Becoming a Spiritual Radical From occulture64.wordpress.com Buddhism holds out the promise that enlightenment is possible in this very life. Giving up on the idea that samsaric life will work out is the precondition for the renunciation that makes possible true happiness. (Matthew 6:19-24) A religious life and a life dedicated to the pursuit of money, new cars, bigger homes, fancier holidays, and the latest gadgets are mutually exclusive. Samsara, in whatever form it takes, can be defeated by practitioners who strongly desire to be free, recognize...

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Anthropology of LinkedIn Answers: Five Days of Posts From www.cazh1.com/blogger/thoughts/thoughts_blog.shtml As I scan these questions, I can see this social network exhibiting multiple personalities, interesting patterns. Are you interested in a networking group for asset reliability professionals? Interested in joining the Treasury Technology Networking Group? I'm looking to find a solid networking group in Rhode Island and Massachusetts - does anyone know of a few? Anyone interested in joining the IGDA group? Anyone interested in joining the Tek-Tips Contributor group? Is There Anyone Interested...

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One of the greats from Cuban painting, Manuel Mendive in Mexico. From Cuba Headlines God Eshu, orisha of Yoruba religion, in the eternal battlefield of good and bad, of life and death, dichotomies from which Mendive appropriates and translates his creations, and from which he declares himself to be in favor of environmental defense, because for the Cuban artist, "nature and man cannot be separated".

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McClung Museum opens temporary Forensics Anthropology exhibit From WBIRTV The McClung Museum on the campus of the University of Tennessee has opened a temporary exhibit honoring the work of Dr. Bill Bass and his Forensics Anthropology department. The exhibit, which is open until May 7, 2008, shows how forensic anthropologists determine things like ancestry, sex, age at death, and stature from skeletal remains.

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Libertarianism: Right and Left From Nolan Chart LLC Both right and left libertarianism have a deep skepticism about excessive concentrations of state power, encroachments of government power in the lives of individuals and communities, and a belief that ultimately, "That government is best which governs the least." By that he meant limited government, with all government power kept as close to the community as possible, and as close the hands of the people as possible as Jefferson urged but also with strong values of voluntary free...

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