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Franci Omi - Yellow Matters - Cavenago di Brianza (MB), Cortile di Palazzo Rasini, Poiesis - Festival del Sensibile, 6.6.2010 -
Does it Matter?
Certainly the worlds’ growing burden of inequality, hypocrisy, exploitation, oppression, injustice, and abuse is more than enough to make any soft hearted person cringe. “Why are things the way they are? It’s not right!” we naturally demand. But at the end of the day, does it matter? As Devamrita Swami points out in his book Searching For Vedic India, the logical conclusion we come to by following some of the modern world's greatest minds might be surprising.
For example, Francis Crick, co-discoverer of DNA structure proclaimed “You, your joys and sorrows, your memories and ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are, in fact, no more than a vast assembly of nerve cells. As Lewis Carroll’s Alice might have phrased it: ‘You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.’” Putting his own twist on it, renowned celebrity scientist Stephen Hawking agreed that life and its experiences are completely composed of matter: “The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies.”
Although generally accepted in learning institutions worldwide as the panicle of knowledge, yoga wisdom alerts us to what goes under the radar by asking this question: “If everything is matter, then why should anything matter?” No one feels sorry for dishwashing liquid when it disappears down the drain or a newspaper that’s torched to start a fire in winter, so why sweat how humans and other life forms are treated or suffer? After all, they and we are ultimately just matter, whether neurons or chemical scum, so why should it matter?
If mainstream mechanistic thought doesn’t quite ring true to you, don’t panic - you’re in good company. To this day countless sincere seekers have been applying the non-material wisdom of Bhagavad Gita As It Is with stunning results.
The 25th annual UN Conference of Parties (COP25) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, was initially scheduled to take place in Santiago, Chile. However, a massive popular feminist and student uprising against neoliberalism, which started in Santiago, led the Chilean government to move COP25 to Spain.
Chilean popular movements announced that even tough COP25 moved to Spain, the peoples mobilization would continue. We decided to stand with the courageous Chilean social movements, who continue the resistance in the face of police repression and violence. We took to the streets, and we are took part in the Cumbre de los Pueblos and the Carpa de Mujeres, to build an alternative to the extractive systems of production and consumption, which have caused climate change.
More info: climatejusticealliance.org/cop25/
Harvey Nash Event at Soho Hotel, London, July 2013. Keynote speakers were Alistair Crane, CEO / Founder, Grapple; Ben Jones, CTO, AKQA; Raj Samani, VP, CTO, McAfee EMEA and Stephen Upstone, CEO / Founder, LoopMe
Usually the first inhalation is the best. The flaky feeling, everything sheds away. The next 6 minutes or so is all about time killing. Nicotine is there to collect, that's all, not about the conversation it led you to believe you were getting.
I'm pretty sure there is more than size that is different here. The species of apples might be different, A rose by any other name is still a rose.
One is much more shinier and polished than other. Little one seem to have seen some rough days, plus it seem all natural. Do make note the little one stem ain't limp. Lesson to be learn here, avoid additives, enhancements it might effect more than you expected.
Umbraco UK Festival 2016. Thursday, 3rd - Friday, 4th November at CodeNode, London. skillsmatter.com/conferences/8460-umbraco-uk-festival-2016. Images copyright www.edtelling.com
Umbraco UK Festival 2016. Thursday, 3rd - Friday, 4th November at CodeNode, London. skillsmatter.com/conferences/8460-umbraco-uk-festival-2016. Images copyright www.edtelling.com
µCon 2016: The Microservices Conference. skillsmatter.com/conferences/7412-con-2016-the-microservi.... Images copyright www.edtelling.com
Scala eXchange 2016, Thursday, 8th - Friday, 9th December at Business Design Centre, London. skillsmatter.com/conferences/7432-scala-exchange-2016#pro.... Images copyright www.edtelling.com
Black Art Matters – A socially distanced protest and performing arts event - also a celebration of black artist’s cultural contribution to music, dance, literature, spoken word etc.
Held outside The Crucible Theatre in Sheffield; black performance artists called for greater representation and inclusion in arts and culture, not just in casting performers but in commissioning and decision making.
A sequence of shots showing how zooming can change the appearance of West Road in Washington Township, Michigan.
Umbraco UK Festival 2016. Thursday, 3rd - Friday, 4th November at CodeNode, London. skillsmatter.com/conferences/8460-umbraco-uk-festival-2016. Images copyright www.edtelling.com
Clojure eXchange 2016, Thursday, 1st - Friday, 2nd December at CodeNode, London. skillsmatter.com/conferences/7430-clojure-exchange-2016 Images copyright www.edtelling.com
Umbraco UK Festival 2016. Thursday, 3rd - Friday, 4th November at CodeNode, London. skillsmatter.com/conferences/8460-umbraco-uk-festival-2016. Images copyright www.edtelling.com
Umbraco UK Festival 2016. Thursday, 3rd - Friday, 4th November at CodeNode, London. skillsmatter.com/conferences/8460-umbraco-uk-festival-2016. Images copyright www.edtelling.com
Harvey Nash Event at Soho Hotel, London, July 2013. Keynote speakers were Alistair Crane, CEO / Founder, Grapple; Ben Jones, CTO, AKQA; Raj Samani, VP, CTO, McAfee EMEA and Stephen Upstone, CEO / Founder, LoopMe
Black Art Matters – A socially distanced protest and performing arts event - also a celebration of black artist’s cultural contribution to music, dance, literature, spoken word etc.
Held outside The Crucible Theatre in Sheffield; black performance artists called for greater representation and inclusion in arts and culture, not just in casting performers but in commissioning and decision making.
This building once served as the restrooms for the swimming pool that was located just to the left before being removed several years ago. This build sat empty until last year when it was gutted and remodeled to become the Matter Park Cafe. It is open daily from late Spring into Fall serving snacks and light sandwiches to park visitors and riverwalk travelers.
Scala eXchange 2016, Thursday, 8th - Friday, 9th December at Business Design Centre, London. skillsmatter.com/conferences/7432-scala-exchange-2016#pro.... Images copyright www.edtelling.com
Scala eXchange 2016, Thursday, 8th - Friday, 9th December at Business Design Centre, London. skillsmatter.com/conferences/7432-scala-exchange-2016#pro.... Images copyright www.edtelling.com
CloudNative London 2018. skillsmatter.com/conferences/10160-cloudnative-london-2018. Images Copyright www.tellingphoto.com
Umbraco UK Festival 2016. Thursday, 3rd - Friday, 4th November at CodeNode, London. skillsmatter.com/conferences/8460-umbraco-uk-festival-2016. Images copyright www.edtelling.com