Category: Uncategorized

via Malvina Reynolds – It Isn’t nice – YouTube

From the soundtrack of the documentary movie “This Changes Everything”

Lyrics:

It isn’t nice to block the doorway,
It isn’t nice to go to jail,
There are nicer ways to do it,
But the nice ways always fail.
It isn’t nice, it isn’t nice,
You told us once, you told us twice,
But if that is Freedom’s price,
We don’t mind.

It isn’t nice to carry banners
Or to sit in on the floor,
Or to shout our cry of Freedom
At the hotel and the store.
It isn’t nice, it isn’t nice,
You told us once, you told us twice,
But if that is Freedom’s price,
We don’t mind.

We have tried negotiations
And the three-man picket line,¹
Mr. Charlie² didn’t see us
And he might as well be blind.
Now our new ways aren’t nice
When we deal with men of ice,
But if that is Freedom’s price,
We don’t mind.

How about those years of lynchings
And the shot in Evers’ back?
Did you say it wasn’t proper,
Did you stand upon the track?
You were quiet just like mice,
Now you say we aren’t nice,
And if that is Freedom’s price,
We don’t mind.

It isn’t nice to block the doorway,
It isn’t nice to go to jail,
There are nicer ways to do it
But the nice ways always fail.
It isn’t nice, it isn’t nice,
But thanks for your advice,
Cause if that is Freedom’s price,
We don’t mind.”

– Capitalism, careerism and modernism
Vs.
Community, vocation & the perennial/ancient philosophy

– Go small, go local, go basic

– The general Call is given in response to the big-picture challenges, within which I must find my own unique voice.

 

via Song with lyrics (English translation)

From the soundtrack of the documentary movie “This Changes Everything”

Liberation spirituality – the blending of the ancient life-view, the earth, & the poor/majority as a united front against the political-economic systems of the modern worldview and the few/rich……

Shall we also not participate in this move of the Spirit in our critical age? If we are already not fighting, that means we are sleeping!

 

YouTube

Note and follow these people – Bill Moyers, Thomas Piketty, Paul Krugman

What does capitalism and the financial crisis have to do with the next major choices in my (personal) life?

What does it mean to do theology, and be a Christian, or to live spiritually/ethically, in such a (glocal) context?

WOW! Super exposition. 

Now, are you ready for war? You must be, ‘cos you’re already in it! 

Hmmm…… where is the Spirit leading me? Will I go? 

This guy teaches 2 Psychology courses in Harvard – Positive Psychology & Leadership – 2 sides of the one coin – the good life! 

Critical, creative & collaborative

I guess I agree with that…