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2016-03-17T00:32:56-04:00

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Election 2016: Did “Shutdown Culture” Just Give the Presidency To Trump?

Last updated on: March 17, 2016 at 12:32 am By Tom Swiss

Confused progressives have been celebrating the shutdown of the Trump rally as a victory. But it was neither a moral victory nor a tactical one. If anything, it put Donald Trump closer to the White House. Read more

Religion & Politics

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Trump

2016-03-15T00:22:42-04:00

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Concussions, Geometry, And Incompatible World-Views

Last updated on: March 15, 2016 at 12:22 am By Tom Swiss

What's remarkable is that the collision happened because, in effect, we were operating under different sets of coordinates. I oriented my partner and myself relative to that crazy wall AB, while the other pair oriented themselves to the square portion of the room. And neither of these is more or less correct than the other. Read more

My Blogging Life and Times

2016-03-08T18:38:45-04:00

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Distracting Thoughts In Meditation

Last updated on: March 8, 2016 at 6:38 pm By Tom Swiss

It's a funny thing about those inner voices. Many voices together make an incomprehensible noise. It's only when things become relatively more quiet, when only one at a time is talking, that we can clearly make out what's being said. Read more

Zen

meditation

2016-03-03T00:20:23-04:00

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Election 2016: There Are More Than Two Colors

Last updated on: March 3, 2016 at 12:20 am By Tom Swiss

But, gee, Patheos, since you asked for more politics...well. I feel a little clickbaity here, but let's start with that idea you're basing this on: that American politics consists of two and only two constituencies. Read more

Religion & Politics

election 2016

2016-02-29T12:45:05-04:00

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Exorcising Trump

Last updated on: February 29, 2016 at 12:45 pm By Tom Swiss

Kameyama asked several priests to exorcise the ghosts, and they came and did all sorts of elaborate and involved and powerful rituals to break the ghosts' power. But they all failed. Finally he invited Fumon, a priest of the relatively new Zen sect of Buddhism, to take a crack at it. Rather than raising a fuss to dispel the haunting, Fumon and his disciples sat in silent meditation. The ghosts disappeared. Read more

2016-02-25T17:21:52-04:00

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The Bullet, the Bow, and the Blade

Last updated on: February 25, 2016 at 5:21 pm By Tom Swiss

If you find the bullet spiritually horrifying but are perfectly comfortable with the blade or the bow appearing in ritual, I have to ask you to consider carefully the origins of that attitude and whether it is consistent with the actual nature of these items, or whether you've been caught up in a distorting social construct. Read more

Ethics, Virtue, and Right Living

Magic(k), Ritual, and Mysticism

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ritual

2016-02-22T01:09:54-04:00

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Poem: “a raffish sermon”

Last updated on: February 22, 2016 at 1:09 am By Tom Swiss

that you exist is proof that the universe loves you it brought you into being against the odds Read more

Poetry

2016-02-20T11:50:07-04:00

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Am I Going Nuts?

Last updated on: February 20, 2016 at 11:50 am By Tom Swiss

But I can never be sure. This routine bit of business becomes a topic of doubt. It reminds me of how contingent and fragile our picture of the world -- and of our selves -- is. It reminds me of how many fundamental assumptions we make to get through the day. Read more

My Blogging Life and Times

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epistemology

2016-02-09T01:49:48-04:00

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Fun a Day Wrapup: Artistic Budding At Imbolc

Last updated on: February 9, 2016 at 1:49 am By Tom Swiss

That phrase lodged in my brain, and made me think about how it may be time to "turn pro" in my projects outside the "day"job" -- the writing, my shiatsu practice, the martial arts, and music and art. Read more

2016-01-24T23:33:31-04:00

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Fun a Day: “You’re the only one who can be you”

Last updated on: January 24, 2016 at 11:33 pm By Tom Swiss

it doesn't reflect what you saw the man in the orange coat waiting at the crosswalk the reflections of books in the window who could believe these were tightly knit together with the electrochemistry of nerve cells? Read more

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