This is a wonderful article on place, culture and heritage which I have copied from the Globe and Mail's Opinion page. For several years, Lou Yaoxiong has been separated from his son and daughter. He lives in China; they live in the United States. To make up for the distance, he writes philosophical e-mails to [...]
The Brutality of the Second Amendment by Dr. John Persico Jr. in Uncategorized Tags: gun control, gun fanatics, gun laws, gun rights, guns, insanity, murder, sane gun laws, second amendment The Second Amendment is the lever for mass genocide in America. Every day Americans witness another mass killing or wanton murder. Road rage shootings. Family violence. Workplace shootouts. Shootouts in churches, parking lots, malls, grocery stores, Walmart’s, and on [...]
A century ago, Dr. Peter Bryce demonstrated that residential schools were designed to kill. Canada’s government ignored him. Adrew Nikiforuk Yesterday | TheTyee.ca Tyee contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist whose books and articles focus on epidemics, the energy industry, nature and more Dr. Peter Henderson Bryce was appointed Canada’s first chief officer of medical health [...]
Thank you for this important piece of History, maybe someone will be changed in a positive manner by reading this.
Today is the last day of May, the day before the beginning of June, which is National Indigenous History Month in Canada. There can be no more chilling reminder of why Canada needs to have a National Indigenous History Month than what transpired in British Columbia this past week, when the remains of at least 215 children were unearthed at the site of a former Residential School.
For those of you who aren’t aware of this shameful history, the Canadian government ran Residential Schools for indigenous children from 1863 to – get this – 1998. At least 150,000 children were forcibly taken from their homes and sent to schools far away from their families, mostly run by church authorities. The stated objective was to “take the Indian out of the child” by removing anything related to their homes and culture, including language, instilling the Church into them, and giving…
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I love how eloquently John has stated the turmoil here between beliefs. His thoughts are a mirror for me but he has the ability to put it into words.
I grew up in an Italian Irish family. What else would I be except a devout Catholic? The bigger question is how did I go from being a Catholic to an Atheist or at least a 75% percent Atheist? I now claim I am seventy-five percent Atheist and twenty-five percent Agnostic. I will explain this formula later.
Well, my journey from one God to no God started many years ago and perhaps mimics the trajectory of many a lapsed Catholic. Went to a Catholic school. Lots of Catholic theology. Bible study each week. Surrounded by priests and nuns. Confession on Fridays followed by ten “Our Fathers” and twenty or so “Hail Marys.” Church and communion on Sunday. Back to being bad, masturbating and thinking dirty thoughts about the girl in the pew next to me on Mondays. She kept wearing skirts that hiked up above her knees when she sat…
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Anosh Irani’s latest book is Translated from the Gibberish: Seven Stories and One Half Truth. He teaches Creative Writing in the World Languages and Literatures Department at Simon Fraser University. ISTOCK In 1951, the French author Marguerite Yourcenar published her novel Memoirs of Hadrian; it is a book I return to time and again, whenever I need [...]
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A flare stack lights the sky from the Imperial Oil refinery in Edmonton, on Dec. 28, 2018. JASON FRANSON/THE CANADIAN PRESS At the headquarters of the International Energy Agency in Paris, there is a striking view of the Eiffel Tower. It presents a useful perspective on history, progress and change. When the tower opened in [...]
This is fantastic, thanks for sharing.
We’ve had a big milestone in our house this week. We’ve been parents for 50 years now. Yes, that’s right, our first born turned the big 5-0.
When you think about it, it’s a little surprising that there are no celebrations of parenting milestones. I guess those are things we do within the confines of our own homes, celebrating when our children achieve a new accomplishment or milestone and especially when they are finally – and hopefully successfully – launched. There’s Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, for sure, which are lovely. But as parents we don’t usually stop and appreciate the magnitude of the role we’ve taken on, usually without having given much thought to what we were getting into!
Some truisms that few of us stop and think about as we’re entering the delivery room, signing the adoption papers, or otherwise taking on responsibility for another human being:
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One way to get a sense of how powerful something is is how scared people are of it. Why have governments gone to such trouble to ban various books over the years? Why do people try to censor things they disagree with? Because they’re scared of meeting ideas on an open playing field. Would Nazism [...]
Sounds like an excellent read, will definitely get a copy.
Can science and spirituality be reconciled? Is there a way of looking at things that brings them into alignment? Of course, the answer is ‘yes’. In his book Spiritual Science, published 2018, Steve Taylor gives a convincing answer. His subtitle is ‘why science needs spirituality to make sense of the world’. Steve gives the reasons and, from my perspective, comprehensively demolishes the arguments for the recently dominant paradigms of materialism and scientism.
Steve looks at the origins of materialism. Science originally developed alongside religion through pioneers such as Descartes, Kepler and Newton. They were not seen as incompatible. it was around the second half of the 19C that Darwin’s theory of evolution came to put into question whether the biblical stories could actually be true; there came a theory that religion was not necessary to explain the world. TH Huxley was a leading proponent of what became the materialistic…
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