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@@ -1 +1,2 @@ ._sync_* +recipes/ diff --git a/100 things.txt b/100 things.txt deleted file mode 100755 index 2628ceb..0000000 --- a/100 things.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,19 +0,0 @@ -title: Own 100 Things and that's it -date: 20140726 21:33 -tags: #minimalism ---- - -I think the main goal here is to simply be cognizant of what you own, be aware for your footprint on the world, be aware of your stuff and think critically about its necessity. Then try to lighten your footprint, travel lighter through the world - -Exactly how many things you own is largely irrelevant. That said, I feel pretty sad that I own so many things I have yet to list anything that isn't in view of my desk when I first typed this. - -My list, incomplete by a long margin: - -1. Macbook Pro 15 inch -2. EeePC 1005HA -3. 2 TB backup drive -4. 500 GB backup drive -5. 12 string guitar -6. 6 string guitar -7. Cherwick painting -11. Lumix GF1 camera + lens diff --git a/At least you didn't get hurt, and you're more important to me than any bus.txt b/At least you didn't get hurt, and you're more important to me than any bus.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7982c8a --- /dev/null +++ b/At least you didn't get hurt, and you're more important to me than any bus.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +At least you didn't get hurt, and you're more important to me than any bus
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Bus preflight.txt b/Bus preflight.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3b13a9e --- /dev/null +++ b/Bus preflight.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +Bus preflight + +Engine +[]Check oil +[]Check transmission fluid +[]Check power steering +[]Check brakes + + +Outside +[]Walk exterior +[]Check rear axle bolts +[]Check drive train + + +Cabin +[]Close vents +[]Check table hinge +[]Pad pans +[]Pad silverware +[]Pad fruit
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Cell salt notes.txt b/Cell salt notes.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6a844c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Cell salt notes.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +Cell salt notes + +#10 seems to work well for diarrhea. +#3 works well for sore throat, must use early though
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Elliott wants tiger pants for his birthday.txt b/Elliott wants tiger pants for his birthday.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2ed2023 --- /dev/null +++ b/Elliott wants tiger pants for his birthday.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Elliott wants tiger pants for his birthday
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/lx post ere.txt b/I've been hanging around various places internet communities for years, others I've come to more rec.txt index 56ad937..56ad937 100755..100644 --- a/lx post ere.txt +++ b/I've been hanging around various places internet communities for years, others I've come to more rec.txt diff --git a/It's cold tonight no way around it. My body's shakes involuntarily as I strip off my jacket and pull.txt b/It's cold tonight no way around it. My body's shakes involuntarily as I strip off my jacket and pull.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a0e8cec --- /dev/null +++ b/It's cold tonight no way around it. My body's shakes involuntarily as I strip off my jacket and pull.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +It's cold tonight no way around it. My body's shakes involuntarily as I strip off my jacket and pull on a thermal shirt as quickly as I can. my legs are already safely wrapped in a warm down sleeping bag. The rain on The roof tap tap tap although it lacks that rhythm it's uneven chaotic filtered through the leaves of oak, pecan, sweet gum. It has a kind of rhythm but it's an odd one not a musical one.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Perform the Cabbalistic Cross as follows.txt b/Perform the Cabbalistic Cross as follows.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..26b3eed --- /dev/null +++ b/Perform the Cabbalistic Cross as follows.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +Perform the Cabbalistic Cross as follows: + +Stand feet together facing east, arms at your sides. Visualize yourself expanding upward and outward into space until the Earth can be seen like sphere aout afoot in diameter beneath your feet. + +Raise your right arm above your head, then draw it down to your forehead. Visualize a beam of brilliant white light coming down from infinitely far above your to point just above the top of your head where if forms a sphere of white light, also about a foot across. Vibrate the word ATEH (Aah-teh). + +Inhale and bring your hand down and touch the middle of the solar plexus and visualize a shaft of light descending through you to the sphere at your feet. Vibrate the word MALKUTH (Mahl-kooth) + +Inhale and bring your arm to your right shoulder. Visualize a beam of light extending out from the verical beam to form one arm of a cross. Just beyond your shoulder it forms another sphere, this one bright red light. Vibrate Ve-Geburah (pronounced "veh geh-boo-rah) + +Move your hand across your chest to your left shoulder and visualize the light coming out to form the other ray of the cross. Visualize a bright blue sphere just beyond your shoulder. Vibrate the word Ve-Gedulah ("veh geh-dyoo-lah") . + +Fold your arms across your chest, crossing at the wrists, right over left. Visualize the entire cross shining with light. Vibrate Le-Olam, Amen ("leh oh-lahm, ah-men). + +Notes: Vibration of words is a little odd. It's sort of half spoken, half chanting. You have to find a tone that produces a vibrating or humming feeling in your body. It doesn't have to be loud. I figured this out by randomlying experimenting with vowel sounds like aaaaaaaaaaah and ooooooooooh, playing with the tone, the position of your tongue, the shape of your mouth and so on until I got a tone that made a slight humming feeling in my body. I also listened to a few people on youtube doing it, which might be super helpful since what works for me is probably lower than the register of your voice. I'd use a private browsing window for that. diff --git a/Smart Accounting Solutions.txt b/Smart Accounting Solutions.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d125eac --- /dev/null +++ b/Smart Accounting Solutions.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Smart Accounting Solutions + + +1 Huntington Road #203, Athens, GA 30606 +(706) 227-9191
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Spanish palindrome.txt b/Spanish palindrome.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3a11166 --- /dev/null +++ b/Spanish palindrome.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +Spanish palindrome on the subject of pilgrimage: La ruta nos aportó otro paso natural – "The path provides the natural next step". Its form cleverly acknowledges the transformative consequences of the pilgrimage, which turns the mind back upon itself, leaving the traveller both ostensibly unchanged and profoundly redirecte + +https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jun/15/rites-of-way-pilgrimage-walks
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Todo.txt b/Todo.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6a91d75 --- /dev/null +++ b/Todo.txt @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +Todo + +Get heavy plastic +Install seat belts + +Exhaust manifold +Oil +Oil filter +Plugs +Fuel filter +Coolant after manifold + +E brake +Speedometer +Choke cable and knob +wheel cylinders +Oil leak near valve covers + + +Ideas for school bus +Make food cabinet accessible to kids somehow. + Either with a stool of some kind + Or by keeping it low. + Or some combination of both + +Places to store: + Guitar + Corrinne's ball things + Batteries inside + Shoe area + Daypack area + +Closet hanging space equal to bus(?) + +Place to hang broom and mop + +Light switches for overhead lights + diff --git a/bus bathroom.txt b/bus bathroom.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e819652 --- /dev/null +++ b/bus bathroom.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Bathroom + +Aluminum +Mirror +Thin wood for shelf +Heavy plastic for bottom shelf +Rug + + + diff --git a/bus brakes.txt b/bus brakes.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..70195e1 --- /dev/null +++ b/bus brakes.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Six wheel cylinders +2 front rubber flex brake hoses +2 rear axle seals +Front bearings and seals + +Brakes- + +Wheel cylinder - available via Napa for d300 trucks, call Monroe napa, ask for Kenny (tell him Mike Wall sent me) + +When you change master cylinder, change wheel cylinders and rubber hoses. +Reman Rick diff --git a/bus crash.txt b/bus crash.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7982c8a --- /dev/null +++ b/bus crash.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +At least you didn't get hurt, and you're more important to me than any bus
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/cabin porn.txt b/cabin porn.txt deleted file mode 100755 index 527ef99..0000000 --- a/cabin porn.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,6 +0,0 @@ -http://cabinporn.com/post/45759619595/home-on-pacific-coast-of-chiloe-island-chile -http://cabinporn.com/post/45108837379/off-grid-hostel-on-deer-isle-maine-built-by -http://cabinporn.com/post/50499751480/vineyard-cabin-in-urla-turkey-photographed-by -http://cabinporn.com/post/50298809698/cabin-on-mt-hood-near-zig-zag-oregon -http://cabinporn.com/post/49915317123/the-floating-farmhouse-in-eldred-new-york -http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcn2o3IUVc1qzwmsso1_1280.jpg
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/cast iron seasoning.txt b/cast iron seasoning.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..889d9c1 --- /dev/null +++ b/cast iron seasoning.txt @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +My Personal Seasoning Process +https://www.reddit.com/r/castiron/comments/5d3bmc/my_personal_seasoning_process/ + +I'm making this post mostly so that I can link back to it as this comes up a lot. This is my personal seasoning process and it works for me. There are many others out there and feel free to use them, but if you're asking what I do, this is what I do, and I feel it's the easiest process and works very well, even for newbies. + +Oil of choice - Crisco. Okay, I'm already lying, I actually use Crisbee because the addition of the beeswax makes application a bit easier when you're seasoning a couple hundred pieces a year (I do a bit of selling on the side.) But unless you're really into it, have a lot of pieces, or just want to try it and see if it works for you, Crisco is the main oil in Crisbee and is the most important part. If this is your first Cast Iron pan, just use Crisco. + +This process is assuming you're starting with a piece of bare iron. You've already stripped the old seasoning off either through lye (lye tank, yellow cap oven cleaner, etc), Electrolysis, vinegar scrubs, or magic voodoo. Stripping can be a different topic. + +My Process: + + Wash and scrub your pan with soap and water. + + 2. Dry thoroughly with a towel. + + 3. Immediately place in a 200 degree oven for 20 mins + + 4. Take out (using gloves) and coat with liberal amount of Crisco. Use an old t-shirt, towel you don't care about, or something like that. + + 5. Most Important - try to wipe out ALL of the oil. Use a different t-shirt or towel. I do a two step wipe, the first with a towel, the second with a paper blue Shop Towel. You won't be able to get it all and there's enough left on the pan for the seasoning. + + 6. Return to oven and heat to 300. Once it's 300, take out and wipe down again. Note I don't actually do this step anymore, but I recommend it to newbies or people having problems with their own process. It helps make sure all of the excess oil is removed. + + 7. Return to oven and heat to 450 + + 8. Bake for an hour + + 9. Let cool in oven (completely if you're finished and have time. You can go to 200 if you're going to do another round of seasoning and are in a rush) + +Repeat process starting at step 3. Before starting step 2, check your pan. If you see any spots on it, that means you didn't do step 5 very well, and I would scrub it down again starting at step 1, but if it looks good I go right to 3. Do this 2 or 3 times and you'll get a well seasoned pan. + +After seasoning your pan may look any color from brown, to dark grey, to black. Use and cooking fatty foods and time will eventually turn your pan that deep dark black you're looking for. diff --git a/character names.txt b/character names.txt index b187e3c..ba2b85a 100755 --- a/character names.txt +++ b/character names.txt @@ -3,4 +3,8 @@ Character Names Adie Barleycorn Jack Spaniard Jim French -Tad Hawkings
\ No newline at end of file +Tad Hawkings + +Character + +Girl with a tattoo of an apple on the inside of her arm. Not the company, eris. diff --git a/character.txt b/character.txt deleted file mode 100755 index d2f5568..0000000 --- a/character.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -Character - -Girl with a tattoo of an apple on the inside of her arm. Not the company, eris.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/cleaning solution.txt b/cleaning solution.txt deleted file mode 100755 index 5feb4cc..0000000 --- a/cleaning solution.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,7 +0,0 @@ -title: cleaning solution -date: 20140730 10:22:22 -tags: #house #diy - -3/8 c bleach -1/2 gal water -1 T powdered laundry detergent diff --git a/corrinne.txt b/corrinne.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5a4b544 --- /dev/null +++ b/corrinne.txt @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +I have been doing a lot of thinking lately, most of it at unfortunate hours of the night. but then I've been trying to make an honest, critical assessment of my life and somehow that just seems to come up more in the dark. + +The past week or so that I have been away I have been thinking about our relationship. I don't know how it looks from your point of view of course, so I may be way off here, but I think I have been a great friend, a pretty good husband, and a really lousy lover. It's that last one that keeps me up at night the most. I don't know how I got us here, but I want to lead us out of here to somewhere better. + +Have you ever wanted something so bad it literally hurts? I wake up all the time in the middle of the night aching for your touch, and I know that sounds really cheesy, believe me I spent considerable time trying to think of a better way to say that, but in the end it best describes how it feels, I just ache for you. Like the soreness of muscles, I ache to touch you, to feel your lips brush against mine. And they never do because I let my own fear and embarrassment get in the way of what I want. + +Years ago when you told me that physical intimacy and sex were sometimes difficult for you, unpleasant even, it scared me. I didn't know how to deal with that. I didn't have the courage to ask you about it. I didn't know what to do. So I did the easy thing. I shut down. I ignored it and focused on the things I could do that didn't scare me, like being your friend. That was a terrible mistake I've been living with ever since. + +I cut that intimacy out of our relationship and then, after a certain while I no longer knew how to get it back. And I'll be honest, I am still scared sometimes, and now I don't know how to get that intimacy back. + +But I know that I want it back. I want your touch. I want your body. I want to feel your lips on mine. I want to touch your skin. I want to feel you under me, beside me, on top of me. And I know we don't have the bodies we once did, but I don't care I still love them. Sure, my stomach could be flatter, my legs more hair, my throat less weirdly saggy and a million other things I might change if I could. But I can't. And I don't think at the end of our days we're going to say to ourselves, "thank god we didn't have sex because our bodies didn't meet the stereotypes our culture instilled in us." + +I mean maybe. Maybe it's just me. Maybe you're like yeah fuck that guy, I've got my Scottish time travel romance novels and my super vibrator and he can go jerk it in a corner somewhere. I know I don't deserve better than that for leading us here. + +Here was never where I wanted to go, but, if you'll pardon the sailing metaphor, that's what happen when the captain abandons the helm. The ship drifts aimlessly. Still, to give myself hope I always think, why Scottish? Why not Welsh? Why not Irish? Maybe because my name is in it. Yes, that's dumb, but when you're laying awake in the middle of the night trying to figure out different ways you could seduce your wife all sorts of silly things come in your head. + +I try to live without regrets, but I have a few. This the one: I let our relationship lose that intimacy. I gave up on sex with you. That was a huge mistake. Alas I can't take it back. I am hoping maybe it's not too late though, that I can fix it. + +You know I can remember in great detail -- great, great detail -- nearly every time we've had sex? I think about those moments all the time. They are my favorite moments in this life. I remember every detail, the way your skin felt, the way you tasted, how our bodies were in entwined, the wet warmth of being inside you. I want all that again, and I don't care what I have to do to get it. I am tired of laying over here just wishing for it. I need your help. I need to know more than anything if it's something you want too. And right now I don't trust myself to get all this out without writing it down, so that's what I've done. diff --git a/cron sync.txt b/cron sync.txt deleted file mode 100755 index cb67908..0000000 --- a/cron sync.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,10 +0,0 @@ -cron sync - -rsync -e "ssh" -avrczh ~/Documents --progress --stats --exclude '.DS_Store' --exclude 'Quickbooks' --exclude 'Finance' luxagraf@web177.webfaction.com:/home/luxagraf/backup/Documents - - -rsync -e "ssh" -rc ~/Pictures/iPhone\ Library --exclude '.DS_Store' luxagraf@web177.webfaction.com:/home/luxagraf/backup/Pictures - -rsync -e "ssh" -rc ~/Pictures/Lightroom --exclude '.DS_Store' --exclude 'Backups' luxagraf@web177.webfaction.com:/home/luxagraf/backup/Pictures - -rsync -e "ssh" -avrczh ~/Pictures/Library --progress --stats --exclude '.DS_Store' luxagraf@web177.webfaction.com:/home/luxagraf/backup/Pictures
