Front PageFebruary, 2007
Love and Law
Syndicated from: Open Source Love on Wed, 02/28/2007 - 22:20 love syndicated blogs Wayne Jacobsen wrote a little blurb about law and love and what he learned about them. About how love is supposed to be the code to live by but, if we don't love, then the written law will be the one we'll have to get by with. If you ask me, I'd rather have the love standard, both to act and to be acted upon me.
Wayne Jacobsen is also the co-author of an online book I liked called So You Don't
Love and Law
Syndicated from: Open Source Love on Wed, 02/28/2007 - 22:20 love syndicated blogs Wayne Jacobsen wrote a little blurb about law and love and what he learned about them. About how love is supposed to be the code to live by but, if we don't love, then the written law will be the one we'll have to get by with. If you ask me, I'd rather have the love standard, both to act and to be acted upon me.
Wayne Jacobsen is also the co-author of an online book I liked called So You Don't
Love and Law
Syndicated from: Open Source Love on Wed, 02/28/2007 - 22:20 love syndicated blogs Wayne Jacobsen wrote a little blurb about law and love and what he learned about them. About how love is supposed to be the code to live by but, if we don't love, then the written law will be the one we'll have to get by with. If you ask me, I'd rather have the love standard, both to act and to be acted upon me.
Wayne Jacobsen is also the co-author of an online book I liked called So You Don't
Love and Law
Syndicated from: Open Source Love on Wed, 02/28/2007 - 22:20 love syndicated blogs Wayne Jacobsen wrote a little blurb about law and love and what he learned about them. About how love is supposed to be the code to live by but, if we don't love, then the written law will be the one we'll have to get by with. If you ask me, I'd rather have the love standard, both to act and to be acted upon me.
Wayne Jacobsen is also the co-author of an online book I liked called So You Don't Want to Go to Church Anymore.
Wayne Jacobsen is also the co-author of an online book I liked called So You Don't Want to Go to Church Anymore.
On the Question of the Importance of Faith
Submitted by bill on Wed, 02/28/2007 - 22:17. blook faith commonsOn the greater question of the importance of faith in our lives; it seems that some people live without it who greatly need it, while others refuse to admit or recognize its importance in their lives, perhaps because of the bad reputation that faith has acquired in recent history.
The first answer needed is whether faith is indeed important in the lives of human beings. If that one is answered affirmatively, the next would ask how we could rescue faith's reputation for the sake of us all.
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Iran Heating Up
Submitted by K Prabhakar Rao on Wed, 02/28/2007 - 11:31. condoleezza rice elbaradei iaea icbm iran uf 6 war option wmdThe dead line for stopping the enrichment program imposed by UN on Iran has turned round the corner. Yet, there have not been any efforts on the part of Iran, (a stubborn and fundamentalist country with anti US posture ever since the Mullahs usurped the power in the country from the Shah Pehalwi, the aristocratic Western style ruler) towards abiding by the conditions imposed by the UN resolution. The third world countries question, “Why a sovereign nation like Iran can not pursue its quest for acquiring nuclear potential?”, “When Pakistan and India could acquire, why not Iran?” “Why America should dictate terms to Iran?” Some are critical of former President Jimmy Carter for permitting the take over by the Mullahs, one of the very important and powerful countries by the fundamentalists that is causing serious instability in the world. Americans were held hostages for almost a year in the embassy in Iran and in the interests of the hostages; America did not contemplate serious military action against the erring country. What will happen as the dead line has been crossed and Iran has not yielded? Will Iran be attacked to seek military solution and be brought to knees? Will USA be able to stop Iran from going nuclear? Will the attack on Iran obviously by US led forces be successful or would result in complex Iraq like situation? It was unable to stop North Korea in making the Bomb inspite of saber rattling. Is Iran going the North Korean way? Has America as Super power been cut to size or is likely to be? Has the American sword been blunted? These are some of the questions that torment minds of the people.
