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Sometimes people use the Bible to justify their "bullying practices" as was the case in Jim Mandelin's life.
Here is the Bible verse that created so much pain for Jim and the family used to justify their actions. It comes from the King James Version of the Bible:
 
"Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with a rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod and deliver his soul from hell."  Proverbs 23: 13 - 14
Bullying has caused the death to many of my friends and family. My Grandfather, Uncle and nephew have all been bullied and have taken their own lives. I have 26 friends at last count, two in the last 6 months who have taken their  own lives.  The song above describes how I feel on this very day, April 25th 2014. I miss my family and friends.

What is bullying?

Bullying is: All child abuse is bullying. All racism, sexism and homophobia is bullying. Making fun of, teasing, hitting, grabbing, slapping, punching, pinching, pushing, shoving, or
using cyber space to hurt or humiliate or harass or calling ANYONE put down type names is all bullying. The sexual exploitation of children is bullying. Spousal abuse is bullying. War is bullying. When governments cut funding to needed social programs this is bullying, not prudence.  When CEO's of Corporations make decisions that take jobs away from people who depend on those jobs to take care of their families and they do it to increase the company's profits, this is a form of bullying. These same CEO's then get large bonuses for doing this.
STANDING BY AND WATCHING OR ENCOURAGING ANY OF THESE FORMS OF BULLYING AND NOT ACTING TO STOP OR PREVENT ANY OF THESE IS,  " BULLYING."  Checkout a Canadian Anti-Bullying Website:  www.championsagainstbullying.com
 
Please Report the
sexual exploitation of children to:  http://www.Cybertip.ca

Great Websites for info:
 www.bullybeware.com
http://www.changelearning.ca/
Bullying Stats in Canada:  http://www.prevnet.ca/Bullying/BullyingStatistics/tabid/122/language/en-US/Default.aspx
A Great Report out of the USA:  http://www.glsen.org/binary-data/GLSEN_ATTACHMENTS/file/000/002/2027-1.pdf
Heart Touching:  http://www.hlntv.com/video/2012/04/19/bert-weiss-son-bullied-chip-self-esteem?hpt=hp_bn15


Response to "Bully" http://www2.nbc4i.com/news/2012/may/04/parents-students-teachers-react-bully-documentary--ar-1024870/?goback=%2Egde_2162218_member_114496681

A Fictional Character but really brings the message home.   http://youtu.be/X3k-t95PpDc

An Awsome Video by the "Alternatives To Violence" program, recorded in an American Prison:     
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'There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein. 

'It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
' Henry David Thoreau.