Chris Matthews: On election night, open your heart
Friday, July 25th, 2008“Kids don’t think about race.
Think like your kids for once.
Think the way they think.” — Chris Matthews
Hat tip to Daily Kos.
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The gas nozzle speech
Thursday, July 17th, 2008“Let America produce again.”–Sen. Larry Craig
The change we must change
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008“Gosh I’m tired of divisive exchange,
And I got one or two things
to say about change
Like the change we must change
To the change we hold dear
I really like change
Have I made myself clear?”
John McCain vows to get more familiar with the Internet
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008“What we have to do now is embrace this new technology …” — John McCain
Very bad news
Thursday, July 10th, 2008“You have AIDS.”
“AIDS. You know, your problem, Henry, is that you are hung up on words. On labels. That you believe they mean what they seem to mean. AIDS. Homosexual. Gay. Lesbian. You think these are names that tell you who someone sleeps with. They don’t tell you that.”
“No?”
“No. Like all labels, they tell you one thing, and one thing only: where does an individual so identified fit in the food chain. In the pecking order. Not ideology. Not sexual taste. But something much simpler. Clout.” — from “Angels in America” by Tony Kushner
Sphere: Related ContentDid Jesus Christ rise from the dead? I read from my journal, Soulfully Gay
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008Reading from Joe Perez’s Soulfully Gay:
Wednesday, Dec. 31
Literal belief in a resurrection is not important to me, nor to a great many spiritual people. Nor, apparently was it important to the authors of the Gospel of Mark, which does not include the resurrection and overall leaves the impression that Jesus’s disciples were still very much struggling with what to think of Him after he was crucified.
There are many myths in countless religions and folktales of human or divine figures that rose from the dead. In my own opinion, Christianity’s belief in Jesus’s resurrection is but one of the most popular examples of such a myth. Belief in a literal resurrection is akin to insisting that fairy tales really happened. If something never happened – and I very much doubt the historical reality of the resurrection and appearances of Jesus – no amount of insistenct that it did will make it so….
Sunday, Feb. 15
Did Jesus really rise from the dead? No. And if I could have been there with a Polaroid camera, what would I have seen? An empty tomb, some say. In the Gospel of Mark there is no resurrection. But there is an empty tomb. I tell myself that I don’t have to have all the answers, yet another part keeps searching. Searching for what? What answers do I expect to find? The corpse of Jesus, rotting in the grave. And two millennia of Christians whose hopes were as vain as Jesus’s plea on the cross: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? …
Sunday, June 6:
Could it be? Could it be? Resurrection of the body … astral body … apparitions … appearances … spiritual being … veil of appearance … bilocation … I’m so humbled my knees are weak. Could I have been wrong about so many things all these years? Wrong about faith? Wrong even about the resurrection of Christ? And wrong about something else, too, a dim memory from nearly five years ago. Could I have been wrong about that?! …
Wednesday, October 13:
Did Jesus really rise from the dead? For the first time in many years, my answer to this question is Yes, I do believe. What changed? Part of the answer involves a story of a riddle from my past: a troubling breakdown and spiritual experience at age 30, confinement in a psychiatric ward for a time, visions in a hospital room, and an unexpected sight outside my room. I told this story in my journal (see entries on June 8 and June 15), and I’ll have a bit more to say about it. And part of the answer involves a topic I’ve written about: my encounter with the integral philosophy. But for now, here’s how the story ends: my mind accepts the reality of the resurrection….
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008“I was just reflecting on the nature of Metta…”
The Forer effect
Sunday, July 6th, 2008“Do you really think astrologers, palm readers, and the like can really tell everything about you?”
Thanks to Julian Walker for the link.
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or whether the dooer of good deeds could have done better…” — Teddy Roosevelt
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