- Reframing "revulsion w/samsara": isn't it just cutting the conventional entailments of "this is thus and so therefor"? #
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- On pragmatism: To win the world / lose your soul … Jesus was just being silly? Christian doctrine is just baseless? Oy vey!
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- Best of the season to you all, and a very happy 2011.
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- Retail spending: up 2%. Donations: down almost 20%. *sigh*
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- "I am bringing you good news of great joy" … that life without self-serving contrivance is not so much harder, and a great deal better.
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- Fact: an airliner crash-landed into the Hudson. What folk say? "A plane crashed into the Hudson." Part useless, part misleading. meh
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- My point: wealth, you demand /even more/. Can't think your way out of a wet paper bag, but greedy as sin. And you want business as usual. YR
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GaynorMeenan398
– Why I'll be banning you as SPAMmer >
http://twitter.com/GaynorMeenan398/status/18763963256803328
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- Major diff crack-head / yuppie: the way you rationalize your response.
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govwiki
"Citizen engagement" … for 30+ yrs I've watched that concept get whittled down. No congratulations called for; co-optment.
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robinbloor
Loosely related: "The man is the head of the family. The woman is the neck, turning the head as she wishes." Bedouin wisdom. :)
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Woork
Fave gift: someone responded thoughtfully to a FaceBook status … un-prompted, and un-anticipated. cheers
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steverubel
My music this find this seaon (via car ad): "Janelle Monae" >
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwnefUaKCbc
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- heh … luv the concept. But know what? (As a sound-man engineer) … the hum… (YouTube
http://youtu.be/wobF_9f2_yg?a)
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- Pessimism/cynicism? Sure. How about dis-heartened. I can take a good tune and trax it into a symphony. Could. Why do? You're just junkies.
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- "Cold War" >
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqmORiHNtN4
< Reach out? You risk frost-bite … f'n yuppies. Sycophants.
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motownmutt
The other day my elder brother yet.again sang the praises of NGOs. I did diff: I didn't try to enter into lucid discourse.
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motownmutt
My X, Chilean, wrote her thesis on "professionalization" imposed by NGOs. Once was social fabric; now more pity than justice.
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- I've often enough found sources of happiness. I've bowed to them and then headed off, having them as oasis in a desert. You camp / monetize.
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motownmutt
My RainbowFamily analysis is that w/o solidarity/empathy everything is is fodder for ego trips. Zen 101. 25c pls. *grin* best 2U
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