Author Archives: amos
RANT ALERT: Occupy, class warfare
After hearing sickening amounts of uninformed rhetorical criticism of Occupiers and/or poor/unemployed/foreclosed people, I’m hereby deducting mad credibility points from anyone who says “get a job” in a non-sarcastic context. Are people even paying attention? Have we ever had a … Continue reading
NY Post Article on OWS: “It’ll Only Get Uglier”
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/it_ll_only_get_uglier_gUFgrxD32qqreWTimpCJbM This article is full of generalizations and assumptions. First, it should be obvious from the literature coming from the Occupy movement that violence is not generally supported, and it should be obvious from countless reports that NYPD officers are … Continue reading
Occupation and Freedom
I recently set up camp at Zucotti Park with the Occupy Wall Street movement. Having grown up in Chapel Hill, NC (a forward thinking town from way back), and been involved with the Unitarian Church there through my mother, civil … Continue reading
on intuition – pt I (ed. Blake Seidenshaw)
…because logical connections are forged by the mind actively and selectively, rather than understood receptively and holistically—and so the mind can go walking anywhere soundly in its own realm and still find itself nowhere in reality, to whatever degree it dispenses with receptivity and adaptability. Ergo, we connote theoretical vs. practical certainty in our distinction between analytical and intuitive knowledge, and the difference is made by listening. Continue reading
meet me outside of time
who is the you that i see? and why did you just say that to me? i swear that your hair is going to be longer but don’t use the beehive to hide your honey let it hang down, and … Continue reading