Bogosity

This morning I came across Seattle Weekly: News: Investing for Change by Jeff Reifman.

Simplicity guru Andrews recommends eliminating debt. “The person who’s decided, ‘I’m going to live on less and I’m going to cut my expenses down,’ actually can feel more secure than the person who has that huge house and huge income,” she says. [...]

“I want to know how God created this world,” Einstein famously remarked. “I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details.”

If more people understood the role of advocacy groups, people’s rights to protest and disent then I think this would help Australia’s future.

if you pour yourself out for the hungry
and satisfy the desire of the afflicted,
then shall your light rise in the darkness

Don’t sit around waiting for God to make your life meaningful in the physical sense. Act decisively informed by the inner experience of God.

Anyway, I’ve figured out a way to make it more palatable to christians: the movie contains the gospel – yes it does, check this out:

Today is the feast day of The Saint John Chrysostom (see also wikipedia’s entry )

It seems St John is a bit controversial for some of the things he said about Jews! However, that doesn’t seem to match with his other strong values of helping the poor and condeming those who abused power and wealth. [...]