Archive for January, 2005
Protected: A little problem there with Creationism
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A little problem there with Creationism
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God those dinosaurs, mastodons and sabre-toothed tigers must have been immoral to not be let on the boat.
A Feisty Nun
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I listened to a talk given by Sister Joan Chittister at the John Main Seminar in Vermont, USA, in 2004 this evening. This talk was sponsored by the World Community of Christian Meditation. She was amusing and refreshing.
You can listen to her talk here –
God & I: America’s Feisty Nun Speaks About Her Faith
Here are some links to some of her articles posted in the National Catholic Reporter –
What the rest of the world watched on Inauguration Day
Questions for an inauguration
I give up: Who stole the rest of the commandments?
A Feisty Nun
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I listened to a talk given by Sister Joan Chittister at the John Main Seminar in Vermont, USA, in 2004 this evening. This talk was sponsored by the World Community of Christian Meditation. She was amusing and refreshing.
You can listen to her talk here –
God & I: America’s Feisty Nun Speaks About Her Faith
Here are some links to some of her articles posted in the National Catholic Reporter –
What the rest of the world watched on Inauguration Day
Questions for an inauguration
I give up: Who stole the rest of the commandments?
Something I really needed to know –
Posted in Uncategorized on January 30, 2005| 5 Comments »
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My God they’re trademarked. Are they for sale?
Something I really needed to know –
Posted in Uncategorized on January 30, 2005| 5 Comments »
| Your Boobies’ Names Are: Abercrombie & Fitch |
My God they’re trademarked. Are they for sale?
Protected: Radio Daze
Posted in Uncategorized on January 30, 2005|
Radio Daze
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I seemed to have spent most of the afternoon listening to the radio again, but it seems a damned sight more interesting than any drek that appears on television and you can do other things while listening to radio, TV demands greater attention.
Blurb for the show –
Torn Curtain, a ground-breaking new four-part series, begins Sunday 30 January at 2pm on Radio National’s Hindsight.
We all know now that the cold war ended, not with a bang, but the popping of champagne corks at the Berlin Wall. But since the collapse of communism, a whole secret history has emerged from the shadows.
Since the crumbling of the Soviet Union, historians working in the former Soviet and eastern European archives have uncovered an extraordinary harvest of new insights into the cold war. At the same time, declassified documents from sources such as the CIA and the National Security Archive in the United States have revealed a similar hidden history. Complementing these sources on both sides of the Iron Curtain are the first-hand accounts of former spies, senior intelligence officials, politicians and diplomats.
Torn Curtain synthesises these new insights into an alternative, iconoclastic narrative of cold war history – based on hard evidence from formerly secret sources. We lay some old cold war controversies to rest, and ignite new ones.
Each episode challenges conventional wisdom about what went on during the cold war: how the two superpowers acted and saw the world; their hidden intentions and their darkest fears. We gain a glimpse into the hidden world of espionage, ideological warfare, and behind-the-scenes negotiation.
And as the secret histories unfold, they raise questions about just how much cold war thinking still shapes the world today
Episode 1: The Nuclear War We Nearly Had in 1983
Today, the 1980s are remembered as the decade in which American strength and determination under the presidency of Ronald Reagan led to the final collapse of communism and the liberation of eastern Europe. Yet the world nearly paid a terrible price for Reagan’s uncompromising stand against the ‘evil empire’ in the early 80s.
In late 1983, the world came closer to the brink of nuclear war than at any time since the Cuba crisis. Deeply paranoid Soviet politicians and military leaders believed that the US was preparing to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the Soviet Union – and argued that the Soviets should prepare to strike first if necessary.
Additional music:
Heaven 17, Let’s All Make a Bomb
Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Two Tribes
Fehlfarben, Militurk
Faust, Exercise with Voices
On Evil
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More of my radio listening, a discussion On Evil, first broadcast before the invasion of Iraq –
Further information:
Ethos: How shall we live?
How shall we live?
Guests on this program:
A/Professor Robert Cribb
RSPAS, Australian National University, Canberra.
Dr Karen Kilby
Department of Theology, University of Nottingham.
Marilyn McCord Adams
Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology at Yale’s Divinity School and Department of Religious Studies.
Susan Neiman,
Director of the Einstein Forum, Potsdam.
Dr Shams Inati
Professor of Islamic Philosophy and Theology, Villanova University.
Dr Shams Inati
Richard Kearney
Professor of Philosophy at Boston College and University College, Dublin.
Rt Rev Macleod Baker Ochola 11
Anglican Bishop of Kitgum, Uganda. Bishop Baker is a participant in the Ocholi Religious Leaders Peace Initiative in Northern Uganda.
