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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

*a link / see the about page for more

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

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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 (!?)

further notes

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

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interviewed by Judge Andrew Napolitano


Aaron Maté interviewed 2025-W02-3* / Wednesday, January 8

2024-03-27 / notes

*a link / see the about page for more

video above replaced as needed for current draft of next thanks and links post

notes below edited at any time to keep them current

Maté … père et fils, 2024-02-07:

… and 2024-08-06:

further notes

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thank you for copying and sharing links of interest

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