Welcome to the new Reference Library Catalogue. In it, you may find valuable resources headed under various topics of interest. To start us off, I have included some that are in my personal collection and that I would recommend as staple components of any contributor's personal library. I have also included a few, such as the OED, that are available for public use at the city library. As you discover additional resources, please e-mail them to me or include them in a comment to this continuous blog and I will update our resource library here.
Language
Oxford English Dictionary
American Heritage Dictionary
Philosophy and Inquiry
Christian, James L. Philosophy: An Introduction to the Art of Wondering, 5th Ed.
Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
Wilson, Edward O. Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge.
Writing
Hacker, Diana. A Writer's Reference, 5th Ed.
Strunk, William Jr., and E.B. White. The Elements of Style.
Media Literacy
Silverblatt, Art. Media Literacy: Keys to Interpreting Media Messages.
19 April 2007
13 April 2007
Jesus Caught Dancing on MAX; Is Science Merging With Spirituality? Princeton's Global Consciousness Project Encourages Dialog on Compelling Evidence
AA--Is exclusivity of institutionalized ideas dead?
We posed this question recently to what some are calling, "Jesus Christ," spotted recently hitching a free ride on the MAX transit train in Portland, Oregon. The alleged "Messiah" was laughing and dancing, and miraculously, NOT spilling his mug of water that was determined to have somehow transmuted, according to one report, "in just three easy minutes, into green tea complete with a Tazo tea bag (a local company)--it was organic" (unknown source).
Harold Buttwack, 31, was also on the MAX when "Jesus Christ" allegedly made his entrance.
"I was trying to download the light saber app for my iPhone, so I don't really know what happened. You know, (mass transit) rides are notorious freak shows, so it's not like I would have noticed anyone 'out of the ordinary.' I did notice some slight shaking and bursts of light, but I take MAX to work every day. I just thought it was a typical rough Trimet ride," Buttwack says.
Also present was Serendipity Dooda, 31. "It felt like this guy was breathing pretty heavily down my neck, like, I heard some sort of snorting accompanying it, and there was some cold water on my neck, it felt like, and so, of course, I turned around to see what the fuck was going on, and there was this Arab-looking dyke who was just laughing, like silently, with her mouth wide-open. I asked if she would please shut her mouth, that her breath was tickling my neck, and I didn't want my neck tickled, not to mention cold water thrown on me. She handed me a cup of water, and I told her, you know what I told her? I told her, 'I don't want your fucking cold-ass water in the middle of December!,' and I yanked the cup out of her hairy hand, and dropped it in the same instant, cuz it was fucking HOT, and it splashed on my face. I couldn't believe it! That was when I knew this dude was like metaphysical or some shit, like how was I supposed to know it was Jesus Fucking Christ?! So yeah, it tasted like green tea, and that's all he had. I swear it was cold when it was on my neck. It was like he had his own goddamn invisible microwave technology from the future or something!"
Despite our best attempts to catch up with him (may have been a lesbian/intersex/trans-gender post-op--he was wearing plaid), we could not track this "Jesus Christ," down for the interview, as his dance seemed to have been exponentially generating variations of itself into dimensions we could not quite assimilate. Perhaps his laughter, too, could have been recorded and then slowed down in tests to determine if he, in fact, was answering our questions, and perhaps giving us a whole sermon on the MAX? He did point to two advertisements on the walls of the train, one conversation between a couple teenagers, and a billboard at the intersection we had stopped at, effectively drawing our attention to the words, "global" "conscious" and "project."
Elmo Snuffalopagus, Professor Emeritus, City College of Whosville, Whoseville, EMN, where he taught, for over 35 years, comparative religion, language, and comparative mythology, will be taking questions in an open discussion format at Macy's in Portland, Oregon, during the "12 days of Solstice" event, beginning December 21. Snuffalopagus, 31, is the author of 13 books, including Is Exclusivity of Institutionalized Ideas Dead? A Chronicle of Contemporary Discoveries, Myths, Beliefs and the Pseudo-"Westernized" Psyche, due out from Hardcourt, 2009.
