Who is to say that what we call the universe is the only universe there is? There will never be a time when knowledge of what we call the universe will be complete.
9/11/11
The Tao has set all universes free
The Tao has set all universes free
As many as there are past what we see
There never was a time it was not so
Our singulars imply what we don't know
Gay and dead in Iran
Iran executes three men on homosexuality charges | World news | The Guardian: "Three Iranian men have been executed after being found guilty of charges related to homosexuality, according to a semi-official news agency."
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T.S. Eliot's mother problem
Visions and Revisions: On T.S. Eliot | The Nation: "Nowhere in The Hollow Men does Eliot make reference to the everyday world in which people drink tea, work at banks, write letters, torture their wives; but the presence of Vivien Eliot, the woman through whom Eliot constructed his life as a poet, hovers over every line. “I am sorry I tortured you and drove you mad,” wrote Vivien from a nursing home in 1925. “I had no notion until yesterday afternoon that I had done it. I have been simply raving mad.”"
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Attica better now but still a mixed bag
Attica 40 Years Later: Much Progress, But Much Still Left to Do » Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union: "Forty years ago the Attica prison was at nearly twice its capacity, housing 2,225 prisoners rather than the 1,200 it was designed for. Prisoners lived in squalid conditions and were denied even the most basic medical care.
Since that time, the NPP has won major victories in the areas of overcrowding, access to medical and mental health care, and First Amendment rights, among many others. However, many prisons are slow to comply with court orders, and new abuses occur every day"
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Since that time, the NPP has won major victories in the areas of overcrowding, access to medical and mental health care, and First Amendment rights, among many others. However, many prisons are slow to comply with court orders, and new abuses occur every day"
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Delighting in the flow of inner joys.
Abba's Way:
I love the ones whose minds and hearts are fused,
Delighting in the flow of inner joys.
For from their very depths a firelight glows,
Ignited softly by the still small voice.
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Delighting in the flow of inner joys.
For from their very depths a firelight glows,
Ignited softly by the still small voice.
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I was part of a delegation that went to Ottawa to meet with representatives of Red China
Abba's Way and Confucius (c.551-c. 479 BC) - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedcontent.com: "When the U.S. was about to establish diplomatic relations with China, I was part of a delegation that went to Ottawa to meet with representatives of Red China. Most of the people I travelled with were children of missionaries who were very familiar with the China of the past."
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In what sense did Jesus mean perfection?
Abba's Way - Stephen C. Rose : IUniverse:
By calling G-d Abba and by propounding an ethic based on negotiation and compromise, Jesus defined perfection in terms of primary allegiance to Abba (non-idolatry) and the practice of tolerance, helpfulness and democracy (loving your neighbor as yourself).
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Now a "we're all monsters" meme
3quarksdaily: Monsters: "“We’re monsters, I fear. What monsters we’re”—it’s a line from a recent Frederick Seidel poem, “Downtown,” about the Fourth of July, and the sadness of fireworks over the Hudson (“the flavorful floating shroud”) and the casual brutality of eating shad roe (“What a joy to eat the unborn”). It reminds me of this whole, unlovely decade, which started downtown, and made us all monstrous, me as much as anybody. "
A universal and ethical perspective has trouble arising from the welter of self-recrimination in the above text. If the destruction of life in any form is sinful or unethical then all we can do is wallow in a sort of permanent cesspool of awareness. And contemn religion for closing our eyes to the slaughter whether of what we eat, what we conceive or of each other knowingly or not. The alternative is to accept that it is reality itself that makes such slaughter inevitable just as it is inevitable that conception involves a single male and a single female egg. Schweitzer included all in his reverence for life but Jesus gave no sign of vegan tendencies. The resolution lies in applying values to our decisions and recognizing that reality itself makes all of us in some respects parties to casual if not intended genocide. None is clean no one. Yet love must somehow triumph in the face of even this.
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A universal and ethical perspective has trouble arising from the welter of self-recrimination in the above text. If the destruction of life in any form is sinful or unethical then all we can do is wallow in a sort of permanent cesspool of awareness. And contemn religion for closing our eyes to the slaughter whether of what we eat, what we conceive or of each other knowingly or not. The alternative is to accept that it is reality itself that makes such slaughter inevitable just as it is inevitable that conception involves a single male and a single female egg. Schweitzer included all in his reverence for life but Jesus gave no sign of vegan tendencies. The resolution lies in applying values to our decisions and recognizing that reality itself makes all of us in some respects parties to casual if not intended genocide. None is clean no one. Yet love must somehow triumph in the face of even this.
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