Nice job Google: Google Zeitgeist – Zeitgeist 2012 – Google

Link: https://www.google.ca/zeitgeist/2012/resolutions/#utm_source=hpp (sent via Shareaholic)

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Best year in Washington: Nate Silver - The Washington Post

Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/best-year-in-washington-nate-silver/2012/12/28/25787838-4dee-11e2-950a-7863a013264b_story.html (sent via Shareaholic)

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The Core Deficient Self and Relationship | Undivided

Link: http://undividedjournal.com/2012/06/10/the-core-deficient-self-and-relationship/ (sent via Shareaholic)

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I like.

Blogs.timesofisrael.com: A Muslim Perspective on Radicalism

All too frequently in the post 9/11 era, the religion of Islam is often associated with violence, attacks, suicide bombers or despotic practices especially by people in the West who are unfamiliar with the religion of Islam and the way of life that it entails. Given this picture, concepts like liberty, democracy, freedom of speech are considered to be wholly inconsistent with Islam. This is surely a misrepresentation of Islam, since like all of the three Abrahamic religions, it is based on the concepts of love and peace. The word Islam itself is derived from the Arabic word "slm" which means peace.

While some schools of Islam are said to represent the so-called radical Islam, as a matter of fact, there is no such concept. Radicalism, whether it belongs to a religious group, a political party or an entire ideology is the regrettable extreme of any school of thought or philosophy while Islam is a compassionate religion that embraces all humankind with love and affection.

Any group or organization which expresses extreme notions or concepts in fact is not acting in compliance with the spirit of Islam. Consequently, these groups or organizations suffer from erroneous misconceptions. God commands us to treat People of the Book (Christians and Jews) with compassion. In the Koran God says;

"Only argue with the People of the Book in the kindest way..."[Koran; 29:46]

The erroneous approaches of radical groups mainly stem from ignorance. Thus, it is important to reach out to them since whether in Islam or in any other religion or even in matters of political ideology, radicalism can never bring any good to people. Using this precise information, it is then possible to discern between what is normal and deviant. There is only Islam and there are Muslims. The source of Islam is solely the Koran. Thus, being a Muslim means to abide by the teaching of the Koran. Yes, there is the concept of jihad in Islam. But the word "jihad" means "to strive, to make effort". It is to approach people with love and compassion and to convince them with scientific and intellectual evidence, it is to communicate the love of God, the magnificence of the Koran and its righteous aspects. That is the "jihad" as defined in the Koran, in Islam; it does not entail beating someone about the head or sending forth suicide bombers to massacre people during their afternoon commute or to pour bombs upon innocent people, women and children. Islam definitely forbids such attempts. The only fighting permitted in the Koran is an intellectual struggle and the only time Islam permits war is when it is purely a last resort left as a self-defense mechanism...

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-muslim-perspective-on-radicalism/
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Fresh warm sheets, a Lazy Boy and a lazy girl.

The entirety of human knowledge – all science, logic and mathematics, all language and common sense – can have no more content than is contained in the sum of the perceptions from which the concepts that constitute this knowledge were formed.

http://www.uncoveringlife.com/concepts/

In difficulty tonite, I am grateful I was able to act out of love and make a difference.

Mesner Parker Christmas

Doesn't suck: Stairway to Heaven Led Zeppelin - Kennedy Center Honors - YouTube

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Molly channeling Hoto

At the mall. Karma service. Made a cashier laugh with tales of my flatulence. My work is done here.

New York Times: Why, God?

When my friend Robin was dying, she asked me if I knew a priest she could talk to who would not be, as she put it, “too judgmental...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/26/opinion/dowd-why-god.html
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Good advice. Remember not to use instant coffee in espresso maker. Bullet 3

Stunning wildlife drawings

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To a saint, her daughters, and a man I admire and love.

May grace wrap her arms around you

The world hold you in its heartspace

May you be filled with loving kindness

May you be well

May you be peaceful and at ease

May you be happy.

You are the northstars to all that is right in this world. 

May strength and love surround you.

Jerry

But you can certainly try.

Magnificent.

http://grooveshark.com/s/Gone+Gone+Gone/4Y6NKd?src=5

100 Riffs (A Brief History of Rock N' Roll) | Soundslice

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Branding gone wild #wtf

Gigapixel Image - Khumbu Glacier - Mt. Everest - The Glaciers of the Himalayas

Link: http://www.glacierworks.org/the-glaciers/pumori-spring-2012/ (sent via Shareaholic)

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The Illusion of Choice | Best Infographics

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500px: Highlands

500px: Highlands. http://goo.gl/mag/wpWnpzC

Long slow ache from my heart to my throat to my head. #griefsdarktendrils #ripjohn

Science, and the brains that interpret it, are cool.