An extensive study conducted by researchers at Princeton University for the past few decades, The Global Consciousness Project (GCP) has been compiling data on the interrelationship of thought and matter. Simply designed "random number generators" attempt to measure nothing. Ones who quantify the data notice patterns of synchronicity (quantum mechanics implies that the idea, and certainly, the belief, of clinical objectivity is a fallacy). What is interesting about this scientific project is now that the research phase has shifted into one of proselytization, the collaborators are rather emphatically promoting dialogs that are not only encouraging interdisciplinary perspectives, but are encouraging any and all perspectives, most notably, ones that tend to poetry, art, and philosophy.
It seeks convergence with other traditions, recognizing that in order to discuss these findings, exclusively scientific perspectives are proving ineffective (i.e., if you are a dancing Jesus, you're hired!). The project, therefore, is inviting perspectives across disciplines including those that are typically seen as exclusive from the sciences, such as the fine arts and the "humanities," to engage in a dialog emphasizing a philosophical approach to the findings.
The GCP is enticing as an example of a radical and pioneering shift in academic leadership, where Princeton has funded what appears to be a major credited new construct that is replacing old paradigms and completing theories such as Einstein's Theories of Relativity and Green's String Theory (both of which, incidentally, also originated from Princeton authors). The greater community of academics is beginning, as a growing coagulated entity, an exploration of new territory, implying a recognition of the former program's limitations, as well as their own, and offers an indication of a radically new paradigm that has been suggested for decades in terms of a global renaissance emerging that is enticing to those of us who are inclined towards a balance between the the technical and technique. Ironically, Science seems finally to have been something that can be its own dissolution, itself perhaps a method, program, project, into which we all were systemically abducted, not unlike religion, for understanding what it is to be human situated within a kosmos, putting definition on the mysteries. In the end, though, as the world is pulling together, finally, in a messy crisis of never-seen-before proportions, it seems we are finding that the general sentiment that "everyone together creates the world" is not just wishful thinking.
More information is available at the GCP's official website that contains forums, wikis, and open-sourced data, continuing its mission to comprehend and discuss the implications of the research: http://noosphere.princeton.edu.
See also the article, "Do We Need a 'Scientific Revolution' in Order to Create World Peace?," by Jonathan Rowson (http://www.gse.harvard.edu/~t656_web/peace/Articles_Spring_2003/Rowson_Jonathan_Stress.htm).
AA--Is exclusivity of institutionalized ideas dead?
We posed this question recently to what some are calling, "Jesus Christ," spotted recently hitching a free ride on the MAX transit train in Portland, Oregon. The alleged "Messiah" was laughing and dancing, and miraculously, NOT spilling his mug of water that was determined to have somehow transmuted, according to one report, "in just three easy minutes, into green tea complete with a Tazo tea bag (a local company)--it was organic" (unknown source).
Harold Buttwack, 31, was also on the MAX when "Jesus Christ" allegedly made his entrance.
"I was trying to download the light saber app for my iPhone, so I don't really know what happened. You know, (mass transit) rides are notorious freak shows, so it's not like I would have noticed anyone 'out of the ordinary.' I did notice some slight shaking and bursts of light, but I take MAX to work every day. I just thought it was a typical rough Trimet ride," Buttwack says.
Also present was Serendipity Dooda, 31. "It felt like this guy was breathing pretty heavily down my neck, like, I heard some sort of snorting accompanying it, and there was some cold water on my neck, it felt like, and so, of course, I turned around to see what the fuck was going on, and there was this Arab-looking dyke who was just laughing, like silently, with her mouth wide-open. I asked if she would please shut her mouth, that her breath was tickling my neck, and I didn't want my neck tickled, not to mention cold water thrown on me. She handed me a cup of water, and I told her, you know what I told her? I told her, 'I don't want your fucking cold-ass water in the middle of December!,' and I yanked the cup out of her hairy hand, and dropped it in the same instant, cuz it was fucking HOT, and it splashed on my face. I couldn't believe it! That was when I knew this dude was like metaphysical or some shit, like how was I supposed to know it was Jesus Fucking Christ?! So yeah, it tasted like green tea, and that's all he had. I swear it was cold when it was on my neck. It was like he had his own goddamn invisible microwave technology from the future or something!"
