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World House

I recently attended a public reading of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Worl House. I had never read or heard this essay, speach or what ever you'd like to call it. Needless to say that man had "it", below is segment from his essay. Read it. If you dig it I've put a link where you can download the entire .pdf

Every man lives in two realms, the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of
spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals and religion. The external is that complex of
devices, techniques, mechanisms and instrumentalities by means of which we live. Our problem
today is that we have allowed the internal to become lost in the external. We have allowed the
means by which we live to outdistance the ends for which we live. So much of modern life can
be summarized in that suggestive phrase of Thoreau: “Improved means to an unimproved end.”
This is the serious predicament, the deep and haunting problem, confronting modern man.
Enlarged material powers spell enlarged peril if there is not proportionate growth of the soul.
When the external of man’s nature subjugates the internal, dark storm clouds begin to form.
Western civilization is particularly vulnerable at this moment, for our material abundance has
brought us neither peace of mind nor serenity of spirit. An Asian writer has portrayed our
dilemma in candid terms:
You call your thousand material devices “labor-saving machinery,” yet you are forever
“busy.” With the multiplying of your machinery you grow increasingly fatigued,
anxious, nervous, dissatisfied. Whatever you have, you want more; and wherever you are
you want to go somewhere else…your devices are neither time-saving nor soul-saving
machinery. They are so many sharp spurs which urge you on to invent more machinery
and to do more business.

This tells us something about our civilization that cannot be cast aside as a prejudiced charge
by an Eastern thinker who is jealous of Western prosperity. We cannot escape the indictment.
This does not mean that we must turn back the clock of scientific progress. No one can
overlook the wonders that science has wrought for our lives. The automobile will not abdicate in
favor of the horse and buggy, or the train in favor of the stagecoach, or the tractor in favor of the
hand plow, or the scientific method in favor of ignorance and superstition. But our moral and
spiritual “lag” must be redeemed. When scientific power outruns moral power, we end up with
guided missiles and misguided men. When we foolishly minimize the internal of our lives and
maximize the external, we sign the warrant for our own day of doom.

Our hope for creative living in this world house that we have inherited lies in our ability to
re-establish the moral ends of our lives in personal character and social justice. Without this
spiritual and moral reawakening we shall destroy ourselves in the misuse of our own
instruments.

Pretty amazing!
here is the whole thing

The Muel made a music video

My good pal Sam (the Muel) has directed a music video and I've decided to share it all with you folk. Enjoy.

Got my iChat fix

I just had my first three way on the old iChat. I've never felt like more of a dork but chatting with your friends from three different time zones is pretty rad. Is this something I'll be telling my kids about?

"When I was a young lad (28) my friends and I would log onto the inter web and strike up riveting conversations about politics and world religions. It was a real hoot and full of information that I carry with me today"

Yea probably not. I believe our conversation went something like this

"Dude wheres your beer? Oh man this is crazy!! Alright talk to you guys later"

I think I'll stick to the first story. If you feel like dorking it up a notch get your self an ichat account and a web cam (if you don't have a mac). Be prepared you'll be playing World of Warcraft in no time.

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Clinton Sings

Those of you who know my dog know he loves to sing to jazz or any other kind of dramatic music. For example, 20th Century Fox theme, Miles Davis or any music from the Lord of The Rings.

Well I'll be Damned

As you may have all heard over the last two weeks I've had this streak going of . . . well . . . we'll just call it down right awful luck. In case you didn't hear, my laptop, ipod, notebook, day planner, jump drive, microphone, numerous cables, school camera, a few of my lens, flash cards and bags containing item all got stolen. from school. in my car. 35 steps from the security desk ( I did count them). So yeah that sucked. Then I had technical nightmares with equipment and cameras for one of my class assignments as well as oodles of other shit go horribly bad i.e. the Seahawks loosing the playoffs to Green Bay. SO after about three days of shit going good it happened again tonight. While doing laundry I somehow managed to loose my laundry card (which is required to do washes). Notice I don't loose it pre wash but post wash. Super shitty. Since the front desk is closed I can;t get a new one so now I have a big pile of wet laundry. My night is now ending up like the rest of January. Thinking I'm SOL I got out on a limb and leave a note (see below) asking if someone could front me on a dry cycle. So I leave my clothes in the dryer and throw out a couple of Hail Marys. To my disbelief someone actually helped me out and get this, they left the cash I left for them. So hears to you magical laundry card person. Thanks for saving the day as well as my hope in humanity.