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Seems like the roads stretch out like veins, but there's no heart.
Nature's haircut is concrete now, and we played our part.
So we sing ...
I've lost my taste for modern things. They're not for me.
I want mundane: a quiet place, where time is free,
And I can sing ...
Climbed from my bed, to collect the thoughts that'd fallen from my head,
And you watched me sink, through the carpet, through the basement, and beyond.
And you didn't blink.
On the glass, I traced the sun with my thumb. It sank into the ground.
And then the stars were blinking, like kids who were staring into the wind.
So I climbed through the window and walked until I lost my name.
Now I can play the victim. It's fine. I've seen it on TV.
But if there's one thing I know, it's that I never really know enough.
Our hands, our mouths, our brains, our lungs: they're just machines.
These hearts are all that we've got left, and they don't beat.
Live a little, talk a lot; it's the way this goes.
I've come to fear the little knives beneath their well-pressed clothes.
Their arms are reaching; reach is spreading through the neon glow.
Their mouths are moving, but their voices sound like telephones.
The traffic hums; the traffic grumbles near my old window.
The street lights flicker; glow and hover like suspended snow.
I used to watch the moon retreat and wonder where it goes.
Now I just wonder why my head is overrun with ghosts
Electric President - Good Morning, Hypocrite
Dramatic images of World Trade Centre collapse on 9/11 released for first time
By Mail Foreign Service
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1249885/New-Wo...
French: Celimene and Alceste
A scene from seventeenth century Parisian salon life is captured in Moliere's comedy play, Le Misanthrope. Alceste vows to speak and act with complete honesty and no longer adhere to the conventions of a hypocritical society. He is in love with the vain coquette Celimene who presides over the salon and represents all that he detests. Before Alceste will marry Celimene, he demands that she give up her role in society. When she refuses, Alceste is forced to depart alone.
I never talk politics or religion. Both are extremely personal choices. All of my life, I have never belonged to a Church. My parents took my sisters and I to Church when we were all very young. I remember going to Sunday School and wearing Easter dresses, or perhaps I only remember because of the photos from that time. Something happened and we stopped going to Church as a family. When I was a little older, maybe around 8 or so, I started going to Church with my Aunt and my Cousin. I never felt like I belonged there. Even at that young age. I would try to go to Church again sporadically through the years, and again, never felt like I belonged. I knew in my heart that I was a good person and I didn't need any Church to tell me how I should or should not act. I never really understood religion. I still don't to be honest. I always found everything about Church hypocritical. The people that I knew in school that were Church goers were usually the worse in the lot. The reason I am telling all of you this is, well, I have been going to Church. It's only been a few months now. Maybe six Sundays. A few even in a row. : ) It's not like any Church I have ever been to. You come as you are. That means I can wear Chucks and jeans. There are no labels. It's just real, simple Church. In fact, that's the name. Simple Church. No bells, no whistles. Just people there for the same reason. It's quite nice actually. There are only one or two people, besides my family and a few people I work with that even knows that I have been going to Church. Like I said, it's a very personal thing for me. It's not a secret, it's just something I keep to myself. Same thing goes for politics. If someone were to ask me whom I was voting for, I would tell them it was none of their business. Because it isn't. So there. The reason I am even talking about any of this is, today, I felt like a spotlight was on me and that the Preacher (if that is what you want to call him) was speaking only to me. He was talking about people who run away from things, hide from their friends, perhaps even create a fantasy life on the computer instead of living the life they have. That is me. Completely. I run from everything. I hide from my friends. I have created a persona that has a much better life than my own. Dyxie. Here, I can be who I want to be. Funny, silly, cute, colorful, cheeky, whatever I long to be. But in reality, I am a very unhappy, very lonely woman who has become a shell of who she once was. I put everything into Dyxie and nothing into Becky. I have come to know some amazing people here, but I have only met a few of you. I just feel that I am losing myself. I don't even know what I am saying right now. Just the fact that I am pouring my heart and soul into a paragraph that a few people will read, instead of picking up the phone and calling a friend and telling them how I feel is a huge warning sign for me. I'm not happy. In fact, I am miserable. I have had some awful thoughts more than once in the past few months. I just feel that if I don't start making some changes, I am going to slip deeper and deeper into whatever it is I have been spiraling towards.
This is not a cry for help. This is just me stating the obvious. My life sucks. I want to make it better.
The top apologist for atheism, Richard Dawkins, is declining debate challenges from the top apologist for theism, William Lane Craig.
Craig has made the challenge to debate at the doorstep of Oxford University, the Sheldonian Theatre. To read about the shenanigans of Dawkins and his hypocritical responses, see the link:
templestream.blogspot.com/2011/10/fun-with-dick-and-lane-...
And dies Anna Nicole Smith...and the hypocrites are judging her...dear Anna rest well and in peace, you gave us great moments...and for some of the human garbage in the world I offer my sauce with the intensity of my eyes...eat my meatballs served with karma..
Blow for EU citizens' civil liberties as hypocritical MEPs green light controversial EU-US PNR deal
A majority of MEPs voted today to reverse the European Parliament's long-standing role in defence of EU citizens' civil liberties and to endorse intrusive big brother style surveillance.
The positive vote on the EU-US PNR deal, which came in spite of the fact that fundamental concerns previously outlined by the EP and European courts have not been addressed, will mean US authorities will be able to continue to retain private information about EU airline passengers.
Before the vote, Greens/EFA MEPs and MEPs from the GUE/NGL group staged an action outside the hemicycle to try and convince other groups to reject the agreement.
In the end however, they were outnumbered by the decision of the Conservatives and Social Democrats to vote in favour.
Unable to amend the final text, Greens voted to reject the deal and hit out at the outcome
Read more about the outcome here (EN / DE / FR): www.greens-efa.eu/pnr-data-protection-6920.html
Tasburgh lies in the Tas valley, ten miles south of Norwich. Its name derives from 'Taesa's fort' and the earthworks of an iron age fort are still visible on the hilltop close to the church.
In the churchyard of St. Mary's lies the grave of the novelist Malcolm Bradbury who, together with Angus Wilson, founded of the MA Creative Writing course at the University of East Anglia in 1970.
Bradbury was an academic, a literary critic, a TV script writer and a novelist. He is probably best remembered for his novel The History Man (1975) - which featured Howard Kirk a hypocritical sociology professor who worked at the fictional University of Watermouth.
Although Bradbury lived in Norwich (close to the university) he also had a second home at Tasburgh. His headstone bears the epitaph: 'Warm and generous, Famous and friendly, Wise and witty'
Bradbury is often compared to David Lodge (another university English lecturer) - as they both wrote satirical, campus-based novels. Bradbury also adapted two works for TV by Tom Sharpe: Porterhouse Blue and Blott on the Landscape.