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/decisions.txt b/decisions.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9e5a57a --- /dev/null +++ b/decisions.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +There are very few final decisions in life almost any decision you make you can change down the road you can go back and say hey I made a bad call you can go even something as massive his buying a house you can always sell the house he might have a loss but you're out of the house once you start to look at decisions this way you have a much greater sense of freedom in what you can do because most restrictions that you ever encounter in your life will be restrictions you placed on yourself.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/dodge, engine turns over but won't start.txt b/dodge, engine turns over but won't start.txt index 79c3a93..f955190 100644 --- a/dodge, engine turns over but won't start.txt +++ b/dodge, engine turns over but won't start.txt @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- title: Engine turns but won't start. -date: 2016-03-02T14:49:52Z +date: 2016-03-02 source: http://vagabond101.com/engine-turns-over-but-wont-start.html tags: travco diff --git a/food-storage.txt b/food storage.txt index 9926817..9926817 100644 --- a/food-storage.txt +++ b/food storage.txt diff --git a/gardening-notes.txt b/gardening-notes.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cda6dd3 --- /dev/null +++ b/gardening-notes.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +harvest garlic scapes for larger bulbs. Cut flowers (scapes) early so garlic can focus on bulbs diff --git a/girls-cell-salts.txt b/girls-cell-salts.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b72d525 --- /dev/null +++ b/girls-cell-salts.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Calc. Fluor. 1, Mag. Phos. 3, Kali Sulph. 3, Nat. Phos. 2 diff --git a/how i deal with people asking me the same questions all the time when traveling.txt b/how i deal with people asking me the same questions all the time when traveling.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 25c8281..0000000 --- a/how i deal with people asking me the same questions all the time when traveling.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,115 +0,0 @@ -How I Deal With People Asking Me The Same Questions All The Time When Traveling - -tags: refx, travel -date: November 18, 2013 10:08:11 AM ---- - -From <http://www.vagabondjourney.com/how-i-deal-with-people-asking-me-the-same-questions-all-the-time-when-traveling/> - -# How I Deal With People Asking Me The Same Questions All The Time When Traveling - - -_Hey Wade,_ - -_I really enjoy reading your articles. I was wondering if you can write something about how you deal with all the random people constantly asking you the very, very same questions._ - -_I have to admit that I don’t really know how to deal with it, since on the one hand, those people are just interested in this stranger with whom they maybe even practice their basic English, but on the other hand most of the times it is just annoying, because after the basics there is not much more coming. Are you always happy about those conversations hoping that at the end you are hearing or learning something or how do you feel about that?_ - -_Also those random “Hello, Mister! How are you?”-shouts?_ - -_Cheers,_ -_Markus_ - - -Hello Markus, - -Yes, those repetitive questions are one of the more onerous aspects of world travel. Hostels and backpacker bars especially are flooded with people talking about the same things over and over and over again. Everybody eventually gets annoyed with this, but most keep doing it anyway — apparently for lack of anything better to ask. But interacting with locals is often no different, and if you don’t make something of the conversation and dig deeper they are more often than not going to lead in circles: - -“Where are you from?” - -“What do you do?” - -“What do you think of [country you're in]?” - -“Do you like [country you are in's] women?” - -“Do you like [name of politician]?” - -On and on. - -People everywhere are in a perpetual hunt for things to talk about with each other. As you state in your question, you are bored of the conversations you are having. There is nothing out of the ordinary about this: everybody is bored with the conversations they are having. Gossip, Facebook, reality shows, sitcoms, sports, the news are so popular all over the world for a reason: they give people stuff to talk about. - -Travel is a global exercise in meeting new people, and these baseline questions is just part of the territory. There is no way to avoid it other than not talking with people or not traveling. You don’t get these questions in the sedentary life because everybody knows the answers already. - -But while these same old, same old questions can be annoying, you generally need a groundwork of understanding with someone before you can really have a good conversation. So those irritating inquiries serve a function. After they are over, you can take things deeper. - -I always view it as my responsibility to make a conversation worthwhile. Then again, my work is based around asking people questions and collecting their responses. If I was just traveling around the world, having conversations for kicks, I probably wouldn’t engage a tenth of the people I end up talking to. In point, I found that it helps to have a reason to talk with people, a purpose for making temporary friends. If it’s your mission to find out as much information as possible about a country then most all conversations with locals can be engineered to have value. - -To these ends, I carry around an ever-evolving list of questions with me to ask the various people I meet. When my natural, off the cuff, conversations go a bit dry I consult my list (which I also try to have memorized) and dive into various topics that I am interested in learning more about. In this way, my conversations all too often become impromptu interviews. - -It is my opinion, and I could be wrong here, that the main impetus to travel is to learn about the world we live in, so having set objectives helps me to move forward with this endeavor. Though I’m sure it helps that I have an endgame for these inquires: I write articles that draw from the responses I receive. - -To get technical about my strategy, I always carry a small notebook with me that has a page that is specifically for lists of topics that I want to talk with people about in a particular place. Before entering into a social situation, or sometimes when I am in the process of conversing, I will open up the notebook and glance at this list. I will then try to naturally include these topics in my conversations. Often, people seem to enjoy me taking an interest in them, their country, and culture, and simply showing an initiative to learn more is enough to open doors and drive the interaction deeper. - -Humans are natural teachers. - -My current list of topics for China: - -Evictions The disenfranchised Where do you want to be in five years, in ten Do a survey to gaugue the state of this culture Religion Collision between tradition and modernity Mobile public chatting Courtship -Migrant workers -Anxiety about the future - -These lists are always changing and evolving. When I want to learn about something else I add it to the list, after I collect a good amount of information on one topic I will try to focus on others. - -There is also a general rule of humanity that makes these inquiries possible: - -People everywhere tend to like talking about themselves. - -As I stated earlier, sedentary people don’t ask each other basic types of personal questions because they think they already know the answers. So take advantage of being an outsider, ask people about their lives, and chances are you will be giving them an opportunity to talk about things they don’t usually get to talk about. I’ve had people tell me stories that they have never bothered mentioning to even their families, and it is not uncommon for someone’s kid to exclaim with surprise: “He/ she never even told me about that before?” - -In point, showing an interest and asking questions can become a stimulating venture all parties involved. - -What is even more exhilarating is that once it becomes known in a place that you have an interest in what is going on, more people will come out to engage you. Ideally, what I want is to give people something to talk about. I want them to talk with their families and friends about the foreigner who asked a bunch of fool questions and took a lot of photos. This opens doors for my work. - -Give people something to talk about and they will answer your fool questions. - -My conversational shtick is based on being the fool. I go out acting ignorant and try to get people to show and teach me. If I go out in the streets acting as a know everything already I will learn nothing. - -It is amazing to me how many travelers are bent on telling the world the way things are. These people learn nothing because they are always talking, not listening. And they are seldom heard. Everybody already knows how the world works. You are not going to convince anybody of anything, whether it’s politics, religion, or attempting to show that people from your country are different than they think. What I find interesting is discovering worldviews that are different from my own. So I try to act foolish and I go out looking for people to “learn me.” At the end of the day I often come out ahead. - -When you’re someplace new, surrounded by a culture you’re not familiar with, and people you’ve never met before it is almost impossible to have mundane conversation. Just stick to the basics: who? what? where? why? when? how? - -My biggest problem comes when interacting with other Americans of my peer group who see me as “one of them.” I can no longer enact my fool routine and must interact in more of a “normal” fashion. There are many questions that I can’t ask because it’s assumed that I already know the answers. These interactions are hit or miss for me. If the other person listens well and is also an inveterate question asker on a perpetual hunt for information and knowledge then we will more than likely hit it off well. If not, then the conversation will probably not go very far. 9 out of 10 times this situation ends up being the latter. - -But, generally speaking, I don’t travel to hang out with people from my own or similar countries. If I wanted to do this I would go to the USA or Canada. So I tend to not put an emphasis on frequenting traveler hang outs. I have nothing against them, I just don’t find them the best places to go to have good conversation. - -Ultimately, f you have nothing to say to someone then there is no fault in not talking to them anymore. It’s OK to sit silently. - -That said, it is easy to fall out of the conversational loop when traveling abroad long term. If you’re not watching the same sitcoms, the same sporting events, reading the same websites as the people around you then it is going to be hard to connect. So I find out about the popular TV shows or music in the country that I am in and try to follow them. As far as communicating from people from a similar background as myself, I try to keep up on the news and sports in the USA and Europe. At the very least, this provides some conversational fodder and common ground to connect with people through. - -### Developing good conversation skills - -It seems to be as if there are two types of conversation: - -1) Interrogative – asking questions about something you don’t know. -2) Discussion – talking about something you share in common with somebody. - -Mastering both types of conversation is an art. To be blunt, having a good conversation takes preparation effort. Once you are living a life where you are not having experiences in common with the people around you you’re going to need to look for other things to talk about. As I mentioned earlier, having a list of topics that you’re interested in learning more about is one way; educating yourself about what other people are interested in is another. - -[Conversation skills are cultivated from years of experience](http://www.vagabondjourney.com/have-better-conversations-travel-tip/), and [older travelers tend to have better conversations than young](http://www.vagabondjourney.com/old-travelers-have-better-conversations-than-young/). Many people are simply not willing to put in the legwork to have good conversations or they have not yet built these skills (or even realize that this is a skill set they should be building), and there is nothing you can do about that. - -The problem is if it is _you_ that needs to work on conversation skills. Conversations go two ways. If you’re bored talking to someone then rest assured that they are more than likely equally bored talking to you. As the great Bill Nye the Science Guy once said: - -“If you ever say that you are bored what you are essentially saying is that you are boring.” - -Make the most of the people around you. Just about everyone can teach you something if you ask the right questions. It’s good practice to try to take a mundane and otherwise boring conversation that twist it into something that’s interesting. - -I traveled with a friend once who got so sick of being asked the same conversations over and over again that he would just flip the switch and come back with the most random, probing questions he could think of. - -_“Do you believe in God?”_ - -It worked. - -In the end, it is my impression that conversations are more about connecting with people than anything else. They don’t always need to be good to be worthwhile. Simply engaging someone verbally is often enough to satisfy some deep social need. - -Most people in this world are talking gibberish to each other most of the time. One of the most amazing things about learning a foreign language is when you get to the point where you can understand the conversations that are happening around you and you realize that they are 90% bullshit. Good conversations are rare everywhere. It’s the connecting, not the content, that counts. diff --git a/internet communities.txt b/internet communities.txt new file mode 100755 index 0000000..56ad937 --- /dev/null +++ b/internet communities.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +I've been hanging around various places internet communities for years, others I've come to more recently. For years I've followed the ERE community, recently I started following the indie web camp community. I'm also in the middle of a deep dive into something i neglected in five years of professional cooking -- fermentation. + +All of these things are related. + +# another post is going to be about https and privacy and how privacy is a conceit of the rich, but one that we should aspire to grant to everyone. the more money you have the more privacy you can get but the more disconnected from your neighbors you become. privacy is not without tradeoff, of course those of us in the industrialized world were born without a chance to even know that tradeoffs had been made. we already had houses that afforded us privacy, or some measure of it, yards screen off, cars humming the highway alone. Maybe you grew up in new york, no car, no yard. That's precisely what I mean, you expectations of privacy are different. you might have more community, joining your building neighbors on the roof to enjoy the sun, or grill up something tasty for instance. + +What's different about this notion of privacy and the notional idea of privacy on the internet is that in the first case you are getting some privacy from your fellow humans, in the case the net you are getting some privacy from government perhaps, but more obviously and more worryingly, privacy from corporations. That is a very different sort of privacy in my view than our traditional notion of privacy. I might not care if my nest door neighbor knows what I had for dinner because we both happened to be out in our years grilling at the same time, but it does not follow that I want Google, Kroger, Proctor & Gamble or any other corporation to have that same info. diff --git a/jrnl.txt b/jrnl.txt deleted file mode 100755 index 986e5b0..0000000 --- a/jrnl.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,60 +0,0 @@ -Mon 2014-03-31 09:00 added jrnl window to email todo pane - -Mon 2014-03-31 11:30 finished up sass for responsive design script, added tutorial and demo files on using compass toolkit to create intrinsic width scalable embeds. Turns out to be pretty handy, something I'll be using in the longhandpixels redesign. @rwd @screencast - -Mon 2014-03-31 14:31 recorded audio for responsive sass screencast. Turned out long and pretty good. just need to edit now. @rwd @screencast - -Mon 2014-03-31 16:31 edited audio for responsive screencasts, which at something like 18 minutes is the longest screencast of the bunch. -getting close to having these done. just need some video. @rwd @screencast - -Mon 2014-03-31 21:00 recorded first five minutes of video for sass screencast. Thinking I could do more here. @rwd @screencast - -Tue 2014-04-01 13:50 Finished video for sass screencast. @rwd @screencast - -Wed 2014-04-02 15:12 finished up responsive design and analytics video. Probably the worst of the bunch in terms of production value, but also perhaps the most useful. @rwd @screencast - -Wed 2014-04-02 15:13 Started work on the script for the 4th chrome dev tools screencast. @rwd @screencast - -Wed 2014-04-02 20:59 edited first 8 minutes of audio for chrome dev tools 04. @rwd @screencast - -Thu 2014-04-03 11:00 finished up script and audio recording for chrome dev tools 04. -Think I'm going to have to re-do the biggining though because I got the audit vs pagespeed insight thing wrong - -Thu 2014-04-03 14:00 finished up script and audio recording for browsersync screencast - -Thu 2014-04-03 16:00 finished video for browsersync, which ended up short because it turns out that the django dev server doesn't work with browsersync --proxy - -Thu 2014-04-03 22:32 finished audio for chrome dev tools 04. -Thinking that I might just leave the plain text workflow stuff at two videos and call all the audio done. That would mean just three video to shoot and this phase is done. - -Fri 2014-04-04 11:02 nearly finished up chrome dev tools part 4, just need to re-record a couple things to correct some misstatements - -Fri 2014-04-04 15:51 set up example files to showcase how much easier it is to work with markdown than raw html for first workflow video. -Took a lot longer than I thought it was going to. - -Mon 2014-04-07 10:25 RWD Book: added chrome dev tools resources to resources section - -Mon 2014-04-07 10:26 finished up styles for chrome dev tools shortcuts cheatsheet - -Mon 2014-04-07 10:36 RWD Book: added analytics resources to resources chapter - -Mon 2014-04-07 11:58 finished styling responsive screen guide cheatsheet - -Mon 2014-04-07 21:44 finished up first responsive workflow screencast - -Tue 2014-04-08 10:01 rewrote script for workflow part 2 - -Tue 2014-04-08 12:35 paid water bill and added gas bill to calendar - -Tue 2014-04-08 12:36 re-recorded much of pandoc workflow screencast 2 - -Tue 2014-04-08 16:53 rewrote script to second workflow screencast - -Tue 2014-04-08 21:07 re-recorded the rest of the second pandoc screencast - -Wed 2014-04-09 11:07 Spent all morning adding video to second palintext workflow screencash - -Wed 2014-04-09 22:00 finished last screencast - -Sat 2014-08-02 20:46 sng -pulled some cool new stuff from Steve Losh's vimrc diff --git a/kids-hard.txt b/kids-hard.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 8d0acac..0000000 --- a/kids-hard.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Sometimes when they're so shitty I get frustrated cause all I wanted to do was something simple like drink a bear and write or eat some popcorns and space out on a movie, but then I lie there after they've fallena aspeel and I watch their little sleeping faces and I think how wonderful they are and how yeah I might not get to do some of the things I wanted to today, tomorrow, the next days, but fuck let's face it, I'm never going to do anything as important as making them into good people, as making sure they grow up with the things they need, watching them become their own people. Everything else I ever do will be nothing next to that, so fuck it. I didn't write today, I didn't want a movie. big fucking deal. diff --git a/lbrp.txt b/lbrp.