You can’t lead the people if you don’t love the people. You can’t save the people, if you don’t serve the people.
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| — | Cornel West |
The faculty to think objectively is reason; the emotional attitude behind reason is that of humility. To be objective, to use one’s reason, is possible only if one has achieved an attitude of humility, if one has emerged from the dreams of omniscience and omnipotence which one has as a child. Love, being dependent on the relative absence of narcissism, requires the development of humility, objectivity and reason.
I must try to see the difference between my picture of a person and his behavior, as it is narcissistically distorted, and the person’s reality as it exists regardless of my interests, needs and fears.
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| — | Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving |
“Ships that pass in the night,
and speak each other in passing,
only a signal shown,
and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life,
we pass and speak one another,
only a look and a voice,
then darkness again and a silence.”
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Occupy Movement Stats & Figures, What Are Your Views? (by FactSpy)
“Opening statement by His Holiness the Dalai Lama during the opening session of the three day “11th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates - The Legacy of Hiroshima: A World without Nuclear Weapons” held in Hiroshima, Japan, from November 12th to 14th, 2010.”
Glenn Beck’s Horrific Lie By Cenk Uygur
I can hardly believe even Beck would stoop so low as to accuse a Holocaust survivor of being a traitor to his own people & somehow responsible for the deaths of other Jews in concentration camps. Has Beck no sense of common decency & perspective on the situation. Does he honestly think people will not care that he took slander further than all but the most rabid of supporters could accept? Or is this all just a ploy to get more attention? Perhaps it is best not to delve into the motivations of Beck, but the fact still remains that he is a paid commentator on a national “news” network….
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As much as I disagree with the hosts on Fox News, I have never called for any of them to be fired. I defended Don Imus when he got in trouble with his incendiary comments. That’s because I believe a talk show host should have wide berth, even to offend. They are the conversation starters and at the heart of our political discourse.
Of course, as a talk show host I’m very biased on this issue, but I think it helps the national conversation to hear everyone out. That’s even if what they’re saying is outrageous or not even remotely true. Let there be a battlefield of ideas and I think the truth will win out in the long run (though it loses many battles in the short run).
Now that you know how strongly I feel about that — I think Glenn Beck should be fired. He has told a lie so grotesque that it goes beyond the pale of even dirty politics. Just when I thought he couldn’t shock my conscience anymore, he has done it. Let me explain.
George Soros survived the Holocaust. He is Jewish and when the Nazis caught up with his family his father saved his life by bribing an agricultural official to pretend Soros was his Christian godson. At one point, that man took the fourteen year old Soros to survey and appraise the property that had been confiscated from another Jewish family. Obviously Soros did not have a choice in the matter. Soros eventually survived the Holocaust.
To most this would be an amazing and harrowing story of survival during the Holocaust. To Beck it was an opportunity to paint Soros as an anti-Semite and smear him with one of the worst lies I have ever heard.
First Beck started by horribly warping this story on his Fox News show. He said of Soros:
[When he was] 14 years old, he had to help the government confiscate the land of his fellow Jewish friends and neighbors.
That’s not what happened at all as you can see from above. He didn’t help confiscate people’s land. He didn’t actively participate in betraying his Jewish neighbors or friends. The implications are horrible. But what Beck did next is much worse. He twisted the story further until he came out with this inexcusable lie on his radio show:
[H]ere’s a Jewish boy helping send the Jews to the death camps.
That lie takes my breath away. That is a lie that cannot be told.
They call themselves a “News Channel.” Is this the kind of “news” people want to participate in?
This is the kind of thing people should resign in protest over. This is the kind of thing that guests shouldn’t go on the channel over. This is the kind of thing that people shouldn’t want their names associated with.
If Fox doesn’t fire Beck over this, well then you know exactly where they stand. It certainly isn’t as a news channel.
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Another great one from Michael Toolan (no bubble or projection but still such an awesome shot). If you have any photos of the event please let me know :)
The Dancing Auroras Of Saturn - Stevie Wonder From Songs In The Key Of Life
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“Goin’ back to Saturn where the rings all glow,
Rainbow, moonbeams and orange snow,
On Saturn, people live to be two hundred and five,
Goin’ back to Saturn where the people smile,
Don’t need cars ‘cause we’ve learned to fly,
On Saturn, just to live to us is our natural high.”
- Stevie Wonder, Saturn from Songs In The Key of Life
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Jorge Luis Borges in the Hotel Beaux, 1969 - On Art, Artists, & Humanity
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“A writer — and, I believe, generally all persons — must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.”
- From Twenty Conversations with Borges, Including a Selection of Poems: Interviews by Roberto Alifano, 1981–1983 (1984)
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John Lennon - Imagine
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“The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.” - Black Elk
“Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today…
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one”
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John Lennon - Power To The People
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“Say you want a revolution
We better get on right away
Well you get on your feet
And out on the street
Singing power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on
A million workers working for nothing
You better give ‘em what they really own
We got to put you down
When we come into town
Singing power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on
I gotta ask you comrades and brothers
How do you treat you own woman back home
She got to be herself
So she can free herself
Singing power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on
Now, now, now, now
Oh well, power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on”
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