Down in the valley, next to the river stands Rainthorpe Hall which was built by Thomas Baxter who died in 1611. The hall is occasionally open to the public and, following a visit in spring of 1991, I wrote the following poem about the River Tas:
River
You flow endlessly.
Over you your lights are beautiful—luminous and dark, moving and still, broken and whole.
In summer, columns of light—mottled by leaves.
In winter, the bleak light over farmland, the frosted-grey depth.
Today, in spring, lights dancing in and out of shadow—concealing and revealing.
In your course you are infinitely changing—neither crooked nor straight.
You fit your banks.
Running you are beautiful—slow in the deep pools—vociferous and fast in the shallows.
In private land you are hidden.
In public land you are open.
Beneath bridges you reflect back the faces of watchers.
In winter, you fill with water and become clouded.
You race between alders, pound through sluices, tumble over fords.
You wear a sullen expression.
In summer, you slow up and become limpid.
You display your weed in long floating trails.
You glitter past grazing cattle.
Then after long concealment your fish appear—sparkling-sided, melting and merging, vanishing and visible.
London Mayor Boris Johnson sneaks in and out of secret Tory Conference as activists protest at the entrance. Hammermith Town Hall, London
Let's begin with the Tories arriving...
Thanks to a leaked email and Twitter the scores of Conservative Party delegates who turned up at Hammersmith Town Hall today for a secret London Regional Conservative Party conference had to run the gauntlet of a small-but-loud picket of protesters who were angry at the severe local funding cuts already implemented by the right-wing Conservative Hammersmith & Fulham Council which has just announced a punitive budget for the next year, slashing front line services to the elderly, the disabled, immigrant support and child protection services.
Hammermith & Fulham's Conservative councillors have gone further than Communities Secretary Eric "Jabba The Hut" Pickles' 11.5% cuts by a further 3.5%. In their last round of budget cuts the council admitted even last year that they were already putting the lives of disabled residents at risk. Last year's cuts are nothing compared to this latest round.
The cuts are already blighting poorer people's lives in the borough, with much, much more to come, yet the council is happily earmarking £35,000,000 for the construction of a 14-storey luxury apartment development for private resale on land which previously hosted a large number of Community Groups and Services.
This conference was also intended to serve as a platform for "Star Turn of the day" London Mayor Boris Johnson to launch his re-election campaign. Johnson, however, sneaked in by a side door to avoid having to listen to people's legitimate complaints and, like a cowardly thief in the night when his speech inside had finished he sneaked out of a disused Service Entrance down the side of the building on his bicycle, refusing to pose for a single photograph. In his haste to escape our cameras he crashed into the kerb, slipped off his saddle (almost crushing his infamously fertile Tory testicles in the process) and almost fell over before wobbling off into the distance like a massive, corn-fed Norman Wisdom and almost crashing into a pedestrian.
The fifty police officers (including a Metropolitan Police catering van) who had to attend this meeting cost around £15,000 for the day according to a senior police officer we spoke to, and bearing this huge cost to the taxpayers it is even more odious that Boris Johnson should sneak in and out of the building specifically to avoid any contact whatsoever with the very Londoners he frequently claims to champion. In fact from the attendees of the conference not a single Conservative politician would engage the crowd - unless you count the unknown individual who got onto the external stairs leading to the conference room and turned round to flick the "V's" at the protesters below.
The police reported that they were very happy with the behaviour of the 100 or so protesters.
For an excellent report on all the services being decimated by Hammersmith & Fulham Council please visit www.thecowanreport.com
London, United Kingdom. 27.02.2011
London Mayor Boris Johnson sneaks in and out of secret Tory Conference as activists protest at the entrance. Hammermith Town Hall, London
Let's begin with the Tories arriving...
Thanks to a leaked email and Twitter the scores of Conservative Party delegates who turned up at Hammersmith Town Hall today for a secret London Regional Conservative Party conference had to run the gauntlet of a small-but-loud picket of protesters who were angry at the severe local funding cuts already implemented by the right-wing Conservative Hammersmith & Fulham Council which has just announced a punitive budget for the next year, slashing front line services to the elderly, the disabled, immigrant support and child protection services.
Hammermith & Fulham's Conservative councillors have gone further than Communities Secretary Eric "Jabba The Hut" Pickles' 11.5% cuts by a further 3.5%. In their last round of budget cuts the council admitted even last year that they were already putting the lives of disabled residents at risk. Last year's cuts are nothing compared to this latest round.
The cuts are already blighting poorer people's lives in the borough, with much, much more to come, yet the council is happily earmarking £35,000,000 for the construction of a 14-storey luxury apartment development for private resale on land which previously hosted a large number of Community Groups and Services.
This conference was also intended to serve as a platform for "Star Turn of the day" London Mayor Boris Johnson to launch his re-election campaign. Johnson, however, sneaked in by a side door to avoid having to listen to people's legitimate complaints and, like a cowardly thief in the night when his speech inside had finished he sneaked out of a disused Service Entrance down the side of the building on his bicycle, refusing to pose for a single photograph. In his haste to escape our cameras he crashed into the kerb, slipped off his saddle (almost crushing his infamously fertile Tory testicles in the process) and almost fell over before wobbling off into the distance like a massive, corn-fed Norman Wisdom and almost crashing into a pedestrian.
The fifty police officers (including a Metropolitan Police catering van) who had to attend this meeting cost around £15,000 for the day according to a senior police officer we spoke to, and bearing this huge cost to the taxpayers it is even more odious that Boris Johnson should sneak in and out of the building specifically to avoid any contact whatsoever with the very Londoners he frequently claims to champion. In fact from the attendees of the conference not a single Conservative politician would engage the crowd - unless you count the unknown individual who got onto the external stairs leading to the conference room and turned round to flick the "V's" at the protesters below.
The police reported that they were very happy with the behaviour of the 100 or so protesters.
For an excellent report on all the services being decimated by Hammersmith & Fulham Council please visit www.thecowanreport.com
London, United Kingdom. 27.02.2011
INANG BAYAN (Motherland)
Oil on Canvas Mural, 2011
Vicente Manansala
Philippine Heart Center
Manila, Philippines
Do you find this artwork by National Artist Vicented Manansa offensive?
In this painting former Philippine First Lady and now Congresswoman Imelda Marcos is shown as the Mother of her country (Ina ng Bayan). She is depicted wearing a simple blusa (blouse) with her hair cascading down the sides just like images of the Virgin Mary in Philippine art. She is shown with her arms outstreched drawing to her bosom the poor and the oppressed.
The poor and the oppresed? Really?? High flying, flashing disco-shoes wearing, George Hamilton dating, diamond rosary clutching Imelda Marcos embracing the poor? As a friend commented on this photo, "Yeah, right. Gimme a break, like Meldy really loved hugging ragamuffins"
Imelda Marcos, patron saint of hypocrites!
