Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Holiday Observance Day, and his Work — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

The common good was what Dr. King worked for, and reminded us, in his speech at Riverside, and in his last book,  that “True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring.”    Zut […]

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Holiday Observance Day, and his Work — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

Minbari Mondays, s3e1: Matters of Honor, and Solutions — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

This week’s report, the first of our year 2260 CE,  is sent to us from our future by Ranger Mayann, writing to us from Minbar, where she is stationed: — Greetings, from Tuzanor:            This will be my last report, and the end of my letter to you.          I have been prohibited […]

Minbari Mondays, s3e1: Matters of Honor, and Solutions — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

“Conatus”un İzinde ve Dahi Ötesinde

KAYIPDefter(arşiv)

Felsefe, matematiğin sözcük düzenleri üzerine birebir izdüşümüdür; yani matematik aksiyomları felsefede de geçerlidir.

İnsan düşüncesi hep bir özgül ağırlık taşır. Sorular, sorgular hikmet sevgisini tetikler. İnsanın özü nedir. Spinoza’ya göre “insan doğasının fiili özü, “conatus”; bir özgül iştah olarak “arzu”dur. Bunun inşa edici tarafları, kökensel izleri her alanda görülebilir…

Biz beylik ve bildik bir soralım ve üzerine düşünelim…

İnsan olmasa zaman diye bir kavram olur muydu

Yukarıdaki soruya bakarsak, İki evren açılır burada, iki düşünce kümesi…

Zaman diye bir kavram olurdu. Geçecek olan geçerdi; ama bunun sonsuz içinde anlamı olur muydu. Anlamı çıkaran, kendinde olan bilinçtir.

Olurdu, olmak üzerinde işler ve burada zamanın etkisi fiillerin mastar halinde kalır ve orada ancak berraklaşır. Cümle olmayı beklerdi.

Zaman diye bir kavram olmazdı. Çünkü geçen bir şey olmazdı. Leibniz tözü bağlamında düşünürsek, ilerleme tamamen yok oluş, ardından tamamen var oluş üzerinden işlerdi. Arzu, mastar yüküne sinmiş olarak beklerdi.

Şimdiki, geçmiş, gelecek, geniş zaman…

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Honouring Dr. Martin Luther King …

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Today is Martin Luther King Day, a federal holiday in the United States to honour one of the greatest men who ever lived in this country.  I first wrote this tribute to Dr. King in 2017, and each year I reprise it, with slight changes or minor additions, for I find that it still says exactly what I wish to say.  Given the increase in racism in the United States in recent years, I think the above quote seems more apt today than ever before.  So please, take just a minute to, if nothing else, listen once again to Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech.  In these troubled times, it is good to be reminded of Dr. Martin Luther King’s dream.  More than ever, I wish we had a few Dr. Martin Luther Kings fighting for equality and justice for all today.


“Our lives begin to end the day…

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Lingayen Gulf | January 1945

Pacific Paratrooper

The USS Louisville is struck by a kamikaze Yokosuka D4Y at the Battle of Lingayen Gulf, 6 January 1945

On 2 January, the US carrier, USSOmmaney Bay, was severely damaged by a kamikaze aircraft and would later need to be scuttled. Three days later, the cruiser, USSColumbia, was also damaged when she was hit by 2 of the Japanese suicide planes. US shipping received relentless kamikaze strikes that cost the Navy more than 1000 men due to those 30 hits.

Beginning on 6 January, a heavy naval and air bombardment of suspected Japanese defenses on Lingayen began. Aircraft and naval artillery bombardment of the soon-to-be landing areas occurred, with kamikazes attacking again on the 7th.

USS Columbia, hit by kamikaze

On the 8th, it was observed that in the town of Lingayen, as a response to the prelanding shelling, Filipinos had begun to form a parade…

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« GOLD is nothing more than shiny dust in the mud … Nothing is solid enough to restore the sick forest’s value … No merchandise can buy all the human beings devoured by the epidemic fumes. » — Barbara Crane Navarro

Yanomami boy with Achiote face paint and his father’s monkey tail headband, Alto Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela « The white people spread their epidemic fumes throughout the entire forest…by tearing the gold and other minerals out of the earth. They do not want to give up their digging frenzy and their thought remains closed. All that matters […]

« GOLD is nothing more than shiny dust in the mud … Nothing is solid enough to restore the sick forest’s value … No merchandise can buy all the human beings devoured by the epidemic fumes. » — Barbara Crane Navarro

Conheça a comunidade indígena Zoé, no norte do Pará, que tem 100% da população com as duas doses da vacina Covid-19 — Ecoamazônia — Barbara Crane Navarro

Tawy Zoé traz o pai Wahu Zoé pra 1* vacina contra a covid-19. Ações do distrito sanitário que atende a população são realizadas em consonância com práticas de medicina tradicional O povo Zoé, comunidade que vive no norte do Pará, sente-se mais seguro para manter suas tradições e ritos, mesmo no contexto de pandemia. Isso […]

Conheça a comunidade indígena Zoé, no norte do Pará, que tem 100% da população com as duas doses da vacina Covid-19 — Ecoamazônia — Barbara Crane Navarro

Brazilian environmentalists and turtle breeders shot dead along with teenage daughter | Global development | The Guardian — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News — Barbara Crane Navarro

Source: Brazilian turtle breeders shot dead along with teenage daughter | Global development | The Guardian Brazilian turtle breeders shot dead along with teenage daughter | Global development | The Guardian — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

Brazilian environmentalists and turtle breeders shot dead along with teenage daughter | Global development | The Guardian — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News — Barbara Crane Navarro