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9111e2b --- /dev/null +++ b/lbrp.txt @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +Perform the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram as follows: + +First perform the opening gesture. +Then perform the Cabbalistic Cross + +Then start with your arms at your sides facing east again. Take a step to the east (or just raise your are if there isn't space) raise your arm out in front of your face and trace a pentagram starting at the lower left corner, moving up to the top, then down the lower right corner, then up to the upper left, across to upper right and then back down to meet where you started in the lower left. Bring you finger to the center of the pentragram and vibrate the Name + + + +Perform the Cabbalistic Cross again to close the banishing +Perform the closing gesture + +Note: Any image or figure traced in the air with the finger, dagger or other magical instrument, is to be imagined in brilliant scintillating white Light. In more advanced working, other colors may be used. Make sure that all images drawn are correct, as brilliant as possible, and complete. The beginning and end of a drawn Pentagram must come completely together. + + +Draw, in the air facing EAST, a banishing Earth Pentagram as shown in the diagram, and bringing the point of the dagger to the center of the Pentagram, vibrate the Name Y H V H (pronounced YAHD HEY VAU HEY) + +Imagine that your voice carries forward to the LIMITS of the UNIVERSE. + +Without moving the dagger in any other direction, trace a semicircle before you as you turn toward the SOUTH. Again trace the Pentagram, bring the dagger to the center of it, and vibrate the Name ADNI, (pronounced AH-DOH-NEYE) + +Again, trace the semicircle with the dagger to the WEST, trace the Penta- gram, bringing the dagger to the center, and vibrate the Name AHIH, (pronounced EH-YEH) + +Then, turn towards the NORTH, while tracing the circle, trace the Pentagram, bring the point of the dagger to the center and vibrate the Name AGLA, (pronounced either AH-GAH-LAH or ATAH GIBOR LE-OLAHM ADONAI) + +Return to the EAST, completing tracing the circle of brilliant white Light, bringing the dagger point to the center of the EAST Pentagram. + +Extend the arms in the form of a cross, say: BEFORE ME (then vibrate) RAPHAEL (pronounced RAH-PHYE-EHL) +Imagine a scintillating brilliant white Archangel in front of you and facing you. In his/her right hand is a magical Sword held with the point upright. The background is a pale, pure, bright yellow. Cherubs can be imagined near the Archangel. Imagine a gentle, refreshing breeze, cleansing and purifying the air. + + +Then, say: BEHIND ME (then vibrate) GABRIEL (pronounced GAH-BREE-EHL) +Imagine a scintillating brilliant white Archangel behind you and facing you, holding in their right hand an exquisite silver Chalice. He/she is standing on a Cerulean-blue ocean and dolphins or mermaids are nearby. Imagine feeling the mist and cool spray of the ocean breeze. + + +Then, say: AT MY RIGHT HAND (then vibrate) MICHAEL (pronounced MEE-CHYE-EHL) +Imagine a scintillating brilliant white Archangel at your right, facing you, and holding in their right hand a transparent scarlet red Wand with a scintillate pure diamond top. Waves of scarlet, red-orange and orange fire in the background. Also, SEKHMET, with a scarlet disk above her head, emerald green Uraeus, scarlet dress from just below breasts, tight-fitting, down to her ankles, is in the flames. She holds, in her left hand, a scarlet-red lotus wand. In her right hand, she holds an emerald-green ankh. Small black salamanders can be seen moving among the flames. Imagine you feel the heat and power emanating from the SOUTH. + + +Then, say: AT MY LEFT HAND (then vibrate) AURIEL (pronounced AWE-REE-EHL) +Imagine a scintillating brilliant white Archangel at your left, facing you, and holding between their hands a Disk with a scintillating white Pentagram in the center. The ground is russet-brown, the leaves of the trees are olive-green, there are black shadows from the trees in a number of places, and the light is citrine (light yellow-green.) Feel the solidity of the Earth, and imagine the odor of the leaves and muskiness of the ground. + + +Now, say: ABOUT ME FLAMES THE PENTAGRAMS, AND IN THE COLUMN SHINES THE SIX-RAYED STAR. +Imagine the complete circle of brilliant white light at whose quadrants are the 4 Pentagrams. At the center is the Cabbalistic Cross of Light extended through one's body. + + +Repeat the Cabbalistic cross, and, according to some occultists, stamp your right foot at the conclusion of the complete operation. The Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram is performed preliminary to any magical operation and precedes the Invoking Ritual of the Pentagram. + +Note: The subject of the vibration of Names of Power is discussed at length in other sources. The Names should be pronounced inwardly in the breath, vibrating it as much as possible and feeling that the whole body throbs with the sound and sends out a wave of vibration directed to the ends of the Earth, according to Regardie. Time and continuous practice of the Ritual, once in the morning prior to the Invoking Ritual, and once in the evening are standard recommendations, and will produce the desired result. There is no particular frequency or degree of volume that is suitable for every individual. Each person must practice to find the resonant vibration that will work for him/her. Some benefit can be obtained by listening to the chants of Tibetan Monks that can be found on cassette and CD. Other occultists assert that definite somatic effects will manifest when the vibrated Names are performed correctly, such as tingling in certain areas of the body. I believe it is important to vibrate the Names at the same time one imagines the Name in scintillate white Light, rushing upward thru the body and outwards toward the end of the Universe in the particular direction one is working with. It is important to pronounce the Names correctly and clearly and, according to Traditional Jewish sources, never pronounce the Names casually, but only in Holy or Theurgic Work. One is admonished to NEVER lower the hand or Magical Instrument while tracing the Circle or at any other time, unless specifically instructed to do so. diff --git a/learning neoplatonism philosophy.txt b/learning neoplatonism philosophy.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ad8cdc5 --- /dev/null +++ b/learning neoplatonism philosophy.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Okay, the best place to start with Platonism is with Plato himself. At minimum, the Meno and the Republic will give you a basic sense of his approach. Then go on to John Dillon's The Middle Platonists, and then to any decent book on Plotinus -- I'm fond of Rist's Plotinus: The Road to Reality, but there are a lot of good surveys of his thought. Follow that up with some dippings into The Enneads themselves. Next, Iamblichus' On the Mysteries, and finally, Proclus' The Elements of Theology. @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ Love -There is no such thing as a person whose real self you like every particle of. This is why a world of liking is ultimately a lie. But there is such a thing as a person whose real self you love every particle of. And this is why love is such an existential threat to the techno-consumerist order: it exposes the lie. -- Johathan Franzen, Liking Is for Cowards, New York Times, June 29, 2011
\ No newline at end of file +"There is no such thing as a person whose real self you like every particle of. This is why a world of liking is ultimately a lie. But there is such a thing as a person whose real self you love every particle of. And this is why love is such an existential threat to the techno-consumerist order: it exposes the lie." - Johathan Franzen Liking Is for Cowards, New York Times, June 29, 2011 diff --git a/lx redesign ideas.txt b/lx redesign ideas.txt deleted file mode 100755 index 93d171a..0000000 --- a/lx redesign ideas.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,86 +0,0 @@ -## Like the big images at the top: -<http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/syrian-refugees/2013/12/03/refuge-stories-from-the-syrian-exodus/> - - - -Also big images: <http://ridestori.es/> - - -More big images: <http://www.cast83.com/> - ---- - -Awesome photo essay/essays in this site: <http://www.tylerfinck.com/2014/01/mount-monadnock/> - -Like the long thin images on the homepage: -<http://www.kennethreitz.org/> - - -like the text/images used on notes from the road about page: <http://www.notesfromtheroad.com/about/> - -really like the blockquotes on: <http://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/overkill/> - - -really like the little expanding map bubble on these permalinks: -<https://hi.co/moments/qdvswsvq> Also the textured bottom instead of hard edge, though maybe that's a little to cutesy - - - ---- - -Adelle and open sans are both nice: <http://www.typewolf.com/site-of-the-day/fonts/adelle> - -Some nice typography examples here <http://3.7designs.co/blog/2008/06/10-examples-of-beautiful-css-typography-and-how-they-did-it/> - -Want to implement fragmentions: -<http://www.kevinmarks.com/fragmentions.html> - -Add Permashort links to notes when longer than what's pushed to twitter: -http://indiewebcamp.com/Twitter#Why_permashortcitation_instead_of_a_link - -Like this idea of acknowledgments instead of colophon: http://www.macstories.net/acknowledgements/ - -stop using title tags maybe? -<http://blog.paciellogroup.com/2013/01/using-the-html-title-attribute-updated/> - -Move away from storing everything in DB maybe? Python lib to interact with git repo: <http://www.samba.org/~jelmer/dulwich/docs/tutorial/repo.html#creating-new-commits> - -## Content: -### Privacy policy examples: -* http://www.lorriethomas.com/lorrie-thomas-ross-privacy.php -* http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/privacy -* https://warpuni.com/terms-site/privacy-policy/ -* - -###Locations - -Steal this js for getting location from browser: -https://kylewm.com/admin/new?type=checkin - - -### Links section: - -pull in link page text using readability filter to get something simple: -<https://github.com/buriy/python-readability> - -### Comments - -for webmentions: -https://github.com/bear/ronkyuu - -### Photos - -* workflow for photos: - * edit, organize, tag (including geo), title and caption in darktable - * export to folder, appending tags to Exif data - * add metadata file to folder to define album and add descriptive text. If no metadata then no album. - * Upload folder as zip file and unzip via web interface - * scan all images and extract metadata, title, caption, tags - * add photo to db along with some meta and title/caption - * sidecar json file with all data on disk mirroring file name - * resize for responsive galleries and compress image to mimic imagoptim preserving original - * rebuild photo pages - * optionally push to flickr: - -* tools: - * for reading exif: <http://smarnach.github.io/pyexiftool/> diff --git a/lx post compound interest.txt b/lx-post - compound interest.txt index 6517157..6517157 100755 --- a/lx post compound interest.txt +++ b/lx-post - compound interest.txt diff --git a/magic.txt b/magic.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fd1f421 --- /dev/null +++ b/magic.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Better fertility of earth: + +A Hieronymus earth pipe. Look up the writings of T. Galen Hieronymus and you'll find the directions; somewhere around here I have a picture I took of the corn in my backyard in Cumberland MD, which grew 11-13 feet high the season after I installed the earth pipe. + +--- + +Protecting someone from bullying/abuse + +Second, if you can get the names or any other object link connecting to the person doing the bullying, a binding spell on the perp is a good choice. (I consider this one of the few situations where the consent of the target is not required, so long as you have the consent of the victim and/or her parents.) Get the name or other object link (a photo, or what have you) and fasten it to a small piece of wood or stiff card, painted red. Have five pieces of red cord. Invoke Geburah in full ritual form, using the divine name ALHIM GBVR and all the other correspondences of the 5th sphere, and bind the perp so that he or she can no longer bully or in any way harm your friend's daughter. Do this five times. Wrap the bound object link in red silk and put it someplace secret. I did this spell once on a friend's abusive boyfriend and he left the state the next day. + +Third, emotional healing work for her is very useful. Do the Rose Cross ritual while visualizing her in the center of the space, every day for a week, then weekly thereafter. In terms of major ritual, a ritual of Netzach -- to help her love herself, to direct healing and blessing energy at her, and to bring her Victory over this -- would also be very good in this context. diff --git a/map of free camping areas.txt b/map of free camping areas.txt deleted file mode 100644 index f0d6ff1..0000000 --- a/map of free camping areas.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: Map of Free Camping Areas -date: 2015-02-16T21:02:20Z -source: http://freecampsites.net/ -tags: camping, maps, travel, #lux - ---- - -**Our community provides the best free camping information available.** Free campgrounds can be hard to find. Freecampsites.net makes it easy. We give you a simple, map based search engine to find free and cheap camping areas. Community reviews and ratings provide you with up to date information and help you select the best camp site for your next camping trip. - -**This is a platform for sharing** campgrounds and camp sites you have discovered. We are community driven, and while we will be adding many free camping spots, we hope that you will add some of your favorite camping places as well. By **sharing camping information freely**, we can all spend less time researching campgrounds, spend less money, and more time camping. If everyone contributes a few campsites, we'll all have more places to go camping. - -**Please come back and let us know what you find!** User reviews help other campers decide on their next camping destination. The more information you have, the more informed your decisions. - -Whether you enjoy tent camping, car camping or RV camping, **our goal is to help you find the best places to go camping.** We believe that free camping areas are often the most beautiful and peaceful camp sites. Our focus is on public lands. **You own these lands and you are entitled to use them.** We especially like camping on Forest Service land, BLM (Bureau of Land Management) areas, WMA's (Wildlife Management Areas) and county or city parks. We hope you enjoy the same style of camping. - -We are not actively seeking Wal-Marts, truckstops or other parking lots and will not be adding very many of these. There are enough Wal-Mart and truck stop directories out there already. However, if a member of **the community** finds one of these locations to be useful for overnight RV parking and creates an entry, we may approve the listing.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/new-address.txt b/new-address.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..72e1c63 --- /dev/null +++ b/new-address.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +PMB 1556, 401 E 8th St #214, Sioux Falls SD 57103 +1307 W. Main Street, B171, Gun Barrel City, TX, 75156 diff --git a/reading/A corollary of this concept is the possibility that each land projects a particular religious spirit.txt b/reading/A corollary of this concept is the possibility that each land projects a particular religious spirit.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d8c2c7a --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/A corollary of this concept is the possibility that each land projects a particular religious spirit.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"A corollary of this concept is the possibility that each land projects a particular religious spirit, which largely determines what types of religious beliefs will arise on it" (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/All the gettings of occultism must be dedicated to God's service; otherwise there is no justificatio.txt b/reading/All the gettings of occultism must be dedicated to God's service; otherwise there is no justificatio.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4b3b6ca --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/All the gettings of occultism must be dedicated to God's service; otherwise there is no justificatio.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"All the gettings of occultism must be dedicated to God's service; otherwise there is no justification for this intrusion on Nature's mysteries and the forcing of the higher faculties to birth before their time. The highest degree of initiation is crucifixion for the salvation of mankind, the vicarious abreacting of racial karma. Let those who aspire to initiation bear ever in mind what reward it is that will crown their efforts with a crown of thorns. Unless we have so great a love for humanity, so great a sympathy for suffering, that we are not only willing but anxious to avail ourselves of the opportunity' in some small measure to offer ourselves as a sacrifice for the sins of the people, there is no point in setting out upon the Way of Initiation, for its goal will be dust and ashes to the man who remains unregenerate. The aim of initiation is neither magical power nor marvellous experience, but simply the ability to, offer an acceptable sacrifice that shall be effectual for the neutralisation of cosmic karma." (Dion Fortune – The Training and Work of an Initiate) p90
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/And we must be careful to see that the old cultural centers of home and community were made vulnerab.txt b/reading/And we must be careful to see that the old cultural centers of home and community were made vulnerab.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..17d6dee --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/And we must be careful to see that the old cultural centers of home and community were made vulnerab.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"And we must be careful to see that the old cultural centers of home and community were made vulnerable to this invasion by their failure as economies. If there is no household or community economy, then family members and neighbors are no longer useful to one another. When people are no longer useful to one another, then the centripetal force of family and community fails, and people fall into dependence on exterior economies and organizations. The hegemony of professionals and professionalism erects itself on local failure, and from then on the locality exists merely as a market for consumer goods and as a source of "raw material," human and natural." P164 (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/Appalachian trail book.txt b/reading/Appalachian trail book.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7d3a41f --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/Appalachian trail book.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Appalachian trail book + +No matter the paradoxes. When vou smell the wild forest and feel the wind against your face, the time has come to get out on the trail. The blazes point the way and the spirit god of hikers whispers, "Go, thou restless soul, into the woods of the mountains. Take with you +any problem, or trouble, or worry. Solvitur ambulando! It is solved +by walking!" P14 + + +Scarcely fifty years ago their society still had the peculiar characteristics of isolation. J. Russell Smith, the geographer, quotes a folklorist friend as saying in indignation, "These missionaries with their schools! I'd like to build a wall about these mountains and let the mountain people alone. *The only distinctive culture in America is here.* The people live. They sustain themselves on the meanest food. They are not interested in eating but they have time to sing ballads. P29