It’s fine for him to tour the country in his private jets - one flight uses more fuel than I'll use in a year. I suppose global warming is only a problem when the little people cause it? Don't even bother to count his houses and total the sq.ft. - how much fuel, exactly, does it take to heat and cool those monstrosities? Being dependant on middle-east oil is working out pretty well for us; having our enemies control our flow of oil is good strategic-planning. Drill in ANWR, push nuclear power and new refinery construction (haven't built one since '73 in the US). Gore probably doesn't use electricity or air-conditioning because of his love for the environment! Oh, that's right, he's the one with multiple-mansions and private jets... oops. Oh, he buys credits? What exactly is a "credit" and how, exactly does it make-up for his use ... and if he is so concerned about global warming, don't you think he should buy credits AND stop his obscene consumption? Just a thought from a "little person."
Response to Article:
"Village that towers above China" by
Jonathan Watts
November 14, 2011
www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/4623-Village...
Comment by Philip McMaster:
People favourably respond to Change
Generally speaking, people don't change for the better when criticized. But they do respond favourably to praise.
Huaxi Cun is not the worst place in China, and it has been following and sometimes leading the objectives and trends of the government and Chinese people - first it was to get rich - and clean up the mess later. We did this in the West on our own schedule, some Chinese are doing it now under the generally hypocritical pressure of the global community.
人们对改变的有利反应
总体上，当人们受到批评的时候，不会变得更好。但他们受到表扬的时候，总是积极反应。华西村不是中国最差 的地方，它跟从着-有时也领导着中国政府与人民的目标与潮流。这个目标首先是变富，然后再处理垃圾。西方按照自己的日程表也这样做过。现在有些中国人也这 么做，就面临虚伪的国际压力。
An aspirational monument - if you choose to see it that way..
When I was invited to Huaxi Cun for the inauguration of the “Village in the Sky”, (www.tudou.com/programs/view/05XpJXkiNwI/ ) I spoke of the new tower as a beacon for all to see, not in terms of opulence and excess, but as a towering 3 element "Symbol of Sustainability" - an aspirational symbol rising above all else - including the cookie-cutter villas, the grubby factories, the money focus and the faux world landmarks - to shock and awe viewers into realizing that all monuments have a message – and this one should inspire people to make the connection between Heaven, Earth and the People (Tian, Di, Ren 天地人) and that to achieve Wu Renbao’s “Heaven on Earth”… the Triple-Bottom-Line balance between Society, Environment and Economy （社会,环境,经济）must become Huaxi’s new ethic.
一个振奋人心的里程碑——如果你从另一个角度解读
我应邀了参加华西村“空中新农村大楼”授牌仪式(www.tudou.com /programs/view/05XpJXkiNwI/ )，当时我谈到这栋大楼并不是炫富和挥霍，而是华西村的一个新地标。比起那些千篇一律的别墅，脏乱差的工厂，一切向钱看的态度和人造世界景观，这栋摩天大 楼是一个振奋人心 里程碑，它作为可持续发展的标志建筑让人感到震撼和心生敬畏，它能让人们感到天地人和谐发展的信息，体现了吴仁宝“人间天堂”的理念。以社会，环境和经济 作为三条支柱，寻求三者的平衡发展是华西村的新理念。
菲利普•麦克马斯特
麦克马斯特商务可持续发展研究所首席研究员，世界可持续发展组织创始人。
"Now that Huaxi village is rich, what's next?"
Following my presentation, the new building’s architect Ma Xusheng, in turn praised my interpretation of his building’s design, saying that no one had thought of it before, but that “with your new ‘Society, Environment, Economy ‘meaning attached, our building is even richer”.
At a private dinner with village leaders the evening before, I had shamelessly asked: “Now that Huaxi village is rich, what’s next?” – hoping to encourage them to expound on how they were going to share Huaxi’s wealth and expertise with other communities and to build sustainable enterprises based on a model ecological civilisation… however the response was understandable, as a bit more thinking is required; and considering most people’s focus was still on showing off and celebrating what they have achieved so far, the answer was a simple “Gambei!”
Philip McMaster,
Principal Researcher, McMaster Institute for Sustainable Development in Commerce
Founder, World Sustainability Organization
“现在华西村富了，接下来呢？”
我的演讲结束后，这栋新大楼的建筑师马旭升（音）反过来称赞了我对他的建筑设计的诠释，说以前从未有人想到这个方面，“加上您说的‘社会、环境、经济’意义后，我们的摩天大楼更加富裕了”。
前一天晚上和华西村领导的聚餐上，我厚着脸皮问了一句：“现在华西村富裕了，接下来呢？”我当时希望他们能够详细阐述下怎样和其他地区分享华西村的 财富和技术，以及在生态文明模型的基础上建立起可持续发展的企业。但是，他们的回答很简单，就是：“干杯！”当然，这是可以理解的，因为回答这个问题需要 一些思考，而且当时大多数人的注意力仍然在炫耀和庆祝他们至今已取得的成就上。
菲利普•麦克马斯特
麦克马斯特商务可持续发展研究所首席研究员，世界可持续发展组织创始人。
...Huaxi must have liked 3 Fingers - we're invited back_\!/
Our “Peace Plus One -World Sustainability Project” (www.SustainabilitySymbol.com ) and the 3 Finger Sustainability Symbol is about promoting LOHHAS – a Lifestyle Of Health, Happiness And Sustainability, first for the 1/5th of the world in China, then to be exported as a sustainable philosophy for the entire planet. The Leaders of Huaxi must have liked something about our discussions, as they wholeheartedly embraced the3 Finger Sustainability Symbol and invited us back to share more_\!/
Philip McMaster,
Principal Researcher, McMaster Institute for Sustainable Development in Commerce
Founder, World Sustainability Organization
...华西村一定喜欢“三指禅” —— 我们又被邀请了_\!/
我们的“和平 + 1 - 世界可持续发展项目” （www.SustainabilitySymbol.com）和“三指禅”可持续发展符号旨在促进“乐活”——一种健康、快乐、可持续的生活方式。起初 是为了中国占世界五分之一的人口而提出，后来作为一个可持续发展的理念被推广到全世界。华西村的领导们肯定是欣赏我们的一些讨论成果，因为他们热烈欢迎了 我们的“三根手指可持续发展符号”并且再次邀请我们去分享更多信息。
Philip McMaster（大龙），
商务可持续发展麦克马斯特学院，首席研究员
世界可持续发展组织创始人
Response to Article:
"Village that towers above China" by
Jonathan Watts
November 14, 2011
www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/4623-Village...
Comment by Philip McMaster:
People favourably respond to Change
Generally speaking, people don't change for the better when criticized. But they do respond favourably to praise.
