Sorry folks, this "blog" actually serves as a kind of notebook for moi, especially lately at the top. For my ideas in general you might try the third post down from the top entitled "Intro." In its early days I was hoping to turn on the comment feature, but I never found the time to figure out how to do so.

René Girard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=&go=Go

<a href="www.WEBSITE TO LINK TO GOES HERE.com"></a>.

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http://daveatch.blogspot.com/2013/12/listening.html

psychic body aurobindo mentioned http://www.holisticbodytalk.com/blog--when-we-miss-energy-medicine-we-miss-99-of-reality-by-james-oschman/7-chakras-our-health

9/1 "Syria’s civil war is the most dangerous and destructive crisis on the planet. Since early 2011, hundreds of thousands have died; around ten million Syrians have been displaced; Europe has been convulsed with Islamic State (ISIS) terror and the political fallout of refugees; and the United States and its NATO allies have more than once come perilously close to direct confrontation with Russia."
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/01/americas-true-role-syria

tangled linkarchy

7/13 https://consortiumnews.com/2015/07/13/the-mess-that-nuland-made/

  9/2 http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/02/experts-raise-alarms-us-war-hawks-push-deeper-syria-intervention

  8/31 "A New McCarthyism: Greenwald on Clinton Camp's Attempts to Link Trump, Stein & WikiLeaks to Russia" http://www.democracynow.org/2016/8/31/a_new_mccarthyism_greenwald_on_clinton

Handy items begin here (for me)...

July 2014 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/books/review/the-peoples-platform-by-astra-taylor.html?_r=0

June 30 http://www.alternet.org/culture/digital-divide-american-politics

6/22 https://theintercept.com/2016/06/22/senate-narrowly-rejects-controversial-fbi-surveillance-expansion-for-now/

Feb 2016 http://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2016/02/the-nsas-skynet-program-may-be-killing-thousands-of-innocent-people/

robots
5/12 https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/the-pentagon-is-building-a-self-aware-killer-robot-army-fueled-by-social-media-bd1b55944298#.myw89sbdf

ttp://www.democracynow.org/2016/7/14/ex_seattle_police_chief_defends_citizens

http://www.democracynow.org/2016/7/14/ex_seattle_police_chief_defends_citizens

unstable in military https://www.google.com/search?as_q=&as_epq=how+the+military+deals+with+unstable&as_oq=supremiscists+lone+disgruntled+shooters+sect+cult+problem+threat+individuals+&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=any&safe=images&as_filetype=&as_rights=

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_contnt&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=16683

Hudson on Greece debacle http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=14132

http://milos.conferences.gr/index.php?id=2851

https://www.google.com/search?as_q=+atlantis&as_epq=flood+myths&as_oq=collective+unconsious+caldwell+jungian&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=any&safe=images&as_filetype=&as_rights=

etheric & other bodies, vibes of individual thoughts, etc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3xLuZNKhl

gluon field fluctuations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3xLuZNKhlY

closer to etheric bodies etc http://www.kjmaclean.com/SelfEmpowerment.php

planet x search https://www.google.com/search?as_q=meteors+arkansas+whitmore&as_epq=27+million&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=any&safe=images&as_filetype=&as_rights=#as_qdr=all&q=daniel+whitmire+planet+9

atlantis http://atlantis-today.com/Atlantis_Atlantis_Code.htm

https://www.google.com/search?as_q=atlantis+&as_epq=black+sea+&as_oq=jason+fleece+caucuses&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=any&safe=images&as_filetype=&as_rights=

http://www.archaeologywordsmith.com/lookup.php?terms=Period

deadlihoods http://commondreams.org/views/2016/07/04/livelihoods-deadlihoods

http://www.chaunceydevega.com/2016/06/the-violence-of-forgetting-dangers-of.html

magnet wheels https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUcWn1x3Tss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM6gNFtbhH4

https://www.change.org/p/john-kerry-regime-change-in-syria

giroux on triggers http://www.chaunceydevega.com/2016/06/the-violence-of-forgetting-dangers-of.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Censorship_by_Google

Espanol while sleeping https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVk0ztHp8Fo

paco montreaux https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpxpiyRGQEY

le pido Leon Gieco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR6YodLRC5U

Solo le pido a Dios https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHwF4EA8sZQ&list=RDYHwF4EA8sZQ

play long haired donnie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_moKUMVk1Xo

