It should also be stated that it was the Belgian colonialism that started the amputation of limbs in Africa, when they conducted massive genocide in what is today the Democratic Republic of Congo. Also, while many believe…
it’s because of things like that(my previous post) i really really limit my time with other latin@s.
yes, i love my fellow latin@s, i will fight to the death for everyone in latin america, or whose parents are from LA….. but once they start saying…
Just want to say that this is true to my experience as well, being a dark skinned latin@. When I was attacked and robbed on a bus one of the first things a family member asked me was, “Were they black?” I was so angry because what I wanted to say was, “Why should that matter?” but what I ended up saying was yes. Black people have always been a part of the Latinamerican diaspora and it is hurtful to divide us or make us feel illegitimate through racial slurs and prejudice against black people no matter what country that come from.
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Occupy Austin Guerrilla Gardeners make one new public garden every week. Some have been destroyed by the city, others remain and are sprouting vegetables. We have had run ins with park staff who are confounded by our activities and threaten us with police who never show up.
We do this to make people rethink notions of food, of where it comes from, of who produces it. We do this to make people rethink the use of space and the concept of property. We do this to make people rethink the concept of labor versus employment. We do this so you will do it to.
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Alice Walker, in Dharma, Color, and Culture: New Voices in Western Buddhism (Parallax Press, 2004), adapted from a talk given at the African American Dharma Retreat and Conference, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, August 2002.
If it’s not outrageous for me to do so, I would modify “enlightened being” to read “awake” (for scriptural back up see A.N. 4.36). The myths around enlightenment are pervasive, and thinking of the ongoing awakenING process as something that is created anew in each moment is something I think is worth considering, whether we are talking about us or the Buddha or whatever sage we may feel devotion for or look to as an example. In the end, just words of course, but as concepts we can become very attached to them.
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My friend from Nerdy Show, Triforce Mike, is one of a kind, and he will be truly missed.
I’ve recorded this song about my most vivid memory of him, and I’m pretty sure that others will be able to relate.
It’s called “The True Story Of Triforce Mike & Marc With a C”. I hope it’ll raise everyone’s spirits a little bit. If you know someone that’s pretty down about what has happened, send this their way, and help us remember him as the animated loon that the public knew him as.
‘Fractal’ is a word invented by Mandelbrot to bring together under one heading a large class of objects that have [played] … an historical role … in the development of pure mathematics. A great revolution of ideas separates the classical mathematics of the 19th century from the modern mathematics of the 20th. Classical mathematics had its roots in the regular geometric structures of Euclid and the continuously evolving dynamics of Newton. Modern mathematics began with Cantor’s set theory and Peano’s space-filling curve. Historically, the revolution was forced by the discovery of mathematical structures that did not fit the patterns of Euclid and Newton. These new structures were regarded … as ‘pathological,’ … as a ‘gallery of monsters,’ akin to the cubist paintings and atonal music that were upsetting established standards of taste in the arts at about the same time. The mathematicians who created the monsters regarded them as important in showing that the world of pure mathematics contains a richness of possibilities going far beyond the simple structures that they saw in Nature. Twentieth-century mathematics flowered in the belief that it had transcended completely the limitations imposed by its natural origins.
Now, as Mandelbrot points out, … Nature has played a joke on the mathematicians. The 19th-century mathematicians may not have been lacking in imagination, but Nature was not. The same pathological structures that the mathematicians invented to break loose from 19th-century naturalism turn out to be inherent in familiar objects all around us.Freeman Dyson. Characterizing Irregularity’, Science (12 May 1978),
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‘Fractal’ is a word invented by Mandelbrot to bring together under one heading a large class of objects that have [played] … an historical role … in the development of pure mathematics. A great revolution of ideas separates the classical mathematics of the 19th century from the modern mathematics of the 20th. Classical mathematics had its roots in the regular geometric structures of Euclid and the continuously evolving dynamics of Newton. Modern mathematics began with Cantor’s set theory and Peano’s space-filling curve. Historically, the revolution was forced by the discovery of mathematical structures that did not fit the patterns of Euclid and Newton. These new structures were regarded … as ‘pathological,’ … as a ‘gallery of monsters,’ akin to the cubist paintings and atonal music that were upsetting established standards of taste in the arts at about the same time. The mathematicians who created the monsters regarded them as important in showing that the world of pure mathematics contains a richness of possibilities going far beyond the simple structures that they saw in Nature. Twentieth-century mathematics flowered in the belief that it had transcended completely the limitations imposed by its natural origins.Now, as Mandelbrot points out, … Nature has played a joke on the mathematicians. The 19th-century mathematicians may not have been lacking in imagination, but Nature was not. The same pathological structures that the mathematicians invented to break loose from 19th-century naturalism turn out to be inherent in familiar objects all around us.
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