Bogosity

I’ve started a Tumblelog as a kind of side thing to bogosity for just posting links and things I find that are Bogosity related. Check it out: it’s like blogging on speed.

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I’ve been feeling a bit down over the past few weeks, ever since some friends of ours returned some stuff we’d lent them and asked for their stuff back after a few months of non-communication and a couple of years of decline with times of reconnection but basically a parting of ways. ie. we [...]

What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak. – George Santayana, philosopher (1863 – 1952)

Brother William’s most recent blog post dicusses St Francis, nature, the environmental crisis, mysticism, the meaning of life and of course, qantum physics (I challenge William to write a blog post that doesn’t mention qantum physics).

The Divine Universe » THE HEAVENLY FOOL

Here’s a few bits that I really liked:

The resurgence of mysticism in the West, [...]

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. – Yasutani Roshi, Zen master (1885 – 1973)

Sometimes I am paralysed by celebratory days of the year: Birthdays, anniversaries, Christmas, Easter, Mother’s day, etc. I see the day coming, I set reminders to do something but then I just keep putting it off.

Basically, I have ideas about what I want to do and in the process of thinking up [...]

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to other animals as well as humans, it is all a sham. – Anna Sewell, writer (1820 – 1878)