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a post in the thanks and links series


Meister Eckhart – d. 1328* – known for saying, inter alia, that a thank-you is enough*

thank you so much, all who share
an interest in one or more
items noted – with links – below

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2024-04-28 / notes

*a link / see the about page for more

2024-04-28 is 2024-W17-7* / ☛ see notes for this and all other posts in this series*

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in Gaza the sniper drones are crying like babies*

Le monde entier regarde Gaza mourir, et le monde entier regarde l’Occident regarda…*

The whole world watches Gaza die, and the whole world watches the West watchin…*

Aaron Maté on current events / interviewed by Judge Andrew Napolitano 2024-W17-3*

a single nuclear-armed sub can hit 160 targets, striking each with 5–25 “Hiroshimas”*

the US has 14 nuclear-armed subs, any one of which could trigger a nuclear winter (!?)



freedom of speech and thought once deeply embedded in UU churches is now gone (!?)

Patrick Lawrence: Becoming who we are* / not so much on seeing what we are not

ignorance is our problem / “it is ignorance of what we are not: we are not this ego” (!g)

the ego is easy prey for power (!*), and if we fall for power, it’s over for us as a species

further notes

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a post in the thanks and links series


Meister Eckhart – d. 1328* – known for saying, inter alia, that a thank-you is enough*

thank you so much, all who share
an interest in one or more
items noted – with links – below

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2024-04-21 / notes

*a link / see the about page for more

2024-04-21 is 2024-W16-7* / ☛ see notes for this and all other posts in this series*

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“Under US leadership, the violence will continue to escalate until the unruly natives …”*

Aaron Maté on current events / interviewed by Judge Andrew Napolitano 2024-W16-3*

we are guided by greed and the pursuit of power, governed by unelected sociopaths (!?)*

Sir Antony Fisher, founder and funder of conservative think tanks worldwide (!?)*

a decision to inflict suffering on the vulnerable … violence against ordinary people (!?)*

“I want my legs back”

-11-year-old Palestinian girl Razan Muneer Arafat wakes up to find her legs amputated, after she was injured by US-UK-EU-armed Israeli airstrikes

Horror such as this, given the all clear by the US-led ‘rules-based order’ https://t.co/L8g0N2eZxs pic.twitter.com/XGSBTTKkTJ

— Afshin Rattansi (@afshinrattansi) March 15, 2024

“and wishing we looked better and trying not to think about all the tiny arms and legs”*

First came the crushed bones … Then came the infections. For some, amputation … (!?)*

Blindsight / 2006 book (!?) by Peter Watts*

image: downloaded screenshot from OED factsheet on recluse*

Stuck Monkey / 2023 book (!?) by James Hamilton-Paterson – see 2004 author profile*

“The usual ghostly silence surrounded nuclear energy, the cleanest of them all, …” (!gb)*

video, prepared text: sermon by Rev. Shawn Gauthier* / covenant, beloved community

Rev. Marilyn Sewell: We believe in evolution – not only evolution of life forms, … (!? !*)*

further notes

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a post in the thanks and links series


Meister Eckhart – d. 1328* – known for saying, inter alia, that a thank-you is enough*

thank you so much, all who share
an interest in one or more
items noted – with links – below

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2024-04-14 / notes

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2024-04-14 is 2024-W15-7* / ☛ see notes for this and all other posts in this series*

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Doc Searls: Death is a feature* / it’s not a bug, it’s a feature (!?)

Aaron Maté on current events / interviewed by Judge Andrew Napolitano 2024-W15-3*

Tom Phillips, former UK ambassador to Israel, writing in Haaretz, says Hamas has won*

“It's no fun to admit that we've lost, so we lie to ourselves.” / Chaim Levinson, Haaretz*

here: Ilan Pappé for 5 minutes / there: an hour on the Zionist project coming to an end*


images of airstrikes on the three aid convoy vehicles tweeted by Marc Owen Jones*

international humanitarian law has collapsed … Israel assumes it is untouchable*

Gaza as a turning point – an “evolve or go extinct” moment – for Homo sapiens*

It's stunning to me that this administration in particular, the US gov in general, "the West" by extension, doesn't seem to understand that the credibility they've torched cannot be regained. https://t.co/TRKSRQusgm

— Meredith Whittaker (@mer__edith) April 2, 2024

Vonnegut on PPS – psychopathic personalities – people who have no consciences*

PPs know full well the suffering their actions may cause others, but they do not care*

we are all a product of our time and place (!?) / dependent arising (!?)

further notes

the latest draft of a future post in this series is here – and subscribing is forever free*

also free: instead of subscribing to Posthaven, you can ask me to email you updates*

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a post in the thanks and links series


Meister Eckhart – d. 1328* – known for saying, inter alia, that a thank-you is enough*

thank you so much, all who share
an interest in one or more
items noted – with links – below

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2024-04-07 / notes

*a link / see the about page for more

2024-04-07 is 2024-W14-7* / ☛ see notes for this and all other posts in this series*

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the moral cultures of dignity and victimhood* … and the schism in UUism*

if democracy isn’t working, maybe it’s time for sortition (!?)*

“All professions are conspiracies against the laity.” (!? !gb)

Kathleen Wallace: Gatekeeping against a shared humanity* / featured image above

seeming to be separate “a kind of optical delusion” of consciousness / Einstein letter (!?)*



uh-oh: Bibi slept in Jared’s bedroom on a visit with the Kushners in Livingston, NJ (!?)**

Aaron Maté on current events / interviewed by Judge Andrew Napolitano 2024-W14-2*

UK voter turnout, never below 70% 1945–97, never above it since, set to fall even more*

OED factsheet shows how the noun agape is pronounced, BrE and AmE*


love that has no opposite (Aldous Huxley and Jiddu Krishnamurti)* / featured image above

love, compassion, joy, and equanimity / the four immeasurables – see also metta (!?)

“you can experience dukkha with equanimity” / Zoketsu Norman Fischer (!?)

it is necessary, absolutely necessary, to believe in nothing (!? !* !*) / Shunryu Suzuki (!?)

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