Stoa del Sol The Stoa of the ancient Greco-Roman world was a teaching forum for the philosophical precepts of Stoicism. First expounded upon by Zeno of Citium (c. 366-264 b.c.e.), Stoicism was one of the loftiest and most sublime philosophies in the record of Western civilization. Its scope included a cosmology, logic, and ethics. And its impact has reached down through the centuries--early Greek Stoicism, later Roman Stoicism, Stoic influence in Christian thought, Stoic thought found in the humanism of the Renaissance, and beyond this in the pantheistic philosophy of Spinoza. The Stoa del Sol is a contemporary forum for essays that reflect some of the historical principles of Stoicism in relation to a New Cosmology and New Spiritual Paradigm prompted by modern science and systems theories. Stoicism is a doctrine that declares that all existence is confined within the limits of the sensible universe. The Stoics considered that human nature was the universal on a small scale--a microcosm!
The Danger Is Real: The Deep State’s Plot to Destabilize the Nation Is Working | By John & Nisha Whitehead “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out ... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” — H. L. Mencken If the three-ring circus that is the looming presidential election proves anything, it is that the Deep State’s plot to destabilize the nation is working. The danger is real. Caught up in the heavily dramatized electoral showdown between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, Americans have become oblivious to the multitude of ways in which the government is goosestepping all over our freedoms on a daily basis. Especially alarming is the extent to which those on both sides are allowing themselves to be gaslighted by both Trump and Harris about critical issues of the day, selectively choosing to hear only what they want to hear when it casts the opposition in a negative light. This is no conspiracy theory. Drain the swamps.
Home :: Veterans for Peace Philosophical Disquisitions Margaret Sanger: Racist, Planned Parenthood Founder “On the other hand, the mass of ignorant Negroes still breed carelessly and disastrously, so that the increase among Negroes, even more than the increase among whites, is from that part of the population least intelligent and fit, and least able to rear their children properly. ~From Sanger’s Birth Control ReviewW.E.B. DuBois, Professor of Sociology, Atlanta University. “Black Folk and Birth Control.” Birth Control Review, Volume XXII, Number 8 (New Series, May 1938, the “Negro Number”), page 90. Born into an impoverished family of eleven children (plus several miscarried), Margaret Sanger was left an orphan when her mother died at an early age. And she particularly desired to limit the fertility of black people and others she saw as inferior. Brief Biography of Margaret Sanger Sanger was born in 1879 in New York to a Catholic mother and atheist father. Then, in 1914, she started her own publication which advocated for women using birth control. Sanger’s Racist Philosophy The Takeaways
Occupy Monsanto Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi | BODHI MONASTERY Bhikkhu Bodhi is an American Buddhist monk from New York City. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1944, he obtained a BA in philosophy from Brooklyn College (1966) and a PhD in philosophy from Claremont Graduate School (1972). Drawn to Buddhism in his early 20s, after completing his university studies he traveled to Sri Lanka, where he received novice ordination in 1972 and full ordination in 1973, both under the late Ven. Ananda Maitreya, the leading Sri Lankan scholar-monk of recent times. He was appointed editor of the Buddhist Publication Society (in Sri Lanka) in 1984 and its president in 1988. In May 2000 he gave the keynote address at the United Nations on its first official celebration of Vesak (the day of the Buddha’s birth, enlightenment, and passing away).
Researchers catch python swallowing full-sized deer NAPLES, Fla. (WBBH) – A newly released recording shows a Burmese python swallowing an entire deer. Biologists said it’s evidence of something larger going on across Florida. Ian Bartoszek and Ian Easterling, biologists with the Conservancy of Southwest Florida, partnered with the University of Cincinnati to learn more about how invasive Burmese pythons are affecting the local ecosystem. During an outing last December on private lands just outside of Naples, Easterling became excited after spotting the snake with a deer. “We looked over and you can see some of the photographs that came from that,” Bartoszek said. A 115-lb. female Burmese python swallowed a 77-lb., full-sized white-tailed deer. And if that wasn’t remarkable enough, the python set a new record opening its mouth 10.2 inches wide. “So those are some weird measurements to wrap your head around. Officials said the python was humanely euthanized for further research. Copyright 2024 WBBH via CNN Newsource.
When the World Outlawed War This is a masterful account of how people in the United States and around the world worked to abolish war as a legitimate act of state policy and won in 1928, outlawing war with a treaty that is still on the books. Swanson's account of the successful work of those who came before us to insist that war be outlawed points us toward new ways of thinking about both war and political activism. Ralph Nader puts this on his list of 11 books everyone should read. Buy the paperback at Better World Books, 100Fires, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Powells, other sellers, or your local independent bookstore, which can order it through Ingram. (If you order from Amazon it will ship right away even if Amazon says it won't ship for weeks; it is print-on-demand.) Or you can get 10 copies for $60, or 50 copies for $200, or more (all with free shipping) here. Donate free books to nonprofit educational groups here. Buy the iPad/iPhone version at the iBookstore. Get any of these versions for $2 right here: Kindle:
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