1.15.2012
Western nations cannot escape blame for climate change East African
Western nations cannot escape blame for climate change
East African - 1 hour ago
A study published last December in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics indicated that climate changes since 1850 are linked to cyclical, predictable, naturally occurring events in Earth's solar system with little or no help from ...
1.14.2012
LOVE AS I HAVE LOVED: Michelle Obama: I'm a "112 percenter" CBS News
Michelle Obama: I'm a "112 percenter"
CBS News - 2 hours ago
"CBS This Morning" co-host Gayle King sat down for an exclusive, wide-ranging interview in the White house this week with Michelle Obama. In a portion aired on "CBS This Morning: Saturday," the First Lady offers insight into her personality type, ...
'The Dead can Allow Environmental Genocide, not the Living.' SL
'The Dead can Allow Environmental Genocide, not the Living.' SL
1.13.2012
GODLY: Justice minister says all same-sex marriages 'valid' CTV.ca
Justice minister says all same-sex marriages 'valid'
CTV.ca - 26 minutes ago
Canada's justice minister says all same-sex marriages performed in Canada are legally recognized and the government is working to ensure foreign couples married here can divorce if they chose to.
OBAMA PEACE MAKER: Israeli Leader Says He Sees Sanctions Beginning to Work on Iran New York Times
Israeli Leader Says He Sees Sanctions Beginning to Work on Iran
New York Times - 2 hours ago
JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said in an interview published on Saturday that new economic sanctions against Iran aimed at stopping its contentious nuclear program appeared to be having an effect and, if combined with a threat ...
Kathleen Edward, Girl Taunted Online While Battling Huntington's Disease, Dies ABC News
Kathleen Edward, Girl Taunted Online While Battling Huntington's Disease, Dies
ABC News - 15 minutes ago
The 9-year-old Michigan girl taunted on Facebook by neighbors while she suffered from a terminal disease died Wednesday, according to WXYZ-TV.
Investors say private sector must tackle climate change Reuters
Investors say private sector must tackle climate change
Reuters - 22 hours ago
By Deborah Zabarenko | UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Institutional investors with a collective $26 trillion under management opened a new front on Thursday in the fight against climate change, urging the private sector to mobilize, follow the money and ...
Change in the wind for investors Adelaide Now
Climate Change Activists Need To Talk About Population Too National Geographic
Climate Change Activists Need To Talk About Population Too
National Geographic - 2 hours ago
Maps prepared by Population Action International overlay data on populations with high growth rates and low resilience to climate change. “The environment does not exist as a sphere separate from human actions, ambitions, and needs, and attempts to ...
Obama takes in film with Tuskegee Airmen USA TODAY
Obama takes in film with Tuskegee Airmen
USA TODAY (blog) - 46 minutes ago
By David Jackson, USA TODAY President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama host a screening this afternoon of Red Tails, along with some of the subjects of the film: Members of the Tuskegee Airmen, the legendary all-black pilots and ground crew who ...
A call for young people to 'get angry' about global warming GlobalPost
A call for young people to 'get angry' about global warming
GlobalPost (blog) - 2 hours ago
Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland, speaks at a panel organized by Aspen Global Health and Development on global warming and family planning on Jan. 13, 2012. (Elise Mann/Courtesy) WASHINGTON, DC - The elder stateswoman called on the younger ...
OBAMA PEACEMAKER: US Restores Myanmar Ties in Response to Rapid Reforms New York Times
US Restores Myanmar Ties in Response to Rapid Reforms
New York Times - 15 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - The United States restored diplomatic relations with Myanmar on Friday, responding to the new civilian government's rapid campaign of political and economic changes that most recently included a cease-fire with ethnic Karen rebels and the ...
Burma reforms leave many disorientated by pace of change The Guardian
It's Time for America to Negotiate With the Taliban The Atlantic
It's Time for America to Negotiate With the Taliban
The Atlantic - 1 hour ago
By David Rohde News that the Obama administration is carrying out secret negotiations with the Taliban has barely registered as a blip on the American political landscape.