Online eBook of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Submitted by bill on Tue, 02/27/2007 - 15:56. blook faith commons gift economies hacker ethic protestant ethicIn these essays, Max Weber explains the historical, religious and social roots of Capitalism and its ties to Protestant pietism and work ethic. The purpose of this weblink is that these essays are, or will be, cited and quoted in the blook to be written here about Faith as a Commons.
It's important to establish developmental changes in ethics because they inform our faith. We are a product of the word in which we live, which is in turn, a product of our hopes and desires, as well as our mistakes and greed.
What Weber describes here was true and current at the time of his research in the very early twentieth century. But times were to quickly begin a change starting with World War I, the Great Depression followed by World War II and the shift of power out of Europe to the stand-off between the USSR and the USA. Communications and travel technologies have greatly changed our lives over the past 100 years since Max Weber wrote. While seemingly whole continents today strive to "industrialize," which in many ways includes taking on many of those same Protestant Ethics, other areas are moving into an Information Age that will have a new ethics.
This new ethics is easily seen in the Open Source software movement and in self publishing like this very site.
A contrast and comparison between Max Weber's Industrial strength Protestant Work Ethic and the Hacker Ethic and the overall Gift Economy that are growing out the late twentieth and into the twenty first centuries is an important part our Conjunctive Commons of Faith.
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Faith Commons, The Outline
Submitted by bill on Mon, 02/26/2007 - 17:16. blook draft draft faith commonsThis is the beginning of an outline for the blook about Faith as a Commons. Its main purpose is to help us begin to imagine what the proverbial elephant might look like. The following is a simple outline that will soon expand into separate essays, chapters or even sections.
- Moving towards Conjuctive Faith
- An increasingly faithless world
- Church Without Walls
- Faith as Meaningful Life, as Life in the Ages
- Commons and what it has to do with Faith
- The Hacker Ethic and the Open Source Software movement.
- Continuous Iconoclasm
Your comments, suggestions and questions are most appreciated. And there is certainly more to come. But I wanted to get some ideas flowing, so I'll throw out these outline items for your thoughts and critique.
Seeing through the Illusion
Syndicated from: The Gates of Horn - Gateway to the Inner Realms on Sun, 02/25/2007 - 21:10 Douglas Buchanan syndicated blogsEverybody who reads this is very likely a veteran of many lifetimes spent on this planet, the lunatic asylum of the universe. All of us have been here together many times in various combinations and sub groups. You may have realized that this time we are honoring a contract to be here on Earth in the same generation during a time of apparent danger to the planet in order to hear something very important about our spiritual quest and our destiny. There are a few things that we must be absolutely clear about before even beginning this study, otherwise we can get diverted from the path as we have all been diverted many times over the aeons. It only takes a little attention to basics to introduce us to the real game of life that is being played, and the rules behind it. We learn to see through the mundane façade by knowing the basics. Here they are.
Baha'i girls to bring a message of hope to United Nations meeting on women
NEW YORK, 25 February 2007 (BWNS) -- Among the hundreds of girls coming to the United Nations this week to discuss the problems facing girl children around the world will be a dozen with a distinctive viewpoint: their religion teaches that they are equal to boys.
"For Baha'is, it is a basic element of their faith that we must establish equality between women and men, not to mention girls and boys
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Surprise! You are Loved
Syndicated from: Open Source Love on Sat, 02/24/2007 - 13:49 love relationships Spirituality syndicated blogs What would surprise and delight you more than anything? For me it would be to learn I am loved. For to be loved gives me a solid place to stand. It affirms from the outside what my self-love affirms from the inside. It lets me feel life is worth living. But more often than not I do not feel loved.
Most of the time we travel in an environment that seems without love. The lack of love we perceive
Surprise! You are Loved
Syndicated from: Open Source Love on Sat, 02/24/2007 - 13:49 love relationships Spirituality syndicated blogs What would surprise and delight you more than anything? For me it would be to learn I am loved. For to be loved gives me a solid place to stand. It affirms from the outside what my self-love affirms from the inside. It lets me feel life is worth living. But more often than not I do not feel loved.