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/As Edward Abbey knows and has been telling us, our country is not being destroyed by bad politics; i (2).txt b/reading/As Edward Abbey knows and has been telling us, our country is not being destroyed by bad politics; i (2).txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d60402c --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/As Edward Abbey knows and has been telling us, our country is not being destroyed by bad politics; i (2).txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"As Edward Abbey knows and has been telling us, our country is not being destroyed by bad politics; it is being destroyed by a bad way of life. Bad politics is merely another result. (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/As Edward Abbey knows and has been telling us, our country is not being destroyed by bad politics; i.txt b/reading/As Edward Abbey knows and has been telling us, our country is not being destroyed by bad politics; i.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d884507 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/As Edward Abbey knows and has been telling us, our country is not being destroyed by bad politics; i.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"As Edward Abbey knows and has been telling us, our country is not being destroyed by bad politics; it is being destroyed by a bad way of life. Bad politics is merely an-" (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/As local community decays along with local economy.txt b/reading/As local community decays along with local economy.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..06e26c2 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/As local community decays along with local economy.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +As local community decays along with local economy, a vast amnesia settles over the countryside. As the exposed and disregarded soil departs with the rains, so local knowledge and local memory move away to the cities or are forgotten under the influence of homogenized salestalk, entertainment, and education. This loss of local knowledge and local memory-that is, of local culture-has been ignored, or written off as one of the cheaper "prices of progress," or made the business of folklorists. Nevertheless, local culture has a value, and part of its value is economic." (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005)) diff --git a/reading/At first glance, writing may seem not nearly so much an art of the body as, say, dancing or gardenin.txt b/reading/At first glance, writing may seem not nearly so much an art of the body as, say, dancing or gardenin.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..88ce9bd --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/At first glance, writing may seem not nearly so much an art of the body as, say, dancing or gardenin.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"At first glance, writing may seem not nearly so much an art of the body as, say, dancing or gardening or carpentry. And yet language is the most intimately physical of all the artistic means. We have it palpably in our mouths; it is our langue, our tongue. Writing it, we shape it with our hands. Reading aloud what we have written-as we must do, if we are writing carefully-our language passes in at the eyes, out at the mouth, in at the ears; the words are immersed and steeped in the senses of the body before they make sense in the mind. They cannot make sense in the mind until they have made sense in the body. Does shaping one's words with one's own hand impart character and quality to them, as does speaking them with one's own tongue to the satisfaction of one's own ear? There is no way to prove that it does. On the other hand, there is no way to prove that it does not, and I believe that it does." P 192 (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/Blake gives the just proportion or control in another proverb No bird soars too high, if he soars wi.txt b/reading/Blake gives the just proportion or control in another proverb No bird soars too high, if he soars wi.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..55bf19c --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/Blake gives the just proportion or control in another proverb No bird soars too high, if he soars wi.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"Blake gives the just proportion or control in another proverb: "No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings." Only when our acts are empowered with more than bodily strength do we need to think oflimits." (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/But I am beginning to see what is needed, and everywhere the need is for diversity. This is the need.txt b/reading/But I am beginning to see what is needed, and everywhere the need is for diversity. This is the need.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f5bdc12 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/But I am beginning to see what is needed, and everywhere the need is for diversity. This is the need.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"But I am beginning to see what is needed, and everywhere the need is for diversity. This is the need of every American rural landscape that I am acquainted with. We need a greater range of species and varieties of plants and animals, of human skills and methods, so that the use may be fitted ever more sensitively and elegantly to the place. Our places, in short, are asking us questions, some of them urgent questions, and we do not have the answers." P114 (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/But as scale increases1_ diversity le- dines l as diversity declines ,so d~es he~lth; .as h,ealth-de.txt b/reading/But as scale increases1_ diversity le- dines l as diversity declines ,so d~es he~lth; .as h,ealth-de.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..98a525e --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/But as scale increases1_ diversity le- dines l as diversity declines ,so d~es he~lth; .as h,ealth-de.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"But as scale increases diversity declines, as diversity declines ,so does health, as health declines, the dependence on drugs and chemicals necessarily increases. As capital replaces labor, it does so by substituting machines, drugs, and chemicals for human workers and for the natural health and fertility of the soil. The food is produced by any means or any shortcut that will increase profits." p149 (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005)) diff --git a/reading/But our waste problem is not the fault only of producers. It is the fault of an economy that is wast.txt b/reading/But our waste problem is not the fault only of producers. It is the fault of an economy that is wast.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3516610 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/But our waste problem is not the fault only of producers. It is the fault of an economy that is wast.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"But our waste problem is not the fault only of producers. It is the fault of an economy that is wasteful from top to bottom-a symbiosis of an unlimited greed at the top and a lazy, passive, and self-indulgent consumptiveness at the bottom-and all of us are involved in it. If we wish to correct this economy, we must be careful to understand and to demonstrate how much waste of human life is involved in our waste of the material goods of Creation. For example, much of the litter that now defaces our country is fairly directly caused by the massive secession or exclusion of most of our people from active participation in the food economy. We have made a social ideal of minimal involvement in the growing and cooking of food. This is one of the dearest "liberations" of our affluence. Nevertheless, the more dependent we become on the industries of eating and drinking, the more waste we are going to produce. The mess that surrounds us, then, must be understood not just as a problem in itself but as a symptom of a greater and graver problem: the centralization of our economy, the gathering of the productive property and power into fewer and fewer hands, and the consequent destruction, everywhere, of the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community." P128 Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/By observing the behavior and growth of other organic forms of life, they could see that a benign pe.txt b/reading/By observing the behavior and growth of other organic forms of life, they could see that a benign pe.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3d718df --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/By observing the behavior and growth of other organic forms of life, they could see that a benign pe.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"By observing the behavior and growth of other organic forms of life, they could see that a benign personal energy flowed through everything and under girded the physical world. They understood that their task was to fit into the physical world in the most constructive manner and to establish relationships with the higher power, or powers, that created and sustained the universe. They sought to learn a way of living that would most efficiently accomplish these tasks. This posture was not unique to any tribe; it was generally the way Indians of all tribes described the mysterious reality that affected their lives." diff --git a/reading/Education itself is a barrier to a permanent revival of tribal religions. Young people on reservatio (2).txt b/reading/Education itself is a barrier to a permanent revival of tribal religions. Young people on reservatio (2).txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..40788fd --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/Education itself is a barrier to a permanent revival of tribal religions. Young people on reservatio (2).txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"Education itself is a barrier to a permanent revival of tribal religions. Young people on reservations have available an increasingly complicated educational system. Perhaps like conservative Christians, older Indians see the educational system as basically godless and tending to destroy commu nities rather than create them. As more Indians fight their way through the education system in search of job skill, their education will increasingly concentrate on the tangible and technical aspects of contemporary society and away from the sense of wonder and mystery that has traditionally char acterized religious experiences. In almost the same way that young whites have rejected religion once they have made strides in education, young Indians who have received solid educations have rejected traditional reli gious experiences. Education and religion apparently do not mix." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/Education itself is a barrier to a permanent revival of tribal religions. Young people on reservatio.txt b/reading/Education itself is a barrier to a permanent revival of tribal religions. Young people on reservatio.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..56b68b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/Education itself is a barrier to a permanent revival of tribal religions. Young people on reservatio.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"Education itself is a barrier to a permanent revival of tribal religions. Young people on reservations have available an increasingly complicated educational system. Perhaps like conservative Christians, older Indians see the educational system as basically godless and tending to destroy commu nities rather than create them. As more Indians fight their way through the eJucaliuIl �y�le1ll ill �ealdl uf juL �kill�, d!ci! cducation will ilKlcasingly concentrate on the tangible and technical aspects of contemporary society and away from the sense of wonder and mystery that has traditionally char acterized religious experiences. In almost the same way that young whites have rejected religion once they have made strides in education, young Indians who have received solid educations have rejected traditional reli gious experiences. Education and religion apparently do not mix." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/Estimate the expenses of your trip, and take more money than your estimate. Carry also an abundance .txt b/reading/Estimate the expenses of your trip, and take more money than your estimate. Carry also an abundance .txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4f5807d --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/Estimate the expenses of your trip, and take more money than your estimate. Carry also an abundance .txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"Estimate the expenses of your trip, and take more money than your estimate. Carry also an abundance of small change." (John Mead Gould – How to Camp Out)
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/Forest and sea page 4.txt b/reading/Forest and sea page 4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..04b03a4 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/Forest and sea page 4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Forest and sea page 4 + +Almost inevitably there will come another question, What good is it? + +I have never learned how to deal with this question. I am left appalled by the point of view that makes it possible. I don't know where to start explaining the world of nature that the +biologist sees, in which "What good is it?" becomes meaningless. The question is left over from the Middle Ages; from a small, cozy universe in which everything had a purpose in relation to man. The question comes down from the days before Copernicus' theories removed the earth from the center of the +solar system, before Newton provided a mechanism for the movements of the stars, before Hutton discovered the immensity of past time, before Darwin's ideas put man into perspective with the rest of the living world. Faced with astronomical space and geological time, faced with the immense diversity of living forms, how can one ask of one particular kind of butterfly, "What good is it?" Often my reaction is to ask in turn, ""What good are you? + +Science has put man in his place; one among the millions of kinds of living things crawling around on the surface of a mini planet circling a trivial star. We can't really face the implications of this, and perhaps it is just as well-though I think humility is in general improving for the human character.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/From this point advance may be made to the study of philosophy and metaphysics, and a good introduct.txt b/reading/From this point advance may be made to the study of philosophy and metaphysics, and a good introduct.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..08a1bab --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/From this point advance may be made to the study of philosophy and metaphysics, and a good introduct.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"From this point advance may be made to the study of philosophy and metaphysics, and a good introduction to this study is Herbert Spencer's First Principles." (Dion Fortune – The Training and Work of an Initiate)p22
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/God's pleasure in all things must be respected by us in our use of things, and even in our displeasu.txt b/reading/God's pleasure in all things must be respected by us in our use of things, and even in our displeasu.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..31614b3 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/God's pleasure in all things must be respected by us in our use of things, and even in our displeasu.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"God's pleasure in all things must be respected by us in our use of things, and even in our displeasure in some things. It suggests too that we have an obligation to preserve God's pleasure in all things, and surely this means not only that we must not misuse or abuse anything, but also that there must be some things and some places that by common agreement we do not use at all, but leave wild." (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/Human personality has been forced into these predetermined categories without regard to the reality .txt b/reading/Human personality has been forced into these predetermined categories without regard to the reality .txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1c555c5 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/Human personality has been forced into these predetermined categories without regard to the reality .txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"Human personality has been forced into these predetermined categories without regard to the reality of human experience. Other reli gious systems have been detrimentally explained in terms of the basic Christian categories of explanation." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/I hope that my country may be delivered from the remote, cold abstractions of university science. (W.txt b/reading/I hope that my country may be delivered from the remote, cold abstractions of university science. (W.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9a78335 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/I hope that my country may be delivered from the remote, cold abstractions of university science. (W.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"I hope that my country may be delivered from the remote, cold abstractions of university science." (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/I hope that my country may be delivered from the remote, cold abstractions of university science. P .txt b/reading/I hope that my country may be delivered from the remote, cold abstractions of university science. P .txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..15c6642 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/I hope that my country may be delivered from the remote, cold abstractions of university science. P .txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"I hope that my country may be delivered from the remote, cold abstractions of university science." P 116Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/I know ofno good reason why these containers and all other forms of manufactured waste''-solid, liqu (2).txt b/reading/I know ofno good reason why these containers and all other forms of manufactured waste''-solid, liqu (2).txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e070bfd --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/I know ofno good reason why these containers and all other forms of manufactured waste''-solid, liqu (2).txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"I know ofno good reason why these containers and all other forms of manufactured "waste''-solid, liquid, toxic, or whatever-should not be outlawed. There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily business the desecration of the country for which it stands." P127 (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/I know ofno good reason why these containers and all other forms of manufactured waste''-solid, liqu.txt b/reading/I know ofno good reason why these containers and all other forms of manufactured waste''-solid, liqu.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..62c61d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/I know ofno good reason why these containers and all other forms of manufactured waste''-solid, liqu.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"I know ofno good reason why these containers and all other forms of manufactured "waste''-solid, liquid, toxic, or whatever-should not be outlawed. There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily business the desecration of the country for which it stands." (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/I used to think of Blake's sentence as a justification of youthful excess. By now I know that it des.txt b/reading/I used to think of Blake's sentence as a justification of youthful excess. By now I know that it des.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c8deb15 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/I used to think of Blake's sentence as a justification of youthful excess. By now I know that it des.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"I used to think of Blake's sentence as a justification of youthful excess. By now I know that it describes the peculiar condemnation of our species. When the road of excess has reached the palace of wisdom it is a healed wound, a long scar." (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/Ian Barbour said that Darwin’s theory of evolution burst the bounds of the rigid classifications tha.txt b/reading/Ian Barbour said that Darwin’s theory of evolution burst the bounds of the rigid classifications tha.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cf8d8a2 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/Ian Barbour said that Darwin’s theory of evolution burst the bounds of the rigid classifications tha.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"Ian Barbour said that Darwin’s theory of evolution burst the bounds of the rigid classifications that had frozen the great chain of being and that Darwin did to Aristotle’s biology what Newton did to Aristotle’s physics.4 But the revolution in thought triggered by the theory of evolution was more profound than simply loosening the categories of organic existence to allow a gradual transformation of organisms. Ernst Cassirer summarized this revolution as having “destroyed the arbitrary limits between the different forms of organic life. There are no separate species; there is just one continuous and uninterrupted stream of life.”5 Western thinkers have not yet absorbed the meaning of this change in viewpoint in any fundamental way." (Vine Deloria – The Metaphysics of Modern Existence)p72
