The Nashville Nobody Knows

Candice Knows Nashville

It's not just country music

It's great that someone in the music biz is talking to some of the talented people who live in Nashville, Just scratch below the surface of the 'cowboy hat wearing' image of the town, and you'll find a fairly urbane and progressive undercurrent. Check this blog out. You'll begin to see Nashville in a different light.

Lust in the Bible Belt

I visit this blog on a regular basis. I like what he has to say, and he's blogging in Nashville (my mother's home). Here is his lastest post.
Nature Pruning: Lust: Can't Live With It. Can't Live Without it.

Old Men and Boys

I looked at this video of British troops in Iraq, and thought about how young they looked, and how wars are started by old men and fought by boys. Whatever one thinks of the war, and I was against the invasion from the beginning, we need to remember and support our troops, as they have to finish what the politicians started.

This video was a nice diversion for the troops. Check out the BBC link so that you can understand the parody.


Rocketboom
Amarillo video crashes MOD PCs

Shirt Collars

This made me laugh

In this extraordinary book, Martin Buber expounds on our relationship with the Creative Force, and how we fit into the world in relation to others. He says "history is a dialogue between Deity and mankind, we can understand its meaning only when we are the ones addressed, and only to the degree to which we render ourselves receptive. The meaning of history is not an idea which I can formulate independent of my personal life. It is only with my personal life that I am able to catch the meaning of history, for it is a dialogical meaning."

You can read the book in a couple of hours, and spend the next few years dissecting and reacting to what he says. The drama has been played out for thousands of years, as we struggle to make some sense of our relationship to what Creative Force we find fulfilling. Martin Buber is worth checking out, just for all the things he was involved in.

The True Believer

I've become rather fixated with the religious right, and their influence, and boneheadedness, that I've gone back and searched for those times in my life where I had a 'Eureka' moment. Reading the book the True Believer' by Eric Hoffer was one of those ephiphanies. According to the author this is who the true believer is:

"He's a guilt-ridden hitchhiker who thumbs a ride on every cause from Christianity to Communism. He's a fanatic, needing a Stalin (or Christ) to worship and die for. He's the mortal enemy of things-as-they-are, and he insists on sacrificing himself for a dream impossible to attain. He is today everywhere and on the march."

These words were first written in 1951, and have so much resonance in what is happening in the world today. The book is definitely worth a read to examine mass movements from Christianity to Islam, and how it affects nations and war. You might want to check out this website, and see what an incredible life this self-educated longshoremen and later University lecturer had.

Eclectic Floridian: [Christian] Strategy for Invasion and Conquest

Words fail me on this, just read it, and get really scared and fired up like I did.

Eclectic Floridian: [Christian] Strategy for Invasion and Conquest