Huaxi Cun is not the worst place in China, and it has been following and sometimes leading the objectives and trends of the government and Chinese people - first it was to get rich - and clean up the mess later. We did this in the West on our own schedule, some Chinese are doing it now under the generally hypocritical pressure of the global community.
人们对改变的有利反应
总体上，当人们受到批评的时候，不会变得更好。但他们受到表扬的时候，总是积极反应。华西村不是中国最差 的地方，它跟从着-有时也领导着中国政府与人民的目标与潮流。这个目标首先是变富，然后再处理垃圾。西方按照自己的日程表也这样做过。现在有些中国人也这 么做，就面临虚伪的国际压力。
An aspirational monument - if you choose to see it that way..
When I was invited to Huaxi Cun for the inauguration of the “Village in the Sky”, (www.tudou.com/programs/view/05XpJXkiNwI/ ) I spoke of the new tower as a beacon for all to see, not in terms of opulence and excess, but as a towering 3 element "Symbol of Sustainability" - an aspirational symbol rising above all else - including the cookie-cutter villas, the grubby factories, the money focus and the faux world landmarks - to shock and awe viewers into realizing that all monuments have a message – and this one should inspire people to make the connection between Heaven, Earth and the People (Tian, Di, Ren 天地人) and that to achieve Wu Renbao’s “Heaven on Earth”… the Triple-Bottom-Line balance between Society, Environment and Economy （社会,环境,经济）must become Huaxi’s new ethic.
一个振奋人心的里程碑——如果你从另一个角度解读
我应邀了参加华西村“空中新农村大楼”授牌仪式(www.tudou.com /programs/view/05XpJXkiNwI/ )，当时我谈到这栋大楼并不是炫富和挥霍，而是华西村的一个新地标。比起那些千篇一律的别墅，脏乱差的工厂，一切向钱看的态度和人造世界景观，这栋摩天大 楼是一个振奋人心 里程碑，它作为可持续发展的标志建筑让人感到震撼和心生敬畏，它能让人们感到天地人和谐发展的信息，体现了吴仁宝“人间天堂”的理念。以社会，环境和经济 作为三条支柱，寻求三者的平衡发展是华西村的新理念。
菲利普•麦克马斯特
麦克马斯特商务可持续发展研究所首席研究员，世界可持续发展组织创始人。
"Now that Huaxi village is rich, what's next?"
Following my presentation, the new building’s architect Ma Xusheng, in turn praised my interpretation of his building’s design, saying that no one had thought of it before, but that “with your new ‘Society, Environment, Economy ‘meaning attached, our building is even richer”.
At a private dinner with village leaders the evening before, I had shamelessly asked: “Now that Huaxi village is rich, what’s next?” – hoping to encourage them to expound on how they were going to share Huaxi’s wealth and expertise with other communities and to build sustainable enterprises based on a model ecological civilisation… however the response was understandable, as a bit more thinking is required; and considering most people’s focus was still on showing off and celebrating what they have achieved so far, the answer was a simple “Gambei!”
Philip McMaster,
Principal Researcher, McMaster Institute for Sustainable Development in Commerce
Founder, World Sustainability Organization
“现在华西村富了，接下来呢？”
我的演讲结束后，这栋新大楼的建筑师马旭升（音）反过来称赞了我对他的建筑设计的诠释，说以前从未有人想到这个方面，“加上您说的‘社会、环境、经济’意义后，我们的摩天大楼更加富裕了”。
前一天晚上和华西村领导的聚餐上，我厚着脸皮问了一句：“现在华西村富裕了，接下来呢？”我当时希望他们能够详细阐述下怎样和其他地区分享华西村的 财富和技术，以及在生态文明模型的基础上建立起可持续发展的企业。但是，他们的回答很简单，就是：“干杯！”当然，这是可以理解的，因为回答这个问题需要 一些思考，而且当时大多数人的注意力仍然在炫耀和庆祝他们至今已取得的成就上。
菲利普•麦克马斯特
麦克马斯特商务可持续发展研究所首席研究员，世界可持续发展组织创始人。
...Huaxi must have liked 3 Fingers - we're invited back_\!/
Our “Peace Plus One -World Sustainability Project” (www.SustainabilitySymbol.com ) and the 3 Finger Sustainability Symbol is about promoting LOHHAS – a Lifestyle Of Health, Happiness And Sustainability, first for the 1/5th of the world in China, then to be exported as a sustainable philosophy for the entire planet. The Leaders of Huaxi must have liked something about our discussions, as they wholeheartedly embraced the3 Finger Sustainability Symbol and invited us back to share more_\!/
Philip McMaster,
Principal Researcher, McMaster Institute for Sustainable Development in Commerce
Founder, World Sustainability Organization
...华西村一定喜欢“三指禅” —— 我们又被邀请了_\!/
我们的“和平 + 1 - 世界可持续发展项目” （www.SustainabilitySymbol.com）和“三指禅”可持续发展符号旨在促进“乐活”——一种健康、快乐、可持续的生活方式。起初 是为了中国占世界五分之一的人口而提出，后来作为一个可持续发展的理念被推广到全世界。华西村的领导们肯定是欣赏我们的一些讨论成果，因为他们热烈欢迎了 我们的“三根手指可持续发展符号”并且再次邀请我们去分享更多信息。
Philip McMaster（大龙），
商务可持续发展麦克马斯特学院，首席研究员
世界可持续发展组织创始人
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Dramatic images of World Trade Centre collapse on 9/11 released for first time
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Teen: teenager, person between the ages of 13 and 19, roughly.
Legal drinking age in USA: 21 > "Use of alcohol"
Minimum age required for voting (the epitome of social actions) in USA: 18 > "Violence" (the basest of social actions, and symbol of everything humanity has struggled to rid itself of, and a root cause for seeking democracy and equality etc)
"Suggestive Themes" > holy cow can you get any more hypocritical than this? A society completely besotted by immature, nay retrograde views of sexuality and they have the nerve to still pretend that sex is "dirty"?
This is the definition of absurdity. :)
New Year's Day protest march.
Today thousands of people marched in protest of Leung Chun-ying or CY Leung, the Cheif Executive of Hong Kong. He's a Beijing Stooge (being elected by a 1,200-strong committee dominated by pro-Beijing elites) and is corrupt and a hypocrite, you know, like all politicians.
Turnout estimates vary wildly from 17,000 to 160,000 and the counter protest from the pro-Beijing mob who stood around with their thumbs down numbered around well, anyone who's seen The Life of Brian will no what I mean when I mention the Judean Popular People's Front, although they claimed they numbered around 15,000. They didn't.
I really wished I'd had another wide lens - my 24mm was on my Nikon F90X.
There's so much wrong with this I don't know where to start, but I figured at least other people should see it.
