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EXODUS?
2008-06-29 16:46:00 High gas prices threaten to drain small towns? populations By DONALD BRADLEY The Kansas City Star The expected exodus from small towns, said Don Macke, a widely considered authority on rural economics and head of the Center for Rural Entrepreneurship in Lincoln, Neb., will be far more profound than the gradual erosion that has been going on since ... More About: Exodus
RETURN OF THE RING
2008-06-25 14:21:00 Reposted. New York Times today: Rethinking the Country Life As Energy Costs Rise Though Mr. Boyle finds city life unappealing, it is now up for reconsideration. ?Living closer in, in a smaller space, where you don?t have that commute,? he said. ?It?s definitely something we talk about. Before it was ?we spend too much time driving.? Now, ... More About: Ring , Return , Return of the
JOKE ON US
2008-06-23 19:31:00 George Carlin, truth teller. The real owners are the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians, they’re an irrelevancy. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. ... More About: Joke
ECONOMIC EXCEPTIONALISM DEPICTED
2008-06-19 01:47:00 From June 10, 2007: US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs. From the always mind boggling strangemaps blog. More About: Economic
GETTING TO KNOW YOU
2008-06-18 06:33:00 C. Otto Scharmer speaks here of Theory U. It’s a terrific book even if it contains too many non-nutritional exhortations. Coming out of the various vectors of constructivism, integralism, and, modern adult learning theory, both Theory U. and the earlier Presence (Senge, Scharmer, et al.,) both demand and deserve attention and study.
THINK ABOUT THINKING ABOUT THIS
2008-06-17 04:11:00 Favorite droll turn on cogito ergo sum*: I think therefore I think I am. Possibly better: I think therefore I think I am thinking. Best: You are your epistemology. (Gregory Bateson) I’ve always stuck with John Lilly’s: My beliefs are unbelievable. In this context, why not: “My thoughts are unthinkable.” ??? * But I have convinced myself that there is absolutely nothing ... More About: Thinking
LIBERAL MANAGERIAL NEO-LIBERALISM
2008-06-08 00:58:00 This ideological approach is needed to legitimate predominant relations of domination (obtaining primarily among a ruling elite of experts, professionals, politicians, etc., and a well-administered citizenry) as being neutral and natural. Not only does this framework require automatic dismissal of all other modes of political organization, but also discrediting ideas perceived to be their ideological ... More About: Liberal , Liberalism
THE AQAL HAMMER
2008-06-02 13:38:00 The following could serve as the subject of an assignment: What’s wrong at the level of assumptions found in the following argument? I’ve provided some helpful italicizing. At the second gathering of the teachers of Integral Spiritual Center, Patrick Sweeney famously asked Ken Wilber, ?what can we do to stay out of Appendix III of Integral Spirituality?? ... More About: Hammer
SELF-TALK
2008-06-02 01:28:00 click image to enlarge A mentor emphasized: “Beware of the agenda behind the agenda.” This advice has stood the test of time. Note my ol’ nickname has been added over the dog. This does capture my mildly passive-aggressive puppie nature. a2a_linkname="SELF-TALK";a2a_linkurl="htt p://squareone-learning.com/blog/2008/06/0 1/self-talk/"; More About: Talk
HITCHED TO A GODDESS
2008-05-31 15:21:00 Married Susan Friday in a short and sweet civil ceremony in Shaker Heights, Ohio. After 15 years of being lovingly partnered, it’s okay to ask what changes now? Change happens, yet, what’s wonderful for me is that our fundamental deep friendship evoked the changes, whatever they are and turn out to be, and I couldn’t ... More About: Goddess
THE ANTIGONE COMPLEX
2008-05-24 20:59:00 I don’t have a harsh judgment to levy against Hillary Clinton in the aftermath of her answering the question about, implicitly, her tenacity in the face of long odds and about party unity at the end of the process. There’s a reason for my being circumspect. It’s that the incident takes a specific psychological form and ... More About: Complex
PRECAUTIONS MUST BE TAKEN TO CONCEAL THESE ACTIVITIES
2008-05-14 16:46:00 Dr. Aubrey Blumsohn has done yeoman work in highlighting the sordid and criminal story of the CIA’s use of psychedelic drugs in experiments done for dark purposes. Whatever the specific purpose was, it was an ill purpose. And, it resonates today because it is mostly unknown to what extent drugs are currently deployed by the ... More About: Activities
WHINING TAKES TIME
2008-05-11 16:58:00 Dr. Brian C. Melton, Assistant Professor of History at Liberty University, writing at the web site Intellectual Conservative, Human Origins and a Side of Fries: Refuting a Popular Neo-Darwinian Position. [A] A prime example of this appeared in Expelled, when Dawkins expressed a willingness to accept evidence of cellular intelligent design if it came from aliens, ... More About: Time
Two Seasons
2008-05-05 14:28:00 March 13 to May 4. Spring has sprung. Click for large version. a2a_linkname="Two Seasons ";a2a_linkurl="http://squareone-le arning.com/blog/2008/05/05/two-seasons/";
PROCESS OF CIVIC LOVE
2008-05-05 13:08:00 The Heights Observer, like the Lakewood paper, is written by citizens, who use AGS’s web-based program to upload stories and photographs onto a server. Volunteer editors read the content, post stories to the paper’s web site and design newspaper pages, all via the Internet. The volunteers and low overhead will allow the Heights Observer to keep ... More About: Love , Process , Civic
Time to Reflect
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EXPELLED
2008-04-26 15:01:00 The anti-evolution movie Expelled has garnered a lot of attention in the aftermath of its release to the nation’s cinemas. I haven’t seen it. The mainstream reviews all point out that it’s a deceptive piece of propaganda. I have no doubt that it is after reading about the various canards it rolls out gleefully. Of more ...