Burnside doing Long Haired Donnie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf_nL5KWcWM

triple strum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymJX8Iza3YQ

little finger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSaJ5vw5nBE

cooder little sister https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=necmhMW09gg

cooder mainline https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOEFNZJDXGM

cooder bamba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__9ocrWvZtw

cooder good people BC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2bh-xjQ6Lc

Om Mani https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fiabx0_BOHo

Om Mani erhu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HGcIUEfbIU

la colina de la vida https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2z3qa659_g

knopfler lyrics http://www.lyricsfreak.com/m/mark+knopfler/

some lyrics actually available here (translated), scroll down to "chocolate"
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://canteytoque.es/letras.html&prev=search

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://canteytoque.es/letras.html&prev=search

gitano ballads
https://www.google.com/search?as_q=amazon+book+&as_epq=lyricas+de+las+seguiriyas&as_oq=&as_eq=mp3&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=any&safe=images&as_filetype=&as_rights=

https://www.google.com/search?as_q=coleccion+palos&as_epq=+cantes+flamenco&as_oq=+lyrics+letras+songs+ballads&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=any&safe=images&as_filetype=&as_rights=

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://flamencosevilla.blogspot.com/2015/09/taller-de-cante-flamenco-los-palos-del.html&prev=search

https://www.google.com/search?as_q=coleccion+palos&as_epq=+cantes+flamenco&as_oq=+lyrics+letras+songs+ballads&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=any&safe=images&as_filetype=&as_rights=

http://www.wow.com/wiki/Cante_flamenco

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.foro-ciudad.com/huelva/alosno/mensaje-1147436.html&prev=search

last great windjammers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS01pYi2S38

in the rigging German https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n34OyGfYq-A

around horn modern https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nTG9mdUwWM

To me it's all like a story from history that didn't happen (supposedly
something else happened). Imagine yourself a Persian under Xerxes on
the west side of the Bosphorous in retreat. Imagine the storm had only
given the boat bridge moderate wear and tear. [not to say I "favor"
either side]

Each boat is like an ACA, like the Iran deal negotiations, like voting Democratic to head off Trump, like standing on the EU for support for a few historical moments. Each boat could be likened to a political position.

Each boat is like our 27 Amendments (save the un-pragmatic 18th).

If you want to ignore the whole ball of wax and embrace anarchism...well, that's one option (same deal with embracing Trump). Not to say anarchists have always stood aloof and had no impact. Maybe it would be different if they got into print more [or maybe the print was there but I was too busy working or reading metaphysics and LeCarre]; but right now I only see Chomsky impacting anything (huge impact nevertheless). Or you could become a Libertarian, and simply advocate obviating ALL dilemmas by abolishing taxes.

According to the politically correct, if you spend time praying you're diluting your impact. That's fine. If my motivation most of the time is committing random acts of kindness and some of the time defending one or another pragmatic place to stand politically...I'll admit the former is sort of anarchistic in terms of the four dimensional domain.

http://www.usu.edu/markdamen/1320hist&civ/slides/02herod/boatbridge.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Ortega_y_Gasset

http://brandon.multics.org/library/Christopher%20Lasch/lasch1994revolt.html

In terms of the two, those who want warnings every time one turns around are the PC or victim-obsessed division. I suppose we have to be careful (if we're opposed to the excess) that we're not drawn into violent argumentation with these folks, for then we move ourselves into the "other" group. I couldn't believe how stark Girard's words were on the opposing group, but I agreed with his association. He forthrightly identified them with "Nazi" type phenomena. Not that everyone in synch with said group realizes there's a connection. Without a doubt, these are [just to mention one characteristic] the free trade "optimists" he mentions in conversation 5. True, these are broad categories, but Girard didn't shrink from tying them into political/trade orientations. If you were sitting there listening you might not right away realize what he had intimated...because undoubtedly he varied his terms (they always fit however by some means). To me it's amazing how anyone in a second language can be this subtle.

The division is borne out in Congress for instance with obstructionism (gridlock), the likes of which we've never seen. The House controlled by globalist "optimists." For me (and I'm just saying for me)...I view the Senate has having been just within the border of the "optimist" grouping, probably moving a few inches closer to the exact border line at the moment. But they're still full on "optimists" when it comes to establishing footholds hither & thither militarily...Ukraine and Africa [competing with China in Africa] for example. A lot of the motive being resource access. Nothin'll go wrong of course (optimisitc).

