nd. Seen on Facebook. Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life. Note: that would be me.
posted from Bloggeroid
12.03.2014
nd. Note to a young friend that not unlike Albert Schweitzer is devoting his young life too needy brothers and sisters in the poorest parts of Africa. He has just informed me that he has been given charge of a hospital in extremely poor, war threatened Africa, that is so needy that friends of the children had to abandon it : Because you know me, this probably won't surprise you too much. But the me that would have been horrified at a hospital with little equipment, etc., no longer feels such her. the horror in life is not dying. The horror in life is not physical suffering, so much. The horror in life is not-loving, and to not knowing loving. If the creator told me that today I had to bring a child into the world, but I could bring that child into the 2014 world or the world of 1491 America or the world of Africa before the white Europeans ever set foot there... I would refuse 2014, I would gladly accept either of the other two options..... But if I were offered the opportunity to be alive today or some prior time I could well choose today. No credit to me I am loving, and loving wants the most dire situations in which to be helpful, and that describes today pretty well. As I've said, you have one of the few enviable lives that I am aware of today, personally, or in the news. I feel the same way about my own life, enviable. There is no one on earth today with whom I would choose to trade lives for quality of life over mine.
Note to a young friend that not unlike Albert Schweitzer is devoting his young life too needy brothers and sisters in the poorest parts of Africa. He has just informed me that he has been given charge of a hospital in extremely poor, war threatened Africa, that is so needy that friends of the children had to abandon it : Because you know me, this probably won't surprise you too much. But the me that would have been horrified at a hospital with little equipment, etc., no longer feels such her. the horror in life is not dying. The horror in life is not physical suffering, so much. The horror in life is not-loving, and to not knowing loving. If the creator told me that today I had to bring a child into the world, but I could bring that child into the 2014 world or the world of 1491 America or the world of Africa before the white Europeans ever set foot there... I would refuse 2014, I would gladly accept either of the other two options..... But if I were offered the opportunity to be alive today or some prior time I could well choose today. No credit to me I am loving, and loving wants the most dire situations in which to be helpful, and that describes today pretty well. As I've said, you have one of the few enviable lives that I am aware of today, personally, or in the news. I feel the same way about my own life, enviable. There is no one on earth today with whom I would choose to trade lives for quality of life over mine.
posted from Bloggeroid
***** nd. There are two kinds of people: Those who live for the neediest... and those who live for 'me and mine'... They are the Living, and Walking Dead... Givers and Takers... Life Givers and Cancer... Life and Death... JOYFUL, AND INTOXICATED..respectively. There is nothing else in life nearly so important to know, besides this, really.
***** nd. There are two kinds of people: Those who live for the neediest... and those who live for 'me and mine'... They are the Living, and Walking Dead... Givers and Takers... Life Givers and Cancer... Life and Death... JOYFUL, AND INTOXICATED..respectively. There is nothing else in life nearly so important to know, besides this, really.
'There is no American Dream': Why one US professor believes the national ethos is an illusion and the country has the same level of social mobility as medieval England Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2854440/There-no-American-Dream-one-professor-believes-national-ethos-illusion-country-no-higher-rate-social-mobility-medieval-England.html#ixzz3Kr7tcZ29 Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
'There is no American Dream': Why one US professor believes the national ethos is an illusion and the country has the same level of social mobility as medieval England
12.02.2014
detail. followup. On my 13 month cancer scan last week they found that a spot in my lung they have been watching for a couple of years is growing. I'm headed to the hospital for a pre-op consultation, whatever that means. Oh, lol, I did not know there was a spot on my lungs, & I did not know they were watching it. I wonder if this is payback time for the carton of cigarettes that an elementary school friend of mine and I stole from a drug store and smoked in one afternoon.
On my 13 month cancer scan last week they found that a spot in my lung
they have been watching for a couple of years is growing. I'm headed to
the hospital for a pre-op consultation, whatever that means. Oh, lol, I
did not know there was a spot on my lungs, & I did not know they
were watching it. I wonder if this is payback time for the carton of
cigarettes that an elementary school friend of mine and I stole from a
drug store and smoked in one afternoon.
.... now on the bus back from the hostpital:
* They think it likely it is more of my colon cancer... in the lung now.
* Wise to take it out now... so I will. Three small incisions, they insert a camera, find it, snip it out. Tentatively scheduled for the 15th... after congress goes back to their holes... I don't want to miss time expressing my contempt for them on the hill this week and next. And I hate the holidays... our time of special worship of our addiction to stuff... we over-privileged.
* Over night in hosp recovering... maybe 2 nd nite.
* The liver DOES NOT GROW BACK! Huh? She showed me on the scan... the big cavaty, now filled with bowel... where the liver DOES NOT GROW BACK! LOL. Communication is NOT the strong suit of these folks.
