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  • Confronting and Rejecting Jargon and Practices Reinforcing Racism/Classism in Education

    Originally posted on dr. p.l. (paul) thomas: Doreen Massey recounts her experience with a “customer liaison” at an art exhibition, leading her to note: This is a crucial part of the way that neoliberalism has become part of our commonsense… Continue reading

  • Martine Rothblatt – Transhuman

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    Martine Rothblatt – Transhuman

  • #Trumpdacity

    I mean, folks are still going to be voting for this schmuck because his populism completely outstrips the need to tell anything even resembling the truth. This speech basically performs a hearty fuck-you to the world, a dance of shameless audacity… Continue reading

    #Trumpdacity

  • Zen Anarchy

    And nothing is fixed! The famous master Hyakujo wanted to find an abbot for a monastery. He put a pitcher on the floor and asked what it was, adding, “Don’t say it’s a pitcher.” Some of the smarter monks came… Continue reading

    Zen Anarchy

  • #MAHATMA – Life of Gandhi (abridged)

    This is the abridged version (2hrs 15min) of a 5hrs 10min documentary biography of Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi. All events and principles of Gandhi’s life and thought are viewed as integrated parts of his truth-intoxicated life depicting permanent and universal values.The… Continue reading

    #MAHATMA – Life of Gandhi (abridged)

  • Bhakti

    Beginning to gather up different pictures of the god Hanuman for my research. Hanuman, a key figure in the Ramayana and totally dedicated follower of Sri Rama, represents the deep devotion (bhakti) of life to the Divine. Continue reading

    Bhakti

  • Your Own Historical Jesus

    Who was the historical Jesus of Nazareth? What did he actually say and do, as contrasted with what early Christians (e.g., Paul and the Gospel writers) believed that he said and did? What did the man Jesus actually think of… Continue reading

    Your Own Historical Jesus

  • A little bit on Crossan’s historical Jesus

    Central to [John] Crossan’s methodology is the dating of texts. This is laid out more or less fully in The Historical Jesus in one of the appendices. He dates part of the Coptic Gospel of Thomas to the 50s CE,… Continue reading

  • Whatever, Etc. 0037: Justice and the Tripartite Soul

    I was asked to drop by and engage in Dialog this evening, Mar 03, at 6pm, with some of my compatriots who are doing a close reading of Plato’s Republic. Live-streaming this for those who want to watch at home… Continue reading

    Whatever, Etc. 0037: Justice and the Tripartite Soul

  • Sun – Line – Cave, Part 2

    I’ll be returning to talk with students in my friend’s class over the metaphors/myths created by Plato in Books 6 & 7 of Republic: the Simile of the Sun, the Analogy of the Divided Line, and the Allegory of the… Continue reading

    Sun – Line – Cave, Part 2