October 2011
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September 2011
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August 2011
3 posts
“I cannot fold/my wayward limbs to crawl into/coffins of religions./I shall die,...”
– kamala das
July 2011
4 posts
“Ironically, Adolf Hitler displayed more knowledge of how we treated Native...”
– James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me (via thesnarkwasaboojum)
June 2011
4 posts
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April 2011
6 posts
“Morals reformed - health preserved - industry invigorated instruction diffused -...”
– Bentham, Jeremy The Panopticon Writings. Ed. Miran Bozovic (London: Verso, 1995). p. 29-95
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March 2011
14 posts
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“It may be said that, so far from having a materialistic tendency, the supposed...”
– The exact phrase ”mind over matter”;first appeared in 1863 in The Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man;”Sir Charles Lyell” ;(1797&;1875) and refers to the increasing status and evolutionary growth of the minds of animals and man throughout Earth history
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Black Prison 8:
“Cant Shut our voice down like em bitches at your show down we’re up for any blow down coz black prison 8 always bring the house down.”
”i chack ma self on the mic..the one man show..drop in the beat..cuz i know the heat..whan u tapin u r feet..while u smokein the weed..im the brown man..the blood line..frm the black man..hah..cuz jamaals the beats man.. :P”
mody
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February 2011
35 posts
“Present-day Maldivians are a people in flux. The ‘modernity’ we experienced...”
– From: Change and Humaneness as a Context for Oagatherikanby Mamduh Waheed, Catalogue Essay, Common Goods Exhibtion and Residencies, 2005, Melbourne, Australia. (via sequence-non)
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Backward Glances: Islamic Erotica, Then and Now -... →
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Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad on Sufism →
almaswithinalmas:
The Response to Modern Insecurity: Islamic Spirituality (Tasawwuf)
How should we respond to this disorder? We must begin by remembering what Islam is for. As we noted earlier, our din is not, ultimately, a manual of rules which, when meticulously followed, becomes a passport to paradise. Instead, it is a package of social, intellectual and spiritual technology whose...
“The caste system is far from a rigid system in which the position of each...”
– Srinivas,Religion and Society Among the Coorgs of South India.” Published in 1952
“Indian Reunification is an idea of reunifying the Indian subcontinent into a...”
– A proposed unified India
“According to Philippine mythology, Bathalang Maykapal, or Bathala, was the...”
– Bathala
