http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3388332/posts/summarySat, 08 Jul 2006 01:06:22 +0000http://chebucto.ca/Current/AEF/raps/blog/blogger.htmlBernard Tremblay15http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3388332/posts/summary/115134404195547946Mon, 26 Jun 2006 17:45:00 +00002006-06-26T12:04:50.523-06:00Pondering how Ted Honderich is arguable the world's premiere philosopher of determinism, I wondered on how sophistry ("excuses") so frequently has a sour, caustic, bitter tone to it. Perhaps because the individual is a) dreading being exposed as a coward, and b) in denial concerning having actually and really made a choice. We can produce explanations. We can, otherwise, produce rationalizationshttp://chebucto.ca/Current/AEF/raps/blog/2006/06/lame-excuses-vs-working-hypotheses.htmlBernard Tremblayhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/3388332/posts/summary/106244820722283099Mon, 01 Sep 2003 20:30:07 +00002003-09-01T14:30:07.170-06:00On the subject of The Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions and its "Declaration of the Religions for a Global Ethic." Hans Kung; Explanatory Remarks Concerning a "Declaration of the Religions for a Global Ethic" Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions "Towards A Global Ethic" ... "Urban Dharma" has a document by that name There are excerpts here, and this is ahttp://chebucto.ca/Current/AEF/raps/blog/2003/09/on-subject-of-council-for-parliament.htmlBernard Tremblayhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/3388332/posts/summary/106226800744967052Sat, 30 Aug 2003 18:26:47 +00002003-08-30T12:32:43.713-06:00Updated information on the Open Retreat with The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Dzogchen and Egolessness: Gaining Confidence in Liberation. December 1-7, 2003 Santa Sabina Retreat Center, San Rafael, CA Please join The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche for a week of engaging talks, powerful meditation instruction, and songs of enlightenment from the Kagyu and Dzogchen traditions. This year, Rinpochehttp://chebucto.ca/Current/AEF/raps/blog/2003/08/updated-information-on-open-retreat.htmlBernard Tremblayhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/3388332/posts/summary/106204054329003329Thu, 28 Aug 2003 03:15:43 +00002003-08-27T21:16:01.093-06:00"May all beings be empowered to discover their unique path to ending suffering. May all being discover that path through serving others."http://chebucto.ca/Current/AEF/raps/blog/2003/08/may-all-beings-be-empowered-to.htmlBernard Tremblayhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/3388332/posts/summary/106203367491507043Thu, 28 Aug 2003 01:21:14 +00002003-08-27T19:21:14.893-06:00"The koan arises naturally, in daily life." I have apparently been alone in wanting my daily life to have the quality of life that one finds in a monastic setting. At least, alone recently, since this notion comes to me not from speculation but, rather, from experience: once through Roman Catholicism (in a "formation house", where individuals considering the priesthood lived together in http://chebucto.ca/Current/AEF/raps/blog/2003/08/koan-arises-naturally-in-daily-life.htmlBernard Tremblayhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/3388332/posts/summary/106194441688552934Wed, 27 Aug 2003 00:33:36 +00002003-08-26T18:33:36.833-06:00Why is 30 years more potent than 25? A couple of weeks ago I had a profound insight into my PTSD, but didn't get it quite right: it turns out that I taint moments of success /not/ because I have come to believe myself unworthy, but rather (and, friends, incredible as it might seem, this next detail explains away my writer's block!), because that "success" was actually negative ... retrograde ...http://chebucto.ca/Current/AEF/raps/blog/2003/08/why-is-30-years-more-potent-than-25.htmlBernard Tremblayhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/3388332/posts/summary/91518723Fri, 28 Mar 2003 02:33:52 +00002003-03-27T22:09:45.000-07:00washingtonpost.com - News Front Duality of Wrath; Complexity and the Collapsing Monolith- Wet sheep on a foggy hillside after the hail storm, fresh out of the mud, accompanied by a cell-phone in a plastic bag and whoever was on the other end of the line. http://mozdawg.blogspot.com/http://chebucto.ca/Current/AEF/raps/blog/2003/03/washingtonpost.htmlBernard Tremblayhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/3388332/posts/summary/91519656Fri, 28 Mar 2003 02:51:37 +00002003-03-27T19:51:37.280-07:00"Nasiriyah Turns Into 'Nightmare' for Marines (washingtonpost.com)" In the land of the ark, in the desert, one might even learn the meaning of such basics as food, and water. In war, we learn death. Or we do not learn, and so pass that lesson on to generations not yet born. May we learn from this day's dead children.http://chebucto.ca/Current/AEF/raps/blog/2003/03/nasiriyah-turns-into-nightmare-for.htmlBernard Tremblayhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/3388332/posts/summary/91255603Mon, 24 Mar 2003 03:12:49 +00002003-03-23T20:12:49.763-07:00I've been entirely pre-occupied with correspondence and blogging at "Beyond Greed". It's about democracy, which has precious little to do with benevolent tyranny or "might makes right".http://chebucto.ca/Current/AEF/raps/blog/2003/03/ive-been-entirely-pre-occupied-with.htmlBernard Tremblayhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/3388332/posts/summary/89798467Wed, 26 Feb 2003 22:26:03 +00002003-02-27T15:06:58.000-07:00Full Stop Due to the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune (read: the Dell LatitudeXPi 166MHz laptop I got from my last contract 5 years ago gave up the ghost when I tried to re-install Win95 *sigh*) I no longer have connectivity ... raw deal after 3 decades of CMC (read: no box and no connection = no development). But being on disability sucks in any number of ways, and this isn't the worst http://chebucto.ca/Current/AEF/raps/blog/2003/02/full-stop-due-to-slings-and-arrows-of.htmlBernard Tremblayhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/3388332/posts/summary/89346541Wed, 19 Feb 2003 02:57:21 +00002003-02-18T20:03:16.000-07:00A step into the past brought me to a scratch document I created three years ago, during the A16 WB/IMF protests in Washington DC. Yet another step brought me to 1995 with my "Green Futures Foundation" project. In another direction, and I find myslef looking at Society for the Study of Process Philosophies (and Anne Pomeroy's paper on Process Ontology and The Critique of Capitalism), and Richard Khttp://chebucto.ca/Current/AEF/raps/blog/2003/02/step-into-past-brought-me-to-scratch.htmlBernard Tremblayhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/3388332/posts/summary/89310738Tue, 18 Feb 2003 15:46:04 +00002003-02-18T09:38:57.000-07:00I should write something for each of these, but I'm low energy right now (if I get any more depressed I'm going to be in deep trouble) * Sustainable CommUnity | WinWin Wolrd | Creating Learning Communities | mindfully.org On Saturday I found out I'm going to lose my internet connection (hell, I can only barely afford telephone service!) and today I got disconnect notice for power. Geeezus ... http://chebucto.ca/Current/AEF/raps/blog/2003/02/i-should-write-something-for-each-of.htmlBernard Tremblayhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/3388332/posts/summary/88917102Tue, 11 Feb 2003 16:10:52 +00002003-02-11T09:14:07.000-07:00Squaring the Circle: justice and "rules" Discussing strategy and tactic with an eye to the World Summit on Sustainable Development this past August in Johannesburg, my correspondent pinned me with a one line message, and I tried to say something about the role of community at large: "I'm afraid I'm still back with Thrasymachus and Plato, and wondering in what sense we can say that justice http://chebucto.ca/Current/AEF/raps/blog/2003/02/squaring-circle-justice-and-rules.htmlBernard Tremblayhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/3388332/posts/summary/88889254Tue, 11 Feb 2003 03:14:27 +00002003-02-10T20:14:27.596-07:00A friend just pointed me to this, from Channel 4 - "Between Iraq and a Hard Place" ... it aired last month but is now online. "If you were to spend 26 million dollars every day since the birth of Christ, you'd have spent less than the Americans have spent on "defence" since the end of the Second World War.http://chebucto.ca/Current/AEF/raps/blog/2003/02/friend-just-pointed-me-to-this-from.htmlBernard Tremblayhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/3388332/posts/summary/87011829Mon, 06 Jan 2003 16:33:49 +00002003-01-06T09:33:49.380-07:00I was feeling very ragged yesterday, and happened to encounter an amazing artist, by which I mean not just someone who happens to "do" art, but also someone who happens to "be" whatever that is. Via's homepage is brilliant, as is the catalog of her gallery.http://chebucto.ca/Current/AEF/raps/blog/2003/01/i-was-feeling-very-ragged-yesterday.htmlBernard Tremblay