The 'health tourism' line slays me like a pensioner on an NHS trolley - British people go to France, Germany and Poland for medical treatments - you've got your 'health tourism' the other way around. I'll give you another clue - you don't have "nice weather tourism" either.
There's a rather good spoof doing the rounds: conservativehome.blogs.com/.a/6a00d83451b31c69e2011570a52...
Dear Unit 9261 of the 84th Precinct,
Nothing says Courtesy, Professionalism and Respect like parking in the bike-lane to go in and get coffee and then standing there drinking it, pointing and laughing at all the cyclists swerving around your stellar 2-feet-from-the-curb parking job. You'd be the first to ticket me for such behavior, yet you do it yourself with a big grin on your face. Hypocrites.
Until you respect the laws you are paid to enforce and the people you have pledged to advocate, you will get no respect.
Response to Article:
"Village that towers above China" by
Jonathan Watts
November 14, 2011
www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/4623-Village...
Comment by Philip McMaster:
People favourably respond to Change
Generally speaking, people don't change for the better when criticized. But they do respond favourably to praise.
Huaxi Cun is not the worst place in China, and it has been following and sometimes leading the objectives and trends of the government and Chinese people - first it was to get rich - and clean up the mess later. We did this in the West on our own schedule, some Chinese are doing it now under the generally hypocritical pressure of the global community.
人们对改变的有利反应
总体上，当人们受到批评的时候，不会变得更好。但他们受到表扬的时候，总是积极反应。华西村不是中国最差 的地方，它跟从着-有时也领导着中国政府与人民的目标与潮流。这个目标首先是变富，然后再处理垃圾。西方按照自己的日程表也这样做过。现在有些中国人也这 么做，就面临虚伪的国际压力。
An aspirational monument - if you choose to see it that way..
When I was invited to Huaxi Cun for the inauguration of the “Village in the Sky”, (www.tudou.com/programs/view/05XpJXkiNwI/ ) I spoke of the new tower as a beacon for all to see, not in terms of opulence and excess, but as a towering 3 element "Symbol of Sustainability" - an aspirational symbol rising above all else - including the cookie-cutter villas, the grubby factories, the money focus and the faux world landmarks - to shock and awe viewers into realizing that all monuments have a message – and this one should inspire people to make the connection between Heaven, Earth and the People (Tian, Di, Ren 天地人) and that to achieve Wu Renbao’s “Heaven on Earth”… the Triple-Bottom-Line balance between Society, Environment and Economy （社会,环境,经济）must become Huaxi’s new ethic.
一个振奋人心的里程碑——如果你从另一个角度解读
我应邀了参加华西村“空中新农村大楼”授牌仪式(www.tudou.com /programs/view/05XpJXkiNwI/ )，当时我谈到这栋大楼并不是炫富和挥霍，而是华西村的一个新地标。比起那些千篇一律的别墅，脏乱差的工厂，一切向钱看的态度和人造世界景观，这栋摩天大 楼是一个振奋人心 里程碑，它作为可持续发展的标志建筑让人感到震撼和心生敬畏，它能让人们感到天地人和谐发展的信息，体现了吴仁宝“人间天堂”的理念。以社会，环境和经济 作为三条支柱，寻求三者的平衡发展是华西村的新理念。
菲利普•麦克马斯特
麦克马斯特商务可持续发展研究所首席研究员，世界可持续发展组织创始人。
"Now that Huaxi village is rich, what's next?"
Following my presentation, the new building’s architect Ma Xusheng, in turn praised my interpretation of his building’s design, saying that no one had thought of it before, but that “with your new ‘Society, Environment, Economy ‘meaning attached, our building is even richer”.
At a private dinner with village leaders the evening before, I had shamelessly asked: “Now that Huaxi village is rich, what’s next?” – hoping to encourage them to expound on how they were going to share Huaxi’s wealth and expertise with other communities and to build sustainable enterprises based on a model ecological civilisation… however the response was understandable, as a bit more thinking is required; and considering most people’s focus was still on showing off and celebrating what they have achieved so far, the answer was a simple “Gambei!”
Philip McMaster,
Principal Researcher, McMaster Institute for Sustainable Development in Commerce
Founder, World Sustainability Organization
“现在华西村富了，接下来呢？”
我的演讲结束后，这栋新大楼的建筑师马旭升（音）反过来称赞了我对他的建筑设计的诠释，说以前从未有人想到这个方面，“加上您说的‘社会、环境、经济’意义后，我们的摩天大楼更加富裕了”。
前一天晚上和华西村领导的聚餐上，我厚着脸皮问了一句：“现在华西村富裕了，接下来呢？”我当时希望他们能够详细阐述下怎样和其他地区分享华西村的 财富和技术，以及在生态文明模型的基础上建立起可持续发展的企业。但是，他们的回答很简单，就是：“干杯！”当然，这是可以理解的，因为回答这个问题需要 一些思考，而且当时大多数人的注意力仍然在炫耀和庆祝他们至今已取得的成就上。
菲利普•麦克马斯特
麦克马斯特商务可持续发展研究所首席研究员，世界可持续发展组织创始人。
...Huaxi must have liked 3 Fingers - we're invited back_\!/
Our “Peace Plus One -World Sustainability Project” (www.SustainabilitySymbol.com ) and the 3 Finger Sustainability Symbol is about promoting LOHHAS – a Lifestyle Of Health, Happiness And Sustainability, first for the 1/5th of the world in China, then to be exported as a sustainable philosophy for the entire planet. The Leaders of Huaxi must have liked something about our discussions, as they wholeheartedly embraced the3 Finger Sustainability Symbol and invited us back to share more_\!/
Philip McMaster,
Principal Researcher, McMaster Institute for Sustainable Development in Commerce
Founder, World Sustainability Organization
...华西村一定喜欢“三指禅” —— 我们又被邀请了_\!/
我们的“和平 + 1 - 世界可持续发展项目” （www.SustainabilitySymbol.com）和“三指禅”可持续发展符号旨在促进“乐活”——一种健康、快乐、可持续的生活方式。起初 是为了中国占世界五分之一的人口而提出，后来作为一个可持续发展的理念被推广到全世界。华西村的领导们肯定是欣赏我们的一些讨论成果，因为他们热烈欢迎了 我们的“三根手指可持续发展符号”并且再次邀请我们去分享更多信息。
Philip McMaster（大龙），
商务可持续发展麦克马斯特学院，首席研究员
世界可持续发展组织创始人
Response to Article:
"Village that towers above China" by
Jonathan Watts
November 14, 2011
www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/4623-Village...
Comment by Philip McMaster:
People favourably respond to Change
Generally speaking, people don't change for the better when criticized. But they do respond favourably to praise.
