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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

2024-01-28 / notes

*a link; see also the about page for how posts – and copies on fw – use links

2024-01-28 is 2024-W04-7* / other notes for all posts in this series are under “▼” here

thanks to all who shared links embedded below

Jane Goodall says the best thing most of us can do for the planet this year is to vote*

commentaries on Israel/Palestine – from Thomas Friedman* and Rashid Kalidhi*

The Death of Israel: Chris Hedges speaks at the Islamic Society of Central New Jersey*

auto-generated transcript of the above talk, based on the CC text – a copy-paste*

a minister has moved on from the UU sources: “I’m kind of done with the sources”*

a new report on Religious ‘Nones’ in America: Who They Are and What They Believe*

aging as a spiritual practice: video previews (28 minutes in total) of an online course*

seeing others deeply and being deeply seen (!?) / being (with) as a spiritual practice (!*)

ICJ / … stop a genocide unfolding, not give it a label after it has already taken place (!?)*

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a post in a 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

2024-01-21 / notes

*a link; see also the about page for how posts – and copies on fw – use links

2024-01-21 is 2024-W03-7* / other notes for all posts in this series are under “▼” here

may be read by anyone with the link: Some Unitarian Guiding Documents – 2024*

without subscribing, you can read the 1440 newsletter (!?) any day on their website*

a deeply entrenched sense of “being me”: the error that gives rise to all other errors (!g)

ignorance causes our suffering and – via Jacob Needleman (!?) – “it is ignorance of what we are not: we are not this ego” (!g)

“structure and associated routines, a sense of purpose, and a sense of community” (!g)
like it or not, a regular job provides these three things; no regular job, they’re up to you
/ Ernie Zelinski in The Joy of Not Working: A book for the retired, unemployed, … (!gb)

five billion are poorer, five richest men now twice as rich as in 2020 (Inequality Inc)*

Irish lawyer speaking for South Africa at the IJC (!yt) / Owen Jones (!?) posted this:

“With one phone call Joe Biden could end the slaughter in Gaza. He chooses not to.”*

LOTE – two evils (!?) – no longer. “There is no greater evil than the evil of genocide.”*

“phoney” or “phony” moot, says Patrick Lawrence (!?), a new (world) war is under way*

under way/underway (!?) / Bryan A Garner (2016) (!gb)… either way, a foreign policy #fail

further notes are not appended to posts on fewer wurdz

a post in a 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

2024-01-14 / notes

*a link; see the about page for how posts – and copies on fw – use links

2024-01-14 is 2024-W02-7* / other notes for all notes in this series are under “▼” here

online in 2025 at PG&E site: iron-air battery installation rated 5MW/500MWh (!?)**

borders of Israel: a WaPo explainer with dates and six maps*

Gaza: UK’s chief rabbi strongly endorses operation by IDF personnel … “our heroes”*

Dutch analyst Thomas Karat (!?) interviews Chas W. Freeman Jr. (!w2) in video below; see also copy-paste of autogenerated transcript

a related must-read: Bertrand Russell’s last message* / dated two days before he died

maybe time to read and hear again the MLK speech that caused the break with LBJ*

meeting jaw-to-jaw is better than war (!*)

He’s Back / A.P. Herbert (!?)

glossary of literary terms (!w2) / a minority interest: no entry (yet) for “sympathetic …”

Do robot snowplows have a future in Canada?*

the Buddha, Ananda [AH-nuhn-duh], and friendship (!?) / see also an archived post*

UU ex-fan Jerry Coyne (!?) would “now take Buddhism over Unitarian Universalism”*

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the first in a 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

2024-01-06 / notes

*a link; see the about page for how posts – and copies on fw – use links

2024-01-06 is 2024-W01-6* / a Saturday – see also under the symbol “▼” below

Vijay Prashad – US-based historian and journalist (!?) – interviews Waters in this video

January 1 column in Le Figaro* on Israel/Gaza, archived and translated

Blenheim Palace and the Churchills*

Jerry Coyne – 2024-01-02 post on ideological capture of Unitarian Universalism (!?)

Jerry Coyne – 2023-01-06 post on descent of Unitarian Universalists*

Stephen Batchelor, PDF of 2012 article on Buddhism 2.0 (!?)

anicca, dukkha, anatta – the three marks of existence (!? !*)

Nagarjuna on the two truths: absolute and relative (!? !*)

▼ below are notes that apply to all posts in this series

featured image – copied from here – seems to be in general use for Meister Eckhart* (!i)

an interest … inter esse … inter-isness … interbeing / Thich Nhat Hanh (!?)

shared interest / empathic joy: as in love, compassion, joy, and equanimity (!? !*)

thanks again for sharing an interest in any of the items noted, most of them stories: stories tell us all we know and tell; “all we know is stories – some are helpful, some not” (!g) / check out a helpful one* … as for truth, a story tells at best a relative truth (*!)

here’s one: greed, hatred, and delusion (!?) come from ignorance of what we are not (*!)

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a look back at Christmas, a look ahead at 2024

Our crumbling culture can be so hard to navigate. Religion can be hard to navigate too. But maybe Christmas can help us understand what it is, and what part of us it services. Religion is not, as atheists often assume and I once assumed too, a set of beliefs to be adhered to, or arguments to be made and defended. It is an experience to be immersed in. The orthopraxy reveals the orthodoxy. … It is hard, if not impossible to explain, and yet it is the simplest thing in the world. We have always done it. We always will.*

Kingsnorth starts his post with with this:

Sometimes I think I’ve been lied to my whole life.

Everyone, everywhere, lives by a story. This story is handed to us by the culture we grow up in, the family that raises us, and the worldview we construct for ourselves as we grow. The story will change over time, and adapt to circumstances. When you’re young, you tend to imagine that you have bravely pioneered your own story. After all, the whole world revolves around you. As you age, though, you begin to see that much of what you believe is in fact a product of the time and place you were young in.*

as for a look ahead at 2024, subscribers to the free newsletter from george atherton can look forward to cross-posts as before – but maybe fewer of them – and most of them now of posts on fewer wurdz that say what others say, wherever they may say it

2023-12-28 / notes

*a link; see the about page for how posts – and copies on fw – use links

“It is hard, if not impossible to explain, …” / it may be beyond reason (!g)

stories matter: “all we know is stories – some are helpful, …” (!gi) / choose a helpful one*

wherever they may say it / in other words, not just elsewhere on Substack

further notes are not appended to posts on fewer wurdz