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The Religious Right No Longer Cares About The Gays
Two sharp divisions within the Catholic Church illustrate a broader trend. Over 100 German Catholic parishes now recognize and bless gay couples against the orders of the Pope. It's not expected that they will face any punishment. In the U.S., many bishops want to deny communion to President Joe Biden over his support for abortion. Pope Francis has urged American bishops to not carry this out, but it is growing in popularity.
The two events indicate a larger change within the Religious Right: complete retreat on gay issues in favor of a total focus on abortion. While the German priests are of course not American, it's not hard to see a similar situation arise here in one of our more conservative denominations. Catholic conservatives are disgusted with the German church's heresy, but in America, the Religious Right has surrendered on the gay issue.
This is a major change from just 10 or 15 years ago. George W. Bush won re-election in 2004 on the promise of passing a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. Liberal California voted to ban same-sex marriage in 2008. Several states banned gay adoption to popular acclaim. Support for traditional values was a vote-getter, and the Religious Right was a powerful force. Now social conservatives can only muster opposition to trans athletes in girls' sports.
There are two recent examples to show the change in the Religious Right.
For years, evangelicals and other conservative Christians battled against gays adopting kids. Now they help gays get kids. "We will now offer services with the love and compassion of Jesus to the many types of families who exist in our world today," Bethany Christian Services president Chris Palusky said in an email announcing the change in March. The organization's position previously stated that "God's design for the family is a covenant and lifelong marriage of one man and one woman." But it has been quietly working with gay couples to secure children over the last two years. Philadelphia suspended contracts with Bethany and a Catholic adoption service after a lesbian couple complained that the evangelicals referred them to another provider. Bethany capitulated to the pressure and agreed to work with gay couples. (Interestingly, the Catholic charity refused to cave in and sued the city.) In January, Bethany eliminated its position in favor of traditional marriage.
This change is brought by state pressure and changing attitudes among evangelicals. Philadelphia and many others now refuse to work with adoption services that reject gay couples. Bethany's policy change was greeted with disappointment by many of its conservative allies.
"I am disappointed in this decision, as are many," Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, said. "This move will harm already existing efforts to enable faith-based orphan care ministries to serve the vulnerable without capitulating on core Christian convictions."
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The other big change was the lack of opposition toward Republicans supporting Caitlyn Jenner's bid for California governor. Here was the face of the transgender movement setting out as a member of social conservatives' party in an attempt to govern America's most populous state. Many conservatives, particularly from Trump world, back "her." The only voices to complain about Jenner's elevation to a conservative icon aren't associated with the Religious Right. It's people like Nick Fuentes and others — many of whom are devout Christians — but are not known as figureheads in the Religious Right. Megachurch pastors and Catholic bishops haven't said anything about Con Inc. and the GOP rallying behind Jenner.
These same groups also don't complain about the many gays taking leadership roles within the conservative movement and GOP. They don't raise a fuss that the party no longer seems to care about overturning gay marriage or preventing gay adoption. They certainly didn't care that the last Republican president touted his pro-LGBT record and used American's foreign apparatus to push for gay acceptance all over the globe.
So much for eternal, unchanging values.
Much of this change is driven by shifting public attitudes. Seventy percent of Americans back same-sex marriage. This includes over 70% of Catholics and the majority of every other Christian denomination, except for white evangelicals. But even among white evangelicals, a majority (59%) support laws that "protect" gays from discrimination. These very same laws are used to undermine religious freedom. A majority of Republicans also back gay marriage and LGBT "civil rights protections." Young white evangelicals also have very different views from their parents. A plurality (47%) said they supported gay marriage in 2017. It's likely that number has increased over the last four years to constitute an outright majority.
There's also the matter of declining religiosity in America. A recent Gallup poll found that church membership had fallen below 50% for the first time. Only 65% of Americans still identify as Christian, while 26% say they have no religious affiliation at all. Religion is also becoming less important to the foot soldiers of the Religious Right — albeit slightly. In 2008, when gay marriage was still getting crushed at the ballot box, 80% of evangelicals said religion was very important to them. In 2019, less than 74% said so.
This all comes at a time when the Religious Right may be on the precipice of achieving a long-term goal: repealing Roe v. Wade. The landmark ruling that legalized abortion nationwide may receive a Supreme Court overturning this year, depending on how the court rules in an abortion case it just accepted. A revocation of Roe v. Wade would be the biggest victory for social conservatives in modern history. But this wouldn't necessarily be a result of winning over the public to their side. Over 60% of Americans believe abortion should be legal in most cases and the numbers only increase with young people. While a fair number of Americans say they oppose abortion in most cases, only 14% favor the outright bans wanted by the pro-life movement.
Yet, unlike with gay issues, the Religious Right fervently fights over abortion and continues to shape policy on the issue.
The difference is that no one really calls you a bigot for opposing abortion. In fact, you can claim the real bigots support abortion because it disproportionately affects non-whites. It's one of the few dissents the system will tolerate, likely because most pro-life arguments don't threaten the liberal zeitgeist. Most abortion opponents make their case by making their position the true egalitarian stance, while demonizing their opponents as racists and eugenicists. On LGBT issues, social conservatives don't have that luxury. The only hope to avoid bigotry is to appeal to faith, which no longer carries as much weight. Besides, to many Americans, being a good Christian just means being a "good person." That requires one to embrace gays, lesbians, transgenders, atheists, and pretty much everyone except racists. That leaves the Religious Right with just one main issue and shifting accessory issues, like "religious freedom" (which seems to have been forgotten about) and homeschool support.
There will come a time when most evangelical groups, and possibly even the Catholic Church, come to fully accept gay couples. To fit in within society, it will be a requirement to do so. Secular authorities could threaten and cajole to get these results. Influential parishioners could pressure their pastors and priests to capitulate, or the pastors and priests could do it on their own because they think they need to make this concession to keep parishioners in their pews. However it happens, it will convey that the churches follow a higher power on Earth, and it isn't God.
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Peter Quint says:
I am for gay marriages as long as it is confined within non-white communities; I am also for abortion as long as it is confined within non-white communities, the same for AIDS, COVOD-19–ad infinitum.
Jud Jackson says:
Excellent article. However, I think Roe V Wade is here to stay.
Dr ExCathedra says:
What passes for Christianity these days would be unrecognizable to the millennial+ generations of their European ancestors, who were racially aware and loyal to their own, understood the JQ and the nature of Islam, accepted hierarchy as divinely mandated and knew the differences between men and women, all quite comfortably.
More than three centuries of Enlightenment propaganda have hollowed out the Christian churches in the West, finally even taking down Rome herself. They now all worship at the altar of liberty, equality and fraternity, UN-style. The Trojan Horse has done its work.
Jim Goad says:
I'm pretty sure that being non-racially aware and pro-globalist is a feature, not a bug, of Christianity.
