Showing posts with label church. Show all posts
Showing posts with label church. Show all posts

Wednesday, 11 June 2014

It's not okay to be gay (video)



Even after it's leader died recently, the family-run Westboro Baptist Church is still causing trouble. This past weekend a group from the church, protected by L.A. County Sheriff's deputies, was out at the West Hollywood Gay Pride Parade Fest with harsh and offensive signs. Who are these Christian crusaders?

But I'm a Yankee doodle "dandy"!
VICE follows the story of the Westboro Baptist Church as families split and children are "brainwashed" into picketing the funerals of dead American soldiers fighting for a doomed gay nation and bashing homosexuals at every turn.

During that time, VICE interviewed more than a dozen members of the reviled group, including some of the only members not related by blood, the Drains. They welcomed VICE into their homes and gave them access to 17 years of home video footage. In return, VICE produced an unbiased look into the lives of one of America's most despised Christian fundamentalist organizations.

Sunday, 26 January 2014

What is reality? Zen with Alan Watts (audio)

Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly; Alan Watts (Pacifica Radio, L.A., KPFK.org, Jan. 26, 2014)
Pondering human origins and existence in a Zen garden in California (desktopc.com)
  
A portrait of  Alan Watts (ianmack.com)
What is reality? "I came into this world," I say. "You didn't; you came out of it," insists British philosopher and Zen teacher Alan Watts. We bounce between a ceramic (that we created out of clay) and an automatic theory of the universe. So beginning with a Big Bang view, assuming that's how it happened, how we came to be, Watts follows that view to its logical conclusion. We are way out in space, way out in time, and now here we are: Who am I? I am the Bang, not something that came out of it. It is an entirely different and very Mahayana/Hindu way at looking at the question. Are we the primordial energy of the universe defining ourselves separately from it? "There are no such things as things, at least no such things as separate things. We are wiggly goo imagining a world of thorny lines. LISTEN NOW: AUDIO