thanks and links for 2024-W14

a post in the thanks and links series

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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


2024-04-07 / 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)

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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

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