May 2012
14 posts
10 million years needed to recover from mass... →
“Q: Suppose you met someone whom you found unattractive. How do you handle that?...”
– Radical Honesty FAQ
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“Places devoted to sex are usually depicted as harsh, alienated, scary...”
– Leatherfolk: Radical Sex, People, Politics, And Practice. - Mark Thompson - Google Books
An historical perspective on San Francisco sex culture. I found it interesting that Gayle Rubin links the Catacombs, a male oriented fisting club, to the cultural evolution of lesbian kink in the USA. The...
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Fighting the Devil by Killing the Angel
“Back when he was pulling my jeans off, this is what happened: He kneeled behind me, reached around the waistband to the fly, and pulled until all the buttons popped open. (He’d already tied my hands behind my back.) Then he crawled back a few feet and began to pull the jeans off from the ankles—a stupid way to try to take someone else’s pants off, but I didn’t say anything.
He was having a...
Justification
From: http://chirontraining.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/justification.html
One of the drills I used to suggest for rookies (it’s in the Drills manual) is the articulation exercise. Basically, most of our decisions are faster than conscious though. In “Blink,” Gladwell described several studies that show that decisions are routinely made before the entire question is even heard. Most...
Nice juxtaposition of Kant and Rousseau. →
I hate being trapped in my own logic. Give me more passion to open this box.
“The small man
Builds cages for everyone
He
Knows.
While the sage,
Who has...”
– Hafiz (via blackspaceandstars)
Ernest Callenbach: Last Words to an America in... →
Author of Ecotopia.
The end to this reminds me of ‘Dan’s’ reasoning in Neither Wolf nor Dog (by Kent Nerburn) for how rotting car hulks on Native American reservations are not hypocritical in their disrespect for the land. He proposed that Native American culture has a fundamental belief that things rot. He relates this to the fact that everything they owned was, once, entirely...
April 2012
12 posts
Susan Cain: The power of introverts →
“O Allah, what is your Fire? It is nothing. Let me be the one person to go into...”
– Abu Yazid al-Bistami
Watch
Center for Sex & Culture (centersexculture) →
Goodreads list for CSC.
“I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and...”
– Dr. Seuss
“After long isolation and persecution, he sees even the one who loves him as a...”
– Day 37: Omen
iChing
(via 40daytemenos)
“You can’t be anyone but you
therefore you are that Other one you love”
– Ikkyu, trans. Stephen Berg. Crow With No Mouth
The Big Ideas | Comment is free | The Guardian →
“As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;
As tumbled over rim in...”
– As Kingfishers Catch Fire by Gerard Manley Hopkins : The Poetry Foundation
Hopkins may have been a happier man if he could have stopped himself at the end of the first stanza.
“In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step...”
– Abraham Maslow
March 2012
24 posts
Lamentable media coverage and state deception, the... →
Brief critique of media coverage for ‘NHS Reform’
Giles Fraser: Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of... →
BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - In Our Time,... →
“When the believer has faith, the absurd is not the absurd—faith transforms it,...”
– Søren Kierkegaard, Papers, X6 B 79.
Kierkegaard is quite remarkable. If wordy.
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Haruki Murakami (via leda-swanson)
“Where does unbelief begin?
When I was young
there were degrees of certainty....”
– From “The Glass Essay” by Anne Carson (via 300bc)
“Since everything is but an apparition, perfect in being what it is, having...”
– Long Chen Pa (via dirtcrumbgoddess)
“Why did we get into art in the first place? It wasn’t to churn out...”
– Rhizome | Comment: Medici is the Crowd
Faith and reason as justification for belief →
Chiron: After Action →
“Gaining acceptance into graduate school or medical school and achieving a PhD or...”
– Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill | Mad In America
Skilled help from the heart: the story of a... →
Communications Capabilities Development Programme... →
Awful shit.