Child labour pt 1
Here's the vid after all that...
(Yep, i't's back to said drawing board)
I've been trying to upload this video of Ghin doing the laundry but it isn't happening. As i do this, i ruminate about nagas, google aimlessly and wonder what Spa i can find in Northern Ireland which i can possibly go to to take a break from the rigors of motherhood. It turns out there are precisely three spas here. It sounds unbelieveable, but i suppose the undertaking of a Spa is a pretty big one. All that luxury and no one to use it...possibly.
I wonder how much longer this is going to take. I'm so bored...
I have put so a fair bit of weight since my return. I calculate that if i start running everyday now, which should theoretically be easier since it isn't so dark for so long now, i would be able to get back to where i was within two months. If i dieted it might take a little less time. It would be nice to be happy in somekind of swimsuit for the summer. Especially when it entails being in Singapore with all those skinny ass bitches, as Jacq so nicely puts it.
In the mean time...
I'm also reading a book by Brien Masters snappily called Steiner Education and Social Issues. It is written in a somewhat 'poetic' style which i can't decide is annoying or pleasant. On the one hand, i just want the information NOW, forget the fecking lyrics, please. On the other hand, i think guiltily that i am ideologically quite unsound as Brien expounds the dangers of intellectualism and how a human being is made up of three component, and the factual learning which predominates in schools stunts our development as loving creations. Yes, i know Brien, but can you say this with fewer flowers along the way.
This all is taking very long. I am in agreement with Brein though. And the more i read and know about Steiner the more i am convinced that it is exactly what i want for the whole world, nevermind my own children. But the world is heading in the exact opposite direction. There are a few every now and then who do say this ain't on, but by and large, people have no choice but to go with the flow. The other day, i was listening to Melvyn Bragg introduce Kirkergaard, which he pronouced as Kickerguard - which i thought was a dreadful thing for Bragg to do - i have very little knowledge about Soren, beyond the right pronounciation of his name, but it sounded very interesting - the father of existentialism, and deconstruction, by the sounds of it - anyhow, when he handed it back to Jim and Sarah, he said, and now i return you to the empiricists of the day. You see the entire system is just rotten. We have evolved so highly in one direction that...
I was also thinking of the Council of Nicea (yes, please pray that this upload concludes soon). Is it not ironic, the splitting of soul and body that took place was probably motivated by the church attempting to consolidate power through control of the narrative. For a couple of hundred years that worked. And then the Reformation came along and blew a gasket in that engine. And then a few more hundred years and the authoritarian form of religion basically played itself out and now no one wants to know about religion. They basically did themselves out of a job by trying to be too clever about holding on to it. Religion is about spirit and you can't split the form from the life that animates it and hope that reason will win the day. Now we are left with the legacy of that arrogance. A devastated planet, decimated cultures, a poverty of imagination and spirit, social injustice that you've never seen before, integrity sacrificed for pragmatism which is actually thinly disguised greed.
(Yep, i't's back to said drawing board)
I've been trying to upload this video of Ghin doing the laundry but it isn't happening. As i do this, i ruminate about nagas, google aimlessly and wonder what Spa i can find in Northern Ireland which i can possibly go to to take a break from the rigors of motherhood. It turns out there are precisely three spas here. It sounds unbelieveable, but i suppose the undertaking of a Spa is a pretty big one. All that luxury and no one to use it...possibly.
I wonder how much longer this is going to take. I'm so bored...
I have put so a fair bit of weight since my return. I calculate that if i start running everyday now, which should theoretically be easier since it isn't so dark for so long now, i would be able to get back to where i was within two months. If i dieted it might take a little less time. It would be nice to be happy in somekind of swimsuit for the summer. Especially when it entails being in Singapore with all those skinny ass bitches, as Jacq so nicely puts it.
In the mean time...
I'm also reading a book by Brien Masters snappily called Steiner Education and Social Issues. It is written in a somewhat 'poetic' style which i can't decide is annoying or pleasant. On the one hand, i just want the information NOW, forget the fecking lyrics, please. On the other hand, i think guiltily that i am ideologically quite unsound as Brien expounds the dangers of intellectualism and how a human being is made up of three component, and the factual learning which predominates in schools stunts our development as loving creations. Yes, i know Brien, but can you say this with fewer flowers along the way.
This all is taking very long. I am in agreement with Brein though. And the more i read and know about Steiner the more i am convinced that it is exactly what i want for the whole world, nevermind my own children. But the world is heading in the exact opposite direction. There are a few every now and then who do say this ain't on, but by and large, people have no choice but to go with the flow. The other day, i was listening to Melvyn Bragg introduce Kirkergaard, which he pronouced as Kickerguard - which i thought was a dreadful thing for Bragg to do - i have very little knowledge about Soren, beyond the right pronounciation of his name, but it sounded very interesting - the father of existentialism, and deconstruction, by the sounds of it - anyhow, when he handed it back to Jim and Sarah, he said, and now i return you to the empiricists of the day. You see the entire system is just rotten. We have evolved so highly in one direction that...
I was also thinking of the Council of Nicea (yes, please pray that this upload concludes soon). Is it not ironic, the splitting of soul and body that took place was probably motivated by the church attempting to consolidate power through control of the narrative. For a couple of hundred years that worked. And then the Reformation came along and blew a gasket in that engine. And then a few more hundred years and the authoritarian form of religion basically played itself out and now no one wants to know about religion. They basically did themselves out of a job by trying to be too clever about holding on to it. Religion is about spirit and you can't split the form from the life that animates it and hope that reason will win the day. Now we are left with the legacy of that arrogance. A devastated planet, decimated cultures, a poverty of imagination and spirit, social injustice that you've never seen before, integrity sacrificed for pragmatism which is actually thinly disguised greed.
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