Displaying 181 To 210 Of 1,432 Comments Friday Music Thread – Suffragette City Indeed! » Posted By Truth On April 8, 2011 @ 7:07 pm Janis Joplin: Kosmic Blues
» Posted By Truth On April 8, 2011 @ 7:02 pm The question is, what would be worse: if they give in here or if there is a gov shutdown? Both is bad, but how are the longterm consequences? I don’t know, it is a question. Moreover it becomes once more crystal clear that Dems cooperate and GOP try to enforce the wishes of the minority. I know, it should have been clear a long time ago, but now that the GnOP has governing responsibility their failures count that much more. I think their goal is in fact to slow the growth of economy in hopes they’ll have a chance to win politically. They really don’t care how many people suffer or die due to that. » Posted By Truth On April 8, 2011 @ 9:58 am Secrets From Beyond The Emerald Curtain – PART 2 – e’cat, saving pay is quite a realistic scenario: “I wish you had kept your status as CM1. It would help us clear out exactly the kinds of comments you had flagged in the past. Spam is a problem, and we thank you (as everyone should) for flagging those comments. Vile insults are also a problem. I’m all for letting foolishnes s speak for itself, but I’m not for letting aggressive bigotry or hatred speak for itself. If that was the kind insulting comment you flagged, we thank you for that too. Same goes for threats. When your flags counted five times as much as regular flags, you really were helping us clear out really corrosive speech. I hope you reconsider . Our official moderators don’t vet every comment. So, yes, sometimes they let nasty stuff slip through. But that is very, very much the exception. We often get more than one hundred thousand comments a day. Despite our deep commitment to moderation , we simply can’t look at all of them. If you’re seeing this kind of post stand, as you put it, it’s very highly likely that’s a result of our *not* vetting it. So, we believe users care about the quality of our comments, we empowering users to help. Josh Young http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Josh_Young/introducing-huffpost-badg_b_557168_46310738.html » Posted By Truth On April 8, 2011 @ 7:44 pm VOTE NOW: PlanetPOV’s Top Posts of 2010! Sand Mandalas – aren’t they showing better than anything else the sacredness of Art? [img]https://planetpov.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/mandala_4_md.jpg[/img] Millions of grains of sand are painstakingly laid into place on a flat platform over a period of days or weeks before ultimately being dismantled in order to release and disseminate the deity’s blessings into the world to benefit all sentient beings. Formed into traditionally prescribed Tibetan iconography that includes geometric shapes and a multitude of historical Buddhist spiritual symbols, the sand-painted mandala is used as a tool for consecrating, or blessing, the earth and its inhabitants, and provides for the practitioner a visual framework for establishing the enlightened mind of the Buddha. How difficult to destroy something so beautiful! But then, how beautiful to honor the Divine by creating something so beautiful and then sacrificing it for the wellbeing of all sentient beings. » Posted By Truth On April 11, 2011 @ 6:25 pm I think it’s a problem with this site, not any browser – it started several weeks ago, but then I wasn’t sure, since AdLib could import the Vault smileys. But I can’t import those that I want and reported it therefore again now. » Posted By Truth On April 11, 2011 @ 9:47 am Thanks again for these outstanding articles. It was nearly impossible to vote on them for – to borrow a line from Killgore – each was good in its own right. Yet it was a wonderful opportunity to go through a presentation of gems on a silver plater. » Posted By Truth On April 10, 2011 @ 7:04 pm Cool expression: to go Honey Badger on someone. 😀 And btw, I love your writing! » Posted By Truth On April 10, 2011 @ 6:53 pm I planned on reading and commenting on individual articles – but again it was too difficult to pick out only some. So many excellent articles to choose from. Therefore let me say only this: I appreciate them all and am now all the more aware that the archives hold many precious gems. » Posted By Truth On April 10, 2011 @ 10:36 am Hey, some hope showing up at the horizon! Bye Kaine, don’t let the door hit you… And Welcome Debbie!! “A strong voice for ordinary people who didn’t cause the recession but are too often asked to pay the price, Wasserman Schultz will be a great advocate for President Obama and for Democrats across the country who are fighting to grow the economy and create jobs for middle-class families.” Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/52605.html#ixzz1IlGA0eWf » Posted By Truth On April 6, 2011 @ 9:19 am Info like that about Hamsher and also that she works with Grover Norquist would be worth an article…. » Posted By Truth On April 6, 2011 @ 4:11 am Friday Music Thread— April Fool. Awesome, Khirad! I had to watch the Top Secret one twice – simply amazing! And of course I’m looking forward to your tabla legend lecture. » Posted By Truth On April 2, 2011 @ 8:39 am Here’s some more drumming for you, Khirad: These drums are played at the “Basler Fasnacht”, the 3-day carnival of my home town. There are lots of performances before and after the Fasnacht, and here is one of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vn6URp0QTk and some more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TQnutf3nKA And there is some totally different drumming, The Japanese “Kodo”:
And in another change of culture, yet we’re still talking percussion: Zakir Hussain and Erik Harland:
***Edit: Here’s yet another Jim Kilpatrik. That guy is just unbelievable!
» Posted By Truth On April 1, 2011 @ 9:28 pm Wow, Khirad – that IS unreal! Excellent! When he shows the movements in slow motion I became aware as to how difficult this really is. Amazing! » Posted By Truth On April 1, 2011 @ 7:43 pm Free Speech and Commenters’ Experiences at The Huffington Post Greta42, I don’t know what beef they had, they wrote me earlier he was not welcome and knows that it’s permanent. (and that I should stop telling people they should write to Huff) However, DocStrangelove was reinstated something like 8 months or so after that incident, and lasted till now, which must have been another 8 months or so. » Posted By Truth On April 11, 2011 @ 7:43 am You can still take a break once in a while and go to alternet or so…. And many people here have still accounts at Huff and go there if they feel like troll fighting. » Posted By Truth On April 11, 2011 @ 7:07 am It is a shame, BSM – but having recognized all this, why would you want to waste more time over there (instead of for example helping to dismantle the myth of a progressive HP)? Since you say you were deleted as DocStrangelove, were you ACLUCardCarrier earlier? If so, I got into troubles at Huff because of you… » Posted By Truth On April 9, 2011 @ 9:40 pm That’s an extremely good point, KQuark! I felt the same way, as if the discussions were steered into the direction AH wanted them. So many people say their most thoughtful comments disappeared time and again! » Posted By Truth On April 4, 2011 @ 9:51 am I’m looking forward to your post…. AND…. to your artwork!!! » Posted By Truth On April 4, 2011 @ 9:49 am Greta, and you will have some difficulty not to write all this f0rbidden wo-rds in such a way as to trick the cens0ring mawd- filters…. I remember I had to re-learn typing a short while ago when I came here… » Posted By Truth On April 4, 2011 @ 9:47 am Hi Greta, welcome to The Planet. Here’s some support to make it easier to find your way around here: https://planetpov.com/2011/02/09/tips-for-newcomers-and-regulars-alike/ And if you want to make a post on your own: If you check the box “Notify me of follow-up comments via e-mail” you get your replies to your comments directly to your inbox (otherwise it’s difficult to keep track of them) Enjoy speaking your mind without having to find a way to circumvent moderation! » Posted By Truth On April 3, 2011 @ 7:41 pm Abby, that’s exactly what left me wondering: lots and lots of people got disgruntled with the site and left it due to the heavy moderation. But maybe AH is another Honey badger and just didn’t give a shit, for she knew that AOL or anyone else would be on the horizon and the progressive schtick never was anything else but a schtick. — And so they may have happily counted their clicks with this.. “progressive” method… » Posted By Truth On April 1, 2011 @ 10:19 am Yes, Arianna H…. are some of the high-filter words. Unless you heaped a ton of praise on her (which I observed others doing) it would never show up. » Posted By Truth On April 1, 2011 @ 9:37 am e’cat, I really don’t know what they were thinking, if anything. It was just stunning how my most thoughtful comments always seemed to disappear, while the drivel, even my own, was published. » Posted By Truth On April 1, 2011 @ 8:58 am …shouting into that empty well several hours a day… — nice expression to describe commenting at HuffPost! » Posted By Truth On April 1, 2011 @ 8:17 am Indeed: QUOTE OF THE DAY: So true. Further I read and bookmarked the Huff article and the one about Meditation, which was very interesting. Of course there was a lot of other excellent stuff too, as usual. » Posted By Truth On March 29, 2011 @ 11:15 am “Could it be, mightn’t it just be, that THESE experts are just as trustworthy as the ones that everyone seems so afraid of? —That’s most probably the case, whats. What really bugs me is that as far as I came to know them both the Indian and the Japanese are such a peaceful and patient people. It took centuries to build these characteristics in an entire population, and it takes only a few years to tear- at least some of it – down. » Posted By Truth On March 29, 2011 @ 7:08 pm Since all life is intricately intertwined, how could the thought sphere possibly be separate? How I sometimes wished it were! Yet it’s amazing how people act on mere thoughts. I do observe regularly that people get uncomfortable if I entertain for example angry thoughts. Then there is Rupert Sheldrakes interesting experiment ( or observation? I forgot the exact details) about some monkeys on an island that all of a sudden started to wash their veggies. Soon after monkeys on a entirely different island started to wash them too! Thus Sheldrake developed his theory of morphic fields and morphic resonance, which leads to a vision of a living, developing universe with its own inherent memory. He can be seen talking here:
And what a nice and lively person he is. I’ve never seen him before I watched this video. (He’s talking telepathy here, not explaining his morphic resonance theory as such) » Posted By Truth On March 29, 2011 @ 7:02 pm So it comes as no surprise that I marked exactly that for my reply to choicelady: We have an insistence on rights but very little insistence on responsibility of speech and communication. » Posted By Truth On March 29, 2011 @ 6:18 pm Good one: vote or enjoy Kochville. » Posted By Truth On March 29, 2011 @ 11:45 amComments Posted By Truth
Josh Young
HuffPost Social News Editor
HuffPost Social News Editor”
I always disliked this woman, and now that I come to know more and more details about her I know exactly why.
I guess they don’t like if their views are opposed.
Anyhow, I need still some more support for the Emerald series against Huff (see Invite for Collaboration No. 3 and 4 in under Tab: News/Politics; Media; Huffingon Post)- if you’d like to join, you’re most welcome.
At that time when ACLU got banned I tried to make people write to Huff to reinstate that account, yet after a while I got my first and only email from them, threatening me to stop with that or being in the soup for spamming. Nice sense of community, isn’t it?
https://planetpov.com/2011/02/23/memo-to-members-how-we-choose-front-page-posts-and-other-editorial-policies/
Even mild criticism on AH’s thread never got posted. I tried several times.
But one thing I’m very sure about: never ever criticize Arianna. My first – say – 10 – 15 comments I tried to post on AH’s threads simply never showed up. Then I learnt to say 1/4 of what I wanted to say and water that down 90% more – this was the way to post on her thread. Queen of progressives, my bad!
Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.
~~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Supreme Court Justice
Maybe, just maybe, they say there’s no evidence because admitting there is would harm an industry? Just a thought. Maybe, just maybe, the studies are just as skewed as the industry sponsored test studies on environmental change. Just putting that out there.”
People may not know what others think, but we certainly feel at ease or not depending on what others think. Animals react even more sensitive to thoughts.
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