Playing is both human and divine

Play is Abba's Way. Play is Being Playful. That's OK - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedcontent.com:

"Why call a play a play? Plays represent. When we play on the same stage with Abba, we represent ourselves. Abba is represented as who Abba is. We approach not the far-off mystery but the voice of One within as good parent, even playful parent. As friend we always have.

The sober call this crazy. I say it's OK play."

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Was Jesus an intellectual?

Abba's Way - Stephen C. Rose : IUniverse:

Absolutely. Anyone who reflects on reality and amends what needs amending is an intellectual. Anyone who thinks with any degree of faith in mental processes is an intellectual. Dostoevsky said all Russians are philosophers. More or less the same thing. With a twinge of appropriate irony.

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There are intellectuals and intellectuals

Boston Review — Noam Chomsky: The Responsibility of Intellectuals, Redux: "Not everyone toed the line so obediently, of course. Notable figures such as Bertrand Russell, Eugene Debs, Rosa Luxemburg, and Karl Liebknecht were, like Zola, sentenced to prison. Debs was punished with particular severity—a ten-year prison term for raising questions about President Wilson’s “war for democracy and human rights.” Wilson refused him amnesty after the war ended, though Harding finally relented. Some, such as Thorstein Veblen, were chastised but treated less harshly; Veblen was fired from his position in the Food Administration after preparing a report showing that the shortage of farm labor could be overcome by ending Wilson’s brutal persecution of labor, specifically the International Workers of the World. Randolph Bourne was dropped by the progressive journals after criticizing the “league of benevolently imperialistic nations” and their exalted endeavors."

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Birth is your basic integral education, followed by life, death and whatever might come then. It is free. Deducible from reality.   It is not a business. It is owned by no one. 

Everyone has to eat. But there are limits.

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Manhattan Bully Wars: Panflick: The Manhattan Bully Wars (1947)

Manhattan Bully Wars: Panflick: The Manhattan Bully Wars (1947):

"Falstaff: Can honor set-to a leg? no: or an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no. Honor hath no skill in surgery then? no. What is honor? a word. What is that word, honor? air. A trim reckoning!--Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth be hear it? no. Is it insensible, then? yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I'll none of it: honor is a mere scutcheon:--and so ends my catechism. (Henry IV Part One V, I)"

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That secret email I just got

"At a private function at a Colorado resort, oil billionaire Charles Koch stood in front of hundreds of conservative millionaires and said the 2012 election will be, in the words of Saddam Hussein -- yes, he decided to quote Saddam Hussein -- "the mother of all wars."

"He then read through a list of 32 contributors who gave more than a million dollars each to bankroll the network of corporate special-interest groups that aim to tear down President Obama."

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Best thing to do is print the nub of it. The Koch statement is despicable. The speaker is despicable. But then again look where the author of his quote ended up and how successful he was.

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Chip off of whatever block I be

Playing Out (1):

"Easy and Effortless mini mission: Take a short walk down the middle of your street, (take care re: traffic, of course). Report experiences and observations back here. There were no moving cars when I did this-- I enjoyed a sense of space, the fresh early autumn air and the mild sense of irreverent audacity."

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