'My Religion: Loving All of Creation, Loving all People. Period. Same as Jesus.' SL
'My Religion: Loving All of Creation, Loving all People. Period. Same as Jesus.' SL
GODLESS CHURCH: Priest with gambling habit facing prison in Vegas - AP - msnbc.com
Priest with gambling habit facing prison in Vegas - AP - msnbc.com
San Francisco Luxury News - 1 hour ago
What's going on in the world today? Here is an interesting news item we saw. An excerpt from the article, “Priest with gambling habit facing prison in Vegas - AP - msnbc.
Priest with gambling habit facing prison in Vegas Las Vegas SunCaterpillar destroys homes from Ontario to Palestine: Standing up to corporate ... rabble.ca
Caterpillar destroys homes from Ontario to Palestine: Standing up to corporate ...
rabble.ca - 1 hour ago
By David Heap LONDON, ONTARIO -- "Caterpillar equipment is used to destroy homes in Palestine. Kind of like what Caterpillar is trying to do to our homes here in London," a locked-out worker commented outside the Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD) plant last ...
Israeli supreme court orders destruction of outposts ABC Online
Israeli supreme court orders destruction of outposts
ABC Online - 1 hour ago
Now the country's supreme court has weighed in on the debate which could prove problematic for prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. TRACY BOWDEN, PRESENTER: For years Israeli governments have pledged to tear down illegal outposts built on land that ...
1.12.2012
'Voluntary Poverty, pursuit of suffering - Perversions.' SL
Friend, This morning, first time in weeks I've been to that food kitchen, mail drop, your kind card was waiting, and the seeds. 
It is indeed a lovely quote, and much more significant is your kindness, perceptiveness behind it. [Quote about how the seed, in losing itself, gives life to the plant, and the larva thereby becomes the butterfly.]
This morning on the 20 minute walk from my sidewalk bed, to this homeless food place several notions were running through my head, all around a central theme - THE central theme - Salvation IS Devoting Ourselves Totally to Our Global Neediest - truly, enSlaving ourselves as Jesus speaks of so often.
Is e=mcsqd true because Einstein said it? Same with Jesus. But Einstein saw what others did not, and same with Jesus.
You’re so thoughtful note brought further to mind - Salvation IS Devoting Ourselves Totally, OUT OF LOVE, SOLIDARITY, BROTHERHOOD to Our Global Neediest.
A major gift to me within recent weeks, probably just after Christ-mass as I was studying Jesus' words. I'd seen two places where Jesus distills for us the entire, complete, whole Gospel - Good news - The story of the Good Samaritan, and the Two Commandments - Love God, Love your neighbor. But this Christ-mass I was given the present of seeing the third place he does this. It is scripture I've long loved because it was central to one of Dr. King's sermons, one of his last I think - Drum Major Instinct it may have been called, but that was its central theme. In it, he cites how the mother of James and John came to Jesus and said, 'Uh, Jesus, I'd really like for James and John to sit at your left hand and your right.' 'That is not mine to give,' Jesus told her. 'Whoever is the Servant of ALL (ALL) [ALL].' Duh, but I just hadn't seen how total, complete, sufficient this was. It is the entire deal.
Uh, Start, what's this all about? Where's this coming from?????
The albino in Da Vinci Code is the church - so perverted, so twisted. That’s not my point. But why, WHY, with so many virtuous things said, mentioned, talked about...? How could it be soooooo far from Jesus? The Saints, what we are all born to be, are generally materially poor. Ok. But a vow of poverty? They often suffer physically. But pursue suffering? I've seen this conflict since I was a child, and been deeply, deeply troubled and alarmed by it - not by the suffering, not by the poverty, but by the deliberate pursuit as sanctioned by the 'chruch.' NO, I thought, this is convoluted, this is perverted.
START, THE POINT!!!! There is so much good intent, truth, beauty in the quote you sent me, and sooooo many like it throughout the ages, from all traditions. But as much as anything they are actually the cause, or a major contributor to our being soooooo lost, perverted, convoluted. Huh? WE LOSE, WE'VE LOST THE PERSPECTIVE, THE WHY, THE MEANING. Maybe on purpose. Probably, sick tho it is, on purpose. Voluntary pursuit of poverty is a sick, perverted, lustful thing to do. NOT an exercise of the Heart, our Father's Kingdom. Voluntary pursuit of suffering is a sick, perverted, lustful, pleasure seeking thing to do. NOT an exercise of the Heart, our Father's Kingdom. Letting go of one's life, like the 'seed' does, FOR ITSELF, FOR ONESELF, the same. Moving from being a crawling thing, to a butterfly, FOR ITSELF, FOR ONESELF, the same!!!!
THE POINT, START, THE POINT!!!!!!!!! Every cell, every organ in your body, if it is healthy, from the instant it is conceived, till the instant it expires, IS 1 MILLION % DEVOTED, ENSLAVED, SERVANT OF... THE BODY. Unless and until it chooses Cancer as a 'better way.' Well, if it does that, it still metabolizes, it still does 'cell' stuff, 'organ' stuff, BUT IT HAS TOTALLY LOST THE REFERENCE, THE ONLY REFERENCE, FOR WHICH IT WAS CREATED, THE ONLY REFERENCE THAT CAN GIVE IT'S LIFE JJJOOOOYYYYFFFFUUUUULLLL MEANING!!!! - THE WELLBEING OF THE BODY -
Saints tend to be poor, not for itself, but because they have RETAINED the meaning for which we all are born - devotion to the Neediest parts of the body. They tend to 'suffer' (tho they pay the suffering no mind) for the same reason. 'Dying' as a seed does goes from being twisted perversion, cult like stuff, to magnificent, beautiful, exquisite when it goes from being a thing in itself, to the way it gives life to the Body, and same with the larva, caterpillar, and butterfly. Cancer, or Devoted Tissue. The form can be near identical. But except when the form is entirely, totally, completely tied to the purpose - the wellbeing of the Body, and hence, it's neediest, it is Cancer, putrid, deadly, fascinating Cancer.
OMG Start, who do you think you are? I send you a nice note and you give me this lecture? Do you think I don't know all this? I know I didn't, and as recently as 3-4 days ago, I, a pretty advanced practitioner FORGOT, and in hours wound up Lost, in the Depths of Despair. And then I remembered, and quickly the True Beauty of the Seed, of the Butterfly took prominence and the pain receded out of consciousness.
xx sl
It is indeed a lovely quote, and much more significant is your kindness, perceptiveness behind it. [Quote about how the seed, in losing itself, gives life to the plant, and the larva thereby becomes the butterfly.]This morning on the 20 minute walk from my sidewalk bed, to this homeless food place several notions were running through my head, all around a central theme - THE central theme - Salvation IS Devoting Ourselves Totally to Our Global Neediest - truly, enSlaving ourselves as Jesus speaks of so often.
Is e=mcsqd true because Einstein said it? Same with Jesus. But Einstein saw what others did not, and same with Jesus.
You’re so thoughtful note brought further to mind - Salvation IS Devoting Ourselves Totally, OUT OF LOVE, SOLIDARITY, BROTHERHOOD to Our Global Neediest.
A major gift to me within recent weeks, probably just after Christ-mass as I was studying Jesus' words. I'd seen two places where Jesus distills for us the entire, complete, whole Gospel - Good news - The story of the Good Samaritan, and the Two Commandments - Love God, Love your neighbor. But this Christ-mass I was given the present of seeing the third place he does this. It is scripture I've long loved because it was central to one of Dr. King's sermons, one of his last I think - Drum Major Instinct it may have been called, but that was its central theme. In it, he cites how the mother of James and John came to Jesus and said, 'Uh, Jesus, I'd really like for James and John to sit at your left hand and your right.' 'That is not mine to give,' Jesus told her. 'Whoever is the Servant of ALL (ALL) [ALL].' Duh, but I just hadn't seen how total, complete, sufficient this was. It is the entire deal.
Uh, Start, what's this all about? Where's this coming from?????
The albino in Da Vinci Code is the church - so perverted, so twisted. That’s not my point. But why, WHY, with so many virtuous things said, mentioned, talked about...? How could it be soooooo far from Jesus? The Saints, what we are all born to be, are generally materially poor. Ok. But a vow of poverty? They often suffer physically. But pursue suffering? I've seen this conflict since I was a child, and been deeply, deeply troubled and alarmed by it - not by the suffering, not by the poverty, but by the deliberate pursuit as sanctioned by the 'chruch.' NO, I thought, this is convoluted, this is perverted.
