<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rdf:RDF xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"><channel rdf:about="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/BlogRss.aspx/Straightforward4974"><title>The personal is political - Blogit</title><link>https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/</link><description>About politics in our day-to-day lives</description><sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod><sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency><sy:updateBase>2000-01-01T12:00+00:00</sy:updateBase><items><rdf:Seq><rdf:li resource="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/785581" /><rdf:li resource="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/768421" /><rdf:li resource="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/728942" /><rdf:li resource="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/727968" /><rdf:li resource="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/727232" /><rdf:li resource="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/726675" /><rdf:li resource="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/726151" /><rdf:li resource="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/725506" /><rdf:li resource="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/724409" /><rdf:li resource="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/716504" /></rdf:Seq></items></channel><item rdf:about="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/785581"><title>Happy New Year everyone!</title><link>https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/785581</link><description>Not been here much on Blogit. But hope to be there regularly this year. Feel relieved that so many of you are still around and there are a few others who have joined the bandwagon:-)</description></item><item rdf:about="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/768421"><title>What goes round comes around...therefore what I give is what I shall get.</title><link>https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/768421</link><description>The home and the family are only a microcosm of the world. Often our basic traits remain the same in both spheres, although they may be seemingly different.</description></item><item rdf:about="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/728942"><title>When we want something in the New Year, is it for ourselves only or for the</title><link>https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/728942</link><description>world at large (others) or is it for everyone including myself. Do we have a different wish list for others than for us? or are the core values of the wish list for both, the same?</description></item><item rdf:about="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/727968"><title>The political is personal...that's the way the present politicians treat</title><link>https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/727968</link><description>politics. Or else there wouldn't be as many scams as there are the world over. All about amassing wealth, and huge wealth at that by standing on the side of big business corporations, while crushing the small enterprises and workers.</description></item><item rdf:about="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/727232"><title>When I die, how should my body be disposed off/ What ceremony should happen</title><link>https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/727232</link><description>In death as in life, there must be parity. Would I want my corpse to be disposed off by burial in a coffin, or to burn it to ashes? No. no, if I want to die like I lived, I need to make sure that the environment is preserved as much as possible even in my death. So why not a stretcher that would...</description></item><item rdf:about="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/726675"><title>I do not like to see someone killed and belong to an institution that is</title><link>https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/726675</link><description>opposed to killings and actively opposings any killings of any sort. Can I then remain a silent spectator to death penalty?</description></item><item rdf:about="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/726151"><title>If I like peace, I must give peace...after what goes around, comes</title><link>https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/726151</link><description>around, doesn't it? "I leave you peace, my peace i give you"</description></item><item rdf:about="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/725506"><title>How yardsticks are different for different people...</title><link>https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/725506</link><description>If i treat you in one way for certain contributions you have made, can I be treated another person differently in the same context for similar contributions/ Isn't there an unequal or unjust approach lurking somewhere. What we do individually and personally finally adds up to the political whole,...</description></item><item rdf:about="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/724409"><title>The language we use says a lot...</title><link>https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/724409</link><description>The personal is political. The language we use has a lot to do with our political positions, our worldviews of life, from what perspective we are looking at something. So it's no longer simply words that we use to communicate. It also communicates a perspective. As Aurora Levins Morales, has...</description></item><item rdf:about="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/716504"><title>When I consider consent of a woman to something that is being designed</title><link>https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/716504</link><description>for her household or for anything involving her life as well, I am making a point that women must have a say in decision-making processes that shape their future at all levels - be it at home, at work, on the street, in governance, wherever. Therefore the home is a microcosm of the larger world...</description></item></rdf:RDF>