Ephphatha Poetry: "Imagine if the Tea Party Was Black" - Tim Wise

Ephphatha Poetry: "Imagine if the Tea Party Was Black" - Tim Wise

This is the link to the blog post "Imagine if the Tea Party was Black"

Imagine that hundreds of black protesters were to descend upon Washington DC and Northern Virginia, just a few miles from the Capitol and White House, armed with AK-47s, assorted handguns, and ammunition. And imagine that some of these protesters —the black protesters — spoke of the need for political revolution, and possibly even armed conflict in the event that laws they didn’t like were enforced by the government? Would these protester — these black protesters with guns — be seen as brave defenders of the Second Amendment, or would they be viewed by most whites as a danger to the republic? What if they were Arab-Americans? Because, after all, that’s what happened recently when white gun enthusiasts descended upon the nation’s capital, arms in hand, and verbally announced their readiness to make war on the country’s political leaders if the need arose.

Imagine that white members of Congress, while walking to work, were surrounded by thousands of angry black people, one of whom proceeded to spit on one of those congressmen for not voting the way the black demonstrators desired. Would the protesters be seen as merely patriotic Americans voicing their opinions, or as an angry, potentially violent, and even insurrectionary mob? After all, this is what white Tea Party protesters did recently in Washington.

Craig Wright, lecture on worship

Temporary relief from the sensation of being.
When leaving worship we should feel the pressures and constraints from being so intensely we should run towards doing the right thing or relieving the discomfort of others...
Heidegger philosopher
His thinking has contributed to such diverse fields as phenomenology (Merleau-Ponty), existentialism (Sartre, Ortega y Gasset), hermeneutics (Gadamer, Ricoeur), political theory (Arendt, Marcuse, Habermas), psychology (Boss, Binswanger, Rollo May), and theology (Bultmann, Rahner, Tillich).

The lecture from Craig Wright is on the UTS web site.
http://www.unitedseminary.edu/SC10.asp

Ultimate pontoon party on lake KELLY June or July.

Martinis at the Independent with my sister KELLY.

World Canvas Chapel Service Thursday, May 6th

I took photos after the Chapel service, this is an amazing project. If you have an opportunity to participate in the future it is definitely worth making it a priority.

I wrote my prayer on the canvas and then painted on top of the prayer. As Chuck Hoffman explained, the prayer becomes a lament and the paint color turns the lament into praise. Some of you may detect a signature symbol in the prayer I painted.

I am at UTS BIGELOW Chapel. This is going to be EXCELLENT. WORLD CANVAS PROJECT.

NYC bomb attempt

Is it just me or does anyone think there is a risk in revealing the nature and components of the bomb, providing commentary on why it didn't work which in effect gives terrorists information they need to make the bomb work. I sort of see this as a field test to determine how certain materials can get past bomb detection technology used in Times Square. http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/05/05/times.square.investigation/index.html?hpt=T1

Douglas Abbott has shared: There Will Be Blood | Mother Jones

Relaxed enforcement of regulations and safety measures by a government oversight agency, tying back to the "W" era.
There Will Be Blood | Mother Jones Source: motherjones.com
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Douglas Abbott has shared: The 7 Stupidest Statements Made About the BP Gulf Oil Spill : TreeHugger

The ignorance of these statements is staggering.
The 7 Stupidest Statements Made About the BP Gulf Oil Spill : TreeHugger Source: treehugger.com
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New link posted under my links section

I added a link to the web site for the Journal of Religion and Film.

Douglas Abbott has shared: Columbia College Chicago : Sweet Tea

This would have been awesome to attend!
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Films I have viewed so far

So far for my film class I have viewed 26 films, NOTE: not all of these were required. So far I have viewed 26 films, so averaging 95 mins per film I have spent so far 41 hours viewing films. This doesn't included the fact that many of the films I viewed at least 2-4 times. This by far has been an awesome class!

The Soloist
Skins
Daughters of the Dust
Black Money
City of Borders
Jihad for Love
Watermelon Woman
Brother to Brother
Tupac Shakur: Life of an Outlaw
Malcolm X
Hustle and Flow
Black is Black Ain’t
Milk
The Times of Harvey Milk
Broke Back Mountain
Tongues Untied
Paris is Burning
Trans America
Southern Comfort
The Hunger
Fire
Birth of a Nation
Baad Assss Cinema
A Darker Side of Black
Looking for Langston
Frantz Fanon; Black Skin, White Mask
Slumdog Millionaire