Most of the time we travel in an environment that seems without love. The lack of love we perceive
Surprise! You are Loved
Syndicated from: Open Source Love on Sat, 02/24/2007 - 13:49 love relationships syndicated blogs What would surprise and delight you more than anything? For me it would be to learn I am loved. For to be loved gives me a solid place to stand. It affirms from the outside what my self-love affirms from the inside. It lets me feel life is worth living. But more often than not I do not feel loved.
Most of the time we travel in an environment that seems without love. The lack of love we perceive
Surprise! You are Loved
Syndicated from: Open Source Love on Sat, 02/24/2007 - 13:49 love relationships syndicated blogs What would surprise and delight you more than anything? For me it would be to learn I am loved. For to be loved gives me a solid place to stand. It affirms from the outside what my self-love affirms from the inside. It lets me feel life is worth living. But more often than not I do not feel loved.
Most of the time we travel in an environment that seems without love. The lack of love we perceive becomes, to one degree or another, the very foundation of our lives.
Most of the time we travel in an environment that seems without love. The lack of love we perceive becomes, to one degree or another, the very foundation of our lives.
Faith, the Proper Response to Love
Syndicated from: Open Source Love on Thu, 02/22/2007 - 19:42 agape friendship love relationships syndicated blogs Here's a little story about love and faith:
Eleven year old Jerry has arrived at summer camp. After lunch he looks across the compound and sees Soleil. Their eyes meet and he comes over to speak. He feels accepted as Soleil expresses an interest in him. After a few minutes the girls are called away and Jerry is left standing there with the boys. Jerry experiences a brand new feeling; it's the
Faith, the Proper Response to Love
Syndicated from: Open Source Love on Thu, 02/22/2007 - 19:42 agape friendship love relationships syndicated blogs Here's a little story about love and faith:
Eleven year old Jerry has arrived at summer camp. After lunch he looks across the compound and sees Soleil. Their eyes meet and he comes over to speak. He feels accepted as Soleil expresses an interest in him. After a few minutes the girls are called away and Jerry is left standing there with the boys. Jerry experiences a brand new feeling; it's the
Faith, the Proper Response to Love
Syndicated from: Open Source Love on Thu, 02/22/2007 - 19:42 agape friendship love relationships syndicated blogs Here's a little story about love and faith:
Eleven year old Jerry has arrived at summer camp. After lunch he looks across the compound and sees Soleil. Their eyes meet and he comes over to speak. He feels accepted as Soleil expresses an interest in him. After a few minutes the girls are called away and Jerry is left standing there with the boys. Jerry experiences a brand new feeling; it's the
Faith, the Proper Response to Love
Syndicated from: Open Source Love on Thu, 02/22/2007 - 19:42 agape friendship love relationships syndicated blogs Here's a little story about love and faith:
Eleven year old Jerry has arrived at summer camp. After lunch he looks across the compound and sees Soleil. Their eyes meet and he comes over to speak. He feels accepted as Soleil expresses an interest in him. After a few minutes the girls are called away and Jerry is left standing there with the boys. Jerry experiences a brand new feeling; it's the feeling that it is good that girls exist, and that it is really great that this particular girl, named Soleil exists. Soleil experiences the same feelings about boys and about Jerry in particular.
Eleven year old Jerry has arrived at summer camp. After lunch he looks across the compound and sees Soleil. Their eyes meet and he comes over to speak. He feels accepted as Soleil expresses an interest in him. After a few minutes the girls are called away and Jerry is left standing there with the boys. Jerry experiences a brand new feeling; it's the feeling that it is good that girls exist, and that it is really great that this particular girl, named Soleil exists. Soleil experiences the same feelings about boys and about Jerry in particular.
