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Lambano

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I've always had a fascination for graffiti.

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I work as a counselor with, and as an advocate for, neglected and abused children. Sometimes that requires me to interact with police officers. Police officers have pointed out that graffiti is often, but certainly not always, connected with youth gangs. Consequently, I always have an eye out for graffiti. Some of the children I’ve worked with have been involved in gang activity. It’s been heartbreaking when I’ve seen, as I have on occasion, their handiwork left behind at the scene of a crime they’ve committed.
 

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I work as a counselor with, and as an advocate for, neglected and abused children. Sometimes that requires me to interact with police officers. Police officers have pointed out that graffiti is often, but certainly not always, connected with youth gangs. Consequently, I always have an eye out for graffiti. Some of the children I’ve worked with have been involved in gang activity. It’s been heartbreaking when I’ve seen, as I have on occasion, their handiwork left behind at the scene of a crime they’ve committed.
If you and other's could grapple with the possibility that believing just may be what's behind all this loony behaviour, you'd be able to step outside the old adage of good and evil. Because that is a belief that must be overcome also.
 

Matthias

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If you and other's could grapple with the possibility that believing just may be what's behind all this loony behaviour, you'd be able to step outside the old adage of good and evil. Because that is a belief that must be overcome also.

Everyone believes something.

It’s not believing that’s the problem. It’s what they do and don’t believe that’s the problem.
 

Matthias

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You're dead to me.

I’m alive in Christ. My earnest desire is that some day you will be too.

I’ve been praying regularly for you, even before we had our first conversation.
 

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If you and other's could grapple with the possibility that believing just may be what's behind all this loony behaviour, you'd be able to step outside the old adage of good and evil. Because that is a belief that must be overcome also.
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That doesn't make any sense, really it doesn't. Believing in someone's artistic work would be like being inspired by a blank canvas. I'm sure that's been done before at some gallery where you believe whatever is on each white background (But the artist didn't do anything)
 

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What I make of it is that the artist has proven his / her existence by the works of his / her hands.