Category: Whatever
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I fucking hate capitalism. (Amid conversation as we were walking back from a paper sale at PSU, the comrade I was walking with commented that as we passed them a couple guys had stopped to thoroughly check me out. “It’s the jeans. They’re workin’ for ya.”)– But the reason I…
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Originally posted on WYRD ATTRACTIONS: We think of our mind and body as separate entities that are often at war with each other. Thich Nhat Hanh teaches that the body is a treasure. This audio clip is an excerpt from a talk that he gave on January 1, 2013 at…
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Emily Raboteau’s Searching for Zion, reviewed. – Slate Magazine
In her memoir Searching for Zion, Emily Raboteau travels to several continents and countries—including Israel, Jamaica, and Ghana—seeking her own personal Promised Land. While Raboteau, whose mother is white and father is black, may not have been looking to trace her ancestors like Haley, the hope to find some connection…
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Originally posted on The Dark Forest: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts: “In Spinoza the whole theory of expression supports univocity; and its whole import is to free univocal Being from a state of indifference or neutrality, to make it the object of a pure affirmation, which is actually realized in…
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Stupidity – Idiocy – Ignorance
A short taxonomy: Stupidity: Having no native ability for thought at all. Idiocy: Being able in one thing but incapable in all else. Ignorance: Not knowing where to start due to lack of information. All suffer from ignorance at every juncture of life; a good many are idiots having over-focused…
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Originally posted on WYRD ATTRACTIONS: When I teach, I often tell students that contrary to what they may have been told, there are stupid questions. However, it is still important to ask those questions because it would be more stupid to leave without the answer. An article on the blog…
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Originally posted on Ray Ferrer – Emotion on Canvas: Here are some of my latest pieces, done for a large installation in NY at Lagond Music School. Enjoy..
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Originally posted on WYRD ATTRACTIONS: Thus the six syllables, om mani padme hum, mean that in dependence on the practice of a path which is an indivisible union of method and wisdom, you can transform your impure body, speech, and mind into the pure exalted body, speech, and mind of…
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Thanks to all who visited… 2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 10,000 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have…
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Originally posted on it's about learning: Do we structure school in such a way that we truly promote and achieve that intricate balance between: 1) wanting to know and to understand and 2) keeping perspective that we have to be wrong quite a bit in order to gain deep knowledge…
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Textimony 20121223
In this loving struggle, death though certain has no sting; chance, no power; guilt, no blame; pain, no duration. Let-go violent force & obtain fortitude.
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There is no fiscal crisis. And macroeconomics is not a morality play.
Nice overview of how things stand vis. the “fiscal cliff.” The Puritanism that surrounds how most people talk about debt–esp. government debt–really irritates and shows the lasting influence of Christian dogmatism on our sociocultural situation. Sometimes I cannot tell if a person who rants about the US federal deficit is…
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Originally posted on sittinginthewoods: I just really like these pictures, and if I were a more astute naturalist, I’d be able to tell you what plant this is – but I’m not, and I can’t..though maybe Black Eyed Susan, or some version of Sunflower. That’s the best I can do.…
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