Muslim propaganda...Ours
Syndicated from: The Gates of Horn - Gateway to the Inner Realms on Thu, 02/22/2007 - 00:23 Douglas Buchanan syndicated blogsWe are currently in the Chinese New Year and not all that far from our own. We have finished with the crass commercialism surrounding the celebration of the Christians’ Master and are heading into the other pagan season in honour of the goddess Estara, the goddess of fertility whose ancient pre-Christian symbols are the egg and the hare or rabbit.
In my Christmas series I suggested that you remember that the Pilgrim Fathers whom we are supposed to honor, kept Christmas as a fast day, and no celebrations were allowed. The –ism worshipped today in this country is Commercialism, the God of which is money and its derivative, power.
Can God Have An Evil Side?
Submitted by K Prabhakar Rao on Wed, 02/21/2007 - 22:27. god in us good and evilWorld religions preach that God is all loving, merciful, omni present and omni potent. Buddhism although is silent on God, Buddha has been elevated to the status of God and Bodhisattvas are greatly revered as the liberators. (The discussion would be relevant only when people have belief in the God. For those who do not believe in God and are atheists who are there in every society, it is of no consequence. For them life is to live, enjoy and perish in a world of evil and virtue). The transcendental Bodhisattvas are loving, compassionate and help people to attain bliss while they negate attaining bliss for themselves. There is hardly any dispute about this truth about God being emanating love to all as scriptures are testimony to this fact. Following are highly relevant in this context from different scriptures (1):
Grace and Christian Liberty, No. 1 - FR 353
Syndicated from: Freedom's Ring on Wed, 02/21/2007 - 20:59 syndicated articles During my formative years, preachers denounced
games making use of playing cards for they were
supposedly tools of gambling and sin.
When Does Love Stop Loving?
Syndicated from: Open Source Love on Mon, 02/19/2007 - 19:47 friendship love relationships religion Spirituality syndicated blogs Does love stop loving? No. But lovers stop loving because they stop believing.
Sometimes I see snatches of the daytime court programs on the television and half the cases are former friends or lovers trying to get paid for what amounts to lost love. Typically they get down and display all the dirty laundry in front of the camera and the tv judge and it's obvious.
It's either like this:
"You
When Does Love Stop Loving?
Syndicated from: Open Source Love on Mon, 02/19/2007 - 19:47 friendship love relationships religion Spirituality syndicated blogs Does love stop loving? No. But lovers stop loving because they stop believing.
Sometimes I see snatches of the daytime court programs on the television and half the cases are former friends or lovers trying to get paid for what amounts to lost love. Typically they get down and display all the dirty laundry in front of the camera and the tv judge and it's obvious.
It's either like this:
"You
When Does Love Stop Loving?
Syndicated from: Open Source Love on Mon, 02/19/2007 - 19:47 friendship love relationships religion syndicated blogs Does love stop loving? No. But lovers stop loving because they stop believing.
Sometimes I see snatches of the daytime court programs on the television and half the cases are former friends or lovers trying to get paid for what amounts to lost love. Typically they get down and display all the dirty laundry in front of the camera and the tv judge and it's obvious.
It's either like this:
"You
When Does Love Stop Loving?
Syndicated from: Open Source Love on Mon, 02/19/2007 - 19:47 syndicated blogs Does love stop loving? No. But lovers stop loving because they stop believing.
Sometimes I see snatches of the daytime court programs on the television and half the cases are former friends or lovers trying to get paid for what amounts to lost love. Typically they get down and display all the dirty laundry in front of the camera and the tv judge and it's obvious.
It's either like this:
"You kicked me out of your wedding and I want my money back for the bridesmaid dress I already bought."
Sometimes I see snatches of the daytime court programs on the television and half the cases are former friends or lovers trying to get paid for what amounts to lost love. Typically they get down and display all the dirty laundry in front of the camera and the tv judge and it's obvious.
It's either like this:
"You kicked me out of your wedding and I want my money back for the bridesmaid dress I already bought."