Music

woke up at 3:00 am with the words 'standard cosmological model' in my head. Is this normal?

Apparently, Edgar Allan Poe anticipated the big bag theory by 80 years and solved Olber's paradox 50 years before a scientific proof was developed by Lord Kelvin. #gopoets

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Imagining the Tenth dimension. Geometry+imagination+quantum physics. A stunning exercise in looking at our universe in a different way. The book is awesome . This link walks you through the fundamental concepts in about 11 mins. Wow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjsgoXvnStY&feature=youtube_gdata_player

B.B. KING, STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN, ERIC CLAPTON, Phil Collins, Albert King, Paul Butterfield, Etta James and others Why I Sing the Blues - YouTube

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My feelings, somewhat vindicated: A Defense of Social Media : The New Yorker

A Defense of Social Media : The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/movies/2012/12/a-defense-of-social-media.html

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RIP John Welch. A funny smart man and great father in law

In hospice with my father in law. #sadendingswrappedinlove

How Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' Became Everybody's 'Hallelujah' - Ashley Fetters - The Atlantic

Link: http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/12/how-leonard-cohens-hallelujah-became-everybodys-hallelujah/265900/ (sent via Shareaholic)

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John W, may you be filled with loving kindness May you be well May you be peaceful and at ease May you be happy. My prayer for you is that grace will wrap her arms around your suffering and hold you in your walk down this final path. Namaste and love

RIP Dave Brubeck

Link: http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2012/12/05/jazz-great-dave-brubeck-dies-at-91/?hpt=hp_t3 (sent via Shareaholic)

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23k words. For the most part, effortless.

For the record, there is something called "Terror Management Theory" as well as "death thought accessibility test". #reseachingworldviews

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_view#section_2

Re-reading this book while waiting for the train. I am not normal.

Re-reading this fascinating book while waiting for the train. I am not normal. webcal://www.followupthen.com/ical?id=1032426&hash=7180733eb1364422882ffd2353ba1a2e

Internet Archive Search: creator:"Harry Houdini Collection"

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Examiner.com: We should place "devotion to the truth" higher than "devotion to God"

Recently there was a Christian/atheist debate held at Portland State University. Today, a video excerpt was posted in which Dehler (an atheist and former Christian) explains one major reason why he was able to leave behind the Christian...
http://www.examiner.com/article/we-should-place-devotion-to-the-truth-higher-than-devotion-to-god
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There is only one state. When corrupted and tainted by self identification, it is known as an individual. When it is merely tainted by the sense of presence, of animated consciousness, it is the impersonal witnessing. When it remains in its pristine purit

Bucket list: India's Kumbh Festival in photos

TO India, for the Kumbh Festival.

Amar Bharti, 58, a Naga sadhu, or naked Hindu holy man, who claims to have left uncut his nails for 28 years, speaks on his mobile phone near the land allotted for setting camps for the upcoming over-a-month-long Mahakumbh fair in Allahabad, India, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012. Millions of Hindu pilgrims are expected to take part in the largest religious congregation on the banks of Sangam, the confluence of rivers Ganges, amuna and mythical Saraswati, during the festival in January 2013, which falls every twelfth year.

Sadhus, or Hindu holy men, led by Swami Madhav Das mark the area of land allotted to them for setting up tents for the upcoming over-a-month-long Mahakumbh fair in Allahabad, India, Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012. Millions of Hindu pilgrims are expected to take part in the largest religious congregation on the banks of Sangam, the confluence of rivers Ganges, amuna and mythical Saraswati, during the festival in January, 2013, which falls every twelfth year.

The hair of a Sadhu, or Hindu holy man, is decorated with marigold flowers

Indians hold hands to form a human chain on the banks of the Ganges Rives urging authorities to clean up the river for the upcoming over-a-month-long Mahakumbh fair in Allahabad, India

http://www.anorak.co.uk/341394/news/indias-kumbh-festival-in-photos.html/
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The checkout lady said calling out 'code red' on the escalator if I wanted a bigger buggy would not be meaningful.

I told her we have code words at work too, like when I'm beckoned 'hey idiot'. Except it's not really a code word as everyone kind of knows it's me.

Woke up at 4, started and finished a book, and now back to bed.

Recommended by Jerry Katz.

http://livinginopenawareness.com/TOB(OriginalVersion).pdf