Article: How Technology Made World Domination Easier
How Technology Made World Domination Easier http://mashable.com/2013/05/16/past-vs-present-comic/
Sing and rejoice, you children of the day and of the light; for the Lord is at work in this thick night of darkness that may be felt. And truth does flourish as the rose, and the lilies do grow among the thorns, and the plants atop of the hills. And upon them the lambs do skip and play. And never heed the tempests nor the storms, floods nor rains, for the seed Christ is over all, and doth reign. And so be of good faith and valiant for the truth; for the truth can live in the jails. And fear not the loss of fleece, for it will grow again; and follow the lamb, if it be under the beast’s horns, or under the beast’s heels; for the lamb shall have the victory over them all. And so all live in the seed Christ, your way that never fell. In him you do see over all the ways of Adam’s and Eve’s and daughters in the fall.
— George Fox
An Outline of Foucault’s Six Principles of Heterotopia (by EnterTheHighFields)
A Tale of Two Presidents
Joseph Nevins, adbusters.orgWhich role model should we look up to?
From Adbusters #107: The Epic Story of Humanity: Part 1, SpringAs I watched Barack Obama delivering his second inaugural address last month, and listened to his call to “respond to the threat of climate…
A story about an inspiring leader.
The simplest definition of art is that it is the activity by which [people] realize their ideals…We are all artists in the sense that we are all engaged in some kind of activity by which we are realizing our ideals. What kind of ideas are you realizing? There is no neutrality here. Everybody is engaged in this activity. Is what you are realizing worthy of you, or are you engaged in the realization of ideals of which you are ashamed, and before which you stand condemned in your own sight? Long, long ago, it was said by a very wise and understanding friend, “By their fruits ye shall know them…
— Howard Thurman
Why do you quote so many authorities in your new book?” wrote the friend. “If what you have said is true, you do not need the authorities; if what you are saying is not true, all the authorities in the world will not make it true.
— Howard Thurman
We stop at the dry cleaners and the grocery store and the gas station and the green market and Hurry up honey, I say, hurry hurry, as she runs along two or three steps behind me her blue jacket unzipped and her socks rolled down. Where do I want her to hurry to? To her grave? To mine? Where one day she might stand all grown? Today, when all the errands are finally done, I say to her, Honey I’m sorry I keep saying Hurry— you walk ahead of me. You be the mother. And, Hurry up, she says, over her shoulder, looking back at me, laughing. Hurry up now darling, she says, hurry, hurry, taking the house keys from my hands.
O Lord of the lords and faceless Maker of faces!
What face are you ordaining for me?
I know You know, and I do not. Sometimes I’m stone and sometimes iron;
at other times I’m all fire.
Sometimes I’m a balance without a weight;
sometimes I’m both weight and balance. Sometimes I graze here,
and at other times they graze on me.
Sometimes I’m a wolf, and sometimes I’m a ewe,
yet at other times I am the very shepherd. They seemed important, these signs,
but how could they ever last?
Neither this nor that will last,
and only He to whom I belong knows what I am.
— Rumi “Sometimes This, Sometimes That”
Texts for preaching | The Christian Century →
I particularly enjoyed Ayanna Johnson, Matt Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Myer Boulton’s thoughts on the matter.
Article: John Steinbeck on Falling in Love: A 1958 Letter | Brain Pickings →
John Steinbeck on Falling in Love: A 1958 Letter | Brain Pickings
The time has come - it is long overdue - for a Christianity that is fresh and vital and in conformity with established truth, but, what is no less important, proves its reality by the test-tube method of corresponding results. Too long our Christianity has consisted of words - has begun and ended in words. We must have a Christianity that is self-demonstrative in results. Too long the Church has seen the world sag down to the pagan level and fight the wars which it has blessed and furnished youth to go out to fight, instead of being the organ of that divine love - that agape - which Christ lived and died to illustrate and transmit. And when these disastrous wars were over the Church has contented itself once more with pious words and talk instead of organizing a crusade of love to feed the hungry and rebuild the world on nobler lines. Every local church in Christendom ought to be a creative center of transforming life and love in its community…We should then have a Christianity of power and not one of ancient statements and present-day talk.
— Rufus Jones (A Call to What is Vital, 1948: 9).
I going to say something that’s really difficult for me to be honest about: tonight is the first time I have ever listened to Dylan’s “Self Portrait” album and in true fashion, I like it. I think the big hang up for me has been the cover, plus I confused it with an album of his from the late 80s, an era of Dylan’s music which I justifiably have an aversion to. Dylanologists everywhere please forgive me.
I like the sound of the album and its similarities to Nashville Skyline. The folks covers are lost on me (I’m sorry to say) since I wouldn’t have know they are covers.
But I have to say the first song is what really grabbed me:
All the tired horses in the sun How’m I supposed to get any ridin’ done? Hmm.
From All the Tired Horses