.... now on the bus back from the hostpital:
* They think it likely it is more of my colon cancer... in the lung now.
* Wise to take it out now... so I will. Three small incisions, they insert a camera, find it, snip it out. Tentatively scheduled for the 15th... after congress goes back to their holes... I don't want to miss time expressing my contempt for them on the hill this week and next. And I hate the holidays... our time of special worship of our addiction to stuff... we over-privileged.
* Over night in hosp recovering... maybe 2 nd nite.
* The liver DOES NOT GROW BACK! Huh? She showed me on the scan... the big cavaty, now filled with bowel... where the liver DOES NOT GROW BACK! LOL. Communication is NOT the strong suit of these folks.
***** "I'd rather die... than do what Israelis are doing to the Palestinians," I told the earnest young Israeli that asked me at the White House, incredulous, "Wouldn't you do what we are if 'missiles' are raining down on you?" "I'd rather die, and have all my loved ones die, than to terrorize, torment, torture... millions of people so I could 'feel safe' on their land I'd stolen."
***** "I'd rather die... than do what Israelis are doing to the Palestinians," I told the earnest young Israeli that asked me at the White House, incredulous, "Wouldn't you do what we are if 'missiles' are raining down on you?" "I'd rather die, and have all my loved ones die, than to terrorize, torment, torture... millions of people so I could 'feel safe' on their land I'd stolen."
***** pic. "As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome." Noam Chomsky
***** pic. "As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome." Noam Chomsky
12.01.2014
11.30.2014
***** Central to my life experience, my professional training, my professional work, my study of activism, my practice of activism,... There is nothing more central in my life, there is nothing that I value more in my life then what Gandhi spoke of as truth force, holding on to the truth, after devoting one's life to discovering what it is, holding on to that truth no matter the personal cost. I believe that holding on to the truth, embodying it, and therefore making it present, particularly the truth of a human tragedy, is the surest way to penetrate even the strongest defenses. It is a very low probability proposition, but it is still the surest way. I can think of no clear example of this in my life than this brief video. http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2014/11/wow-wowwwww-israeli-kids-watch.html
* Central to my life experience, my professional training, my professional work, my study of activism, my practice of activism,... There is nothing more central in my life, there is nothing that I value more in my life then what Gandhi spoke of as truth force, holding on to the truth, after devoting one's life to discovering what it is, holding on to that truth no matter the personal cost. I believe that holding on to the truth, embodying it, and therefore making it present, particularly the truth of a human tragedy, is the surest way to penetrate even the strongest defenses. It is a very low probability proposition, but it is still the surest way. I can think of no clear example of this in my life than this brief video. http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2014/11/wow-wowwwww-israeli-kids-watch.html
posted from Bloggeroid
***** article. Anyone who bemoans the weakening of Americans should look at the hardy homeless. It takes tremendous strength to get through a day. I’m stronger, healthier and happier than ever. There’s more respect for a homeless woman out on the streets than there is in a warehouse for Amazon workers.
11.29.2014
***** Israel Shahak's 'Jewish History, Jewish Religion,' I'm on my second reading of this professor from Tel Aviv University. By its core teaching, not Islam, but Judaism, is the religion of hate and terrorism. Much detail follows in this post. Please click link.
* To my fellow fighters for justice and freedom for Palestine: if you have not read and mastered the following book then you are profoundly disarmed in this fight for truth and justice. Just as you know it to be historical lie of genocidal proportions that Israel is the innocent party, and Palestine the guilty party, you may not know that at least as evil a lie is the notion that Islam is a religion of hate and that Judaism is nothing of the sort. Not the Torah, but the Talmud is the determinant of religious law for the Orthodox Jews and it requires such things as allowing all non Jews to die when otherwise they could be rescued from a disaster, and to mass murder every child man and woman Gentile, none Jew, if they might possibly be antagonistic to Jews; oh, and of course, to lie flatly about any such controversial laws to all non Jews. . Did I just say that every Jew follows these Orthodox, central, hateful, ragingly discriminatory, ragingly racist teachings? I say emphatically that many Jews practice the opposite, and reject this hateful teaching. But the right-wing Israeli government, from day one, has empowered, inflamed, and dispersed widely the hateful teachings at the core of the Jewish religion. And there are many in the Israeli military that are profound believers of this fanaticism. If you know this book to be in factual error, then please let me know. Otherwise, study it, master it, and with discipline, knowing that it absolutely does not apply to many many many Jews, then use the truth within this to fight for justice, freedom, and goodness for all. http://www.amazon.com/Jewish-History-Religion-Israel-Shahak/dp/074530818X
posted from Bloggeroid
Picture. When white Americans, the intellectual elite, respond with the same her, disgust, outrage, indignation... To the destruction of the social, emotional, and intellectual lives of the mass of American children of color, America will be worth saving, and capable thereof. Unlikely, but possible.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)