Publications:
Historical Atlas of Indonesia
Author: Robert Cribb
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon, London 2000
Strangers, Gods and Monsters
Author: Richard Kearney
Publisher: Routledge, London 2002 0-415-27258-0
Evil in Modern Thought
Author: Susan Neiman
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey 2002 ISBN: 0-691-09608-2
Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God
Author: Marilyn McCord Adams
Publisher: Melbourne University Press, August 1999 ISBN: 0-522-84876-1
Ibn Sina and Mysticism
Author: Dr Shams Inati
Publisher: Kegan Paul, London, 1996
The Problem of Evil: Ibn Sina’s Theodicy
Author: Dr Shams Inati
Publisher: Global Publications, Binghamton, N.Y., 2000
Musical Items:
CD Title: Mana 689
Artist: Pande Made Sukerta
Label/CD No: LYRCD 7420
Already it is Dusk
Artist: Kronos Quartet
Label/CD No: Elektra Nonesuch 7559-79257-2
A Finnish Myth
Artist: Ostrobothnian Chamber /Juha Kangas
Label/CD No: Ondine ODE 836-2
Bois Meurtri (from Un Soir de Neige)
Artist: San Francisco Symphony Chorus
Label/CD No: Delos DE3270
Different Trains
Artist: Kronos Quartet
Label/CD No: Elektra Nonesuch 979 176-2
Recuerdos de la Alhambra
Artist: Alexandre Legoya
Label/CD No: ABC 472 610-2
Svyetye tikhii (Hail Gladdening Light)
Artist: The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge/ Timothy Brown
Label/CD No: Collegium COLCD 125
Symphony No 3 First Movement
Artist: London Sinfonietta/ David Zinman
Label/CD No: France WE 810
Jephtha: “How dark Lord”, “Scenes of Horror”
Artist: Concentus Musicus Wien/ Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Label/CD No: Teldec 8.35499 ZB
On Evil
Posted in Uncategorized on January 30, 2005| Leave a Comment »
More of my radio listening, a discussion On Evil, first broadcast before the invasion of Iraq –
Further information:
Ethos: How shall we live?
How shall we live?
Guests on this program:
A/Professor Robert Cribb
RSPAS, Australian National University, Canberra.
Dr Karen Kilby
Department of Theology, University of Nottingham.
Marilyn McCord Adams
Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology at Yale’s Divinity School and Department of Religious Studies.
Susan Neiman,
Director of the Einstein Forum, Potsdam.
Dr Shams Inati
Professor of Islamic Philosophy and Theology, Villanova University.
Dr Shams Inati
Richard Kearney
Professor of Philosophy at Boston College and University College, Dublin.
Rt Rev Macleod Baker Ochola 11
Anglican Bishop of Kitgum, Uganda. Bishop Baker is a participant in the Ocholi Religious Leaders Peace Initiative in Northern Uganda.
Publications:
Historical Atlas of Indonesia
Author: Robert Cribb
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon, London 2000
Strangers, Gods and Monsters
Author: Richard Kearney
Publisher: Routledge, London 2002 0-415-27258-0
Evil in Modern Thought
Author: Susan Neiman
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey 2002 ISBN: 0-691-09608-2
Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God
Author: Marilyn McCord Adams
Publisher: Melbourne University Press, August 1999 ISBN: 0-522-84876-1
Ibn Sina and Mysticism
Author: Dr Shams Inati
Publisher: Kegan Paul, London, 1996
The Problem of Evil: Ibn Sina’s Theodicy
Author: Dr Shams Inati
Publisher: Global Publications, Binghamton, N.Y., 2000
Musical Items:
CD Title: Mana 689
Artist: Pande Made Sukerta
Label/CD No: LYRCD 7420
Already it is Dusk
Artist: Kronos Quartet
Label/CD No: Elektra Nonesuch 7559-79257-2
A Finnish Myth
Artist: Ostrobothnian Chamber /Juha Kangas
Label/CD No: Ondine ODE 836-2
Bois Meurtri (from Un Soir de Neige)
Artist: San Francisco Symphony Chorus
Label/CD No: Delos DE3270
Different Trains
Artist: Kronos Quartet
Label/CD No: Elektra Nonesuch 979 176-2
Recuerdos de la Alhambra
Artist: Alexandre Legoya
Label/CD No: ABC 472 610-2
Svyetye tikhii (Hail Gladdening Light)
Artist: The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge/ Timothy Brown
Label/CD No: Collegium COLCD 125
Symphony No 3 First Movement
Artist: London Sinfonietta/ David Zinman
Label/CD No: France WE 810
Jephtha: “How dark Lord”, “Scenes of Horror”
Artist: Concentus Musicus Wien/ Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Label/CD No: Teldec 8.35499 ZB
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