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/In a conversation, you always expect a reply. And you honor the other party to the conversation, if .txt b/reading/In a conversation, you always expect a reply. And you honor the other party to the conversation, if .txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..eef5d39 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/In a conversation, you always expect a reply. And you honor the other party to the conversation, if .txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"In a conversation, you always expect a reply. And you honor the other party to the conversation, if you honor the otherness of the other party, you understand that you must not expect always to receive a reply that you foresee or a reply that you will like. A conversation is immitigably two-sided and always to some degree mysterious; itrequires faith." P209 (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/In fact, we cannot explain hardly anything about how civilization began. We simply find a very compl.txt b/reading/In fact, we cannot explain hardly anything about how civilization began. We simply find a very compl.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d605e20 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/In fact, we cannot explain hardly anything about how civilization began. We simply find a very compl.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"In fact, we cannot explain hardly anything about how civilization began. We simply find a very complex urban society when we uncover the ruins of earliest settlements anywhere in the world and we make up fairy tales to avoid asking ourselves hard questions about the origins of these ruins. It is at this point that I could well believe the theory of the ancient astronauts as bringers of culture and technology. This makes as much sense" (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/In the Indian world, experience is not limited by mental considerations and assumptions regarding th.txt b/reading/In the Indian world, experience is not limited by mental considerations and assumptions regarding th.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..01510e4 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/In the Indian world, experience is not limited by mental considerations and assumptions regarding th.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"In the Indian world, experience is not limited by mental considerations and assumptions regarding the universe. For the non-Indian the teachings of a lifetime come thundering down. Such things do not occur in time and space. Reality is basically physical. No one sees ghosts. Reality, in a certain sense, is what you allow your mind to accept, not what you experience. And a host of other beliefs rush in to cover up, confuse, and eventually eliminate the experience itself." P5 (Vine Deloria – The Metaphysics of Modern Existence)
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/It does no good for historians, folklorists, and anthropologists to collect the songs and the storie.txt b/reading/It does no good for historians, folklorists, and anthropologists to collect the songs and the storie.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c580d9b --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/It does no good for historians, folklorists, and anthropologists to collect the songs and the storie.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"It does no good for historians, folklorists, and anthropologists to collect the songs and the stories and the lore that make up local culture and store them in books and archives. They cannot collect and store-because they cannot know-the pattern of reminding that can survive only in the living human community in its place. It is this pattern that is the life of local culture and that brings it usefully or pleasurably to mind. Apart from its local landmarks and occasions, the local culture may be the subject of curiosity or of study, but it is also dead." P166 (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/It follows that as a preliminary to all mental processes we must acquire such control of the emotion.txt b/reading/It follows that as a preliminary to all mental processes we must acquire such control of the emotion.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f688849 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/It follows that as a preliminary to all mental processes we must acquire such control of the emotion.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"It follows that as a preliminary to all mental processes we must acquire such control of the emotions that they shall not function involuntarily. Such control is not obtained by the comparatively simple expedient of repression but by the far more difficult process of sublimation, so that the force generated by an external stimulus, instead of producing an immediate reaction of emotion, which might take place where it was not wanted, is directed to a more remote reaction, and discharges harmlessly upon another plane. Thus, an immediate reaction of resentment.is transmuted into compassion and has its issue in charity." (Dion Fortune – The Training and Work of an Initiate)p101
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/It is probably in the nature of this continent that divisiveness is one of its greatest characteris.txt b/reading/It is probably in the nature of this continent that divisiveness is one of its greatest characteris.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..099b6de --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/It is probably in the nature of this continent that divisiveness is one of its greatest characteris.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"It is probably in the nature of this continent that divisiveness is one of its greatest characteris tics, a virtually uncontrollable freedom of the spirit." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/It is with respect to the attitude displayed toward strangers that a com munity's psychic identity .txt b/reading/It is with respect to the attitude displayed toward strangers that a com munity's psychic identity .txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0493bf3 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/It is with respect to the attitude displayed toward strangers that a com munity's psychic identity .txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +It is with respect to the attitude displayed toward strangers that a com munity's psychic identity can be determined. A community that is uncertain about itself must act in self-defense against any outsider to prevent any con ceivable threat to its existence, whereas a community that has a stable identity accords to other communities the dignity of the distinct existence that it wishes to receive itself." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/It may be argued that our whole society is more devoted to pleasure than any whole society ever was .txt b/reading/It may be argued that our whole society is more devoted to pleasure than any whole society ever was .txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3c4ce12 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/It may be argued that our whole society is more devoted to pleasure than any whole society ever was .txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"It may be argued that our whole society is more devoted to pleasure than any whole society ever was in the past, that we support in fact a great variety of pleasure industries and that these are thriving as never before. But that would seem only to prove my point. That there can be pleasure industries at all, exploiting our apparently limitless inability to be pleased, can only mean that our economy is divorced from pleasure and that pleasure is gone from our workplaces and our dwelling places. Our workplaces are more and more exclusively given over to production, and our dwelling places to consumption." (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/Marshall McLuhan, we discover neither a planet Earth of the spaceship model nor an instantaneous uni.txt b/reading/Marshall McLuhan, we discover neither a planet Earth of the spaceship model nor an instantaneous uni.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5bd84de --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/Marshall McLuhan, we discover neither a planet Earth of the spaceship model nor an instantaneous uni.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"Marshall McLuhan, we discover neither a planet Earth of the spaceship model nor an instantaneous universe of communications linking a global village, but the disappearance of time itself as a limiting factor of our expe rience. In a world in which communications are nearly instantaneous and simultaneous experiences are possible, it must be spaces and places that dis tinguish us from one another, not time nor history." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/No matter how well educated an Indian may become, he or she always suspects that Western culture is .txt b/reading/No matter how well educated an Indian may become, he or she always suspects that Western culture is .txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..323dd3b --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/No matter how well educated an Indian may become, he or she always suspects that Western culture is .txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"No matter how well educated an Indian may become, he or she always suspects that Western culture is not an adequate representation of reality." P2 (Vine Deloria – The Metaphysics of Modern Existence)
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/Once the various Christian doctrines are taken from their original rime dimension and used to torm a.txt b/reading/Once the various Christian doctrines are taken from their original rime dimension and used to torm a.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6ba5a05 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/Once the various Christian doctrines are taken from their original rime dimension and used to torm a.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"Once the various Christian doctrines are taken from their original rime dimension and used to torm a theory of human personality coupled with the identification of sins in anticipation of the final judgment that is apparently still to come, they can be said to form the basic posture of Western peoples toward this world, the world to come, and the world's institutions." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/Our daily life in the front country, back in “civilization,” is filled with conveniences that, while.txt b/reading/Our daily life in the front country, back in “civilization,” is filled with conveniences that, while.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8742de6 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/Our daily life in the front country, back in “civilization,” is filled with conveniences that, while.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"Our daily life in the front country, back in “civilization,” is filled with conveniences that, while enjoyable, distance us from the changing nature of the world around us. This affords us a certain degree of comfort, time savings, and other advantages but comes at a severe cost, one of which is losing a certain degree of personal self-reliance and the skills needed to be highly self-reliant. These include acute environmental awareness and response. In civilization much of those and other skills simply aren’t needed. You don’t need to watch the weather because the weather is totally irrelevant to the question of where you’re going to sleep for the night or how you’re going to prepare dinner. Expand that irrelevance to many spheres of your life and you can see how rapidly and profusely life in the comforts of “civilization” dumbs down our capacities simply by removing the need for many of them. What you practice you become good at; what you don’t you gradually lose competency in." P14 (Falk, Ben – The Resilient Farm and Homestead: An Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach)
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/Our expectations in life are that events will occur in a cause-and-effect universe in which it is re.txt b/reading/Our expectations in life are that events will occur in a cause-and-effect universe in which it is re.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b354393 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/Our expectations in life are that events will occur in a cause-and-effect universe in which it is re.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"Our expectations in life are that events will occur in a cause-and-effect universe in which it is relatively simple to trace the beginnings and end of any natural phenomenon. When we experi ence an event or feeling out of the ordinary, we tend to dismiss it as unreal, a fantasy that somehow broke into our consciousness.We can not explain what we have experienced because we have only this narrow, materialistic framework in which to evaluate what has hap pened. In a practical sense, the Newtonian billiard balls that clang together creating events and guaranteeing uniformity are sufficient for us. But what if we learned to have other expectations? Suppose we were of such a nature that we could discern the life force in everything and were thus assured that as we made our way through life, unusual things could happen. What if these events gave testimony that the physical world we know was but a manifestation of a larger cosmos that was beyond our powers to discern and was also part of our lives. We would then begin to attribute the cause of some unusual events as the intervention or intersection of unseen yet powerful forces that played a role in our experience, even if we could not see them. In theory, but not in daily practice, we do live in such a world." (Vine Deloria Jr. – The World We Used to Live In Remembering the Powers of the Medicine Men Fulcrum Publishing (2006))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/Religious freedom has existed as a matter of course in America only when religion has been conceived.txt b/reading/Religious freedom has existed as a matter of course in America only when religion has been conceived.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9ed866d --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/Religious freedom has existed as a matter of course in America only when religion has been conceived.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"Religious freedom has existed as a matter of course in America only when religion has been conceived as a set of objective beliefs. This condition is actually not freedom at all because it would be exceedingly difficult to read minds and determine what ideas were being entertained at the time. So far in American history religious freedom has not involved the consecration and setting aside oflands for religious purposes or allowing sincere but highly divergent behavior by individuals and groups." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/Sacred places are the foundation of all other beliefs and practices because they represent the prese.txt b/reading/Sacred places are the foundation of all other beliefs and practices because they represent the prese.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..44278ab --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/Sacred places are the foundation of all other beliefs and practices because they represent the prese.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"Sacred places are the foundation of all other beliefs and practices because they represent the presence of the sacred in our lives. They prop erly inform us that we are not larger than nature and that we have responsibilities to the rest of the natural world that transcend our own per sonal desires and wishes. This lesson must be learned by each generation; unfortunately the technology of industrial society always leads us in the other direction." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/Social scientists simply proj ect common beliefs of Westerners onto the relics of non-Western people.txt b/reading/Social scientists simply proj ect common beliefs of Westerners onto the relics of non-Western people.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..00f473b --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/Social scientists simply proj ect common beliefs of Westerners onto the relics of non-Western people.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"Social scientists simply proj ect common beliefs of Westerners onto the relics of non-Western peoples, interpreting many structures and artifacts as if they represented an obsessive concern with the next life. Legends and traditions are also twisted to fit into the pattern of \A/estern thinking as if the quest for immortality were universal." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/Some say that the earth talks to them. They get their ceremony from that. Some say the wind has life.txt b/reading/Some say that the earth talks to them. They get their ceremony from that. Some say the wind has life.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c2c5126 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/Some say that the earth talks to them. They get their ceremony from that. Some say the wind has life.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"Some say that the earth talks to them. They get their ceremony from that. Some say the wind has life. Some say the mountains, like the San Andreas, have life." diff --git a/reading/Such work requires not only correct principles, skill, and industry, but a knowledge of local partic.txt b/reading/Such work requires not only correct principles, skill, and industry, but a knowledge of local partic.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7d54c95 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/Such work requires not only correct principles, skill, and industry, but a knowledge of local partic.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"Such work requires not only correct principles, skill, and industry, but a knowledge of local particulars and many years; it involves slow, small adjustments in response to questions asked by a particular place. And this is true in general of the patterns and structures of a proper human use of a beloved country, as examination of the traditional landscapes of the Old World will readily show: they were made by use as much as by skill." P121 (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/The direction of the energies of life must be removed from the domain of the desires to that of the .txt b/reading/The direction of the energies of life must be removed from the domain of the desires to that of the .txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d2cfc32 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/The direction of the energies of life must be removed from the domain of the desires to that of the .txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"The direction of the energies of life must be removed from the domain of the desires to that of the will. Until this is done there can be no steady progression in any direction, for the desires are called forth from without, not directed from within, and vary with the external stimulus." (Dion Fortune – The Training and Work of an Initiate) p
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/The economies of our communities and households are wrong. The answers to the human problems of ecol (2).txt b/reading/The economies of our communities and households are wrong. The answers to the human problems of ecol (2).txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1483dc6 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/The economies of our communities and households are wrong. The answers to the human problems of ecol (2).txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"The economies of our communities and households are wrong. The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy are to be found in culture and in character. To fail to see this is to go on dividing the world falsely between guilty producers and innocent consumers." (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/The economies of our communities and households are wrong. The answers to the human problems of ecol.txt b/reading/The economies of our communities and households are wrong. The answers to the human problems of ecol.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ce2e479 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/The economies of our communities and households are wrong. The answers to the human problems of ecol.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"The economies of our communities and households are wrong. The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy are to be found in culture and in character. To fail to see this is to go on dividing the world falsely between guilty producers and innocent consumers." P 198 (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/The food industrialists have by now persuaded millions of consumers to prefer food that is already p.txt b/reading/The food industrialists have by now persuaded millions of consumers to prefer food that is already p.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9f0d604 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/The food industrialists have by now persuaded millions of consumers to prefer food that is already p.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"The food industrialists have by now persuaded millions of consumers to prefer food that is already prepared. They will grow, deliver, and cook your food for you and (just like your mother) beg you to eat it. That they do not yet offer to insert it, prechewed, into your mouth is only because they have found no profitable way to do so." (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/The hope of camping out that comes over one in early spring, the laying of plans and arranging of de.txt b/reading/The hope of camping out that comes over one in early spring, the laying of plans and arranging of de.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..416639a --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/The hope of camping out that comes over one in early spring, the laying of plans and arranging of de.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"The hope of camping out that comes over one in early spring, the laying of plans and arranging of details, is, I sometimes think, even more enjoyable than reality itself." (John Mead Gould – How to Camp Out)
