Tuesday Open Thread: the one flow
Fr. Richard Rohr invites us to ask ourselves what it would be like if we chose to follow Jesus, St. Francis, Gandhi, Dorothy Day, and many others in a lifestyle of simplicity and caring for those in need?
Charles Eisenstein imagines what this could look like ...
I foresee . . . the restoration of humanity to a sacred estate. . . . I foresee the fulfillment, and not the abdication, of the gifts of hand and mind that make us human. . . . We are given not only the world, but the breath of life and our capacity to create—for we are made “in the image” of the Creator itself. . . .
In nature, headlong growth and all-out competition are features of immature ecosystems, followed by complex interdependency, symbiosis, cooperation, and the cycling of resources. The next stage of human economy will parallel what we are beginning to understand about nature. It will call forth the gifts of each of us; it will emphasize cooperation over competition; it will encourage circulation over hoarding; and it will be cyclical, not linear.
Contemplation makes it almost inevitable that your politics is going to change, the way you spend your time is going to be called into question, and any smug or inferior social and economic perspective will be slowly taken away from you. When anyone meditates consistently, the things that we think of as our necessary ego boundaries—giving us a sense of our independence, autonomy, and private self-importance—fall away, little by little, as unnecessary and even unhelpful. This imperial “I,” the self that most people think of as the only self, is not substantial or lasting at all. It is largely a creation of our own minds. Through contemplation, protecting this relative identity, this persona, eventually becomes of less and less concern. “Why would I bother with that?” the True Self asks.
If your prayer goes deep, invading your unconscious, your whole view of the world will change from fear to connection, because you don’t live inside your fragile and encapsulated self anymore. In meditation, you are moving from ego consciousness to soul awareness, from being driven to being drawn.
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In 1925 - John T. Scopes, a science teacher in Tennessee, was charged with violating the state's Butler Act, which made it illegal to teach evolution in Tennessee schools. The trial was based on the charge he did unlawfully and willfully teach in Tennessee schools certain theories that deny the story of the divine creation of man as told in the Bible. He was found guilty on July 21st and received a $100 fine.
In 1962 - Telstar, the world's first communications satellite a privately sponsored space launch was launched into orbit . The Telstar communications satellite relays the first live transatlantic television signal and the worlds telephone call transmitted through space on July 23rd.
In 1985 - The Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior is sunk when French agents plant a bomb on the hull of the boat while docked in Auckland harbor, New Zealand. The Rainbow Warrior had been preparing for a protest voyage to the French nuclear test site in the South Pacific.
In 2019 - A 27 year old man from Spain was the first person to die of a fatal bull attack during the Pamplona running of the bulls in fourteen years.
In 2012 - The Episcopal Church has become the largest denomination in the US to bless same-sex relationships. During the church's general convention in Indianapolis, Indiana, nearly eighty-percent of the House of Deputies voted in favor of a thee year trial run of a same sex service to be called the "Witnessing and Blessing of a Lifelong Covenant," it had also been approved by the House of Bishops.
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Human evolution
I prefer the idea that we are going to evolve to a deeper level of unselfishness as well.
One effect of the public blatant nastiness is that there are those who otherwise would have remained asleep are waking up and saying no to it.
Marilyn
"Make dirt, not war." eyo
The Scopes appeal case...
...heard by the TN supreme court is quite interesting.
http://www.bradburyac.mistral.co.uk/tennes10.html
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Dayton, the site of the original trial, is an hour or so up the road.
Here's 9 min of the film - Tracy (Darrow) main courtroom argument
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtNdYsoool8
Have a good day all.
Edit to add...
You need to ride that time machine into the future more often...
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning, philly~~
We are currently in the throes of moving from the third to the fifth dimension. The fourth dimension is kicking our collective asses - some trying to stay in the third dimension (Herr Drumpf and all the politicos-both sides), while most are trying to move to the fifth - where we will find the peace and harmony we seek. We'll get there in the 2030's so we have quite a bumpy ride in the meantime.
So, instead of "prayer" or following some human, I prefer to follow the dictates of the universe, for I have found it to be in charge. No matter what I do or desire, the universe will determine the outcome. I have no influence - I am not in charge. So, I give it up to the universe. These are my beliefs. It works for me to continue getting out of bed everyday to live my life.
I choose kindness toward my fellow human 98% of the time. I'm not perfect, you see.
Have a beautiful day, everyone!
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Prayer, not as much...
However, I have been giving serious thanks to the muses recently.
Just finished reading Doctor Susan Prince's book on Antisthenes, and I am really impressed by the depth of references that she's dug up. However, the book's a bit dense for anybody who isn't familiar with academic notation, and it was a slog to get through a lot of the medieval and Roman commentaries. Ugh... However, there's a lot of things that seem obvious to me that she tiptoes around and seems to see from a very Academic point of view, when Antisthenes whole life was in nearly direct opposition to the "Academy". I guess that my major issue is that her unfamiliarity with the military culture causes her to overlook a very obvious to my eye hypothesis.
(I mean, he used to call Plato a "Little prick" which just screams veteran pissed off at civilian.)
So, yes, I'm spending my time in contemplation and trying to do my best for my fellow man. I'm not perfect, but then I've just started on a path. Every day it gets easier on every front.
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I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
1950s teen heartthrob Tab Hunter has died
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