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I’m Still Not Voting for Barack Obama but I Hope He Wins

Posted by Josh in August 28th, 2008  
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photo credit: Earthman
I am not a fundamentalist about anything.  I will always reserve the right to change my ideas but I will never change my core values.  In college, I avoided thinking about politics at all; opting instead to get my spiritual and artistic core values down.  After matriculation though, I made it my [...]

Applying Basic Economics to Global Politics in the Year 2009

Posted by Josh in August 24th, 2008  
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photo credit: Azalea Long
Check out this quote in the September 2008 edition of National Geographic in the Letters Section. He is writing in response to last month’s amazing feature about China:
In 1998 I was a 19-year-old student in Hangzhou, China. The doors were “open,” but no one really had come through them [...]

The Function of Education By Jiddu Krishnamurti

Posted by Josh in August 21st, 2008  
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Posted in: Film, Television, Music and Books, History, Personal, Politics, Religion, Art & Spirituality     Tags: , , , ,

This talk given by Krishnamurti is something I read often on Sunday mornings.  It’s as close as I’ll ever get to going to church.  This text was obtained from this site where you can read many of Krishnamurti’s works (and I highly recommend that you do). I’d recommend buying the book also.
The Function of [...]

Is There a Point Where the Ideal of America Just Breaks?

Posted by Josh in August 17th, 2008  
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Posted in: Politics     

I’ve got five alarms and four are going off
You could stare at the sun and say it’s dark.
–Miranda Sound, “Kaleidoscope”–

America, the country, is based on the premise that each of us has the right to pursue our own happiness provided we do not infringe upon the lives or other property of other citizens.  Slavery was [...]

Columbia Parkway at Dawn by Jay Martin

Posted by Josh in August 12th, 2008  
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The fear getting caught in a jam.
Four out of ten cars carry a gun.
Clocks entrance the woman and man,
Forecasting how late they will run.
Four out of ten cars carry a gun.
Cabbies curse from behind glass,
Forecasting how late they will run.
Floating on empty, the Ford thirsts gas.
Cabbies curse from behind glass.
Smoggy heat [...]

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