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Theology needs transformation

2012-01-25T06:40:00.001-06:00

Jan 24, 2012

Theology needs transformation

65% of the work in the world is done by women;
12% of the paid salaries in the world go to women;
2% of properties in the world are on the hands of women;
1 in each 6 women in the world is a victim of incest;
1 in each 4 women will experience some form of sexual violence in life;75% of people that die of hunger are women and children;
In all the world, women do not earn the same salary as men;
In all the world, the education level of women is lower than that of men;
In countries where women have more diplomas than men, the tendency is for less educated men to hold higher positions, changing, therefore, the criterion of promotion;98% of structural decisions are made by men;
In all the world, women are more dependent on the land than men;
In many places of the world, the majority of abortions is of girls.

Given that, the lesson the Feminist Theology teaches us is that before worrying about explaining reality, theologies must pay attention to an unjust reality that needs transformation. This situation must be taken as a theological challenge that requires an urgent answer seeking changes.

Felipe Fanuel Xavier Rodrigues

Towards a daily theology: listening to the unheard voices

from "Teologias com Sabor de Mangostão". Isabel Aparecida Felix

Translation from Portuguese by Gustavo Frederico

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Street Art

2012-01-24T07:02:00.001-06:00

ReflectionsOf.Me

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Occupy Voting Booths

2012-01-22T16:06:00.001-06:00

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Stereotypes...

2012-01-22T09:56:00.001-06:00

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Lessons in leadership

2012-01-11T09:21:00.001-06:00

1. Courage is not the absence of fear - it's inspiring other to move beyond it
2. Lead from the front - but don't leave your base behind

3. Lead from the back - and let others believe they are in front

4. Know your enemy - and learn about his favorite sport

5. Keep your friends close - and your rivals even closer

6. Appearances matter - and remember to smile

7. Nothing is black or white

8. Quitting is leading too

Nelson Mandela

Read the entire TIME article here.

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From bentlily: one poem a day

2012-01-11T04:59:00.001-06:00

Unkempt

I am drawn to the tidiness of proverbs
little zingers
that make you nod
and think you have gotten to the pulp
of a thing

like how you can know a person
by the books they keep

but it’s not true

you know only the stomach
of their brain
a naïve hunger that tends
to want more
of the same

it’s like thinking you know
a bird
by the wire
he sits on

life is unkempt
people die
too soon

all there is to do
is pay attention to the litter
of minutes that fling from the day
and catch some
on your tongue
like snowflakes

each one
a tiny perfect story
a life written in ice
before it melts
and returns home
to the sea.

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Coincidence?

2012-01-10T06:48:00.001-06:00

As always, go here and commission your own work of art => Gapingvoid Gallery

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5 Tax Myths

2012-01-09T10:44:00.001-06:00

MYTH #1: 47% of Americans do not pay taxes.

Fact: All Americans pay taxes.

MYTH #2: The American people and corporations pay high taxes.

Fact: The US has the third lowest taxes of any developed country in the world.

MYTH #3: Cutting taxes creates jobs and raises revenue.

Fact: Tax cuts reduce revenue and are not associated with economic growth.

MYTH #4: The US tax system is very progressive because wealthy individuals already pay a disproportionate amount of taxes.

Fact: At a time of growing income inequality, the US tax system is basically flat.

When you take into account all of the taxes that individuals pay, the truth is that our tax system is relatively flat. The top one percent of income earners receives 20.3 percent of total income while paying 21.5 percent of total taxes and the lowest 20 percent of income earners receive 3.5 percent of total income while still paying out two percent of total taxes.

In other words, wealthy individuals pay a high percentage of taxes because they earn a highly disproportionate amount of income. This is a consequence of growing income inequality in the United States, which is at a level not seen since before the Great Depression.

MYTH #5: The “Fair Tax” or a flat tax would be more fair.

Fact: The “Fair Tax” or a flat tax would make our tax system even more regressive.

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Data and the BSOD

2012-01-07T14:17:00.001-06:00

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OPEN Act - alternative to SOPA and PROTECT IP

2012-01-06T12:18:00.001-06:00

Twitter, Facebook, and Google endorse alternate online piracy bill

Gautham Nagesh for The Hill - Eight of the largest Web companies have endorsed an online piracy bill offered by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) as an alternative to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its Senate counterpart PROTECT IP.

