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happenstance and school
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Sexual Identity
Although I prefer to think of sexuality as a spectrum I do see value in finding what to identify as. I am and always have been attracted to personality first. Pansexuality to me is attraction based on personality and not defined by gender. Bisexuality to me is open to gender, but in my mind feels more carnally based with physical and outward ( Read more... ) -
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http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/video?id=8343836
The recording of September's Proposition 8 gay marriage trial in California -
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I have a lot of respect for Hindu philosophies. Leaving my 'grihastha' to return to my teachable 'brahmacharya'. -
no is asking to leave it alone, can we?
I watched a documentary on the earth liberation front. This was a small organization that targeted a slaughter house that was responsible for horse blood entering public drinking water, a small organization that became involved in spite of national parks selling lumber from its own trees, responsible for huge amounts of lost forests ( Read more... ) -
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"Now that I'm alone
I can finally say
the words that wouldn't come
any other way"
the morning benders -
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I used to feel aligned with intellectual pursuits. In the place of a mormon/christian outlook I focused on compassionate living. Instead of embracing the discriminations religion brings, I chose to live openly. I used to believe it mattered most who you were on the inside. That was until I noticed how we really do operate like creatures. ( Read more... ) -
Life stages in Hinduism (from wiki)
Brahmacharya, the stage as a student, is spent in celibate, controlled, sober and pure contemplation under the guidance of a Guru, building up the mind for spiritual knowledge. Grihastha is the householder's stage, in which one marries and satisfies kama and artha in one's married and professional life respectively (see the goals of life). The ( Read more... ) -
Nippon
A few of us try to describe the paralyzed feeling we get while in front of the television while watching the world news. Not just any world news, events which led to the loss of human life, destroyed homes, natural disasters... Emotions, strong ones rise up as a result upfront helplessness, welling up with hope, primal fear, compassionate ( Read more... )