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Quoting Poetically: The Buddha on the Desire to Have All the Answers 2008-11-12 10:01:44 Image Source:buddha-said.net
A man approached the Blessed One and wanted to have all his philosophical questions answered before he would practice.
In response, the Buddha
said, “It is as if a man had been wounded by a poisoned arrow and when attended to by a physician were to say, ‘I will not allow you to remove this [...] Read more:Desire
Quoting Poetically: Blaine Lee on the Crippling Power of Doubt 2008-11-12 08:31:27 Spongebob is ready!
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“Doubt is most often the source of our powerlessness. To doubt is to be faithless, to be without hope or belief. When we doubt, our self-talk sound like this: ‘I don’t think I can. I don’t think I will.’ …To doubt is to have faith in the worst possible outcome. It [...] Read more:Blaine
Keith Olbermann on Why Gay Marriage is a Question of Love and Why I Argee 2008-11-11 14:04:44 This is a recent comment by MSNBC’s KeithOlbermann
on gay marriage and its being not about the homosexual act of homosexual sex or promiscuity, perversion, orgiastic lust or an act involving other heterosexual people in any kind of topsy-turvy abomination of the pure and devoted love each person is called upon by the God [...] Read more:Question
Malcolm X on Brotherhood 2008-11-10 13:33:26 In an interview shortly before his death, Malcolm
X discussed why he had left the Nation of Islam, and why he was not a racist or a segregationist. Many times he is portrayed as such because of his early views advocating freedom “by any means necessary.” Yet it is to be noted that toward the [...] Read more:Brotherhood
Customer service… um… yeah. 2008-11-08 22:00:57 Many of us have had less than service-like customer service experiences - long wait times, language barriers and what seemed like hours of being tossed from worker to worker, desk to desk. We question service charges and cancel accounts only to find that we’re still being charged for last month’s non use of a service. [...] Read more:Customer
From the Archives: What do you believe? What do you do when you don’t fit the model? 2008-11-06 22:00:07 Articles of Faith will be back next week. For now, here’s something from the archives.
What do you believe
? It seems simple to answer for some people who have firmly planted feet in one area or another. One says, “I’m a Democrat!” or “I’m a Christian!” or an or “I’m an Environmentalist!” while happily smiling and [...] Read more:Archives
, model
Quoting Poetically: Barack Obama on the Diversity of the American Spirit 2008-11-06 02:04:03 Insert your personal picture of a united country here.
“If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.”
“It’s the answer [...] Read more:American
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Thank you for this moment, President Elect Obama! 2008-11-05 02:15:24 It seems that once in a generation people of character are made to inspire people across any and all borders and boundaries, for me, and many others across the world, Barack Obama
did just that with his victory speech last night. I don’t know who wrote this soaring declaration of unrelenting and unmitigated hope, but [...] Read more:Elect
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Malcolm Gladwell’s Homage to the Late Bloomer 2008-12-02 15:56:56 Also featured at Art from the Outskirts.
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Ben Fountain was an associate in the real-estate practice at the Dallas offices of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, just a few years out of law school, when he decided he wanted to write fiction. The only thing Fountain had ever published was a law-review article. His literary [...] Read more:Homage
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A Scary Reminder of the Fragility of Good Journalism 2008-12-01 12:40:32 NPR logo
Journalists are stewards of information. But at what cost?
National Public Radio correspondent Ivan Watson was literally a few footsteps away from death yesterday in Baghdad as he and three others he was traveling with were greeted with a “sticky car bomb” which was attached to their already armored BMW. The bomb exploded minutes before [...] Read more:Reminder
, Scary
Weekend Philosophy: Robert Anton Wilson on Quantum Mechanics 2008-11-29 10:38:36 What if someone supposed to you that all you see, hear, feel, taste, touch is a collection of interactions and your ideas about the world are formed by other ideas upon other interactions. You say, “The sky is blue.” But then you realize it is only because your eyes are set up to see a [...] Read more:Anton
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Giving Thanks to Today.com 2008-11-26 11:22:54 For the fact that America will be celebrating the Thanks
giving holiday with friends and family, I’m taking this time to thank everyone at Today
.com who makes this blog possible. You may think it’s a small thing, but this blog allows me to fulfill what I feel is a kind of calling to communicate with people [...] Read more:Giving
“My Letter to Hip Hop” by Bridget Gray (2000) 2008-11-25 13:41:49 Yes, hip hop: the beats, the rhymes, the verses and the eloquence are moving some to new plateaus of greatness. Well, in an ideal world, that’s what poetic waxer’s like me would wish hip hop to do. Yet, the reality of mainstream, popular hip hop has lead my ears to bleed with sorrow at what [...] Read more:Bridget
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“How to Write a Political Poem” by Taylor Mali 2008-11-24 09:51:13 This morning as I woke up I wanted to write something powerful about world events, but as with most things, anything worth doing is worth doing correctly and with care. So rather than rushing to the “wordpresses” on the research-heavy topics of the Venezuelan elections, the assumed Zimbabwean collapse, and militant Thai protests, here’s [...] Read more:Taylor
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From the Archives: Three Practical Tips for Cutting Costs and Living Well 2008-11-22 23:00:38 From July 8, 2008 (with minor changes)
As I went through all the headlines today, I couldn’t help but notice all the emphasis on bailing out the economy (particularly in the U.S.). From reducing oil costs to curbing sub-prime mortgage lending and paying for college, it all seems so pessimistic! But before any of you readers [...] Read more:Archives
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