I had a moment of realization last night as Liz and I watched Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Much has and is made of the difficulty to express pain via verbal and written language. This is combined with the reality that we cannot actually feel what others feel, we can only get a sense of what they feel from the way they act. In terms of pain, this means ( Read more... )

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I came across this quote from Helen Keller last week:

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved.”

It is interesting how similar this next quote from Arnold Schwarzenegger is to this (I have this one on my bulletin board at ( Read more... )

I've obviously been offline for quite a while, though I didn't realize it had been this long. I am upgrading to a paid account and I plan on starting to post some of my research related materials over the next couple of weeks ( Read more... )

Interfaith Alliance Releases Paper On Same-Gender Marriage & Religious Freedom
Source: Interfaith Alliance

Interfaith Alliance has released Same-Gender Marriage & Religious Freedom: A Call to Quiet Conversations and Public Debates, a paper authored by its president, Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy. In the paper, Rev. Gaddy calls for a new national ( Read more... )

http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/06/12/un-saudi-arabia-pledges-end-men-s-control-over-women

We'll see how, or should I say if they actually follow through with this . . .

It has been some time since I made a post like this, as I’ve really been focused on my research and I’ve been trying to avoid political issue posts. I made a post/rant last year discussing the shooting of Sean Bell in NYC, the black groom-to-be who was shot 51 times (that’s more times than either John Dillinger or Bonnie and Clyde were shot) by ( Read more... )

Love is a Boy by Poets styled
Then Spare the rod and spoil the child

Why may not Whipping have as good
A Grace, performed in time and mood,
With comely movement and by Art
Raise Passion in a Lady's heart?
It is an easier way to make
Love by, than that which many take . . .

Samuel Butler Hudibras 1663

This is the first extant source for this particular ( Read more... )

http://www.nerve.com/dispatches/levine/kittyporn/