"A spiritual organization with a hierarchical structure can convey only the consciousness of estrangement, regardless of what teachings or deep inspirations are at its root.The structure itself reinforces the idea that some people are inherently more worthy than others."

-- Starhawk

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“There was a 10- and 8-year difference between us, so my brothers were into tormenting me and I was into getting away from them.”
“This cannot be the United States being the air force for Shia militias, or a Shia on Sunni Arab fight.”
“The single most useful ingredient on the planet. In a pinch you canÂ scramble them and call it dinner. But it only takes five eggs, a little milk and a handful of cheese to make a fat, sassy cheese soufflÃ©.”
“There he is, a woman's living, breathing fantasy, doing his slow, cocky turn, spiky black hair, darkly tanned chest, dimpled smile-killer smile-all in the package of Remington Tate. He's perfection itself, and a new surge of hormones sweeps through me as I do what the rest of the crowd does and take in his visual, so blatantly on display in those low riding boxing shorts and so strikingly sexy, he becomes the center of my attention. The center. Of my. World.”
“Members in the Commonwealth of God are not bound together by the specifics of their religion, for the nature of our interdependency does not require this. Rather we are bound by the shared recognition that when one person suffers, all suffer; when we violate one life, all lives are violated; when we pollute the earth, all living things are stained; when one nation threatens the security of another, it, too, becomes less secure; when we place the planet in mortal danger, we hazard the future of our own children as well as the children of our enemies.”
“I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't.”
“Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged - people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything is deeply intertwingled.”

Source : "Computer Lib". Book by Ted Nelson, p. 42 / Dream Machines p.45, 1974.
“If you study science deep enough and long enough, it will force you to believe in God.”

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