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/The imminent and expected destruction of the life cycle of world ecology can be prevented by a radi.txt b/reading/The imminent and expected destruction of the life cycle of world ecology can be prevented by a radi.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..17af05d --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/The imminent and expected destruction of the life cycle of world ecology can be prevented by a radi.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"The imminent and expected destruction of the life cycle of world ecology can be prevented by a radi cal shift in outlook from our present naive conception of this world as a testing ground of abstract morality to a more mature view of the universe as a comprehensive matrix of life forms. Making this shift in viewpoint is essentially religious, not economic or political." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/The importance of evolution in our daily lives cannot be underestimated. The concept of the survival.txt b/reading/The importance of evolution in our daily lives cannot be underestimated. The concept of the survival.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bf19079 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/The importance of evolution in our daily lives cannot be underestimated. The concept of the survival.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +The importance of evolution in our daily lives cannot be underestimated. The concept of the survival of the fittest, which had the most practical appeal to common people, has been applied indiscriminately in a great many nonbiological areas of human life. As a slogan, it fit perfectly with the religious maxim that “God helps those that help themselves” and was used to justify individual adventures in politics and commerce almost from the beginning of the controversy over evolution. We speak about the self-made man and attribute individual financial and social success to the inexorable workings of the principle of evolutionary change. The estimates we make of our accomplishments are couched in terms of “progress,” and we judge the vitality of our societies not on the number of wise and compassionate people we produce, but on our gross national product and a constantly expanding economy." (Vine Deloria – The Metaphysics of Modern Existence)p73
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/The lands wait for those who can discern their rhythms. The peculiar genius of each continent-each r.txt b/reading/The lands wait for those who can discern their rhythms. The peculiar genius of each continent-each r.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3c2c97e --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/The lands wait for those who can discern their rhythms. The peculiar genius of each continent-each r.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"The lands wait for those who can discern their rhythms. The peculiar genius of each continent-each river valley, the rugged illoimtains, the placid lakes-all call for relief from the constant burden uf exploitation." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/The moon may be taken to represent the personality, waxing and waning through innumerable incamatory.txt b/reading/The moon may be taken to represent the personality, waxing and waning through innumerable incamatory.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4a12b53 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/The moon may be taken to represent the personality, waxing and waning through innumerable incamatory.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"The moon may be taken to represent the personality, waxing and waning through innumerable incamatory phases of reflection of the sun's light or its deflection by the earth's shadow; whereas the Higher Self, the immortal Spirit in man, is rightly symbolised by the sun, which shines perpetually in the heavens, whether we see it or not.• These glyphs will repay meditation." (Dion Fortune – The Training and Work of an Initiate)35
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/The present state of affairs cannot conceivably be justified. It cannot be justified at least religi.txt b/reading/The present state of affairs cannot conceivably be justified. It cannot be justified at least religi.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..44fb9f4 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/The present state of affairs cannot conceivably be justified. It cannot be justified at least religi.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"The present state of affairs cannot conceivably be justified. It cannot be justified at least religiously, and one must conclude that in Christianity humankind has at best been deluded. While the religion appeared to give comfort and solace to people in all ages, its resultant impact on the world as a whole has been anything but comforting. It has been used by its fol lowers to justifY their most dastardly deeds, and it has focused our concern on the life hereafter so that we have refused to believe what our experi ences tell us is true. We must now undertake to find a more profound explanation of ourselves and the planet on which we live." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/The problem of relat ing to a place's spirit or alternatively bringing a spiritual reality to a par.txt b/reading/The problem of relat ing to a place's spirit or alternatively bringing a spiritual reality to a par.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fe21579 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/The problem of relat ing to a place's spirit or alternatively bringing a spiritual reality to a par.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"The problem of relat ing to a place's spirit or alternatively bringing a spiritual reality to a particular place is yet to be understood in the sphere of religious thought. That a fundamental element of religion is an intimate relationship with the land on which the religion is practiced should be a major premise of future theological concern. " (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/The purpose of education with us, like the purpose of society with us, has been, and is, to get away.txt b/reading/The purpose of education with us, like the purpose of society with us, has been, and is, to get away.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..692664b --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/The purpose of education with us, like the purpose of society with us, has been, and is, to get away.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"The purpose of education with us, like the purpose of society with us, has been, and is, to get away from the small farm-indeed, from the small everything. The purpose of education has been to prepare people to "take their places" in an industrial society, the assumption being that all small economic units are obsolete. And the superstition of education assumes that this "place in society" is "up." "Up" is the direction from small to big. Education is the way up. The popular aim of education is to put everybody "on top." Well, I think I hardly need to document the consequent pushing and trampling and kicking in the face. My point is that if the reader joins Nate Shaw in wishing that he might have been educated, he cannot safely assume that he is wishing only for an improved Nate Shaw; he may be wishing for a different kind of human creature altogether." (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/The secret of a strong will, therefore, is to concentrate it upon a single object; this can only be .txt b/reading/The secret of a strong will, therefore, is to concentrate it upon a single object; this can only be .txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ff4ee2b --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/The secret of a strong will, therefore, is to concentrate it upon a single object; this can only be .txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +The secret of a strong will, therefore, is to concentrate it upon a single object; this can only be achieved by eliminating all competing objects which divide the attention of the will and so fritter away its energies. This is one reason that sacrifice is said to be the first step in the Mysteries, for it is only by sacrificing ruthlessly all irrelevant interests. that the single-pointed and potent will is obtained. It may" (Dion Fortune – The Training and Work of an Initiate)p102
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/There are also no national, state, or county problems, and no national, state, or county solutions. .txt b/reading/There are also no national, state, or county problems, and no national, state, or county solutions. .txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9128e44 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/There are also no national, state, or county problems, and no national, state, or county solutions. .txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"There are also no national, state, or county problems, and no national, state, or county solutions. That will-o' -the-wisp, the large-scale solution to the large-scale problem, which is so dear to governments, universities, and corporations, serves mostly to distract people from the small, private problems that they may, in fact, have the power to solve." P198 (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/There is also the Territory of historical self-right~ousness if we had lived south of the Ohio in 18.txt b/reading/There is also the Territory of historical self-right~ousness if we had lived south of the Ohio in 18.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6adcbfb --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/There is also the Territory of historical self-right~ousness if we had lived south of the Ohio in 18.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"There is also the Territory of historical self-right~ousness: if we had lived south of the Ohio in 1830, we would not have owned slaves; if we had lived on the frontier, we would have killed no Indians, violated no treaties, stolen no land. The probability is overwhelming that if we had belonged to the generations we deplore, we too would have behaved deplorably. The probability is overwhelming that we belong to a generation that will be found by its successors to have behaved deplorably." P 81 (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/There is, then, a politics of food that, like any politics, involves our freedom. We still (sometime.txt b/reading/There is, then, a politics of food that, like any politics, involves our freedom. We still (sometime.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0b49afc --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/There is, then, a politics of food that, like any politics, involves our freedom. We still (sometime.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"There is, then, a politics of food that, like any politics, involves our freedom. We still (sometimes) remember that we cannot be free if our minds and voices are controlled by someone else. But we have neglected to understand that we cannot be free if our food and its sources are controlled by someone else. The condition of the passive consumer of food is not a democratic condition. One reason to eat responsibly is to live free." (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/Today the land is dotted with towns, cities, suburbs, and the like. Yet very few of these political .txt b/reading/Today the land is dotted with towns, cities, suburbs, and the like. Yet very few of these political .txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..baf9209 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/Today the land is dotted with towns, cities, suburbs, and the like. Yet very few of these political .txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"Today the land is dotted with towns, cities, suburbs, and the like. Yet very few of these political subdivisions are in fact communities. They are rather transitory locations for the temporary existence of wage earners." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/We have been told that primitive peoples discovered the smelting process while baking bread. They ha.txt b/reading/We have been told that primitive peoples discovered the smelting process while baking bread. They ha.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e21d78c --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/We have been told that primitive peoples discovered the smelting process while baking bread. They ha.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"We have been told that primitive peoples discovered the smelting process while baking bread. They happened to include some copper ore in their ovens and, when they completed their bakery chores for the day, dis covered that they had smelted ores to produce copper or iron while making their primitive pastries. But an oven has to be in the neighborhood of 1 ,500'C in order to break down ore. There would be no reason to heat an oven that hot in order to bake bread.4" (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/We have bought unconditionally the economists' line that competition and innovation would solve all .txt b/reading/We have bought unconditionally the economists' line that competition and innovation would solve all .txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d3deae7 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/We have bought unconditionally the economists' line that competition and innovation would solve all .txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"We have bought unconditionally the economists' line that competition and innovation would solve all problems, and that we would finally accomplis!-i a technological end-run around biological reality and the human condition." P 200 (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/We never experience things in complete isolation, which would be expected if absolute space and time.txt b/reading/We never experience things in complete isolation, which would be expected if absolute space and time.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4bfa3cf --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/We never experience things in complete isolation, which would be expected if absolute space and time.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"We never experience things in complete isolation, which would be expected if absolute space and time were really operative in the world. Rather, we experience a conglomerate of things, and out of these things we remember with some degree of clarity those that have impressed themselves upon our emotions and personality. The vast majority of our experiences consist of infinitely complex situations that combine all elements of our environment. Common people, poets, and painters have always understood this aspect of human experience, but only recently have scientists and philosophers rediscovered it and begun to approach more closely the world in which we live." (Vine Deloria – The Metaphysics of Modern Existence)
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/We should thus see feeling and reason in polarity, and the kinetic will as resulting from their unio.txt b/reading/We should thus see feeling and reason in polarity, and the kinetic will as resulting from their unio.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cb6a76b --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/We should thus see feeling and reason in polarity, and the kinetic will as resulting from their unio.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"We should thus see feeling and reason in polarity, and the kinetic will as resulting from their union. But this is not enough. According to Qabalistic principle, a trinity thus formed must be resumed in a fourth principle upon another plane before it can become functional. If the plane under consideration is a lower plane, they will be resumed in a physical body which gives them expression upon the plane of matter through instinct; but if the plane under consideration is a higher plane, they will be resumed in that little-understood faculty, the imagination. It is from this synthesis upon a higher plane, and from this alone, that occult power issues forth." (Dion Fortune – The Training and Work of an Initiate)p100
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/What happened in the 1960s and 1 970s is that, in all probability, the logic of Western culture and .txt b/reading/What happened in the 1960s and 1 970s is that, in all probability, the logic of Western culture and .txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6e2765d --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/What happened in the 1960s and 1 970s is that, in all probability, the logic of Western culture and .txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"What happened in the 1960s and 1 970s is that, in all probability, the logic of Western culture and the meaning of the Christian worldview that supported the institutions of Western culture were outrun by the events of the time. The brotherhood of man may be a noble ideal, but can it be achieved in any society that is not homogenous? Probably not, we discov ered. At a certain point in the struggle for realization, it became apparent that goals of the Civil Rights movement could not be achieved because people did not subscribe to them and because the goals were, after all, abstract projections of an ideal world, not descriptions of a real world." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/When Jesus failed to return within the lifetime of those who had been his closest associates, the re.txt b/reading/When Jesus failed to return within the lifetime of those who had been his closest associates, the re.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9b75dc4 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/When Jesus failed to return within the lifetime of those who had been his closest associates, the re.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"When Jesus failed to return within the lifetime of those who had been his closest associates, the relIgiOn should have tolded. But as the original group grew smaller and the religion spread to Asia Minor, the initial prediction was continually modified so that while the basic idea had been an immediate conclusion to history through divine intervention, its immediacy gradually became symbolic, not historic." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/Where is our comfort but in the free, uninvolved, finally mysterious beauty and grace of this world .txt b/reading/Where is our comfort but in the free, uninvolved, finally mysterious beauty and grace of this world .txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b677931 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/Where is our comfort but in the free, uninvolved, finally mysterious beauty and grace of this world .txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"Where is our comfort but in the free, uninvolved, finally mysterious beauty and grace of this world that we did not make, that has no price? Where is our sanity but there? Where is our pleasure but in working and resting kindly in the presence of this world?" (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/You cannot lose your land and remain free; if you keep your land, you cannot be enslaved. (Wendell B.txt b/reading/You cannot lose your land and remain free; if you keep your land, you cannot be enslaved. (Wendell B.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..30ee4d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/You cannot lose your land and remain free; if you keep your land, you cannot be enslaved. (Wendell B.