| A Documentary, the Battle for Whiteclay. | |
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Monday, April 26, 2010
Douglas Abbott has shared: The Battle For Whiteclay
Douglas Abbott has shared: A People's History of the United States
| A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn. | |
| A People's History of the United States Source: historyisaweapon.com | |
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Wasichu
Wasi'chu is also a human condition based on inhumanity, racism, and exploitation. It is a sickness, a seemingly incurable and contagious disease which begot the ever advancing society of the West. If we do not control it, this disease will surely be the basis for what may be the last of the continuing wars against the Native American people.
SOURCE:Excerpt from Wasi'chu, The Continuing Indian Wars,
Bruce Johansen and Robert Maestas
with an introduction by John Redhouse
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Rain, beauty and work
I like the rain and am thankful for the rain. The downside is the rain brings everybody to IKEA, in all their impatient and demanding glory. Can you imagine a lovely tulip budding open and then stating,"HEY YOU, why aren't you looking at ME, I have been waiting here for 3 minutes and still NO ONE has looked at me and told me how beautifully awesome I AM. NOW where is my fertilizer, you know I need fertilizer if you want me to bloom next year." So maybe beauty is a weed I realize I don't need to pull. Just saying.
Friday, April 23, 2010
Tao verse 27
Verse 43
A good traveller has no fixed plans
and is not intent upon arriving.
A good artist lets his intuition
lead him wherever it wants.
A good scientist has freed herself of concepts
and keeps her mind open to what is.
Thus the Master is available to all people
and doesn’t reject anyone.
The great infinite is ready to use all situations
and doesn’t waster anything.
This is called embodying the light.
What is a good man but a bad man’s teacher?
What is a bad man but a good man’s job?
If you don’t understand this, you will get lost,
however intelligent you are.
It is the great secret!
A good traveller has no fixed plans
and is not intent upon arriving.
A good artist lets his intuition
lead him wherever it wants.
A good scientist has freed herself of concepts
and keeps her mind open to what is.
Thus the Master is available to all people
and doesn’t reject anyone.
The great infinite is ready to use all situations
and doesn’t waster anything.
This is called embodying the light.
What is a good man but a bad man’s teacher?
What is a bad man but a good man’s job?
If you don’t understand this, you will get lost,
however intelligent you are.
It is the great secret!
Douglas Abbott has shared: Facebook | Graduation Commencement EVENT
| Graduation Event; Sunday May 23, 2010 3:00 PM Plymouth Congregational Church 1900 Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis, MN I think commencement will finish around 5:15 There will be a reception BASH at Brian's 6:00 to 9:30 PM | |
| Facebook | Graduation Commencement EVENT Source: facebook.com | |
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Thursday, April 22, 2010
Absurd and logical conclusion - "Birdcage" style
I posted the paragraph below this one on my facebook status earlier today.
So, Larry King is getting his 8th divorce, and Elizabeth Taylor is possibly getting married for a 9th time. Jesse James and Tiger Woods are, well... you know... Even Newt Gingrich is on his 3rd marriage. Let's not forget about King Henry VIII. Yet the idea of same-sex marriage is what is going to ...destroy the institution of marriage? REALLY?!? Feel free to copy and paste if you agree
In the movie Birdcage, Val apologizes for his mother's obvious, but absurd logical conclusion (referencing the line, let the captain go down with the ship). This is MEANT TO BE very tongue in cheek. I am intentionally being SARCASTIC.
We all know what happens to discarded and blighted neighborhoods once artists and queers move in, the neighborhood is reborn, becoming vital and then the VALUE of property GOES UP. So applying this to the deterioration of marriage values the logical conclusion is to give marriage to us (LGBT), we will work to instill and model dignity, value, and respect. We can create new ways to elevate honor in those relationships. Then once the nation sees that it can be honored differently, possibly others may realize we can ALL honor marriage equally.
So, Larry King is getting his 8th divorce, and Elizabeth Taylor is possibly getting married for a 9th time. Jesse James and Tiger Woods are, well... you know... Even Newt Gingrich is on his 3rd marriage. Let's not forget about King Henry VIII. Yet the idea of same-sex marriage is what is going to ...destroy the institution of marriage? REALLY?!? Feel free to copy and paste if you agree
In the movie Birdcage, Val apologizes for his mother's obvious, but absurd logical conclusion (referencing the line, let the captain go down with the ship). This is MEANT TO BE very tongue in cheek. I am intentionally being SARCASTIC.
