Blog archives for January, 2009

January 31, 2009

Deep Time – Geological Time

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_time

I’ll expand this post in a moment.

collect videos talking about it
articles etc

http://geology.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/full/33/3/161

http://bcn.boulder.co.us/basin/local/sustain2.htm

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=context+of+deep+time&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=

January 30, 2009

Some Strange Songs

Yasunori Mitsuda – As Autumn Passes

A Perfect Circle – Renholder

January 29, 2009

Public Homosexual Repression and Social Progress

This post is basically about the religious suppression of homosexuals. It’s an interesting topic. I’m not gay and I’m not necessarily an atheist either. But I think these gay atheists have it right. Hah, just kidding. They aren’t gay… Or maybe they are.

Top 5 Arguments Against Gay Marriage Destroyed (1/3)

Top 5 Arguments Against Gay Marriage Destroyed (2/3)

Top 5 Arguments Against Gay Marriage Destroyed (3/3)

CBS News Reports: Pentagon/AirForce’s Gay Bomb

Trent Reznor and David Bowie – I’m afraid of Americans

Bill Maher’s short interview with a so called “Ex-gay”

Segment from Article by Michael Airhart September 28th, 2008:

“The “ex-gay” man is John Westcott, a Florida man who walked away from a seven-year committed gay relationship to become an antigay activist.

Nowadays, Westcott proclaims he is freed from the “gay lifestyle” and says “I don’t believe that anyone is gay.” In the curiously named New Man Magazine in 2006, Westcott asserted long-rejected myths about homosexuality as if they were fact:

“There are many root causes [for homosexuality],” Westcott says. “But some of the common denominators are: A breakdown in a same-sex parent relationship, not relating to other male peers, an early exposure to sexuality and sexual abuse.”

Earlier this year, Westcott violated Canadian TV ethical standards with an ad that supported antigay discrimination as a means of suppressing the visibility of gay people and increasing the visibility of self-closeted ex-gays.” - TruthWinsOut.org

Embed Colbert Mockery of antigay commercial

Anti-Gay Group Sends Letter To Colbert Thanking Him For Mocking Them

Montel: Homosexuality–Is There a Cure?

Montel: Homosexuality–Is There a Cure? P2

Matt Dillahunty – Arkansas is dead to me

Daily Show Monday March 9, 2009 – Nathaniel Frank

Bill Hicks on gays in the military

Barack Obama on same sex marriage

Pat Robertson Foams At The Mouth About Gay People

Open Minded Christian Caller #1 – The Atheist Experience

Matt Dillahunty insensitively calling certain insensitive Christian groups insensitive

Pat Robertson Overheard During Commercial

http://fora.tv/2008/07/04/Michael_Sandel_Justice-Journey_in_Moral_Reasoninga#Michael_Sandel_If_Aristotle_Could_Debate_Gay_Marriage

For some unique philosophical stimulation, have some coffee with Pierre!

Visit his Growing Video Library, at CoffeewithPierre.com

Don’t forget to bring your thinking cap! Or at least a magical hat of some kind..

The subjects include:

Comparative Philosophy

Plato & Mythology

The Sacred Myths of Plato: The Republic

Noetic Society Meetings

Dreams & Dreamwork

The Wisdom of Dream

Pierre’s exploration about: Alan Watts and his Views on Knowing Who You Are

Plato’s Dialogues

Platonic Metaphysics and Proclus

Carl Jung & Plato

Jung the Dialectic and Plato’s Divided Line

Platonism and Alchemy

Homer

Christianity

Why Thinking Christians should become Platonists

Meditation

Plotinus Enneads: The Good and The One

Philosophical Midwifery

Pre-Socratics

History and Characters of Western Transcendentalism

Research, Google..

link to MPH-Thoreau post

Steven Johnson at Fora: The Invention of Air

Review for later post completion

Dacher Keltner (ForaTv)

Dacher Keltner at ForaTv: Born to Be Good

Info from ForaTV :
Dacher Keltner, professor of psychology at UC Berkeley and director of the Greater Good Science “Center, demonstrates that humans are not hardwired to lead lives that are “nasty, brutish, and short” – we are in fact born to be good.

He investigates an old mystery of human evolution: why have we evolved positive emotions like gratitude, amusement, awe, and compassion that promote ethical action are the fabric of cooperative societies?

Born to Be Good is a profound study of how emotion is the key to living the good life and how the path to happiness goes through human emotions that connect people to one another.”

The Power Paradox – Article by Dacher Keltner

link power vs force book, or info on that?
summarize the most interesting points, or note them at least.
link to two sides of the brain posts

January 28, 2009

January 25, 2009

Manly Palmer Hall on Henry David Thoreau and the Healing Power of Nature

Links to Thoreau

Manly P. Hall – Healing Power of Nature Part 1

Manly P. Hall -Healing Power of Nature Part 2

add others

January 24, 2009

Alan Watts lecturing about Religion and Sex

Myth-Religion-Sex & the Church Pt. 1

add other parts

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