Love Actually

know what it looks like." I barely realized I had spoken aloud, but Mr. Clement laughed and clapped me on the shoulder. "We get a few of you men through here, or we used to, before my daughter married. I think she just liked to talk to young men, actually. But I've never come across one of you with an interest in books. Set them down there, would you?" I placed them on the rosewood desk, and he worked briskly through the pile. Now that I had seen the magnitude of his library, I doubted he would

AN EXTRAORDINARY ABSENCE ì Liberation in the Midst of a Very Ordinary Life JEFF FOSTER NON-DUALITY PRESS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Deep gratitude to Nathan Gill Special thanks to Philip Pegler With love to: Adam, Amy, Barry, Joan, John, Josh, Julian, Jeannine, Kriben, Lynda, Mandi, Menno, Mike, Nic, Pamela, Sid, Tijn, Wendy, and everyone else! AN EXTRAORDINARY ABSENCE First published August 2009 by NON-DUALITY P RESS © Jeff Foster 2009 © Non-Duality Press 2009 Cover photograph by Nic Oestreicher

rejection of Christianity. In The Autobiography of Malcolm X, he accuses white people of using their religion as a excuse to go and conquer countries and impose slavery and exploitation. “I perceived, as I read, how the collective white man had been actually nothing but a piratical opportunist who used Faustian machinations to make his own Christianity his initial wedge in criminal conquest”. By branding ancient non-white cultures and civilizations “heathen” and “pagans” white people justified the inferiority

along well with people, I hadn’t invited anyone but myself to the Opening Ceremonies of This Book. So it wasn’t really that embarassing. I kept it under wraps and no one found out about the whole ordeal. So you’ve got to know that synergy doesn’t actually mean synergy in this book. I can’t do normal synergy. No, in this book, synergy means cartoon foxes. What I’m saying is: this book will be starting off with an exorbitant amount of cartoon foxes. And I will be counting on you to turn them into

in Mrs Taylor’s suburbs, it was dark. Some street lamps were lightening the alley. He easily found her house at the end. As he was waiting on the doormat, a charming lady opened the door with a nice smile : ‘ Good evening, can I help you ?’ ‘ Actually, I wood like to ask you some questions about Dave Smith’ Chuck said. Her face turned to white. She stammered : ‘ Oh my god, I guess you know everything about our secret affair …’ ‘ Yes but don’t worry, I just want to know more about his death

Religious Pluralists [pic] Dr. C. Jacques October 11th, 2010 Introduction Many violent conflicts- Kashmir, Bosnia, Darfur, Jihad, and Crusades- have been presented as inter-religious conflicts. “Nothing has made more for peace and love than religion; nothing has engendered fiercer hatred than religion” (Bhajanananda, p. 2). According to Dr. Jacques, a working definition of the word ‘religion’ in the context of the 21st century would be: “the experience and recognition by human beings

the effort to stage Taylor’s piece as part of the brought his family back home to the fatherland, while his Reunion Weekend festivities. The effort to bring Address partner, Max, a Jew, remains in California. Their corresponUnknown to Gettysburg actually dates back to 2004, when dence covers the tumultuous 16 months between November the play version was produced in New York City. J. Michael 1932 and March 1934. poc AU T U M N 2 0 0 7 • G E T T YS B U R G C O L L E G E 1 5 An informal discussion

Fate exercised a great influence on all Greek thought, and perhaps was one of the sources from which science derived the belief in natural law. The Homeric gods were the gods of a conquering aristocracy, not the useful fertility gods of those who actually tilled the soil. The gods of most nations claim to have created the world. The Olympians make no such claim. The most they ever did was to conquer it. And when they have conquered their kingdoms, what do they do? Do they attend to the government

artificial and in this sense as being in conflict with everything natural, living, changing, developing, including natural law and moral law. To practice literal repetition can be seen, therefore, as initiating a rupture in the continuity of life. Actually, Walter Benjamin also speaks in his remarks on the philosophy of history about the revolution as a break with the continuity of historical evolution – presenting a literal repetition of the past as a genuine revolution. (And he speaks also about

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