Our Executive branch under Obama has tried not to be in the heart of the excess-optimist group. My understanding is Obama has worked hard to get much more review of prospective interventions than, say, the prior-to-Sanders Clinton would have (as prez). Of course, we realize there are all kinds of Democrats in Congress who would go with the Clinton approach. Categorization under Girard's divisions becomes difficult, though, because we also know both Executive and Legislative do entertain, in some cases, unbalanced concern with and promotion of one group ("victimized") at everyone else's huge expense. I don't think for the most part they do so out of any instense or unusual concern for the victims. I think an acceleration of bureaucracy over time and pork payoffs on the side are the main factors. This "victim" over-compensation, though, IMO is rare in Congress [save corporate welfare, but the "logic" there is not breathed out loud in ANY manner whatsoever--it's not even supposed to exist according to its backers].

Yes, Congress is a good example of the two totalitiarianisms coming to blows, but that's only because its right wing members are VERY right wing. If OTOH one were to look at identity politics groups outside Congress versus Tea Party Republicans in Congress...then you'd probably have in some intances a classic example of Girard's two categories squaring off. I know there are some here who DO view the Senate as controlled by whiners. I don't. Admittedly, some extreme over blown "concern" is in evidence there, actually in both parties...and in the House. The excess in "helping" the disadvantaged, say, in the case of H1B visas. It's sort of a veneer average people are allowed to believe in, or allowed to assume exists...that testifies to the good will of those who have constructed and/or acquiesced to the policy.

"First of all , what is the H1B program?

Ralph Nader: It’s a national program that would allow 60 to 80,000 people abroad who have special skills that are needed and not met in the United States to immigrate and work in the United States. It’s being pushed by the hyper-profitable Silicon Valley companies like Cisco, Intel, Google, Facebook, because they said that they don’t get enough skilled software code writers, et cetera which is really not the real reason. The real reason is they wanted the best talent from abroad that they can pay the lowest wages to. And H1B imported workers constitute a brain drain on these developing countries, like India, Egypt and elsewhere and harm these countries. Now, the Silicon Valley companies want the number to be brought in over 200,000 a year. And fortunately, there’s been some resistance to that from both the labor unions and from the White House. But it’s very typical that people like Tom Friedman columnist for the Washington Post they go around the world telling people to 'Enter the new software economy.'..."
https://ralphnaderradiohour.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Ralph-Nader-Radio-Hour-Episode-99.pdf

https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/pplsummit?source=feed_text&story_id=10154209094527980&ft[tn]=*NK&ft[type]=104&ft[qid]=6297508739787787945&ft[mf_story_key]=7993565341556534995&ft[ei]=AI%409ab01a697d60d6f624362fb5c3a3634a&ft[fbfeed_location]=1&ft[insertion_position]=1&__md__=1

sacroiliac https://www.google.com/search?as_q=wikipedia+pelvis+sacrum+joint&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=any&safe=images&as_filetype=&as_rights=

what progressive? commondreams http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/06/19/what-progressives-and-democrats-need-coalition-not-unity

men & women in church bloom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLu6OOqTR1I

lent bloom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voFxD4LztJU

doubts Bloom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75FMmJT7RS0

cannibal war machine, girard mentioned http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/07/01/the-cannibal-war-machine/

ukraine, hudson, gmos fracking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJc2kzCffbw

paris raieces https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5qWxJvwCRI

in memory of bb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcF

thirty one min, finger pop, du wop, bBlue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGE6OjEB9Cw

b blue near harvard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGE6OjEB9Cwt

long haired donnie, on porch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf_nL5KWcWM

play long haired donnie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_moKUMVk1Xo

strum shuffle, blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NApOl3VDOA

beefheart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpHgG4jILa0

earth pilgrim https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=becoming+an+earth+pilgrim&spfreload=5

Fr Barnabas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40KmPUMW_UE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40KmPUMW_UE

http://radioornot.com/live-broadcast-chat/

http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/all/2015/08/debating-the-new-campus-pc/40211

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGuSbsp37jI

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/europe-greece-memorandum-understanding-mou-galbraith-munevar