Huaxi Cun is not the worst place in China, and it has been following and sometimes leading the objectives and trends of the government and Chinese people - first it was to get rich - and clean up the mess later. We did this in the West on our own schedule, some Chinese are doing it now under the generally hypocritical pressure of the global community.
人们对改变的有利反应
总体上，当人们受到批评的时候，不会变得更好。但他们受到表扬的时候，总是积极反应。华西村不是中国最差 的地方，它跟从着-有时也领导着中国政府与人民的目标与潮流。这个目标首先是变富，然后再处理垃圾。西方按照自己的日程表也这样做过。现在有些中国人也这 么做，就面临虚伪的国际压力。
An aspirational monument - if you choose to see it that way..
When I was invited to Huaxi Cun for the inauguration of the “Village in the Sky”, (www.tudou.com/programs/view/05XpJXkiNwI/ ) I spoke of the new tower as a beacon for all to see, not in terms of opulence and excess, but as a towering 3 element "Symbol of Sustainability" - an aspirational symbol rising above all else - including the cookie-cutter villas, the grubby factories, the money focus and the faux world landmarks - to shock and awe viewers into realizing that all monuments have a message – and this one should inspire people to make the connection between Heaven, Earth and the People (Tian, Di, Ren 天地人) and that to achieve Wu Renbao’s “Heaven on Earth”… the Triple-Bottom-Line balance between Society, Environment and Economy （社会,环境,经济）must become Huaxi’s new ethic.
一个振奋人心的里程碑——如果你从另一个角度解读
我应邀了参加华西村“空中新农村大楼”授牌仪式(www.tudou.com /programs/view/05XpJXkiNwI/ )，当时我谈到这栋大楼并不是炫富和挥霍，而是华西村的一个新地标。比起那些千篇一律的别墅，脏乱差的工厂，一切向钱看的态度和人造世界景观，这栋摩天大 楼是一个振奋人心 里程碑，它作为可持续发展的标志建筑让人感到震撼和心生敬畏，它能让人们感到天地人和谐发展的信息，体现了吴仁宝“人间天堂”的理念。以社会，环境和经济 作为三条支柱，寻求三者的平衡发展是华西村的新理念。
菲利普•麦克马斯特
麦克马斯特商务可持续发展研究所首席研究员，世界可持续发展组织创始人。
"Now that Huaxi village is rich, what's next?"
Following my presentation, the new building’s architect Ma Xusheng, in turn praised my interpretation of his building’s design, saying that no one had thought of it before, but that “with your new ‘Society, Environment, Economy ‘meaning attached, our building is even richer”.
At a private dinner with village leaders the evening before, I had shamelessly asked: “Now that Huaxi village is rich, what’s next?” – hoping to encourage them to expound on how they were going to share Huaxi’s wealth and expertise with other communities and to build sustainable enterprises based on a model ecological civilisation… however the response was understandable, as a bit more thinking is required; and considering most people’s focus was still on showing off and celebrating what they have achieved so far, the answer was a simple “Gambei!”
Philip McMaster,
Principal Researcher, McMaster Institute for Sustainable Development in Commerce
Founder, World Sustainability Organization
“现在华西村富了，接下来呢？”
我的演讲结束后，这栋新大楼的建筑师马旭升（音）反过来称赞了我对他的建筑设计的诠释，说以前从未有人想到这个方面，“加上您说的‘社会、环境、经济’意义后，我们的摩天大楼更加富裕了”。
前一天晚上和华西村领导的聚餐上，我厚着脸皮问了一句：“现在华西村富裕了，接下来呢？”我当时希望他们能够详细阐述下怎样和其他地区分享华西村的 财富和技术，以及在生态文明模型的基础上建立起可持续发展的企业。但是，他们的回答很简单，就是：“干杯！”当然，这是可以理解的，因为回答这个问题需要 一些思考，而且当时大多数人的注意力仍然在炫耀和庆祝他们至今已取得的成就上。
菲利普•麦克马斯特
麦克马斯特商务可持续发展研究所首席研究员，世界可持续发展组织创始人。
...Huaxi must have liked 3 Fingers - we're invited back_\!/
Our “Peace Plus One -World Sustainability Project” (www.SustainabilitySymbol.com ) and the 3 Finger Sustainability Symbol is about promoting LOHHAS – a Lifestyle Of Health, Happiness And Sustainability, first for the 1/5th of the world in China, then to be exported as a sustainable philosophy for the entire planet. The Leaders of Huaxi must have liked something about our discussions, as they wholeheartedly embraced the3 Finger Sustainability Symbol and invited us back to share more_\!/
Philip McMaster,
Principal Researcher, McMaster Institute for Sustainable Development in Commerce
Founder, World Sustainability Organization
...华西村一定喜欢“三指禅” —— 我们又被邀请了_\!/
我们的“和平 + 1 - 世界可持续发展项目” （www.SustainabilitySymbol.com）和“三指禅”可持续发展符号旨在促进“乐活”——一种健康、快乐、可持续的生活方式。起初 是为了中国占世界五分之一的人口而提出，后来作为一个可持续发展的理念被推广到全世界。华西村的领导们肯定是欣赏我们的一些讨论成果，因为他们热烈欢迎了 我们的“三根手指可持续发展符号”并且再次邀请我们去分享更多信息。
Philip McMaster（大龙），
商务可持续发展麦克马斯特学院，首席研究员
世界可持续发展组织创始人
According to Rishi Sunak (July 2022) www.ready4rishi.com/launch_speech
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I want to talk about Boris Johnson.
As candidates to replace him, we owe it to the British people who elected Boris as Prime Minister in 2019 to explain why he is leaving office.
There is something wrong about a process that sees a sitting Prime Minister replaced while the people doing the replacing… pull the curtains and act like it’s nobody’s business but theirs.
It’s everybody’s business.
So let me tell you how I see it.
Boris Johnson is one of the most remarkable people I’ve ever met.
And - whatever some commentators may say - he has a good heart.
Did I disagree with him? Frequently.
Is he flawed? Yes - and so are the rest of us.
Was it no longer working? Yes and that’s why I resigned…
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Rishi Sunak (born 1980) is a British politician who has served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 25 October 2022 and LOctober 2022. Sunak served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2020 to 2022 and Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 2019 to 2020. He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Richmond (Yorkshire) since 2015. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rishi_Sunak
Open Government Licensed portrait of Sunak's first speech as Prime Minster by Lauren Hurley / No 10 Downing Street via Wikimediaeader of the Conservative Party since 24 Commons w.wiki/5xQo
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Frase Típica (de un votante del PP)
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1- Tots els polítics són iguals. (COLOR: BLAU)
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¿I per què votes al PP? (COLOR: ROIG)
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Todos los políticos son iguales.
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¿Y por qué votas al PP?
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2- No podem canviar res.
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¿Com va a canviar, votant de nou al PP?
