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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Sunday, July 17, 2011

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Independent Media, You Dummies

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media.jpg If you’re going to see and think your way clearly, you’re going to have to switch the view. If you want illumination as to true events, it’s better to plug into a thousand sources than be fed by one where the content must be skewed to suit the investments of the owners. The future of media lies in the hands of the people. (more)

 

Cry, Wolf

James William Gibson
wolfthumb2.jpg For decades, the Rocky Mountain states have been the center of an extreme right-wing culture that celebrates the image of man as "warrior." Now, a campaign of intimidation and disinformation has led to the gray wolf's removal from the Endangered Species List. Wolf blood will flow across the Rockies this fall and winter, but the killing might backfire. (more)

Where is Time?

Robert McCoy
doorthumb.jpg The Electric Universe theorizes a ubiquitous primal force trillions of times more powerful than 'gravity' -- electricity -- whose currents travel through space in spirals and form a network between all the planets and stars in the universe. It's electric, it's alive, and it's buzzing like Yankee Stadium on opening day.  (more)

Emerging Earthships

Morgan Maher
earthship-in-progress-small.jpgGuided by architect Michael Reynolds, 40 local Haitians aged four to 50 built an earthquake-proof, hurricane-resistant, ultra-sustainable building from waste materials in just four days. (more) 
 

Sacred Economics: Introduction

Charles Eisenstein
SacredEconomicscropthumb.jpg Humanity is only beginning to awaken to the true magnitude of the crisis at hand. If the economic transformation I describe seems miraculous, that is because nothing less than a miracle is needed to heal our world. – The first installment from Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition. (more)

Sacred Economics: Chapter 2, "The Illusion of Scarcity" (Pt. 3)

Charles Eisenstein
charlesthunb.jpg Why should money be the root of all evil? After all, the purpose of money is, at its most basic, simply to facilitate exchange — in other words, to connect human gifts with human needs. What power, what monstrous perversion, has turned money into the opposite: an agent of scarcity? – The third installment from Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition. (more)

Legalizing Mary

Chris Kaplan
5212467714_28c4169486_t.jpgUS congressmen Barney Frank and Ron Paul took a bipartisan stance to end marijuana prohibition last week. (more) 
 

The Devolution and Rebirth of Western Thought

Shunyamurti
thomas_quinethumb.jpg The line between rational thought and psychotic delusion has always been tenuous. Nowadays it is a permeable membrane. This problem has flared up as a result of the need for accounting for consciousness itself, the perennial black hole of scientific discourse. Is there a way to think through the situation without falling prey to dogmatism, delusion, and conspiracy theories? (more)



 

The Singularity Archetype and Human Metamorphosis

Jonathan Zap
A_Zap_CoverZ.jpg The Singularity Archetype is a resonance, flowing backward through time, of an approaching Singularity at the end of human history. Since the Singularity Archetype is a ubiquitous hologram, you don’t have to see it through my eyes. It is like a mote of light you can see reflected in the eyes of multitudes. (more)

Integration isn't Everything

Jay Michaelson
cavethumb2.jpg We're told that without integrating spiritual insights into our daily lives, even the greatest of peak experiences is just a narcissistic thrill. We say true spirituality, and certainly Jewish spirituality, is about being in the world. But I think we integrate too quickly, and use this language to avoid making the changes that true spirituality would demand of us. (more)

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 Sniffing Glue

I was homeschooled up until tenth grade, and my social life revolved around church. I grew up submersed in evangelical youth culture: reading Brio magazine, doing devotions in my Youth Walk Bible, eagerly awaiting the next installment of the Left Behind series, and developing a taste in music that ran the gamut from Christian rap to Christian pop to Christian rock.
While born-again rockers can be traced back to the Jesus People movement in the 1960s, the 1990s was the decade of Christian contemporary music, or CCM. In my early teens, new bands were popping up faster than I could follow. And Carman wasn’t the only established act revamping his sound for a younger crowd. Jon Gibson, a pop artist who produced what is generally considered the first Christian rap song (1986’s “The Wall”), argued that Christian musicians needed to be savvier in presenting teens with the gospel. He told CCM Magazine, “I want to sneak into their hearts with the music. Contemporary Christian music needs to branch out a little more, get a little sneakier.”
“Meeting kids where they’re at” was a relatively new concept for the church. My parents had grown up in an era when teens were supposed to sit in the pew and sing hymns along with everyone else. When I reached middle school, Christian youth leaders were anxiously discussing the battle for “cultural relevance”—one of the many marketing terms adopted by evangelicals. In the ’90s, mainline Protestant churches were losing members to the growing evangelical movement. With the explosion of rock-concert-style megachurches, many traditional congregations incorporated contemporary worship services in order to attract young people. For our dwindling Baptist congregation, this meant scrapping the organs and old hymns with arcane lyrics like “Now I raise my Ebenezer,” and replacing them with praise choruses led by “worship teams” of college kids with guitars and electric violins. It meant sermons full of pop culture allusions, with juicy titles (“Marriage in the Line of Fire,” “The Young and the Righteous”) designed to make conservative values seem radical and hip.
Traditionally, the church’s approach to secular music had been fear tactics: denouncing rock bands, staging record burnings. But this was the golden era of MTV, and Christian leaders, perhaps sensing they were up against a larger beast, opted for a more positive approach by promoting sanctioned (and sanctified) alternatives. Christian concerts became popular youth group events. My friends traveled to blowout festivals with names like “Acquire the Fire” or “Cornerstone.” Our youth pastor let us spray-paint the basement teen room with graffiti and tack up posters of born-again acts like Third Day and All Star United. At Wednesday night youth group, in lieu of a message, we’d often watch CCM music videos.

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