7.04.2013
Thoreau: ***** "When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed and drawn out, and the result, or staple production, is, not slaves, nor operatives, but men- those rare fruits called heroes, saints, poets, philosophers, and redeemers."
Thoreau: ***** "When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed and drawn out, and the result, or staple production, is, not slaves, nor operatives, but men- those rare fruits called heroes, saints, poets, philosophers, and redeemers."
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/WALDEN/Essays/life.html
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/WALDEN/Essays/life.html
Thoreau: "The chief want, in every State that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants."
Thoreau: "The chief want, in every
State that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its
inhabitants."
Thoreau: "America is said to be the arena on which the battle of freedom is to be fought; but surely it cannot be freedom in a merely political sense that is meant. Even if we grant that the American has freed himself from a political tyrant, he is still the slave of an economical and moral tyrant.... Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George and continue the slaves of King Prejudice?...What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom?...Is it a freedom to be slaves...?
Thoreau: "America is said to be the arena on which the battle of freedom is to be fought; but surely it cannot be freedom in a merely political sense that is meant. Even if we grant that the American has freed himself from a political tyrant, he is still the slave of an economical and moral tyrant.... Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George and continue the slaves of King Prejudice?...What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom?...Is it a freedom to be slaves...?"
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/WALDEN/Essays/life.html
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/WALDEN/Essays/life.html
Thoreeau: "Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven."
Thoreeau: "Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven."
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/WALDEN/Essays/life.html
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/WALDEN/Essays/life.html
Thoreau: "Shall the mind be a public arena, where the affairs of the street and the gossip of the tea-table chiefly are discussed? Or shall it be a quarter of heaven itself- an hypaethral temple, consecrated to the service of the gods?... Would it not be an intellectual and moral suicide?"
Thoreau: "Shall the mind be a public arena, where the affairs of the street and the gossip of the tea-table chiefly are discussed? Or shall it be a quarter of heaven itself- an hypaethral temple, consecrated to the service of the gods?... Would it not be an intellectual and moral suicide?"
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/WALDEN/Essays/life.html
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/WALDEN/Essays/life.html
Thoreau: "It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men."
Thoreau: "It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men." http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/WALDEN/Essays/life.html
***** Our Religion - Capitalism: "For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to everyone that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. For only they can lead us out of the tunnel of economic necessity into daylight." John Maynard Keynes
***** Our Religion - Capitalism: "For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to everyone that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. For only they can lead us out of the tunnel of economic necessity into daylight." John Maynard Keynes
Socrates. “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.”
Socrates. “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.”
Thoreau - "Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off."
Thoreau - "Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off." http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/WALDEN/Essays/life.html
Thoreau - "You must get your living by loving. But as it is said of the merchants that ninety-seven in a hundred fail, so the life of men generally, tried by this standard, is a failure, and bankruptcy may be surely prophesied."
Thoreau - "You must get your living by loving. But as it is said of the merchants that ninety-seven in a hundred fail, so the life of men generally, tried by this standard, is a failure, and bankruptcy may be surely prophesied." http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/WALDEN/Essays/life.html
Thoreau - If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that for me there would be nothing left worth living for.The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man. You may raise money enough to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding his own business. An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not. The inefficient offer their inefficiency to the highest bidder, and are forever expecting to be put into office. One would suppose that they were rarely disappointed.
"The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man. You may raise
money enough to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough
to hire a man who is minding his own business. An efficient and
valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or
not. The inefficient offer their inefficiency to the highest bidder,
and are forever expecting to be put into office. One would suppose
that they were rarely disappointed." Thoreau http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/WALDEN/Essays/life.html
Another high-growth day for my cancer, and not so good for me. :-( All I can do is sleep - so tired.
Another high-growth day for my cancer, and not so good for me. :-( All I can do is sleep - so tired.
***** This actually seems to be my life discovery, that Loving, that is, Serving from the Soul in Solidarity, IS LIFE, IS HEAVEN, is EXPERIENTIALLY SUPERIOR TO EVERY ALTERNATIVE, EVERY SECOND. How could this be, that this is my discovery? Well, either it is wrong, and ridiculous, or it is correct, and seems to be my discovery. All the Great Spirits I continue to study, they come so close to seeing this! And then they stop short, or turn, at just the wrong moment.
This actually seems to be my life discovery, that Loving, that is,
Serving from the Soul in Solidarity, IS LIFE, IS HEAVEN, is
EXPERIENTIALLY SUPERIOR TO EVERY ALTERNATIVE, EVERY SECOND. How could
this be, that this is my discovery? Well, either it is wrong, and
ridiculous, or it is correct, and seems to be my discovery. All the
Great Spirits I continue to study, they come so close to seeing this!
And then they stop short, or turn, at just the wrong moment.
Care about stopping ecocide? How much of your life are you paying to stop it?
Care about stopping ecocide? How much of your life are you paying to stop it?
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Novels take on the horrors of our global warming
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7.03.2013
The most critical work on earth is creating meaningful work enough for everyone.
The most critical work on earth is creating meaningful work enough for everyone.
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Top business journalists say no place for climate change deniers
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Climate change threatens Maine lobsters
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Carl Bernstein praises Edwards Snowden in for sparking needed debate
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