Despite our best attempts to catch up with him (may have been a lesbian/intersex/trans-gender post-op--he was wearing plaid), we could not track this "Jesus Christ," down for the interview, as his dance seemed to have been exponentially generating variations of itself into dimensions we could not quite assimilate. Perhaps his laughter, too, could have been recorded and then slowed down in tests to determine if he, in fact, was answering our questions, and perhaps giving us a whole sermon on the MAX? He did point to two advertisements on the walls of the train, one conversation between a couple teenagers, and a billboard at the intersection we had stopped at, effectively drawing our attention to the words, "global" "conscious" and "project."
Elmo Snuffalopagus, Professor Emeritus, City College of Whosville, Whoseville, EMN, where he taught, for over 35 years, comparative religion, language, and comparative mythology, will be taking questions in an open discussion format at Macy's in Portland, Oregon, during the "12 days of Solstice" event, beginning December 21. Snuffalopagus, 31, is the author of 13 books, including Is Exclusivity of Institutionalized Ideas Dead? A Chronicle of Contemporary Discoveries, Myths, Beliefs and the Pseudo-"Westernized" Psyche, due out from Hardcourt, 2009.
An extensive study conducted by researchers at Princeton University for the past few decades, The Global Consciousness Project (GCP) has been compiling data on the interrelationship of thought and matter. Simply designed "random number generators" attempt to measure nothing. Ones who quantify the data notice patterns of synchronicity (quantum mechanics implies that the idea, and certainly, the belief, of clinical objectivity is a fallacy). What is interesting about this scientific project is now that the research phase has shifted into one of proselytization, the collaborators are rather emphatically promoting dialogs that are not only encouraging interdisciplinary perspectives, but are encouraging any and all perspectives, most notably, ones that tend to poetry, art, and philosophy.
It seeks convergence with other traditions, recognizing that in order to discuss these findings, exclusively scientific perspectives are proving ineffective (i.e., if you are a dancing Jesus, you're hired!). The project, therefore, is inviting perspectives across disciplines including those that are typically seen as exclusive from the sciences, such as the fine arts and the "humanities," to engage in a dialog emphasizing a philosophical approach to the findings.
The GCP is enticing as an example of a radical and pioneering shift in academic leadership, where Princeton has funded what appears to be a major credited new construct that is replacing old paradigms and completing theories such as Einstein's Theories of Relativity and Green's String Theory (both of which, incidentally, also originated from Princeton authors). The greater community of academics is beginning, as a growing coagulated entity, an exploration of new territory, implying a recognition of the former program's limitations, as well as their own, and offers an indication of a radically new paradigm that has been suggested for decades in terms of a global renaissance emerging that is enticing to those of us who are inclined towards a balance between the the technical and technique. Ironically, Science seems finally to have been something that can be its own dissolution, itself perhaps a method, program, project, into which we all were systemically abducted, not unlike religion, for understanding what it is to be human situated within a kosmos, putting definition on the mysteries. In the end, though, as the world is pulling together, finally, in a messy crisis of never-seen-before proportions, it seems we are finding that the general sentiment that "everyone together creates the world" is not just wishful thinking.
More information is available at the GCP's official website that contains forums, wikis, and open-sourced data, continuing its mission to comprehend and discuss the implications of the research: http://noosphere.princeton.edu.
See also the article, "Do We Need a 'Scientific Revolution' in Order to Create World Peace?," by Jonathan Rowson (http://www.gse.harvard.edu/~t656_web/peace/Articles_Spring_2003/Rowson_Jonathan_Stress.htm).
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