START, THE POINT!!!! There is so much good intent, truth, beauty in the quote you sent me, and sooooo many like it throughout the ages, from all traditions. But as much as anything they are actually the cause, or a major contributor to our being soooooo lost, perverted, convoluted. Huh? WE LOSE, WE'VE LOST THE PERSPECTIVE, THE WHY, THE MEANING. Maybe on purpose. Probably, sick tho it is, on purpose. Voluntary pursuit of poverty is a sick, perverted, lustful thing to do. NOT an exercise of the Heart, our Father's Kingdom. Voluntary pursuit of suffering is a sick, perverted, lustful, pleasure seeking thing to do. NOT an exercise of the Heart, our Father's Kingdom. Letting go of one's life, like the 'seed' does, FOR ITSELF, FOR ONESELF, the same. Moving from being a crawling thing, to a butterfly, FOR ITSELF, FOR ONESELF, the same!!!!
THE POINT, START, THE POINT!!!!!!!!! Every cell, every organ in your body, if it is healthy, from the instant it is conceived, till the instant it expires, IS 1 MILLION % DEVOTED, ENSLAVED, SERVANT OF... THE BODY. Unless and until it chooses Cancer as a 'better way.' Well, if it does that, it still metabolizes, it still does 'cell' stuff, 'organ' stuff, BUT IT HAS TOTALLY LOST THE REFERENCE, THE ONLY REFERENCE, FOR WHICH IT WAS CREATED, THE ONLY REFERENCE THAT CAN GIVE IT'S LIFE JJJOOOOYYYYFFFFUUUUULLLL MEANING!!!! - THE WELLBEING OF THE BODY -
Saints tend to be poor, not for itself, but because they have RETAINED the meaning for which we all are born - devotion to the Neediest parts of the body. They tend to 'suffer' (tho they pay the suffering no mind) for the same reason. 'Dying' as a seed does goes from being twisted perversion, cult like stuff, to magnificent, beautiful, exquisite when it goes from being a thing in itself, to the way it gives life to the Body, and same with the larva, caterpillar, and butterfly. Cancer, or Devoted Tissue. The form can be near identical. But except when the form is entirely, totally, completely tied to the purpose - the wellbeing of the Body, and hence, it's neediest, it is Cancer, putrid, deadly, fascinating Cancer.
OMG Start, who do you think you are? I send you a nice note and you give me this lecture? Do you think I don't know all this? I know I didn't, and as recently as 3-4 days ago, I, a pretty advanced practitioner FORGOT, and in hours wound up Lost, in the Depths of Despair. And then I remembered, and quickly the True Beauty of the Seed, of the Butterfly took prominence and the pain receded out of consciousness.
xx sl
GOD DAMN CATHOLICS: Chamber head pushes oil pipeline, defends Romney Atlanta
Chamber head pushes oil pipeline, defends Romney
Atlanta Journal Constitution - 53 minutes ago
By JIM KUHNHENN AP WASHINGTON - The president of the US Chamber of Commerce on Thursday criticized President Barack Obama's administration for pushing regulations and for not approving a cross-country oil pipeline and defended Republican presidential ...
Chamber chief Donohue calls rivals' attacks on Romney 'foolish' Los Angeles Times
Israel upholds citizenship bar for Palestinian spouses BBC News
Israel upholds citizenship bar for Palestinian spouses
BBC News - 51 minutes ago
Israel's Supreme Court has upheld a law banning Palestinians who marry Israelis from gaining Israeli citizenship. Civil rights groups had petitioned the court to overturn the law, saying it was unconstitutional.
Palestinians agree to two per cent land swap gulfnews.com1.11.2012
Israeli Nazi's Win! Run out clock! EU on verge of abandoning hope for a viable Palestinian state The Independent
EU on verge of abandoning hope for a viable Palestinian state
The Independent - 44 minutes ago
The Independent's Jerusalem correspondent since 2004, Donald Macintyre was the paper's Chief Political Commentator for eight years and before that Political Editor of The Independent and The Independent on Sunday.
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