We all know what happens to discarded and blighted neighborhoods once artists and queers move in, the neighborhood is reborn, becoming vital and then the VALUE of property GOES UP. So applying this to the deterioration of marriage values the logical conclusion is to give marriage to us (LGBT), we will work to instill and model dignity, value, and respect. We can create new ways to elevate honor in those relationships. Then once the nation sees that it can be honored differently, possibly others may realize we can ALL honor marriage equally.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Douglas Abbott has shared: Daughters of the Dust
| Daughters of the Dust film guide | |
| Daughters of the Dust Source: dickinsg.intrasun.tcnj.edu | |
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Saul Williams
"Whatever you are looking for in life is also looking for you."
Saul Williams, lollapalooza festival, Chicago 2008.
Saul Williams, lollapalooza festival, Chicago 2008.
Independent Study in course Film as Theological Text
FINAL PROJECT! Independent study Film as Theological Text; Race, Class, Gender, Sexualities
I am studying the impact privilege and whiteness has on decisions around "outness" and worship community for African American men who are also queer. I believe it is a foundational aspect of misunderstanding as well as judgment. The problem is the more I dig into this topic I only discover how little I know. The strongest thing I have so far is a working thesis or premise. So I am trying to articulate it here so I can hopefully refine it and come up with a strategy for completing my final project.
I posit that outness in the LGBT community has primarily been created and shaped by white dominant culture, partly due to the fact white queer men (WQM) as a target group retain more social power and privilege. Also, due to the white male hegemony queer white males are/were more likely to have the resources financially, economically, and socially in order to come out in-you-face-style and thereby risking connections to family, friends, and community. This is partly based on the U.S. concept of rugged individualism of white male culture. The subtle but critical aspect for this difference is the concept of self based on "I think, therefore I am" opposed to that statement "I am because We are."
I am studying the impact privilege and whiteness has on decisions around "outness" and worship community for African American men who are also queer. I believe it is a foundational aspect of misunderstanding as well as judgment. The problem is the more I dig into this topic I only discover how little I know. The strongest thing I have so far is a working thesis or premise. So I am trying to articulate it here so I can hopefully refine it and come up with a strategy for completing my final project.
I posit that outness in the LGBT community has primarily been created and shaped by white dominant culture, partly due to the fact white queer men (WQM) as a target group retain more social power and privilege. Also, due to the white male hegemony queer white males are/were more likely to have the resources financially, economically, and socially in order to come out in-you-face-style and thereby risking connections to family, friends, and community. This is partly based on the U.S. concept of rugged individualism of white male culture. The subtle but critical aspect for this difference is the concept of self based on "I think, therefore I am" opposed to that statement "I am because We are."
M.A.T.A. luncheon and discussion
Today was a great day. The panel of MATA artists (including myself) presented our artwork and had an open discussion regarding our work. Kimber Olson, Bundy Trinz, Amanda Hunter in absentia, and myself. It was an excellent discussion of art, spirituality, theology and religion. Congratulations to a job well done to my class mates and Cindi Beth Johnson.
Monday, April 19, 2010
Monday night at the Facing Race Ambassador Awards
8:13 pm live, The keynote speaker is Desmond Tutu's daughter!!!! "We have these conversations [on the topic of race] because we know we are made for togetherness and freedom" / Nontombi Naomi Tutu LIVE-Amazing!!!!! Amazing!!!!!
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Definitions
Dict. of Feminist Theologies.
In situations of oppression freedom is not a choice; nor is self-reliance. Frugality is enforced and sffering is present, but not chosen. Therefore, womanist ethics explores black ethical values, obligations, and duties from the conscious perspective of marginalization. p 91
The historical, social, and cultural situation of the past fifty years has pressed theology to undergo several large-scale or paradigm changes. In other words, the ways in which it arrives at metaphysical, logical, and existential judgments, about truth have changed. Theology articulates its new self-understandings practically and theoretically in several forms including, but not exhausting, the liberal, neo-orthodox, transcendental, process, metaphorical, political, liberation, contextual, and queer. p 284
In situations of oppression freedom is not a choice; nor is self-reliance. Frugality is enforced and sffering is present, but not chosen. Therefore, womanist ethics explores black ethical values, obligations, and duties from the conscious perspective of marginalization. p 91
The historical, social, and cultural situation of the past fifty years has pressed theology to undergo several large-scale or paradigm changes. In other words, the ways in which it arrives at metaphysical, logical, and existential judgments, about truth have changed. Theology articulates its new self-understandings practically and theoretically in several forms including, but not exhausting, the liberal, neo-orthodox, transcendental, process, metaphorical, political, liberation, contextual, and queer. p 284
Friday, April 16, 2010
Douglas Abbott has shared: Night Catches Us
| wed, the 24th | |
| Night Catches Us Source: mspfilmfest.org | |
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A Jihad for Love
This film! WOW. I need to watch it several more times. There are powerful messages in this film. Last night I also viewed A City of Borders. In that film, a documentary filmed in Jerusalem, the gay community there faced enormous conflict and physical violence. One of the more disturbing aspects of the film is that the gay community in Jerusalem experienced the Christian, Orthodox-Jewish, and Muslim citizens unite in HATING them for being gay. Isn't that compelling? Divergent views can unite in HATE but uniting for peace still remains elusive. In both films it is the interpretation of the book of Lot which is the foundation for religious intolerance of homosexuality. In the case of the film A Jihad for Love, when scripture isn't sufficiently condemning the writings of scholars are used to reinforce intolerance and violence.
