It must demand the greatest will power. It must demand selfless sacrifice. To set yourself on fire to bring attention to injustice. It still happens in our world in which we think everything is OK. (BBC: Tibetan men in ‘first self-immolations in Lhasa’) We may not need to martyr ourselves though our political system is …
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Category:Philosophy
Chuck Lorre Vanity Cards
For a meaning of life … http://www.chucklorre.com for example: CHUCK LORRE PRODUCTIONS, #210 I believe that in order to walk through grief, fear, loneliness, despair, confusion and anger without recourse to drugs, alcohol, over-eating, over-sexing, or the endless mind-numbing distractions provided by Western culture, one must become a spiritual warrior. I further believe that the …
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Don’t give up.
“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.” Mahatma Gandhi This is the struggle to change for good. You are facing the torrent of fear and greed and trying to turn the flow, and yourself, to love. Until all humanity knows and feels the honesty of cosmic law, …
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Love
Love “Ai,” the traditional Chinese character for love (?) consists of a heart (middle) inside of “accept,” “feel,” or “perceive,” which shows a graceful emotion. It can also be interpreted as a hand offering ones heart to another hand. is patient is kind does not envy does not boast is not proud is not rude …
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Aren’t The King’s New Clothes Wonderful!?!
Danny Kaye’s is the version I loved as a boy, though Bernard Cribbins does it well too. If you can’t listen, the lyrics are all you need. If you don’t cry at the the irony, smile at the knowledge that there is an answer staring us in the face, even if we choose not to …
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Ray Anderson
His passion could make you cry. He turned the dirtiest of industries in to the cleanest. He set the example. He died 8 August 2011. You can hear him talk about changing the world here. Wikipedia’s entry is here. Here is an obituary from The Economist. And here is a little poem he liked to …
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The passion of dissent – Aung Sang Suu Kyi
Aung Sang Suu Kyi talks about her life and work as a political reformer. Listen to her on Radio 4 here. Hope without delusion. Suffering by choice. The spirit of change. Download the Reith Lectures podcast Read the transcript of Lecture 1
Uncyclopaedia, the content-free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Actually its quite insightful and funny. Reminds me of Yes Men or Onion. Worth a look for a reality check or when you’re searching for the meaning of life. For Example: Earth (or The Earth as it is known by its self-absorbed inhabitants) is the third planet …
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Humanity reacts to nature
from Savage Chickens
Looking at the dawn of time.
A telescope sent far in to space to study the oldest light in the Universe has returned its first images. The Planck observatory is surveying radiation that first swept out across space just 380,000 years after the Big Bang (15,000,000,000 years ago). The light holds details about the age, contents and evolution of the cosmos. …
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