“Whoever takes their ethical education solely from religion will also defend any inhuman practices in that religion as right and good.
Reason, intelligence, conscience and heart are the qualities necessary to acquire moral understanding.It’s important to follow the laws of your country up to a point. But when religion or the State attacks an individual’s own moral identity, then it is constructive to be disobedient.” - Taslima Nasreen
There is pre-dialogue, our slow or feverish preparation for dialogue. Without any idea of how it will proceed, which form it will take, without being able to explain it, we are convinced in advance that the dialogue has already begun: a silent dialogue with an absent partner.
Then afterwards, there is post-dialogue or after-silence. For what we manage to say to the other in our exchange of words—says virtually nothing but this silence, silence on which we are thrown back by any unfathomable, self-centered word whose depth we vainly try to sound.
Then finally there is what could have been the actual dialogue, vital, irreplaceable but which, alas, does not take place: it begins the very moment we take leave of one another and return to our solitudes.
” Edmond Jabès. The Book of Dialogue. First published in French in 1984. Translated by Rosmarie Waldrop. Wesleyan University Press, 1987. (via kathleenjoy)(Source: quote-book)
Boom. Indifferent, “colorblind,” privileged white liberals roasted. (via voicesofearth)
Some of my work from the last 4 months or so.
Really great work. Really great messages. Your voice is so refreshing! You’ve got my support. :-)
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Abraham Flexner, American educator in “The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge”, Harper’s 1939
More on of the importance of making time for abstract, creative thought in today’s efficiency-obsessed education system at Brain Pickings.
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Just… perfect.
Touche.
“Pairing men with femininity is seen as like an insult, like you’re lowering yourself. Yet women doing masculinity - not an insult to women. I think it’s safe to say that there might even be some fear of the feminine. I’ve heard this phenomenon referred to in some circles as femmephobia. So this aversion to the feminine in marketing and products is one of the outcomes of femmephobia. Another outcome is that anytime someone who is perceived as a man is aligning with anything feminine-y - it is perceived as a direct threat to Mr. Manly Man’s masculinity. You can be aggressive, you can be intolerant, you can be hateful; but don’t dare wear a dress. Or so comes, ‘you’re a fag,’ ‘you’re a pussy,’ and the violence.” - Laci Green
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