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No podemos cambiar nada.
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¿Cómo va a cambiar, votando de nuevo al PP?
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3- La corrupció és normal....
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Home, votant sempre al PP.... ¡¿Tu ets còmplice o què?!
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La corrupción es normal....
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Hombre, votando siempre al PP.... ¡¿Tú eres cómplice o qué?!
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4- ¿Per què protestar, si tot seguirà igual?
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¿I per què votar al PP, si tot seguirà igual?
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¿Por qué protestar, si todo seguirá igual?
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¿Y por qué votar al PP, si todo seguirá igual?
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5- El bipartidisme aporta estabilitat.
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¿Estabilitat per seguir robant o governant...?
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El bipartidismo aporta estabilidad.
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¿Estabilidad para seguir robando o gobernando...?
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6- El bipartidisme aporta confiança.
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Però, ¿no eren tots iguals? ¡¿En qui anem a confiar...?!
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El bipartidismo aporta confianza.
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Pero, ¿no eran todos iguales? ¡¿En quién vamos a confiar...?!
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7- Jo sóc ciutadà del Món.
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Sí, però 'Gibraltar EsPPaññool', ¿¿no???
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Yo soy ciudadano del Mundo.
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Sí, pero 'Gibraltar EsPPaññool', ¿¿no???
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8- Jo sóc apolític.
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Digna sentència, per un votant del PP.
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Yo soy apolítico.
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Digna sentencia, para un votante del PP.
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9- A mi no m'interessa la política.
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A mon iaio tampoc. Era feixista.
De fet, odiava la política i la democràcia.
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A mí no me interesa la política.
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A mi abuelo tampoco. Era fascista.
De hecho, odiaba la política y la democracia.
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Sueca, País Valencià, Marènia. 28-8-2014. Joanjo Aguar Matoses (COLOR: GROC. OMBRA: NEGRA)
(Últims retocs: 30-8-2014. 14.40)
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POTS PUBLICAR O REENVIAR AQUEST TEXT. ENDAVANT!!!!
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"Dems have been complaining for months & months about Dir. Comey. Now that he has been fired they PRETEND to be aggrieved. Phony hypocrites!"
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Poor Donald....
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Response to Article:
"Village that towers above China" by
Jonathan Watts
November 14, 2011
www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/4623-Village...
Comment by Philip McMaster:
People favourably respond to Change
Generally speaking, people don't change for the better when criticized. But they do respond favourably to praise.
Huaxi Cun is not the worst place in China, and it has been following and sometimes leading the objectives and trends of the government and Chinese people - first it was to get rich - and clean up the mess later. We did this in the West on our own schedule, some Chinese are doing it now under the generally hypocritical pressure of the global community.
人们对改变的有利反应
总体上，当人们受到批评的时候，不会变得更好。但他们受到表扬的时候，总是积极反应。华西村不是中国最差 的地方，它跟从着-有时也领导着中国政府与人民的目标与潮流。这个目标首先是变富，然后再处理垃圾。西方按照自己的日程表也这样做过。现在有些中国人也这 么做，就面临虚伪的国际压力。
An aspirational monument - if you choose to see it that way..
When I was invited to Huaxi Cun for the inauguration of the “Village in the Sky”, (www.tudou.com/programs/view/05XpJXkiNwI/ ) I spoke of the new tower as a beacon for all to see, not in terms of opulence and excess, but as a towering 3 element "Symbol of Sustainability" - an aspirational symbol rising above all else - including the cookie-cutter villas, the grubby factories, the money focus and the faux world landmarks - to shock and awe viewers into realizing that all monuments have a message – and this one should inspire people to make the connection between Heaven, Earth and the People (Tian, Di, Ren 天地人) and that to achieve Wu Renbao’s “Heaven on Earth”… the Triple-Bottom-Line balance between Society, Environment and Economy （社会,环境,经济）must become Huaxi’s new ethic.
一个振奋人心的里程碑——如果你从另一个角度解读
我应邀了参加华西村“空中新农村大楼”授牌仪式(www.tudou.com /programs/view/05XpJXkiNwI/ )，当时我谈到这栋大楼并不是炫富和挥霍，而是华西村的一个新地标。比起那些千篇一律的别墅，脏乱差的工厂，一切向钱看的态度和人造世界景观，这栋摩天大 楼是一个振奋人心 里程碑，它作为可持续发展的标志建筑让人感到震撼和心生敬畏，它能让人们感到天地人和谐发展的信息，体现了吴仁宝“人间天堂”的理念。以社会，环境和经济 作为三条支柱，寻求三者的平衡发展是华西村的新理念。
菲利普•麦克马斯特
麦克马斯特商务可持续发展研究所首席研究员，世界可持续发展组织创始人。
"Now that Huaxi village is rich, what's next?"
Following my presentation, the new building’s architect Ma Xusheng, in turn praised my interpretation of his building’s design, saying that no one had thought of it before, but that “with your new ‘Society, Environment, Economy ‘meaning attached, our building is even richer”.
At a private dinner with village leaders the evening before, I had shamelessly asked: “Now that Huaxi village is rich, what’s next?” – hoping to encourage them to expound on how they were going to share Huaxi’s wealth and expertise with other communities and to build sustainable enterprises based on a model ecological civilisation… however the response was understandable, as a bit more thinking is required; and considering most people’s focus was still on showing off and celebrating what they have achieved so far, the answer was a simple “Gambei!”