I would make these two movies must sees. Even if one's views of homosexuality are different from those advanced in the film, it is powerful to view these films simply through the lens of tolerance and peace. If all the cultures in the world could figure out peace within their community it seems it would be more likely we could find peace globally. In using the term peace I am using a very broad definition, as in the presence of Justice over the simple absence of conflict.
Click>> A Jihad for Love
I would make these two movies must sees. Even if one's views of homosexuality are different from those advanced in the film, it is powerful to view these films simply through the lens of tolerance and peace. If all the cultures in the world could figure out peace within their community it seems it would be more likely we could find peace globally. In using the term peace I am using a very broad definition, as in the presence of Justice over the simple absence of conflict.
Click>> A Jihad for Love
Douglas Abbott has shared: Eyes Wide Open
| I want to view this film! | |
| Eyes Wide Open Source: mspfilmfest.org | |
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Douglas Abbott has shared: No More Smoke Signals
| No More Smoke Signals, looks like a good movie to view before my class views Smoke Signals. | |
| No More Smoke Signals Source: mspfilmfest.org | |
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Thursday, April 15, 2010
Douglas Abbott has shared: http://mspfilmfest.org/MMX/content/sun-behind-clouds-tibets-struggle-freedom
| Tibet film | |
| http://mspfilmfest.org/MMX/content/sun-behind-clouds-tibets-struggle-freedom Source: mspfilmfest.org | |
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Douglas Abbott has shared: Gay-rights backers reach out to Bleckley senior - Local & State - Macon.com
| This story caught my attention. This kid was kicked out of the house, he wants to take his boyfriend to prom. | |
| Gay-rights backers reach out to Bleckley senior - Local & State - Macon.com Source: macon.com | |
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Douglas Abbott has shared: http://www.cheryldunye.com/
| I just watched Watermelon Woman by Cheryl Dunye. Awesome! | |
| http://www.cheryldunye.com/ Source: cheryldunye.com | |
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Douglas Abbott has shared: Call for a Barometer of Life | Mother Jones
| This is an amazing quote from this article. "We currently know of less than 2 million of an estimated 10 to 20 million species on Earth. Of these, only 48,000 have been scientifically assessed." | |
| Call for a Barometer of Life | Mother Jones Source: motherjones.com | |
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Douglas Abbott has shared: Behind the Financial Reform Push, Worries of Warring Regulators - ProPublica
| Obstacles to reform, no surprise. | |
| Behind the Financial Reform Push, Worries of Warring Regulators - ProPublica Source: propublica.org | |
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Douglas Abbott has shared: Eye on the Loan Modifications - ProPublica
| Seeking understanding hoping it will lead to something better. | |
| Eye on the Loan Modifications - ProPublica Source: propublica.org | |
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010
This is awesome!
The broadway song!!! Magnetar should win a Tony!
Bet Against the American Dream from Alexander Hotz on Vimeo.
Bet Against the American Dream from Alexander Hotz on Vimeo.
Magnetar!
Magnetar, 1/3 to 1/2 of the C.D.O.s sponsored by Magnetar. Smart really smart, buying the riskiest layers (traunch) of the C.D.O.
Credit Default Swap, if the C.D.O. fails the swap pays out. So by generating the risk Magnetar stood to make exponential returns on the risky value of the C.D.O in the first place. Amazing!
Credit Default Swap, if the C.D.O. fails the swap pays out. So by generating the risk Magnetar stood to make exponential returns on the risky value of the C.D.O in the first place. Amazing!
Collateralized Debt Obligations = C.D.O.
No one saw it coming. Yes if we all say this enough times eventually every one will believe it.
This American Life, Inside Job.
This American Life, Inside Job.
Douglas Abbott has shared: Home | This American Life
| Bet Against the American Dream, the musical? | |
| Home | This American Life Source: thisamericanlife.org | |
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Saturday, April 10, 2010
Verse 9
Verse 9
Fill your bowl to the brim
and it will spill.
Keep sharpening the knife and it will be blunt.
Chase after money and security
and your heart will never unclench.
Care about people’s approval
and you will be their prisoner.
Do your work, then step back.
The only path to serenity.4
Fill your bowl to the brim
and it will spill.
Keep sharpening the knife and it will be blunt.
Chase after money and security
and your heart will never unclench.
Care about people’s approval
and you will be their prisoner.
Do your work, then step back.
The only path to serenity.4
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