there’s this dream, then I’m awake.
Posted in Basic Ideology on Dec 11th, 2009
The way of the Sufi is to embrace the joy of the essence of God in everything, and every aspect of everything. The best times and the worst times. Rumi expresses this supreme joy:
I am a lover of both His benevolence and severity!
Amazing it is that I’m in love with these opposites!
Jack
I [...]
Posted in Fragments on Jun 24th, 2009
Richard Matheson wrote What Dreams May Come in 1978, as a love story to his wife. It pops up every so often in my life, and reminds me of the things that I love, and gives me hope. I may disappear from time to time, but it is within my nature to run. [...]
Posted in Basic Ideology on Aug 16th, 2008
Bear with me. This is a little heavy, but consider and think upon the ramification.
“It not infrequently happens that something about the earth, about the sky, about other elements of this world, about the motion and rotation or even the magnitude and distances of the stars, about definite eclipses of the sun and moon, about [...]
Posted in Basic Ideology on Jul 12th, 2008
Welcome class. In Basic Ideology 101, we are going to learn about some basic concepts and ways of thinking. We will study ideas, and I will encourage you to spend as much time as you can on introspection for this course.
Class begins!
Reexamining the Self
The patterns in which we think are so important. [...]
Posted in poetry on Jun 1st, 2008
For the first time on Loki Listens, I’m going to publish a poem I am actually sort of proud of. Hopefully someone will enjoy it as much as I do.
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Drink in the night.
Can you feel this flavor?
The wine is deep red.
The love is crystal clear.
Drink with me.
This cup we share.
We are not this.
We never [...]
Posted in internet on Mar 7th, 2008
It’s no big secret that I love the Firefox based browser, Flock, more than any other web 2.0 tool. So what happened today? Flock 1.1 was released. And my life got even easier!
Posted in Developmental Theology on Feb 27th, 2008
Posted in Developmental Theology on Feb 26th, 2008
“Whoever’s calm and sensible is insane.”
-Rumi
Loki
I Listen.
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Posted in linux on Jan 9th, 2008
So, the year has ended, and I’ve learned a lot in my migration to ubuntu. Here’s My Must have’s and where to find ‘em.
1, ubuntu 7.10(Gutsy Gibben) – Release of the year no doubt. Smooth and easy clean install. They’ve probably doubly general user appeal with this release.
2. Flock – [...]
Posted in linux on Jan 3rd, 2008
In Ubuntu, I utilize Tomboy Notes. Tomboy is one of the best organizational tools out there.
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