It’s a bit late, but this is worth knowing about, I think. On August 25th, people of conscience in the United States will meet genocide survivors from Darfur, Sudan. Using a satellite video link from a refugee camp on the Sudanese border, Americans in a New York studio will speak live to Darfurians facing one […]
In a link from RavingAtheist.com, I found an interesting artile on Tibet and the Dalai Lama. Romantic notions about the “peaceful” and “harmonious” nature of Tibetan Buddhist monastic life should be tested against reality. The Lithang Monastery in eastern Tibet was where a major rebellion against Chinese rule erupted in 1956. Beijing tried to levy […]
I was reading this article about Walter Ong, who I knew only a little about, and I found this fascinating quotation at the end: The spoken word, as we have seen, is primary, and yet from the start it was destined�or, in another way, doomed�to be supplemented with all the devices and even gadgetry which […]
Today: I found out I am now an uncle! Yay! Marie, Troy, Nathaniel, congratulations to all of you! Now’s one of those times I wish I could step into a teleporter machine and visit home to see the little fellow… and everyone else too, of course. We had a meeting and managed to set up […]
This week, Adam asks us: You’ve been given the choice of having 5 memories removed from the world’s collective memories. If you forget them, it will be as if they never happened. Which 5 do you choose? Man, this is a hard, hard question. I don’t imagine that forgetting big tragedies would be a good […]