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/4/9/1512979/-The-Rape-of-Justice-How-Neoliberalism-Destroys-Equal-Justice-Under-Law

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girard related http://180rule.com/why-people-hate-skyler-white-on-breaking-bad/

girard related http://www.lotsofessays.com/viewpaper/1687892.html

Rohr, Sounds True https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oEI8Yghga0&ebc=ANyPxKrxNPMxdnjcZrMYpvU4az_EdCzWKspWUxfX0JsZLB4sLYF7nDrp-6jaUjlpONgWvh7j7sz9f0r9So2Mj1ivr-1qP4mc6w

Prashad, foreign policy http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=15808#.Vt9H-gaYp4k.facebook

3/15/16 http://www.juancole.com/2016/03/russia-hizbullah-begin-withdrawal-from-syria.html

3/15/16, 1:30 PM Eastern Russian air strikes to continue. Good map.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35812371

Feb '16 http://www.alternet.org/world/there-appears-be-truce-after-years-hostilities-between-worlds-great-oil-producers

why-yria-crucial-energy-future-mideast

Sep '15 http://www.mintpressnews.com/migrant-crisis-syria-war-fueled-by-competing-gas-pipelines/209294/

Mar '16 https://www.mintpressnews.com/214396-2/214396/

http://mondoweiss.net/2015/09/own-up-obama/

https://www.oximity.com/article/There-Appears-to-Be-a-Truce-After-Year-1

http://wallstreetexaminer.com/2016/03/stronger-u-s-dollar-actually-destroying-markets/

http://prn.fm/alternative-visions-the-billionaires-behind-the-us-presidential-election-02-19-16/

http://harryshearer.com/le-shows/july-19-2015/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/panagiotis-roilos/european-animal-farm_b_1511619.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4O6VNVMuVs

http://www.jeramyt.org/papers/girard.html

circular flow diagrams, overall search https://www.google.com/search?q=images+money+jpeg+OR+trade+OR+deficit+%22circular+flow%22&lr=&as_qdr=all&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi50pCrmLTLAhVFsoMKHbw_CMcQsAQIHA&biw=1116&bih=697

https://www.google.com/search?q=images+money+jpeg+OR+trade+OR+deficit+%22circular+flow%22&lr=&as_qdr=all&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi50pCrmLTLAhVFsoMKHbw_CMcQsAQIHA&biw=1116&bih=697#imgrc=0BhxINUHYXUUSM%3A

energy waste https://www.google.com/search?q=images+money+jpeg+OR+trade+OR+deficit+%22circular+flow%22&lr=&as_qdr=all&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi50pCrmLTLAhVFsoMKHbw_CMcQsAQIHA&biw=1116&bih=697#imgrc=qQTrcyRqSL0voM%3A

simple circular flow https://www.google.com/search?q=images+money+jpeg+OR+trade+OR+deficit+%22circular+flow%22&lr=&as_qdr=all&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi50pCrmLTLAhVFsoMKHbw_CMcQsAQIHA&biw=1116&bih=697#imgrc=5Ia28kLkDhIfgM%3A

http://radioornot.com/live-broadcast-chat/

Paine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itvtwoVCTxM

epic roundtable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mtm-TirttFA&ebc=ANyPxKqjqfEWRgHCLxaoxGq-uO9pN4Q9Y1UfSPgKyWkBa-sgrUULnnwo5ChwIasEesZjCxXbHqRSKrgtV3JNRAF5rYugW3afnw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz56WytRlqo prouty

http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160304/1035777990/kennedy-interview-syria-pipeline.html

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-america-made-donald-trump-unstoppable-20160224

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/bernie-sanders-doesnt-need-momentum-he-needs-to-win-these-states/

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/02/liberals-need-back-trump-love

Oct Gabbard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHkher6ceaA

kissinger
https://theintercept.com/2016/02/12/henry-kissingers-war-crimes-are-central-to-the-divide-between-hillary-clinton-and-bernie-sanders/

blyth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQuHSQXxsjM

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150512-bird-grows-face-of-dinosaur

bitter blue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXD7WQAeWrw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqkNOpGbi28&list=PLD18E99CFB1B9420F

sounds true https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oEI8Yghga0&ebc=ANyPxKrge7YS9KzKit_awH-C7ZKKaneKN_Gtwn1I1r2eBUmYLxzu07kPhnCt7lc0B7jeYhoPS6vD2WDvu5uwtd9PdRI97ctFKQ