"There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." —Galatians 3:28
I'm pretty sure that quoting one line from a book does not do away with the actual history of Christian Europe.
Darius says:
There are some of them that still opppose it. This group here opposes gay marriage. https://tfpstudentaction.org/
They also say on their site that the Jesuits have capitulated to the lgbt and I can't find any larger Catholic groups who do.
Lord Shang says:
Wait a second. Is someone here implying the the Catholic Church endorses same-sex marriage? That is totally false. Even the rotten Pope Francis has not tried to pronounce that same-sex "marriage" is equivalent to the actual sacrament of marriage.
Absolutely incorrect, indicating a very shallow degree of theological understanding. That so-oft misused quote refers to the universal potential of spiritual salvation through Christ (that Christ did not come merely to save the alleged "Chosen"). It is descriptive not prescriptive; it embodies no moral command to erase historic peoples and cultures. The issue for real Christians wrt race mixing is not whether it is evil, but whether resistance to it is evil, to which the answer is "no". (Don't fall for the enemy's propaganda.)
"being non-racially aware and pro-globalist is a feature…of Christianity"
False. There are 2 factions of clergy in the church – even today:
the Trad-Cats vs. globohomo.
This is Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in a video in 1989:
(A man who has spent a lot of time in Africa) Keep in mind there are a lot of clergy like him today; they just can't speak up because the Jesuit, who is currently on the seat of Peter in Rome, is in fact, part of globohomo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cWyHyP1oQY
Röhman says:
Jim, that quote from Galatians isn't about race
but can I ask you… even if it was, do you think anything in this quote, Galatians, or the rest of the New Testament negates the end time prophecies in Daniel?
It would be pretty absurd to argue that Christianity, or Christ, promotes being racially unaware – no matter how many ppl who call themselves Christian would try to convince us otherwise.
…So, don't let them convince you too.
You are correct. The church (I speak of all of them) has been polluted and corrupted by liberalism, a doctrine very different from actual Christianity (especially in its modern 'progressive' form, though certain philosophical presumptions put even the classical, libertarian variety at odds with the faith in its fundamentals). The churches need to be seized by their laities, and ruthlessly cleansed.
Beau Albrecht says:
SCOTUS won't dare do anything that goes against The Agenda. Resident Bidet wants to pack the court, and it would give him (or to be accurate, his handlers) just the excuse. Of course, it's because of their feet of clay that we're in this mess.
Ploppy says:
"Faith" is just a euphemism for people accepting a proposition on the basis of social pressure instead of evidence. Christianity evaporated once the left took over the public morality with Wokeism, as all those "faithful" people were primarily concerned with their social status and parroting social justice talking points is what gives social status now.
The reason gays playing pee-pee can jump around between being right and wrong as a moral issue is because it doesn't really matter much. The Romans and Greeks did quite well for themselves, and they thought it was only a problem if you were the one on the bottom. Similarly the United States can still beat up on smaller countries even with 57 genders. Compare that to, say, "defund the police and use community organizers instead" where you see immediate severe consequences from a bad idea.
ccecil1 says:
'To fit in with society they will have to…'
NO, Churchianity will and is doing that.
The genuine Christian church will not 'fit in with society' and will not go along. Whether that means it loses members or not, don't confuse Churchianity with the real thing.
This page and the quote Robert Lewis Dabney have helped wake me up from my slumber of Conservatism. Populism has life in it still I feel, even though it is getting too close to conservatism.
This take on 'the gays' is exactly the reason why white ppl are losing this race war, in such a bloody and publicly humiliating way.
This movement needs an Ernst Röhm. We will continue to flounder & fail until this revelation is fully realized. We are throwing away one of the greatest and most effective weapons in our arsenal, that has the potential to utterly defang any moral justification for black/brown militancy, #metoo/feminism, trans/anti-male effeminacy, and the jew subversion justifying of it all… that weapon is the gay white male of the Greco-Roman tradition.
Our enemy knows this. Which is why our enemy is going through such great lengths to infiltrate pro-white circles to neutralize this weapon; they know who turned them back at Thermopylae – they know who left Jerusalem in a heap of smoldering rubble. They know the strength of the West, when even we haven't realized it yet.
It wasn't just 'the Nazis' who got rid of Hirschfeld's school – it was the homo SA. It's not about gay, it's about what type of gay… what type of man. The effeminate heterosexual man is causing every bit as much damage to the West as the black tranny. Maybe more.
As far as the above article goes, it was obviously not written by a real Christian, but another Old Testament jew. More importantly, for readers of Counter-Culture, it is misleading and does not give an adequate, updated analysis of the Christian Right's relationship with homosexuality, and how that relationship affects the political/social interests of our movement….. Or it would've instead been an article about how ever since the crackdowns following Charlottesville, the Christian Right has cucked (as it always does) on the issue of obvious anti-white racism in this country, and has looked for a substitute issue to take the place of the inescapable issue of race, which we all know is what is at the root of the war being thrust upon us…. They have decided on a far easier pivot to homosexuality as its prime moral target; a Prop 8.2. Anything is better than being called racist, to this crowd. It is the opposite of "The Religious Right No Longer Cares About The Gays".
But one would have to actually be listening to and attending the sermons, for the past 10 years, to see the recent trend that's revisiting. I doubt this author has been.
Mace says:
This is a troublesome sign of the advancing leftwing zeitgeist, but but as with many issues, I guess it depends on how much one values nationalism, or even just advancing the interests of whites, versus Christianity and American social conservatism.
I think there is a social conservative case for allowing for gay marriage. A small, but steady fraction of the population will always be homosexual. If I have a gay son or brother, I'd rather them commit to a monogamous relationship, than the reckless promiscuity that characterized the outcast gay lifestyle of past decades.
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HUELO, Maui — State wildlife officials want to use lethal means to remove a flock of mitered conures from the wild after a nonprofit group failed to capture the parrots and move them to its Maui sanctuary.
An estimated 200 parrots living on the cliffs at Huelo Point, Maui, have state wildlife officials worried.
In June, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service denied money for a proposal to survey and track the flock's movements and conduct "land-based control activities" to get rid of them, but state officials hope the project will fly later this summer with the help of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
State wildlife biologist Fern Duvall called Maui's mitered conures "a ticking time bomb," an invasive non-native pest that threatens crops and native forest.
If the growing parrot flock isn't removed from the wild soon, Duvall said, it could become impossible to control, allowing the fruit-eating birds to accelerate the spread of miconia, the state's most-feared weed and target of millions of dollars in eradication work.
Teya Penniman, manager of the Maui Invasive Species Committee, said officials are looking at a $52,000 plan that includes land and air surveys to learn how big the population is, and radio tracking to find out where the birds are flying.
It has not been decided what methods will be used to eradicate them, she said. Officials talked about shooting or trapping and netting, although the latter option would involve rappelling down the precipitous Huelo sea cliffs.
"The goal is to remove all known mitered conures from the wild," Penniman said. "We know it's very controversial. They are beautiful creatures that a lot of people associate with a tropical paradise. But they are not part of Hawai'i."
A flock estimated at 200 birds grew apparently from a single pair released in Huelo in the mid-1980s. Today, the brightly plumed red-and-green conures nest high in the vertical sea cliffs at Huelo Point on Maui's north shore. On most mornings, the flock emerges from its nightly roost with loud shrieking, flies into the windward highlands and returns in the afternoon.
Wildlife officials were considering eradication in 2001, when Maui Animal Rescue and Sanctuary stepped forward with a plan to capture the birds and move them to an aviary at the group's Ha'iku property. Sanctuary officials said they wanted to prevent the state from shooting the birds.
Working with scientists with the World Parrot Trust, sanctuary officials planned to establish a base in Huelo where humane traps and a large cage would be constructed. The plan was to feed the birds and establish a habit of visitation, then shut the door.
The group was issued a yearlong permit to implement the plan. With progress slow, it made inquiries about getting another 12-month permit. That's when money for the project dried up, said Fern Van Sant, a bird veterinarian in San Jose, Calif., who is director of Maui Animal Rescue and Sanctuary.
Van Sant said the group ran into coastal-access problems in Huelo and she started using her own money to see the project through. A last-ditch effort involving a California biologist failed, and the project was abandoned.
"Every direction we turned, there was a roadblock at the end of the road," she said.
Penniman said such species upset the environmental balance of the Islands and put native plants and animals at risk.
Duvall said recent feeding trials have proved that miconia seeds can germinate after passing through the bird's digestive system. With the parrot's ability to fly long distances, he said, the threat worries those trying to stem the spread of invasive weeds.
"They will be a terrible problem if they get into the heartland of the (East Maui) miconia infestation," Duvall said. "It's a ticking time bomb that could change the structure of the forest."
Workers with the USDA's Wildlife Services branch would be hired for the work, but funding remains uncertain, said Mike E. Pitzler, state director of the federal agency. Special year-end money has been requested, he said, but budgetary restrictions make it likely that the state will have to match the money.
Van Sant predicted the state would have trouble removing all the swift-flying birds from the wild.
She said the parrot threat to crops and the environment was being overstated to justify the eradication plan. Although hungry conures eat miconia seeds in controlled experiments, she said it is not known whether they would do so in the wild. Van Sant also thinks there are far fewer birds than the state has suggested.
"I spent more time at that cliff at dawn than anyone else. We took video footage and counted and recounted, and we couldn't come up with 100 birds. It looks like roughly 60 birds to me," she said.
"So the odds that someday these birds are going to become a flock that blackens the sky are not good."
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I am thrilled to present a new Climate Stew video. Although Elizabeth Jeremiah has been beating down my door with a new video, I persuaded her to wait another week since her last video about Jesus and the Curious Case of Global Warming.
With the launch of the new Citizens' Climate Radio show, I decided to write a new monologue. As a character actor, I have collected a gaggle of characters who help me to better understand myself and the world around me. I need them right now as I have been going through many rapid changes. And it is all because of Global Warming.
I thought about the past four years from the moment I first became alarmed about climate change to this moment when I am connected to thousands of people seeking solutions. That I feel hope right now is a testimony to the individuals and organizations who have helped to see that there are ways forward.
Through these comic characters, I want to share with you The Five Stages of Hot Climate Action. And I wonder if you can relate to them. Which one represents where you are right now? What would you add or change.
F r e a k O u t Stage: This is when the penny dropped and I suddenly realized just how serious climate change is. This is the Freak Out stage. Strange but my freak out voice sounds a lot like my father.
Toying with Denial Stage: After freaking out for a while the pendulum swung a little to the other side as I toyed with denial. And in my head this is what denial sounded like.
This month I joined over 800 people who spoke with US lawmakers about climate solutions.
The Personal Purge Stage: But I could not drive away reality, so the guilt and shame kicked in when I realized that I was part of the problem. In response I attempted to purge my life of all greenhouse gases.
The Despair Stage: Then it happened. The despair descended upon me. I realized that my individual efforts were pathetic in light of the size of the problem.
The Hope and Engagement Stage: But then something happened. I met likeminded people seeking solutions. And I found hope. And even after a Brexit my hopeful voice sounds British.
I will let my characters describe it all for you. See if you can recognize any of them, and let me know about your stages of hot climate action.
Amazing. I just posted the 50th episode of the Climate Stew podcast. And it is the LAST episode. Nice to end on a significant round number (nothing against you 49 or 51). While I will continue to write blog posts and produced videos through Climate Stew (check out Elizabeth Jeremiah talking Jesus and greenhouse gases,) we end the podcast. I will move on to start Citizens Climate Radio airing June 27.
But we had a number of loose ends to wrap up. In Episode 50 we chat with Dr. Jen O'Brien, my go-to person for all things science education and pop culture updates. She is a brilliant high school teacher. I think you will learn a lot from her teaching experience and how it has changed through the years. Jen is a master communicator when it comes to climate change.
Meet Joe Gee at last!
I also interview the elusive and ever snarky Joe Gee, who I thanked at the end of every Climate Stew episode. He gives me lots of grief, but busting people's chops is his love language.
Elizabeth Jeremiah and Marvin have a blowout argument, but whoa how it gets resolved will make your head spin. I then end the show with a Citizens Climate Puzzler–and give you a chance to respond!
Creating the podcast has been a labor of love but also an excellent way to learn about climate change and climate communication. I hope you enjoy this final episode of Climate Stew and that you follow me over at Citizens Climate Lobby. Just subscribe to Citizens Climate Lobby over on iTunes or find me at their blog. I will also cross-post here at Climate Stew.
Back in the day when I attended Pentecostal Holiness churches, in addition to believing most people were chock full of demons, my ministers also warned us of generational curses. The sins of the fathers fall upon the heads of the sons to the third and fourth generation.
Is it a Demon, a Curse, or Both??
When no amount of repenting rid us of our homosexual inclinations, the ministers assumed we have a naughty ancestor (usually a sailor) who must have diddled with another man. As a result, like a demonic gene mutation, the man on man lust got passed along to us. They insisted we must break the power of these curses if we wish to live a good, clean life in the future.
Well, drawing on that experience, I present to you Elizabeth Jeremiah, a fierce minister of the Gospel, with a word for you. And like often happens with this character, she doesn't end up where you might expect her to go. She has a thing or two to say about our evil, sinful, polluting ways.
On the newest episode of Climate Stew podcast we unpack what the experts are saying about successful climate communication. What works? What would we do well to avoid? I am joined by Elizabeth Jeremiah as we consider an article by that reveals: Here's Everything we Know about Talking about Climate Change.
We also share good news about a legal challenge put forth by a group of young people. Turns out when youth talk to adults about climate change and their futures, the adults listen with more attention.
Finally, Marvin Bloom explains why he has a soft spot for climate deniers. He also makes a big distinction between people struggling to wrap their heads around global warming and all it means with those companies that have gone out of their way to deceive the public.
This will be the penultimate episode of Climate Stew. Enjoy Ep. 49 and in a few weeks join us with Ep. 50, our final episode. It will be chock full of special guests. If you want to share your own message with us, leave a voicemail at 570 483 8194.
Want to be a better Climate Change Communicator? This is the episode for you. In Ep 49 of Climate Stew we review some of the most effective strategies for talking about climate change. We also have great news about a lawsuit brought filed by a group of American young people who demand that adults act on climate. And Marvin Bloom helps us understand the difference between climate denial and outright lying.
Peterson also reminds listeners that very soon Climate Stew podcast will produce its 50th and final episode. He has been invited to create a brand new show on another platform. But the good news is that he and the Climate Stew Crew are beginning to produce new videos!
Hello you have made it to episode 49 of Climate Stew. This is airing on Monday May 2, 2016. I am your host Peterson Toscano and I'm excited to be with you once again. And I'm excited about today's show as we look at both strategies and successes when it comes to climate change communication. Here's what we got cooking for you today on Climate Stew. In the news I will follow up on a story we first covered back in episode 30. A group of teens has sued the US government on behalf of future generations. They are demanding climate action. We have breaking news about that lawsuit. In our Main section, Elizabeth Jeremiah and I will share with you helpful, proven strategies about what you can do to be a better climate communicator. And of course Marvin Bloom is chomping at the bit to get something off his chest. This time about climate denial. Again.
Our climate news story is about climate legal action. Back in Episode 30 I told you about eight young people in Washington State who were so concerned about climate change and the inaction of adults, they took matters into their own hands. In June of 2014 they filed a lawsuit against the Department of Ecology in Washington State.
I reported that the state of Washington baulked, but a judge ordered officials to meet with the youth to address their complaint. This was a historic ruling. What has happened since? Initially the Washington state Department of Ecology came up with a proposed plan to reduce carbon emissions. Then They quickly backtracked,. In response the kids are back in court demanding action. Hopefully they will prevail.
Also in Episode 30 I briefly mentioned another lawsuit brought forward by another group of youth that was proceeding through a court in Oregon. This one is getting some real traction. In fact, a federal judge ruled in favor of the 21 youth plaintiffs ages 8-19.
According to Forbes, The lawsuit alleges that the Federal Government is violating the Plaintiffs' constitutional and public trust rights by promoting the use of fossil fuels. The Complaint explains that, for over fifty years, the United States Government and the Fossil Fuel Industry have known that carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels causes global warming and dangerous climate change, and that continuing to burn fossil fuels destabilizes the climate system.
Keep an eye on this story. This may well be a game changer.
I mentioned last episode that the Climate Stew podcast is coming to a happy end. This is the penultimate episode before I launch a brand new podcast. I will share all the details in our next and final episode.
As I have worked on these final episodes, I have grown reflective. I am curious about effective climate communication. How do we get people to listen, to care, to act? In a way every episode of Climate Stew has sought to answer these questions.
Climate Stew crew member Prescott Allen Hazleton recently sent me an excellent article by Amelia Urry, the associate editor of science and technology over at grist.com. Her article Everything we Know about Talking about Climate Change makes me very happy. I want to share with you some of the highlights from her article. I also want to reflect what we have been doing here and how that lines up with her findings. You will find a link to the article in our show notes.
So what does Amelia suggest? Joining me is our good friend Elizabeth Jeremiah. She will read from Amelia's article and I will comment.
EJ: Hello Peterson. I'm glad to see Marvin Bloom is not here right now.
PT: You two need to end this weird feud you have going on. You are like the Hillary and Bernie of Climate Stew. Ok, what does Amelia advise when it comes to climate communication?
It doesn't work in prison-deterrence campaigns, and it won't work for climate change.
Emphasizing disaster can backfire. The more we are educated about risk, the more we tend to think about disasters as 1) inevitable but 2) something that mostly happens to other people.
PT: I think we have done a good job of avoiding scare tactics here at Climate Stew, the podcast that takes a serious look at global warming but doesn't try to scare the snot out of you. I learned this from years of activism around LGBTQ issues and as I recovered from gay conversion therapy. The more fear in our brains, the harder it is to think clearly. Of course climate change is alarming, but we cannot live in a state of alarm. As communicators we may be tempted to frighten people to action, but over and over studies show that this method only gets people temporarily riled up. They soon move on, often farther away from climate action than before they got the climate fright of their lives.
Similarly I see that leading with shame and guilt does not motivate people to real action. Yes, we need to take responsibility for our country's polluting ways, but shaming people because of their actions drives them into denial and resistance.
There's a "hope gap" — even some of the people who are most alarmed about climate change don't know what the solutions are, says Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication.
So you need to give people the solutions — and they're out there, from household composting to wide-scale energy reform. But this is a big problem, and the solutions need to be big, too — encourage ambitious political action, and minimize individual guilt.
PT: Agreed. There are solutions to our pollution. Here at Climate Stew we have relentlessly urged people to put their efforts into collective actions that change energy policy. Yes, it is the moral and right thing to lower individual carbon footprints. But it is only a baby step. If we left it with that, we will not address the vast problem of public polluting. So much pollution happens on our behalf outside of our homes—the roads we drive or walk on, the power grid, how governments and businesses get and use energy. There are lots of solutions for large scale actions from conversation of energy to pricing carbon. People can feel small and powerless. But over and over I hear experts say that What is needed is political will.
These days I tell my audiences that we have work to do. I give them three steps they can takes.
learn about climate change. make it part of your regular news consumption to read about climate change. Oh, and stories mocking climate deniers do not count. We learn nothing from those. Dig into the issues and the solutions. I suggest you can focus your climate education to a particular passion you have. Discover and understand how climate change affects the thing or things you love the most. This can include pet care, food security, immigration, women's health, golf, coffee, or LGBTQ youth homelessness. Become an expert about how climate change affects your passion.
Break the collective silence. We do not have political will to enact climate related legislation because most people know so little about the problems. It is like during the HIV/AIDS crisis in the early 1980s. Only the people directly affected knew what was going on. There was silence in the media and public discourse. That's when early AIDS activists created the slogan, Silence Equals Death. They creatively broke the collective silence. From the AIDS quilt to made for TV movies to the creation of the first ever lapel ribbon to raise awareness, they got people to see and understand what was happening. That is one of our jobs today. Through social media, at school and work, through our relationships, we can share what we are learning about climate change. You are an influential person. There are people who listen to you. As you continually bring this issue to people's attention, they will listen. Then they too will care.
Instead of urging people to "think about the children" and preserve a livable climate for future generations, new research suggests that it might be more effective to ask people to think about their legacy.
PT: Ah huh, like what will people be saying about me in the future. Seems like a selfish motivation, but humans can be a self-interested specie. I get it.
EJ: And here is a good one that fits in with your news story today.
Though encouraging people to think about children in the abstract might not be the best approach, confronting them with real children is something different altogether. A kid urging (read: relentlessly nagging) her parents to leave her a functional planet when she grows up might have more success than hordes of clipboard-equipped environmental activists. New campaigns have started to encourage motivated teens to talk their family members into voting pro-climate.
So a lot of this has to do with speaking out, communicating. And to me that is the most encouraging and affirming part of Amelia Urry's article. She confirms what we have been doing from the beginning. We have focused on storytelling.
Much better is to tell a good story. Give it a gripping plot, with a beginning, a middle, and an end (and it never hurts to have a villain). And put people at the heart of the story — not icebergs or atmospheres or endangered tree frogs. Help people understand what climate change really means on the ground, today, and what is at stake for them.
PT: I think Marvin does this is some amazing ways when he talks about coffee as an endangered specie. Yes I agree storytelling skills are needed now. I have found too that keeping the stories personal and vulnerable help to draw people in. I have learned so much in my life through my parents, their lives and examples, but also when they died and my sisters and I cared for them. I see so many connections to why I care about climate change. I could not at first comprehend let alone believe my mom was so sick when she was first diagnosed with cancer back in 2004. I felt so much anger towards cancers and the tobacco industry. I felt terrified about the changes that were quickly happening to our family. Even to this day I find it hard to believe that this larger than life, force of nature, my mom, is no longer with us. I can understand why people struggle to believe our earth and our existence on it is threatened. It is too big to take in. The loss is too great.
But it was in caring for my mom and then my dad 6 years later that I found inner resources I had no idea I possessed. Courage, endurance, strength to do what seemed impossible. This gives me hope as I consider the struggles ahead. I remember how my sisters and I and our cousins and people in the community came together and did amazing things in caring for my mom and then my dad. This gives me hope as I look at our threatened future existence and Mother Earth has been handed such a dreadful diagnosis.
EJ: Normally I am uncomfortable with talk of Mother Earth, which sounds like New Age, Pagan, Devil Worship to me. But when you put it that way, about your own momma and 'em, it brings it home to me. I don't think I will ever stop missing my momma and daddy.
PT: Thank you Elizabeth Jeremiah. While we have different ways of looking at the world and we do not agree on everything, I guess we share a lot of the same values and experiences. And at the end of the day when it comes to communicating climate change, it is about finding common ground about what matters the most for each of us.
With that is time for Marvin to come with a story of his own.
EJ: Well, then I guess it is time for me to depart. I've have a women's conference and shopping mall event to attend where I will break about the dangers of generational curses.
Hi this is Marvin, Marvin Bloom, and this is your moment with Marvin. Without Elizabeth Jeremiah.
Ok, I have a new video up on YouTube about climate denial. Just go to YouTube and search for Marvin Bloom Climate Denial. You will find it and a lot more of my videos.
I feel very compassionate toward climate deniers, skeptics. Its like facing the loss of a parent or painful mourning some of us experienced when we lost Lady Gaga to the straight people. One way of looking at it is that the first stage of grief is denial. We resist change and all that comes with it. So we can play a trick on our minds and genuinely struggle with accepting reality.
Now some people have criticized me for being too soft on denial. They say, "How do you expect me to be compassionate towards stupid people who are gumming up the works and getting in the way of climate action?" Yes, I understand your anger. The frustration. We feel a lot of it in America, the largest climate denying country in the world. And the most influential. Our unwillingness to face facts and do something about it is holding back the rest of the world. That's infuriating.
But I need to make something clear, an importance difference. I see that there are people, everyday citizens in the USA, who genuinely are struggling emotionally to accept the reality of climate change. Even lots of progressive liberal types have not yet let the full weight of the crisis hit them. It's too hard to bear.
Personally I think they are stuck in the bargaining and negotiating phase of the Kubler Ross stages of grief. I hear them say, things like, "I'm concerned about climate change, in fact, we decided to pay carbon offsets so we can still go on that vacation in Disney with the kids next December." Personally I believe Orlando is one of Dante's more creative and expensive levels of hell.
Ok, I get it, you want to make individual changes in your life as you grapple with the reality of climate change. but if we truly believe that consumers can make a big enough difference to address our national polluting problem, well that is simply another form of climate denial. It's like slapping a new coat of paint on the deck chairs on a sinking Titanic. We need bigger, bolder responses. We need to change political will and public policy.
You see most of us are struggling with some form of climate denial. And because of that I see we need to extend compassion and understanding. Denial is a very human response to change and grief.
In other words for over 40 years, ExxonMobil knew that their was a problem with their product. It polluted and changed the atmosphere. They then went out of their way to develop strategies to deceive the public. What is worse for them—they also tricked stockholders—a serious crime in New York State. They are now facing state and federation investigations into their sneaky practices of deception and misinformation.
Now that makes me angry. That is about making money regardless of the risk to consumers. We don't tolerate it with faulty toys that choke kids and we sure as hell need to challenge it when it affects the air we breath and the planet where we live. That is something to get angry about. And that is something different to what I have been saying about climate skeptics.
Some people are in denial about climate change because of emotional reasons. These feelings also get wrapped up in their identity and their politics. But usually it is a personal affair. But skeptics has also been helped to stay stuck where they are. In fact, all of us have been tricked, fed outright falsehoods by an organized campaign to insert doubt about global climate change and stop climate action. Companies like Exxonmobil are not Climate Denier. No. They are outright Liars. And that's a different story all together.
This is Marvin, Marvin Bloom, and this is your moment with Marvin.
Whoa Marvin, you are getting fierce. And I see you are still struggling with the tragic loss of Lady Gaga's career choices. Thank you for listening to this penultimate episode of Climate Stew. Check out our website, climate stew dot com for show notes, a transcript, music credits, and Marvin and Elizabeth Jeremiah's latest videos. And do tune in for our final episode in a few weeks where we will have some very special guests. If you have a message you want to share on our final program, feel free to email me info @ climate stew. com that's info @ climate stew. com OR visit climate stew dot com to leave a message or get our phone number so you can leave a voicement. Our music today is by . Special thanks to Polly Attwood, Wendy Stanford, Leslie Manning, Oh, and Joe G who to this day struggles with his grief over tragic loss of his favorite capris pants.
On the Climate Stew podcast we are not afraid to get downright silly if it helps to communicate serious and important messages about climate change. One of our most popular recurring "guests" is Elizabeth Jeremiah, from the Elizabeth Jeremiah Global Worldwide Ministries in Jesus. While to some she may initially sound like a shallow, intolerant church lady dragged out of a Saturday Night Live skit from the early 90's, our Elizabeth Jeremiah has a lot of depth to her and a natural curiosity.
In this hilarious monologue, Elizabeth Jeremiah reveals the shock she felt when she discovered the existence of eco-feminists. In so doing she also reveals a thoughtful and powerful way of looking at our relationship to the earth in a time of a rapidly changing climate.
If you like Elizabeth Jeremiah, you are in for a treat. Rumor has it that she is branching out into the world of YouTube very very soon. Stay tuned.
This is Elizabeth Jeremiah from the Elizabeth Jeremiah Global Worldwide Ministries in Jesus with a special word just for you. As a woman in the church of God called to the ministry I have had to claw my way to the pulpit. Now technically according to the male leaders I must submit to, I am forbidden to teach men, and have be relegated to women's conferences, prayer breakfasts, and shopping mall events. Now I can't help it if the men sneak in the back to hear me deliver God's word.
While I feel opposed to feminism because of some vague discomfort I have due to the ways that feminists are portrayed in the media and from the pulpit, how can I be opposed to the feminists' basic tenet of equality in the workplace? Similarly while I recoil at the sight of environmentalists with their sloppy, sagging hippy fashions and their rigid impractical dogmatism, I do care about clean air and looking after our temporary earthly home that God has graciously allowed us to journey upon. I am not from the religious camp that says the earth doesn't matter and we might as well whip up wars and trash the planet so that Jesus can more quickly return to create a new heaven and a new earth while the wicked are placed in hell, God's eternal rotisserie oven of judgment.
Both feminists and environmentalists are reviled and rejected by so many powerful people in society. So you can only imagine how shocked I was to discover that there is a group of women who call themselves ecofeminists. These are feminists who believe men have used, abused, and exploited the planet in the very same ways they have used, abused, and exploited women. They are feminists environmentalists who I have heard rumored sometimes gather for full moon menstruation ceremonies. I wonder if ecofeminism was created in some Left Wing think tank as a weapon of mass destruction in order to give Conservative pundits like Rush Limbaugh a heart attack.
These likely terribly lonely ecofeminists rightly point out how domineering, and I mean that in the bad way, men have been towards women and towards the earth–sucking the life out of us and leaving us as an empty shell of our former selves. But these much maligned eco-conscious strong women also point out that the planet, like women in community, operates on "traditionally 'female' values of reciprocity, nurturing and cooperation" which I no doubt have witnessed at our Women of God Warrior Mothers and Daughters Annual Conference and Fashion Show.
Now while the concept of Mother Earth sounds like New Age pagan devil worship to me, in theory I can appreciate the thought that Mother Earth is sick from all the poisons we have been pouring into her body and lungs (that would be the earth and the atmosphere or what I call the heavenly firmament.) I also imagine she is sick and tired of people treading heavily upon her, leaving greasy, muddy carbon footprints everywhere, piercing her deep in her heart over and over, extracting, extracting, extracting, and never giving anything in return. I imagine she feels backed up against the wall and is growing more and more angry to the point where she is about to say, the hell with all y'all and in a righteous rage she ejects us all from this planet we call our temporary home. Lord have mercy.
God tells us in Proverbs 18:19 that a brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city. Now I wonder how much harder is it to make peace with a wronged woman. When we harm someone through our greed, exploitation, and general selfish bad behavior, we are instructed to repent—turn from our sinful ways, make amends, and seek to rebuild the trust we squandered. While I have no idea how to do this with a body as large and powerful as Mother Earth, I believe today is the day that the Lord has made, and today is the day for doing a new thing.
This is Elizabeth Jeremiah from the Elizabeth Jeremiah Global Worldwide Ministries in Jesus. May God bless you and keep you and your whole household too.
Just like some people get put off by math, others feel overwhelmed when it comes to science. I remember when in college after I got an A in my Chaucer class, I took a Biology class taught by the husband of the professor who taught me Chaucer.
Though she can't stand to eat leftovers, Elizabeth Jeremiah can't throw out food. The containers begin to stockpile.
He looked at me like I was a foreign and possibly hostile specie and at the end of the term proceeded to give me a well-deserved D in his class.
Now I am caught up in the world of climate change, and of course that means I read a lot of science. And just like I did as an undergraduate, I seek out analogies to help me better understand the science. I have found that a little humor doesn't hurt either.
If you are trying to communicate to friends about how climate change works, here is segment from the Climate Stew podcast where with the help of Marvin Bloom and Elizabeth Jeremiah, I give the very basics of climate science. Elizabeth provides an excellent comparison of carbon dioxide with tupperware containers. Marvin helps me to better understand the role volcanoes play with our climate. Of course these two do not get along to well, so there is even some dramatic tension.
Let's talk climate science. With the help of Elizabeth Jeremiah and Marvin Bloom I present a simple primer behind the complex issue of climate change. You will get to hear Elizabeth's very helpful analogy to tupperware, and Marvin dispels myths about volcanoes. We also get a very easy to understand short physics lesson thanks to the folks at Yale Climate Connection.
Climate Stew is available on Stitcher, SoundCloud, or Listen here on our site. Also check out our Facebook page where you can give your ideas of what you want to hear on the program. We have been on iTunes for the longest time, but lately there has been an issue from their end. Shoot even Serial had iTunes problems. Hopefully it will be sorted out quickly.
To identify the cause of global warming, Doctor Anthony Broccoli of Rutgers University looks at the evidence just as Sherlock Holmes would. A review of physics leads to the primary suspect: heat-trapping greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide.
So Broccoli deduces that the greenhouse gases humans emit into the atmosphere will trap additional heat and warm the earth. Observations support the theory.
To determine if this warming can be explained by natural causes alone, Broccoli turns to computer models of the climate. They show that without human caused emissions, the earth's climate would not have rapidly heated up, as it has over the last few decades.
So when you consider the evidence, it's elementary, dear Watson . . . Recent global warming is primarily human-caused.
Photo: Statue of Sherlock Holmes in London (copyright protected).
Peterson chats with Elizabeth Jeremiah who gives the analogy that CO2 (carbon dioxide) is very much like tupperware containers that stack up in her refrigerator. Marvin Blooms talks volcanoes and how they are not at all to blame for the warming of the planet.


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The Significance of Research Collaborations
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If there is one salient benefit of research collaboration to science and the society apart from efficiency, it is achieving understanding from different angles and perspectives.
A major barrier however to this beautiful concept is the fact that many of the recognition and reward structures are still on an individual basis—the naming of labs and the awarding of national academy fellowships and Nobel prizes favour individual efforts over collective works. Scientific and technological collaborations are seldom awarded with Nobel prizes.
Generally, collaborations are vital for the progress of scientific research but due to a number of factors, the most prominent being geopolitical tensions, the incidence of international collaboration has waned. A good example is the steady dwindling of international collaboration between China and the United States since 2017, which is as a result of such tensions that exist between them.
Interestingly, there has been a number of stories of scientists teaming up with one another across borders and disciplines—as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic—regarding the sequencing of genomes, the description of the features of the virus and/or the designing of antiviral drugs. However, this is in no way better than previous years as the bulk of the COVID-19 literature includes papers in which all the authors are within the same country.
In fact, analyses of bibliometric data reveal that these research collaborations in 2020 were less common compared to those on other coronaviruses in previous years. Successful collaboration requires trust and relationships that stand the test of time. Hence, the unfortunate trend between China and the U.S. is likely to continue if the geographical tensions between them keep worsening. On the contrary, a very good relationship exists between China and the United Kingdom despite the fact that they have different principles. Researchers at Dunhuang Academy in China and the University of Oxford, UK, for example, are carrying out a study on ancient structures at cultural heritage sites on the Silk Road route in northwest China. They are motivated by the fact that they share the same goal—protecting the cultural heritages of the human race. As a result of this, they are able to reach consensus in the face of differences of opinion.
Collaborations are not just intercountry or interdisciplinary, there are examples of such teamwork between communities and university researchers. Such partnerships promise absolute efficiency and all-encompassing conclusions and solutions.
While it is no news that collaborations are waning, if we will successfully tackle global problems like pandemics, we must recognize the true value of working across borders, disciplines, and cultures. There are so many benefits attached to this and the recent COVID-19 pandemic has brought back memories and has provided a timely reminder that such teamwork can be achieved. Our global progress lies fallow in the hands of many researchers; collaboration is the way to let it loose.
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Its headquarters are located in Florida and is currently owned by Darden Restaurants, Inc. At Olive Garden, family is not just something. They were even more shocked when the manager complied "without hesitation," proving people can be terrible. One current opening is for a manager of the Olive Garden in Rocky Mount. On May 28, 2018, Olive Garden accounts for $3.8 billion of the $6.9 billion revenue of parent Daden. Here are other reasons why you should Join Our Family today: Benefits at a Glance. "We have zero tolerance for discrimination of any kind, and the manager involved no longer works for our company," an emailed statement read. Krowd Olive Garden: An Americal casual dining restaurant chain. Among some of the smartest, most positive, passionate people I had ever known, I felt like I belonged. Read employee reviews and ratings on Glassdoor to decide if Olive Garden Italian Restaurants is right for you. Two to three years of experience is needed, since the manager oversees most restaurant operations and employees. Information about your device and internet connection, including your IP address, Browsing and search activity while using Verizon Media websites and apps. A local Olive Garden manager referred C&P to corporate media relations. The Italian restaurant chain Olive Garden has fired one of its outlet's manager for allegedly complying with a customer's request not to be served by black staff members. They were even more shocked when the manager complied "without hesitation," proving people can be terrible. A month later, I'm on my hands and knees, cleaning a floor drain in the kitchen. Olive Garden restaurants and 1,700+ Darden restaurants to explore. The manager complied with the customer's request but was fired after the restaurant chain investigated, an Olive Garden spokeswoman told NBC. A customer at an Olive Garden restaurant in Indiana on Saturday loudly demanded a server who is not black, an employee and an observer said. Olive Garden Restaurants employees with the job title General Manager, Restaurant make the most with an average annual salary of $59,364, while employees with the title Restaurant Manager … "We have a zero tolerance for discrimination," Olive Garden spokesman Hunter Robinson said, … The average Olive Garden salary ranges from approximately $17,324 per year for Cook to $66,580 per year for General Manager. All restaurants will return to normal hours on Saturday, Dec. 26. See who Olive Garden has hired for this role. Family is everything. A manager at an Olive Garden in Evansville, Indiana has been fired for obliging a white customer who refused to be served by a Black server. Find out more about our restaurant hiring opportunities. Previously handled by General Mills, Olive Garden now operates mostly in the United States and Canada with over 730 locations globally. Olive Garden (Credit: Olive Garden) It looks like one Olive Garden manager is learning that the customer isn't always right. Olive Garden manager terminated after honoring racist customer's request. A month later, I'm on my hands and knees, cleaning a floor drain in the kitchen. Check out this short [ Link removed ] - Click here to apply to Restaurant Manager! HuffPost is part of Verizon Media. This estimate is based upon 115 Olive Garden Italian Restaurants Restaurant Manager salary report(s) provided by employees or estimated based upon statistical methods. Glassdoor has 4,618 Olive Garden Italian Restaurants reviews submitted anonymously by Olive Garden Italian Restaurants employees. "We have a zero tolerance for discrimination," Olive Garden spokesman Hunter Robinson said, adding that the company's senior leadership is looking into the situation. 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Dhanakosa Opening 1993 - Questions and Answers
by Sangharakshita
Team Based Right Livelihood project.
I have sometimes said in the past that to start a public centre, an FWBO centre, is not difficult. Not
very difficult. To start a community, especially a single sex community, is rather more difficult. But
it's most difficult to start a Team Based Right Livelihood business. That's the most difficult and the
most demanding of all. But it's also perhaps the most worthwhile of all because you, well, in some
cases you not only work with other people but you live with those same people and living with them
and working with them, you can develop a very close spiritual friendship. If you're living with them
in a spiritual community, working with them in a Team Based Right Livelihood project, you can
come very, very close to them.
This just reminds me of a point that arose recently. Sometimes the question is asked whether we
should think in terms of the needs of the business or the needs of the Team? Should we work on
making the business better, more successful, or should we work on better relationships within the
Team. I would say you can't really separate the two because what is it that makes the Team? What
makes the Team is the business objective. That is what has brought you together. So it is not that
you put aside the business objective, the success or whatever of the business, in whatsoever terms, in
order to work on your relationships within the Team because you work best on your relationships
within the Team by all of you, more and more devotedly co-operating for the fulfilment of the aims
and objects of the business. The two are not really separate. You can't really distinguish. If you are
separating them, to that extent you can say, it's not fully a Team Based Right Livelihood business.
So that as it were, is by the way.
So the Team Based Right Livelihood business occupies a very, very important place in the economy
of the total movement. But, now we come to another point, what about working out in the world?
Obviously that cannot be ruled out altogether. In fact I would say, I would not like it to be ruled out
altogether. I don't think I would really like to see everybody in the FWBO working in an FWBO
Team Based Right Livelihood business. I think I would like to see some people out there in the
world. Those that can stand the world [Laughter] because well, we need, as it were, outposts. We
need points of contact. But there are certain things to bear in mind. If the work that you are doing, if
the business that you are involved in is unethical, in any serious respect, well, as a Buddhist you have
to withdraw from that. But if the business is reasonably ethical, and if it is not too demanding in the
sense it does not involve you in too much psychological wear-and-tear, so much so that you can't
meditate, and if it is doesn't throw you too much into the company of people whom you really detest
and for whom you gradually build up a real dislike, perhaps even hatred, if it doesn't do anything of
those things, well, stay in the world if you have to. Work in the world but keep up your contacts with
your spiritual friends within the movement. Keep up your meditation practice. Keep up your
Dharma study as best you can.
So in a way I see people as that is to say, people within the FWBO, as falling very roughly into three
categories. There are those who are fully occupied and supported within the FWBO, within the
Movement, doing predominantly Dharmic work. Teaching around centres, running retreats and so
on and then I see those people who are working as members of Team Based Right Livelihood FWBO
businesses and then I see those heroic souls who are working out there in the world but applying
their ethical principles to their business and working life out there in the world and keeping up their
spiritual contacts within the FWBO. Perhaps that's even more difficult than working in a Team
Based Right Livelihood business. That's why I describe them as heroic souls. And sometimes I've
read reports in Shabda of people who are working in the outside world, and I've felt so, so sorry for
them. Not so much the professionals, not the doctors and the teachers and the lawyers, not so much
those people. They have it comparatively easy. I remember the case of one young male Order
Member who was working on a building site in London with others who were, who were of course
not Buddhists. Very far from it [Laughter]. I got the impression from his reporting-in that they were
barely human. [Laughter] But I really felt so sorry for him and he was struggling so hard. Well, you
can imagine, so of you the sort of things he had to put up with and struggle against and I felt really so
sorry for that young Order Member. He stuck it for several years. Now he's doing something which
is more conducive to the sort of life he really wants to lead. But he wasn't really qualified for much
else unfortunately. He didn't have professional qualifications.
So as I said I see FWBO people falling very broadly into these three categories. I haven't of course
mentioned the housewife but I regard the housewife as, in a way, working, you might say, in a Team
Based Right Livelihood project, perhaps on a rather small scale, depending on the number of
children. But we can't forget that also. So, yes just those few words about working in the world. It
isn't easy and one does have to exercise discrimination about the sort of working you're doing. The
sort of people that you are working with and the sort of effect it has on you psychologically and
spiritually. But if you bear those in mind and take those sort of guidelines, it can be done and
sometimes it has to be done and as I say, I'd really prefer that there were at least some people out
there in the world so that the FWBO did not exist in a sort of little spiritual ghetto almost of its own.
We need these wider and broader contexts. Sometimes they can be very useful. Sometimes we can
be very useful to them. Sometimes people whom you get to know in the workplace can become
interested in yoga, can become interested in Buddhism, in meditation and some of them, at least, may
find that their way through you to the centre and into a better and happier life.
I don't think we should be precious. I don't think we should, in a sense, I don't think we should take
refuge in the retreat centre, or take refuge in, even in a Team Based Right Livelihood business just
because we can't make it out in the world. I think that is very important. I think it's quite important
that we should be the sort of person who can make it out in the world if he or she really wants to but
who chooses not to. Not simply the person who is unable to make a success of it out there. Those
are the sort of people who will make a real success of their own spiritual lives and operate whatever
it is that the FWBO is doing.
Yes, something a bit controversial. I was expecting some of you were hoping for that. [Laughter]
This question has been sent by somebody who wasn't able actually to be present with us.
"Pseudo-egalitarianism is a term that worries me. Please could you expand on the sense in
which Buddhism sees us all as equal and as not all equal. Thank you?" [Laughter]
I'm afraid I have some ideas of my own on this subject of equality and egalitarianism. And it's my
particular views which I think may be controversial. I've arrived at these views of course on the
basis of reflecting about the Dharma. I think that the concept of equality as applied to human beings
is totally beside the point. I don't think human beings are equal. I don't think human beings are
unequal either. I just think that the concept of equality is inapplicable to human beings. Now what is
this concept of equality? I would say equality is a quantitative concept. If you, well, you can say
that, let's give an example, a sort of arithmetical example. Two plus three equals five and four plus
one equals five. So there's equality. There's equality between the two plus three and the four plus
one. But you can't apply that sort of logic, that sort of concept to human beings. Do you see what
I'm getting at? Because human beings are not quantities. So human beings are, one might say,
incommensurable. You can't really compare one human being with another in the way that you can
compare one amount with another and say that, well, this amount is greater than that, or this amount
is smaller than that or this amount is equal to that.
So I would say that the concept of equality does not apply to human beings. Now what about this
concept of equality of opportunity. I think that even this is not really applicable. One doesn't have to
talk in terms of equality of opportunity with all the discussions that that gives rise to. So what
should one talk in terms of from a Buddhist point ...


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Nantwich Jazz, Blues and Music Festival to swing into action for 17th year running
TENS of thousands of visitors are expected to descend on Nantwich this Easter weekend for the town's Jazz Blues and Music Festival.
Headlining the 17th festival will be jazz-funk legends Shakatak, rock 'n' roll icons The Blockheads and Sad Cafe, and award-winning blues singer Connie Lush.
There will also be appearances by Mike Peters of The Alarm and The Wonderstuff.
And in a coup for the organisers UK jazz pioneer Courtney Pine will be headlining at Gregory's nightclub in a special re-launch night for the venue.
Organiser Phil Martin said: "It is the first year that every show is selling well. We normally have a runaway show that sells out first and one or two that sell over the weekend itself, but not this year, they are all doing well.
"We are very pleased to have The Talbot on Swine Market now on board with this year's festival. The new licensees Rick and Louise take over the venue on the Tuesday before the festival starts, but they are very experienced at running pubs in the North West of England.
"They have a fabulous line-up which is now on the website and their will be signs around the town telling the many visitors what is going on there.
"Looking at the weather forecast it is saying it should be dry over the Easter weekend, which is all we ever want. Looking at our website visits there have been thousands of people searching the site, so it looks as though it will be busier than ever."
Asked what he was looking forward to most, he said: "It has got to be Mike Peters from The Alarm.
"I have known Mike since he was a teenager. He has had a wonderful career, fought off cancer twice and to top everything, there's a movie which was released last week in the UK and America called Vinyl made about a part of his career in the nineties."
He added: "Monday plans to be fantastic morning and afternoon full of entertainment for all the family, with loads of children's entertainment and then all the bars and pubs have loads of bands to entertain throughout the rest of the day."
Wristbands, priced £6 each, will be available from booths on Nantwich town square from tomorrow (Thursday).
To buy tickets for the headline shows or for more information visit www.nantwichjazz.com.