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joe perez
October 2008 
EQUAL Views for October 13, 2008
Posted on Oct 20th, 2008
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A daily look at self, culture, nature, and spirit from four perspectives: the individual interior, the individual exterior, the collective interior, and the collective exterior.
| Inquiry: What's Going On? | |
 Bill Harryman: Why study the brain? Because doing so can help us to have more "compassion for ourselves". ... Displaying humility, Nagarjuna asks: What lessons can be learned from being "lost in confusion"? ... Wit: Who said "I guess, maybe I'm just, I don't know, a maverick"? ... What feeling arises with the financial crisis? Gary Stamper says it's "Cognitive Dissonance: an uncomfortable feeling or stress caused by holding two contradictory ideas simultaneously." | Recipie for Happiness: "Go shop for something new, then have lots of food for dinner, then go to an interesting place on a Saturday. If all this happens on your birthday, even better." Based on a major behavioral study of Weblogs. I hope to try this prescription next weekend and see how it works. ... An icon in memory of Matthew Shephard. ... A ballot used to be a bean, a bullet, or a pea. |
| An Episcopal priest in Seattle "falls in love" with Islam, following her calling to an interspiritual path, but sadly she can't do so as a priest. I wonder whether her appropriation of Islam is an acceptance of a radically fragmented inner life or a step down a more integrated path. Hard to say. ... Harvey Cox: The Market is "like one of the devouring gods of old,"... Too early to predict Obama v. Jindal in 2012? | On Healthcare: The key difference between Obama and McCain on healthcare policy: Obama prizes solidarity; McCain prizes autonomy. The feminine approach encourages sharing of risk across a society and across an individual's lifespan; the more masculine approach will save young and healthy people money in the short-term, but endanger all of society and even themselves in old age. |
| Holon of the Day: The Plow | |
"EQUAL Views" is a Web column written by Joe Perez, usually published most weekdays at Joe-Perez.com.
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