Mokhiber https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLRqAotwJCc&list=PLD18E99CFB1B9420F&index=4

NZ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyjrVoleQQU&ebc=ANyPxKrStFRxHTAoSJ7FCgMeBMAeydgX7l09lK9xOsJvUd8JC9HDA3EY3AeajfkzdYVA_u8UCMI4FlwRLU-JhN759UF_jtOohA

war on Iran https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8Jg41szSg4

https://www.facebook.com/senatorsanders/photos/a.91485152907.84764.9124187907/10154585502767908/?type=3&theater

hudson, primitive accumulation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owslC-XNjlU&ebc=ANyPxKprQeHn5zD6p_fo6hUOuKU01T2dNfFwG01hC7WIy6nR-zjbc-VCY_A3iklcZaUVHQLr7QtLANfqCiWgOSJvMp8TTNwo5A

23 min hudson 3cr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv6kEd9C9CM

private debt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ74wWIxe4E

Asian interdevelopment bank http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=13470

piketty warren https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEYAS5U5Wuk

blocked Rohr (NZ) is back! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJyY-sNsgV8&ebc=ANyPxKqZdudSPmZT7oSb5SjMSnKOkeW38aZIcbHitucCXSsnPGNPMj6RmOefnTopXSwciFFbK4hahcCVzI-H5vpDYflzP-Vggg

NZ session 4 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJyY-sNsgV8&ebc=ANyPxKp6jR46Pd7ub1790a3pJ_yMfnReSDZPF6w0SC9gDd8yPSD0R3czkyxDaOWj6n3VvqG2t-Z0whAEOeF_h2xjsq9QZanlkQ

session 8 NZ great suffering? etc? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyjrVoleQQU&ebc=ANyPxKogC1et3h6Squxor4Mun1f3XfWy7H5BmiKVuqyD8-05poo99AMP6ZFECowvrTiLXud_OmIW4GMZ1wU7RoaDfJY_qL_7DA

NZ session 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2RgMhMvZqA&ebc=ANyPxKr16AAbT9eaAzYMqsZta51yj7DY5TYJazQHSBmFmcxh1qCipHy3RxXRPO41BE6oC2S-cBamRpEvRuBFu5XiCmJDlwxX-Q

me gusta tu https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=how+to+play+me+gusta+tu&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-002

http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160216/1034827634/munich-security-conference-nato-cold-war.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/01/why-dont-black-voters-feel-the-bern-maybe-because-only-white-democrats-have-moved-left/

"GALBRAITH: Well, again, what he [dude who ran scenario favorable to Sanders' answers] was doing was running a program of a certain scale, of a large scale, through a set of standard macroeconomic assumptions. And that, again, is a reasonable exercise. If you ask me what my personal view is, I've written a whole book called The End of Normal in which I lay out reasons for my chronic pessimism about the capacity of the world economy to absorb a great deal more rapid economic growth. http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=15793

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/7/6/1399532/-Banksters-Greece-and-the-Shock-Doctrine-Disaster-Capitalism

Parry http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/Sanders-the-Realist--Hil-by-Robert-Parry-Bernie-Sanders_Hillary-2016_Neocon-Expansionism_Neocon-Military-Aggression-160224-439.html

Noosa '15 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc_iCjyPIY8

Talk about an "existential" concept, just stop and think about what in one's current precious existence goes out the window in passing to one's next incarnation...under Tibetan Buddhism. Yep, that river of forgetfullness erases plenty. In Tibetan Buddhism and in the historical "Yogachara" school of Buddhism (both endorsing perspectives close to Edgar Cayce type notions of the soul) at least something is retained. But then when you get into branches of Buddhism that endorse Anatta in regard to souls...well, it's sort of Whiteheadian if I have my concepts right. Under these, what is "you" in your present life later on gets sliced and diced like groups of mortgages in a credit default obligation.

Mega millions https://www.valottery.com/SearchNumbers/megamillions/

A statement that's significant in terms of what I've found in a few sources is to be found at Wikipedia's "Brahman" article...under it's sub-heading down the page "Dvaita." Dvaita's postulate of souls being real is distinct somewhat from "non-dualism" as described in most places I've come across. But I've come across "qualified non-dualism" as postulating souls being real also (I think most sources classify Dvaita as "qualified non-dualism").

