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	March 11, 2007

Sunday Open Thread - March 11, 2007 Mutts Shelter Stories by Patrick McDonnell What I'm planning on writing about soon: Religion as a Form of Slavery: The God Delusion and all that. And technophilia as the fastest growing religion of them all. This all ties into what I'm thinking about (see below). Increasing Our Resilience and Energy Level: Perhaps we'd save the world if we weren't so tired, busy and distracted. The Fourth Turning: The coming era of repression and violent reactionary tyranny? (I gave away my copy of the book, so this one will have to wait until I pick up a new copy). Finding & Working With Others: Instead of working alone, connecting and colaborating with others, on our own terms, in our own context, developing our own plan of action. A billion diverse people doing our own thing but in sync, in community. The 'M' word: One of the last taboos to talk or write about. Do our frames enable independent thinking or preclude us from thinking objectively? An easy way to 'walk down the hall and chat briefly' with people who aren't down the hall. What I'm thinking about: The need to think for ourselves. The need to be ourselves. The need to smash groupthink of all kinds. And a process for doing it. Thought for the Day, from the NYT: "Whether or not you agree with them about, say, homosexuality and abortion — and we emphatically do not — it is antiquated to limit the definition of morality to the way humans behave among humans. Those days have been over ever since it became apparent that humans — busy thinking only about their own lives — had the power to destroy huge numbers of species, whole landscapes of habitat and, in fact, the balance of life on earth. The greatest moral issue of our time is our responsibility to the planet and to all its inhabitants." What's on your mind this week? 10:32:02 PM  trackback []  comment []

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