Fred's Front Porch Podcast

If you have a billion dollars, you have more money than you can spend in 19 lifetimes...
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https://fredsfrontporch.com/being-a-billionaire-is-still-inherently-immoral-2023/

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There are privileges I have that I have done nothing to earn.  There are also privileges for which I have paid dearly.  
Why shouldn't all people have the privileges I get simply because I was born a straight white male in America?   
Here's the transcript.  It takes you to my new website, so I'm not sure if it will work, but I hope it will.  If you're not subscribed to my new site, I would love it if you did so.  You'll get everything I publish, and it costs nothing.  I don't know exactly how it's done, but 60 or 70 people managed it on my old Word Press site, so I assume they can do so on this one.
https://fredsfrontporch.com/privilege/

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This is somewhat different from my other episodes.  I recognize that being "WOKE" is considered evil by some people.  I offered a differing opinion to mine as someone is switching the channel from my show to that of a right wing talk show host.  My intention is not to offend, but to help others to understand.  I hope I accomplished that.  
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https://frededer.home.blog/2023/05/14/woke/

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I don't recommend Poverty.  It's lovely to avoid it.  Living in it, however, hasn't kept me from finding Joy.  I have Enough... so perhaps it isn't poverty at all.
That's for you to decide.
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https://frededer.home.blog/2023/05/07/finding-joy-even-in-poverty/

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This is a special episode for Houseplants only.

I was told by The Houseplants I needed to come up with some Fine Poetry because of what happened at the most recent Secret Songciety.  This is my effort to do as I was asked.

It's also a special Christmas Episode.  Our regularly scheduled episode will be here tomorrow.  There's not much to read, but I'm including the transcript anyway.  It's much better, however, with the music.  It's sort of essential this week.  I highly recommend listening instead of just reading.

https://frededer.home.blog/2022/12/24/freds-fine-poetry/

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.

Love,

Fred

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This is for those who need a bedtime story.  There's nothing about Fred's Front Porch Podcast in this episode.  This is just for helping you to relax and drift into what I hope will be a blissful slumber.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/67098/67098-h/67098-h.htm#:~:text=CHAPTER%20IX,SURROUNDED%20BY%20WATER

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This is just the story.  There is no opening, no "Next Week...", no Gratitudes, no Closing.  This is intended to be useful to those who would like to share this story with a loved one without any interruptions or distractions.  

This is pure Art, so it will not be interrupted by an Intro, Outro, or Gratitudes.  There is no "Next Week..."  This is a gift from me to you and from you to your children, or anyone else who needs to have a somewhat more relaxing day.
This SHOULD take you to The Project Gutenberg reproduction, but I won't promise that.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/67098/67098-h/67098-h.htm#:~:text=Silly%20old%20Bear!%22-,CHAPTER,-III

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Our species has advanced significantly in the last 200,000 years.  We now have all we need to ensure every one of us has a home, food, and medical care.  Instead of providing that to all of us, we ask who deserves it.  
I'm going to make the radical suggestion that all of us, whether I like them or not, deserve to survive.  I'm going to combine fiction and nonfiction.  I'm going to combine AI and the human mind.  I'm going to use all I can to convince you that I'm right in the hope that you'll convince someone else.  
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https://frededer.home.blog/2023/04/23/what-we-deserve/

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We seem to find virtue in being offended.  I question that in this episode.  While we're busy fighting about trivial issues, we lose focus on the problems that really need to be solved.  
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https://frededer.home.blog/2023/04/16/offensensitivity/

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