"Brahman of Dvaita is a concept similar to God in major world religions.[15] Dvaita holds that the individual soul is dependent on God, but distinct.[15]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman

This is a significant contention of many religious views. The word "dependent" of course has different meanings for different folks. With St Paul, if we have our being *in God...that could be viewed like mitochondria in a cell. But if I were to say, "Yes, we do live and move and have our being in God" I personally would nevertheless find it hard to come up with anything analogous because *it is spirit. I could perhaps say a diatom lives *in water, and it also needs sunlight. With that...you have the living-in, the moving-in, and also something "external." Add more roots or anchors or enclosures or dimensions or auras, and it seems to me you could get closer to the way I view it. Enveloping everything is the *elan vital you could say. Fundamentally, though, our minds don't have the concepts to describe how exactly we exist "in" God. There may be the "seed" of God in all of us. There may be the "inner light" in all of us. And the light and the seed (if we are open to it at a particular moment) may take us a long way into God's peace and God's own experience. A long way. But my view is that it doesn't take us (our souls) *all the way.

things erased left and right on rene girard page, saving these

According to my First Things link (it's definition), I'm having difficulty seeing how "undifferentiation" can be forced. Perhaps someone can help. I do think the blanket scapegoating of Muslims isn't appropriate (and France's appears less extreme than our popular version).

Girard to me made the most persuasive case for more democracy. But before we get to the stage "true democracy," IMO we must realize we are all not little kings and queens. Whatever our stand on whatever matter has only an infintisimal impact on anything. And therefore when we wish to make a statement, to be realistic about what CAN be accomplished (what is able to be accomplished)...we may often be constrained to choose an issue regarding which there is some reasonable expectation of significant solidarity. No, this is not a utopian outlook. It acknowledges: yes, I can speak truth to power; but it also acknowledges that my voice alone will mean far less than if WE speak truth to power. That may mean as time goes on that, as a situation of no-consensus on abortion continues, there may arise willy nilly a majority which comes to view the havoc of a war like the Vietnam War as simply causing more problems than it solves. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVp7OnFy52A

How much had Girard read? Could it be he had actually read more literature than almost any then-living person? Why not? For out of all the items he read he distilled the repetitive cycle we all now see ourselves, and few had come anywhere close to extracting this/the literary evidence...re society itself. So too, it is up to us not to be "ideological," but to be as careful ourselves with accounts of modern history as we can. As thorough as we can. But then, even so...this is not ALL of our life, our lives. Speaking out as a citizen of a nation is just one dimension of "stewardship." IMO it's a plausible injunction (Berdyaev's) to speak out less to attain political goals than simply to strengthen our own faith.
https://www.google.com/search?as_q=cruz%20ted...

On the advice of I'll post an "original" thought today. I don't know yet if any one of these essays puts forward what I've been thinking may be a way Whitehead was tempted to look at the issue; and I don't even know if this notion of mine is anywhere close to how Whitehead eventually ended up answsering the question. Or if any soul on the planet ever put Whitehead's ideas together with the Gospels in this way at all. Seems I'm asking myself: Given Christ's message was valid, what if Whitehead's was valid too, AND...there is no reincarnation??

"Life After Death in Whitehead's Metaphysics"
https://www.google.com/search?as_q=&as_epq=Life+After+Death+in+Whitehead%27s+Metaphysics&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=any&safe=images&as_filetype=&as_rights=

Some intros to Whitehead I'm sorry to say don't make me feel I'm any closer to his basic ideas. This one approaches them from somewhat of a tangent, but nevertheless seems to carry me closer (by page 5 and definitely 6, though, it starts to get tough).
"https://www.academia.edu/14177797/The_Clinical_Use_of_Whitehead_s_Anthropology"

I take it the author is David Roy. Roy describes the "actual occasion" of a psyche [or "soul" as I trust the author interprets ANW correctly] as having two poles, somatic (physical) and mental.
This source, though, and others like it might cause me to wonder if there are others.
"https://snooze2awaken.wordpress.com/2014/03/20/time-space-the-etheric-template-body-formative-causation-morphic-fields-rebooted/"

General approach to Alfred North Whitehead (good luck!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwgoi0cvwmU

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