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Talking Coloring Book Free THIS Week-End For iPad/iTouch/iPhone

by Pier Marton | Nov 12, 2011 | Books, Care, Health, iOS, iPhone, Media, Now, Software, Sound, Sounds, Teach, Women

Free App – Normally $15! 123 Color HD: Premium Edition, Talking Coloring Book (English, Spanish, German, French, Hebrew and Russian Voices Included) http://youtu.be/_tJRXxkA0Y8 EmailMoreRedditTweetShare on...

Jews are Everywhere! (Part …): BuJu/JuBu/BuBuJuJu

by Pier Marton | Oct 27, 2011 | Antisemitism, Asia, Ego, Health, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Jewish, Judaism, Juif, Middle-East, Mystery, Now, Politics

Wes Nisker in Tricycle You’ve got your Buddhists, with their cool detachment, quietude, and inner peace. And then you have your Jews, with their emotionality, verbal dexterity, and worldly chutzpah. Maybe the two sets of characteristics are complementary. Go figure....

Ajahn Chah ?? ??????? (Achaan Chah) Website

by Pier Marton | Sep 26, 2011 | Asia, Books, Care, Eco, Ego, Health, Highlights, Ideas, Mystery, Now, Site

I am sorry about the ?? instead of the Thai characters – on my previous WordPress.com blog, it worked fine. I have tried some of the tips provided here – http://wordpress.org/support/topic/special-characters-converted-to-question-marks-on-save?replies=39 – but I need...

My 100 Year Old Active Friend (on Skype)

by Pier Marton | Sep 20, 2011 | Ego, Hispanic, History, Humor, Jewish, Magyar, Now, Shoah

Who either says he is “surprising well,” or “still alive.” He is one of only two people alive today (both “Bandi”) who knew my grandmother, the one that was gased at Auschwitz. This is a tribute by a relative of his. Today he recommended to me three programs on...

Criminal Language: “Roadkill/Collateral Damage/Trash”

by Pier Marton | Aug 25, 2011 | Afri, Antisemitism, Art, Asia, Care, Death, Doc, Eco, Ego, Health, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Jewish, Juif, Media, Middle-East, Now, Objects, Politics, Quotes, Roma, Shoah, Spectacle, Theater, Wars, Women

For more about escaping language/words: the Dictionary of Imploded Meanings. If you think the system is working, ask someone who isn’t or who was stopped “dead in his tracks.” An excerpt from Beyond Belief (Against the Weapons of Mass Distraction): (YOU WILL) KNOW...

Inequality (and Irrationality) in the Face

by Pier Marton | Aug 18, 2011 | Afri, Asia, Care, Death, Food, Health, Hispanic, Human Rights, Ideas, Jewish, Middle-East, Now, Politics, Quotes, Sci/Nat, Spectacle, Wars, Women

If you want to avoid civil war, you must become imperialists. Cecil Rhodes 1895 Land of the free, home of the poor on the PBS Newshour. Summary: Financial gains over the last decade in the United States have been mostly made at the “tippy-top” of the economic food...

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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus