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Thursday, May 6, 2010

Nas - Can't Stop Us Now (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

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Official Lyrics: From Willie Lynch to Willie Hutch Right on! We Superfly! Made Gucci the shit, Louie too Suits and ties Playa trophies Pray to Goldie Picture wax museums full of Black Panth's and ...
The future is... black.James Baldwin - [Future]

James A. BaldwinThe only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power -- and no one holds power forever.

'Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty -- necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.'

'People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.'

You want me to make an act of faith risking myself, my wife, my woman, my sister, my children on some idealism which you assure me is this America I have never seen!'
Baldwin, Democracy

'Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.'

'People can cry much easier than they can change.'

'Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.'


'Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.'

'We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.'

The paradox of education is precisely this -- that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.James Baldwin - [Education]

'When the book comes out it may hurt you -- but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself.'

'A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.'

'People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.'

'He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a uniform and a gun and I have to relate to him that way. That's the only way to relate to him because one of us may have to die.'

'But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.'


'Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.'

'The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed.'

'It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.'

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.James Baldwin - [Teams and Teamwork]
(another reason you must never worship a image of a god, given to you by your enemy! (Deuteronomy 13:7-12 NAB

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side.James Baldwin - [Vocation]

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.James Baldwin - [Present]

We are all androgynous, not only because we are all born of a woman impregnated by the seed of a man but because each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other -- male in female, female in male, white in black and black in white. We are a part of each other. Many of my countrymen appear to find this fact exceedingly inconvenient and even unfair, and so, very often, do I. But none of us can do anything about it.James Baldwin - [Gender]

We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have some sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and what we take life to be. The question is not what we can do now for the hypothetical Mexican, the hypothetical Negro. The question is what we really want out of life, for ourselves, what we think is real.James Baldwin - [Minorities]


You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.James Baldwin - [Oppression]

The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies, butch and faggot, black and white. It is an ideal so paralytically infantile that it is virtually forbidden -- as an unpatriotic act -- that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood.James Baldwin - [Sexuality]

The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.James Baldwin - [Conformity]


The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.James Baldwin - [Immigration]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvhpGwDjct0
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Neil deGrasse Tyson: God and Science

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Neil deGrasse Tyson, speaking at the University at Buffalo, answered a question about God, relating to science.
“The Bible tells us how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go”

The Galileo Affair
After make these philosophical points, Principe switches gears and addresses two of the great examples that are often cited to support the conflict thesis between science and religion: Darwinian evolution and the so-called “Galileo affair.” Starting with Galileo we are introduced to the subject of heliocentrism through Copernicus. Interestingly enough, both Copernicus and Galileo were theists who did not see any conflict between their scientific endeavors and their religious beliefs. Copernicus’s book was published by the urging his fellow clergymen (Copernicus held an administrative role in the Holy Order) though it was not well-received. The prevailing view of the day, that sun went round the earth, simply did not fall by the wayside since it fit with common sense experience (we don’t feel the earth move, we see the sun move, and so on) and traditional readings of the Bible (Joshua’s passage of the God making the sun stand still implied that the sun moved). In other words, it took time for his views of the verified by other scientists.


Galileo is most famous for his conflict with the Catholic Church over espousing and expounding Copernicus’s views, but the story is often characterized in cartoonish metaphors of him being drug off in chains before a nefarious Inquisition. In reality, the affair spanned a great deal of time. The Inquisition was often disinterested in the charges against Galileo by intellectually inferior monks, and deferred to others to evaluate his scientific theories. Unfortunately for Galileo those outside sources are what got him into trouble when they declared his theories to be “foolish and absurd.” Nonetheless, Galileo found himself lightly reprimanded and was counseled to write in more hypothetical language (rather than sounding absolute).


A fact that is often lost in casual citations of the Galileo Affair is that he was friends with Pope and had his blessing in his studies. The Pope wished for a moderated debate between the two theories as there were clergy that were on both sides of the issue. In fact, the famous quote, “The Bible tells us how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go” came from a Cardinal sympathetic to Galileo’s cause. Regrettably, through a publishing snafu and the irrepressible nature of Galileo’s scathing wit, his book Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems alienated his old and very powerful friend. Due to the pressure from external events such as the Protestant Reformation and the Thirty Years War the Pope could not deal with the internal strain and personal affront Galileo caused and had him tried and convicted of heresy.


Nevertheless, the judgment was not signed by the Pope’s nephew or the two Cardinals which suggests the trial was more for show than anything else. It is true that the events of the day led to a sad ending for Galileo, but centuries later the papacy lead by John Paul II fully vindicated him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZhOm6N4-I0
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Neil deGrasse Tyson-Intelligent Design? Stupid Design

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Some Design!-Christopher Hitchens This present-day version of God of the gaps goes by a fresh name: intelligent design. The term suggests that some entity, endowed with a mental capacity far greater than ...
Neil deGrasse Tyson-Intelligent Design? Stupid Design
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNiTsYCkyI8
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2012 Doomsday? Lost Civilizations Lost Continents Atlantis Egypt Lemuria Mu Mayan Calendar

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http://Cosmology.com 2012 Part 2. Lost Continents Lost Civilizations Atlantis Egypt Mayan Calendar Aztec Doomsday End of World? A documentary film by Rhawn Joseph, Ph.D. The Maya's 'Long Count' calendar marks the end of every 5126-year era. ...
2012 Doomsday? Lost Civilizations Lost Continents Atlantis Egypt Lemuria Mu Mayan Calendar 35:06 minutes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nNZOjDi_dQ&playnext_from=TL&videos=-s1WFtTLCbc&feature=grec
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Black and Missing but Not Forgotten