has a mind;
It, also, comprehends all things.
My neighbor and I have the same origins;
We have the same life-experience and a common destiny;
We are the obverse and reverse sides of one entity;
We are unchanging equals;
We are the faces which see themselves in each other;
We are mutually fulfilling complements;
We are simultaneously legitimate values;
My neighbor's sorrow is my sorrow;
His joy is my joy.
He and I are mutually fulfilled when we stand by each other in moments of need.
His survival is a precondition of my survival.
That which is freely asked or freely given is love;
Imposed love is a crime against humanity.
I am sovereign of my life;
My neighbor is sovereign of his life;
Society is a collective sovereignty;
It exists to ensure that my neighbor and I realize the promise of being human.
I have no right to anything I deny my neighbor...
I define myself in what I do to my neighbor.
No community has any right to prescribe destiny for other communities...
Equals do not prescribe destiny for each other;
They hold conversations of minds.
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Ken Fortenberry