Kentucky Moonslime

the right way

der rechte weg

first known duran duran interview

the stranger

time-wars

who goes nazi?

fast food, late empire

    andrae crouch grasping at straws

jimreevesmuseum

                                          

Obstinate Ohrwurm

YourMostArdentConvictionsWillBeTheDeathofUsAll

                                                           Hear'n Aid

ShortUltrasonicVocalizations Emitted by Rats During Cocaine Self-Administration

Two Long Poles and Some Heavy Cloth

Souvenirs as Territorial Stereotypes

Phantom_Time_Hypothesis

Theory of the Young Girl

The Marching Morons

Megachurch Doings

Liquid Modernity
                     
John Barleycorn

Newfound Blob

Morris and Max

Sixpack Annie

Suicide Note

Wind Map

Eigengrau

Stargate: KoiPond

Sentimental Masterpiece

So You've Decided to Secede

Because your new nation-state is going to need administrative forms and stationary of all kinds (including passport, copyright, and patent applications; including blank forms for proclamations, resolutions, and appointments) consider seceding on a Friday afternoon*. That way fleeing rebel bureaucrats have the weekend to pilfer enough office supplies from the old government to get your new government off the ground.

*The attack on Fort Sumter began on Friday April 12, 1861 and continued through the weekend.

(document from the Records of the Confederate States of America stored in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress)

Medicine Cabinet Raiders III

What is true is already so.
Owning up to it doesn't make it worse.
Not being open about it doesn't make it go away.
And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with.
Anything untrue isn't there to be lived.
People can stand what is true,
for they are already enduring it.

-Eugene Gendlin

Brother Theodore

http://www.brothertheodore.net/Theodorebio.html

The Evil Inclination

     The Evil Inclination is like one who runs amongst the people with his hand closed, and nobody knows what's in it. He tricks people and asks each one: What am I holding? and each person assumes that the closed hand holds something he desires very much. So everyone runs after him. Eventually he opens his hand and there is nothing there at all.

     "If this lowlife, the evil inclination, meets you, drag him to the study hall" (Kiddushin 30b).
     At times, the evil inclination prays within a person. The person is like a synagogue in which someone is praying.
     At other times, a person is like a study hall in which the evil inclination is learning.
     The superior situation is that of the study hall. Our sages said that "if [the evil inclination] is a stone, it will melt [as a result of one's learning]: if it is metal, it will explode" (Kiddushin 30b).
    This is why our sages began by saying, "If this lowlife meets you." The word used here for meeting refers homilectically to prayer, as our sages pointed out (Berachot 26b). In other words, when this lowlife is praying within you, and you are only like a synagogue, drag him to the study hall, for it is better that one become like a study hall, since that is more efficacious in dealing with one's evil inclination.