These people will kill for a piece of real estate....and that's their normal....
Muslims in China rioted; stabbing police and burning cars and such. 27 people dead. They did the same thing in 2009 when 200 people were killed.
I didn't even know China had muslims, but so much for that countries claims of ethnic tranquility.
How much more proof of either imcompetence or indifference do you need?
I want to wish this guy the best of luck when reality slaps him right across the head...
A building constructed of thousands of cross beams and one of them ends up upright and it's a miracle....sounds legit to me.
This kind of logic is strickly forbidden...
Most Christians enjoy working in a logic-free environment.
Everytime I heard "What would Jesus do?" I want to say, "That freaking out and flipping tables is a viable option."
Holy incense....think about that a moment...
Writing
in a Time cover story
about the virtue of service, Joe Klein took a religious detour: in
the relief army helping Oklahoma recover from a barrage of tornadoes, he wrote,
"you don’t see organized groups of secular humanists giving out hot
meals." He's lying
out of his ass, Hemant Mehta points out. But that is the point, isn't it?
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"but so much for that countries claims of ethnic tranquility."
Also: Tibet. But yes, there millions of Muslims in China (the Pew Research Center estimated 21.5 million in 2009).
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What's wrong with the Radha Sahar quote? The only thing I find wrong with it is the "chosen people" thing, but it's so bland as to be meaningless.
I don't mind calling Earth sacred or thinking the purpose of life is spirituality. Indeed, treating the earth as a precious thing is a good idea, because we're made of it, and if we despoil it wantonly we're despoiling ourselves wantonly.
"Spiritual" can mean anything vis-a-vis numinous, awesome, or transcendent experiences (which even heathen anti-theists like me can have). See Merriam-Webster's definition of the word. Don't let dogmatic nuts usurp your lexicon!
The oneness thing is nice iyam, and can easily be the product of a causal view of reality which promotes compassion, goodwill, humor, and a desire to see extenuating circumstances in peoples' bad behavior.
Taking the "oneness" thing to heart improves me. I'll critique myself from that perspective: the other day I went apeshit here over games. Does that mean I am irreducibly a reactionary cunt? No; I'm sometimes a reactionary cunt, but not irreducibly so, and it's not the only thing that makes me me. I was reactionary about games because of prior causes which link me to the wider universe, e.g.:
* I grew up with a father and siblings who played and shared games
* I know and talk frequently with game designers and publishers
* I like writing and storytelling, and so gravitate to immersive games
* I like deconstruction and learning therefore I consume games criticism
I could go on, but the point here is that viewing things from a "oneness" perspective makes it easy (for me, at least) to explain and perhaps change my own behavior. I think the universe is a super-complicated and often-inscrutable but nonetheless interlinked and interdependent whole; a complete system, a great clockwork of phenomena all tangled up together and reducible back to the Big Bang. Therefore, I can say something like this:
I genuinely care about games and want to see them advanced as a medium of storytelling, sociality, interactivity, etc because I was exposed to games and gamers at an early age and retain that exposure today. I reacted strongly to a clearly non-hurtful bit of humor because I care about games in that manner. Given that I'm so personally invested in games, it would behoove me to be especially alert to intention, proportion and tone when discussing games.
The preceding was an excerpt from Self Help for Jambe by Jambe with Jambe, available exclusively at FOLIO OLIO.
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