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"You cannot lose your land and remain free; if you keep your land, you cannot be enslaved." (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/You never know what is enough unless you know what 0is more than enough. (Wendell Berry – What Are P.txt b/reading/You never know what is enough unless you know what 0is more than enough. (Wendell Berry – What Are P.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9bcd4b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/You never know what is enough unless you know what 0is more than enough. (Wendell Berry – What Are P.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +""You never know what is enough unless you know what 0is more than enough."" (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/creature is not a creator, and cannot be. There is only one Creation, and we are its members. To be .txt b/reading/creature is not a creator, and cannot be. There is only one Creation, and we are its members. To be .txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5ac73d8 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/creature is not a creator, and cannot be. There is only one Creation, and we are its members. To be .txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"creature is not a creator, and cannot be. There is only one Creation, and we are its members. To be creative is only to have health: to keep oneself fully alive in the Creation, to keep the Creation fully alive in oneself, to see the Creation anew, to welcome one's part in it anew." (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/dictating to the world the conditions by which the world must exist. (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmo.txt b/reading/dictating to the world the conditions by which the world must exist. (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmo.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..59687e8 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/dictating to the world the conditions by which the world must exist. (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmo.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"dictating to the world the conditions by which the world must exist." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/my handwritten pages have a homemade, handmade look to them that both pleases me in itself and sugge.txt b/reading/my handwritten pages have a homemade, handmade look to them that both pleases me in itself and sugge.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a201131 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/my handwritten pages have a homemade, handmade look to them that both pleases me in itself and sugge.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"my handwritten pages have a homemade, handmade look to them that both pleases me in itself and suggests the possibility of ready correction. It looks hospitable to improvement. As the longhand is transformed into typescript and then into galley proofs and the printed page, it seems increasingly to resist improvement." P192 (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/notion that there must be one single way, truth, and light for everyone is among the most destructiv.txt b/reading/notion that there must be one single way, truth, and light for everyone is among the most destructiv.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..78e5421 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/notion that there must be one single way, truth, and light for everyone is among the most destructiv.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +The notion that there must be one single way, truth, and light for everyone is among the most destructive mental habits of our time. Fortunately it’s balanced in the minds of many with the alternative idea of liberty — which is ultimately the recognition that different people have different needs, wants, and talents, and ought to be able to follow those as they wish so long as doing so doesn't interefere with their neighbors’ doing the same. + +https://www.ecosophia.net/a-magic-republic/#comment-45248 diff --git a/reading/or if we recognize the logical conclusions of the thinking of both Buckminster Fuller and (Vine Delo.txt b/reading/or if we recognize the logical conclusions of the thinking of both Buckminster Fuller and (Vine Delo.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9045c9f --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/or if we recognize the logical conclusions of the thinking of both Buckminster Fuller and (Vine Delo.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"or if we recognize the logical conclusions of the thinking of both Buckminster Fuller and" (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/order to make the home a Temple of Initiation for the soul, its duties must be dominated by two idea.txt b/reading/order to make the home a Temple of Initiation for the soul, its duties must be dominated by two idea.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8994ed0 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/order to make the home a Temple of Initiation for the soul, its duties must be dominated by two idea.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"order to make the home a Temple of Initiation for the soul, its duties must be dominated by two ideals-love and beauty. Its services must be rendered with sympathy and joy, and we must make its humblest details beautiful. Even in the barest room there is a beauty of perfect cleanliness and order. If we would merely eliminate the superfluous from our homes and keep what remains in perfect order we should have achieved true beauty, as many a bare convent refectory can show." (Dion Fortune – The Training and Work of an Initiate)p40
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/order to make the home a Temple of Initiation for the soul, its duties must be dominated by two idea.txt_ b/reading/order to make the home a Temple of Initiation for the soul, its duties must be dominated by two idea.txt_ new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9b8adf9 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/order to make the home a Temple of Initiation for the soul, its duties must be dominated by two idea.txt_ @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"order to make the home a Temple of Initiation for the soul, its duties must be dominated by two ideals-love and beauty. Its services must be rendered with sympathy and joy, and we must make its humblest details beautiful. Even in the barest room there is a beauty of perfect cleanliness and order. If we would merely eliminate the superfluous from our homes and keep what remains in perfect order we should have achieved true beauty, as many a bare convent refectory can show." (Dion Fortune – The Training and Work of an Initiate)p47th diff --git a/reading/seek beyond the skyline, where the strange roads go down. (Dion Fortune – The Training and Work of a.txt b/reading/seek beyond the skyline, where the strange roads go down. (Dion Fortune – The Training and Work of a.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bc4488e --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/seek beyond the skyline, where the strange roads go down. (Dion Fortune – The Training and Work of a.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +""seek beyond the skyline, where the strange roads go down."" (Dion Fortune – The Training and Work of an Initiate) p27
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/stand the nature of religion as it occurs in specific places. There is a reason why shrines exist ov.txt b/reading/stand the nature of religion as it occurs in specific places. There is a reason why shrines exist ov.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3e6c8f1 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/stand the nature of religion as it occurs in specific places. There is a reason why shrines exist ov.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"stand the nature of religion as it occurs in specific places. There is a reason why shrines exist over and above the piety of the uneducated religious per son who has visions while tending sheep. Mount Sinai, for example, has been a holy mountain for a considerable length of time, thus indicating that it has a religious existence over and above any temporary belief held by particular people. If this concept is true, then economics cannot and should not be the sole determinant ofland use. Unless the sacred places are discovered and protected and used as religious places, there is no possibility of a nation ever coming to grips with the land itself. Without this basic relationship, national psychic stability is impossible." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/the possibility of change depends on the existence of people who have the power to change. P 168 (We.txt b/reading/the possibility of change depends on the existence of people who have the power to change. P 168 (We.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..65cb64b --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/the possibility of change depends on the existence of people who have the power to change. P 168 (We.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"the possibility of change depends on the existence of people who have the power to change." P 168 (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/these religions appear to be simply control measures for manipulating large populations and not a re.txt b/reading/these religions appear to be simply control measures for manipulating large populations and not a re.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..576e5a2 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/these religions appear to be simply control measures for manipulating large populations and not a re.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"these religions appear to be simply control measures for manipulating large populations and not a realistic appraisal of cosmic reality." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/we are going to have to deal with a law that reads about like this as the quality of use increases, .txt b/reading/we are going to have to deal with a law that reads about like this as the quality of use increases, .txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0ba021a --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/we are going to have to deal with a law that reads about like this as the quality of use increases, .txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"we are going to have to deal with a law that reads about like this: as the quality of use increases, the scale of use (that is, the size of operations) will decline, the tools will become simpler, and the methods and the skills will become more complex." P114 (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/we cannot control history and that what appears inevitable is only a projection of our wishes, not a.txt b/reading/we cannot control history and that what appears inevitable is only a projection of our wishes, not a.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..74dbe5a --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/we cannot control history and that what appears inevitable is only a projection of our wishes, not a.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"we cannot control history and that what appears inevitable is only a projection of our wishes, not a future event." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/we think it ordinary to spend twelve or sixteen or twenty years of a person's life and many thousand.txt b/reading/we think it ordinary to spend twelve or sixteen or twenty years of a person's life and many thousand.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..24fa06d --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/we think it ordinary to spend twelve or sixteen or twenty years of a person's life and many thousand.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"we think it ordinary to spend twelve or sixteen or twenty years of a person's life and many thousands of public dollars on "education"-andnot a dime or a thought on character. Of course, it is preposterous to suppose that character could be cultivated by any sort of public program. Persons of character are not public products. They are made by local cultures, local responsibilities. That we have so few such persons does not suggest that we ought to start character workshops in the schools. It does suggest that "up" may be the wrong direction." (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005)) diff --git a/reading/world history as presently conceived in the Christian nations is the story of the West's conquest of.txt b/reading/world history as presently conceived in the Christian nations is the story of the West's conquest of.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4a492fc --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/world history as presently conceived in the Christian nations is the story of the West's conquest of.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"world history as presently conceived in the Christian nations is the story of the West's conquest of the remainder of the world and the subsequent rise to technological sophistication. Because we cannot understand humankind from a more profound point of view, we have in recent years fallen into a number of easily avoid able difficulties." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/reading/would like my country to be seen and known with an attentiveness that is schooled and skilled. I wou.txt b/reading/would like my country to be seen and known with an attentiveness that is schooled and skilled. I wou.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ebd50fe --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/would like my country to be seen and known with an attentiveness that is schooled and skilled. I wou.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +"would like my country to be seen and known with an attentiveness that is schooled and skilled. I would like it to be loved with a minutely particular affection and loyalty. I would like the work in it to be practical and loving and respectful and forbearing. In order for these things to happen, the sciences and the humanities are going to have to come together again in the presence of the practical problems of individual places, and of local knowledge and local love in individual people-people able to see, know, think, feel, and act coherently and well without the modern instinct of deference to the "outside expert."" P118 (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/santa is a game people play.txt b/santa is a game people play.txt deleted file mode 100755 index 9ad18aa..0000000 --- a/santa is a game people play.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,56 +0,0 @@ -Santa Is A Game People Play - -From <http://charliepark.org/santa/>: - -# Santa Is A Game People Play - -December 2, 2012 - -Christmas in America is troubling, for a variety of reasons. Sarah and I are trying to be extremely intentional as we raise our children, and have wanted to bring that intentionality to Christmas. - - * We don’t want them developing an overly consumer-oriented worldview. - * We don’t want them to think of their time with relatives — especially around the holidays — as, primarily, a vector for Stuff. - * We have intentionally limited the number of toys they have in the house. We’ve seen a direct link between limiting toys and increased creativity in the kids. - -Also, we weren’t comfortable with the Santa narrative. Not the in-the-moment narrative — North Pole, sleigh, chimney, tree, presents, cookies — that’s … fine, I guess. What we had an issue with was the longitudinal narrative: “We’re going to create this story that isn’t true, that we’ll tell you is The Truth. In fact, if you question us on it, we’ll double-down, and show you proofs of why Santa is Real (after all, could Dad have _really_ eaten those cookies? pffft; why else would everyone talk about him if he isn’t real?). Then, when you’re a little older, you’ll find out the _actual_ truth from your classmates at school or will otherwise figure it out, won’t want to bring it up, and so we’ll pass into a state of unacknowledged silence on the matter, where you’ll kind of pretend to be into it, but mainly because you get More Stuff, but we kind of know that you’ve figured it out, but won’t bring it up. And then maybe Santa fades into the background over time.” _That_ narrative was the one we weren’t comfortable with. - -So how do you balance the desire for a more intentional family with the standard Christmas narrative in the US? How do you deal with the mythos of Santa Claus and the presents he brings, which has become _the_ key component of most people’s Christmas story? How do you remove Santa from the equation, but keep the kids from being total weirdos on the playground? - -Here’s what we’ve done. - -### A new narrative: Santa as Game - -**From the time the girls were young, we’ve told them that “Santa Claus” is a game that everyone around the world plays together.** You _play_ the game by pretending that he’s real. You _lose_ the game if you break character and talk about him not being real. And you _definitely_ don’t talk about Santa not being real at school (mainly said so they aren’t the ones who break the news to younger kids on the playground). - -And Santa, being just a character from the game, isn’t actually involved in Christmas at our house. So the kids get the idea of what Santa represents, and they can talk about him with other kids, or teachers at school, but don’t have any expectations that he’s real, or that he’s involved in the time we spend with our family. - -We didn’t come up with this approach on our own. I’m sure it’s been around for a while. We probably read about it on MetaFilter or somewhere back when Lucy was a toddler. - -It’s worked well. - -For one thing, it’s the truth, so we don’t feel like we have to come up with elaborate ruses to tell the girls. - -For another, it gives us something where our whole family is in it together — we’ve let the girls in on the secret rules of how the game is played. (Kids _love_ being let in on Secret Knowledge.) - -And for a third thing — and I’m finding more and more as a parent that this is crucial — it appeals to the _[homo ludens][7]_ part of our nature. In fact, the five characteristics of play (taken from the just-linked [Wikipedia page][7]) are important here: - - [7]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_Ludens_(book) - - 1. Play is free. - 2. Play is not “ordinary” or “real” life. - 3. Play is distinct from “ordinary” life both as to locality and duration. - 4. Play creates (and even demands) order. - 5. Play is connected with no material interest. - -That all sounds like Santa-as-Game at Christmas. But — wait a minute — what about that last one? No material interest? What about gifts? - -There’s a whole post I could write on this, but the gist of it is that we keep presents simple and intentional. And they’re all from members of the family (not Santa). - -I know there are factors that go into our being able to approach Christmas (and Santa) this way, and not every family can kill Santa. And I’m sure we’re warping our kids in our own unique ways. - -But if your kids are young enough that you haven’t set expectations around Christmas, or if you’re looking for an alternate gift-giving narrative for Santa and the Christmas season, or if you’re looking for a way to softly transition away from the “Santa is real” narrative, “Santa is a game people play” has worked really well for us. - -I’d love to hear how you handle Christmas and Santa. Shoot me a note on Twitter ([@charliepark][8]) if you want to chat about it. - - [8]: https://twitter.com/charliepark - diff --git a/set up debian droplet basics + nginx.txt b/set up debian droplet basics + nginx.txt deleted file mode 100755 index 1b1af00..0000000 --- a/set up debian droplet basics + nginx.