A LOT OF STUFF IS TRUE
2008-04-24 15:32:00 If both natural law and ceaseless creativity partially beyond natural law are necessary for understanding our world, and if we as whole human beings live in this real world of law and unknowable creativity, these two ancient strands of Western civilization can reunite in ways we cannot foresee. Out of this union can arise a ... More About: Stuff , True
pluralism = monism
2008-04-24 02:19:00 “With univocity, however, it is not the differences which are and must be: it is being which is Difference, in the sense that it is said of difference. Moreover, it is not we who are univocal in a Being which is not; it is we and our individuality which remains equivocal in and for a ...
FOLK ETHNOGRAPHY
2008-04-20 21:12:00 Just as there is the term folk psychology, meaning the subjective psychological assumptions and models individuals deploy to navigate the interpersonal universe, there could be the term folk anthropology to designate the subjective assumptions each of us deploys to understand the human universe. Mr. Obama got himself in a lot of hot water recently when he ... More About: Folk
SAN FRANCISCO HOLIDAY
2008-04-19 01:38:00 Four song podcasts constructed from the amazing seeqPOD interface show up on my music blog, nogutsboglorystudios. noguts is serving as fly paper for my muso inclinations. I hope you’ll click the play button. Steve Lacy & Don Cherry-San Francisco Holiday Jessica Williams-Bemsha Swing Jerry Gonzalez & the Fort Appache Band Thelonious Monk-San Francisco Holiday A few comments… I could exist ...
SHIVER ME TIMBERS
2008-03-17 12:14:00 White House Chief of Staff, Joshua Bolten, and Tony Blair’s Office Request Information Regarding Spiral Dynamics from Dr. Don E. Beck of Adizes Graduate School © Business Wire 2008 - Mr. Bolten requested details for President Bush regarding Dr. Beck’s recent high profile meetings in the Middle East. Tony Blair’s office, as the official Envoy of the ...
ASSUMPTIONS
2008-03-13 02:09:00 Versioned from yet another tale of Nasruddin. More About: Assumptions
COULD A COMMUNITY BE AN ART FORM?
2008-03-08 20:16:00 Having intended to get a clear shot unencumbered by glare or rain, I still missed out clearly capturing this sign in the window of the library annex in Cleveland Heights. Could a community be an art form? I believe it it could be. Even better, with the deployment of intention, chops, communal creativity and spontaneous poetics fused ... More About: Community , Form
EXPERIENCE AND ALL OF IT
2008-03-07 18:29:00 Hillary Clinton: “Experience not only counts, it is all that counts.” Mrs. Clinton’s rhetoric here makes no account of an interesting division among Democrats. Barack Obama enjoys a substantial edge in that better educated, more affluent Democrats support him over Mrs. Clinton. How to account for this edge among people who are much more likely to ...
TENDING TO THE TROU
2008-03-06 14:51:00 An indelicate metaphor, albeit on the target, courtesy of Xosrow Jamsheidi and Jamsheid Jamsheidi, writing in a somewhat inscrutable article, Time for Dipstick Examination of our Assumptions. We feel our underwear only the first few minutes we put them on. Then we don’t see them, we don’t feel them, we don’t think about them, and we ...
MY ONE FAN
More articles from this author:2008-03-05 22:21:00 I checked my Technorati profile and discovered there–lo and behold–that someone had self-selected to be a fan. Alan has his own blog and it gets updated with about the same frequency as Explorations does. His blog http://milindasquestions.com has one more authority point than I do. I consider his blog to be akin to a sister ... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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