4.26.2016
***** “Defining political issue of our time”: NYU grad student union overwhelmingly votes to boycott Israel over violations of Palestinian human rights
4.25.2016
***** All 64 of my years have taught me that Heaven is in embracing our inescapable greed and recognizing that our only choice is between pleasure and joy, and this is what we have been missing all these centuries and that this is what Jesus was on to and tried to point us toward. If I am incorrect in this then everything I've stood on that has seemed like Heaven itself for me all.......
***** All 64 of my years have taught me that Heaven is in embracing our inescapable greed and recognizing that our only choice is between pleasure and joy, and this is what we have been missing all these centuries and that this is what Jesus was on to and tried to point us toward. If I am incorrect in this then everything I've stood on that has seemed like Heaven itself for me all these last 15 years is mistaken. I don't see how that can be. I'm okay with it if I've been mistaken, but I just don't see how that can be. It explains everything that all the great souls in history including and especially that of Jesus have been living and dying to show us. If what I am saying is in fact correct, then I am not to be admired, but to be profoundly envied, zero credit to me. You know, I think the bottom line is this, if Jesus life is the most enviable life there ever was then what I'm saying is correct, and this is how I felt about his life from the very beginning, I envied the way I thought his life must feel, to love the world so much.... If his life was just the most admirable, then I am absolutely incorrect. James. ( Pleasure is what our nervous system rewards us with when it thinks we are satisfying me and mine. Joy is what our nervous system rewards us with when it thinks we are attempting some huge good for the neediest. ) ( This is a paraphrase of a wonderful conversation I was privileged to have with a great young social worker, of a Jesuit background, here in the city recently. )
4.23.2016
***** The key that I see, found by all the great enviable Souls throughout history, is rooting ones being in the task of reducing the suffering, and increasing the joy, of the neediest people. This saves one from a life of destructive addiction to pleasures, joylessness, mental masturbation.
***** The key that I see, found by all the great enviable Souls throughout history, is rooting ones being in the task of reducing the suffering, and increasing the joy, of the neediest people. This saves one from a life of destructive addiction to pleasures, joylessness, mental masturbation.
4.20.2016
You don't do what's right because it works. You do what's right because it's right.
You don't do what's right because it works. You do what's right because it's right.
A new era of anti-occupation Judaism American Jews have long overwhelmingly supported an end to the occupation, but increasingly, we are building an organized critical mass who are also willing to push our institutions and politicians in the same direction. IfNotNow takes its Passover message of liberation to Hillel and AIPAC.
4.12.2016
11 Bonhoeffer Quotes to Remember a Pastor Who Resisted Evil Unto Death
4.11.2016
***** “There is no shame for anyone to work any job," says woman who scavenges Gaza's rubble
3.30.2016
***** ***** The sanctuary church movement is on the rise again in California
3.13.2016
***** Witness. A one-in-a-million glimpse at what it is to be a human being. God bless his little soul.
2.18.2016
***** Our nervous system is designed to be capable of different ways of being. These are all encompassing like operating systems, operating environments. They take constant work to build and maintain and therefore it is virtually impossible to maintain more than one or to switch from one to another. The notion of paradigm.......
***** Our nervous system is designed to be capable of different ways of being. These are all encompassing like operating systems, operating environments. They take constant work to build and maintain and therefore it is virtually impossible to maintain more than one or to switch from one to another. The notion of paradigm comes into play here. My early life experiences caused me to build the paradigm of oneness with creation, by whatever name, or no name at all. Not one in a million in our culture is caused to create this paradigm; rather most are discouraged from doing so by the extreme punishments for doing so. I was and AM, no credit to me, some combination of unable, and profoundly morally unwilling, to create and employ the paradigm of Group, nation, me.
2.15.2016
***** At the right time, at the right place, in the right way, over the proper duration the seed must die before new growth comes. We are destroying everything with our unending reasons to take care of ourselves first. It is a morbid, self centered, selfish, pathological insanity.
***** At the right time, at the right place, in the right way, over the proper duration the seed must die before new growth comes. We are destroying everything with our unending reasons to take care of ourselves first. It is a morbid, self centered, selfish, pathological insanity.
2.01.2016
***** oh my god, through tears, what a magnificent soul. Just died. ", a 95 year old Sabra (native born Israeli Jew), who has plowed its fields, planted trees, built a house and fathered sons, grandsons and great-grandsons, and also shed his blood in the battle for the founding of the State of Israel, Declare herewith that I renounce my belief in the Zionism which has failed, that I shall not be loyal to the Jewish fascist state and its mad visions, that........
1.28.2016
***** To the point of almost unbearable isolation I scrupulously avoid inflicting the Life Path I follow upon anyone else. I follow the Path for the ultimate joy of it. I give my life to try and show the Path to others. But for many decades now, and increasingly, I pay an extreme personal price to avoid inflicting my path on anyone else.
***** To the point of almost unbearable isolation I scrupulously avoid inflicting the Life Path I follow upon anyone else. I follow the Path for the ultimate joy of it. I give my life to try and show the Path to others. But for many decades now, and increasingly, I pay an extreme personal price to avoid inflicting my path on anyone else.
1.27.2016
***** Jewish Critics of Zionism and of Israel’s Treatment of the Palestinians
1.17.2016
Sunday Profile: Providing homeless with a sense of worth
1.16.2016
***** The humanity, decency, compassion, understanding, intelligence... with which the Muslim community is responding to western white supremacist hatred, violence, murder, colonialism, exploitation, genocide... is the most Christlike.......
***** The humanity, decency, compassion, understanding, intelligence... with which the Muslim community is responding to western white supremacist hatred, violence, murder, colonialism, exploitation, genocide... is the most Christlike thing I can recall seeing in my life from a group. The only thing second to this that I can think of is the response of the true Jews ( adherence to the justice and righteousness of the Prophets) to the Zionist imperialism, genocide of the Palestinians, that they are facing with incredible courage, decency, discipline, paying the price, academic rigor....
1.15.2016
***** five star Cafe in Lebanon is free to refugees and others in need. Video
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1171202426253947&id=354522044588660
***** Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Jew.... The only thing that we can know is that we are all children of God... I believe in Love. Pope Francis
Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Jew.... The only thing that we can know is that we are all children of God... I believe in Love. Pope Francis
********* hooray hooray hooray! I believe in love. Watch. Share. Pope Francis video. I believe in love.
1.14.2016
***** young woman refuses to enter Israeli military, at extreme personal cost. This is a wager of loving, the one in a million, the only true revolutionaries, the only possible revolution.
This is a wager of loving, the one in a million, the only true revolutionaries, the only possible revolution.