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,248 +0,0 @@ -Set Up Debian Droplet - Basics + Nginx - -[refernces: -<http://www.howtoforge.com/building-nginx-from-source-on-debian-squeeze> -<http://www.rosehosting.com/blog/how-to-compile-and-install-nginx-from-source-in-debian-7-wheezy/> -<https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-setup-a-firewall-with-ufw-on-an-ubuntu-and-debian-cloud-server> -<https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/initial-server-setup-with-debian-7> -<https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-protect-ssh-with-fail2ban-on-debian-7>] - -First login as root and set new root password: - - passwd - -Then create new user: - - adduser whatever - -Then add user to suders list: - - visudo - whatever ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL - -test by sshing as new user. - -vultr specific: - -sudo vi /etc/hosts -sudo vi /etc/hostname - -##Secure the server - - vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config - -Add these lines: - -Port 25009 -Protocol 2 -PermitRootLogin no -UseDNS no - -Add this line to the bottom of the document, replacing demo with your username: - - AllowUsers whatever - -reload ssh: - - sudo systemctl restart sshd - -test before you log out: - - ssh -p 25009 whatever@123.45.67.890 - -Add ssh keys - - cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa4096.pub | ssh -p 25034 lxf@63.135.175.3 "mkdir -p ~/.ssh && cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys" - ---- - -###Install Zsh/Tmux - -(because doing only one thing at a time sucks) - - sudo apt-get update - sudo apt-get install tmux zsh - curl -L https://raw.github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh | sh - chsh -s /bin/zsh whatever - -###Set up fail2ban and UFW - - sudo apt-get install fail2ban - sudo cp /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf /etc/fail2ban/jail.local - sudo vi /etc/fail2ban/jail.local #(add IP to exclusions, up ban time) - sudo systemctl restart fail2ban - - apt-get install ufw - sudo ufw default deny incoming - sudo ufw default deny outgoing - sudo ufw allow 25043/tcp - sudo ufw allow 80/tcp - sudo ufw allow 443/tcp - sudo ufw allow out http - sudo ufw allow out https - sudo ufw allow out 53 - sudo ufw enable - sudo ufw status verbose - ---- - -###Vim - - apt-get install vim - #I point to these in my vimrc, skip if you don't need them - mkdir -p ~/.vim/bundle/ - git clone https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim.git ~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim - -##Setup Nginx - - # check http://nginx.org/en/download.html for the latest version of nginx - # check https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module/build_ngx_pagespeed_from_source for latest version of ngx_pagespeed and psol - # latest headers more https://github.com/openresty/headers-more-nginx-module/tags - # naxsi: https://github.com/nbs-system/naxsi/releases - -prereqs for building stuff: - - apt-get -y install build-essential zlib1g-dev libpcre3 libpcre3-dev libbz2-dev libssl-dev tar unzip - -prereqs for geo and ssl: - - apt-get install libgeoip1 libgeoip-dev openssl libssl-dev - # then grab the libraries: - sudo mkdir -p /etc/nginx/geoip - cd /etc/nginx/geoip - sudo wget http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCountry/GeoIP.dat.gz - sudo gunzip GeoIP.dat.gz - sudo wget http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCity.dat.gz - sudo gunzip GeoLiteCity.dat.gz - - #install the GeoIP C library. - cd /tmp - wget geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/api/c/GeoIP.tar.gz - tar -zxvf GeoIP.tar.gz - cd GeoIP-* - ./configure - make - sudo make install - - # That's all the pre-reqs, now cd in to nginx and compile: - cd nginx-* - - -config script for nginx source (debian paths): - - ./configure \ - --prefix=/usr/share/nginx \ - --sbin-path=/usr/sbin/nginx \ - --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf \ - --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid \ - --lock-path=/var/lock/nginx.lock \ - --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log \ - --http-log-path=/var/log/access.log \ - --user=www-data \ - --group=www-data \ - --without-mail_pop3_module \ - --without-mail_imap_module \ - --without-mail_smtp_module \ - --with-http_stub_status_module \ - --with-http_ssl_module \ - --with-http_v2_module \ - --with-http_gzip_static_module \ - --with-pcre \ - --with-file-aio \ - - -./configure \ ---user=http \ ---group=http \ ---prefix=/etc/nginx \ ---sbin-path=/usr/sbin/nginx \ ---conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf \ ---pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid \ ---lock-path=/var/run/nginx.lock \ ---error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log \ ---http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log \ ---with-http_gzip_static_module \ ---with-http_stub_status_module \ ---with-http_ssl_module \ ---with-pcre \ ---with-file-aio \ ---with-http_v2_module \ ---with-http_realip_module \ ---without-http_scgi_module \ ---without-mail_pop3_module \ ---without-mail_imap_module \ ---without-mail_smtp_module \ ---add-module=$HOME/ngx_pagespeed-${NPS_VERSION} ${PS_NGX_EXTRA_FLAGS} - - make - sudo make install - -The next thing is to enable autostart: - - sudo vim /lib/systemd/system/nginx.service - -# Stop dance for nginx -# ======================= -# -# ExecStop sends SIGSTOP (graceful stop) to the nginx process. -# If, after 5s (--retry QUIT/5) nginx is still running, systemd takes control -# and sends SIGTERM (fast shutdown) to the main process. -# After another 5s (TimeoutStopSec=5), and if nginx is alive, systemd sends -# SIGKILL to all the remaining processes in the process group (KillMode=mixed). -# -# nginx signals reference doc: -# http://nginx.org/en/docs/control.html -# -[Unit] -Description=A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server -After=network.target - -[Service] -Type=forking -PIDFile=/run/nginx.pid -ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/nginx -t -q -g 'daemon on; master_process on;' -ExecStart=/usr/sbin/nginx -g 'daemon on; master_process on;' -ExecReload=/usr/sbin/nginx -g 'daemon on; master_process on;' -s reload -ExecStop=-/sbin/start-stop-daemon --quiet --stop --retry QUIT/5 --pidfile /run/nginx.pid -TimeoutStopSec=5 -KillMode=mixed - -[Install] -WantedBy=multi-user.target - - -sudo systemctl enable nginx.service -sudo systemctl start nginx.service -sudo systemctl status nginx.service - -sudo vim /etc/nginx/nginx.conf - - -user www-data; -events { - worker_connections 1024; -} -http { - include mime.types; - include /etc/nginx/naxsi_core.rules; - default_type application/octet-stream; - types_hash_bucket_size 64; - server_names_hash_bucket_size 128; - log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" ' - '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" ' - '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"'; - - #access_log logs/access.log main; - more_set_headers "Server: Graf Industries Custom Server"; - sendfile on; - keepalive_timeout 65; - gzip on; - pagespeed on; - pagespeed FileCachePath /var/ngx_pagespeed_cache; - limit_req_zone $binary_remote_addr zone=one:10m rate=1r/s; - include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*.conf; -} - - - sudo cp naxsi-0.53-2/naxci_config/naxsi_core.rule /etc/nginx - diff --git a/spectrum of financial independence.txt b/spectrum of financial independence.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..86d8f94 --- /dev/null +++ b/spectrum of financial independence.txt @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +title: The Spectrum of Financial Dependence and Independence +date: 2019-07-14 +source: https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/the-spectrum-of-financial-dependence-and-independence/ +tags: finance + +--- + +I did not intend to get rich. I just wanted to get independent.” – Munger + +Place yourself, your business, and other people you know, on this list. + +Level 0: Complete financial dependence on the kindness of strangers who have no vested interest in your success. Panhandling when unable to work, or companies reliant on raising money from first-time investors who don’t care if you fail. + +Level 1: Complete financial dependance on people who want you to succeed because they like you and their reputation is attached to your success. Children under age 15 – supported by their parents and generally too young to work – fall into this category. So do companies backed by friends and family who don’t intend on getting their money back. + +Level 2: Complete financial dependance on people with a vested interest in your financial outcome. Unprofitable-but-promising businesses backed by investors who could earn a meaningful return on their investments, and are thus likely to keep supporting you. + +Level 3: Ability to partially support yourself by adding value for others while still somewhat reliant on external support. Young people who work but rely on their parents to support what they consider basic lifestyle necessities. Or companies that could realistically be profitable if they changed their cost structure, but continue to raise money from investors to fund growth. + +Level 4: Ability to fully support yourself by adding value for others, but value that is marginal and easy to replace. This is a common category for both people and businesses. It is grinding and tenuous. It smells like independence, but a boss or customer still owns your day and can dictate your future. Your future relies on their decisions. + +Level 5: Enough savings to cover run-of-the-mill problems. You can endure hassles that every person or company should expect to experience on a regular basis, without getting wiped out. + +Level 6: Enough savings to cover large, unforeseen problems. You still rely on your boss or your customers to get by month to month, but if a crisis struck you’d probably be OK for a reasonable period of time. + +Level 7: Retirement savings, education savings, and avoidance of consumer and auto debt. You still rely on bosses and customers, but you can foresee a time when your current savings will open up a new level of independence for you and your family. This is the most realistic goal for most people. + +Level 8: The ability to pick a job, or specific customers, that avoids the most egregious examples of bullshit and unnecessary hassle in your life. You still rely on bosses and customers, but have the freedom to say, “No, not you. I’ll find someone else,” when you get too frustrated. + +Level 9: Becoming comfortable enough with your social status that you don’t feel the need to flash your peacock feathers with expensive consumer goods whose only value is in signaling. The inability to do this is a hidden form of debt and dependence that exists, and it piles up on people who mistakenly think they’re wealthy enough to be independent. + +Level 10: The ability to say no to banks, whose debt you don’t need, including mortgages. Debt can be cheap capital but it keeps you beholden to others, owning a piece of your future decisions and cash-flow needs. + +Level 11: Few realistic situations would cause you, your company, or your family to be pushed back below Level 5. You could support yourself for a year or more off your liquid savings. It’s the first true stage of independence. You can now say “No” to almost anyone, with high odds of recovering from the repercussions. + +Level 12: Interest and dividends cover more than half of your living expenses. Most of this is independence is owed to a slim lifestyle, rather than huge assets. You realize that lifestyle desires compound faster than almost any asset. + +Level 13: Your assets and their reasonable return expectations will cover basic living expenses for longer than your life expectancy. Congrats. You are no longer reliant on bosses or clients. You can deal with them if you want, and you probably will. But only if you want, when you want, with who you want. Which feels good. + +Level 14: Your assets cover above-basic living expenses with assets and their reasonable return expectations. You can define “above-basic” however you want. Varies by person. Remember what Chris Rock says: “If Bill Gates woke up with Oprah’s money he’d jump out the window.” + +Level 15: Independence lets you do and say what you please, unconcerned with other people disagreeing with you, since you don’t rely on the support or opportunities they could offer. + +Level 16: Meaningful philanthropy is the only reasonable way your assets won’t compound faster than you spend. + +This, to me, is one of the most important topics in finance. Everyone’s different. But while almost everyone can adapt to their stuff, having control over your time through independence will always feel great when you have it and always be a miserable burden when you don’t. diff --git a/arch-downgrade.txt b/tech/arch-downgrade.txt index 2e34518..2e34518 100644 --- a/arch-downgrade.txt +++ b/tech/arch-downgrade.txt diff --git a/tech/clear up a large git folder.txt b/tech/clear up a large git folder.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1003a5f --- /dev/null +++ b/tech/clear up a large git folder.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +To clean up a large .git folder, first see what the giant files are by running this command: + +git verify-pack -v .git/objects/pack/pack-9987666e7a6a7ebb5abde337ba017dcf67534986.idx | sort -k 3 -n | tail -10 + +That will get a list of blogs, you can then run: + +git rev-list --objects --all | grep <first few chars of blok> + +to see what the actual files are that are taking up so much space. + +Assuming you want to get rid of the large files and clear that space, you can do that like this (assume you want to get rid of a bunch of .mov files): + +git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch *.mov' -- --all +rm -Rf .git/refs/original +rm -Rf .git/logs/ +git gc --aggressive --prune=now diff --git a/debian 7 digital ocean running slowly.txt b/tech/debian 7 digital ocean running slowly.txt index 9cb2e14..9cb2e14 100755 --- a/debian 7 digital ocean running slowly.txt +++ b/tech/debian 7 digital ocean running slowly.txt diff --git a/django-comment-app-features.txt b/tech/django-comment-app-features.txt index 59d4524..59d4524 100755 --- a/django-comment-app-features.txt +++ b/tech/django-comment-app-features.txt diff --git a/dump database psql mysql.txt b/tech/dump database psql mysql.txt index 8c265fd..8c265fd 100644 --- a/dump database psql mysql.txt +++ b/tech/dump database psql mysql.txt diff --git a/how to downsize images and keep them sharp.txt b/tech/how to downsize images and keep them sharp.txt index b4f3c62..b4f3c62 100755 --- a/how to downsize images and keep them sharp.txt +++ b/tech/how to downsize images and keep them sharp.txt diff --git a/how to encrypt a file or directory in linux.txt b/tech/how to encrypt a file or directory in linux.txt index ebb28c8..ebb28c8 100644 --- a/how to encrypt a file or directory in linux.txt +++ b/tech/how to encrypt a file or directory in linux.txt diff --git a/how to secure nginx with let's encrypt.txt b/tech/how to secure nginx with let's encrypt.txt index c071fd3..c071fd3 100644 --- a/how to secure nginx with let's encrypt.txt +++ b/tech/how to secure nginx with let's encrypt.txt diff --git a/lhp book publishing tools.txt b/tech/lhp book publishing tools.txt index c138f2c..c138f2c 100755 --- a/lhp book publishing tools.txt +++ b/tech/lhp book publishing tools.txt diff --git a/lhp idea book on writing with vim.txt b/tech/lhp idea book on writing with vim.txt index 3bbff6e..3bbff6e 100755 --- a/lhp idea book on writing with vim.txt +++ b/tech/lhp idea book on writing with vim.txt diff --git a/linux rename drive.txt b/tech/linux rename drive.txt index da86d5e..da86d5e 100644 --- a/linux rename drive.txt +++ b/tech/linux rename drive.txt diff --git a/lx link to header image.txt b/tech/lx link to header image.txt index b05dd3c..b05dd3c 100755 --- a/lx link to header image.txt +++ b/tech/lx link to header image.txt diff --git a/minimal debian install.txt b/tech/minimal debian install.txt index b63c215..b63c215 100755 --- a/minimal debian install.txt +++ b/tech/minimal debian install.txt diff --git a/script pandoc convert html to markdown.txt b/tech/script pandoc convert html to markdown.txt index eb091b0..eb091b0 100755 --- a/script pandoc convert html to markdown.txt +++ b/tech/script pandoc convert html to markdown.txt diff --git a/set up awstats daily links.txt b/tech/set up awstats daily links.txt index 9a2dd93..9a2dd93 100644 --- a/set up awstats daily links.txt +++ b/tech/set up awstats daily links.txt diff --git a/set up awstats on ubuntu with nginx.txt b/tech/set up awstats on ubuntu with nginx.txt index 37a60ca..37a60ca 100644 --- a/set up awstats on ubuntu with nginx.txt +++ b/tech/set up awstats on ubuntu with nginx.txt diff --git a/set up certbot nginx ubuntu.txt b/tech/set up certbot nginx ubuntu.txt index f13b1e9..f13b1e9 100644 --- a/set up certbot nginx ubuntu.txt +++ b/tech/set up certbot nginx ubuntu.txt diff --git a/tech/set up debian droplet basics + nginx.txt b/tech/set up debian droplet basics + nginx.txt new file mode 100755 index 0000000..bdb9570 --- /dev/null +++ b/tech/set up debian droplet basics + nginx.txt @@ -0,0 +1,96 @@ +Set Up Debian Droplet - Basics + Nginx + +[refernces: +<http://www.howtoforge.com/building-nginx-from-source-on-debian-squeeze> +<http://www.rosehosting.com/blog/how-to-compile-and-install-nginx-from-source-in-debian-7-wheezy/> +<https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-setup-a-firewall-with-ufw-on-an-ubuntu-and-debian-cloud-server> +<https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/initial-server-setup-with-debian-7> +<https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-protect-ssh-with-fail2ban-on-debian-7>] + +First login as root and set new root password: + + passwd + +Then create new user: + + adduser whatever + +Then add user to suders list: + + visudo + whatever ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL + +test by sshing as new user. + +vultr specific: + +sudo vi /etc/hosts +sudo vi /etc/hostname + +##Secure the server + + vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config + +Add these lines: + +Port 25009 +Protocol 2 +PermitRootLogin no +UseDNS no + +Add this line to the bottom of the document, replacing demo with your username: + + AllowUsers whatever + +reload ssh: + + sudo systemctl restart sshd + +test before you log out: + + ssh -p 25009 whatever@123.45.67.890 + +Add ssh keys + + cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa4096.pub | ssh -p 25034 lxf@63.135.175.3 "mkdir -p ~/.ssh && cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys" + +--- + +###Install Tmux + +(because doing only one thing at a time sucks) + + sudo apt-get update + sudo apt-get install tmux + +###Set up fail2ban and UFW + + sudo apt-get install fail2ban + sudo cp /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf /etc/fail2ban/jail.local + sudo vi /etc/fail2ban/jail.local #(add IP to exclusions, up ban time) + sudo systemctl restart fail2ban + + apt-get install ufw + sudo ufw default deny incoming + sudo ufw default deny outgoing + sudo ufw allow 25043/tcp + sudo ufw allow 80/tcp + sudo ufw allow 443/tcp + sudo ufw allow out http + sudo ufw allow out https + sudo ufw allow out 53 + sudo ufw enable + sudo ufw status verbose + +--- + +###Vim + + apt-get install vim-gtk + #I point to these in my vimrc, skip if you don't need them + mkdir -p ~/.vim/bundle/ + git clone https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim.git ~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim + +### Misc Apps + + sudo apt install ctags silversearcher-ag ripgrep fzf ranger vim-gtk nginx postgresqlj diff --git a/set up debian droplet python 3 + gunicorn + supervisor.txt b/tech/set up debian droplet python 3 + gunicorn + supervisor.txt index 3f199b9..3f199b9 100755 --- a/set up debian droplet python 3 + gunicorn + supervisor.txt +++ b/tech/set up debian droplet python 3 + gunicorn + supervisor.txt diff --git a/set up geodjango on debian 7 digital ocean.txt b/tech/set up geodjango on debian 7 digital ocean.txt index 475c6eb..475c6eb 100755 --- a/set up geodjango on debian 7 digital ocean.txt +++ b/tech/set up geodjango on debian 7 digital ocean.txt diff --git a/set up gitea on ubuntu 18.04.txt b/tech/set up gitea on ubuntu 18.04.txt index 6d1870b..6d1870b 100644 --- a/set up gitea on ubuntu 18.04.txt +++ b/tech/set up gitea on ubuntu 18.04.txt diff --git a/set up mysql php.txt b/tech/set up mysql php.txt index 2856f05..2856f05 100644 --- a/set up mysql php.txt +++ b/tech/set up mysql php.txt diff --git a/set up uwsgi django.txt b/tech/set up uwsgi django.txt index 37df453..37df453 100644 --- a/set up uwsgi django.txt +++ b/tech/set up uwsgi django.txt diff --git a/use mutt and gnome keyring.txt b/tech/use mutt and gnome keyring.txt index be068cd..be068cd 100755 --- a/use mutt and gnome keyring.txt +++ b/tech/use mutt and gnome keyring.txt diff --git a/the plan.txt b/the plan.txt deleted file mode 100755 index 6bece1a..0000000 --- a/the plan.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -The Plan - -For the next four years we save. We rent out the house. We put our things in storage, we learn spanish. Really learn spanish. Then we catch a bus south. We have no return date. Open ended travel, here to go.
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