The OPEN Act would direct online patent infringement claims against foreign websites to the International Trade Commission, which would be authorized to order online ad networks and payment processors to sever ties with the rogue foreign sites.

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How to lose weight by only...

2012-01-06T11:19:00.001-06:00

How to lose weight by only lifting a finger. Continuing our Week After New Year's diettip hotline, we have found the most appealing weight-loss tactic of all time. One that involves very little moving. Writing for 15 minutes about important values, like religion, music, or relationships, caused women to lose more weight over the next few months than those who did no writing at all, found research published in Pyschological Science. Participants kept these values diaries lost an average of 3.41 pounds, compared to the 2.76 pounds gained by the control group. This is the exercise dream, folks. [Eureka]

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Shards

2012-01-02T17:06:00.001-06:00

Shards of spirituality

I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing.

Leonard Nimoy

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The Angel that presided

2012-01-02T17:05:00.001-06:00

The Angel that presided 'oer my birth
by William Blake

The Angel that presided 'oer my birth
Said, "Little creature, form'd of Joy and Mirth,
"Go love without the help of any Thing on Earth."

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Robert Mitchum - 1948.

2012-01-01T13:31:00.001-06:00

Robert Mitchum sweeps his jail cell after getting busted for marijuana in 1948.

[LINK: If Charlie Parker was a gunslinger... ]

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Art = Terror ?!?

2011-12-30T05:05:00.001-06:00

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War is not right...

2011-12-30T05:03:00.001-06:00

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We have to create culture...

2011-12-29T10:54:00.001-06:00

Cultural diversion

We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game.

You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.

Terence McKenna

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A scaly foot sea snail.

2011-12-29T05:32:00.001-06:00

A scaly foot sea snail. The scales are covered with layers of pure pyrite and iron sulphide. Photograph: David Shale

Denizens of the Dragon Vent – in pictures

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R.I.P. Cheeta

2011-12-28T12:30:00.001-06:00

CHEETA the chimpanzee, who starred alongside Tarzan from the movies of the 1930s through to the 1960s TV series, has died at the age of 80.

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Electric Blue Lobster

2011-12-27T08:44:00.001-06:00

This strikingly coloured electric-blue European lobster was caught off the east coast of Scotland and spotted at London Billingsgate fish market in November 2011. It was sent to the Natural History Museum before settling into a new home at the London Aquarium.

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Boxing Day.

2011-12-26T11:56:00.001-06:00

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Here is an early Christmas present.

2011-12-24T15:02:00.001-06:00

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Seasoned Gratings

2011-12-22T11:18:00.001-06:00

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Mmmm, cookies.

2011-12-22T07:34:00.001-06:00

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Bronze Rat

2011-12-17T10:01:00.001-06:00

Genius Musings – about 4 hours ago – 4 reshares

The Bronze Rat

A tourist from the Midwest walked into a Chinese curio shop in San Francisco.
While looking around at the exotic merchandise, he noticed a very lifelike, life-sized, bronze statue of a rat. It had no price tag, but was so incredibly striking the tourist decided he must have it. He took it to the old shop owner and asked, “How much for the bronze rat?”
“Ahhh, you have chosen wisely! It is $12 for the rat, and $100 for the story,” said the wise old Chinaman.
The tourist quickly pulled out twelve dollars. “I’ll just take the rat, you can keep the story”, he said.
As he walked down the street carrying his bronze rat, the tourist noticed that a few real rats had crawled out of the alleys and sewers and had begun following him down the street. This was a bit disconcerting so he began walking faster.
A couple blocks later he looked behind him and saw to his horror the herd of rats behind him had grown to hundreds, and they began squealing. Sweating now, the tourist began to trot toward the Bay. After a couple more blocks, he looked around only to discover that the rats now numbered in the THOUSANDS, and were squealing and coming toward him faster and faster.
Terrified, he ran to the edge of the Bay and threw the bronze rat as far as he could into the Bay.
Amazingly, the thousands of rats all jumped into the Bay after the bronze rat, and were all drowned.
The man walked back to the curio shop in Chinatown.
“Ahhh,” said the owner, “You have come back for story, yes?
“Are you kidding?,” said the man, “I came back to see if you have a bronze Politician!”

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