Philip McMaster,
Principal Researcher, McMaster Institute for Sustainable Development in Commerce
Founder, World Sustainability Organization
“现在华西村富了，接下来呢？”
我的演讲结束后，这栋新大楼的建筑师马旭升（音）反过来称赞了我对他的建筑设计的诠释，说以前从未有人想到这个方面，“加上您说的‘社会、环境、经济’意义后，我们的摩天大楼更加富裕了”。
前一天晚上和华西村领导的聚餐上，我厚着脸皮问了一句：“现在华西村富裕了，接下来呢？”我当时希望他们能够详细阐述下怎样和其他地区分享华西村的 财富和技术，以及在生态文明模型的基础上建立起可持续发展的企业。但是，他们的回答很简单，就是：“干杯！”当然，这是可以理解的，因为回答这个问题需要 一些思考，而且当时大多数人的注意力仍然在炫耀和庆祝他们至今已取得的成就上。
菲利普•麦克马斯特
麦克马斯特商务可持续发展研究所首席研究员，世界可持续发展组织创始人。
...Huaxi must have liked 3 Fingers - we're invited back_\!/
Our “Peace Plus One -World Sustainability Project” (www.SustainabilitySymbol.com ) and the 3 Finger Sustainability Symbol is about promoting LOHHAS – a Lifestyle Of Health, Happiness And Sustainability, first for the 1/5th of the world in China, then to be exported as a sustainable philosophy for the entire planet. The Leaders of Huaxi must have liked something about our discussions, as they wholeheartedly embraced the3 Finger Sustainability Symbol and invited us back to share more_\!/
Philip McMaster,
Principal Researcher, McMaster Institute for Sustainable Development in Commerce
Founder, World Sustainability Organization
...华西村一定喜欢“三指禅” —— 我们又被邀请了_\!/
我们的“和平 + 1 - 世界可持续发展项目” （www.SustainabilitySymbol.com）和“三指禅”可持续发展符号旨在促进“乐活”——一种健康、快乐、可持续的生活方式。起初 是为了中国占世界五分之一的人口而提出，后来作为一个可持续发展的理念被推广到全世界。华西村的领导们肯定是欣赏我们的一些讨论成果，因为他们热烈欢迎了 我们的“三根手指可持续发展符号”并且再次邀请我们去分享更多信息。
Philip McMaster（大龙），
商务可持续发展麦克马斯特学院，首席研究员
世界可持续发展组织创始人
"There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles." - Van Morrison
Getting this picture an aesthetic balance of black shadows and white light was definitely a challenge... and that's what life is. It's not either/or, low/high, black/white... it's everything in between too. If we see and live life in extremes, we tend to miss out on so much because so much will fall out of our little black and white box of a world. It's not easy to have an open mind at time, to accept different ideas than our own. Even if our views/opinions/thoughts do not change, the fact that you can accept that someone has a different one and respect it... that's the real challenge. We all at one point in our life are a hypocrite (even if we don't want to admit it), we are not perfect. However, we can be accepting and forgiving to those who are different.
My grandfather ran away from home and lied about his age to join the RAF (or, more correctly, its precursor) in 1915. He fought in both World Wars, and eventually retired after a pretty lengthy military career after the Suez Crisis (he was in that one too).
Luckily grandad survived it all. So many others didn't, and it is good that we remember their sacrifice today.
Wilfred Owen's poem is quite harsh - deliberately so: in comparison, "In Flander's Fields" seems tactfully euphemistic - but given our political leaders' continuing foolish adventurism, and their nauseating and hypocritical flaunting of red poppies at this time, I think it is more appropriate.
Dulce Et Decorum Est
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of disappointed shells that dropped behind.
GAS! Gas! Quick, boys!-- An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And floundering like a man in fire or lime.--
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,--
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
First Sunset captured this year on 1st Jan 2010 :) was hoping for the sunrise but but useless cause the sunrise is always for the materialists. It also reminds me of children in Australia, whom countries are ruled by agents of big powers, and when the innocents reach these countries in search of some peace in their lives, their children are kept behind bars & fence without access to basic needs to survive. And what they call them selves "Civilized Nations".
The fence is to remind me how we are slaves of materialists. We can only move around in a certain domain that they chose for us and there is price for it. Wish to perform Hajj & Umra, but can't; cause hypocrites setup the traveling charges to high, that are out of reach for an average worker but in reality even a low paid worker can afford it, if we had freedom.
Allah Kareem
Canon Digital IXUS 970 IS
Shutter 1/101 sec
Lens Aperture F/9
Focal Length 7 mm
F-Num F/9
Exposure 1/100 sec
ISO 80
4:51pm Kuwait Time
Photography: Azhar Munir © 2010
Bonus day 1: Your greatest fear
-Being lonely (or not being able to hold anymore).
When I was 13 years old I was diagnosed with mild depressive disorder and other related issues.
My mother has suffered from bipolar disorder (the real kind, not the fancy thing everyone has today which is used as an excuse to be sad from time to time), and has used many kinds of medication to try and control it. One of these was Lithium which caused irreparable damage to her kidneys and liver; it would also cause her to stay in a dosed state for most of the day, always lying in bed not being able to do anything, not even talk.
It wasn't until her medication was changed a couple of years ago that her health, even her mood and stamina, got better. She's been using the medication for 6 years now, and it doesn't affect her health at all--she was truly lucky to receive it.
Due to all of this, she was quite alarmed by my diagnosis--she didn't want me to end like her, and so sent me to psichiatrists and psicologists for many months, thinking that they would be able to 'cure' me before it got worse. Nothing was accomplished, except to clarify the notion that they were hypocrites (none of them took me seriously at all--they'd just waste time in every appointment and tell me I was overreacting); so I just stopped going to all of them.
When the time came, I refused medication, partly because I saw what it did to my mother--however, she had no choice: she needs them to live, to keep her sain--not me. I have a choice. I can choose to depend on medicine for the rest of my life, or learn to deal with my own stuff by myself.
I chose, many years ago, that I'd deal with it alone.
At moments it was hard and I had no one to turn to. It was unbereable, to the point were I was extremely tempted to end it all. Yet, somehow, I managed to keep going; at least enough to see something that I never thought would happen: to see it change, to see it get better.
With the passing years, and despite a diagnosis which predicted it'd get worse without proper treatment, it's gotten better. I've been able to deal with my depression, in a way, by acquiring knowledge and new perspectives (no religion though, I became an agnostic when I was 13, and an atheist at 15).
Earlier this year my mother abandoned her medication and suffered a breakdown. She had to be hospitalized for almost 2 months. In the meantime, I was reminded of what it is to feel truly lonely.
Being lonely is something I wouldn't wish upon anyone, it is the single most horrifying experience I've ever felt--desolation, loniless, abandonment--it doesn't matter what causes it: once it starts, it can break anyone at any moment.
I got through this specific situation thanks to my friends (something I never had before, mainly because almost everyone at school bullied me or thought I was 'the' weird kid; back then, my close friends weren't even that close) and to the many things I've learned over similar experiences throughout the years.
Life is a funny thing. It can be extremely harsh, to the point where I can't even imagine.
Still, it can also be a beautiful thing; not just due to the 'happy' moments, but the every day moment of peace, of tranquility and silence, of knowing that everything will be good and well when you wake up. That you will still be you and have your own mind; your own world.
I am incredibly thankful that my mental and emotional health, as far as I can evaluate it myself, is better than before. I received a lot of assistance and advice from my highschool teachers, who sort of replaced my parents at the time, and I've gotten it from many other sources, such as literature, philosophy, comics, tv shows, the internet (who would've thought?). I have accepted my bouts of loneliness and learned to use them in my favour, when possible; I am, after all, a lonely person, and though I enjoy company from time to time, I also enjoy my time alone. I'm lucky I can do it on my own, dealing with it--and for that, I'm grateful.
For the first time in many years, I can truly say that I'm content with my life, even with all its diverse aspects and situations, be them 'good' or 'bad' (nothing is inherently good or bad; perhaps positive or negative, but it's a matter of perspective and context--what truly matters is how you deal with it all when it happens, if at all).
Good vibrations!