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[Harry Tucker - Observations and Musings] A Quest for Authenticity - How Many Lives Are You Living? « Harry ...: We discover how real or artificial our public personas .One that will have a greater potential to leave a positive legacy on this planet, since I doubt that any of us are dreaming of a life of smaller results than we are currently experiencing.

[Atheist Network RSS Feed] View topic - Why not protest in front of churches ? :: Atheist Network: George Tiller can be murdered at his own church (as some others have in the past year), the whole 'santuary ' notion is out the window, if it was ever valid in the first place. I think if enough people have (peaceful) protests at churches, the majority of people who are religious but reasonable will decide that politics doesn't belong in church, and will turn to churches that are not overtly political, or not go at all.

[Fluid Radio] July's Top 10: a notion which is brought to a grand conclusion on ‘Levende’, a Boomkat exclusive recording of their recent show in Ausberg Germany. An annual event which boasts the cream of the leftfield, the Lab30 Festival was treated to a classic performance when Deaf Center took to the stage –

[Touchstone Magazine - Mere Comments] Touchstone Magazine - Mere Comments: Fast Food Feminism: Unfortunately, these strategies are very effective in our increasingly disconnected neighborhoods (and the poorest, the supposed raison d'etre of liberal PAC’s, are the most vulnerable), and they destroy inter-interest-group community by creating acrimony, suspicion, and bitterness between people (and isn't inter-interest-group/individual community the real do all and end all of notions of community? Isn’t the Body of Christ with its many different parts all contributing to the whole just such a community?).

[NAACHGAANA] A life in cinema: Abbas Kiarostami : NAACHGAANA: Shirin builds on Kiarostami’s theatre piece Looking at Tazieh, which contained film of rural Iranians responding to the tazieh, a traditional Shia passion play on the martyrdom of Imam Hossein, spiritual leader of the dispossessed. For Kiarostami, the “beauty of art lies in the reaction it causes”, and Shirin pushes the notion that “a work of art doesn’t exist outside the perception of the audience”.

[e-IR] e-IR » How does racism provide a metric for biopolitics of security?: As Machiavelli argues the Prince’s relationship to the territory over which he claims dominium is entirely artificial, whether it was forged through conquest, inheritance, or through peaceful compromise, the Prince remains external to it. Consequently the relationship between Prince and principality is a fragile one, constantly under threat from both external and internal enemies, as Foucault comments ‘It is threatened from outside, by [those] who want to take, or re-conquer, his principality, and it is also threatened internally, for there is no a priori or immediate reason for the Prince’s subjects to accept his rule’[5].

[After Long Busyness: A Poetry Blog] Rebuilding Archetypes « After Long Busyness: A Poetry Blog: Bishop’s influence also grabs hold, and under her intervention Boland begins to shed the notion of poetry as a staged arrangement of images and themes. Having moved from city to suburb and given birth, she now logs her surroundings””a washing machine, nappies, milk bottles””with the intensity of someone aware that an entire way of life risks lapsing unrecorded without her: “And still no page / scores the low music / of our outrage.”

[The Point] The Point: One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest (of Atheism): Note: No one at The Point, BreakPoint Online, or Prison Fellowship is responsible for the content of any of the blogs listed above, except where noted. A blog's presence does not necessarily imply endorsement.

[Gaia Community: IP's Blog] Efficiency by I P ”” Gaia Community: I have also noticed that such an approach to work--especially when accompanied by great gravitas--is often being used as a kind of ethical displacement (or as I've said "ethical myopia"), so that the energy that should be going to the work of inner and outer healing as a whole adult person is being displaced and re-channeled into an obsession with a certain level of finish in some task that, taken in and of itself, not only has nothing to do with what really needs to happen (either in the world or in oneself), but is actually destructive and at best a necessary evil. It is as though the constant existential conscientiousness and courage required to actually be a good person in an essentially sick and eroding society has pretty much led to that imperative being abandoned altogether and replaced with the ideal of being a good "worker", "manager"

[shireen's blog] Home: The Cradle of All Education | shireen's blog: Donna Simmons (Waldorf educator and home-school curriculum developer) and an increasing number of mothers have empowered themselves with knowledge to get through childhood diseases in a more holistic way. Simmons, along with many in the natural medicine and scientific communities, believe that with vaccines we have “swapped fast burning infectious disease”¦for slow burning chronic diseases, such as cancer, heart conditions, diabetes, asthma, and a host of other conditions.” Moreover, she says the fast burning childhood maladies have a “strengthening effect on the health of the human being””on the immune system.” This is not to say that we should all run out and get sick, but rather to understand that a medical industry built on materialist premises cannot manipulate, control, or eradicate disease (absurdly impossible), and we must replace the concept of “disease” back into an integrated paradigm of health.

[Alam21's Blog] Poverty « Alam21's Blog: Topic being, ”˜What is poverty?’ the definition of poverty according to Princeton is, “the state of having little money and few or no material possessions.” Another source, Wikipedia, states, “Poverty is the denial of access to those things which makes a life of dignity possible.” In other words it also says that a life of poverty is a life with indignity.

[Heidegger] Heidegger » Blog Archive » 2nd CFP Philosophy of Life and the Life ...: Beyond man: protheses, cyborgs and artificial life (philosophy of technology, AI and AL, robotics) The notion that human beings are 'artificial by nature' is also relevant for those sciences that study the restoration, normalisation, ....

3quarksdaily: He claimed that the subject-object model of experience, in which we see ourselves as distinct from the world and others, “does not do justice to our experience, that it forces us to describe our experience in awkward ways, and places the emphasis in our philosophical inquiries on abstract concerns and considerations remote from our everyday lives.”[4] Our being in the world is “more basic than thinking and solving problems; it is not representational at all.” When we are absorbed in work, say, using familiar pieces of equipment, “we are drawn in by affordances and respond directly to them, so that the distinction between us and our equipment””between inner and outer”” vanishes.”[6]

[A Lake County Point Of View] A Lake County Point Of View: Killing Prometheus: (2) Darwin Lambert, with other advocates of a Great Basin National Park, knew this tree by the name of Prometheus, and he wrote of it for Audubon as the “oldest inhabitant of the Earth,” martyred for its species; (3) Keith Trexler, the chief naturalist at Lehman Caves National Monument, just down the hill, witnessed the event, which he considered unnecessary, and his story dramatizes a conflict between federal agencies;

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