Auschwitz Album
This chilling link from Yad Vashem is worth viewing. It shows an actual photo album that details the process of dehumanization followed at the Auschwitz Extermination Camp. Organizational precision has never been so effectively deployed towards such methodic dehumanization.
Religulous
Bill Mahr’s documentary about the excesses and idiocies of organized religion was not exhaustive.
The Vatican recently excommunicated the Mother and Doctors of a 9 year old who had been raped and received an abortion. The doctors "fear[ed] that the 80-pound girl would not survive a full-term pregnancy".
But that was apparently not enough suffering to this family. The regional archbishop deemed it prudent to also humiliate and intimidate this deeply Catholic family with excommunication.
Peaceful baby
His face is so calm
Full of love and tranquility
How blessed we are
to have warm shelter and peace for him.
How hard and how painful
for the millions upon millions
who lack peace, or water or heat,
who may not have bread or milk to give their children.
How hard and how painful
for the parents who’d lose a baby to a missile
or the babies who’d lose a parent to a bomb
and the nations who’d lose their innocence along the way.
That juxtaposition gives me anxiety:
the peaceful nap of our little baby
against the horrors and hatred brewing around our world,
whether a few blocks up, or 7,000 miles away.
For my baby’s peace cannot be guaranteed
his Spring cannot be counted upon
so long as babies anywhere else in our globe
are suffering, being targeted or killed.
It is for our baby here
that peace must be waged there.
Take 5 Minutes To View This Video: The STORY OF A SIGN
If you do nothing else today, make sure you view this - The Story of A Sign - La Historia De Un Letrero - it is well worth it.
http://en.zappinternet.com/video/nilSqaMboM/HISTORIA-DE-UN-LETRERO
(and it happens to be shot in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico, a town my Mom is from)
To Ponder the Genius & Miracle of Life
From germination of sperm & ovary, to a living being with thought & conscience…
From one cell to diverse organs.
From living organs to self.
When & how does baby acquire thought?
And self-awareness?
And soul?
Gestation Wisdom
It’s such an interesting and powerful feeling that I can be so excited and anxious to meet my baby, and can love someone so much, before having met him.
My wife and I are 6 months pregnant and the incubation process is so wondrous physically but also in terms of the emotional bonds it creates.
Poor Millionaires
Here is a really interesting article on how people view their wealth in relative terms, and the exponential financial success of peers may make rich people most discontent!
Like the story of the 49 coins, those who allow external measures - money accumulation, fame/celebrity, power/influence - to determine their self-worth and joy will suffer from eternal inadequacy/inequality.
Obama Family Highlights American Dream at Democratic Convention
I hope every American family tonight got a chance to listen to Michelle Obama’s speech and to see the girls playfully send regards to their Dad.
Her speech should shatter any sown doubts about her patriotism, & her commitment to what is great about America & the American dream. More important, seeing the family interact with such natural warmth should highlight their commonality with all Americans and hopefully uproot vestiges of race-based suspicion.
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