God's turn signal just started blinking.

Anthrax? The F.B.I. Yawns
{but then, some animals yawn when they're nervous.}

The president will give a speech tomorrow in which he will announce the end of the war on 'terrorism'. Its premise will be that the world situation has deteriorated so markedly and the threat from our enemies has increased so dramatically, it will no longer be enough to merely eliminate 'terrorism'. The United States will now declare war on 'fighting'.
"We must, and we will, fight until all fighting is done. Until the last fighting is removed from our world. We will continue the battle as long as any fighting remains, anywhere. It is our duty, it is our responsibility, to the children of our belief systems, and to the children of belief systems elsewhere. It is our mandate, to fight on, under God, and give no quarter. To fight fighting everywhere, on the land and in the sea, in foreign places and in home places. We must fight constantly, whatever the cost, whatever the burden, for this is the true enemy, this is our biggest threat. Fighting threatens us, and now we threaten it right back. We will meet it head on, with both guns blazing. Fighting is bad, very bad, and we are going to fight it with everything we have, until it is no more."

chipmunk squalor

Metal won't tarnish on the moon.

You've read that the gel from an aloe vera plant helps heal open wounds in human skin. It's said to work the same on open wounds in tree bark.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/02/opinion/02KRIS.html

http://www.nypress.com/15/27/news&columns/signorile.cfm
http://www.lights.com/weblogs/tools.html

Sputnik Kilambi

arundhati roy november 2001

under God OUCH!!

google something thing

Viridian Blog

Internet Theology Resources: Spirituality Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Introduction to the Devout Life. [518K].
Treatise on the Love of God. Currently requires the ability to view PNG files, since whole sections of the HTML version are missing.
Francois Fenelon (1651-1715) and Jeanne Marie Guyon (1647-1717), Spiritual Progress, or, Instructions in the Divine Life of the Soul. Includes his Spiritual Letters, her book A Short and Very Easy Method of Prayer, and other works.
Alan Godlas, Sufism (1997). Excellent concise description of Sufism, with links to other resources. Dr. Godlas teaches Islamic Studies at the University of Georgia.
Guigo II (d. 1193), Scala claustralium. The quintessential medieval exposition of lectio divina.
L'echelle du cloitre. 1922 French translation, at the official web site of the Carthusians.
Scala paradisi. In Latin.
http://www.csbsju.edu/library/internet/theospir.html
Jeanne Marie Guyon, The Autobiography of Madame Guyon.
Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179). A brief biography.
Walter Hilton (d. 1396)
The Scale of Perfection. Hilton's most famous work.
The Scale (or Ladder) of Perfection. 1901 Benziger Brothers edition. This 1870 translation by Cressy uses modernized spelling, but otherwise an archaizing form of English.
The Scale of Perfection. In Middle English. Edited by Thomas H. Bestul. Each Book in its own file, with notes.
The Song of Angels. Short treatise by Hilton.
Treatise Written to a Devout Man.
Roland Horst, Hildegard von Bingen. Good collection of resources, in German and English.
Ignatius of Loyola, Spiritual Exercises (1522-1548)

Mysticism Resources I have not included links to the extensive resources on non-Western traditions of mysticism. This is mostly because the course that this page is a resource for is limited to Western mysticism. It also reflects my own lack of experience with non-Western mysticism. In no way does it suggest that Western mysticism is somehow better, more worthy of study, or anything like that.

Soledad Brothers - Keeping the blues alive{stoneswarp teenage heartattack}

Yahoo! News - U.S. Bombing Kills at Least 30 at Afghan Wedding Defense Ministry official Dr. Gulbuddin told Reuters: "More than 30 people were killed. It was a wedding ceremony and some of the participants were firing in the sky as part of the celebration. Americans have confessed that they made a mistake."

they're finding new planets every day

STEVEN BERKOFF has accused the American authorities of 'post September 11 hysteria' after he was deported this week for overstaying his visa by a day five years ago.
Berkoff, who has played nemesis to stars ranging from Eddie Murphy to Sylvester Stallone, met his match in the form of an immigration clerk. 'An overzealous immigration officer, desperate to make his mark on the world, discovered that I had overstayed the period of my visa in 1997 by 24 hours,' he said.

BBC News | WALES | English and Welsh are races apart In April last year, research for a BBC programme on the Vikings revealed strong genetic links between the Welsh and Irish Celts and the Basques of northern Spain and south France.
It suggested a possible link between the Celts and Basques, dating back tens of thousands of years.
The UCL research into the more recent Anglo-Saxon period suggested a migration on a huge scale.
"It appears England is made up of an ethnic cleansing event from people coming across from the continent after the Romans left," he said.

Mirror.co.uk - WORLD EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: GEORGE MICHAEL
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